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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

Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
from the catalogue

Start with Ender's Game →

includes Ender Wiggin, Ender's Shadow, First Formic War, Second Formic War, Fleet School

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift and aliens.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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Start with Sundiver →

includes Uplift Storm, Uplift

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

includes Icerigger Trilogy, Pip & Flinx, The Founding of the Commonwealth

ThistledownSeries

series5 books1978

completed

Hard science fiction.

Start with The Wind from a Burning Woman →

HainishSeries

series33 books1964

completed

Reflective in tone.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue

Start with Rocannon's World →

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