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Books like Chung Kuo (original): 9 series to read next

Chung Kuo (original) is science fiction and dystopia. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Chung Kuo (original) is 9 books, 1989–1996.

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Chung Kuo Universe
The Hunger Games
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
To the Stars (Harrison)
The Handmaid's Tale
Uglies Universe
Red Rising
Dune
Divergent

Chung Kuo UniverseSeries

seriesDavid Wingrove20 books1989

Science fiction and dystopia.

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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About survival, set in north america.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
from the catalogue description

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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

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To the Stars (Harrison)Series

seriesHarry Harrison3 books1980

Set in other star systems.

“One of the elite stumbles onto the knowledge that news and opinions are being carefully managed to whitewash the situation, which leads him to throw his lot in with those who oppose it.”
from the catalogue description of Homeworld
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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society, set in north america.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

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Uglies UniverseSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld & Devin Grayson9 books2005

“Tally Youngblood, the original tetralogy's protagonist, initially awaits her own operation before learning it also surgically dulls independent thought, driving her toward the hidden resistance community called the Smoke.”
from the catalogue description

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Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Space opera.

“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

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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in other star systems.

“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

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DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

About identity, set in north america.

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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 Chung Kuo (original)?: Chung Kuo Universe — the closest match to Chung Kuo (original) on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Chung Kuo (original)?: The Middle Kingdom. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Chung Kuo (original).
How big is Chung Kuo (original)?: Chung Kuo (original) is 9 books, 1989–1996.

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