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Books like Sovereign-Verse: 9 series to read next

Sovereign-Verse is science fiction and litrpg, set in our world and virtual world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sovereign-Verse is 41 books across 14 series, 2016–2025.

“Super Sales on Super Heroes drops a man with a pricing-and-upgrade power into a world of capes and villains, where people themselves can be bought and improved.”
from the catalogue description

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His Dark Materials
Richard Forthrast
The Culture
The Obernewtyn Chronicles
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Commonwealth
Ender's Game
Foundation
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue description

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Richard ForthrastSeries

seriesNeal Stephenson2 books2011

“The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain.”
from the catalogue description

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The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Space opera, set in galactic scale.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue description

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The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

About psychic powers.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
from the catalogue description of Obernewtyn
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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

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CommonwealthUniverse

universe12 books2002

Space opera.

“Step aboard the train at the Second Chance terminal and ride the wormhole to another star.”
from the catalogue description

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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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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

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The Science Fiction Hall of FameSeries

seriesBen Bova, Algis Budrys, Arthur C. Clarke, Geo. W. Proctor, H. G. Wells, Robert Silverberg, Terry Carr & Theodore R. Cogswell11 books1895

“The greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.”
from the catalogue description of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One

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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.

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What should I read after Sovereign-Verse?: His Dark Materials — the closest match to Sovereign-Verse on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Sovereign-Verse?: Sovereign-Verse is 41 books across 14 series, 2016–2025.

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