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Decide Your Destiny is science fiction, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Decide Your Destiny is 16 books, 2007–2010.

“The New Series Adventures are a series of novels relating to the long-running BBC science fiction television series, Doctor Who.”
from the catalogue description of The Spaceship Graveyard

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Known Space
Humanx Commonwealth
Uplift
CoDominium
Cities in Flight
Heechee
Space Beagle
Ender's Game
Legion of Space

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in far future and 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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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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Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

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
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Start with They Shall Have Stars →

HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

“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 →

Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

Science fiction and space opera, adventurous and tense in tone, about space exploration and aliens, set in far future and space.

Start with Black Destroyer →

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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Legion of SpaceSeries

seriesJack Williamson7 books1947

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

“The Medusae bear a vague resemblance to jellyfish, but are actually elephant-sized, four-eyed, flying beings with hundreds of tentacles.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Legion of Space →

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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 Decide Your Destiny?: Known Space — the closest match to Decide Your Destiny on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Decide Your Destiny?: The Spaceship Graveyard. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Decide Your Destiny.
How big is Decide Your Destiny?: Decide Your Destiny is 16 books, 2007–2010.

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