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universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

Crosstime TrafficSeries

series6 books2003

Set in alternate earth.

“Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Traffic novels are set on an Earth that has discovered travel to alternate timelines where history unfolded differently, exploited commercially by the monopoly company that gives the series its name.”
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Start with Gunpowder Empire →

Ring of Fire (1632)Universe

universe687 books2000

Alternate history, set in europe.

“Somewhere in the spring of 1631, the sky over a stretch of Thuringian farmland cracks open, and when it closes a piece of the year 2000 is sitting in the middle of the Thirty Years' War.”
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Start with 1632 →

includes Queen of the Sea / The Alexander Inheritance, Assiti Shards Universe Novels, Time Spike

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

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

“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

Oxford Time TravelSeries

series6 books1982

Time travel, about survival, set in british isles.

“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
from the catalogue

Start with Fire Watch →

The Leviathan TrilogySeries

series3 books2009

Steampunk, adventurous in tone, set in early 20th century.

“Set in an alternate First World War, Leviathan splits the belligerents into Clankers, who fight with mechanical walkers, and Darwinists, who fight with fabricated living creatures built from spliced DNA.”
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Start with Leviathan →

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