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Books like Barsk: 9 series to read next

Barsk is science fiction, set in far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Barsk is 5 books, 2015–2020.

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Ender's Game
Dune
Hainish
The Culture
Thousand Worlds
City
Foundation
Francis Sandow
Against the Fall of Night

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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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

Science fiction, reflective in tone, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Rocannon's World →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Space opera, about artificial intelligence, set in galactic scale.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue description

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Thousand WorldsSeries

seriesGeorge R. R. Martin & Howard Waldrop24 books1971

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

“George R.R. Martin's Thousand Worlds is a loose future-history setting he used for several of his 1970s-80s stories and novels, encompassing human interstellar colonization and encounters with older, stranger civilizations.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Hero →

CitySeries

seriesClifford D. Simak19 books1944

Set in our world.

Start with Census →

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Foundation →

Francis SandowSeries

seriesRoger Zelazny & Steven Brust5 books1968

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

Start with Dismal Light →

Against the Fall of NightSeries

seriesArthur C. Clarke & Gregory Benford2 books1953

About space exploration.

“Against the Fall of Night is Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel of a stagnant, climate-controlled city called Diaspar a billion years in Earth's future, where a young man named Alvin becomes the first in living memory to want to leave it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Against the Fall of Night →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Barsk?: Ender's Game — the closest match to Barsk on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Barsk?: The Elephants' Graveyard. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Barsk.
How big is Barsk?: Barsk is 5 books, 2015–2020.

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