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  • Cover of The Fountains of Paradise
    The Fountains of ParadiseNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1979

    Science fiction and hard science fiction, about space exploration, set in far future.

    “Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator.”

    from the catalogue

    similar byspace station

  • Cover of Islands in the Sky
    Islands in the SkyNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1952

    Science fiction, about space colonization and space exploration, set in near future.

    “Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”

    from the catalogue

    similar byspace station

  • Cover of Between Planets
    Between PlanetsNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1951

    Science fiction and space opera, about space colonization.

    “A teenager is pulled from his earthside boarding school when tensions rise between Earth and the Venus and Mars colonies.”

    from the catalogue

    similar by+1 more

  • Cover of Alliance-Union Universe
    Alliance-UnionUniverse

    universe · 173 books · 1976

    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 Company Wars

  • Cover of Earth
    EarthNovel

    David Brin · standalone novel · 1990

    Science fiction, about ecological collapse, set in our world and near future.

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  • Cover of Vorkosigan
    VorkosiganUniverse

    universe · 27 books · 1986

    Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and other star systems.

    “Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Shards of Honor →

    includes Quaddies, Miles Vorkosigan