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Books like Pip & Flinx: 9 series to read next

Pip & Flinx is science fiction and space opera, about aliens, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Pip & Flinx is 18 books, 1972–2017.

“The Pip & Flinx novels follow Flinx, a young man with an unusual, mysterious origin, and his ever-present animal companion Pip, across Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth setting.”
from the catalogue description

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Known Space
Uplift
CoDominium
Heechee
Legion of Space
The Final Architecture
Alliance-Union
Space Beagle
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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Science fiction and space opera, about aliens and space exploration, 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 →

Legion of SpaceSeries

seriesJack Williamson7 books1947

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

“The Medusae bear a vague resemblance to jellyfish, but are actually elephant-sized, four-eyed, flying beings with hundreds of tentacles.”
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Start with The Legion of Space →

The Final ArchitectureSeries

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

About war.

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

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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Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

Set in spaceship.

Start with Black Destroyer →

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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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 Pip & Flinx?: Known Space — the closest match to Pip & Flinx on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Pip & Flinx?: For Love of Mother-Not. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Pip & Flinx.
How big is Pip & Flinx?: Pip & Flinx is 18 books, 1972–2017.

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