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Books like Karres: 9 series to read next

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

Karres is 5 books, 1949–2020.

“Schmitz never wrote a follow-up himself, but the story was continued decades later by other hands — The Wizard of Karres, The Sorceress of Karres, The Shaman of Karres — carrying Captain Pausert and the Karres witches forward.”
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Known Space
Humanx Commonwealth
Uplift
Heechee
Acorna
CoDominium
Cities in Flight
Arcot, Morey and Wade
The Final Architecture

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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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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Start with Gateway →

AcornaUniverse

universe16 books1997

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

“A silver-horned child drifts alone in an escape pod, and three grizzled asteroid miners haul her aboard, not yet knowing they have adopted a legend.”
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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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Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

About space colonization.

“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 →

Arcot, Morey and WadeSeries

seriesJohn W. Campbell & Jr.7 books1930

Space opera and science fiction, adventurous in tone, about space exploration and aliens, set in far future and space.

“The books follow the same trio of scientist-adventurers through escalating, gadget-driven space adventures typical of early Golden Age SF, continuing through Islands of Space and Invaders from the Infinite.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Black Star Passes →

The Final ArchitectureSeries

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

Tense in tone, about war.

“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
from the catalogue description of Shards of Earth
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Start with Shards of Earth →

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 Karres?: Known Space — the closest match to Karres on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Karres?: The Witches of Karres. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Karres.
How big is Karres?: Karres is 5 books, 1949–2020.

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