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Books like Waymaker Wars: 9 series to read next

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

Waymaker Wars is 3 books, from 2022.

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Known Space
Solar Queen
Heechee
Space Beagle
Cities in Flight
Uplift
Alliance-Union
Humanx Commonwealth
The Lost Fleet

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in other star systems.

“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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Solar QueenSeries

seriesAndre Norton, Sherwood Smith & P. M. Griffin7 books1955

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

“Andre Norton's Solar Queen novels follow the crew of a free-trader starship under Captain Jellico as they scrape by hauling cargo and making first contact on the fringes of settled space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sargasso of Space →

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
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Start with Gateway →

Space BeagleSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt5 books1939

About aliens.

Start with Black Destroyer →

Cities in FlightSeries

seriesJames Blish10 books1950

About space colonization.

“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 →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift and aliens, set in other star systems.

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

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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens, set in 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.”
from the catalogue description

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The Lost FleetUniverse

universe27 books2006

Military science fiction.

“A war a hundred years old has forgotten how to fight it.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Waymaker Wars?: Known Space — the closest match to Waymaker Wars on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Waymaker Wars?: Space Junk. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Waymaker Wars.
How big is Waymaker Wars?: Waymaker Wars is 3 books, from 2022.

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