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Books like Terrible Worlds: 9 series to read next

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

Terrible Worlds is 9 books, 2008–2026.

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The Hunger Games
Forever War
Dune
Forge of God
Red Rising
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Chaos Walking
Ender's Game
Ocean / Galactic Center

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About totalitarianism, 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

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Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and space.

Start with The Forever War →

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

Start with Dune →

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

Science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about survival and aliens.

“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 →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Space opera.

“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 →

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

“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

Start with The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One →

Chaos WalkingSeries

seriesPatrick Ness5 books2008

Start with The Knife of Never Letting Go →

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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Ocean / Galactic CenterSeries

seriesGregory Benford12 books1972

Science fiction and hard science fiction, about aliens, set in far future.

“For some time now, Earth has been heavily influenced by the aliens, who have conquered the oceans, sinking a lot of the ships, making that kind of transportation of goods impossible.”
from the catalogue description of Swarmer, Skimmer
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Start with Swarmer, Skimmer →

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 Terrible Worlds?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Terrible Worlds on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Terrible Worlds?: Terrible Worlds is 9 books, 2008–2026.

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