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Norby ChroniclesSeries
series22 books1983
completed
Adventurous in tone.
“In it, Jefferson Wells and Norby stop Ing from taking over the Solar System with the help of Jeff's brother Fargo Wells, police officer Albany Jones, and Admiral Boris Yobo.”
from the catalogue
Start with Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot →
Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
Space opera, adventurous in tone, set in spaceship.
“Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”
from the catalogue
Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens.
“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ringworld →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
The Rolling StonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1952
Adventurous in tone, set in near future and the moon.
“The Stone family, lunar-born, technically minded, and perpetually restless, buy a secondhand spaceship and set off from the Moon on a family tour of the solar system.”
from the catalogue
NovaNovel
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1968
Space opera, adventurous in tone, 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.”
from the catalogue
HeecheeSeries
series19 books1972
completed
Space opera, about aliens.
“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gateway →