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Books like Urban Monad: 9 series to read next

Urban Monad is science fiction and dystopia, set in far future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Urban Monad is 7 books, 1970–1971.

“Moving between residents of one tower, the linked stories examine a tightly regulated, sexually permissive society engineered to cope with constant population growth, and the discontent that surfaces underneath it.”
from the catalogue description

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Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
Dune
Pandora
To the Stars (Harrison)
The Hunger Games
Hainish
Red Rising
Space Merchants

Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Set in otherworld.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Brave New World →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Set in near future and british isles.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

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 →

PandoraSeries

seriesFrank Herbert & Bill Ransom4 books1966

About artificial intelligence and survival.

“The Pandora Sequence opens with Frank Herbert's solo novel Destination: Void, in which a starship crew must jury-rig a working artificial consciousness after their vessel's control systems fail.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Destination: Void →

To the Stars (Harrison)Series

seriesHarry Harrison3 books1980

About rebellion and revolution.

“One of the elite stumbles onto the knowledge that news and opinions are being carefully managed to whitewash the situation, which leads him to throw his lot in with those who oppose it.”
from the catalogue description of Homeworld
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Start with Homeworld →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution and survival, 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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HainishSeries

seriesUrsula K. Le Guin33 books1964

Reflective in tone.

“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Rocannon's World →

Red RisingSeries

seriesPierce Brown & Rik Hoskin13 books2014

Space opera, about rebellion and revolution.

“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 →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Set in near future and 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 →

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 Urban Monad?: Brave New World — the closest match to Urban Monad on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Urban Monad?: A Happy Day in 2381. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Urban Monad.
How big is Urban Monad?: Urban Monad is 7 books, 1970–1971.

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