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universe142 books1964

Set in space.

“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 →

includes Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars, Fleet of Worlds

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Set in space.

“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 →

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

Red PlanetNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1949

About space colonization and coming of age.

“A boy colonist on Mars takes his bouncing ball Martian pet with him to boarding school, but the new Headmaster is a controlling tyrant.”
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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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Heavy Time →

includes Chanur, Mri Wars, Age of Exploration, Hanan Rebellion, Company Wars, Era of Rapprochement, The Hinder Stars, Unionside

MesklinSeries

series6 books1954

completed

Hard science fiction.

“The idea came from an object that was at the time believed to exist in the 61 Cygni system, and which might represent an extrasolar planet.”
from the catalogue

Start with Mission of Gravity →

HeecheeSeries

series19 books1972

completed

Space opera, set in space.

“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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