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Books like Saucer: 9 series to read next

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

Saucer is 3 books, 2002–2014.

“Seismic surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery - a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone.”
from the catalogue description

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Known Space
My Teacher Is an Alien
The Themis Files
Cavor
Ethan Warner
Dirk Pitt
CoDominium
Jack Howard
Needle

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Set in far future and other star systems.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
from the catalogue description

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My Teacher Is an AlienSeries

seriesBruce Coville4 books1989

“Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird.”
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Start with My Teacher Is an Alien →

The Themis FilesSeries

seriesSylvain Neuvel3 books2015

Mysterious in tone, about robots.

“Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sleeping Giants →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

Set in the moon and early 20th century.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The First Men in the Moon →

Ethan WarnerSeries

seriesDean Crawford1 book2011

Mysterious in tone, set in middle east.

“Inside lies a secret of such magnitude that the story of mankind is instantly rewritten - and its future thrown into terrible danger.”
from the catalogue description of Covenant

Start with Covenant →

Dirk PittSeries

seriesClive Cussler12 books1973

Adventure.

“Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished.”
from the catalogue description of Pacific Vortex!

Start with Pacific Vortex! →

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction, set in other star systems and far future.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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Jack HowardSeries

seriesDavid Gibbins8 books2005

Adventure.

Start with Atlantis →

NeedleSeries

seriesHal Clement2 books1950

Hard science fiction, about survival.

“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 →

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 Saucer?: Known Space — the closest match to Saucer on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Saucer?: Saucer. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Saucer.
How big is Saucer?: Saucer is 3 books, 2002–2014.

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