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universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

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

includes Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars, Fleet of Worlds

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“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 →

includes Pip & Flinx, The Founding of the Commonwealth, Icerigger Trilogy

Starship TroopersNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1959

Military science fiction, about war and coming of age.

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue

Start with Sundiver →

includes Uplift Storm, Uplift

The Colors of SpaceNovel

Marion Zimmer Bradleystandalone novel1963

Space opera, mysterious in tone, about space exploration.

“The Lhari seem peaceful and friendly, but they go to some lengths to protect their monopoly on faster-than-light travel.”
from the catalogue

HeecheeSeries

series19 books1972

completed

Space opera, about 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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