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The popular video games are actually only a part of the Halo franchise. At the time of writing, four novels also exist ('The Fall of Reach', 'The Flood', 'First Strike', and 'Ghosts of Onyx'). The universe is part of game studio Bungie's overall timeline, which includes their Marathon series of games. The Halo series revolves arou...
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A table top based miniature and roleplaying game developed by Dream Pod 9. Heavy Gear is set in the 62nd Century of Earth's timeline or the year TN 1933 on the planet Terra Nova. A colony settled nearly 10 centuries before. Abandoned by the then current Earth government, Terra Nova developed fighting suits they called 'gears' to defend th...
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A popular 5 book trilogyby author Douglas Adams. Known for improbable if not silly occurrences. The original book spawned four sequels, which in turn also became a BBC Radio Play, and a BBC TV series. Now a major motion picture by Disney. Bring a towel!
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Popular fully 3D real time strategy game series set in space, it consists of Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm, and Homeworld 2. The first game follows the story of the Kushan people, and their struggle against various enemies in their long journey to their ancient homeworld, Hiigara, located near the galactic core. The later games continue ...
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A series of four books (and a less widely known novella) by writer Dan Simmons. It includes Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and Rise of Endymion. The first two books describe the events and history surrounding the pilgrimage of 7 people to a grouping of myseterious alien constructs (called the Time Tombs) on the planet Hyperion, which...
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Invader Zim is a sci-fi cartoon which is widely regarded as a cult classic, thanks to its bizzare and over-the-top sense of humor. The premise of the show is that Zim, a none-too-bright soldier in a huge interstellar empire, is misdirected by his leaders to try to take over Earth, an unimportant backwater planet where Zim won't be able to ...
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The Universe of Judge Dredd first appeared in the weekly British comic 2000AD in 1977. Judge Dredd is a member of the Judges, a quasi-futuristic police force who enforce the law in Mega-City One. During the early times of the existence of Dredd, Mega City One covers almost the entire Eastern Seaboard from parts of what used t...
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The Known Space is a series of loosely connected novels and short stories, written by Larry Niven (with the exception of the Man-Kzin Wars series, more about it later). It spans more than 8 centuries, and includes at least a dozen alien races. Most stories are set in Known Space (another word for 'explored space'), a sphere approximately 6...
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Legacy of the Aldenata: Set during modern day earth, Humanity is approached by representatives of a multi-species federation spanning hundreds of star systems. They had previously avoided Earth as they feared Humanities capacity for violence, themselves all being genetic pacifists. Now though, the encroachment on the violent and bloodthir...
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'Two thousand million years ago or so two galaxies were colliding, or, rather, were passing through each other.'Thus begins the 7-book series that got the space opera genre going. The 'Lensverse' chronicles the war between two races of immense power: the Arisians and the Eddorians, and the tools they use to fight: Civilisation and its worlds f...
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The universe of Mass Effect is brought to life in the videogame of the same name. Released initially on Xbox 360 and soon to be released on PC, the universe of Mass Effect is diverse. Humans are the relative galactic newcomers, having broken out onto the galactic stage when the discovery of ancient data originating from the long dead Pr...
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A series of computer games (3 to date) which allows the player to select a race (or create a custom one) and build his own interstellar empire. Featured a very rich and complex research tree, diplomacy options, and much more.
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The Metroid series is one of Nintendo's signature game franchises. Set several centuries in the future, the series follows the exploits of bounty hunter Samus Aran, a woman who was bestowed a sophisticated suit of power armor by a race of aliens known as the Chozo, who are currently extinct in their corporeal form. Samus's primar...
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Really a multiverse of related universes. The Gundam universes are known by the name of their calender: Universal Century: Events begin in UC 0079 (Mobile Suit Gundam), latest known date is UC 0223 (G-Saviour). Several series, OAVs and movies. Future Century: Events begin in FC 60, one series (Mobile Fighter G Gund...
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Mystery Science Theater, or 'MST3k' as it is known to fans, was a successful, long-running sci-fi comedy show. While somewhat obscure to the general public, it is a major cult classic amongst many sci-fi fans. Uniquely, the show's premise was to have its main characters (a human and two robots) satirize various obscure low-budget sci-fi, m...
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Orion's Arm is a sci-fi universe which is written, online, by public contributors. Rather than expanding through the work of a single author, Orion's Arm grows as multiple contributors add stories and background context to the universe. As science fiction, Orion's Arm is heavily focused on the theme of transhumanism, the alteration and/or ...
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The Computer is Your Friend! Paranoia is a table-top RPG. In a vast underground warren in the future a well meaning but insane computer system watches over it's human subjects. It has ordered and perfected human society so that Alpha Complex (the warren) is a utopia. How do we know it's a utopia? Because the computer says so! ...
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Perfect Dark is a video game. It follows agent Joanna 'Perfect' Dark as she fights the massive and domineering DataDyne Corproration. Durng the game, Joanna discovers that DataDyne is collaborating with an alien species and learns of the larger conflict she is involved in. Perfect Dark is set on Earth in the near future (the first title...
