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Books like Mallworld: 9 series to read next

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

Mallworld is 16 books, 1979–2020.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Culture
Forever War
The Early Jack Vance
Planetfall (Emma Newman)
Dune
Ijon Tichy
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Foundation

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyUniverse

universe18 books1979

Humor, set in space.

“The Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and honestly, nobody filed the paperwork properly.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The CultureUniverse

universe21 books1987

Space opera, about artificial intelligence, set in galactic scale.

“No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Military science fiction, set in space.

Start with The Forever War →

The Early Jack VanceSeries

seriesJack Vance14 books1951

Science fiction, set in far future.

Start with Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance →

Planetfall (Emma Newman)Series

seriesEmma Newman15 books2015

Tense in tone.

“Each of the four books shifts to a different point-of-view character connected to the colony, using personal trauma and unreliable narration as much as the science-fictional setting to drive the story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Albert and the Kraken →

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 →

Ijon TichySeries

seriesStanisław Lem32 books1954

Science fiction and satire, funny in tone, set in far future.

“Ijon Tichy is a fictional character who appears in several works of the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem: initially in The Star Diaries, later in The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth, and Observation on the Spot.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Twenty-Fifth Voyage →

The Science Fiction Hall of FameSeries

seriesBen Bova, Algis Budrys, Arthur C. Clarke, Geo. W. Proctor, H. G. Wells, Robert Silverberg, Terry Carr & Theodore R. Cogswell11 books1895

Science fiction.

“The greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.”
from the catalogue description of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One

Start with The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One →

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 →

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 Mallworld?: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — the closest match to Mallworld on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mallworld?: A Day in Mallworld. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mallworld.
How big is Mallworld?: Mallworld is 16 books, 1979–2020.

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