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The epithet " Known Space " is an in-universe term that refers to a relatively small part of the galaxy centered around Earth.
In the future that the series depicts ( beginning a few centuries from now and continuing for about a millennium afterward ) this region has been explored by humans and a number of its worlds have been colonized.
Contact has been made with alien species such as the two-headed Pierson's Puppeteers and the aggressive felinoid Kzinti.
The fictional universe is also the home of species from outside Known Space, including the hominid inhabitants of a megastructure called Ringworld.
The Ringworld orbits a sun outside Known Space, but it is a well-established artifact within the Known Space " universe ".
The stories span approximately one thousand years of future history, from the first human explorations of the Solar System to the colonization of dozens of nearby systems.
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