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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera, about political intrigue.
“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
Forge of GodSeries
series2 books1987
completed
Science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about aliens and survival.
“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
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series59 books1963
Space opera, set in space.
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John Steakleystandalone novel1984
Military science fiction, about madness.
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First contact, set in space and spaceship.
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, about political intrigue.
“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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