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  • Cover of Alex Benedict
    Alex BenedictSeries

    series · 13 books · 1987

    Set in space.

    “Alex Benedict is an antiques dealer and part-time interstellar investigator, generations removed from Earth's first starfaring age, who keeps stumbling into forgotten history through the objects and ruins he trades in.”

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    Start with A Talent for War →

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  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    About robots.

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

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    Start with Foundation →

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

  • Cover of Vorkosigan
    VorkosiganUniverse

    universe · 27 books · 1986

    Space opera.

    “Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”

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    Start with Shards of Honor →

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    includes Miles Vorkosigan, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Quaddies

  • Cover of Quadrail
    QuadrailSeries

    series · 5 books · 2005

    Space opera, about aliens and political intrigue, set in space.

    “Paired with the telepathically gifted Bayta, Compton investigates and fights the Modhri, a parasitic group-mind quietly seizing control of galactic leaders from within.”

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    Start with Night Train to Rigel →

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  • Cover of Alliance-Union Universe
    Alliance-UnionUniverse

    universe · 173 books · 1976

    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 →

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    includes Unionside, Company Wars, Age of Exploration, Chanur, Mri Wars, Era of Rapprochement, Hanan Rebellion, The Hinder Stars

  • Cover of Far from the Light of Heaven
    Far from the Light of HeavenNovel

    Tade Thompson · standalone novel · 2021

    Tense in tone, set in spaceship.

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