Books like JLA: Earth 2
12 books with a reading profile close to JLA: Earth 2 by Grant Morrison. Outward-looking, growth-minded and escapist; an easy read.
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Fantastic Voyage
by Isaac Asimov
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In this Cold War science fiction novel, a team of five specialists undergoes a radical miniaturization process to enter the bloodstream of a dying scientist.
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3001: The Final Odyssey
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the computer HAL 9000 in the first installment, is recovered from the vacuum of space a millennium later.
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The Algebraist
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Fassin Taak, a slow-life seeker, travels into the atmosphere of the gas giant Nasqueron to locate a legendary set of coordinates.
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Next
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, science fiction
Next is a molecular biology thriller set in a world where genetic sequences are privatized and human cells are patented property.
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House of M
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · entertainment, science fiction
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, suffers a psychological breakdown that threatens the fabric of reality.
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Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Logan Ramsay is a genetic enforcement agent working in a future where gene editing is strictly illegal following a global famine caused by a failed experiment.
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Redshirts
by John Scalzi
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Andrew Dahl joins the crew of the Intrepid, the flagship of the Universal Union, only to discover a lethal pattern among the junior officers.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, travel across a desolate United States as the only two survivors of a global plague that killed every creature with a Y chromosome.
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State of Fear
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Environmental lawyer Peter Evans becomes entangled in a global conspiracy when he discovers that a radical group is orchestrating catastrophic weather events to simulate the effects of climate change.
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The Swarm
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Off the coast of Norway, a new species of aggressive worms destroys methane hydrate deposits, destabilizing the continental shelf.
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Dry
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In a sudden environmental collapse known as the Tap-Out, Southern California’s water supply is terminated, leaving millions in a lethal drought.
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The Running Man
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Set in a decaying 2025 where industrial pollution chokes the poor, the story follows Ben Richards, a desperate man who enters a lethal reality television program to fund medical care for his dying daughter.
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