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Books like Time Patrol: 9 series to read next

Time Patrol is science fiction and time travel, set in our world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Time Patrol is 24 books, 1955–2014.

“Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories follow Manson Everard, recruited in 1957 into a secret organization that polices time travel, hunting down unauthorized travelers and anyone who would alter history.”
from the catalogue description

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Orion
TimeRiders
Infinity Ring
Time's Tapestry
The Chronicles of St. Mary's
Temporal Regulatory Authority / Jason Thanou
Thunder
Danger Boy
Allan Quatermain

OrionSeries

seriesBen Bova14 books1977

Science fiction and time travel, adventurous in tone.

“Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.”
from the catalogue description

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TimeRidersSeries

seriesAlex Scarrow9 books2010

“Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past.That's why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with TimeRiders →

Infinity RingSeries

seriesJames Dashner, Matt de la Peña, Carrie Ryan, Jennifer A. Nielsen, Lisa McMann & Matthew J. Kirby8 books2012

Adventure.

“The first book introduces the trio and follows them as they try to prevent a revolt by the Amancio brothers.”
from the catalogue description of A Mutiny in Time
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Start with A Mutiny in Time →

Time's TapestrySeries

seriesStephen Baxter4 books2006

Science fiction and time travel, set in our world.

“Emperor opens the sequence in Roman-era Britain, and the alternate timeline compounds across the following three novels before a concluding volume gathers the whole arc.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Emperor →

The Chronicles of St. Mary'sSeries

seriesJodi Taylor46 books2013

Funny in tone, set in contemporary.

“Beginning with Just One Damned Thing After Another, the comic time-travel series has grown to nineteen novels ranging across historical periods from the Cretaceous to the twentieth century.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Very First Damned Thing →

Temporal Regulatory Authority / Jason ThanouSeries

seriesSteve White6 books2006

Science fiction and time travel, adventurous and tense in tone.

“Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority had about had it with nursemaiding parties of ivory-tower academics through Earth's blood-drenched history, keeping them alive as they sought evidence for their pet theories.”
from the catalogue description of Blood of the Heroes

Start with Blood of the Heroes →

ThunderSeries

seriesJames F. David3 books1995

Science fiction and time travel, adventurous and tense in tone, about survival, set in our world.

“When a freak natural phenomenon dissolves the boundaries between yesterday and today, the world is transformed into a patchwork mixture of the present and the distant past.”
from the catalogue description of Footprints of Thunder

Start with Footprints of Thunder →

Danger BoySeries

seriesMark London Williams4 books2001

“A twelve-year-old boy from the twenty-first century, a girl from medieval Alexandria, Egypt, and a super-intelligent young saurian from an alternative Earth--each for different reasons--join together in travels through time and space.”
from the catalogue description of Ancient Fire

Start with Ancient Fire →

Allan QuatermainSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard, Jean Francis Webb & Thomas Kent Miller25 books1885

Adventure, set in africa and 19th century.

“An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Marie →

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 Patrol?: Orion — the closest match to Time Patrol on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Time Patrol?: Time Patrol. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Time Patrol.
How big is Time Patrol?: Time Patrol is 24 books, 1955–2014.

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