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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
Set in far future.
“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 →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
The Secret of the Ninth PlanetNovel
Donald A. Wollheimstandalone novel1959
Set in outer planets & moons.
“Wollheim takes his heroes on a grand tour of the Solar System as that team struggles to prevent an alien force from Pluto from blowing up the Sun.”
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Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
About coming of age, set in far future and spaceship.
“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
Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1958
About survival, set in near future and the moon.
“One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon - and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate.”
from the catalogue
Fifth PlanetNovel
Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoylestandalone novel1963
First contact.
Humanx CommonwealthUniverse
universe39 books1972
Set in far future.
“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
from the catalogue
Start with For Love of Mother-Not →
includes Pip & Flinx, The Founding of the Commonwealth, Icerigger Trilogy