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Books like Trade Pact: 9 series to read next

Trade Pact is science fiction and space opera, about aliens, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Trade Pact is 4 books, 1997–2002.

“Julie E. Czerneda's Trade Pact trilogy follows Sira Morgan, a shapeshifting alien scholar posing as a human trader, after she surfaces with no memory of her past and a price on her head.”
from the catalogue description

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CoDominium
Known Space
Alliance-Union
Foundation
Dune
The Rampart Worlds
Vatta
Old Man's War
Humanx Commonwealth

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

Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future 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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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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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 →

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

Start with Dune →

The Rampart WorldsSeries

seriesJulian May3 books1998

Science fiction and space opera, adventurous and tense in tone, about aliens, set in far future and space.

Start with Perseus Spur →

VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Military science fiction.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, about war.

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

universe39 books1972

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

“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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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Trade Pact?: CoDominium — the closest match to Trade Pact on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Trade Pact?: A Thousand Words for Stranger. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Trade Pact.
How big is Trade Pact?: Trade Pact is 4 books, 1997–2002.

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