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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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Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
About coming of age, set in spaceship.
“Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”
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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens.
“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
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Start with Ringworld →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
Endless BlueNovel
Wen Spencerstandalone novel2007
Tense in tone, about aliens and survival.
“The appearance of the warp drive from a long lost spaceship, the Fenrir, triggers an epic quest fort he rest oft the ship, a mission led by Captain Mikhail Volkov.”
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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
DumarestSeries
series35 books1967
completed
Science fiction and space opera, adventurous in tone, set in far future and space.
Start with The Winds of Gath →