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  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    About aliens and space exploration.

    “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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  • Cover of Against a Dark Background
    Against a Dark BackgroundNovel

    Iain M. Banks · standalone novel · 1993

    Tense in tone, about heist and found family.

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  • Cover of Nova
    NovaNovel

    Samuel R. Delany · standalone novel · 1968

    About revenge.

    “The plot concerns the spaceship captain Lorq Von Ray's search for a nova, which will produce the essential power source Illyrion, and his vendetta with the Red family, who seek to kill him.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ringworld →

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    includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

  • Cover of Humanx Commonwealth
    Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1972

    About aliens.

    “Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

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  • Cover of CoDominium
    CoDominiumUniverse

    universe · 98 books · 1971

    Military science fiction.

    “The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”

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    Start with The Mote in God's Eye →

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