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Books like Scan: 9 series to read next

Scan is science fiction, about aliens and survival, set in our world, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Scan is 2 books, 2014–2015.

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Tripods
The 5th Wave
Forge of God
Icons
Needle
The Themis Files
Out of the Dark (David Weber)
The Andromeda Strain
Nemesis Saga

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic, about 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 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, set in north america.

“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 →

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

Dark in tone.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
from the catalogue description of The Forge of God

Start with The Forge of God →

IconsSeries

seriesMargaret Stohl2 books2013

Dystopia.

“The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.”
from the catalogue description of Icons

Start with Icons →

NeedleSeries

seriesHal Clement2 books1950

Hard science fiction.

“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 →

The Themis FilesSeries

seriesSylvain Neuvel3 books2015

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 →

Out of the Dark (David Weber)Series

seriesDavid Weber & Chris Kennedy3 books2010

About war, set in north america.

“Out of the Dark begins when an overwhelming alien armada arrives to subjugate Earth, only for the invasion to run into unexpected resistance from an unlikely source within humanity itself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Out of the Dark →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

About plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

Nemesis SagaSeries

seriesJeremy Robinson8 books2012

Science fiction and thriller & suspense, tense in tone, about survival, set in our world and contemporary.

“Robinson noted that various classic kaiju films especially those featuring Godzilla and Gamera were big influences on the series.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Island 731 →

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 Scan?: Tripods — the closest match to Scan on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Scan?: Scan. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Scan.
How big is Scan?: Scan is 2 books, 2014–2015.

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