Series
Books like Pilot Pirx: 9 series to read next
Pilot Pirx is science fiction, set in far future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.
Pilot Pirx is 11 books, 1958–1971.
“Student Pirx takes his first solo flight; it is disrupted by a fly in the cabin that finally shorts circuits so it takes all his ingenuity not to crash into the Moon.”
from the catalogue description of The Test
- Ocean / Galactic Center
- Foundation
- Rama
- Forge of God
- Ender's Game
- Time Odyssey
- Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
- Heaven Chronicles / Zones of Thought
- Known Space
- Ocean / Galactic CenterSeries
seriesGregory Benford12 books1972
Science fiction and hard science fiction, about aliens, set in far future.
matchedscience fictionfar futurehard science fictionaliens
- FoundationUniverse
universe123 books1940
Science fiction, about robots, set in far future.
matchedscience fictionfar futurerobots
- RamaUniverse
universe7 books1973
Science fiction, about aliens, set in spaceship and space.
matchedscience fictionspaceshipspacealiens
- Ender's GameUniverse
universe39 books1977
Science fiction, set in far future.
matchedscience fictionfar future
- Time OdysseySeries
seriesArthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter3 books2003
Set in our world.
matchedscience fictionfar futurespacealiens
seriesFred Saberhagen, Connie Willis, Edward Bryant, Jane Lindskold, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Roger Zelazny & Stephen R. Donaldson59 books1963
Space opera, about war.
matchedscience fictiontensefar futurerobotsartificial intelligencespaceother star systems
seriesJoan D. Vinge & Vernor Vinge8 books1976
Space opera.
matchedscience fictionfar futurespace
- Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.
matchedscience fictionfar futurespacealiensother star systems
Read next in Pilot Pirx
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 Pilot Pirx?
- Ocean / Galactic Center — the closest match to Pilot Pirx on what it is about, not on what sells.
- Where do I start with Pilot Pirx?
- The Test. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Pilot Pirx.
- How big is Pilot Pirx?
- Pilot Pirx is 11 books, 1958–1971.
- Is Pilot Pirx finished?
- Yes — 11 books, 1958–1971.