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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and 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, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
HeecheeSeries
series19 books1972
completed
Space opera.
“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 →
Schild's LadderNovel
Greg Eganstandalone novel2002
Hard science fiction, challenging in tone, about technological singularity and ecological collapse.
Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
Space opera, adventurous in tone, about coming of age.
“Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”
from the catalogue
Shroud (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series
series2 books2024
Hard science fiction, tense in tone, about survival, set in underground & caves.
Start with Sins of the Children →
FractalverseSeries
series2 books2020
First contact and space opera, tense in tone, about survival.
“Fractal Noise, a parallel entry, follows a separate crew investigating a mysterious signal-emitting structure on another world within the same universe.”
from the catalogue
Start with Fractal Noise →