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Books like Sky Lords: 9 series to read next

Sky Lords is science fiction, set in far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sky Lords is 3 books, 1988–1991.

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Foundation
Red Rising
Dune
To the Stars (Harrison)
Nicholas Seafort
CoDominium
Known Space
Alliance-Union
Forever War

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 →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Science fiction and space opera, dark and tense in tone, about class conflict and rebellion and revolution, set in far future.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Rising →

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 →

To the Stars (Harrison)Series

seriesHarry Harrison3 books1980

Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in far future and other star systems.

“One of the elite stumbles onto the knowledge that news and opinions are being carefully managed to whitewash the situation, which leads him to throw his lot in with those who oppose it.”
from the catalogue description of Homeworld
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Start with Homeworld →

Nicholas SeafortSeries

seriesDavid Feintuch7 books1994

Military science fiction.

“Additionally, Children of Hope is narrated by Randy Carr, the son of a close friend of Seafort.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Midshipman's Hope →

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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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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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.”
from the catalogue description

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Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Military science fiction.

Start with The Forever War →

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 Sky Lords?: Foundation — the closest match to Sky Lords on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Sky Lords?: The Sky Lords. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Sky Lords.
How big is Sky Lords?: Sky Lords is 3 books, 1988–1991.
Is Sky Lords finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1988–1991.

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