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Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977

About political intrigue.

“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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Pushing IceNovel

Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2005

Hard science fiction and first contact.

Forge of GodSeries

series2 books1987

completed

Science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about survival and aliens.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
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Start with The Forge of God →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

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.”
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Start with Heavy Time →

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

Space BeagleSeries

series5 books1939

completed

Adventurous in tone.

Start with Black Destroyer →

PandoraSeries

series4 books1966

About artificial intelligence.

“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.”
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Start with Destination: Void →

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