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RamaUniverse

universe7 books1973

About aliens, set in spaceship.

“Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”
from the catalogue

Start with Rendezvous with Rama →

includes Rama (2)

Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries

series16 books1983

About aliens.

“Beginning with The Engines of God, the series treats deep time and the near-total absence of intelligent alien life as its central mystery, favoring slow-burn discovery over action.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Engines of God →

HeecheeSeries

series19 books1972

completed

Space opera, about aliens.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue

Start with Gateway →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Mote in God's Eye →

includes Moties, Falkenberg's Legion, War World, Laurie Jo Hansen

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue

Start with Foundation →

includes Foundation, Trantorian Empire, The Positronic Robot Stories, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)

Heaven Chronicles / Zones of ThoughtSeries

series8 books1976

Space opera.

Start with The Outcasts of Heaven Belt →

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