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Books like Wold Newton: 9 series to read next

Wold Newton is set in our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Wold Newton is 21 books, 1972–2016.

“The Wold Newton family is a literary concept derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the American science fiction writer Philip José Farmer.”
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Pym
Kairos
His Dark Materials
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Time Travelers Never Die
Fantastic Fiction of H. Rider Haggard
Cavor
Doctor Dolittle
The Missing

PymSeries

seriesEdgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne & Mat Johnson5 books1838

About survival, set in arctic & antarctica and at sea.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
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Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

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His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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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.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

Time Travelers Never DieSeries

seriesJack McDevitt2 books1996

Science fiction and time travel, set in our world and contemporary.

Start with Time Travelers Never Die →

Fantastic Fiction of H. Rider HaggardSeries

seriesH. Rider Haggard8 books1895

Start with Fantastic Fiction: 3 →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

About space exploration and aliens, set in the moon and underground & caves.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
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Start with The First Men in the Moon →

Doctor DolittleSeries

seriesHugh Lofting, Kathryn Knight & Nick Price27 books1920

Whimsical in tone.

“Lofting wrote twelve novels between 1920 and 1936, beginning with The Story of Doctor Dolittle, with two further story collections published after his 1947 death.”
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Start with The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts →

The MissingSeries

seriesMargaret Peterson Haddix10 books2008

About coming of age, set in north america.

“Jonah Skidmore is one of the stolen children, and he, along with his non-adopted sister Katherine, must help return the missing kids to their rightful places in history and fix time before it is destroyed.”
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Start with Found →

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 Wold Newton?: Pym — the closest match to Wold Newton on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Wold Newton?: Skinburn. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Wold Newton.
How big is Wold Newton?: Wold Newton is 21 books, 1972–2016.

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