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A Meeting with MedusaSeries
series2 books1971
About immortality, set in outer planets & moons.
“Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa follows an astronaut, badly injured in an earlier disaster, on a solo balloon expedition into Jupiter's atmosphere, where he encounters vast floating lifeforms unlike anything previously catalogued.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Meeting with Medusa →
ThistledownSeries
series5 books1978
completed
Science fiction and hard science fiction, about space exploration, set in far future and space.
Start with The Wind from a Burning Woman →
Learning the WorldNovel
Ken MacLeodstandalone novel2005
Space opera, about space colonization, set in spaceship.
“On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.”
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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.
“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ringworld →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
Pushing IceNovel
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2005
Tense in tone, about survival, set in spaceship.
XeeleeSeries
series89 books1987
Science fiction and hard science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.
“The Xeelee are described as symbiotic entities composed of spacetime defects, Bose–Einstein condensates, and baryonic matter.”
from the catalogue
Start with Raft →