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- Foundation Universe
universe123 books1940
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There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars. It is called psychohistory, and its equations foresee something the ruling Galactic Empire cannot admit: the throne is rotting, and thirty thousand years of barbarism are coming. One man, Hari Seldon, cannot stop the fall. He can only shorten it — by seeding a Foundation of scholars at the rim of the galaxy, a fragile institution built to carry knowledge across the dark and cut the interregnum to a single millennium. This is a universe told in the register of history itself: the long view, the calm of deep time, empires measured in centuries and men measured against them. The spine is Asimov's original trilogy — Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation — followed decades later by the sequels Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth and the prequels Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation. Late in life Asimov braided this in with his other future histories: the Robot novels of detective Elijah Baley and his humaniform partner R. Daneel Olivaw (The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire) and the early Galactic Empire novels (Pebble in the Sky and its kin), until one continuous chronicle ran from the first thinking robots to the Second Empire. Other hands extend it — the Second Foundation Trilogy by Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and David Brin, and shared-world spinoffs such as Robot City — so the corpus sprawls beyond a single author's tidy shelf. What distinguishes it is that the drama is intellectual: crises resolved by insight, nerve, and dialogue rather than fleets and blades, each turn hinging on the hidden logic of the Seldon Plan. Begin where readers have always begun — with Foundation, and the original trilogy in publication order. The rest opens outward from there.
- Silver Metal Lover
series2 books1981
completed
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The S.I.L.V.E.R. series is a fantasy novel series by Tanith Lee. The Silver Metal Lover, published in 1981, is the first in the series. Metallic Love, published in 2005, is the second novel.
- The Wild Robot
series4 books2016
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Peter Brown's 2016 novel follows a robot washed ashore on a remote island who ends up raising an orphaned gosling, adapting to wild island life among animals unused to her presence. It was later adapted into the 2024 animated film of the same name. The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects continue the same character's story across the rest of the trilogy.
- Psy-Changelings
series38 books2006
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Nalini Singh's long-running paranormal romance series imagines a future where the emotion-suppressing Psy, animal-shifting Changelings, and ordinary humans share an uneasy world. It opens with Slave to Sensation, pairing a Psy telepath and a Changeling leopard alpha as a string of murders pushes their two peoples toward war, while a slower arc across the books tracks the Psy's emotional-control system fraying. The series has grown across two decades into more than twenty novels plus spin-off novellas.
- Nova
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1968
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Nоva is a science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany published in 1968. The plot concerns the spaceship captain Lorq Von Ray's search for a nova, which will produce the essential power source Illyrion, and his vendetta with the Red family, who seek to kill him. Nominally space opera, it explores the politics and culture of a future where cyborg technology is universal, yet making major decisions can involve using tarot cards. It has strong mythological overtones, relating to both the Grail Quest and Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece.
- Blade Runner Universe
series6 books1968
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Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard as he tracks escaped androids through an irradiated, near-abandoned San Francisco, using the hunt to probe questions of empathy and what separates human from machine. The novel became the basis for Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and Marvel Comics later published an illustrated adaptation of that film. Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.
- GhostWalkers
series20 books2003
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Christine Feehan's GhostWalkers novels follow soldiers subjected to a covert military program that enhanced them with psychic and physical abilities, then follow them as they go rogue from the program that made them and pair off in romance-driven, danger-filled storylines. Each book generally centers a different GhostWalker couple while advancing an ongoing conspiracy plot about the program's origins and enemies. The series began with Shadow Game in 2003 and has continued for two decades as one of Feehan's longest-running paranormal romance lines.
- Dark-Hunter
series65 books2000
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Dark-Hunter is a term from a paranormal romance and fantasy series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Kenyon began writing the series in 1986 in horror, fantasy and science fiction magazines.
- City
series19 books1944
completed
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City is Clifford D. Simak's fix-up novel, assembling eight linked stories originally published in Astounding Science Fiction during the 1940s and framed as legends dogs tell about a half-mythical creature called Man. It follows humanity's gradual abandonment of its cities and eventual departure from Earth, while the dogs left behind are surgically uplifted into a peaceable, speaking civilization of their own. The book won the International Fantasy Award in 1952.
- Kairos
series11 books1962
completed
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The Time Quintet is a science fantasy series of five young adult novels written by American author Madeleine L'Engle and made up of A Wrinkle in Time (1962), A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), Many Waters (1986), and An Acceptable Time (1989).
- Echo Boy
Matt Haigstandalone novel2014
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Set In the future where global warming has caused drastic changes to the world. Technology has improved and almost every home has its own echo (humanlike androids) to do menial work. Main character Audrey's father is against the use of echoes and taught her to maintain her humanity. But then she meets Daniel an echo who can actually feel. When Audrey finds herself in dangerous situation Daniel is determined to save her.
- Warm Bodies
series3 books2010
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In an abandoned airport where the dead shuffle through half-remembered lives, a zombie known only as R feels something stir when he meets Julie, a survivor he chooses to protect instead of eat. Isaac Marion's Warm Bodies follows R's slow, contagious return to feeling -- reshaping the zombies around him along the way -- and continues through the novella The New Hunger and the sequel The Burning World.
- The Themis Files
series3 books2015
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Sylvain Neuvel's Themis Files opens when a girl falls into a hole in South Dakota and lands on the palm of a giant metal hand buried underground; the trilogy picks up years later as she leads the team trying to determine what the hand is part of and why it's there. Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF. The mystery escalates from an archaeological puzzle into a question of who else is looking for the same answer.
- Heart of Stone / Gargoyles
series6 books2013
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- Lunar Chronicles
series15 books2011
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The Lunar Chronicles is a series of four young adult science fiction novels, a novella, and a short story collection written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Feiwel & Friends. Each book entails a science fictional twist on a classic fairy tale, including "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Rapunzel", and "Snow White". Set in a futuristic world inhabited by various species and creatures, tensions are rising between Earth and its former colony Luna, while both attempt to manage an ongoing pandemic.
