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Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953

About space exploration, set in spaceship and other star systems.

“Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”
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Starship TroopersNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1959

Military science fiction, about war, set in other star systems.

Citizen of the GalaxyNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1957

About identity and slavery, set in other star systems.

“On a planet far distant from Earth, a lame beggar buys a young boy slave who has forgotten his origins.”
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Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
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Start with Ender's Game →

includes Ender's Shadow, Ender Wiggin, Fleet School, First Formic War, Second Formic War

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)

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens, set in other star systems.

“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

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