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Books like Outer Earth: 9 series to read next

Outer Earth is science fiction, about survival, set in far future and space station, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Outer Earth is 8 books, 2015–2016.

“A huge space station orbits the Earth, holding the last of humanity.”
from the catalogue description of Tracer

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The Hunger Games
Alliance-Union
Maze Runner
Dune
Pax / Astra
Saint Leibowitz
Pandora
Time Salvager
Galaxy's Edge: Omnibus

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution and totalitarianism, set in north america.

“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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Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Set in near future.

“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 →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

Pax / AstraSeries

seriesAndre Norton2 books1954

Science fiction, tense and adventurous in tone, about survival, set in far future.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

Saint LeibowitzSeries

seriesWalter M. Miller & Jr.6 books1955

About faith and religion, set in north america.

“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

PandoraSeries

seriesFrank Herbert & Bill Ransom4 books1966

About artificial intelligence.

“The Pandora Sequence opens with Frank Herbert's solo novel Destination: Void, in which a starship crew must jury-rig a working artificial consciousness after their vessel's control systems fail.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Destination: Void →

Time SalvagerSeries

seriesWesley Chu2 books2015

Time travel.

“In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Time Salvager →

Galaxy's Edge: OmnibusSeries

seriesDaniel F. Galouye & Mike Resnick2 books1961

Set in underground & caves.

Start with Galaxy's Edge: Omnibus #2: Complete Contents from Issues 4, 5 & 6 →

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 Outer Earth?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Outer Earth on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Outer Earth?: Tracer. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Outer Earth.
How big is Outer Earth?: Outer Earth is 8 books, 2015–2016.

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