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Books like Crystal Singer: 9 series to read next

Crystal Singer 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.

Crystal Singer is 10 books, 1974–2023.

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Lunar Chronicles
Vorkosigan
Known Space
Forerunner
Humanx Commonwealth
Imperial Galaxy
Old Man's War
The Talents
Cytoverse

Lunar ChroniclesSeries

seriesMarissa Meyer15 books2011

Fairy tale retelling, about political intrigue.

“Set in a futuristic world inhabited by various species and creatures, tensions are rising between Earth and its former colony Luna, while both attempt to manage an ongoing pandemic.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Fairest: Levana's Story →

VorkosiganUniverse

universe27 books1986

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

“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Shards of Honor →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in space.

“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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ForerunnerSeries

seriesAndre Norton5 books1960

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

“Under desperate circumstances, a beautiful young woman must team up with a star traveler in order to find the key to the start of civilization so that the future might be saved.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Forerunner →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens, set in space.

“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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Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About political intrigue, set in space.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Confusion of Princes →

Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, about war, set in space.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Old Man's War →

The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

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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CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Set in space.

“Detritus is a dead world buried under the wreckage of a hundred fallen starships, and the humans caverned beneath it live by one hard truth: to survive, you climb into a cockpit and you fight.”
from the catalogue description

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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Crystal Singer?: Lunar Chronicles — the closest match to Crystal Singer on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Crystal Singer?: The Crystal Singer. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Crystal Singer.
How big is Crystal Singer?: Crystal Singer is 10 books, 1974–2023.
Is Crystal Singer finished?: Yes — 10 books, 1974–2023.

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