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Azean EmpireSeries
series2 books1987
Science fiction and space opera.
“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.”
from the catalogue
Start with In Conquest Born →
JanissariesSeries
series4 books1979
Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about slavery, set in other star systems.
“Janissaries are an American series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement.”
from the catalogue
Start with Janissaries →
HonorverseUniverse
universe83 books1993
Science fiction and space opera, set in other star systems and space.
“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
from the catalogue
Start with On Basilisk Station →
includes Honor Harrington, Expanded Honorverse, Saganami Island, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Wages of Sin, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction, Manticore Ascendant, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington)
The Machineries of EmpireSeries
series10 books2012
Science fiction and space opera.
“Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ninefox Gambit →
Death's Head (David Gunn)Series
series3 books2007
Science fiction and space opera, set in space.
“Set in a chillingly realistic far-future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, Death's Head is sure to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year.”
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Start with Death's Head →
The Stellar LegionNovel
E. C. Tubbstandalone novel1954
Science fiction and space opera, set in other star systems and space.
“When he is sent to the penal world of Stellar, he survives, winning promotion in the Stellar Legion, a brutal military system.”
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