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JumperSeries
series6 books1992
“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
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Start with Jumper →
The TriffidsSeries
series3 books1951
Post-apocalyptic, dark in tone.
“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
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Start with The Day of the Triffids →
TripodsSeries
series4 books1967
completed
Post-apocalyptic, about aliens and rebellion and revolution, set in near future.
“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →
The Andromeda StrainSeries
series2 books1969
Science fiction, tense in tone, about plague and pandemic and survival, set in contemporary.
“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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Start with The Andromeda Strain →
Maximum RideSeries
series12 books2005
About genetic engineering and found family.
Start with The Angel Experiment →
I Am LegendNovel
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954
Post-apocalyptic and horror, about vampires and last of their kind.
“The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”
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