Books like Foundation and Earth
The search for Earth continues as the protagonist discovers that the planet he seeks has been deliberately erased from every record in the galaxy.
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The Naked Sun
Detective Baley travels to a Spacer world where one human lives alone with thousands of robots, and a murder investigation becomes a meditation on agoraphobia and contact.
The Player of Games
The Culture sends one of its citizens to infiltrate a game-obsessed empire, and the board game he must win has consequences far beyond the tournament.
Ringworld
Explorers discover a massive ring-shaped artificial world orbiting a distant star and must survive its ancient, dangerous wonders.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
Ancillary Justice
A warship's AI, trapped in a single human body after the destruction of its ship, uncovers a galactic conspiracy at the heart of a brutal empire.
The End of Eternity
A technician in a time-altering organisation makes unauthorised changes to history to save a woman he loves, threatening the existence of eternity itself.
A Memory Called Empire
A young ambassador from a small colony arrives at the heart of a vast empire, where memory is currency and identity is a political weapon.
The Dreaming Void
In the far future, a man begins dreaming of a perfect world inside the Void at the centre of the galaxy, and when millions decide to follow him there, the galaxy's powers fear that the pilgrimage will trigger the Void's expansion and destroy them all.
House of Suns
Six million years from now the Gentian Line, a thousand clones of one woman, criss-cross the galaxy and meet every two hundred thousand years to share their memories. Campion and Purslane, two of them who have fallen in love against the Line's rules, are running late for the reunion.
Diaspora
In 2975 most of humanity lives as software in polises, and Yatima, a mind born of no parents, comes into being in one of them, not long before a disaster in space threatens the flesh-and-blood humans left on Earth.
In the Lives of Puppets
In a forest far from the cities the machines rule, Victor Lawson lives with the android who raised him, a sardonic nurse robot and an anxious vacuum, until he repairs a decommissioned android called Hap and draws the attention of the machines who come looking for it.
Pandora's Star
In 2380 humanity has spread across hundreds of worlds linked by wormholes, and when an astronomer sees two distant stars vanish inside a barrier, a starship is sent to find out why, with consequences no one foresaw.