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Books like Our Child: 9 series to read next

Our Child is science fiction and first contact, about aliens and parenthood, emotional in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Our Child is 2 books, 2018–2022.

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The People
Sparrow
Needle
Ormingat Trilogy
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The Carls
My Teacher Is an Alien
The Themis Files
Lux Universe
E.T.

The PeopleSeries

seriesZenna Henderson33 books1952

Science fiction, set in north america.

“Zenna Henderson told their story mostly through linked short fiction, gathered into the fix-up novels Pilgrimage and The People: No Different Flesh and later omnibus collections.”
from the catalogue description

Start with I (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People) →

SparrowSeries

seriesMary Doria Russell2 books1996

About faith and religion and grief and loss, set in other star systems and near future.

“The title refers to Gospel of Matthew 10:29–31, which relates that not even a sparrow falls to the earth without God's knowledge thereof.”
from the catalogue description of The Sparrow

Start with The Sparrow →

NeedleSeries

seriesHal Clement2 books1950

Hard science fiction, adventurous in tone, about survival.

“Together the mismatched pair must learn to communicate and cooperate, first to survive and later to track down the second alien, which has hidden inside another human in the same Pacific island community.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Needle →

Ormingat TrilogySeries

seriesSylvia Waugh3 books2000

About coming of age.

“For almost as long as he can remember, Tom has lived happily in Belthorp.”
from the catalogue description of Space Race

Start with Space Race →

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The CarlsSeries

seriesHank Green2 books2018

Adventurous in tone, about identity.

Start with An Absolutely Remarkable Thing →

My Teacher Is an AlienSeries

seriesBruce Coville4 books1989

Adventurous in tone.

“Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with My Teacher Is an Alien →

The Themis FilesSeries

seriesSylvain Neuvel3 books2015

Tense and mysterious in tone, about robots.

“Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sleeping Giants →

Lux UniverseSeries

seriesJennifer L. Armentrout11 books2011

Tense in tone.

Reading order →

E.T.Universe

universe4 books1982

Science fiction, hopeful in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary.

“A ten-year-old finds him at the bottom of the garden and does the only sensible thing available: hides him in the closet among the stuffed animals.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Our Child?: The People — the closest match to Our Child on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Our Child?: Our Child of the Stars. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Our Child.
How big is Our Child?: Our Child is 2 books, 2018–2022.

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