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Books like DarkShip Thieves Universe: 9 series to read next

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

DarkShip Thieves Universe is 7 books, 2010–2017.

“Athena Hera Sinistra has survived reformatories, madhouses and ballet schools.”
from the catalogue description of DarkShip Thieves

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Foundation
CoDominium
Vatta
Known Space
Honorverse
Sten
Dune
Alliance-Union
Siobhan Dunmoore

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

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

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

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

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VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Military science fiction.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
from the catalogue description

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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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HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Military science fiction.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
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StenSeries

seriesAllan Cole & Chris Bunch11 books1982

Military science fiction, about war.

“The Sten Chronicles, also called The Sten Adventures, are a series of eight military science fiction and space opera novels by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole published from 1982 to 1993.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

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

“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

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Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Siobhan DunmooreSeries

seriesEric Thomson9 books2014

Military science fiction, about war.

“Eric Thomson's Siobhan Dunmoore novels follow the title character, a starship captain in a human interstellar navy, as she takes on progressively higher commands amid escalating war and political rot within her own military.”
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.

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What should I read after DarkShip Thieves Universe?: Foundation — the closest match to DarkShip Thieves Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with DarkShip Thieves Universe?: DarkShip Thieves. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for DarkShip Thieves Universe.
How big is DarkShip Thieves Universe?: DarkShip Thieves Universe is 7 books, 2010–2017.

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