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Books like Victoria Eternal: 9 series to read next

Victoria Eternal is steampunk, about space exploration, set in space. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Victoria Eternal is 15 books, 2015–2021.

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Larklight Trilogy
Known Space
Heechee
Space Beagle
Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) Hutchins
Baltimore Gun Club
Cities in Flight
The Final Architecture
Cavor

Larklight TrilogySeries

seriesPhilip Reeve3 books2006

Whimsical in tone, about aliens.

Start with Larklight →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in far future.

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

Reading order →

HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Space opera, about aliens, set in far future.

“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Gateway →

Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

Tense in tone, about aliens, set in far future and spaceship.

Start with Black Destroyer →

Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries

seriesJack McDevitt16 books1983

About aliens, set in far future.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Engines of God →

Baltimore Gun ClubSeries

seriesJules Verne, Janet Hardy-Gould & Jay Williams11 books1865

Set in the moon.

“Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon.”
from the catalogue description of From the Earth to the Moon

Start with From the Earth to the Moon →

Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

Space opera, about space colonization, set in far future.

“The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with They Shall Have Stars →

The Final ArchitectureSeries

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

Space opera, about aliens and war, set in far future.

“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
from the catalogue description of Shards of Earth
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Shards of Earth →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

About aliens, set in the moon and early 20th century.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The First Men in the Moon →

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 Victoria Eternal?: Larklight Trilogy — the closest match to Victoria Eternal on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Victoria Eternal?: The Perfect Perfume. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Victoria Eternal.
How big is Victoria Eternal?: Victoria Eternal is 15 books, 2015–2021.

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