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Books like Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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

Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy is 3 books, 2002–2012.

“M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy circles a strange, physics-breaking anomaly in deep space that draws scientists, smugglers, and drifters into its pull across different eras.”
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Heaven Chronicles / Zones of Thought
Known Space
Ender's Game
CoDominium
Radix Tetrad
Heechee
Alliance-Union
Old Man's War
Uplift

Heaven Chronicles / Zones of ThoughtSeries

seriesJoan D. Vinge & Vernor Vinge8 books1976

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

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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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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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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

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

seriesA. A. Attanasio4 books1981

Science fiction, challenging in tone, set in far future.

“The Radix Tetrad is a group of four science fiction books by A. A. Attanasio.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

About space exploration.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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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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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, adventurous in tone, about war.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Adventurous in tone, about uplift.

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

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What should I read after Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy?: Heaven Chronicles / Zones of Thought — the closest match to Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy?: Light. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy.
How big is Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy?: Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy is 3 books, 2002–2012.

Books like Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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