18 books like The long earth

What to read after The long earth — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Crossroads of Time Andre Norton · 1956 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate First published in 1958, Andre Norton's The Time Traders fuses Cold War espionage with archaeological romance and speculative adventure. Its protagonist, Ross Murdock, a delinquent recruited into a covert government project, is sent into prehistory to uncover how Soviet agents have gained access to alien technology. Norton's prose is brisk, economical, and suspenseful, shaped by pulp traditions… Shares: Space and time, Time Travel

Red Shift Alan Garner · 1973 · ★ 3.8 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The lives of three young men in three different periods of British history converge and each influences the destiny of the others. Shares: Space and time, Time Travel

Son of Man Robert Silverberg · 1971 · ★ 3.4 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 1972 Locus Poll Award nominee, best SF novel IN THE BEGINNING... there was no Brooklyn, no St. Louis, no Shakespeare, no moon, no hunger, no death... IN THE BEGINNING... there were no real men, no real women, nothing but dispassionately passionate ambisexuals of the lowest and highest order... IN THE BEGINNING... the heavens, the seas and the Earth belonged to more intelligent species than a… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Doctor Who British Broadcasting Corporation · 1989 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Climb aboard the TARDIS for a journey through space, time, and comedy in the official Doctor Who joke book! -What do we want? -TIME TRAVEL! -When do we want it? -THAT'S IRRELEVANT! Packed with a dimensionally transcendent TARDIS-load amount of jokes, gags and riddles, this is the official Doctor Who joke book! Remember: it's funnier on the inside! Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

The Anubis Gates Tim Powers · 1983 · ★ 3.9 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, the protagonist Professor Brendan Doyle, who wanted none of this nonsense. Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Special deliverance Clifford D. Simak · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate It all started when Professor Edward Lansing wanted to know who really wrote that great term paper on Shakespeare and learned that his student had bought it from a slot machine. Going to investigate, the good professor found the machine, which gave him two keys and sent him in search of other slot machines. The third machine he tried took his money and transported him to a strange new… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Exiles of the Stars Andre Norton · 1971 · ★ 3.5 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is the second in the Moon Singer series featuring “Maelen”, the former moon singer of the primitive planet mythical “Thassa”. Also revolving around the cargo apprentice “Krip Vorland’, now in the body of the “Thassa” and the crew of the free-trader “Lydis” who’s sabotaged ship barely survives its landing on a barren and hostile planet. One by one, the crew of the Lydis and in addition to… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Pebble in the Sky Isaac Asimov · 1950 · ★ 3.9 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Pebble in the Sky is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic Empire. There is both a mystery and a power-struggle, and a lot of debate and human choices. The originality of the S.F. work is the choice of a very… Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Science Fiction

The Long Cosmos Terry Pratchett · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind. Shares: Space and time, Science Fiction

The ugly little boy Isaac Asimov · 1991 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate other title: The Ugly Little Boy Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Dragon's Time Anne McCaffrey · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world. Shares: Space and time, Time Travel

Quest Crosstime Andre Norton · 1965 · ★ 3.8 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The universe had opened up for Blake Walker when he discovered that his world - our own Earth - was just one of hundreds ranked side by side on alternate timelines, each more strange and wondrous than the other, all coexisting at once, and all available to Blake Walker and the few natives of those other-Earths who could break the barriers between timelines. But Blake's new existence is… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

Many Waters (Time Quintet #4) Madeleine L'Engle · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they… Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Science Fiction

Starman Jones Robert A. Heinlein · 1953 · ★ 3.9 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When his stepmother's remarriage drives him from home, Max and a hobo fake their way into the Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's Clerks brotherhood to get an opportunity for space travel in an age when only the wealthy are privileged. Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle · 1962 · ★ 4.0 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It… Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Science Fiction

Immortal IV Valjeanne Jeffers · 2012 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Rules were broken. Now the price must be paid. “The New World awoke to a roaring wind, light blazed from the mirror—swallowing the planet—a churning, savage vortex. Tundra's inhabitants cried out, as their flesh bled from their bones like wet clay. The world shuddered. And was still.” The Immortals broke the rules. As punishment, Karla and Joseph are transported to a steam powered realm. Tehotep… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

City of Masks Mary Hoffman · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Lucien is very sick with cancer and struggles with his parents' worry every day. But each night, through a magical gift from his father, his mind is transported to an enchanting city, Bellezza, a parallel city to Venice of our world. In Bellezza, Lucien discovers that he is a Stravagante, a rare person able to travel through worlds while sleeping. Befriended by a local girl and protected by an… Shares: Space and time, Time Travel, Science Fiction

Now Wait for Last Year Philip K. Dick · 1966 · ★ 3.9 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Now Wait for Last Year is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in 2055, when Earth is caught between two galactic powers in an interstellar conflict. Dr. Eric Sweetscent and his wife Kathy get addicted to a powerful drug that appears to cause time travel. The doctor's patient is the world leader, UN Secretary General. Of the twenty-eight novels Dick published… Shares: Time Travel, Science Fiction

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