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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    Set in space.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ringworld →

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    includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

  • Cover of Mesklin
    MesklinSeries

    series · 6 books · 1954

    completed

    Hard science fiction.

    “The idea came from an object that was at the time believed to exist in the 61 Cygni system, and which might represent an extrasolar planet.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Mission of Gravity →

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  • Cover of The Colors of Space
    The Colors of SpaceNovel

    Marion Zimmer Bradley · standalone novel · 1963

    Space opera, mysterious in tone, set in space.

    “The Lhari seem peaceful and friendly, but they go to some lengths to protect their monopoly on faster-than-light travel.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Humanx Commonwealth
    Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1972

    Set in space.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

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

  • Cover of Across a Billion Years
    Across a Billion YearsNovel

    Robert Silverberg · standalone novel · 1969

    Set in space.

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  • Cover of Uplift Universe
    UpliftUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1980

    Space opera, about uplift, set in space.

    “No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Sundiver →

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