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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens, set in other star systems.

    “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 →

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    includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

  • Cover of Starman Jones
    Starman JonesNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1953

    About coming of age, set in spaceship and other star systems.

    “Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Islands in the Sky
    Islands in the SkyNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1952

    Set in space station.

    “Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Uplift Universe
    UpliftUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1980

    About uplift and aliens, set in other star systems.

    “No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Sundiver →

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    includes Uplift Storm, Uplift

  • Cover of The Sands of Mars
    The Sands of MarsNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1951

    Set in mars.

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  • Cover of Cities in Flight
    Cities in FlightSeries

    series · 10 books · 1950

    completed

    Science fiction and space opera, about space colonization, set in space and far future.

    “The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with They Shall Have Stars →

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