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HainishSeries

series33 books1964

completed

Science fiction, reflective in tone, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
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The City and the StarsNovel

Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1956

About space exploration and immortality.

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

Downward to the EarthNovel

Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1969

About aliens and redemption.

“On his return, he feels a new sense of kinship with the natives, perhaps more than for the Terran tourists.”
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Against the Fall of NightSeries

series2 books1953

About space exploration.

“Against the Fall of Night is Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel of a stagnant, climate-controlled city called Diaspar a billion years in Earth's future, where a young man named Alvin becomes the first in living memory to want to leave it.”
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Shakespeare's PlanetNovel

Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1976

First contact, mysterious in tone, about robots and aliens.

“Woken after a thousand-year voyage meant to find humanity a new home, Carter Horton finds his ship stranded for good, tended by the disembodied minds of three volunteers who gave up their bodies to fly it.”
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