The novel “Salvation” by Peter F. Hamilton was published for the first time in 2018. It’s the first novel in the Salvation Sequence.

In 2204 humanity is expanding among the stars using portals based on quantum entanglement. On a recently discovered planet about 89 light-years from Earth, the wreck of an alien spaceship is discovered, and inside it, there are 17 humans. A very special team is sent to investigate but one of the members is an alien.

Centuries later, humans are on the run from aliens who want to wipe them out. The only hope is to raise soldiers trained specifically to fight the aliens. That’s because it’s impossible to escape from the enemies forever, so the only solution is to prepare for the fight.

The novel “The Long Utopia” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter was published for the first time in 2016. It’s the fourth book of The Long Earth series and follows “The Long Mars”.

By the mid-21st century, the human species has spread over an indefinite number of parallel versions of the Earth. People who don’t want to be found can choose to move to another very distant Earth, on their own or by mixing with another group in which no one knows them. Lobsang tries this path by using a very natural-looking body produced exactly with the purpose of trying to live like a normal human being.

While Joshua Valienté is on the search for his father and ends up uncovering a much more complex past than he thought, it’s not always easy for ordinary humans to live with members of the new species that emerged among them. These are problems that may disappear when Lobsang discovers that he went to live in a world where seemingly impossible things are happening that clearly indicate that extremely powerful forces are at work.

The novel “Dune Messiah” by Frank Herbert was published for the first time in 1969 serialized in the magazine “Galaxy” and then as a book. It’s the second book in the Dune saga and follows “Dune”.

Twelve years after becoming the Emperor of the known universe, Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides is the most powerful man in human history, at least in theory. For the Fremen, he has become a kind of deity, and that fueled a jihad that caused over sixty billion deaths. Paul himself ended up being carried away by that jihad, unable to stop it, as it would cost an even greater amount of deaths.

Paul’s power seems impossible to challenge but a conspiracy unites the Bene Gesserit, the Space Guild, and the Bene Tleilax in an attempt to overthrow him. Irulan, Paul’s official consort in a purely formal marriage, is an accomplice as well. A Guild Navigator uses his powers of prescience to shield the conspirators from Paul’s prescience. As the Face Dancer Scytale begins his mission on Arrakis, a gift is brought to the Emperor: Hayt, a ghola of Duncan Idaho.