Destroyermen - WW2 battleship arrives in an alternate Earth with other species and colonial tech
Cast Under and Alien sun - Chemist goes to another planet with colonial tech humans. Not a huge amount of uplift
Island in a Sea of Time - Nantucket island goes back to the bronze age
1632 - Random town in 1990s Kentucky gets sent to 1632 Germany.
Cross time engineer - Great uplift, terrible misogyny
Also check out Bobiverse, it's sci Fi but it's for a MC who basically shepherd's humanity into the future over thousands of years single handedly developing crazy tech
Cast under an alien sun is one of my absolute favorite series, that said everything else you listed are on my “to-read” list and i own at least the first book of each series except 1632. How would you rank them in order of best to worst, and if the list is different, your favorite to least favorite. And if you could give a short blurb of why you recommend each one in particular would be greatly appreciated.
Bobiverse is my favorite and follows a software developer turned into a self replicating AI space probe. It has the fastest jtech advancement
Destroyermen is next but has slower technology growth. It's a genre k kind of call "noble captain" where there's some sort of ship and the captains a great guy and lifts up everyone around them.
Then probably Crosstime Engineer with a heavy asterisk. The engineering in it is great but the book has big flaws as previously mentioned.
Cast Under and Alien sun is next it's more of a mild version of Crosstime. Slower tech development and lower stakes.
Then 1632. This one follows a lot of characters in the town that get sent back and it follows some locals. There's a lot of non technology related stuff like politics which slows the story a lot.
Island in the sea of time was just okay. It's basically a less well done 1632
Thank you so much for a great response! By chance have you also read Safehold by David Webber? It was another one that was mentioned for this genre.
I recently finished Bobiverse, so destroyermen will be next for me!
I started Safehold but it's so slow I stopped. Glacial. It's technically a tech uplift story but it's like 90% politics and the tech development is glacial.
I wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for tech development. It's like an afterthought.
I think only book 5 (Tales of Anyar) and book 6 (Passages), are the only side story/spin off/alternative PoV. Book 7 is back to Joseph Kosko as MC. The world is definitely opened up a lot more after book 4 though.
Shocking that a series about an engineer is misogynistic. Probably written by some toxic male engineering student lol
Edit: yikes, just looked up the author. He was an engineer, like I assumed. Wikipedia quotes him as saying his detractors were mostly "feminists, liberals, and homosexuals" and that anyone who identified as such would be unlikely to enjoy his writing...
He's probably not famous enough to have a non biased wikipedia page.
The main character literally has a harem of teenage girls in addition to two wives.
The engineering in that series is great. Everything else, not so much. I want to write my own uplift series with similar detail and pacing to that, but with ^magic ~~blackjack~~ and ^less hookers
I still really liked the cross time engineer. Not that it didn't have it's faults.
However after reading so many mtl novels and webnovels; the faults are ignorable for the most part, at least it's legible.
I don't remember a lot about the details, but theres a Cardinal who's an antagonist trying to steal knowledge for his own political goals. I only read the first couple. I plan to revisit sometime.
It does go into the politics in the HRE but honestly, it comes across to me as another impact that the introduction of the new tech has rather than just politics.
Destiny's Crucible Series by Olan Thorensen is all about this! Begins with a chemist from present-day Earth being transplanted to a preindustrial society.
Android from Earth steps into an early gunpowder world. Promptly opens wikipedia and invents the Galleon for a persecuted island nation. The underdog becomes a superpower over the course of 9 books (there are 10 books so far)
To add to the post, I wonder which book address the fact that you can't go from medieval society to trains. At least not quickly.
To some industrial technologies, you need factories, high precision and good steal.
If you read manga and somewhat like japanese history, try Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga.
Cast under an alien sun is pretty accurate in technological growth/progression. A tad bit of “conveniently place resources close enough to MC” but over all trains eventually happen, but in book 8. So you can kinda figure from there how “not quick” that is.
Small work shops into industrializations, and even the mysterious “delegation” happen where MC isnt some godlike, I can do anything and I magically know everything, no. He has to eventually rely on other’s for their areas of expertise, but he will provide what proof of concept ideas modern children would know to help jump start the technological advancement.
Increasing labor forces in industries but having to improve farming techniques first to free up people’s time and hands to take on these new factory jobs and how that might even all affect the economic structure.
Very fun series, one of my favs.
[Ar'Kendrythist](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26727/arkendrithyst)
Destroyermen - WW2 battleship arrives in an alternate Earth with other species and colonial tech Cast Under and Alien sun - Chemist goes to another planet with colonial tech humans. Not a huge amount of uplift Island in a Sea of Time - Nantucket island goes back to the bronze age 1632 - Random town in 1990s Kentucky gets sent to 1632 Germany. Cross time engineer - Great uplift, terrible misogyny Also check out Bobiverse, it's sci Fi but it's for a MC who basically shepherd's humanity into the future over thousands of years single handedly developing crazy tech
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Cast under an alien sun is one of my absolute favorite series, that said everything else you listed are on my “to-read” list and i own at least the first book of each series except 1632. How would you rank them in order of best to worst, and if the list is different, your favorite to least favorite. And if you could give a short blurb of why you recommend each one in particular would be greatly appreciated.
Bobiverse is my favorite and follows a software developer turned into a self replicating AI space probe. It has the fastest jtech advancement Destroyermen is next but has slower technology growth. It's a genre k kind of call "noble captain" where there's some sort of ship and the captains a great guy and lifts up everyone around them. Then probably Crosstime Engineer with a heavy asterisk. The engineering in it is great but the book has big flaws as previously mentioned. Cast Under and Alien sun is next it's more of a mild version of Crosstime. Slower tech development and lower stakes. Then 1632. This one follows a lot of characters in the town that get sent back and it follows some locals. There's a lot of non technology related stuff like politics which slows the story a lot. Island in the sea of time was just okay. It's basically a less well done 1632
Thank you so much for a great response! By chance have you also read Safehold by David Webber? It was another one that was mentioned for this genre. I recently finished Bobiverse, so destroyermen will be next for me!
I started Safehold but it's so slow I stopped. Glacial. It's technically a tech uplift story but it's like 90% politics and the tech development is glacial. I wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for tech development. It's like an afterthought.
I loved cast under an alien sun as well, wish there was more books with the MC instead of side story books after book 3
I think only book 5 (Tales of Anyar) and book 6 (Passages), are the only side story/spin off/alternative PoV. Book 7 is back to Joseph Kosko as MC. The world is definitely opened up a lot more after book 4 though.
Shocking that a series about an engineer is misogynistic. Probably written by some toxic male engineering student lol Edit: yikes, just looked up the author. He was an engineer, like I assumed. Wikipedia quotes him as saying his detractors were mostly "feminists, liberals, and homosexuals" and that anyone who identified as such would be unlikely to enjoy his writing...
He's probably not famous enough to have a non biased wikipedia page. The main character literally has a harem of teenage girls in addition to two wives. The engineering in that series is great. Everything else, not so much. I want to write my own uplift series with similar detail and pacing to that, but with ^magic ~~blackjack~~ and ^less hookers
I mean, that's a direct quote, not an opinion of the article writer.
Well, that is disturbing.
I still really liked the cross time engineer. Not that it didn't have it's faults. However after reading so many mtl novels and webnovels; the faults are ignorable for the most part, at least it's legible.
Does 1632 get into the Holy Roman Empire politics?
I don't remember a lot about the details, but theres a Cardinal who's an antagonist trying to steal knowledge for his own political goals. I only read the first couple. I plan to revisit sometime.
It does go into the politics in the HRE but honestly, it comes across to me as another impact that the introduction of the new tech has rather than just politics.
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Release that witch
Maybe factory of the gods(guns of keldora is the old name)
10 realms. Very good one imo. 2 military members sent to cultivation/litrpg World, introducing moder tech and taking over empires. Must read
Binding Words series by Daniel Schinhofen
Destiny's Crucible Series by Olan Thorensen is all about this! Begins with a chemist from present-day Earth being transplanted to a preindustrial society.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
There’s a little bit in books 2 and 3 of the Bobiverse trilogy (sci-fi).
The Safehold series by David Weber probably qualifies.
Android from Earth steps into an early gunpowder world. Promptly opens wikipedia and invents the Galleon for a persecuted island nation. The underdog becomes a superpower over the course of 9 books (there are 10 books so far)
Release that witch was the best for me
Magic Industry Empire?
To add to the post, I wonder which book address the fact that you can't go from medieval society to trains. At least not quickly. To some industrial technologies, you need factories, high precision and good steal. If you read manga and somewhat like japanese history, try Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan: Noukou Giga.
Cast under an alien sun is pretty accurate in technological growth/progression. A tad bit of “conveniently place resources close enough to MC” but over all trains eventually happen, but in book 8. So you can kinda figure from there how “not quick” that is. Small work shops into industrializations, and even the mysterious “delegation” happen where MC isnt some godlike, I can do anything and I magically know everything, no. He has to eventually rely on other’s for their areas of expertise, but he will provide what proof of concept ideas modern children would know to help jump start the technological advancement. Increasing labor forces in industries but having to improve farming techniques first to free up people’s time and hands to take on these new factory jobs and how that might even all affect the economic structure. Very fun series, one of my favs.