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Books like Mutant Empire: 9 series to read next

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

Mutant Empire is 3 books, 1996–1997.

“Novel featuring the mutant superhero team from the Marvel Comics.”
from the catalogue description of Siege

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Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
The Hunger Games
The Handmaid's Tale
One Second After / John Matherson
Ship Breaker
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
The 5th Wave
Gone
Patternist

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

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The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, set in far future.

“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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The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Dystopia, about gender and society.

“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

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One Second After / John MathersonSeries

seriesWilliam R. Forstchen4 books2009

Post-apocalyptic, set in small town.

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Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
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

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The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion and post-apocalyptic, about aliens.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue description

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GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

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PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

Science fiction, dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue description
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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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Mutant Empire?: Library of America P. K. Dick Collection — the closest match to Mutant Empire on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mutant Empire?: Siege. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mutant Empire.
How big is Mutant Empire?: Mutant Empire is 3 books, 1996–1997.

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