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Books like Colonial Survey: 9 series to read next

Colonial Survey is science fiction, about space exploration, 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.

Colonial Survey is 5 books, 1955–1957.

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Known Space
Catteni Sequence
Heechee
Humanx Commonwealth
Uplift
Pax / Astra
Cities in Flight
Mesklin
Space Beagle

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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Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

About slavery.

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

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 →

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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

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Pax / AstraSeries

seriesAndre Norton2 books1954

Science fiction, adventurous and tense in tone, about survival, set in far future.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

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

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with They Shall Have Stars →

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
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Start with Mission of Gravity →

Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

Set in spaceship.

Start with Black Destroyer →

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 Colonial Survey?: Known Space — the closest match to Colonial Survey on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Colonial Survey?: Sand Doom. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Colonial Survey.
How big is Colonial Survey?: Colonial Survey is 5 books, 1955–1957.
Is Colonial Survey finished?: Yes — 5 books, 1955–1957.

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