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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens, set in other star systems.

    “Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ringworld →

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    includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

  • Cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Universe
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyUniverse

    universe · 18 books · 1979

    Humor, funny in tone.

    “The Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and honestly, nobody filed the paperwork properly.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy →

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    includes Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently

  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    Space opera, about aliens, set in other star systems.

    “The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gateway →

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  • Cover of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
    The Science Fiction Hall of FameSeries

    series · 11 books · 1895

    “The greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One →

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  • Cover of Rama
    RamaUniverse

    universe · 7 books · 1973

    About aliens, set in spaceship.

    “Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Rendezvous with Rama →

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    includes Rama (2)

  • Cover of Humanx Commonwealth
    Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1972

    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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

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    includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth