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RiverworldSeries
series37 books1965
Science fiction, about faith and religion, set in far future and other star systems.
“The Riverworld is an artificial, or heavily terraformed, planet where all humans who ever lived throughout history have been resurrected.”
from the catalogue
Start with River of Eternity →
Against the Fall of NightSeries
series2 books1953
Reflective in tone, about space exploration.
“Against the Fall of Night is Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel of a stagnant, climate-controlled city called Diaspar a billion years in Earth's future, where a young man named Alvin becomes the first in living memory to want to leave it.”
from the catalogue
Start with Against the Fall of Night →
HeecheeSeries
series19 books1972
completed
Space opera, about aliens and space exploration, set in space.
“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gateway →
Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens, set in 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
The Colors of SpaceNovel
Marion Zimmer Bradleystandalone novel1963
Space opera, about aliens and space exploration, set in space.
“The Lhari seem peaceful and friendly, but they go to some lengths to protect their monopoly on faster-than-light travel.”
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Singer from the SeaNovel
Sheri S. Tepperstandalone novel1999
Reflective in tone, about gender and society and coming of age.
“An accomplished student and heiress to a great title, Genevieve has been carefully instructed in the Covenants, the inflexible laws governing women of her class.”
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