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universe78 books1963
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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includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
The Eyes of HeisenbergNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1966
Thriller & suspense, about genetic engineering and immortality, set in our world.
“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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Red RisingSeries
series13 books2014
Dystopia, dark in tone.
“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
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About political intrigue and aliens.
“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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UndertowNovel
Elizabeth Bearstandalone novel2007
Dark in tone, about assassins.
“A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get lost.”
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The OutposterNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1972
About space colonization and survival, set in space.
“If your number came up, you joined the rest of the losers marked for exile from overcrowded Earth.”
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