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The Stars My DestinationNovel
Alfred Besterstandalone novel1956
Dark in tone, about revenge and identity.
Space BeagleSeries
series5 books1939
completed
Tense in tone, about aliens, set in spaceship.
Start with Black Destroyer →
HeecheeSeries
series19 books1972
completed
About aliens.
“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gateway →
Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens.
“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ringworld →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
The Final ArchitectureSeries
series6 books2021
Tense in tone, about aliens and war.
“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
from the catalogue
Start with Shards of Earth →
Cities in FlightSeries
series10 books1950
completed
About space colonization.
“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
from the catalogue
Start with They Shall Have Stars →