Series

Books like Restarter: 9 series to read next

Restarter is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Restarter is 5 books, 2018–2021.

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Foundation
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Southern Reach Trilogy
Kairos
Patternist
WWW Trilogy
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Whoniverse
The Blue Ant Trilogy

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots, set in far future.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Foundation →

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 →

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 →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Reading order →

PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

About genetic engineering.

“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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Wild Seed →

WWW TrilogySeries

seriesRobert J. Sawyer3 books2009

About artificial intelligence, set in north america.

Start with Wake →

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 →

WhoniverseUniverse

universe2034 books1964

Science fiction.

“Somewhere a blue police box that has no business existing folds a whole world in behind one door, and an old traveller wearing a brand-new face steps out onto a beach, a battlefield, the last warm afternoon of a dying sun.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Timewyrm: Genesys →

The Blue Ant TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson3 books2003

Techno-thriller and thriller & suspense, about surveillance.

“Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols.”
from the catalogue description of Pattern Recognition
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Pattern Recognition →

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 Restarter?: Foundation — the closest match to Restarter on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Restarter?: Fir Lodge. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Restarter.
How big is Restarter?: Restarter is 5 books, 2018–2021.

Books like Restarter: 9 series to read next

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