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Books like Space Drifters: 9 series to read next

Space Drifters 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.

Space Drifters is 3 books, 2015–2018.

“Captain Starcrost is not having the carefree, adventurous life of a star pilot promised in all the space academy brochures.”
from the catalogue description of The Emerald Enigma

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The Stainless Steel Rat
Known Space
Heechee
Solar Queen
CoDominium
Polity
Aurora Cycle
Liaden
Alliance-Union

The Stainless Steel RatSeries

seriesHarry Harrison21 books1957

About con artists.

“An adolescent boy on a dull planet resolves to live by his wits outside the law, and enacts a plan which leads to risk and reward.”
from the catalogue description of A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born
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Start with A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in other star systems.

“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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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

About aliens, set in other star systems.

“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 →

Solar QueenSeries

seriesAndre Norton, Sherwood Smith & P. M. Griffin7 books1955

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space.

“Andre Norton's Solar Queen novels follow the crew of a free-trader starship under Captain Jellico as they scrape by hauling cargo and making first contact on the fringes of settled space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sargasso of Space →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction, set in other star systems.

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

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PolityUniverse

universe72 books1992

Set in other star systems.

“The Quiet War is already over by the time you arrive.”
from the catalogue description

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Aurora CycleSeries

seriesAmie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff3 books2019

Set in other star systems.

Start with Aurora Rising →

LiadenUniverse

universe133 books1988

Set in other star systems.

“Reckon carefully: in the Liaden Universe every kindness is a debt entered on the ledger, and every debt is balanced — sooner, or graciously.”
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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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 Space Drifters?: The Stainless Steel Rat — the closest match to Space Drifters on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Space Drifters?: The Emerald Enigma. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Space Drifters.
How big is Space Drifters?: Space Drifters is 3 books, 2015–2018.

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