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Shakespeare's PlanetNovel
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1976
First contact, reflective in tone, about aliens.
“Woken after a thousand-year voyage meant to find humanity a new home, Carter Horton finds his ship stranded for good, tended by the disembodied minds of three volunteers who gave up their bodies to fly it.”
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Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)Series
series59 books1963
Space opera, about artificial intelligence and war, set in space.
Start with Berserker →
FoundationUniverse
universe123 books1940
Science fiction, 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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Foundation →
includes The Positronic Robot Stories, Trantorian Empire, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)
Destiny DollNovel
Clifford D. Simakstandalone novel1971
Adventurous in tone, about aliens and survival.
“A group of space travelers is trapped on a planet that lured them to land.”
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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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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
Tower of GlassNovel
Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1970
About class conflict and slavery.