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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens, set in space.
“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ringworld →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
The City and the StarsNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1956
About immortality.
HeecheeSeries
series19 books1972
completed
Space opera, about aliens, set in space.
“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gateway →
Against the Fall of NightSeries
series2 books1953
Science fiction, reflective in tone, about space exploration, set in other star systems and far future.
“Against the Fall of Night is Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel of a stagnant, climate-controlled city called Diaspar a billion years in Earth's future, where a young man named Alvin becomes the first in living memory to want to leave it.”
from the catalogue
Start with Against the Fall of Night →
Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
Space opera, about coming of age, set in space.
“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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Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries
series16 books1983
About aliens, set in space.
“Beginning with The Engines of God, the series treats deep time and the near-total absence of intelligent alien life as its central mystery, favoring slow-burn discovery over action.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Engines of God →