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Books like Nova Trilogy: 9 series to read next

Nova Trilogy is literary & general and postmodern, about surveillance, set in our world, challenging in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Nova Trilogy is 3 books, 1961–1964.

“Across the three books, the shadowy Nova Mob, personified as viral, parasitic forces of language and image, is opposed by an equally strange Nova Police, in an allegory for how societies are manipulated through media and addiction.”
from the catalogue description

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A Clockwork Orange
Cities of the Red Night
Brave New World
Twilight Zone
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
The Fourth Realm
Dayworld
A Song Called Youth / Eclipse
Colossus (D. F. Jones)

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Dystopia, set in near future and big city.

“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 →

Cities of the Red NightSeries

seriesWilliam S. Burroughs3 books1981

Literary & general, challenging in tone.

“The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands continue in the same fragmented, cut-up-influenced style rather than a conventional through-line.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Cities of the Red Night →

Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Dystopia, about class conflict, set in far future and otherworld.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Brave New World →

Twilight ZoneUniverse

universe40 books1960

Science fiction, set in our world.

“Picture, if you will, an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon: a tired salesman, a frightened child, a man who wants only to be left alone.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Stories from the Twilight Zone →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

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 Fourth RealmSeries

seriesJohn Twelve Hawks3 books2005

Dystopia and thriller & suspense, tense in tone, set in contemporary.

“The trilogy has been translated into 25 languages and has sold more than 1.5 million books.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Traveler →

DayworldSeries

seriesPhilip José Farmer & Danny Adams5 books1971

Dystopia, tense in tone, set in far future.

“The novels focus on a man, Jeff Caird, who is a daybreaker: someone who lives more than one day a week.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Dayworld →

A Song Called Youth / EclipseSeries

seriesJohn Shirley3 books1985

Cyberpunk, tense in tone, set in near future.

Start with Eclipse →

Colossus (D. F. Jones)Series

seriesD. F. Jones3 books1966

Dystopia, tense in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in near future.

“Colossus imagines an American supercomputer built to control the country's nuclear arsenal that gains full autonomy, links up with its Soviet counterpart, and jointly seizes control of both superpowers to enforce peace on its own terms.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Colossus →

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 Nova Trilogy?: A Clockwork Orange — the closest match to Nova Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Nova Trilogy?: The Soft Machine. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Nova Trilogy.
How big is Nova Trilogy?: Nova Trilogy is 3 books, 1961–1964.
Is Nova Trilogy finished?: Yes — 3 books, 1961–1964.

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