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universe39 books1972

Adventurous in tone, set in space.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
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Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth

Viagens InterplanetariasSeries

series23 books1949

completed

Space opera, adventurous in tone.

“Set in the future in the 21st and 22nd centuries, the series is named for the quasi-public Terran agency portrayed as monopolizing interstellar travel, the Brazilian-dominated Viagens Interplanetarias.”
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Start with The Queen of Zamba →

Planet Nerak / Nerakian QuestSeries

series4 books2007

Funny in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“Sex with the perfect man is overrated, especially if your Mr. Perfect is a robot, and you know there's something better out there.”
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Start with Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind →

The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

About psychic powers.

“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
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Start with The Rowan →

includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)

HokaSeries

series33 books1951

completed

Humor, funny in tone.

“Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson's Hoka stories follow the Hokas, a teddy-bear-like alien race who enthusiastically role-play human genres and history, to comic effect.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Sheriff of Canyon Gulch →

KarresSeries

series5 books1949

Space opera and science fantasy, set in space.

“Schmitz never wrote a follow-up himself, but the story was continued decades later by other hands — The Wizard of Karres, The Sorceress of Karres, The Shaman of Karres — carrying Captain Pausert and the Karres witches forward.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Witches of Karres →

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