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Books like Time and Again: 9 series to read next

Time and Again is science fiction and time travel, set in north america and big city, mysterious in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Time and Again is 2 books, 1970–1995.

“Commercial artist Si Morley is recruited into a secretive government project testing whether self-hypnosis, combined with a recreated slice of 1880s Manhattan, can send someone back in time.”
from the catalogue description

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Teixcalaan
Foundation
Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
Oxford Time Travel
Lock In
The Hunger Games
These Violet Delights Universe
Dune
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds

TeixcalaanSeries

seriesArkady Martine2 books2019

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

“A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace pair court intrigue with Mahit's conflicted, outsider fascination with an empire she can't help admiring.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Memory Called Empire →

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 →

Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)Series

seriesDiana Gabaldon26 books1991

Historical fantasy, set in british isles and age of sail & 18th century.

“Initially set around the time of the Second World War, it focuses on nurse Claire Beauchamp, who travels through time to 18th-century Scotland, where she finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser.”
from the catalogue description of Outlander
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Start with Outlander →

Oxford Time TravelSeries

seriesConnie Willis6 books1982

About survival, set in british isles and europe.

“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Fire Watch →

Lock InSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi3 books2014

Police procedural, set in near future.

“John Scalzi's series follows a rookie FBI agent investigating crimes that exploit this new class of disability and technology, across the novels Lock In and Head On plus the interstitial oral history Unlocked.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Lock In →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

Dystopia, dark in tone, set in far future.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
from the catalogue description

Reading order →

These Violet Delights UniverseSeries

seriesChloe Gong7 books2020

Historical fantasy, set in east asia.

Reading order →

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

Start with Dune →

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 →

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 Time and Again?: Teixcalaan — the closest match to Time and Again on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Time and Again?: Time and Again. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Time and Again.
How big is Time and Again?: Time and Again is 2 books, 1970–1995.
Is Time and Again finished?: Yes — 2 books, 1970–1995.

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