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Books like Neverness Universe: 9 series to read next

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

Neverness Universe is 6 books, 1985–2023.

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Dune
The Culture
Hainish
Known Space
Radchaai
Xeelee
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Last Men
Humanx Commonwealth

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

Start with Dune →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

About artificial intelligence.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue description

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HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

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

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Rocannon's World →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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RadchaaiUniverse

universe11 books2012

About political intrigue.

“Civilization is what the Radch calls itself, and civilization is a courtesy extended at gunpoint.”
from the catalogue description

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XeeleeSeries

seriesStephen Baxter & uncredited89 books1987

Science fiction and hard science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“The Xeelee are described as symbiotic entities composed of spacetime defects, Bose–Einstein condensates, and baryonic matter.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Raft →

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyUniverse

universe18 books1979

Humor, funny in tone.

“The Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and honestly, nobody filed the paperwork properly.”
from the catalogue description

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Last MenUniverse

universe21 books1930

Science fiction, challenging and reflective in tone, set in far future.

“Two billion years of human history, narrated at the speed of a geologist.”
from the catalogue description

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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.”
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 Neverness Universe?: Dune — the closest match to Neverness Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Neverness Universe?: Neverness Universe is 6 books, 1985–2023.

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