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Books like Destiny's Children: 9 series to read next

Destiny's Children is science fiction and hard science fiction, set in space and far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Destiny's Children is 4 books, 2003–2006.

“Like his previous Manifold Trilogy, the books are not direct sequels to one another, but are instead thematically linked by the appearance of concepts, themes, and sometimes characters in multiple books.”
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Xeelee
Thistledown
Dune
Blindsight / Firefall
Ender's Game
A Meeting with Medusa
Manifold
Known Space
The Culture

XeeleeSeries

seriesStephen Baxter & uncredited89 books1987

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

“The Xeelee are described as symbiotic entities composed of spacetime defects, Bose–Einstein condensates, and baryonic matter.”
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Start with Raft →

ThistledownSeries

seriesGreg Bear5 books1978

Science fiction and hard science fiction, about space exploration, set in far future and space.

Start with The Wind from a Burning Woman →

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.”
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Start with Dune →

Blindsight / FirefallSeries

seriesPeter Watts3 books2006

First contact, about artificial intelligence.

Start with Blindsight →

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.”
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A Meeting with MedusaSeries

seriesAlastair Reynolds, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter2 books1971

About immortality, set in outer planets & moons.

“Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa follows an astronaut, badly injured in an earlier disaster, on a solo balloon expedition into Jupiter's atmosphere, where he encounters vast floating lifeforms unlike anything previously catalogued.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Meeting with Medusa →

ManifoldSeries

seriesStephen Baxter8 books1997

Set in near future.

“Stephen Baxter designed the trilogy to be read in any order, since it plays out across a multiverse rather than a single continuous timeline.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Time →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Space opera, about artificial intelligence, 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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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Destiny's Children?: Xeelee — the closest match to Destiny's Children on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Destiny's Children?: Coalescent. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Destiny's Children.
How big is Destiny's Children?: Destiny's Children is 4 books, 2003–2006.

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