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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
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 →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
JanissariesSeries
series4 books1979
Military science fiction, adventurous in tone, about slavery.
“Janissaries are an American series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement.”
from the catalogue
Start with Janissaries →
VattaUniverse
universe10 books2003
Military science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in space.
“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
from the catalogue
Start with Trading in Danger →
includes Vatta's War, Vatta's Peace
HonorverseUniverse
universe83 books1993
Military science fiction, set in space.
“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 →
includes Honor Harrington, Expanded Honorverse, Saganami Island, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Wages of Sin, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington), Manticore Ascendant, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
About aliens and survival.
“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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The Stellar LegionNovel
E. C. Tubbstandalone novel1954
Military science fiction, set in space.
“When he is sent to the penal world of Stellar, he survives, winning promotion in the Stellar Legion, a brutal military system.”
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