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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

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

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

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 →

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

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Adventurous in tone, about aliens.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
from the catalogue

Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth

The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

Science fiction, about psychic powers.

“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Rowan →

includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)

Solar QueenSeries

series7 books1955

Set in spaceship.

“Andre Norton's Solar Queen novels follow the crew of a free-trader starship under Captain Jellico as they scrape by hauling cargo and making first contact on the fringes of settled space.”
from the catalogue

Start with Sargasso of Space →

Forever WarSeries

series10 books1972

Military science fiction.

Start with Hero →

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