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Books like Terra Ignota: 9 series to read next

Terra Ignota is science fiction, about political intrigue, set in far future and our world, challenging in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Terra Ignota is 4 books, 2016–2021.

“After three centuries of a global near-utopia, a minor crime and a miracle child begin to unravel the social system and lead the world to technologically advanced total war.”
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Dune
Foundation
A Clockwork Orange
Maurai
The Hunger Games
Hainish
Brave New World
Red Rising
Ender's Game

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in other star systems.

“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

Start with Dune →

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Foundation →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Dark in tone, about surveillance, set in near future and 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 →

MauraiSeries

seriesPoul Anderson6 books1959

Post-apocalyptic, about ecological collapse.

“The Maurai dominate the Pacific and Indian Oceans.”
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Start with The Sky People →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution, set in north america.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

Set in other star systems.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
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Start with Rocannon's World →

Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Set in 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 →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Space opera, dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Red Rising →

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.”
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.

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What should I read after Terra Ignota?: Dune — the closest match to Terra Ignota on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Terra Ignota?: Too Like the Lightning. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Terra Ignota.
How big is Terra Ignota?: Terra Ignota is 4 books, 2016–2021.

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