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Books like PsiScouts: 9 series to read next

PsiScouts is science fiction and mystery & detective, about psychic powers, 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.

PsiScouts is 6 books, 2003–2015.

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The Talents
Alex Benedict
Known Space
Quadrail
Foundation
Heechee
George Hanlon
Humanx Commonwealth
The Midsolar Murders

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Alex BenedictSeries

seriesJack McDevitt13 books1987

Science fiction and mystery & detective, mysterious in tone, set in far future and space.

“Alex Benedict is an antiques dealer and part-time interstellar investigator, generations removed from Earth's first starfaring age, who keeps stumbling into forgotten history through the objects and ruins he trades in.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Talent for War →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens.

“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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QuadrailSeries

seriesTimothy Zahn5 books2005

Space opera, about aliens and political intrigue.

“Paired with the telepathically gifted Bayta, Compton investigates and fights the Modhri, a parasitic group-mind quietly seizing control of galactic leaders from within.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Night Train to Rigel →

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Foundation →

HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Space opera, about aliens and space exploration.

“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 →

George HanlonSeries

seriesE. Everett Evans2 books1953

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about psychic powers, set in far future and space.

Start with Man of Many Minds →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens.

“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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The Midsolar MurdersSeries

seriesMur Lafferty3 books2022

Tense in tone, set in space station.

Start with Station Eternity →

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.

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What should I read after PsiScouts?: The Talents — the closest match to PsiScouts on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with PsiScouts?: At Risk. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for PsiScouts.
How big is PsiScouts?: PsiScouts is 6 books, 2003–2015.

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