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universe123 books1940

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

The Themis FilesSeries

series3 books2015

About aliens.

“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 →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
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Start with The Man in the High Castle →

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The CarlsSeries

series2 books2018

First contact, about aliens and identity.

Start with An Absolutely Remarkable Thing →

The Eyes of HeisenbergNovel

Frank Herbertstandalone novel1966

Thriller & suspense, about genetic engineering and immortality, set in far future.

“Tens of thousands of years in the future, Earth is ruled by the Optimen, a genetically engineered aristocracy that has made itself functionally immortal, while ordinary people, the Folk, live under strict reproductive control.”
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The Killer ThingNovel

Kate Wilhelmstandalone novel1967

Dark in tone, about artificial intelligence and survival.

“A robot destroys its inventor and programs itself to kill all life.”
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