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The story of a civil war on a distant planet, Cybertron, home to a race of advanced robotic life-forms known as the TransFormers. Two factions vie for control over the planet's dwindling power supplies, the heroic Autobots led by Optimus Prime, and the evil Decepticons, ruled by the maniacal Megatron. They wage a war...

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The Trigan Empire is set on the world of Elekton, which orbits the star of Yarna. Elekton is home to diverse cultures, all modelled to some degree on ancient cultures. Elekton is also home to some fearsome creatures. The Trigan Empire was a comic strip which first started in the magazine Ranger, then joined with the popular weekl...

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A future earth where humanity is under the foot of the Tripods, giant tripartite aliens that have reduced human society to a pre-industrial level.

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The universe of the UN Protectorate (for want of a better term) is found in the three Takeshi Kovacs novels,  Altered Carbon, 2002Broken Angels, 2003Woken Furies, 2005 It's the 26th century and humanity has progressed to the stars, bringing with it the technological wonders, corporate power-lusting, government corruption...

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The Unreal series of computer games consists mainly of two single-player geared games (Unreal, Unreal II: The Awakening), and three multiplayer games similar in style to Quake III: Arena and Counter Strike (Unreal Tournament, UT2003, UT2004).  There is also an expansion to the original Unreal game, as well as X-Box games Unreal Championshi...

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Book series, where sentient species are valued by whether they have 'uplifted' (artificially helped to achieve sentience) any other race or not.

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Alien beings, seemingly human come to Earth saying that their planet is dying due to a lack of certain basic chemicals. They offer to exchange their knowledge for the chemicals needed. It's later found out that their needs are more sinister, their planet is indeed dying, but the needed elements are water and food. The visitors are not in...

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(Spoilers present below) Venture Brothers is an animated show produced by Cartoon Network. It takes cliches from science fiction, spy thrillers, superheroism, horror, and fantasy and spoofs them in the context of its own coherent universe. The show's humor derives in part from mocking these staples of geekdom, but more from the ongoing i...

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One of those rare, 'humans only' universes. This series focuses on the adventures of galactic super spy Miles Vorkosigan. Battling mad villians, cultural mores, class structure and his own personality is pretty much SOP for the hero. While the universe contains only humans the societies developed are often altogether alien. The Betans valu...

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A tabletop strategy game produced by the now-defunct FASA. Earth has been pulled into a pocket universe-like entity known as the 'Maw' along with hundreds if not thousands of other planets, all of which are slowly being destroyed inside the Maw. Earth is divided between two factions, the Neo-Soviet Union and the Union. Constant war rages a...

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A popular tabletop strategy game, Warhammer 40,000 (WH40k) centers on the Imperium of Man, a galaxy-spanning empire that worships the demigod-like God-Emperor of Man. They are beset on all sides by Orks, Necrons, Eldar, Tyranids, Chaos Traitors and other vast dark hordes. They are protected most famously by the Space Marines, superhuman ...

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A popular space-combat simulator series which was released in 1990 and, along with the original 'X-Wing,' created the genre of 'space shooters'. A number of games were made, as well as various spinoffs like Privateer, a space trading game set in the same universe. These games were Wing Commander, Wing Commander 2...

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An alternate-history series of novels by Harry Turtledove, written between 1994 and 1996.

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Computer game series. The games in the series are:-UFO: Enemy Unknown-Terror From The Deep-X-Com: Apocalypse-X-Com: Interceptor It describes the struggle of the human race with a race (or several allied races) of aliens, starting from modern-day Earth and eventually taking it to the stars. With aliens...

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A series of sci-fi novels written by Stephen Baxter that chronicle the history of humanity in its struggles amongst the epic back-drop of an immense conflict between the baryonic lords, the Xeelee, and the photonic lifeforms, the Photino Birds. Novels (can be read in any order):Raft (1991)Timelike Infinity (1992)Flux (1993)...