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Books like GeneStorm: 9 series to read next

GeneStorm is science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about genetic engineering, set in far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

GeneStorm is 1 book, from 2015.

“The weapons needed for their town's survival may still exist somewhere in long lost, ancient cities.”
from the catalogue description of City in the Sky

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Tripods
Pax / Astra
Mortal Engines
The Hunger Games
Humanx Commonwealth
The Obernewtyn Chronicles
The Pure Trilogy
Kingdom (Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent)
Maximum Ride

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

About aliens and 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.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

Pax / AstraSeries

seriesAndre Norton2 books1954

Science fiction, adventurous and tense in tone, about survival, set in far future.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Steampunk.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
from the catalogue description

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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, dark in tone, set in 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.”
from the catalogue description

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Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

universe39 books1972

About aliens, set in other star systems and space.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
from the catalogue description

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The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

Fantasy, about psychic powers, set in 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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Obernewtyn →

The Pure TrilogySeries

seriesJulianna Baggott3 books2012

Dystopia, dark in tone.

Start with Pure →

Kingdom (Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent)Series

seriesDan Abnett & Nik Vincent1 book2014

Military science fiction, about aliens and war, set in europe.

“Kingdom took us to the isolated wastelands of the southern hemisphere, where Gene the Hackman and his fellow Aux listen to the voices of The Masters as humanity hibernates, awaiting the destruction of the alien Them.”
from the catalogue description of Fiefdom

Start with Fiefdom →

Maximum RideSeries

seriesJames Patterson, Cate Tiernan & Mindy McGinnis12 books2005

Science fantasy, about found family.

Start with The Angel Experiment →

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 GeneStorm?: Tripods — the closest match to GeneStorm on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with GeneStorm?: City in the Sky. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for GeneStorm.
How big is GeneStorm?: GeneStorm is 1 book, from 2015.

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