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Books like Winterlong: 9 series to read next

Winterlong is science fiction. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Winterlong is 4 books, 1990–1993.

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Ship Breaker
The Triffids
Dune
Borne
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Mortal Engines
Mara and Dann
Hothouse
Forge of God

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

Tense in tone, set in north america.

“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 →

The TriffidsSeries

seriesJohn Whitbourn, John Wyndham & Simon Clark3 books1951

Set in british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Day of the Triffids →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in 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 →

BorneSeries

seriesJeff VanderMeer3 books2017

Weird fiction.

“Jeff VanderMeer's series continues with the related novels The Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts, set in the same devastated world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Borne →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Steampunk, adventurous in tone.

“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

Reading order →

Mara and DannSeries

seriesDoris Lessing2 books1999

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, about ecological collapse and coming of age, set in far future.

“Told to forget their real names forever or be killed, the brother and sister live for years among the primitive Rock People, taken in by one of their own kind but always outcasts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Mara and Dann →

HothouseSeries

seriesBrian W. Aldiss6 books1961

Set in jungle.

Start with Evergreen →

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

Tense in tone, 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 →

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 Winterlong?: Ship Breaker — the closest match to Winterlong on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Winterlong?: Winterlong. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Winterlong.
How big is Winterlong?: Winterlong is 4 books, 1990–1993.

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