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Books like Songmaster: 9 series to read next

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

Songmaster is 3 books, 1978–1980.

“Ansset is a boy with a singing voice so perfect it can reach straight into people's emotions, raised from infancy at the Songhouse to become a 'Songbird' -- a living gift bestowed on the powerful until he comes of age.”
from the catalogue description

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Vorkosigan
Ender's Game
Hainish
Foundation
Dune
Lunar Chronicles
Imperial Galaxy
Skolian Empire Universe
Second Starfaring Age

VorkosiganUniverse

universe27 books1986

Space opera.

“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Shards of Honor →

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

Reading order →

HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

Reflective in tone.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Rocannon's World →

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 →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera.

“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 →

Lunar ChroniclesSeries

seriesMarissa Meyer15 books2011

Fairy tale retelling, adventurous in tone.

“Set in a futuristic world inhabited by various species and creatures, tensions are rising between Earth and its former colony Luna, while both attempt to manage an ongoing pandemic.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Fairest: Levana's Story →

Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

Space opera, adventurous in tone, 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 →

Skolian Empire UniverseSeries

seriesCatherine Asaro36 books1994

Space opera.

“The tale of how and WHY Althor ended war on Dalvador as a 16-year old.”
from the catalogue description of The Wages of Honor

Start with The Wages of Honor →

Second Starfaring AgeSeries

seriesNorman Spinrad2 books1983

Space opera, set in space.

“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

Start with The Void Captain's Tale →

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 Songmaster?: Vorkosigan — the closest match to Songmaster on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Songmaster?: Mikal's Songbird. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Songmaster.
How big is Songmaster?: Songmaster is 3 books, 1978–1980.

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