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Books like Land & Sea: 9 series to read next

Land & Sea is adventure. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Land & Sea is 9 books, 2023–2025.

Ender's Game
CoDominium
Known Space
Dune
Destroyermen Universe
Forever War
Alliance-Union
Mortal Engines
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds

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.”
from the catalogue description

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Set in other star systems.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in 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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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in 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 →

Destroyermen UniverseSeries

seriesTaylor Anderson20 books2008

Alternate history, set in early 20th century.

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Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Military science fiction and science fiction, set in far future and space.

Start with The Forever War →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic and steampunk.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

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 Land & Sea?: Ender's Game — the closest match to Land & Sea on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Land & Sea?: Splashdown. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Land & Sea.
How big is Land & Sea?: Land & Sea is 9 books, 2023–2025.

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