Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue

Start with Ringworld →

includes Man-Kzin Wars, Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds

HeecheeSeries

series19 books1972

completed

Space opera, about space exploration.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue

Start with Gateway →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue

Start with Sundiver →

includes Uplift, Uplift Storm

Cities in FlightSeries

series10 books1950

completed

Space opera, about space colonization.

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
from the catalogue

Start with They Shall Have Stars →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“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 →

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

Space BeagleSeries

series5 books1939

completed

Space opera, about space exploration, set in spaceship.

Start with Black Destroyer →

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