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Books like Metropolis: 9 series to read next

Metropolis is science fiction, about class conflict, set in big city and near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Metropolis is 7 books, 1926–2024.

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Space Merchants
Blade Runner Universe
A Clockwork Orange
Sprawl Trilogy
The Thousandth Floor
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
The Windup Universe
Bridge Trilogy
Urban Monad

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

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 →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

About identity.

“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? →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

About surveillance, set in our world and british isles.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

About virtual reality.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Neuromancer →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

Set in north america.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thousandth Floor →

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 →

The Windup UniverseSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2005

About genetic engineering and ecological collapse, set in our world and southeast asia.

Start with The Calorie Man →

Bridge TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson4 books1990

Set in north america.

“Set in a near-future California, the novel takes place after an earthquake has damaged the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and turned it into an improvised settlement known as the Bridge.”
from the catalogue description of Virtual Light
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Start with Virtual Light →

Urban MonadSeries

seriesRobert Silverberg7 books1970

Set in far future.

“Moving between residents of one tower, the linked stories examine a tightly regulated, sexually permissive society engineered to cope with constant population growth, and the discontent that surfaces underneath it.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Happy Day in 2381 →

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 Metropolis?: Space Merchants — the closest match to Metropolis on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Metropolis?: Metropolis. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Metropolis.
How big is Metropolis?: Metropolis is 7 books, 1926–2024.

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