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Books like Mercenary Navy: 9 series to read next

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

Mercenary Navy is 3 books, from 2024.

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Known Space
Siobhan Dunmoore
Forever War
Old Man's War
CoDominium
Ender's Game
Honorverse
Alliance-Union
Dune

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Siobhan DunmooreSeries

seriesEric Thomson9 books2014

Military science fiction and science fiction, tense in tone, about war, set in far future and space.

“Eric Thomson's Siobhan Dunmoore novels follow the title character, a starship captain in a human interstellar navy, as she takes on progressively higher commands amid escalating war and political rot within her own military.”
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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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction and science fiction, adventurous in tone, about war, set in far future and space.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and 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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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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HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

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

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
from the catalogue description

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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.”
from the catalogue description

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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

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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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 Mercenary Navy?: Known Space — the closest match to Mercenary Navy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mercenary Navy?: Rawlins' Redemption. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mercenary Navy.
How big is Mercenary Navy?: Mercenary Navy is 3 books, from 2024.

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