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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Heroes of Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe

Heaven Chronicles / Zones of ThoughtSeries

series8 books1976

Space opera, set in space.

Start with The Outcasts of Heaven Belt →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Space opera, about artificial intelligence, set in galactic scale.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue

Start with Consider Phlebas →

includes Culture

DoonaSeries

series3 books1969

Set in other star systems.

“The colonists and Hrrubans must negotiate an unprecedented, closely governed coexistence rather than the separation their governments would prefer.”
from the catalogue

Start with Decision at Doona →

RamaUniverse

universe7 books1973

About aliens, set in space and 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 →

includes Rama (2)

RadchaaiUniverse

universe11 books2012

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

“Civilization is what the Radch calls itself, and civilization is a courtesy extended at gunpoint.”
from the catalogue

Start with Ancillary Justice →

includes Imperial Radch

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