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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
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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The Madness SeasonNovel
C. S. Friedmanstandalone novel1990
Set in space.
“The alien within - He'd had so many names over the centuries, so many new identities that he could scarcely remember who he had originally been.”
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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
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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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
Alliance-UnionUniverse
universe173 books1976
Science fiction, set in far future.
“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Start with Heavy Time →
includes Hanan Rebellion, Chanur, Mri Wars, Era of Rapprochement, Company Wars, Unionside, Age of Exploration, The Hinder Stars
Dancers in the AfterglowNovel
Jack L. Chalkerstandalone novel1978
About robots, set in spaceship.
“Sixteen million tourists traveled there from just about every world you could think of to live and love in sixteen million different ways.”
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WolflingNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1969
Adventurous in tone, about political intrigue and class conflict, set in space.
“Jim was just another wolfling to Afuan - a lesser being from a backward colony world.”
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