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Books like Skinned / Cold Awakening: 9 series to read next

Skinned / Cold Awakening is science fiction, about mind uploading and identity, set in near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Skinned / Cold Awakening is 3 books, 2008–2010.

“Skinned is a young adult sci-fi by Robin Wasserman.”
from the catalogue description of Skinned

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Blade Runner Universe
Fahrenheit 451
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Unwind Dystology
Ready Player One
Jenna Fox Chronicles
Divergent
Sprawl Trilogy
A Clockwork Orange

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

Set in big city.

“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? →

Fahrenheit 451Series

seriesRay Bradbury2 books1951

About books and reading and totalitarianism.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fireman →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Unwind DystologySeries

seriesNeal Shusterman5 books2007

Tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution and genetic engineering.

“The first novel follows three teens fleeing that fate, and the sequels widen the same dystopia's cast and consequences across a four-book arc plus companion material.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Unwind →

Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Adventurous in tone, about virtual reality and quests, set in virtual world.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ready Player One →

Jenna Fox ChroniclesSeries

seriesMary E. Pearson4 books2008

Science fiction, about identity, set in near future.

“The Jenna Fox Chronicles opens with a teenage girl waking from a year-long coma with gaps in her memory, only to uncover unsettling truths about the medical technology that saved her life.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Adoration of Jenna Fox →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

Tense in tone, set in big city.

Start with The Transfer →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Tense in tone, about artificial intelligence and virtual reality, set in big city.

“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 →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Challenging in tone, about totalitarianism, set in big city.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

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 Skinned / Cold Awakening?: Blade Runner Universe — the closest match to Skinned / Cold Awakening on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Skinned / Cold Awakening?: Skinned. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Skinned / Cold Awakening.
How big is Skinned / Cold Awakening?: Skinned / Cold Awakening is 3 books, 2008–2010.

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