If the leaderboard grind and ruthless trials Emmett faces aboard Babel's ship hooked you, you'll fly through Ender's Game. Ender Wiggin battles through zero‑g war games and escalating evaluations at Battle School, where alliances and betrayals matter as much as raw skill—much like Emmett forging fragile bonds with Kaya, Bilal, and Katsu while trying to outmaneuver Roathy. Both books turn training into warfare and make every point—and every choice—count.

You felt the weight of Emmett’s Detroit roots and how Babel dangles wealth as leverage; Red Rising sharpens that blade. Darrow, born a Red, infiltrates the Gold elite and enters an Institute where trials look like opportunity but are engineered to keep the powerful on top—much like Babel’s contracts and shifting rules. If the way Emmett navigates class expectations, rankings, and corporate fine print grabbed you, Darrow’s ascent through a rigged hierarchy will hit hard.

Fascinated by the shapeshifting power of nyxia and the secrets Babel keeps about it? In Leviathan Wakes, Holden and Miller uncover the protomolecule—an unfathomable, almost magical technology that transforms the rules of biology and physics while corporations play god in the shadows. The same vibe of wonder and dread you felt whenever Emmett learned a new use for nyxia—and the fear of what Babel wasn’t telling the recruits—permeates this conspiracy-fueled space thriller.

If the looming trip to Eden and the fraught rules for dealing with the Adamites intrigued you, Semiosis dives deep into what happens when humans settle a living world with its own agendas. Across generations, colonists on Pax negotiate survival and ethics with a powerful, intelligent plant named Stevland. The same tensions you sensed in Babel’s plans for Eden—the compromises, the cultural misunderstandings, the danger of exploitation—drive this thoughtful, high-stakes contact saga.

Loved racing through Emmett’s Babel-set challenges and discovering the corporation’s buried truths? In Warcross, Emika Chen is thrust into an international tournament and secret mission for tech mogul Hideo Tanaka, only to uncover layers of manipulation behind the game—echoing Babel’s shifting contracts and moral gray zones. The speed, the strategy, and that thrill of realizing the people in charge are playing a deeper game will feel instantly familiar.