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Books like Dead World (Platt & Truant): 9 series to read next

Dead World (Platt & Truant) is post-apocalyptic and science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Dead World (Platt & Truant) is 5 books, 2016–2021.

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Ship Breaker
Patternist
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
The Hunger Games
Dune
Borne
CoDominium
Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood
Tomorrow's Children

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Set in north america.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

Science fiction, dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Wild Seed →

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

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution, 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

Reading order →

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 →

BorneSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer3 books2017

Weird fiction, eerie in tone.

“Jeff VanderMeer's series continues with the related novels The Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts, set in the same devastated world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Borne →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

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

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Xenogenesis / Lilith's BroodSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler4 books1987

First contact, about aliens.

“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 →

Tomorrow's ChildrenSeries

seriesPoul Anderson & F. N. Waldrop5 books1947

Science fiction, set in our world.

Start with Tomorrow's Children →

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.

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What should I read after Dead World (Platt & Truant)?: Ship Breaker — the closest match to Dead World (Platt & Truant) on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dead World (Platt & Truant)?: Dead Zero. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dead World (Platt & Truant).
How big is Dead World (Platt & Truant)?: Dead World (Platt & Truant) is 5 books, 2016–2021.

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