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Books like Time Traders: 9 series to read next

Time Traders is science fiction and time travel, 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.

Time Traders is 7 books, 1958–2002.

“Norton, later joined by collaborators Sherwood Smith and P. M. Griffin, expanded the sequence to seven novels published between 1958 and 2002, and revised the opening book herself in 2000.”
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Known Space
Uplift
Heechee
Humanx Commonwealth
Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) Hutchins
Pax / Astra
Cosmic Trilogy (C. S. Lewis)
Cavor
CoDominium

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

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

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

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Science fiction and space opera, about space exploration and aliens, set in other star systems and space.

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

Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

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

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
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Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries

seriesJack McDevitt16 books1983

Science fiction, about space exploration and aliens, set in other star systems 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.”
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Start with The Engines of God →

Pax / AstraSeries

seriesAndre Norton2 books1954

About survival.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

Cosmic Trilogy (C. S. Lewis)Series

seriesC. S. Lewis4 books1938

About faith and religion.

Start with Out of the Silent Planet →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

Set in the moon and early 20th century.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
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Start with The First Men in the Moon →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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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 Time Traders?: Known Space — the closest match to Time Traders on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Time Traders?: The Time Traders. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Time Traders.
How big is Time Traders?: Time Traders is 7 books, 1958–2002.

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