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  • Cover of Time for the Stars
    Time for the StarsNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1956

    Hard science fiction, about psychic powers and coming of age.

    “Explorer spaceships need a way to communicate back to earth in a timely manner when they are light years away.”

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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    Set in far future and other star systems.

    “Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”

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    Start with Ringworld →

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    includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

  • Cover of Cavor
    CavorSeries

    series · 2 books · 1901

    Set in the moon and early 20th century.

    “H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”

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    Start with The First Men in the Moon →

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  • Cover of Humanx Commonwealth
    Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1972

    Set in far future and other star systems.

    “Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”

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    Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

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    includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth

  • Cover of Starman Jones
    Starman JonesNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1953

    Space opera, about coming of age, set in far future.

    “Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”

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  • Cover of Have Space Suit - Will Travel
    Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1958

    Space opera, about survival, set in near future.

    “One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon - and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate.”

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