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Books like Mass Effect: Andromeda: 9 series to read next

Mass Effect: Andromeda is science fiction and space opera, about space colonization, set in far future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Mass Effect: Andromeda is 3 books, 2017–2018.

“The Mass Effect: Andromeda book series consists of a trilogy of science fiction novels based on the Mass Effect series of video games.”
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CoDominium
Known Space
Alliance-Union
The Final Architecture
Space Beagle
Old Man's War
Uplift
Foundation
Shoal Sequence

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

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

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

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 →

Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

Set in spaceship.

Start with Black Destroyer →

Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, about war.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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Start with Old Man's War →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Foundation →

Shoal SequenceSeries

seriesGary Gibson4 books2007

Science fiction and space opera, tense in tone, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“Gary Gibson's Shoal Sequence opens with Stealing Light, set two centuries into humanity's uneasy dependence on the Shoal, an alien race that alone holds the secret of faster-than-light travel.”
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Start with Stealing Light →

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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 Mass Effect: Andromeda?: CoDominium — the closest match to Mass Effect: Andromeda on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mass Effect: Andromeda?: Nexus Uprising. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mass Effect: Andromeda.
How big is Mass Effect: Andromeda?: Mass Effect: Andromeda is 3 books, 2017–2018.

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