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series2 books1987
Science fiction and space opera, tense and dark in tone, about war and political intrigue, set in far future.
“C. S. Friedman's Azean Empire novels are set in a distant-future conflict between two competing human societies, the Azeans and the Braxins, contesting interstellar dominance.”
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universe78 books1963
Set in 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.”
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Death's Head (David Gunn)Series
series3 books2007
Set in space.
“Set in a chillingly realistic far-future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, Death's Head is sure to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year.”
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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
About survival, set in other star systems.
“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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Sun EaterSeries
series36 books2018
Science fiction and space opera, dark in tone, about war, set in far future.
“The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky.”
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