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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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe
AuroraNovel
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2015
Hard science fiction, reflective in tone, set in spaceship and generation ship.
PandoraSeries
series4 books1966
Science fiction, about survival and artificial intelligence, set in far future and other star systems.
“The Pandora Sequence opens with Frank Herbert's solo novel Destination: Void, in which a starship crew must jury-rig a working artificial consciousness after their vessel's control systems fail.”
from the catalogue
Start with Destination: Void →
HelliconiaSeries
series4 books1982
completed
Reflective in tone, about ecological collapse.
Start with Helliconia Spring →
The Gods ThemselvesNovel
Isaac Asimovstandalone novel1972
Hard science fiction, about aliens, set in parallel universe and the moon.
We Who Are About to ...Novel
Joanna Russstandalone novel1977
Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone.