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Books like Primeval: 9 series to read next

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

Primeval is 8 books, 2008–2009.

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Meg / Loch Universe
Jumper
Tripods
Maximum Ride
Needle
The Andromeda Strain
Southern Reach Trilogy
TimeRiders
Thunder

Meg / Loch UniverseSeries

seriesSteve Alten11 books1997

Science fiction, tense in tone, about survival, set in contemporary and our world.

Reading order →

JumperSeries

seriesSteven Gould6 books1992

About psychic powers.

“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 →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about rebellion and revolution, set in near future.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

Maximum RideSeries

seriesJames Patterson, Cate Tiernan & Mindy McGinnis12 books2005

Science fantasy, about genetic engineering and found family.

Start with The Angel Experiment →

NeedleSeries

seriesHal Clement2 books1950

Hard science fiction.

“Together the mismatched pair must learn to communicate and cooperate, first to survive and later to track down the second alien, which has hidden inside another human in the same Pacific island community.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Needle →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

About plague and pandemic.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Andromeda Strain →

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer4 books2014

Weird fiction and horror, eerie in tone, about madness.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Annihilation →

TimeRidersSeries

seriesAlex Scarrow9 books2010

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

“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 →

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 →

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 Primeval?: Meg / Loch Universe — the closest match to Primeval on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Primeval?: A Rip in Time. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Primeval.
How big is Primeval?: Primeval is 8 books, 2008–2009.

Books like Primeval: 9 series to read next

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