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Books like Time Trilogy: 9 series to read next

Time Trilogy is science fiction and time travel, set in british isles. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Time Trilogy is 3 books, 1977–1984.

“Four children slip into the past and then the future while exploring an ancient Scottish tower.”
from the catalogue description of In the Keep of Time

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Mortal Engines
Tripods
Oxford Time Travel
Changes
Narnia
WondLa
Cytoverse
Catteni Sequence
Ender's Game

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic and steampunk.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
from the catalogue description

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TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

Oxford Time TravelSeries

seriesConnie Willis6 books1982

Tense in tone, set in 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 →

ChangesSeries

seriesPeter Dickinson3 books1968

Post-apocalyptic, set in near future.

“After the Changes - From the Twentieth Century to the Dark Ages overnight - such was fate that befell Britain five years from now.”
from the catalogue description of The Weathermonger

Start with The Weathermonger →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Fantasy and portal fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

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WondLaSeries

seriesTony DiTerlizzi3 books2010

Fantasy, about aliens, set in other star systems.

“Tony DiTerlizzi's WondLa trilogy follows Eva Nine, a twelve-year-old girl raised in isolation underground by a robot guardian, who emerges onto a surface world populated by strange alien life and sets out to find others like herself.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Search for WondLa →

CytoverseUniverse

universe10 books2008

Set in other star systems and space.

“Detritus is a dead world buried under the wreckage of a hundred fallen starships, and the humans caverned beneath it live by one hard truth: to survive, you climb into a cockpit and you fight.”
from the catalogue description

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Catteni SequenceSeries

seriesAnne McCaffrey5 books1970

Space opera, about slavery and aliens, set in other star systems.

“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Freedom's Landing →

Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Trilogy?: Mortal Engines — the closest match to Time Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Time Trilogy?: In the Keep of Time. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Time Trilogy.
How big is Time Trilogy?: Time Trilogy is 3 books, 1977–1984.

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