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Books like Walter Harkness: 9 series to read next

Walter Harkness is science fiction, 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.

Walter Harkness is 3 books, 1931–1932.

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Known Space
Humanx Commonwealth
Uplift
Heechee
Space Beagle
Mesklin
Cavor
The Final Architecture
Gaean

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

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

“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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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera, about uplift.

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

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HeecheeSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl19 books1972

Space opera.

“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

Space opera, tense in tone, set in spaceship.

Start with Black Destroyer →

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.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Mission of Gravity →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

Set in underground & caves.

“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 →

The Final ArchitectureSeries

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky6 books2021

Space opera, tense in tone, about war.

“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
from the catalogue description of Shards of Earth
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Start with Shards of Earth →

GaeanSeries

seriesJohn Varley3 books1979

Space opera, set in outer planets & moons.

“The Gaea Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels by John Varley.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Titan →

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 Walter Harkness?: Known Space — the closest match to Walter Harkness on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Walter Harkness?: Dark Moon. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Walter Harkness.
How big is Walter Harkness?: Walter Harkness is 3 books, 1931–1932.
Is Walter Harkness finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1931–1932.

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