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Books like Cadwal Chronicles: 9 series to read next

Cadwal Chronicles is science fiction and space opera, about space colonization, set in other star systems, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Cadwal Chronicles is 5 books, 1987–2018.

“The Cadwal Chronicles are a trilogy of science fiction novels by American writer Jack Vance set in his Gaean Reach fictional universe.”
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Known Space
Foundation
Vatta
CoDominium
Alliance-Union
Old Man's War
Dune
Humanx Commonwealth
Hellhole

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens.

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

universe123 books1940

About robots.

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

universe10 books2003

Military science fiction, tense in tone.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
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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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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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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, about war.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.

“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.”
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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens.

“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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HellholeSeries

seriesBrian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson3 books2011

Tense in tone.

“Hellhole: Awakening and Hellhole: Inferno escalate both the political revolt and the planet's own hidden nature.”
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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 Cadwal Chronicles?: Known Space — the closest match to Cadwal Chronicles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Cadwal Chronicles?: Araminta Station. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Cadwal Chronicles.
How big is Cadwal Chronicles?: Cadwal Chronicles is 5 books, 1987–2018.
Is Cadwal Chronicles finished?: Yes — 5 books, 1987–2018.

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