Series

Books like Fire in Winter: 9 series to read next

Fire in Winter is science fiction, set in our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Fire in Winter is 4 books, 1989–1993.

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Patternist
Jumper
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Cas Russell / Russell's Attic
Slan
Legion / Stephen Leeds
Dune
Galactic Milieu
Gone

PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

Dark in tone.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Wild Seed →

JumperSeries

seriesSteven Gould6 books1992

Adventurous in tone.

“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Jumper →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, 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 →

Cas Russell / Russell's AtticSeries

seriesS. L. Huang5 books2014

Thriller & suspense, adventurous in tone.

“The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price.”
from the catalogue description of Zero Sum Game

Start with Zero Sum Game →

SlanSeries

seriesA. E. van Vogt & Kevin J. Anderson2 books1946

Science fiction, set in our world.

“The two novels together bracket a single continuing narrative rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Slan →

Legion / Stephen LeedsSeries

seriesBrandon Sanderson, David Pace, Max Epstein & Michael Harkins5 books2012

Mysterious in tone, about madness.

“Death and Faxes, co-authored by Max Epstein, David Pace, and Michael Harkins, was released in June 2022.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Legion →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, 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 →

Galactic MilieuSeries

seriesJulian May10 books1981

About aliens.

“From the front flap of the Knopf first printing: The year is 2051.”
from the catalogue description of Jack the Bodiless
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Jack the Bodiless →

GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

Dark in tone, about survival.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gone →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Fire in Winter?: Patternist — the closest match to Fire in Winter on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Fire in Winter?: The Mutant Season. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Fire in Winter.
How big is Fire in Winter?: Fire in Winter is 4 books, 1989–1993.

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