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Books like Shadow Ops: 9 series to read next

Shadow Ops is 7 books, 2012–2017.

“All over the world people are 'coming up latent' - developing new and terrifying abilities.”
from the catalogue description of Control Point

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Forever War
Dune
Out of the Dark (David Weber)
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
CoDominium
Gone
Night
The Fury
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds

Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Set in far future and space.

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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in far future and other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

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Out of the Dark (David Weber)Series

seriesDavid Weber & Chris Kennedy3 books2010

Alien invasion, about aliens.

“Out of the Dark begins when an overwhelming alien armada arrives to subjugate Earth, only for the invasion to run into unexpected resistance from an unlikely source within humanity itself.”
from the catalogue description

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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, 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

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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

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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GoneSeries

seriesMichael Grant9 books2008

About survival.

“Michael Grant's Gone series begins when everyone aged fifteen and older vanishes without warning from a swath of the California coast, trapping the town of Perdido Beach inside an impenetrable barrier the survivors call the FAYZ.”
from the catalogue description

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NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

Set in contemporary.

“Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”
from the catalogue description

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The FurySeries

seriesJohn Farris4 books1976

Thriller & suspense.

“John Farris's The Fury centers on a teenage girl and boy with escalating psychic and telekinetic powers who become targets of a covert government program trying to weaponize them.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fury →

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 →

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What should I read after Shadow Ops?: Forever War — the closest match to Shadow Ops on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Shadow Ops?: Control Point. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Shadow Ops.
How big is Shadow Ops?: Shadow Ops is 7 books, 2012–2017.

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