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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“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.”
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Start with Dune →

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

The Dosadi ExperimentNovel

Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977

Space opera, about political intrigue and aliens.

“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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HeorotSeries

series4 books1987

About space colonization.

“Reproduction and fertility expert Dr Jack Cohen acted as a consultant on the book, designing the novel life cycle of the alien antagonists, the grendels.”
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Start with The Legacy of Heorot →

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

HaloUniverse

universe70 books2001

Set in space.

“The shelf grows out of a 2001 video game, but it reads as its own body of military science fiction, built by many hands.”
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Start with The Fall of Reach →

includes Halo

PandoraSeries

series4 books1966

About artificial intelligence.

“The Pandora Sequence opens with Frank Herbert's solo novel Destination: Void, in which a starship crew must jury-rig a working artificial consciousness after their vessel's control systems fail.”
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Start with Destination: Void →

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