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Books like Destination Earth: 9 series to read next

Destination Earth is science fiction, about aliens and survival, set in our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Destination Earth is 1 book, from 2014.

“Imagine you are the only survivor from another planet.”
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Tripods
Jumper
The Andromeda Strain
Saucer
Daniel X
Needle
My Teacher Is an Alien
Animorphs
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The Carls

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about rebellion and revolution, set in near future.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

JumperSeries

seriesSteven Gould6 books1992

About psychic powers.

“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
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The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

About plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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Start with The Andromeda Strain →

SaucerSeries

seriesStephen Coonts3 books2002

Science fiction, adventurous and tense in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary and our world.

“Seismic surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery - a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone.”
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Start with Saucer →

Daniel XSeries

seriesJames Patterson, Chris Grabenstein, Ned Rust, Adam Sadler & Michael Ledwidge6 books2008

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary and our world.

“The Dangerous Days of Daniel X opens James Patterson's science-fiction series, co-written with Michael Ledwidge, marking Patterson's return to genre science fiction in a similar vein to his Maximum Ride series.”
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Start with The Dangerous Days of Daniel X →

NeedleSeries

seriesHal Clement2 books1950

Hard science fiction.

“Together the mismatched pair must learn to communicate and cooperate, first to survive and later to track down the second alien, which has hidden inside another human in the same Pacific island community.”
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Start with Needle →

My Teacher Is an AlienSeries

seriesBruce Coville4 books1989

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary.

“Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird.”
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Start with My Teacher Is an Alien →

AnimorphsUniverse

universe66 books1996

Science fantasy, about shapeshifters and war.

“The Yeerks are grey slugs the length of your thumb.”
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The CarlsSeries

seriesHank Green2 books2018

First contact, set in north america.

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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 Destination Earth?: Tripods — the closest match to Destination Earth on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Destination Earth?: Destination Earth. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Destination Earth.
How big is Destination Earth?: Destination Earth is 1 book, from 2014.

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