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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
About political intrigue.
“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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Pushing IceNovel
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2005
Hard science fiction and first contact, about space exploration, set in spaceship.
CoDominiumUniverse
universe98 books1971
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 →
includes Moties, Laurie Jo Hansen, War World, Falkenberg's Legion
Alliance-UnionUniverse
universe173 books1976
Science fiction, set in far future.
“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Start with Heavy Time →
includes Chanur, Hanan Rebellion, Company Wars, Mri Wars, Era of Rapprochement, The Hinder Stars, Age of Exploration, Unionside
The OutposterNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1972
About space colonization and class conflict.
“If your number came up, you joined the rest of the losers marked for exile from overcrowded Earth.”
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WolflingNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1969
Adventurous in tone, about political intrigue and class conflict.
“Jim was just another wolfling to Afuan - a lesser being from a backward colony world.”
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