Next Series Read

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

Our Culture series read is due to end soon, so it's time to start thinking about the next one!

Please use this thread to nominate a sci-fi series we have not yet read....

[Kirsten]

Have we done the Expanse series? Or Scalzi's Old Man series?

[Mickey]

I second the expanse series. However I read the first three novels and the rest of the series is in my TBR.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/5639...

[Alexa]

How about the Sirantha Jax series? Starts with Grimspace

[Mary]

Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet starting with Dauntless

[Laz]

How about CJ Cherryh's Chanur Space Opera starting with The Pride of Chanur? First contact in reverse, plus lots of aliens and stuff.

Though the Jax series is good too.

[Scott]

How about Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History (broken down into four books for the U.S. market, if that counts)? Yes, it's SF not fantasy.

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

I know we already have a suggested C. J. Cherryh, but I love this series.
The Faded Sun Trilogy

[LindaJ^]

I also would like to nominate a C. J. Cherryh series - The Company Wars. The group has read the first one - Downbelow Station - so we'd start with #2 - Rimrunners. There are a total of seven books in the series but since we've read #1, we'd have six to go!

Whoops, #2 is Merchanter's Luck not Rimrunners, which is #3. Sorry!

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

and I nominate Ancillary Justice and the Imperial Radch trilogy!

OK-drafting a poll now

[Kirsten]

It's an older series but what about the Berserker series by Fred Saberhagen?

[Laz]

I would note that CJ's Company Wars is not a continuing series with the same characters. It is several separate stories set in different sections of the same universe. I loved those stories, but they are largely stand-alone except for some grand-arc threads.

[Teanka]

Laz wrote: "I would note that CJ's Company Wars is not a continuing series with the same characters. It is several separate stories set in different sections of the same universe. I loved those stories, but th..."


I agree, they are stand alone books set in the same universe. Only Finity's End should be read after Downbelow Station, as a direct sequel. And these two books are the best ones by far, even though I liked most of the others, too.

[Clyde]

Teanka wrote: "Laz wrote: "... Only Finity's End should be read after Downbelow Station, as a direct sequel...."

I think Merchanter's Luck is also best read after Downbelow Station.

[Najaf]

i nominate Samuil Petrovitch series by Simon Morden.

[Laz]

Najaf wrote: "i nominate Samuil Petrovitch series by Simon Morden."

Second, third, and fourth! That was a fun series.