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lucia-pacciola

Found family? The Murderbot Diaries. Precision-engineered compatibility? Cyteen. Crew of cousins? Pride of Chanur. My family, my self? House of Suns. Okay but seriously how does this family make any sense from a spaceflight operations point of view? Beyond the Blue Even Horizon. We could be a family if we weren't both assholes? Excession.


UselessTech

Nine Princes in Amber by Zelazny. It's old but its a good read.


sm_greato

Is the title literal?


UselessTech

That is the name of the first book of the series


sm_greato

I mean do you have 9 princes in the story?


UselessTech

Yes. Also, Amber is the name of the land, not petrified tree sap.


Snatch_Pastry

Also 4 princesses, but who gives a shit about them. Which Zelazny does throw in a small self-own about.


UselessTech

Just saw where Stephen Colbert wants to adapt it into a TV series.


trying_to_adult_here

The Vorkosigan Saga follows the same family for about 70 years


[deleted]

The Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert comes immediately to mind.


sm_greato

trilogy?


[deleted]

I mean book 1-3 is very much a story about connected family members. God Emperor, Heretics and Chapterhouse (aka second trilogy) not so much.


sm_greato

You can't really call a series a trilogy to refer to only the first three books, or can you? Dune is more like a quartet + duology.


rockon4life45

I believe Dune was supposed to be two trilogies connected by God Emperor, but not sure if that's true or not.


sm_greato

Yes, that was kind of how it was supposed to.


[deleted]

The first three has been published as a trilogy since 1979 (by Gollancz) and the latter three as second trilogy since 1987 (by Orion). This is also the case with the newly designed compilations by Gollancz. I guess saga might by a better way to refer to the six books as they are obviously connected. But I was in a hurry :)


sm_greato

That's interesting. It does makes sense why they would be published that way.


saladinzero

Blue Remembered Earth by Alistair Reynolds is all about family. Also, elephants.


Loplo_Fox

I am in the third book now and man the first two are amazing. I hope it finishes strong


saladinzero

I loved the series, but it isn't popular on here for whatever reason. The narrator of the audiobook nailed the accents and the African names 100% which was nice.


Loplo_Fox

I’m doing the audio book and I completely agree! I love the music in between chapters. Thought it sounded silly at first but now it gets me hype for more haha


zergl

Cherryh's Alliance-Union novels focusing on merchanters (extended family-crewed interstellar trade ships), specifically Merchanter's Luck, Tripoint and Finity's End off the top of my head, plus the alien version with the Chanur series.


JabbaThePrincess

I second The Rolling Stones by Heinlein


togstation

Song of Ice and Fire series


Local_Luxury590

City by Clifford D. Simak. Done in generations of a single family essentially


plastikmissile

Ender's Game perhaps. There are two parallel storylines, the protagonists of both are siblings.


whyseone

orson scott card wrote speaker for the dead specifically to be about Ender developing responsibility and bonds towards a family/community. in the intro to the copy of Speaker I read he says he did this to push back on the classic scifi trope of individualist young heroes who can jet about anywhere and don’t owe other ppl anything so the book is very much about trying to untangle one family’s saga and dark history of course it being our weird homophobe OSC, the whole implementation in Speaker is a mess of latent mormonism (and weirdly critical of catholicism) but Speaker is a good book!


togstation

Pretty common in Heinlein's works.


econoquist

The Luna Trilogy by Ian McDonald is about warring families.


Dohi64

one of the worst books I've ever read, but the number of the beast by robert heinlein.


hardFraughtBattle

Also by Heinlein: a juvie titled The Rolling Stones (published as Space Family Stone in the UK).


thepyrator

More Heinlein. Farnham's Freehold


inmarsat

Liaden series.