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Against a Dark BackgroundNovel

Iain M. Banksstandalone novel1993

Adventurous in tone, about heist and magical artifacts.

StarstreamSeries

series2 books1989

completed

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

“The two were published within a year of each other under the same author.”
from the catalogue

Start with From a Changeling Star →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Adventurous in tone, 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 Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth

Death's Head (David Gunn)Series

series3 books2007

Military science fiction, dark in tone, about war.

“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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Death's Head →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

About political intrigue.

“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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

The LeagueSeries

series15 books1994

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

“Sherrilyn Kenyon's The League opens with Born of Night, a science-fiction romance centered on an assassin protagonist, continuing across more than a dozen further 'Born of...' novels.”
from the catalogue

Start with Born of the Night →

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