Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
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Start with Ender's Game →

includes Ender Wiggin, Ender's Shadow, First Formic War, Second Formic War, Fleet School

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Last MenUniverse

universe21 books1930

Challenging and reflective in tone.

“Two billion years of human history, narrated at the speed of a geologist.”
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Start with Star Maker →

includes Last and First Men, Star Maker

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Dark in tone.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
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Start with Wild Seed →

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 Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

Childe CycleSeries

series19 books1957

Military science fiction, about war.

“The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the Graeme and Morgan families.”
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Start with Act of Creation →

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