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Books like Torin: 9 series to read next

Torin is science fiction, about aliens, set in other star systems and far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Torin is 3 books, 1977–1983.

“An earthman arrives accidentally on a planet where the people are marsupial and changes the lives and fortunes of a family group living there.”
from the catalogue description of The Luck of Brin's Five

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CoDominium
Known Space
Uplift
Dune
Alliance-Union
The Talents
Humanx Commonwealth
Ender's Game
Cytoverse

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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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Set in 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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift, set in space.

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

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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.”
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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The TalentsUniverse

universe18 books1959

Science fiction, about psychic powers.

“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
from the catalogue description

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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

Set in space.

“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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Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
from the catalogue description

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CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Set in space.

“Detritus is a dead world buried under the wreckage of a hundred fallen starships, and the humans caverned beneath it live by one hard truth: to survive, you climb into a cockpit and you fight.”
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 Torin?: CoDominium — the closest match to Torin on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Torin?: The Luck of Brin's Five. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Torin.
How big is Torin?: Torin is 3 books, 1977–1983.
Is Torin finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1977–1983.

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