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Books like Beautiful Resistance: 9 series to read next

Beautiful Resistance is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Beautiful Resistance is 3 books, 2017–2018.

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Dune
CoDominium
Hainish
Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood
Chaos Walking
Red Rising
Michael Wireman
Worldburner Suite
Lunar Chronicles

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

Reflective in tone.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Rocannon's World →

Xenogenesis / Lilith's BroodSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler4 books1987

About genetic engineering.

“aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26”
from the catalogue description of Dawn
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Dawn →

Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Dystopia.

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Dystopia and space opera, about class conflict.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Rising →

Michael WiremanSeries

seriesAlgis Budrys4 books1957

Science fiction, set in other star systems and far future.

Start with Hot Potato →

Worldburner SuiteSeries

seriesJohan M. Dahlgren2 books2016

About political intrigue.

“When security expert Asher Perez is sent to find him, dark secrets about the rebel colony are exposed.”
from the catalogue description of Under a Dark Sky

Start with Under a Dark Sky →

Lunar ChroniclesSeries

seriesMarissa Meyer15 books2011

Fairy tale retelling, adventurous in tone, about political intrigue.

“Set in a futuristic world inhabited by various species and creatures, tensions are rising between Earth and its former colony Luna, while both attempt to manage an ongoing pandemic.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Fairest: Levana's Story →

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 Beautiful Resistance?: Dune — the closest match to Beautiful Resistance on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Beautiful Resistance?: Defiance Pattern. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Beautiful Resistance.
How big is Beautiful Resistance?: Beautiful Resistance is 3 books, 2017–2018.

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