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Books like Jay Score / Marathon: 9 series to read next

Jay Score / Marathon is science fiction, about aliens, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Jay Score / Marathon is 5 books, 1941–1955.

“A freight rocket to venus is damaged by a meteoroid which puts it on a collision course with the sun.”
from the catalogue description of Jay Score

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Known Space
Space Beagle
Uplift
Alliance-Union
Ender's Game
Humanx Commonwealth
CoDominium
Rama
Heechee

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

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

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

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

Space opera.

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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

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

“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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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

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

universe7 books1973

Science fiction, about aliens, set in space and spaceship.

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

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Space opera.

“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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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Jay Score / Marathon?: Known Space — the closest match to Jay Score / Marathon on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Jay Score / Marathon?: Jay Score. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Jay Score / Marathon.
How big is Jay Score / Marathon?: Jay Score / Marathon is 5 books, 1941–1955.
Is Jay Score / Marathon finished?: Yes — 5 books, 1941–1955.

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