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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Science fiction and 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, Heroes of Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
Life During WartimeNovel
Lucius Shepardstandalone novel1987
Dark in tone, about war.
“In 1990, it won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Work.”
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The Locked TombSeries
series6 books2019
About undead and identity, set in space.
“Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth follows Gideon Nav, an indentured swordswoman raised among nuns and skeletons in the Ninth House, who is drafted into a deadly imperial trial by Harrowhark, the necromancer she can't stand.”
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Start with Gideon the Ninth →
Forge of the TitansNovel
Steve Whitestandalone novel2003
Science fiction and military science fiction, about gods and war.
“With other human telepaths, one human traitor, and the advice and counsel of the goddess Secrest battles the Titans and their human allies.”
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The TalentsUniverse
universe18 books1959
Science fiction.
“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
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Start with The Rowan →
includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Science fiction and space opera, about aliens and 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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