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  • Cover of Childhood's End
    Childhood's EndNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1953

    First contact, bittersweet in tone, set in our world and near future.

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  • Cover of Time for the Stars
    Time for the StarsNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1956

    Hard science fiction, about coming of age, set in space.

    “Explorer spaceships need a way to communicate back to earth in a timely manner when they are light years away.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of The Dosadi Experiment
    The Dosadi ExperimentNovel

    Frank Herbert · standalone novel · 1977

    Space opera, about political intrigue, set in other star systems and far future.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Humanx Commonwealth
    Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1972

    Adventurous in tone, set in far future and other star systems.

    “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 →

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

  • Cover of The Einstein Intersection
    The Einstein IntersectionNovel

    Samuel R. Delany · standalone novel · 1967

    Challenging and eerie in tone, about identity, set in far future.

    “The title is a reference to Einstein's Theory of Relativity connecting to Kurt Gödel's Constructible universe, which is an analogy to science meeting philosophy.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of The Man in the Maze
    The Man in the MazeNovel

    Robert Silverberg · standalone novel · 1969

    About identity and loneliness, set in other star systems and far future.

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