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Books like Dragonback: 9 series to read next

Dragonback is science fiction and space opera, set in far future and other star systems, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dragonback is 6 books, 2003–2008.

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Old Man's War
Humanx Commonwealth
Known Space
Heechee
Cytoverse
Uplift
Imperial Galaxy
Alliance-Union
CoDominium

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
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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“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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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“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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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Gateway →

CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“Detritus is a dead world buried under the wreckage of a hundred fallen starships, and the humans caverned beneath it live by one hard truth: to survive, you climb into a cockpit and you fight.”
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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Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About identity.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Confusion of Princes →

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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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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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 Dragonback?: Old Man's War — the closest match to Dragonback on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dragonback?: Dragon and Thief. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dragonback.
How big is Dragonback?: Dragonback is 6 books, 2003–2008.

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