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Books like The Lost Cause: 9 series to read next

The Lost Cause is science fiction and dystopia, about ecological collapse, set in near future, reflective in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Lost Cause is 2 books, from 2023.

“Canada is doing much better, and able to help USA.”
from the catalogue description of The Canadian Miracle

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Ecotopia
Orange County
The Handmaid's Tale
Mara / Raging Earth
The Windup Universe
Space Merchants
Fahrenheit 451
Julian West
Earthseed

EcotopiaSeries

seriesErnest Callenbach2 books1975

Science fiction, hopeful in tone, about ecological collapse and political intrigue, set in near future and north america.

“The EE story seems to take place in the 1990s; Callenbach assumes that the pro-business, anti-environmental Reagan-era policies—already evident at the time of publication—will have persisted in the United States after Reagan's presidency.”
from the catalogue description of Ecotopia Emerging

Start with Ecotopia Emerging →

Orange CountySeries

seriesKim Stanley Robinson3 books1984

Science fiction, set in near future and north america.

“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.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Wild Shore →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Dark and tense 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 →

Mara / Raging EarthSeries

seriesJulie Bertagna4 books2002

Post-apocalyptic, tense in tone, about survival.

“Mara must think of a way to save herself, the other villagers and, most importantly, the world.”
from the catalogue description of Exodus

Start with Exodus →

The Windup UniverseSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2005

Dark in tone, about genetic engineering, set in southeast asia.

Start with The Calorie Man →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Dark in tone, 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 →

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 →

Julian WestSeries

seriesEdward Bellamy, Mack Reynolds, Donald McMartin, L. A. Geissler & Richard Michaelis7 books1888

Science fiction, set in north america.

“Together the two novels were highly influential on turn-of-the-century utopian and socialist thought.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Looking Backward, 2000-1887 →

EarthseedSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings7 books1993

Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone, about survival and faith and religion.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Parable of the Sower →

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.

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What should I read after The Lost Cause?: Ecotopia — the closest match to The Lost Cause on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Lost Cause?: The Canadian Miracle. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Lost Cause.
How big is The Lost Cause?: The Lost Cause is 2 books, from 2023.

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