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Books like Nuclear Dawn: 9 series to read next

Nuclear Dawn is post-apocalyptic and science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Nuclear Dawn is 5 books, 2018–2019.

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Maze Runner
Ship Breaker
Shade's Children milieu
The 5th Wave
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Gone
Tripods
The Ashes Trilogy
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Dystopia.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
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Start with The Maze Runner →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“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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Shade's Children milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books1997

Dystopia, about coming of age and rebellion and revolution.

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The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion, 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

Start with The 5th Wave →

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

Start with The War of the Worlds →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Set in contemporary.

“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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TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

The Ashes TrilogySeries

seriesIlsa J. Bick3 books2011

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in near future and north america.

“The trilogy follows one continuous crisis across its three volumes.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ashes →

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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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 Nuclear Dawn?: Maze Runner — the closest match to Nuclear Dawn on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Nuclear Dawn?: Point of Impact. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Nuclear Dawn.
How big is Nuclear Dawn?: Nuclear Dawn is 5 books, 2018–2019.

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