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universe27 books1986

Science fiction and space opera, set in other star systems and far future.

“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
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Start with Shards of Honor →

includes Miles Vorkosigan, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Quaddies

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.”
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Start with Dune →

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

The Stainless Steel RatSeries

series21 books1957

completed

Adventurous in tone, about con artists, set in space.

“An adolescent boy on a dull planet resolves to live by his wits outside the law, and enacts a plan which leads to risk and reward.”
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Start with A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born →

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

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

Old Man's WarSeries

series16 books2005

Military science fiction, adventurous in tone, about war, set in space.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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Start with Old Man's War →

RetiefSeries

series61 books1960

Set in space.

“Retief follows Jame Retief, a wry, capable diplomat in the Terran Corps Diplomatique who solves interstellar crises through unorthodox action while his blustering, status-obsessed superiors busy themselves with protocol.”
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Start with Envoy to New Worlds →

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