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Perry Rhodan 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.

Perry Rhodan is 167 books across 11 series, 1961–2005.

“From that single landing unspools the longest continuous science-fiction story ever told: the chronicle of humankind's climb from squabbling nation-states to a power among the stars, and of the man who will not let that climb stop.”
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Known Space
CoDominium
Heechee
Humanx Commonwealth
Uplift
Heaven Chronicles / Zones of Thought
Ender's Game
Cities in Flight
The Talents

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.”
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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.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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Start with Gateway →

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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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Heaven Chronicles / Zones of ThoughtSeries

seriesJoan D. Vinge & Vernor Vinge8 books1976

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space.

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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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Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

About space colonization.

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
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Start with They Shall Have Stars →

The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

Science fiction, about psychic powers.

“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
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What should I read after Perry Rhodan?: Known Space — the closest match to Perry Rhodan on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Perry Rhodan?: Perry Rhodan is 167 books across 11 series, 1961–2005.

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