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Hard science fiction, about aliens, set in parallel universe and the moon.
Glory SeasonNovel
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“An announcement in the back of one edition of Earth is for a novel titled Stratos, to be released in the spring of 1992.”
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series6 books1982
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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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ThistledownSeries
series5 books1978
completed
Hard science fiction, about space exploration.
Start with The Wind from a Burning Woman →