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Books like Tomorrow's Children: 9 series to read next

Tomorrow's Children is science fiction, set in our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Tomorrow's Children is 5 books, 1947–1961.

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Patternist
Ship Breaker
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
The Triffids
Maze Runner
Slan
The Idlewild Trilogy
Tripods
Forge of God

PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

Science fiction, dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Wild Seed →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

“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 →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

The TriffidsSeries

seriesJohn Whitbourn, John Wyndham & Simon Clark3 books1951

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 →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Dystopia.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Maze Runner →

SlanSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt & Kevin J. Anderson2 books1946

Science fiction, set in our world.

“The two novels together bracket a single continuing narrative rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Slan →

The Idlewild TrilogySeries

seriesNick Sagan3 books2003

About identity.

Start with Idlewild →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

About 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 →

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 Tomorrow's Children?: Patternist — the closest match to Tomorrow's Children on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Tomorrow's Children?: Tomorrow's Children. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Tomorrow's Children.
How big is Tomorrow's Children?: Tomorrow's Children is 5 books, 1947–1961.

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