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Books like Inquestor: 9 series to read next

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

Inquestor is 25 books, 1979–2020.

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Dune
Foundation
The Culture
Sun Eater
The Machineries of Empire
Mistworld Universe
Saint Leibowitz
Red Rising
Azean Empire

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.

“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 →

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

Start with Foundation →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

About artificial intelligence.

“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*.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Sun EaterSeries

seriesChristopher Ruocchio36 books2018

Science fiction and space opera, dark in tone, about war, set in far future.

“The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky.”
from the catalogue description of Empire of Silence
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Start with Empire of Silence →

The Machineries of EmpireSeries

seriesYoon Ha Lee10 books2012

Military science fiction, tense in tone.

“Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics.”
from the catalogue description of Ninefox Gambit
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Ninefox Gambit →

Mistworld UniverseSeries

seriesSimon R. Green12 books1992

Science fiction and space opera, adventurous in tone, about war, set in far future and galactic scale.

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Saint LeibowitzSeries

seriesWalter M. Miller & Jr.6 books1955

Post-apocalyptic, set in north america.

“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Dystopia, tense in tone, about class conflict.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Rising →

Azean EmpireSeries

seriesC. S. Friedman2 books1987

Tense in tone.

“C. S. Friedman's Azean Empire novels are set in a distant-future conflict between two competing human societies, the Azeans and the Braxins, contesting interstellar dominance.”
from the catalogue description

Start with In Conquest Born →

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 Inquestor?: Dune — the closest match to Inquestor on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Inquestor?: The Thirteenth Utopia. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Inquestor.
How big is Inquestor?: Inquestor is 25 books, 1979–2020.

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