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Books like Viagens Interplanetarias: 9 series to read next

Viagens Interplanetarias is science fiction and space opera, about aliens, 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.

Viagens Interplanetarias is 23 books, 1949–1992.

“Set in the future in the 21st and 22nd centuries, the series is named for the quasi-public Terran agency portrayed as monopolizing interstellar travel, the Brazilian-dominated Viagens Interplanetarias.”
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Known Space
Humanx Commonwealth
Uplift
CoDominium
Heechee
Alliance-Union
Mesklin
Catteni Sequence
Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) Hutchins

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

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

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

universe13 books1980

About uplift.

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

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

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

“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 →

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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MesklinSeries

seriesHal Clement6 books1954

Hard science fiction.

“The idea came from an object that was at the time believed to exist in the 61 Cygni system, and which might represent an extrasolar planet.”
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Start with Mission of Gravity →

Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

About slavery.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
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Start with Freedom's Landing →

Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries

seriesJack McDevitt16 books1983

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

“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 →

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.

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What should I read after Viagens Interplanetarias?: Known Space — the closest match to Viagens Interplanetarias on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Viagens Interplanetarias?: The Queen of Zamba. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Viagens Interplanetarias.
How big is Viagens Interplanetarias?: Viagens Interplanetarias is 23 books, 1949–1992.
Is Viagens Interplanetarias finished?: Yes — 23 books, 1949–1992.

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