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  • Cover of The Culture
    The CultureUniverse

    universe · 21 books · 1987

    About artificial intelligence, set in galactic scale.

    “No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Consider Phlebas →

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  • Cover of Commonwealth Universe
    CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 12 books · 2002

    Science fiction and space opera, set in far future.

    “Step aboard the train at the Second Chance terminal and ride the wormhole to another star.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Dreaming Void →

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    includes Void Trilogy, Commonwealth Saga, Chronicle of the Fallers

  • Cover of Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
    Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

    series · 9 books · 1962

    completed

    Set in near future.

    “Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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  • Cover of Jean le Flambeur
    Jean le FlambeurSeries

    series · 3 books · 2010

    Challenging in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in space and other star systems.

    “Jean le Flambeur is a master thief broken out of a virtual prison to pull off one more impossible heist, in a solar system reshaped by uploaded minds, post-human factions, and economies built on memory and privacy themselves.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Quantum Thief →

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  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    About robots.

    “There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Foundation →

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    includes Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation, Trantorian Empire, The Positronic Robot Stories, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)

  • Cover of Grainger (Hooded Swan)
    Grainger (Hooded Swan)Series

    series · 6 books · 1972

    completed

    Set in space.

    Start with The Halcyon Drift →

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