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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    Set in other star systems.

    “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 Man-Kzin Wars, Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds

  • Cover of Ender's Game Universe
    Ender's GameUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1977

    Science fiction, set in far future.

    “To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ender's Game →

    similar byfar futurescience fiction+3 more

    includes Ender Wiggin, Ender's Shadow, First Formic War, Second Formic War, Fleet School

  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    Space opera, about space exploration, set in other star systems.

    “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 →

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  • Cover of Rama
    RamaUniverse

    universe · 7 books · 1973

    Set in spaceship.

    “Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Rendezvous with Rama →

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    includes Rama (2)

  • Cover of Cities in Flight
    Cities in FlightSeries

    series · 10 books · 1950

    completed

    Space opera, 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 →

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  • Cover of Uplift Universe
    UpliftUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1980

    Space opera, adventurous in tone, about uplift, set in other star systems.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with Sundiver →

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    includes Uplift, Uplift Storm