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CommonwealthUniverse

universe12 books2002

Space opera.

“Step aboard the train at the Second Chance terminal and ride the wormhole to another star.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Dreaming Void →

includes Void Trilogy, Commonwealth Saga, Chronicle of the Fallers

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Galactic Rim SequenceSeries

series8 books1990

Science fiction, set in far future.

Start with Polar City Blues →

Jean le FlambeurSeries

series3 books2010

Space opera and hard science fiction, challenging in tone, about artificial intelligence.

“Jean le Flambeur is a master thief broken out of a virtual prison to pull off one more impossible heist, in a solar system reshaped by uploaded minds, post-human factions, and economies built on memory and privacy themselves.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Quantum Thief →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Space opera, about artificial intelligence, set in galactic scale.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue

Start with Consider Phlebas →

includes Culture

The OutworldsSeries

series2 books1998

Science fiction, set in far future and space.

Start with This Alien Shore →

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