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Books like Hiero Desteen: 9 series to read next

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

Hiero Desteen is 3 books, 1973–2025.

“The post-apocalyptic setting is thick with mutated animals and hostile factions competing over what's left of the old world's knowledge.”
from the catalogue description

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Hiero Desteen Universe
The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Mortal Engines
Mara and Dann
Dune
The Hunger Games
Saint Leibowitz
Pax / Astra
Tripods

Hiero Desteen UniverseSeries

seriesSterling E. Lanier & Lucy Andrews Cummin3 books1973

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about survival, set in far future.

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The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

Fantasy.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
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Start with Obernewtyn →

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.”
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Mara and DannSeries

seriesDoris Lessing2 books1999

About ecological collapse and coming of age.

“Told to forget their real names forever or be killed, the brother and sister live for years among the primitive Rock People, taken in by one of their own kind but always outcasts.”
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Start with Mara and Dann →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution and totalitarianism.

“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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Saint LeibowitzSeries

seriesWalter M. Miller & Jr.6 books1955

About faith and religion.

“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

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! →

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.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

Why these

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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.

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What should I read after Hiero Desteen?: Hiero Desteen Universe — the closest match to Hiero Desteen on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Hiero Desteen?: Hiero's Journey. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Hiero Desteen.
How big is Hiero Desteen?: Hiero Desteen is 3 books, 1973–2025.

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