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Azean EmpireSeries
series2 books1987
Science fiction and space opera, tense and dark in tone, about political intrigue and war, set in far future.
“C. S. Friedman's Azean Empire novels are set in a distant-future conflict between two competing human societies, the Azeans and the Braxins, contesting interstellar dominance.”
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Start with In Conquest Born →
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
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.”
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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
HonorverseUniverse
universe83 books1993
Set in other star systems.
“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 Honor Harrington, Expanded Honorverse, Saganami Island, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Wages of Sin, Manticore Ascendant, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington)
VattaUniverse
universe10 books2003
Adventurous in tone, set in other star systems.
“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
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Start with Trading in Danger →
includes Vatta's War, Vatta's Peace
PolityUniverse
universe72 books1992
Set in other star systems.
“The Quiet War is already over by the time you arrive.”
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Start with Shadow of the Scorpion →
includes Rise of the Jain, Transformation, Ian Cormac, Spatterjay, Time's Shadow
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
About survival, set in other star systems.
“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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