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Books like Yesterday's Kin: 9 series to read next

Yesterday's Kin is science fiction and first contact, about aliens, set in near future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Yesterday's Kin is 4 books, 2014–2018.

“Follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.”
from the catalogue description of Tomorrow's Kin

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Forge of God
Tripods
War Against the Chtorr
The Dire Earth
The 5th Wave
Maze Runner
Darwin
The Andromeda Strain
The Passage

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

Science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about aliens and survival.

“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 →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Alien invasion, about 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
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

War Against the ChtorrSeries

seriesDavid Gerrold7 books1983

About ecological collapse and war.

“The Chtorr series was originally planned as a trilogy, but as the story became more intricate, Gerrold realized that three books would not be enough for him to tell the entire story.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with A Matter for Men →

The Dire EarthSeries

seriesJason M. Hough6 books2013

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, tense in tone, about aliens and survival, set in near future and our world.

“The first book in the series, The Darwin Elevator, was released in July 2013, and the two sequels, The Exodus Towers and The Plague Forge, were released later that same year.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Dire Earth →

The 5th WaveSeries

seriesRick Yancey4 books2013

Alien invasion.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The 5th Wave →

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
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Start with The Maze Runner →

DarwinSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1999

Hard science fiction.

“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Darwin's Radio →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

Set in contemporary.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

The PassageSeries

seriesJustin Cronin3 books2010

Horror, about vampires.

Start with The Passage →

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 Yesterday's Kin?: Forge of God — the closest match to Yesterday's Kin on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Yesterday's Kin?: Tomorrow's Kin. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Yesterday's Kin.
How big is Yesterday's Kin?: Yesterday's Kin is 4 books, 2014–2018.

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