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DiasporaNovel
Greg Eganstandalone novel1997
About mind uploading and artificial intelligence.
ThistledownSeries
series5 books1978
completed
Science fiction and hard science fiction, about space exploration, set in far future and space.
Start with The Wind from a Burning Woman →
Singularity SkySeries
series2 books2003
Tense in tone, about artificial intelligence.
“Charles Stross uses the setup for a mix of space opera, economics, and diplomatic intrigue.”
from the catalogue
Start with Singularity Sky →
AuroraNovel
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2015
About artificial intelligence and space colonization, set in spaceship and generation ship.
XeeleeSeries
series89 books1987
About aliens.
“The Xeelee are described as symbiotic entities composed of spacetime defects, Bose–Einstein condensates, and baryonic matter.”
from the catalogue
Start with Raft →
Kefahuchi Tract TrilogySeries
series3 books2002
Science fiction and space opera, challenging in tone, set in far future and space.
“M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy circles a strange, physics-breaking anomaly in deep space that draws scientists, smugglers, and drifters into its pull across different eras.”
from the catalogue
Start with Light →