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Books like Continuity: 9 series to read next

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

Continuity is 52 books across 7 series, 2003–2026.

“Come up through the dust and the spice-smell to where Central Station rises a thousand levels between old Tel Aviv and older Jaffa, and listen: the Conversation never stops.”
from the catalogue description

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Foundation
Hainish
Ender's Game
The Martian Chronicles
The Culture
Against the Fall of Night
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Radchaai
Dune

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

Science fiction, about robots, set in far future.

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

Start with Foundation →

HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

Science fiction, reflective in tone, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Rocannon's World →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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The Martian ChroniclesSeries

seriesRay Bradbury30 books1946

Science fiction, reflective in tone, about space colonization, set in mars and near future.

Start with The Million Year Picnic →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Space opera, set in galactic scale.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue description

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Against the Fall of NightSeries

seriesArthur C. Clarke & Gregory Benford2 books1953

About space exploration.

“Against the Fall of Night is Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel of a stagnant, climate-controlled city called Diaspar a billion years in Earth's future, where a young man named Alvin becomes the first in living memory to want to leave it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Against the Fall of Night →

The Science Fiction Hall of FameSeries

seriesBen Bova, Algis Budrys, Arthur C. Clarke, Geo. W. Proctor, H. G. Wells, Robert Silverberg, Terry Carr & Theodore R. Cogswell11 books1895

“The greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.”
from the catalogue description of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One

Start with The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One →

RadchaaiUniverse

universe11 books2012

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“Civilization is what the Radch calls itself, and civilization is a courtesy extended at gunpoint.”
from the catalogue description

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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, 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 →

Why these

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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 Continuity?: Foundation — the closest match to Continuity on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Continuity?: Continuity is 52 books across 7 series, 2003–2026.

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