Books like Foundation and Empire
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov reads as epic, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 1951
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke · 1968
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69% genome match
Here
Richard McGuire
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1985
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Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon · 1930
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1984
George Orwell · 1949
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The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin · 2008
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An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1971
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The Thousandfold Thought
R. Scott Bakker
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God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert · 1981
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The war that Saved my Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2015
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69% genome match
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