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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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Foundation →

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

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.”
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Start with Ender's Game →

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

NovaNovel

Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1968

About 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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VorkosiganUniverse

universe27 books1986

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and other star systems.

“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
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Start with Shards of Honor →

includes Cordelia Vorkosigan, Miles Vorkosigan, Quaddies

Well WorldSeries

series11 books1977

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space.

Start with Midnight at the Well of Souls →

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

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