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Books like Gunn & Salvo: 9 series to read next

Gunn & Salvo is science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Gunn & Salvo is 4 books, from 2021.

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Uplift
Cities in Flight
Known Space
Heaven Chronicles / Zones of Thought
Ender's Game
Alliance-Union
Dune
Heechee
Space Beagle

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift and aliens.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

About space colonization.

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
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Start with They Shall Have Stars →

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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Heaven Chronicles / Zones of ThoughtSeries

seriesJoan D. Vinge & Vernor Vinge8 books1976

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space.

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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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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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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

About aliens.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Gateway →

Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

About aliens, set in spaceship.

Start with Black Destroyer →

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.

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What should I read after Gunn & Salvo?: Uplift — the closest match to Gunn & Salvo on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Gunn & Salvo?: Galaxy Run. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Gunn & Salvo.
How big is Gunn & Salvo?: Gunn & Salvo is 4 books, from 2021.

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