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DuneUniverse

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dune →

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

The Saga of Seven Suns UniverseSeries

series16 books2002

Adventurous in tone.

Start with Hidden Empire →

HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Set in other star systems and space.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
from the catalogue

Start with On Basilisk Station →

includes Honor Harrington, Saganami Island, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Expanded Honorverse, Wages of Sin, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction, Manticore Ascendant, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington)

Azean EmpireSeries

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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Start with In Conquest Born →

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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Start with Death's Head →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

About artificial intelligence.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue

Start with Consider Phlebas →

includes Culture

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