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Books like Mushroom Planet: 9 series to read next

Mushroom Planet is science fiction, about space exploration, set in mid 20th century and other star systems, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Mushroom Planet is 8 books, 1954–1967.

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Known Space
Humanx Commonwealth
Cavor
Time Traders
Larklight Trilogy
Heechee
Mesklin
Arcot, Morey and Wade
Of Man and Manta

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Set in far future.

“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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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Set in far future.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
from the catalogue description

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CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

Set in early 20th century and underground & caves.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The First Men in the Moon →

Time TradersSeries

seriesAndre Norton, Sherwood Smith & P. M. Griffin7 books1958

Time travel.

“Norton, later joined by collaborators Sherwood Smith and P. M. Griffin, expanded the sequence to seven novels published between 1958 and 2002, and revised the opening book herself in 2000.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time Traders →

Larklight TrilogySeries

seriesPhilip Reeve3 books2006

Steampunk, set in 19th century.

Start with Larklight →

HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Space opera, set in far future.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Gateway →

MesklinSeries

seriesHal Clement6 books1954

Hard science fiction, set in far future.

“The idea came from an object that was at the time believed to exist in the 61 Cygni system, and which might represent an extrasolar planet.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Mission of Gravity →

Arcot, Morey and WadeSeries

seriesJohn W. Campbell & Jr.7 books1930

Space opera, set in far future.

“The books follow the same trio of scientist-adventurers through escalating, gadget-driven space adventures typical of early Golden Age SF, continuing through Islands of Space and Invaders from the Infinite.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Black Star Passes →

Of Man and MantaSeries

seriesPiers Anthony3 books1968

Set in far future.

“Three scientists survive on the mysterious planet of Nacre.”
from the catalogue description of Omnivore
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Omnivore →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

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 Mushroom Planet?: Known Space — the closest match to Mushroom Planet on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mushroom Planet?: The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mushroom Planet.
How big is Mushroom Planet?: Mushroom Planet is 8 books, 1954–1967.
Is Mushroom Planet finished?: Yes — 8 books, 1954–1967.

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