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Books like New World Trilogy: 9 series to read next

New World Trilogy is science fantasy. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

New World Trilogy is 3 books, 1980–1987.

“In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years from now, humans are a dying species.”
from the catalogue description of World Enough, and Time

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Stephen King multiverse
Apprentice Adept
Dying Earth
Shannara
Narnia
Alliance-Union
Tolkien's legendarium
The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Moorcock's Multiverse

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

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Apprentice AdeptSeries

seriesPiers Anthony7 books1980

Set in parallel universe.

“Phaze is a lush planet of magic, where Proton is a barren mining planet of science.”
from the catalogue description
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Dying EarthSeries

seriesJack Vance, Jeff VanderMeer, Dan Simmons, Lucius Shepard & Michael Shea27 books1950

About wizards.

“Vance returned to the setting in 1965 and thereafter, making it the first book in the Dying Earth series.”
from the catalogue description of The Dying Earth
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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue description

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NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

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Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, 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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Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue description

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The Obernewtyn ChroniclesSeries

seriesIsobelle Carmody9 books1987

About psychic powers.

“Carmody began writing it at the age of fourteen, and reworked the novel through high school and university.”
from the catalogue description of Obernewtyn
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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

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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 New World Trilogy?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to New World Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with New World Trilogy?: World Enough, and Time. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for New World Trilogy.
How big is New World Trilogy?: New World Trilogy is 3 books, 1980–1987.

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