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Books like Luna (Ian McDonald): 9 series to read next

Luna (Ian McDonald) is science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in the moon, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Luna (Ian McDonald) is 6 books, 2014–2019.

“McDonald builds the series around competing lunar houses, hard-vacuum survival, and the politics of a colony that answers to no Earth authority.”
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The Handmaid's Tale
Red Rising
Sprawl Trilogy
The Thousandth Floor
Space Merchants
Dune
Alliance-Union
Blade Runner Universe
CoDominium

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Dystopia, about totalitarianism and gender and society, set in north america.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
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Start with Red Rising →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Cyberpunk, about artificial intelligence and virtual reality, set in big city.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
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Start with Neuromancer →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

Dystopia, set in north america and big city.

“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
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Start with The Thousandth Floor →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Dystopia, set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Space Merchants →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

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.”
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Start with Dune →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Blade Runner UniverseSeries

seriesK. W. Jeter, Archie Goodwin, Les Martin & Philip K. Dick6 books1968

Cyberpunk, about robots and identity, set in big city.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction, set in other star systems.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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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 Luna (Ian McDonald)?: The Handmaid's Tale — the closest match to Luna (Ian McDonald) on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Luna (Ian McDonald)?: Luna: New Moon. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Luna (Ian McDonald).
How big is Luna (Ian McDonald)?: Luna (Ian McDonald) is 6 books, 2014–2019.

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