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  • Cover of Hainish
    HainishSeries

    series · 33 books · 1964

    completed

    Reflective in tone.

    “The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Rocannon's World →

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  • Cover of The Culture
    The CultureUniverse

    universe · 21 books · 1987

    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 →

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    includes Culture

  • Cover of Marjorie Westriding
    Marjorie WestridingSeries

    series · 3 books · 1989

    completed

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

    “Raising the Stones and Sideshow carry the trilogy's ideas forward across roughly a thousand years and more of the same future history, with Marjorie's legacy and the extinct alien Arbai continuing to shape events.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Grass →

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  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    About robots.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with Foundation →

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

  • Cover of Embassytown
    EmbassytownNovel

    China Miéville · standalone novel · 2011

    About space colonization and identity, set in space.

    “In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    Space opera, about 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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gateway →

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