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Alfred Besterstandalone novel1956

About revenge and survival, set in other star systems.

series2 books2009

Science fiction, set in far future and space.

“Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Barque Cats novels imagine a future where telepathically gifted ship's cats work interstellar cargo vessels as crew, guarding against hazards human senses and sensors miss.”
from the catalogue

Start with Catalyst →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens, set in other star systems.

“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

The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

Science fiction, about psychic powers.

“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Rowan →

includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)

ThornsNovel

Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1967

Dark in tone, about aliens and love triangle.

“Whose butchered body had been put together by aliens, with artificial and alien replacements.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

About political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Dune Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

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