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Books like Technic Civilization Saga: 9 series to read next

Technic Civilization Saga is space opera and science fiction, about space exploration, set in space, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Technic Civilization Saga is 3 books, 2008–2010.

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Known Space
CoDominium
Humanx Commonwealth
Heechee
Uplift
Old Man's War
Alliance-Union
The Final Architecture
Shoal Sequence

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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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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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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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Science fiction and space opera, about space exploration and aliens, 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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue description

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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

About war.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Old Man's War →

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

About war.

“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 →

Shoal SequenceSeries

seriesGary Gibson4 books2007

Space opera and science fiction, tense in tone, about aliens, set in far future and space.

“Gary Gibson's Shoal Sequence opens with Stealing Light, set two centuries into humanity's uneasy dependence on the Shoal, an alien race that alone holds the secret of faster-than-light travel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Stealing Light →

Why these

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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 Technic Civilization Saga?: Known Space — the closest match to Technic Civilization Saga on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Technic Civilization Saga?: The Van Rijn Method. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Technic Civilization Saga.
How big is Technic Civilization Saga?: Technic Civilization Saga is 3 books, 2008–2010.
Is Technic Civilization Saga finished?: Yes — 3 books, 2008–2010.

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