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universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
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Start with Ender's Game →

includes Ender Wiggin, Ender's Shadow, Fleet School, First Formic War, Second Formic War

The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

About psychic powers.

“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
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Start with The Rowan →

includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)

VorkosiganUniverse

universe27 books1986

Set in 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.”
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Start with Shards of Honor →

includes Cordelia Vorkosigan, Miles Vorkosigan, Quaddies

WarchildSeries

series4 books2002

Military science fiction, set in space and other star systems.

Start with Warchild →

Skolian Empire UniverseSeries

series36 books1994

About political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“The tale of how and WHY Althor ended war on Dalvador as a 16-year old.”
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Start with Skyfall →

Second Starfaring AgeSeries

series2 books1983

Set in space.

“The Void Captain's Tale takes place three or four thousand years in the future in an era called the Second Starfaring Age, a setting Spinrad revisited in the 1985 novel Child of Fortune.”
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Start with The Void Captain's Tale →

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