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24 alternatives to "The Stolen Bacillus" By H.G Wells

TLDR: Mad Scientists, Apocalyptic Schemes, And Car Chases

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. "The Stolen Bacillus" By H.G Wells launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning▲56

   A new interpretation of Hitler's frightening worldview

   2015 · bookshop.org · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Future Crimes▲64

   Inside the Digital Underground

   2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   The Flicker Men: An Novel▲54

   Modern "sci fi" thriller about science, theology, and fate

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine▲77

   Betting against the herd is scary and at times lucrative

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Future Crimes▲62

   A harrowing deep dive into the dark underbelly of tech

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   The Misfit Economy▲68

   Lessons in creativity from pirates & hackers

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Unleashing the ideavirus▲65

   Turn your ideas into epidemics

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies▲71

   What happens when machines surpass humans in intelligence?

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Chaos Monkeys▲74

    Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Freakonomics▲97

    A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Daemon▲80

    A computer program wreaks havoc on the world.

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    When To Rob a Bank▲165

    New book from the authors of Freakonomics

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Superintelligence▲69

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies of Superintelligence

    2015 · amazon.fr · its alternatives →

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    Suspicious Minds▲68

    Why we believe conspiracy theories

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Fake Science 101▲60

    A less-than-factual guide to our amazing world

    2015 · fakescience.org · its alternatives →

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    Deep Survival▲62

    Science + storytelling to explain the mysteries of survival

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    StarTalk - Time Lords: The Science of Keeping Time with Chris Hardwick▲62

    "take a mind-bending journey into the science of time"

    2016 · startalkmedia.com · its alternatives →

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    The Quest▲62

    Energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell▲65

    The Lady Vanishes: The past deserves a second chance

    2016 · pushkin.fm · its alternatives →

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    Chaos Monkeys▲94

    Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Unscientific America▲54

    How scientific illiteracy threatens our future

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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