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  • Cover of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

    universe · 65 books · 1898

    Alien invasion.

    “No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The War of the Worlds →

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    includes The War of the Worlds

  • Cover of The Kraken Wakes
    The Kraken WakesNovel

    John Wyndham · standalone novel · 1953

    Alien invasion, about aliens and survival, set in our world.

    “Earth's life is disrupted by the attacks of extraterrestrials whose war machines, emerging from the depths of the oceans, seem indestructible.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
    Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

    series · 9 books · 1962

    completed

    Set in near future.

    “Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”

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    Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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  • Cover of Dune Universe
    DuneUniverse

    universe · 78 books · 1963

    Space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Dune →

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    includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

  • Cover of Change War
    Change WarSeries

    series · 16 books · 1958

    completed

    Time travel.

    “Leiber followed it with a string of shorter Change War stories, later gathered into collections such as Changewar, exploring other soldiers and other flashpoints in the same endless, mutable conflict.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Big Time →

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  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    About robots, set in far future.

    “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 →

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