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Books like Crimson Worlds Adventures: 9 series to read next

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

Crimson Worlds Adventures is 1 book, from 2016.

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Known Space
CoDominium
Uplift
Central Control
Heechee
Humanx Commonwealth
The Final Architecture
Shoal Sequence
Cities in Flight

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.”
from the catalogue description

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift and aliens.

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

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Central ControlSeries

seriesAndre Norton2 books1953

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in far future and space.

“Andre Norton's Central Control novels are a loose future history that sketches the rise of a galactic empire through events echoing Norton's own reading of Terran history rather than following one continuing cast.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Star Rangers →

HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Space opera, about aliens.

“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

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.”
from the catalogue description

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The Final ArchitectureSeries

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

Space opera, about aliens.

“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
from the catalogue description of Shards of Earth
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Shards of Earth →

Shoal SequenceSeries

seriesGary Gibson4 books2007

Space opera, about aliens.

“Gary Gibson's Shoal Sequence opens with Stealing Light, set two centuries into humanity's uneasy dependence on the Shoal, an alien race that alone holds the secret of faster-than-light travel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Stealing Light →

Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

Space opera, 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 →

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 Crimson Worlds Adventures?: Known Space — the closest match to Crimson Worlds Adventures on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Crimson Worlds Adventures?: Red Team Alpha. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Crimson Worlds Adventures.
How big is Crimson Worlds Adventures?: Crimson Worlds Adventures is 1 book, from 2016.

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