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Books like Jupiter: 9 series to read next

Jupiter is science fiction, about coming of age and space exploration, set in space, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Jupiter is 6 books, 1996–1999.

“The Jupiter novels are a series of science fiction novels from Tor Books patterned after Robert A. Heinlein's young adult novels.”
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Cities in Flight
Known Space
Thunder and Lightning
Imperial Galaxy
Uplift
The Softwire
Humanx Commonwealth
Cytoverse
Old Man's War

Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

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

“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

Science fiction, about aliens, set in space and other star systems.

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

seriesJohn Varley4 books2003

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about space exploration, set in near future and space.

“Red Thunder and Red Lightning follow the first generation's improvised trip to Mars; Rolling Thunder and Dark Lightning pick up decades later with their descendants.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Thunder →

Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About political intrigue.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Confusion of Princes →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue description

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The SoftwireSeries

seriesPJ Haarsma4 books2006

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in space and other star systems.

“A group of around two hundred children are orphaned in outer space on their journey to the Rings of Orbis: giant, planet-like rings which surround a wormhole.”
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Start with Virus on Orbis 1 →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in other star systems 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.”
from the catalogue description

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CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Science fiction, set in other star systems and space.

“Detritus is a dead world buried under the wreckage of a hundred fallen starships, and the humans caverned beneath it live by one hard truth: to survive, you climb into a cockpit and you fight.”
from the catalogue description

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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, about war.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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Start with Old Man's War →

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 Jupiter?: Cities in Flight — the closest match to Jupiter on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Jupiter?: Higher Education. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Jupiter.
How big is Jupiter?: Jupiter is 6 books, 1996–1999.
Is Jupiter finished?: Yes — 6 books, 1996–1999.

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