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  • Cover of Vatta
    VattaUniverse

    universe · 10 books · 2003

    Military science fiction.

    “Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Trading in Danger →

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    includes Vatta's War, Vatta's Peace

  • Cover of Alliance-Union Universe
    Alliance-UnionUniverse

    universe · 173 books · 1976

    Science fiction, set in far future.

    “Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Heavy Time →

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    includes Chanur, Company Wars, Mri Wars, The Hinder Stars, Unionside, Hanan Rebellion, Era of Rapprochement, Age of Exploration

  • Cover of Imperial Galaxy
    Imperial GalaxySeries

    series · 2 books · 2012

    About coming of age and identity.

    “Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Confusion of Princes →

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

  • Cover of Dune Universe
    DuneUniverse

    universe · 78 books · 1963

    Science fiction and 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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Dune →

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

  • Cover of Honorverse
    HonorverseUniverse

    universe · 83 books · 1993

    Military science fiction.

    “At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with On Basilisk Station →

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    includes Honor Harrington, Saganami Island, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Wages of Sin, Expanded Honorverse, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington), Manticore Ascendant, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction