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Books like Second Starfaring Age: 9 series to read next

Second Starfaring Age 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.

Second Starfaring Age is 2 books, 1983–1985.

“The Void Captain's Tale takes place three or four thousand years in the future in an era called the Second Starfaring Age, a setting Spinrad revisited in the 1985 novel Child of Fortune.”
from the catalogue description of The Void Captain's Tale

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Known Space
Dune
Ender's Game
CoDominium
Cities in Flight
Imperial Galaxy
Heechee
Humanx Commonwealth
Lagoon / Binti Universe

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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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

About political intrigue.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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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.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with They Shall Have Stars →

Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About identity and political intrigue.

“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 →

HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

About aliens.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Gateway →

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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Lagoon / Binti UniverseSeries

seriesNnedi Okorafor5 books2014

About aliens.

“In 2014 it was chosen as an honor list title for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.”
from the catalogue description of Lagoon

Start with Lagoon →

Why these

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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 Second Starfaring Age?: Known Space — the closest match to Second Starfaring Age on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Second Starfaring Age?: The Void Captain's Tale. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Second Starfaring Age.
How big is Second Starfaring Age?: Second Starfaring Age is 2 books, 1983–1985.

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