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Books like Heart Stars: 9 series to read next

Heart Stars is science fiction, about aliens, set in space. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Heart Stars is 2 books, 1961–1965.

“The two books form a self-contained pair rather than an ongoing series, and sit alongside Blish's better-known adult work like Cities in Flight.”
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Known Space
Heechee
Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) Hutchins
CoDominium
Gaean
Humanx Commonwealth
Rama
Uplift
Dragon's Egg

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in space and far future.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries

seriesJack McDevitt16 books1983

Science fiction, about aliens and space exploration, set in space and far future.

“Beginning with The Engines of God, the series treats deep time and the near-total absence of intelligent alien life as its central mystery, favoring slow-burn discovery over action.”
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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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GaeanSeries

seriesJohn Varley3 books1979

Set in outer planets & moons.

“The Gaea Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels by John Varley.”
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Start with Titan →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in space and far future.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
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RamaUniverse

universe7 books1973

Set in spaceship.

“Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”
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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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Dragon's EggSeries

seriesRobert L. Forward3 books1980

Hard science fiction.

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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 Heart Stars?: Known Space — the closest match to Heart Stars on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Heart Stars?: The Star Dwellers. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Heart Stars.
How big is Heart Stars?: Heart Stars is 2 books, 1961–1965.
Is Heart Stars finished?: Yes — 2 books, 1961–1965.

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