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Galactic MilieuSeries

series10 books1981

completed

Tense in tone, about aliens.

“From the front flap of the Knopf first printing: The year is 2051.”
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Start with The Many-Colored Land →

Time Is the Simplest ThingNovel

Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1961

Reflective in tone, set in our world and near future.

“The underlying theme is intolerance of ordinary people towards those with unusual abilities.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, 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

FlashforwardNovel

Robert J. Sawyerstandalone novel1999

About identity, set in our world and near future.

“At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider accelerator is performing a run to search for the Higgs boson.”
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Stranger in a Strange LandNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961

About aliens and faith and religion, set in north america and near future.

Cemetery WorldNovel

Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1973

Set in far future.

“Ravaged 10,000 years earlier by war, Earth was reclaimed by its space-dwelling offspring as a planet of landscaping and tombstones.”
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