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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, about survival.
“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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CoDominiumUniverse
universe98 books1971
Military science fiction.
“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Mote in God's Eye →
includes Moties, Falkenberg's Legion, Laurie Jo Hansen, War World
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera.
“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
Alliance-UnionUniverse
universe173 books1976
Science fiction, set in far future.
“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Start with Heavy Time →
includes Chanur, Mri Wars, Hanan Rebellion, Unionside, Company Wars, Era of Rapprochement, The Hinder Stars, Age of Exploration
WolflingNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1969
Space opera, adventurous in tone, about class conflict, set in space.
“Jim was just another wolfling to Afuan - a lesser being from a backward colony world.”
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The AvatarNovel
Poul Andersonstandalone novel1978
Space opera, adventurous in tone, about space exploration, set in space.
“With the aid of the political opposition, they escape and journey through the portal in search of knowledge, and perhaps even to meet those who created the portal system.”
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