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universe13 books1995

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in far future and 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

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots, set in far future.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

includes The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation, Trantorian Empire, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

series3 books1985

Dystopia, about totalitarianism and gender and society, set in near future.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

The Apocalypse SevenNovel

Gene Doucettestandalone novel2021

Post-apocalyptic, about survival and found family.

“Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn't alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse.”
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EarthseedSeries

series7 books1993

Dystopia and post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in near future.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
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Start with Parable of the Sower →

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