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Books like Beast Master: 9 series to read next

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

Beast Master is 5 books, 1959–2006.

“Andre Norton's Beast Master series follows Hosteen Storm, a Navajo veteran of an interstellar war who resettles an alien frontier world with a team of specially trained animals bonded to him by touch-telepathy.”
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Known Space
Catteni Sequence
Uplift
Humanx Commonwealth
Of Man and Manta
Mesklin
Heorot
Alliance-Union
Heechee

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.”
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Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

About slavery.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
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Start with Freedom's Landing →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Science fiction and space opera, adventurous in tone, about aliens and uplift, set in far future and other star systems.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

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

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
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Of Man and MantaSeries

seriesPiers Anthony3 books1968

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

“Three scientists survive on the mysterious planet of Nacre.”
from the catalogue description of Omnivore
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Start with Omnivore →

MesklinSeries

seriesHal Clement6 books1954

Hard science fiction, about space exploration.

“The idea came from an object that was at the time believed to exist in the 61 Cygni system, and which might represent an extrasolar planet.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Mission of Gravity →

HeorotSeries

seriesJerry Pournelle, Larry Niven & Steven Barnes4 books1987

About space colonization.

“Reproduction and fertility expert Dr Jack Cohen acted as a consultant on the book, designing the novel life cycle of the alien antagonists, the grendels.”
from the catalogue description of The Legacy of Heorot

Start with The Legacy of Heorot →

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.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

About space exploration.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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Start with Gateway →

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.

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What should I read after Beast Master?: Known Space — the closest match to Beast Master on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Beast Master?: The Beast Master. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Beast Master.
How big is Beast Master?: Beast Master is 5 books, 1959–2006.

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