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series5 books1959

Science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“Andre Norton's Beast Master series follows Hosteen Storm, a Navajo veteran of an interstellar war who resettles an alien frontier world with a team of specially trained animals bonded to him by touch-telepathy.”
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Start with The Beast Master →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in space.

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

includes Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars, Fleet of Worlds

MesklinSeries

series6 books1954

completed

Hard science fiction, about aliens and space exploration.

“The idea came from an object that was at the time believed to exist in the 61 Cygni system, and which might represent an extrasolar planet.”
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Start with Mission of Gravity →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“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 Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens, set in space.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
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Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

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

HeecheeSeries

series19 books1972

completed

Space opera, about aliens and space exploration, set in space.

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

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