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Books like Last Chancers: 9 series to read next

Last Chancers is science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Last Chancers is 6 books, 1999–2019.

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Dune
Forever War
CoDominium
Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Halo
Aton/Piers Anthony's Worlds of Chthon
Ender's Game
Hammer's Slammers
Decker's War

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“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

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Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and space.

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in other star systems and far future.

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

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Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)Series

seriesFred Saberhagen, Connie Willis, Edward Bryant, Jane Lindskold, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Roger Zelazny & Stephen R. Donaldson59 books1963

Space opera, about robots and artificial intelligence.

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HaloUniverse

universe70 books2001

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“The shelf grows out of a 2001 video game, but it reads as its own body of military science fiction, built by many hands.”
from the catalogue description

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Aton/Piers Anthony's Worlds of ChthonSeries

seriesCharles Platt & Piers Anthony4 books1967

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

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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.”
from the catalogue description

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Hammer's SlammersSeries

seriesDavid Drake & Larry Correia35 books1974

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

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Decker's WarSeries

seriesEric Thomson7 books2014

About political intrigue.

“Forced into early retirement, with a wife who left him long ago, no job, no friends and no future, the former sergeant crawled into a bottle and stayed there, moving from planet to planet, looking for some reason to keep on living.”
from the catalogue description of Death Comes But Once

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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 Last Chancers?: Dune — the closest match to Last Chancers on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Last Chancers?: 13th Legion. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Last Chancers.
How big is Last Chancers?: Last Chancers is 6 books, 1999–2019.

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