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Escape from Planet Alcatraz is 13 books, 2019–2020.

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Kairos
The Island of Dr. Moreau
His Dark Materials
InterWorld
Ready Player One
Shade's Children milieu
Reckoners
The Hunger Games
The Obernewtyn Chronicles

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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The Island of Dr. MoreauSeries

seriesMegan Shepherd, H. G. Wells, Brad Linaweaver, Brian W. Aldiss, Fred Olen Ray, Heather O'Neill, Jonathan Maberry, Robert Hoskins, Ron Goulart & Silvia Moreno-Garcia12 books1896

Set in 19th century.

“Taken together, the group traces one unsettling premise across more than a century of speculative fiction rather than forming a single ongoing story.”
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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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InterWorldSeries

seriesMichael Reaves, Mallory Reaves & Neil Gaiman3 books2007

Science fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe and contemporary.

“Michael Reaves developed the story with Neil Gaiman, and Reaves's daughter Mallory Reaves co-wrote the two sequels.”
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Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

About virtual reality and quests, set in virtual world and near future.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
from the catalogue description

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Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

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

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ReckonersSeries

seriesBrandon Sanderson & Steven Bohls6 books2013

Superhero, adventurous in tone, set in north america and near future.

“One young man orphaned by a High Epic joins a group that is killing Epics.”
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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, tense in tone, set in far future and 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.”
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The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

Post-apocalyptic, about psychic powers, set in far future and secondary world.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
from the catalogue description of Obernewtyn
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What should I read after Escape from Planet Alcatraz?: Kairos — the closest match to Escape from Planet Alcatraz on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Escape from Planet Alcatraz?: Attack of the Drones. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Escape from Planet Alcatraz.
How big is Escape from Planet Alcatraz?: Escape from Planet Alcatraz is 13 books, 2019–2020.

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