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Books like Live Free or Die: 9 series to read next

Live Free or Die is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Live Free or Die is 3 books, from 2018.

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Ender's Game
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Known Space
Future History
Dune
Bronson Beta
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Foundation
CoDominium

Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
from the catalogue description

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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue description

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Future HistorySeries

seriesRobert A. Heinlein42 books1939

Science fiction.

“The term Future History was coined by John W. Campbell Jr. in the February 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Life-Line →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“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 →

Bronson BetaSeries

seriesEdwin Balmer, Philip Wylie, Jeff Deischer & R. L. Helms5 books1933

Science fiction, set in other star systems.

“The two novels form a self-contained disaster-and-survival duology.”
from the catalogue description

Start with When Worlds Collide →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Foundation →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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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.

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What should I read after Live Free or Die?: Ender's Game — the closest match to Live Free or Die on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Live Free or Die?: Madness Unleashed. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Live Free or Die.
How big is Live Free or Die?: Live Free or Die is 3 books, from 2018.

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