Books like Prelude to Foundation
The young Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor and discovers the mathematical foundations of psychohistory while dodging assassins and political conspiracies.
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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 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.
Startide Rising
Genetically uplifted dolphins and their human crew flee through space in a damaged ship, carrying a secret that every civilisation in the galaxy wants.
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.
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 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.
Seveneves
When the Moon is shattered by a mysterious agent, humanity has two years to get enough people off Earth before the hard rain of debris makes the surface uninhabitable.
The Mote in God's Eye
In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.
Children of Time
Spiders inherit a terraformed world meant for humans and evolve into a civilisation, until the last human ark ship arrives to claim what was never theirs.
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.
Ringworld
Explorers discover a massive ring-shaped artificial world orbiting a distant star and must survive its ancient, dangerous wonders.
Shards of Honor
Cordelia Naismith, captain of a Betan survey ship, is taken prisoner on an unexplored planet by Aral Vorkosigan, a Barrayaran commander with a brutal reputation, whose own crew has just mutinied.