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Books like Pit Dragon: 9 series to read next

Pit Dragon is science fiction, about dragons, set in other star systems and far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Pit Dragon is 5 books, 1980–2009.

“Dragon's Blood traces that bond between boy and dragon from theft to the pits; the sequels, Heart's Blood and A Sending of Dragons, follow Jakkin further as the stakes around the dragons and his own status widen.”
from the catalogue description

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WondLa
Catteni Sequence
Imperial Galaxy
Known Space
Forerunner
Barsoom
Humanx Commonwealth
Last Legionary
Cytoverse

WondLaSeries

seriesTony DiTerlizzi3 books2010

Science fiction and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age and aliens, set in other star systems and far future.

“Tony DiTerlizzi's WondLa trilogy follows Eva Nine, a twelve-year-old girl raised in isolation underground by a robot guardian, who emerges onto a surface world populated by strange alien life and sets out to find others like herself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Search for WondLa →

Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

Space opera.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
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Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Freedom's Landing →

Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

Space opera, about identity and political intrigue, set in space.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Confusion of Princes →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Set in 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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ForerunnerSeries

seriesAndre Norton5 books1960

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

“Under desperate circumstances, a beautiful young woman must team up with a star traveler in order to find the key to the start of civilization so that the future might be saved.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Forerunner →

BarsoomSeries

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Rob Dorsey, Geary Gravel, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Stuart Moore, Austin Grossman, Bebe Balocca, Catherynne M. Valente, Chris Claremont, Chuck Dixon, David Barr Kirtley, Garth Nix, Genevieve Valentine, Joe R. Lansdale, John Coleman Burroughs, John Joseph Adams, Jonathan Maberry, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Mike Resnick, Peter S. Beagle, Robin Wasserman, S. M. Stirling, Theodora Goss, Tobias S. Buckell & William Gilmour53 books1917

Set in mars.

“Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with A Princess of Mars →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Set in space.

“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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Last LegionarySeries

seriesDouglas Hill5 books1979

Space opera, about last of their kind.

“Douglas Hill's Last Legionary quartet follows Keill Randor, the sole survivor of the Morosians after his people are wiped out by a mysterious tyrant known as the Warlord.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Galactic Warlord →

CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Set in space.

“Detritus is a dead world buried under the wreckage of a hundred fallen starships, and the humans caverned beneath it live by one hard truth: to survive, you climb into a cockpit and you fight.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Pit Dragon?: WondLa — the closest match to Pit Dragon on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Pit Dragon?: Dragon's Blood. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Pit Dragon.
How big is Pit Dragon?: Pit Dragon is 5 books, 1980–2009.
Is Pit Dragon finished?: Yes — 5 books, 1980–2009.

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