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Books like Stargate Metaverse: 9 series to read next

Stargate Metaverse is science fiction and space opera, about aliens, set in other star systems, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Stargate Metaverse is 111 books across 10 series, 1994–2020.

“Somewhere in a mountain vault a ring of alien stone stands waiting, and when its inner track spins and locks the chevrons alight, it tears open a bridge to a world a galaxy away.”
from the catalogue description

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Known Space
Space Beagle
CoDominium
Heechee
Uplift
Alliance-Union
The Final Architecture
Humanx Commonwealth
Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) Hutchins

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“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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Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

Science fiction and space opera, adventurous and tense in tone, about aliens and space exploration, set in far future and space.

Start with Black Destroyer →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and 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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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Science fiction and space opera, about aliens and space exploration, set in far future and space.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Gateway →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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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The Final ArchitectureSeries

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

Science fiction and space opera, adventurous and tense in tone, about aliens and space exploration, set in far future and space.

“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
from the catalogue description of Shards of Earth
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Shards of Earth →

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“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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Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries

seriesJack McDevitt16 books1983

Science fiction, about space exploration and aliens, set in far future and space.

“Beginning with The Engines of God, the series treats deep time and the near-total absence of intelligent alien life as its central mystery, favoring slow-burn discovery over action.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Engines of God →

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 Stargate Metaverse?: Known Space — the closest match to Stargate Metaverse on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Stargate Metaverse?: Trial by Fire. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Stargate Metaverse, which is a whole world rather than one run.
How big is Stargate Metaverse?: Stargate Metaverse is 111 books across 10 series, 1994–2020.

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