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Books like The Big Sheep: 9 series to read next

The Big Sheep is science fiction and mystery & detective, about political intrigue, set in north america, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Big Sheep is 2 books, 2016–2017.

“After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city.”
from the catalogue description

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Lock In
The Handmaid's Tale
The Thousandth Floor
In Death
Greg Mandel
Directive 51 / Daybreak
Unwind Dystology
The Jackpot Trilogy
Blade Runner Universe

Lock InSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi3 books2014

Police procedural.

“John Scalzi's series follows a rookie FBI agent investigating crimes that exploit this new class of disability and technology, across the novels Lock In and Head On plus the interstitial oral history Unlocked.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Lock In →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Dark in tone, about totalitarianism and gender and society.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

About class conflict.

“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 →

In DeathSeries

seriesNora Roberts77 books1995

Police procedural.

“Set in a mid-21st-century New York City, they feature NYPSD lieutenant Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke.”
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Start with Naked in Death →

Greg MandelSeries

seriesPeter F. Hamilton5 books1993

About psychic powers, set in our world and british isles.

“Greg Mandel is a former special-forces soldier with a psychic 'gland' implant for reading emotions, working as a private investigator in a near-future Britain recovering from an authoritarian climate-crisis government.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mindstar Rising →

Directive 51 / DaybreakSeries

seriesJohn Barnes3 books2010

Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone.

“The resulting collapse triggers mass death, a crisis over presidential succession, and mysterious Moon-launched fusion strikes on Washington and Chicago, while a shadowy neofeudalist movement moves into the vacuum.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Directive 51 →

Unwind DystologySeries

seriesNeal Shusterman5 books2007

Dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution.

“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 →

The Jackpot TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson2 books2014

About surveillance.

“Gibson's 2020 book Agency is set in the same world.”
from the catalogue description of The Peripheral

Start with The Peripheral →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about robots and identity.

“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? →

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 The Big Sheep?: Lock In — the closest match to The Big Sheep on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Big Sheep?: The Big Sheep. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Big Sheep.
How big is The Big Sheep?: The Big Sheep is 2 books, 2016–2017.

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