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Books like Hyperion: 9 series to read next

Hyperion is science fiction and space opera, about faith and religion and artificial intelligence, set in far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Hyperion is 6 books across 1 series, 1989–1999.

“The register is elegiac and grave, sensuous where it is not terrifying, threaded with Keats and old religion and the physics of dying suns.”
from the catalogue description

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Book of The New Sun
Dune
Revelation Space
The Culture
CoDominium
Known Space
Foundation
Old Man's War
Commonwealth

Book of The New SunSeries

seriesGene Wolfe7 books1980

Loreful pick

The far-future pilgrimage told in deliberately literary prose that Hyperion is openly in conversation with.

“In the great Citadel of the City Imperishable, Severian - apprentice to the torturer's guild - betrays his oath.”
from the catalogue description of The Shadow of the Torturer
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Loreful pick

Religion, prophecy and empire treated as engineering problems, on the same scale.

“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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Revelation SpaceUniverse

universe27 books1990

Loreful pick

Gothic hard SF with deep time, dead civilisations and machines that should have stayed asleep.

“Reach far enough, listen hard enough, and something older than starlight stirs to make certain you never finish the sentence.”
from the catalogue description

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The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Loreful pick

The other space opera whose real subject is what a civilisation owes the people inside it.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
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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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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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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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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
from the catalogue description
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CommonwealthUniverse

universe12 books2002

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future.

“Step aboard the train at the Second Chance terminal and ride the wormhole to another star.”
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 Hyperion?: Book of The New Sun. The far-future pilgrimage told in deliberately literary prose that Hyperion is openly in conversation with.
How big is Hyperion?: Hyperion is 6 books across 1 series, 1989–1999.
Is Hyperion finished?: Yes — 6 books across 1 series, 1989–1999.

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