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Books like The Moon Sequence: 9 series to read next

The Moon Sequence is science fiction, set in far future and the moon. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Moon Sequence is 6 books, 1923–2017.

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Known Space
Mistworld Universe
Fifth Imperium
Catteni Sequence
CoDominium
Foundation
Sten
Blackcollar
Mortal Engines

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

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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Mistworld UniverseSeries

seriesSimon R. Green12 books1992

Set in galactic scale.

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Fifth ImperiumSeries

seriesDavid Weber3 books1991

About artificial intelligence.

“The three novels were later collected as the omnibus Empire from the Ashes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mutineers' Moon →

Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

About slavery, set in other star systems.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Freedom's Landing →

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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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

Start with Foundation →

StenSeries

seriesAllan Cole & Chris Bunch11 books1982

Military science fiction, about political intrigue.

“The Sten Chronicles, also called The Sten Adventures, are a series of eight military science fiction and space opera novels by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole published from 1982 to 1993.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Sten →

BlackcollarSeries

seriesTimothy Zahn3 books1983

Military science fiction, set in our world.

“Timothy Zahn's Blackcollar trilogy, his debut work, follows survivors of Earth's underground resistance against the Ryqril, an alien empire that conquered the planet a generation earlier.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Blackcollar →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic and steampunk, about survival.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after The Moon Sequence?: Known Space — the closest match to The Moon Sequence on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Moon Sequence?: The Moon Maid. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Moon Sequence.
How big is The Moon Sequence?: The Moon Sequence is 6 books, 1923–2017.

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