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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera, 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.”
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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
MatchedSeries
series3 books2010
Dystopia.
“Ally Condie's dystopian trilogy follows Cassia, a teenager in a rigidly controlled Society that assigns citizens' spouses, careers, and even manner of death, after a glitch shows her a second face at her own Matching ceremony.”
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The Xenith TrilogySeries
series3 books2017
Space opera, about political intrigue, set in space.
“Kidnapped by the princess's head bodyguard, Ruckus, and imprisoned in an alien palace, Delaney is forced to impersonate the princess until Olena can be found.”
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Start with Amid Stars and Darkness →
Chaos WalkingSeries
series5 books2008
Dystopia, dark in tone.
Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, about political intrigue 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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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 Trantorian Empire, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, The Positronic Robot Stories, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation, Foundation (Original Stories)