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Books like Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle: 9 series to read next

Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle is science fiction, set in far future and other star systems. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle is 3 books, 2017–2019.

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Known Space
Ender's Game
Humanx Commonwealth
Heaven Chronicles / Zones of Thought
Cytoverse
Heechee
Uplift
Catteni Sequence
Cities in Flight

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future 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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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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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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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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CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

“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.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Science fiction and space opera, about space exploration and aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

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

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

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Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

About slavery.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
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Start with Freedom's Landing →

Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

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

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with They Shall Have Stars →

Why these

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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 Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle?: Known Space — the closest match to Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle?: Skythane. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle.
How big is Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle?: Liminal Sky / Oberon Cycle is 3 books, 2017–2019.

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