I really liked the mystery turn the series took

Me too, and it is unique. Nice change from your average science fiction space story.

As always, I recommend checking out the content warnings on TheStoryGraph before picking any of these up <3

Did I miss any of your favorites?

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Hainish Cycle series, 9+ books. Each book is standalone. Hainish civilization has collapsed, stranding Humans for years from one another, only rediscovering one another later when each planet has taken a different path. app.thestorygraph.com/series/521

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, 6+ books. A British man goes on a journey through the universe, accompanied by some strange companions, a towel, and a guidebook to discover the meaning of life. app.thestorygraph.com/series/111600

Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Old Man's War series, 7 books. Humans exist in an alien-rich universe, battling one another for resources. Needing a large army, humans choose to employ older people who have lived full lives and are put into young bodies to fight. app.thestorygraph.com/series/609

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Imperial Radch series, 5 books, short stories. In a society without gender designations, an AI ship shares a consciousness with the humans aboard it. When a ship is destroyed, it leaves behind a human that has clues as to what happened. app.thestorygraph.com/series/6

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor. The Bobiverse series, 5 books, including one published in 2024. A man dies and his consciousness is converted to an AI who pilots a ship to find a new home for humanity. He replicates himself to comedic effect. app.thestorygraph.com/series/1249

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Wayfarers series, 4 books. A series for folks interested in a found family, multi-species, queer Firefly. The overarching story is less important than the small vignettes into the crews lives. app.thestorygraph.com/series/283

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. Jean le Flambeur series, 3 books. The first novel is a science fiction heist in a world where time is currency. Has interesting surveillance and privacy technologies. app.thestorygraph.com/series/314

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal. Lady Astronaut series, 4 books and a number of short stories. An asteroid hits the Earth, resulting in its inhabitability in short order, leading to the creation of a space colony program. app.thestorygraph.com/series/112204

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Children of Time series, 3 books, another in 2026. A cryo-preservation ship full of sleeping humans travels through space, escaping a collapsed Earth and a race of genetically modified spiders lives on terraformed planet. app.thestorygraph.com/series/367

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. Binti series, 3 books. A young woman is accepted into a university off her world. The ship she takes to the university gets hijacked by an alien species and she is the lone survivor. She forges an unusual friendship with one of the aliens. app.thestorygraph.com/series/66

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. Remembrance of Earth's past series, 3 books. An alien civilization struggling to survive has their sights on Earth, leading to first contact and the fight to survive. app.thestorygraph.com/series/112333

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Oxford Time Travel / All Clear series, 4 books. A time travel agency in the UK tasked with studying the past, but have issues with getting stuck. app.thestorygraph.com/series/410
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