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Books like Dock Five Universe: 9 series to read next

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

Dock Five Universe is 4 books, 2002–2010.

“Someone in the Empire is secretly breeding jukors: vicious and uncontrollable killing machines that have long been outlawed.”
from the catalogue description of Gabriel's Ghost

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Foundation
CoDominium
Dune
Vatta
Honorverse
Old Man's War
Alliance-Union
Familias Regnant
Sten

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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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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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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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.”
from the catalogue description

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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, about war.

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

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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.”
from the catalogue description

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Familias RegnantUniverse

universe7 books1993

About war.

“A cashiered officer takes the only berth left to her — captain of a rich old woman's pleasure yacht — and finds that private luxury, in the Familias Regnant, is never far from treason, piracy, and a war the Fleet would rather not name.”
from the catalogue description

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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.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

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Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

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 Dock Five Universe?: Foundation — the closest match to Dock Five Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dock Five Universe?: Gabriel's Ghost. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dock Five Universe.
How big is Dock Five Universe?: Dock Five Universe is 4 books, 2002–2010.

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