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Books like Time Salvager: 9 series to read next

Time Salvager is science fiction and time travel, about survival, set in far future, tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Time Salvager is 2 books, 2015–2016.

“In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons.”
from the catalogue description

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The Hunger Games
Dune
Forge of God
Pandora
Alliance-Union
Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)
Mickey7
Pax / Astra
Ship Breaker

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution and totalitarianism, set in north america.

“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

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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“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 →

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

About aliens.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
from the catalogue description of The Forge of God

Start with The Forge of God →

PandoraSeries

seriesFrank Herbert & Bill Ransom4 books1966

About artificial intelligence.

“The Pandora Sequence opens with Frank Herbert's solo novel Destination: Void, in which a starship crew must jury-rig a working artificial consciousness after their vessel's control systems fail.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Destination: Void →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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Berserker (Fred Saberhagen)Series

seriesFred Saberhagen, Connie Willis, Edward Bryant, Jane Lindskold, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Roger Zelazny & Stephen R. Donaldson59 books1963

Space opera, about robots and artificial intelligence.

Start with Berserker →

Mickey7Series

seriesEdward Ashton2 books2022

About cloning and identity.

Start with Mickey7 →

Pax / AstraSeries

seriesAndre Norton2 books1954

Adventurous in tone.

“Star Flight appears to be a later omnibus or reissue rather than a third original novel.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Stars Are Ours! →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Set in north america and near future.

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

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 Salvager?: The Hunger Games — the closest match to Time Salvager on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Time Salvager?: Time Salvager. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Time Salvager.
How big is Time Salvager?: Time Salvager is 2 books, 2015–2016.

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