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Books like Kalvan: 9 series to read next

Kalvan is science fiction and alternate history, about transported to another world, set in alternate earth, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Kalvan is 13 books, 1964–2020.

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Paratime Police
The Lost Regiment
Eden (Harry Harrison)
Moorcock's Multiverse
The Leviathan Trilogy
Barsoom
The Riftwar
The Codex Alera
Fireball

Paratime PoliceSeries

seriesJohn F. Carr, H. Beam Piper, Roland J. Green, Eric Fisher & Wolfgang Diehr33 books1948

Science fiction and alternate history, adventurous in tone.

“The protagonists of the stories are the Paratime Police, the organization that protects the secret of paratime travel.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with He Walked Around the Horses →

The Lost RegimentSeries

seriesWilliam R. Forstchen9 books1990

Military science fiction, about survival, set in secondary world.

“William R. Forstchen's Lost Regiment series begins with Rally Cry, in which a Civil War Union regiment is swept onto a distant world where humans transplanted from many eras and cultures are farmed as food by an alien race.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Rally Cry →

Eden (Harry Harrison)Series

seriesHarry Harrison5 books1984

About survival and aliens, set in prehistoric.

“Harry Harrison's Eden trilogy imagines an Earth where the dinosaurs never died out, evolving instead into the Yilane, a technologically advanced reptilian civilization that shares the planet uneasily with early humans.”
from the catalogue description

Start with West of Eden →

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Leviathan TrilogySeries

seriesScott Westerfeld3 books2009

Steampunk, about genetic engineering, set in early 20th century.

“Set in an alternate First World War, Leviathan splits the belligerents into Clankers, who fight with mechanical walkers, and Darwinists, who fight with fabricated living creatures built from spliced DNA.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Leviathan →

BarsoomSeries

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Rob Dorsey, Geary Gravel, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Stuart Moore, Austin Grossman, Bebe Balocca, Catherynne M. Valente, Chris Claremont, Chuck Dixon, David Barr Kirtley, Garth Nix, Genevieve Valentine, Joe R. Lansdale, John Coleman Burroughs, John Joseph Adams, Jonathan Maberry, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Mike Resnick, Peter S. Beagle, Robin Wasserman, S. M. Stirling, Theodora Goss, Tobias S. Buckell & William Gilmour53 books1917

Science fantasy, set in mars.

“Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with A Princess of Mars →

The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

The Codex AleraSeries

seriesJim Butcher6 books2004

Epic fantasy and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Jim Butcher's six-book series, continuing through Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, and First Lord's Fury, builds from small-scale political maneuvering into full-scale war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Furies of Calderon →

FireballSeries

seriesJohn Christopher3 books1981

Set in contemporary.

Start with Fireball →

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 Kalvan?: Paratime Police — the closest match to Kalvan on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Kalvan?: Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Kalvan.
How big is Kalvan?: Kalvan is 13 books, 1964–2020.

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