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Books like Turning Point: 9 series to read next

Turning Point is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Turning Point is 3 books, 2016–2020.

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Ender's Game
Known Space
Dune
CoDominium
Alliance-Union
Forever War
Uplift
Vatta
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds

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.”
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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens.

“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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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“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 →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and 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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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.”
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Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and space.

Start with The Forever War →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift and aliens.

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

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VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Space opera.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
from the catalogue description

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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

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.

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What should I read after Turning Point?: Ender's Game — the closest match to Turning Point on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Turning Point?: A Time to Die. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Turning Point.
How big is Turning Point?: Turning Point is 3 books, 2016–2020.

Books like Turning Point: 9 series to read next

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