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Books like Flatland: 9 series to read next

Flatland is science fiction, set in otherworld. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Flatland is 2 books, 1884–2001.

“Ian Stewart's 2001 Flatterland follows a descendant of that narrator on a tour of stranger geometries, from curved and multidimensional space to relativity, as a knowing homage to Abbott's original.”
from the catalogue description

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Brave New World
Erewhon
Herland
Shades of Grey
Terra Ignota
Urban Monad
Whileaway
Holdfast Chronicles
Marjorie Westriding

Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Dystopia, set in far future.

“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 →

ErewhonSeries

seriesSamuel Butler4 books1872

Reflective in tone, set in secondary world.

Start with Erewhon, or, Over the Range →

HerlandSeries

seriesCharlotte Perkins Gilman2 books1915

Reflective in tone, about colonialism, set in early 20th century.

Start with Herland →

Shades of GreySeries

seriesJasper Fforde2 books2009

Dystopia, about totalitarianism.

Start with Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron →

Terra IgnotaSeries

seriesAda Palmer4 books2016

About political intrigue, set in far future and our world.

“After three centuries of a global near-utopia, a minor crime and a miracle child begin to unravel the social system and lead the world to technologically advanced total war.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Too Like the Lightning →

Urban MonadSeries

seriesRobert Silverberg7 books1970

Dystopia, set in far future.

“Moving between residents of one tower, the linked stories examine a tightly regulated, sexually permissive society engineered to cope with constant population growth, and the discontent that surfaces underneath it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Happy Day in 2381 →

WhileawaySeries

seriesJoanna Russ4 books1972

Reflective in tone, set in contemporary.

Start with When It Changed →

Holdfast ChroniclesSeries

seriesSuzy McKee Charnas4 books1974

Dystopia, dark in tone, about slavery, set in far future.

“Set in a devastated future where gender relations have been violently reorganized, the series is a touchstone of feminist SF recognized with the James Tiptree Jr. Award and induction into the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Walk to the End of the World →

Marjorie WestridingSeries

seriesSheri S. Tepper3 books1989

Set in other star systems and far future.

“Raising the Stones and Sideshow carry the trilogy's ideas forward across roughly a thousand years and more of the same future history, with Marjorie's legacy and the extinct alien Arbai continuing to shape events.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Grass →

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 Flatland?: Brave New World — the closest match to Flatland on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Flatland?: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Flatland.
How big is Flatland?: Flatland is 2 books, 1884–2001.

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