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Books like Binti: 9 series to read next

Binti is science fiction and space opera, about aliens, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Binti is 4 books, 2015–2019.

“Beginning with Binti and ending with Binti: The Night Masquerade, it follows the heroine Binti as she leaves Earth to attend a prestigious university in space.”
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Known Space
Uplift
Imperial Galaxy
Humanx Commonwealth
CoDominium
Heechee
Lagoon / Binti Universe
Ender's Game
Alliance-Union

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About political intrigue.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Confusion of Princes →

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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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

“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 →

Lagoon / Binti UniverseSeries

seriesNnedi Okorafor5 books2014

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future.

“In 2014 it was chosen as an honor list title for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.”
from the catalogue description of Lagoon

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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.”
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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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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 Binti?: Known Space — the closest match to Binti on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Binti?: Binti. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Binti.
How big is Binti?: Binti is 4 books, 2015–2019.

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