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Books like Mission Earth: 9 series to read next

Mission Earth is science fiction, about aliens and political intrigue, set in far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Mission Earth is 10 books, 1985–1987.

“Hubbard died three months after the publication of volume 1, and other volumes were published posthumously.”
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CoDominium
Known Space
Alliance-Union
Foundation
Janissaries
Uplift
Humanx Commonwealth
Conquerors
Commonwealth

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 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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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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FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

JanissariesSeries

seriesJerry Pournelle, Roland J. Green, David Weber & Phillip Pournelle4 books1979

Military science fiction, about war and slavery.

“Janissaries are an American series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement.”
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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

seriesTimothy Zahn3 books1994

First contact and military science fiction, about war.

“Zahn alternates perspective between the human and alien chains of command, using the shifting viewpoints to slowly unpick why the conflict started in the first place.”
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Start with Conquerors' Pride →

CommonwealthUniverse

universe12 books2002

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future.

“Step aboard the train at the Second Chance terminal and ride the wormhole to another star.”
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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 Mission Earth?: CoDominium — the closest match to Mission Earth on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mission Earth?: The Invaders Plan. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mission Earth.
How big is Mission Earth?: Mission Earth is 10 books, 1985–1987.
Is Mission Earth finished?: Yes — 10 books, 1985–1987.

Books like Mission Earth: 9 series to read next

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