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Books like The Caladan Trilogy: 9 series to read next

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

The Caladan Trilogy is 3 books, 2020–2022.

“Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson use the household's private struggles and rivalries to build toward the events of the original novel, treating Caladan itself, rather than the desert planet, as the emotional center.”
from the catalogue description

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Foundation
CoDominium
Alliance-Union
Honorverse
Janissaries
Vatta
Teixcalaan
Azean Empire
The Kindom Trilogy

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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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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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HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Military science fiction.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
from the catalogue description

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JanissariesSeries

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

Military science fiction, adventurous in tone, about war and 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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VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Military science fiction, adventurous in tone.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
from the catalogue description

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TeixcalaanSeries

seriesArkady Martine2 books2019

Reflective in tone, about identity.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Memory Called Empire →

Azean EmpireSeries

seriesC. S. Friedman2 books1987

About war.

“C. S. Friedman's Azean Empire novels are set in a distant-future conflict between two competing human societies, the Azeans and the Braxins, contesting interstellar dominance.”
from the catalogue description

Start with In Conquest Born →

The Kindom TrilogySeries

seriesBethany Jacobs3 books2023

About rebellion and revolution.

“A star system away, preternaturally stoic Chono and brilliant hothead Esek - the two most brutal clerics of the Kindom - are tasked with hunting Jun down.”
from the catalogue description of These Burning Stars

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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.

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What should I read after The Caladan Trilogy?: Foundation — the closest match to The Caladan Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Caladan Trilogy?: The Duke of Caladan. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Caladan Trilogy.
How big is The Caladan Trilogy?: The Caladan Trilogy is 3 books, 2020–2022.

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