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Cycle of FireNovel
Hal Clementstandalone novel1957
Reflective in tone, about friendship.
“After his ship crashed on the inhospitable planet Abyorman, Nils Kruger had spent weeks wandering across the face of the planet.suffering from blistering heat, the searing cold of an alien climate.”
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Pushing IceNovel
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2005
About space exploration, set in space and spaceship.
FractalverseSeries
series2 books2020
Space opera, about space exploration, set in space.
“Fractal Noise, a parallel entry, follows a separate crew investigating a mysterious signal-emitting structure on another world within the same universe.”
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Start with Fractal Noise →
Alliance-UnionUniverse
universe173 books1976
Science fiction, set in far future.
“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Start with Heavy Time →
includes Chanur, Hanan Rebellion, Mri Wars, Company Wars, Era of Rapprochement, Age of Exploration, The Hinder Stars, Unionside
Shroud (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series
series2 books2024
About space exploration, set in underground & caves.
Start with Sins of the Children →
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, about political intrigue.
“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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