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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyUniverse

universe18 books1979

Humor, funny in tone, set in far future.

“The Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and honestly, nobody filed the paperwork properly.”
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Start with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy →

includes Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently

Starman JonesNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953

Space opera, about coming of age, set in far future.

“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, set in far future and other star systems.

“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

Star Smashers of the Galaxy RangersNovel

Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1973

Space opera and humor, funny in tone, set in far future.

“The main characters are homages to Tom Swift Jr. and his buddy, Bud Barclay.”
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HeecheeSeries

series19 books1972

completed

Space opera, about aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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Start with Gateway →

Islands in the SkyNovel

Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1952

About space colonization, set in near future and space station.

“Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”
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