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Books like Trader Tales: 9 series to read next

Trader Tales is science fiction and space opera, set in far future and spaceship. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Trader Tales is 6 books, 2007–2012.

“A coming-of-age story, recalling Dana's Two Years Before the Mast.”
from the catalogue description of Quarter Share

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Ender's Game
Old Man's War
Nicholas Seafort
Cytoverse
Dune
Imperial Galaxy
Alliance-Union
Heechee
Heaven Chronicles / Zones of Thought

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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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction, about war, set in other star systems.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Old Man's War →

Nicholas SeafortSeries

seriesDavid Feintuch7 books1994

Military science fiction, about war.

“Additionally, Children of Hope is narrated by Randy Carr, the son of a close friend of Seafort.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Midshipman's Hope →

CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Set in other star systems.

“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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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Set in 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 →

Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

About identity, set in other star systems.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Confusion of Princes →

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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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

About aliens, set in other star systems.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Gateway →

Heaven Chronicles / Zones of ThoughtSeries

seriesJoan D. Vinge & Vernor Vinge8 books1976

Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space.

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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 Trader Tales?: Ender's Game — the closest match to Trader Tales on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Trader Tales?: Quarter Share. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Trader Tales.
How big is Trader Tales?: Trader Tales is 6 books, 2007–2012.

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