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Books like Sleepless: 9 series to read next

Sleepless is science fiction, about genetic engineering and class conflict, set in near future and north america. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sleepless is 5 books, 1991–1999.

“Beggars and Choosers and Beggars Ride carry the same conflict forward across the following decades as the Sleepless gain real power.”
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MaddAddam
Space Merchants
Darwin
The Thousandth Floor
Socialist Union of American States
Brave New World
The Windup Universe
Orange County
Fahrenheit 451

MaddAddamSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books2003

Post-apocalyptic, about survival and ecological collapse.

Start with Oryx and Crake →

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 →

DarwinSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1999

About plague and pandemic.

“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Darwin's Radio →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

Set in big city.

“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 →

Socialist Union of American StatesSeries

seriesMaureen F. McHugh4 books1989

Science fiction, about class conflict, set in north america and near future.

“The related novella Protection returns to the same future without following Zhang directly.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Baffin Island →

Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Set in far future and otherworld.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Brave New World →

The Windup UniverseSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2005

About ecological collapse, set in our world and southeast asia.

Start with The Calorie Man →

Orange CountySeries

seriesKim Stanley Robinson3 books1984

Science fiction, set in north america and near future.

“Each novel describes the life of young people in one of the three near-future worlds; each novel begins with an exposition that tells the reader about the fictional world.”
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Start with The Wild Shore →

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 →

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 Sleepless?: MaddAddam — the closest match to Sleepless on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Sleepless?: Beggars in Spain. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Sleepless.
How big is Sleepless?: Sleepless is 5 books, 1991–1999.

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