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Books like Teixcalaan: 9 series to read next

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

Teixcalaan is 2 books, 2019–2021.

“A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace pair court intrigue with Mahit's conflicted, outsider fascination with an empire she can't help admiring.”
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Dune
Radchaai
CoDominium
Foundation
Old Man's War
Imperial Galaxy
Known Space
Janissaries
Alliance-Union

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.

“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.”
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RadchaaiUniverse

universe11 books2012

Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue and identity, set in far future and other star systems.

“Civilization is what the Radch calls itself, and civilization is a courtesy extended at gunpoint.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Adventurous in tone.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age.

“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.”
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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

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

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
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JanissariesSeries

seriesJerry Pournelle, Roland J. Green, David Weber & Phillip Pournelle4 books1979

Adventurous in tone, about slavery.

“Janissaries are an American series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement.”
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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.”
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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.

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What should I read after Teixcalaan?: Dune — the closest match to Teixcalaan on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Teixcalaan?: A Memory Called Empire. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Teixcalaan.
How big is Teixcalaan?: Teixcalaan is 2 books, 2019–2021.

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