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Books like Summer of Speculation: 9 series to read next

Summer of Speculation is fantasy and 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.

Summer of Speculation is 3 books, 2021–2023.

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The Collected Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack London
Watership Down
The Andromeda Strain
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Kairos
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
Star Shards
Fairy Tale Retellings (Jackson Pearce)
Modern Tale of Faerie

The Collected Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack LondonSeries

seriesJack London6 books1906

Set in early 20th century.

Start with Before Adam & Other Stories →

Watership DownSeries

seriesRichard Adams21 books1972

About found family, set in countryside & village.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Watership Down →

The Andromeda StrainSeries

seriesDaniel H. Wilson & Michael Crichton2 books1969

Tense in tone, 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 →

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 →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Reading order →

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott CardSeries

seriesOrson Scott Card9 books1979

Science fiction, set in contemporary.

“Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Changed Man →

Star ShardsSeries

seriesNeal Shusterman3 books1995

Tense in tone.

“Six teenagers are horrified to discover that an evil force has taken control of them.”
from the catalogue description of Scorpion Shards

Start with Scorpion Shards →

Fairy Tale Retellings (Jackson Pearce)Series

seriesJackson Pearce4 books2010

Fairy tale retelling.

Start with Sisters Red →

Modern Tale of FaerieSeries

seriesHolly Black4 books2002

Urban fantasy, about fae and coming of age.

Start with Tithe →

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.

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What should I read after Summer of Speculation?: The Collected Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack London — the closest match to Summer of Speculation on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Summer of Speculation?: Summer of Speculation: 2021 Edition: Catastrophe. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Summer of Speculation.
How big is Summer of Speculation?: Summer of Speculation is 3 books, 2021–2023.

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