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universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

includes Trantorian Empire, Foundation, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation (Original Stories)

DuneUniverse

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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Start with Dune →

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

Red RisingSeries

series13 books2014

Dystopia, dark in tone, about class conflict.

“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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Start with Red Rising →

The Dosadi ExperimentNovel

Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977

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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HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Military science fiction.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
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Start with On Basilisk Station →

includes Wages of Sin, Saganami Island, Honor Harrington, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Expanded Honorverse, Manticore Ascendant, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington)

Catteni SequenceSeries

series5 books1970

completed

Adventurous in tone, about slavery and aliens.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
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Start with Freedom's Landing →

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