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Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
About coming of age.
“Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”
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Mission to UniverseNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1965
Tense in tone, about aliens.
“Forever and a day - Brigadier General Benjamin Shore ignores a Presidential command and launches a revolutionary phase ship and its crew on an incredible journey deep into uncharted regions toward Galactic Centerpoint...”
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SpacejackersSeries
series3 books2014
Science fiction and space opera, adventurous in tone, about pirates, set in far future and space.
“Separated from his family as a baby and left on the planet Remota, thirteen-year-old Jake Cutler carries a secret that could change the universe and must discover the truth about his past before he is hunted down by space pirates.”
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NovaNovel
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1968
About quests and 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.”
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RevengerSeries
series3 books2016
Science fiction and space opera, adventurous in tone, about pirates, set in far future and space.
Start with Revenger →
Humanx CommonwealthUniverse
universe39 books1972
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.”
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Start with For Love of Mother-Not →
includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth