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  • Cover of Starman Jones
    Starman JonesNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1953

    Space opera, adventurous in tone, set in far future.

    “Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”

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  • Cover of The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling StonesNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1952

    Adventurous in tone, set in near future and the moon.

    “The Stone family, lunar-born, technically minded, and perpetually restless, buy a secondhand spaceship and set off from the Moon on a family tour of the solar system.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

    “Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”

    from the catalogue
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  • Cover of Islands in the Sky
    Islands in the SkyNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1952

    Adventurous in tone, about space colonization, set in near future and space station.

    “Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”

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  • Cover of Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
    Star Smashers of the Galaxy RangersNovel

    Harry Harrison · standalone novel · 1973

    Space opera and humor, funny in tone, set in far future.

    “The main characters are homages to Tom Swift Jr. and his buddy, Bud Barclay.”

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  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    Space opera, about aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

    “The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gateway →

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