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Galactic MilieuSeries

series10 books1981

completed

About psychic powers and aliens.

“From the front flap of the Knopf first printing: The year is 2051.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Many-Colored Land →

The Themis FilesSeries

series3 books2015

About aliens and robots, set in contemporary.

“Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF.”
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Start with Sleeping Giants →

Patrick McLanahanSeries

series3 books1989

Techno-thriller, tense in tone, set in our world.

“Some parts of the plot were passively referenced in Brown's 1991 novel Sky Masters, which is set two years before most of the events in Cheetah.”
from the catalogue

Start with Day of the Cheetah →

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots, set in far future.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

includes Trantorian Empire, Foundation, The Positronic Robot Stories, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation (Original Stories)

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue

Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

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

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