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Books like Sime/Gen: 9 series to read next

Sime/Gen is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sime/Gen is 40 books, 1969–2023.

“House of Zeor opens the Sime~Gen series, a universe split between Sime, who must periodically drain life-energy from others or die in agony, and Gen, who produce and can safely give that energy.”
from the catalogue description

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Alliance-Union
Ender's Game
Dune
CoDominium
Patternist
Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood
Mortal Engines
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
The Giver

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.”
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Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“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

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

Science fiction, dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue description
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Xenogenesis / Lilith's BroodSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler4 books1987

First contact.

“aliens reproducing with humans. they are mixing genes with humans because humans have destroyed earth basically because nuclear war. because they are stupid. credit to katsoda26”
from the catalogue description of Dawn
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Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic and steampunk.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
from the catalogue description

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The Science Fiction Hall of FameSeries

seriesBen Bova, Algis Budrys, Arthur C. Clarke, Geo. W. Proctor, H. G. Wells, Robert Silverberg, Terry Carr & Theodore R. Cogswell11 books1895

Science fiction.

“The greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.”
from the catalogue description of The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One

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The GiverSeries

seriesLois Lowry5 books1993

Dystopia.

“Each book has a different protagonist but is set in the same futuristic era.”
from the catalogue description
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Why these

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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 Sime/Gen?: Alliance-Union — the closest match to Sime/Gen on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Sime/Gen?: First Channel. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Sime/Gen.
How big is Sime/Gen?: Sime/Gen is 40 books, 1969–2023.

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