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Books like Ethical Culture: 9 series to read next

Ethical Culture is science fiction, set in our world and near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Ethical Culture is 3 books, 1978–1983.

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Brave New World
The Windup Universe
Sleepless
A Clockwork Orange
Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
Ship Breaker
Titanium Noir
Borne
Darwin

Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Set in otherworld.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Brave New World →

The Windup UniverseSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2005

About ecological collapse, set in southeast asia.

Start with The Calorie Man →

SleeplessSeries

seriesNancy Kress5 books1991

Set in north america.

“Beggars and Choosers and Beggars Ride carry the same conflict forward across the following decades as the Sleepless gain real power.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Beggars in Spain →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

About totalitarianism and surveillance, set in big city.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky3 books2017

Cyberpunk.

“Dogs of War, Bear Head, and Bee Speaker widen from that first book's battlefield into questions of AI rights, corporate power, and non-human consciousness across a near-future Earth.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dogs of War →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic, tense in tone, about survival.

“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 →

Titanium NoirSeries

seriesNick Harkaway2 books2023

Noir, set in big city.

“Nick Harkaway's novel, followed by a second book, Sleeper Beach, blends hardboiled detective fiction with science-fictional body horror.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Titanium Noir →

BorneSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer3 books2017

Weird fiction and post-apocalyptic, eerie in tone, set in big city.

“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 →

DarwinSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1999

Hard science fiction, tense in tone, about plague and pandemic, set in north america.

“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Darwin's Radio →

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 Ethical Culture?: Brave New World — the closest match to Ethical Culture on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ethical Culture?: Beloved Son. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ethical Culture.
How big is Ethical Culture?: Ethical Culture is 3 books, 1978–1983.
Is Ethical Culture finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1978–1983.

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