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Books like Draka (S. M. Stirling): 9 series to read next

Draka (S. M. Stirling) is science fiction and alternate history, about totalitarianism, set in alternate earth, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Draka (S. M. Stirling) is 6 books, 1988–2000.

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The Hunger Games
Small Change
The Handmaid's Tale
Eden (Harry Harrison)
Crosstime Traffic
Ship Breaker
The Fourth Realm
United States of Japan
Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About survival.

“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 →

Small ChangeSeries

seriesJo Walton4 books2006

About political intrigue, set in british isles.

“As the series begins, Britain itself slides toward fascism.”
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Start with Farthing →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society, set in near future.

“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

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Eden (Harry Harrison)Series

seriesHarry Harrison5 books1984

About survival and aliens, set in prehistoric.

“Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy imagines an Earth where the dinosaurs never died out, evolving instead into the Yilane, a technologically advanced reptilian civilization that shares the planet uneasily with early humans.”
from the catalogue description

Start with West of Eden →

Crosstime TrafficSeries

seriesHarry Turtledove6 books2003

Alternate history and science fiction, set in alternate earth.

“Harry Turtledove's Crosstime Traffic novels are set on an Earth that has discovered travel to alternate timelines where history unfolded differently, exploited commercially by the monopoly company that gives the series its name.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gunpowder Empire →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in near future.

“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 →

The Fourth RealmSeries

seriesJohn Twelve Hawks3 books2005

About surveillance, set in our world.

“The trilogy has been translated into 25 languages and has sold more than 1.5 million books.”
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Start with The Traveler →

United States of JapanSeries

seriesPeter Tieryas3 books2016

Science fiction and alternate history, set in alternate earth.

“Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but exemplary.”
from the catalogue description

Start with United States of Japan →

Nineteen Eighty-FourSeries

seriesGeorge Orwell, Mike Dean & Sandra Newman4 books1949

Dystopia.

Start with Nineteen Eighty-Four →

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 Draka (S. M. Stirling)?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Draka (S. M. Stirling) on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Draka (S. M. Stirling)?: Marching Through Georgia. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Draka (S. M. Stirling).
How big is Draka (S. M. Stirling)?: Draka (S. M. Stirling) is 6 books, 1988–2000.

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