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Tunnel in the SkyNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1955
Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.
“As the final test of a survivalist/explorer class, teenagers are dumped on an alien planet to use their skills while awaiting pickup.”
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Pushing IceNovel
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2005
Hard science fiction and first contact, about aliens, set in space.
Shroud (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series
series2 books2024
Hard science fiction, about aliens, set in underground & caves.
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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, about political intrigue and aliens.
“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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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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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
Space WinnersNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1965
Space opera, adventurous in tone, about aliens and coming of age.
“Suddenly Jim Rawlins, Ellen Bouvier, Curt Harrington, and the squirrel-like Alien philosopher Peep were castaways, stranded on the Quarantined World of Quebahr - with no training, and little hope of rescue.”
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