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Books like San Angeles: 9 series to read next

San Angeles is science fiction, set in near future and big city. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

San Angeles is 3 books, 2016–2017.

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The Handmaid's Tale
Sprawl Trilogy
Bridge Trilogy
Blade Runner Universe
The Circle (Eggers)
Space Merchants
Divergent
The Thousandth Floor
A Song Called Youth / Eclipse

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About totalitarianism and 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

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

About artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Neuromancer →

Bridge TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson4 books1990

Science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and big city.

“Set in a near-future California, the novel takes place after an earthquake has damaged the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and turned it into an improvised settlement known as the Bridge.”
from the catalogue description of Virtual Light
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Virtual Light →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

seriesK. W. Jeter, Archie Goodwin, Les Martin & Philip K. Dick6 books1968

About robots and identity.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

The Circle (Eggers)Series

seriesDave Eggers2 books2013

About totalitarianism.

“Dave Eggers's The Circle follows Mae's rise inside the company as she buys further and further into its ideology, at increasing cost to her own privacy and the people around her.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Circle →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Space Merchants →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

About identity.

Start with The Transfer →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thousandth Floor →

A Song Called Youth / EclipseSeries

seriesJohn Shirley3 books1985

About totalitarianism, set in our world.

Start with Eclipse →

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 San Angeles?: The Handmaid's Tale — the closest match to San Angeles on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with San Angeles?: The Courier. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for San Angeles.
How big is San Angeles?: San Angeles is 3 books, 2016–2017.

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