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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Science fiction.
“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, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
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 →
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Science fiction, tense in tone, 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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VorkosiganUniverse
universe27 books1986
Science fiction.
“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
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Start with Shards of Honor →
includes Cordelia Vorkosigan, Miles Vorkosigan, Quaddies
The Splinter in the SkyNovel
Kemi Ashing-Giwastandalone novel2023
Science fiction, tense in tone, about space colonization.
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)