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Books like Area 51: Time Patrol: 9 series to read next

Area 51: Time Patrol is time travel and science fiction, set in our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Area 51: Time Patrol is 10 books, 2015–2020.

“When a mysterious force known only as the Shadow infiltrates history, it has a suspicious target: the date October 29 in six different years spanning 999 to 1980.”
from the catalogue description of Black Tuesday

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H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Ender's Game
Galactic Milieu
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Dune
TimeRiders
Maurai
Alliance-Union
Thunder

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
from the catalogue description

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Galactic MilieuSeries

seriesJulian May10 books1981

About psychic powers and aliens.

“From the front flap of the Knopf first printing: The year is 2051.”
from the catalogue description of Jack the Bodiless
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Start with Jack the Bodiless →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in far future and other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dune →

TimeRidersSeries

seriesAlex Scarrow9 books2010

“Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past.That's why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with TimeRiders →

MauraiSeries

seriesPoul Anderson6 books1959

Post-apocalyptic, about ecological collapse, set in far future.

“The Maurai dominate the Pacific and Indian Oceans.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Sky People →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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ThunderSeries

seriesJames F. David3 books1995

Science fiction and time travel, tense and adventurous in tone, about survival, set in our world.

“When a freak natural phenomenon dissolves the boundaries between yesterday and today, the world is transformed into a patchwork mixture of the present and the distant past.”
from the catalogue description of Footprints of Thunder

Start with Footprints of Thunder →

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Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after Area 51: Time Patrol?: H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds — the closest match to Area 51: Time Patrol on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Area 51: Time Patrol?: Black Tuesday. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Area 51: Time Patrol.
How big is Area 51: Time Patrol?: Area 51: Time Patrol is 10 books, 2015–2020.

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