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

Destiny's Crucible is 10 books, 2016–2024.

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Barsoom
Alliance-Union
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Dune
Ender's Game
The Lost Regiment
Known Space
Kairos
The Cinder Spires

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Rob Dorsey, Geary Gravel, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Stuart Moore, Austin Grossman, Bebe Balocca, Catherynne M. Valente, Chris Claremont, Chuck Dixon, David Barr Kirtley, Garth Nix, Genevieve Valentine, Joe R. Lansdale, John Coleman Burroughs, John Joseph Adams, Jonathan Maberry, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Mike Resnick, Peter S. Beagle, Robin Wasserman, S. M. Stirling, Theodora Goss, Tobias S. Buckell & William Gilmour53 books1917

Science fantasy, set in mars.

“Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
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Start with A Princess of Mars →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

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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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in far future.

“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 →

Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

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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The Lost RegimentSeries

seriesWilliam R. Forstchen9 books1990

Military science fiction and alternate history.

“William R. Forstchen's Lost Regiment series begins with Rally Cry, in which a Civil War Union regiment is swept onto a distant world where humans transplanted from many eras and cultures are farmed as food by an alien race.”
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Start with Rally Cry →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

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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KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

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The Cinder SpiresSeries

seriesJim Butcher3 books2015

Steampunk.

“Continuing with Warriorborn and The Olympian Affair, it marks a departure in setting from Butcher's contemporary-fantasy Dresden Files while keeping his fast-paced adventure style.”
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Start with The Aeronaut's Windlass →

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What should I read after Destiny's Crucible?: Barsoom — the closest match to Destiny's Crucible on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Destiny's Crucible?: Cast Under an Alien Sun. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Destiny's Crucible.
How big is Destiny's Crucible?: Destiny's Crucible is 10 books, 2016–2024.

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