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Books like Ascendant Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Ascendant Chronicles is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Ascendant Chronicles is 5 books, 2017–2018.

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Known Space
Ender's Game
CoDominium
Rama
Cities in Flight
Uplift
Bronson Beta
Proxima (Stephen Baxter)
Alliance-Union

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue description

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Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
from the catalogue description

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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RamaUniverse

universe7 books1973

Set in spaceship.

“Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”
from the catalogue description

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Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

Science fiction and space opera, about space colonization, set in far future and space.

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
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Start with They Shall Have Stars →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue description

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Bronson BetaSeries

seriesEdwin Balmer, Philip Wylie, Jeff Deischer & R. L. Helms5 books1933

Science fiction, set in other star systems.

“The two novels form a self-contained disaster-and-survival duology.”
from the catalogue description

Start with When Worlds Collide →

Proxima (Stephen Baxter)Series

seriesStephen Baxter6 books2011

Science fiction, set in other star systems.

“Stephen Baxter's Proxima follows a reluctant human colonist settled on a world orbiting Proxima Centauri as part of a secretive, one-way colonization program, intercut with political maneuvering back in a transformed solar system.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Proxima →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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Why these

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Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after Ascendant Chronicles?: Known Space — the closest match to Ascendant Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ascendant Chronicles?: Project Atlantis. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ascendant Chronicles.
How big is Ascendant Chronicles?: Ascendant Chronicles is 5 books, 2017–2018.

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