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Casher O'Neill 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.

Casher O'Neill is 5 books, 1963–1966.

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Known Space
Humanx Commonwealth
Heechee
Uplift
Well World
Dune
Cities in Flight
The Talents
Mesklin

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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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.”
from the catalogue description

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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

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

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

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Well WorldSeries

seriesJack L. Chalker & David Boop11 books1977

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

Start with Permutations: A Well World Anthology →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

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 →

Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

About space colonization.

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with They Shall Have Stars →

The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

Science fiction, about psychic powers.

“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
from the catalogue description

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MesklinSeries

seriesHal Clement6 books1954

Hard science fiction.

“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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Mission of Gravity →

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 Casher O'Neill?: Known Space — the closest match to Casher O'Neill on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Casher O'Neill?: On the Gem Planet. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Casher O'Neill.
How big is Casher O'Neill?: Casher O'Neill is 5 books, 1963–1966.
Is Casher O'Neill finished?: Yes — 5 books, 1963–1966.

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