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Books like Walking to Mercury: 9 series to read next

Walking to Mercury is set in north america. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Walking to Mercury is 3 books, 1993–2016.

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Earthseed
The Postman
The Handmaid's Tale
Orange County
Divergent
Ship Breaker
MaddAddam
The Lost Cause
Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)

EarthseedSeries

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

Dark in tone, about survival.

“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 →

The PostmanSeries

seriesDavid Brin3 books1982

About survival.

Start with The Postman →

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 →

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 →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

Tense in tone, about identity.

Start with The Transfer →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Dark and tense in tone, about survival.

“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 →

MaddAddamSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books2003

Dark in tone, about genetic engineering and survival.

Start with Oryx and Crake →

The Lost CauseSeries

seriesCory Doctorow2 books2023

About political intrigue, set in our world.

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

Start with The Canadian Miracle →

Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)Series

seriesKim Stanley Robinson36 books1982

Hard science fiction, about terraforming and space colonization, set in mars.

“Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and scientific advances made on Mars, while Earth suffers from overpopulation and ecological disaster.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Red Mars →

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 Walking to Mercury?: Earthseed — the closest match to Walking to Mercury on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Walking to Mercury?: Walking to Mercury. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Walking to Mercury.
How big is Walking to Mercury?: Walking to Mercury is 3 books, 1993–2016.

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