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Books like Nicholas Van Rijn: 9 series to read next

Nicholas Van Rijn is science fiction and space opera, set in far future and other star systems. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Nicholas Van Rijn is 15 books, 1956–2009.

“Nicholas van Rijn is the swaggering, multilingual merchant-adventurer at the center of the early Polesotechnic League era of Poul Anderson's Technic History, a future where free-trading guilds, not governments, open up the galaxy.”
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Known Space
CoDominium
Uplift
Heechee
Alliance-Union
Humanx Commonwealth
Old Man's War
The Final Architecture
Ender's Game

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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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Science fiction and space opera, about aliens and space exploration, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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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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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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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction.

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

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

Tense in tone.

“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
from the catalogue description of Shards of Earth
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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.”
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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.

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What should I read after Nicholas Van Rijn?: Known Space — the closest match to Nicholas Van Rijn on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Nicholas Van Rijn?: Margin of Profit. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Nicholas Van Rijn.
How big is Nicholas Van Rijn?: Nicholas Van Rijn is 15 books, 1956–2009.
Is Nicholas Van Rijn finished?: Yes — 15 books, 1956–2009.

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