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Books like Matter Transmitter: 9 series to read next

Matter Transmitter is science fiction, set in space and other star systems. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Matter Transmitter is 10 books, 1968–1970.

“One Step from Earth collects Harry Harrison's linked stories about matter-transmission technology, following the social and personal fallout as instantaneous 'stepper' travel remakes work, colonization, and crime across the solar system.”
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Known Space
Uplift
Cities in Flight
Ender's Game
Heechee
CoDominium
State / Leshy Circuit
Rama
Humanx Commonwealth

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift and aliens.

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

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

Space opera.

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
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Start with They Shall Have Stars →

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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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Space opera, about aliens.

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

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.”
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State / Leshy CircuitSeries

seriesLarry Niven9 books1969

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

Start with Passerby →

RamaUniverse

universe7 books1973

About aliens, set in spaceship.

“Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”
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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens.

“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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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Matter Transmitter?: Known Space — the closest match to Matter Transmitter on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Matter Transmitter?: No War, or Battle's Sound. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Matter Transmitter.
How big is Matter Transmitter?: Matter Transmitter is 10 books, 1968–1970.
Is Matter Transmitter finished?: Yes — 10 books, 1968–1970.

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