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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens.

    “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 →

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    includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    About aliens.

    “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 →

    similar byspace explorationscience fictionfar futurespaceother star systemsspace opera+1 more

  • Cover of Cities in Flight
    Cities in FlightSeries

    series · 10 books · 1950

    completed

    About space colonization.

    “The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with They Shall Have Stars →

    similar byscience fictionfar futurespacespace opera+4 more

  • Cover of Uplift Universe
    UpliftUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1980

    About uplift and aliens.

    “No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Sundiver →

    similar byscience fictionadventurousfar futurespaceother star systemsspace opera+2 more

    includes Uplift, Uplift Storm

  • Cover of Humanx Commonwealth
    Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1972

    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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

    similar byscience fictionadventurousfar futurespaceother star systems+2 more

    includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth

  • Cover of Tunnel in the Sky
    Tunnel in the SkyNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1955

    About coming of age.

    “As the final test of a survivalist/explorer class, teenagers are dumped on an alien planet to use their skills while awaiting pickup.”

    from the catalogue

    similar byspace explorationscience fictionadventurousfar futureother star systemssurvivaltense+1 more