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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
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.”
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Start with Ringworld →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
Space opera, about coming of age, set in spaceship.
“Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”
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The Sands of MarsNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1951
About terraforming, set in mars.
UpliftUniverse
universe13 books1980
Space opera, about uplift and aliens, set in other star systems.
“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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Start with Sundiver →
includes Uplift Storm, Uplift
Imperial EarthNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1975
Reflective in tone, about cloning, set in outer planets & moons.
“The plot follows the protagonist, Duncan Makenzie, on a trip to Earth from his home on Titan, in large part as a diplomatic visit to the U.S. for its quincentennial in 2276, but also to have a clone of himself produced.”
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Islands in the SkyNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1952
Set in near future and space station.
“Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”
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