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Books like The Bannerless Saga: 9 series to read next

The Bannerless Saga is science fiction and post-apocalyptic, set in far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Bannerless Saga is 7 books, 2010–2023.

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Saint Leibowitz
Maurai
The Hunger Games
Ship Breaker
Dune
Tales of a Darkening World
Books of Ember
Foundation
The Triffids

Saint LeibowitzSeries

seriesWalter M. Miller & Jr.6 books1955

About faith and religion.

“Together the two novels form a sparse, decades-spanning series about memory, faith, and the cycles of civilization.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Canticle for Leibowitz →

MauraiSeries

seriesPoul Anderson6 books1959

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about ecological collapse and political intrigue, set in far future and our world.

“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.

“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 →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Dark in tone.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera.

“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 →

Tales of a Darkening WorldSeries

seriesEdgar Pangborn17 books1954

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, set in far future.

“Edgar Pangborn's loose post-apocalyptic sequence is set generations after an unspecified war has reduced North America to small, pseudo-medieval communities ruled by a Church that actively suppresses old technology and persecutes mutants.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Davy →

Books of EmberSeries

seriesJeanne DuPrau4 books2003

“The post-apocalyptic quartet continues with The People of Sparks, following survivors after they reach the world above, and concludes with The Prophet of Yonwood and The Diamond of Darkhold.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City of Ember →

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 →

The TriffidsSeries

seriesJohn Whitbourn, John Wyndham & Simon Clark3 books1951

Dark in tone, set in british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Day of the Triffids →

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 The Bannerless Saga?: Saint Leibowitz — the closest match to The Bannerless Saga on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Bannerless Saga?: Bannerless. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Bannerless Saga.
How big is The Bannerless Saga?: The Bannerless Saga is 7 books, 2010–2023.

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