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Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1957

Space opera, about coming of age and slavery, set in space.

“On a planet far distant from Earth, a lame beggar buys a young boy slave who has forgotten his origins.”
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The Locked TombSeries

series6 books2019

About undead and found family, set in space.

“Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth follows Gideon Nav, an indentured swordswoman raised among nuns and skeletons in the Ninth House, who is drafted into a deadly imperial trial by Harrowhark, the necromancer she can't stand.”
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Start with Gideon the Ninth →

Lord of LightSeries

series5 books1967

About gods and reincarnation.

“One of their own, called Sam, breaks with the pantheon to return forbidden knowledge to the ordinary people they rule, touching off a war among the self-styled gods.”
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Start with Dawn →

Imperial GalaxySeries

series2 books2012

Space opera, about coming of age, set in space.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
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Start with A Confusion of Princes →

VorkosiganUniverse

universe27 books1986

Space opera.

“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
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Start with Shards of Honor →

includes Miles Vorkosigan, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Quaddies

The Four Lords of the DiamondSeries

series4 books1981

completed

Space opera.

“Each novel follows the same mission through a different one of the four worlds before the tetralogy's conclusion.”
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Start with Lilith: A Snake in the Grass →

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