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Azean EmpireSeries
series2 books1987
Space opera, about war.
“C. S. Friedman's Azean Empire novels are set in a distant-future conflict between two competing human societies, the Azeans and the Braxins, contesting interstellar dominance.”
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Start with In Conquest Born →
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera, set in other star systems.
“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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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe
Death's Head (David Gunn)Series
series3 books2007
Space opera, about war, set in space.
“Set in a chillingly realistic far-future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, Death's Head is sure to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year.”
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Start with Death's Head →
The Saga of Seven Suns UniverseSeries
series16 books2002
Space opera, adventurous in tone, about war.
Start with Hidden Empire →
ArmorNovel
John Steakleystandalone novel1984
About madness and war, set in other star systems.
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, about survival, set in other star systems.
“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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