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The OutposterNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1972
About space colonization.
“If your number came up, you joined the rest of the losers marked for exile from overcrowded Earth.”
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WolflingNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1969
Adventurous in tone, about aliens and political intrigue.
“Jim was just another wolfling to Afuan - a lesser being from a backward colony world.”
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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
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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includes Dune, Dune Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
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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The Eyes of HeisenbergNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1966
Thriller & suspense, about immortality and rebellion and revolution, set in our world.
“Tens of thousands of years in the future, Earth is ruled by the Optimen, a genetically engineered aristocracy that has made itself functionally immortal, while ordinary people, the Folk, live under strict reproductive control.”
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Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)Series
series59 books1963
About robots and artificial intelligence.
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