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Books like Durango: 9 series to read next

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

Durango is 4 books, 2010–2013.

“On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.”
from the catalogue description of Black Hole Sun

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Old Man's War
Pax / Astra
Alliance-Union
Ender's Game
Cytoverse
Catteni Sequence
Imperial Galaxy
Deathworld
Known Space

Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

About war.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Old Man's War →

Pax / AstraSeries

seriesAndre Norton2 books1954

Science fiction, adventurous and tense in tone, about survival, set in far future.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

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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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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CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Science fiction, set in far future and space.

“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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Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

About slavery and aliens.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Freedom's Landing →

Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About identity and political intrigue.

“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 →

DeathworldSeries

seriesHarry Harrison4 books1960

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about survival and space colonization, set in far future and other star systems.

“The central hero is a gambler who becomes involved with colonists of an extremely hostile planet.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Deathworld →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens.

“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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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 Durango?: Old Man's War — the closest match to Durango on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Durango?: Black Hole Sun. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Durango.
How big is Durango?: Durango is 4 books, 2010–2013.

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