10) Philip Jose Farmer - Riverworld
This series of 5 epic post death adventures include To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), The Fabulous Riverboat (1971), The Dark Design (1977), The Magic Labyrinth (1980) and Gods of Riverworld (1983)
9) Harry Harrison - Stainless Steel Rat
This series included The Stainless Steel Rat (1961), The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (1970), The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972), The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You (1978), The Stainless Steel Rat for President (1982), A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born (1985), The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted (1987), The Golden Years of the Stainless Steel Rat (1993), The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues (1994), The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (1996), The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus (1999), The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (2010)
8) Frank Herbert - Dune
This series continues to grow and expand with multiple authors including (in story chronological order) Dune: Hunting Harkonnens, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Dune: Whipping Mek, Dune: The Machine Crusade, Dune: The Faces of a Martyr, Dune: The Battle of Corrin, Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen, Dune: House Corrino, Paul of Dune, The Winds of Dune, Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas, Dune, The Winds of Dune, The Road to Dune, Dune Messiah, The Throne of Dune, Children of Dune, Leto of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Dune: Sea Child, Chapterhouse: Dune, Hunters of Dune, Dune: Treasure in the Sand, Sandworms of Dune
7) Dan Simmons - Hyperion
This series included Hyperion (1989), The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Endymion (1996), The Rise of Endymion (1997)
6) Arthur C. Clarke - 2001
Many of Arthur Clarke's early works are great and I enjoyed the Rama series but his most famous 2001: A Space Odyssey series was actually a short story before it became a feature length film. Then Clarke create this series including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), 2061: Odyssey Three (1987), 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
5) JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
I thought it was cool that one of JRR Tolkien's closest friend was C.S. Lewis of The Chronicles of Narnia series. JRR Tolkien Ring Series has been expanded upon by several authors and include The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King
4) Isaac Asimov - Foundation
I love the Robot series and was intreged when Isaac Asimov merged the series into the Foundation series which includes Prelude to Foundation (1988), Forward the Foundation (1993), Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), Second Foundation (1953), Foundation's Edge (1982), Foundation and Earth (1986) and Foundation's Friends (1989)
3) Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Only 2 publications were released by Walter Miller but the story itself is epic and could be broken into multiple stories as the books have several periods of different stories. The series includes A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (1997)
2) Fred Saberhagen - Berserker
The Berserker series is a cool array of short and novel stories that include Berserker (1967), Brother Assassin (1969),Berserker Wars (1981), Berserker Throne (1985), Berserker Blue Death (1985), Berserker Base (1985), Ultimate Enemy (1987), Berserker Attack (1987), Berserker's Planet (1991), Berserker Lies (1991), Berserker Man (1992), Berserker Kill (1993), Berserker Fury (1997), Shiva in Steel (1998), Berserker Star (2003), Berserker Prime (2003), Rogue Berserker (2005)
1) Larry Niven - Tales of Known Space
These series of books and stories include some repeating characters and locations and include The Coldest Place (1964), The World of Ptavvs (1965), Becalmed in Hell (1965), Eye of an Octopus (1966), The Warriors (1966), Neutron Star (1966), How the Heroes Die (1966), At the Core (1966), A Relic of the Empire (1966), At the Bottom of a Hole (1966), The Soft Weapon (1967), Flatlander (1967), The Ethics of Madness (1967), Safe at any Speed (1967), The Adults (1967), The Handicapped (1967), The Jigsaw Man (1967), Slowboat Cargo (1968), The Deceivers] (1968), Grendel (1968), There is a Tide (1968), World of Ptavvs (1968), A Gift From Earth (1968), Wait It Out (1968), The Organleggers (1968), Ringworld (1970), Cloak of Anarchy (1972), Protector (1973), The Defenseless Dead (1973), The Borderland of Sol (1975), ARM (1975), The Ringworld Engineers (1980), The Patchwork Girl (1980), Madness Has Its Place (1990), Procrustes (1994), Ghost (1994), The Woman in Del Rey Crater (1995), The Ringworld Throne (1996), Choosing Names (1998), Fly-By-Night (2002), Ringworld's Children (2004), The Hunting Park (2005), Fleet of Worlds (2007), Juggler of Worlds (2008), Destroyer of Worlds (2009)
