If what thrilled you in 1632 was seeing Grantville’s ideas ripple outward—from Mike Stearns bargaining with Gustavus Adolphus to the Committees of Correspondence reshaping civic life—then The Years of Rice and Salt will scratch the same itch. Robinson rebuilds global history after the Black Death, tracing how societies, science, and faith might develop along very different lines. It has that same big-canvas fascination with policy, culture, and everyday life you enjoyed when modern medicine, printing, and governance from Grantville rewired seventeenth‑century Europe.

Did you love how the Grantville crew leveraged radios, civil engineering, and basic industry—like when Julie Sims’s marksmanship and the town’s workshops turned the tide against marauding mercenaries? In Lest Darkness Fall, archaeologist Martin Padway is flung into late antiquity and fights the coming Dark Ages with printing presses, distillation, and savvy trade. It’s the same delightful puzzle‑box of, “What can one determined modern do here?” that made 1632’s bootstrapping so fun.

If you enjoyed watching Mike Stearns forge a coalition, protect townsfolk, and turn a mining community into a functioning state amid warlords and nobles, Dies the Fire offers that same ensemble energy. When technology mysteriously stops working, clans and bands—much like Grantville’s militia and Committees of Correspondence—form under hands‑on leaders to relearn crafts, defend their people, and craft new rules for survival.

If the heart of 1632 for you was forging a nation—those town‑hall arguments, legal frameworks, and alliances with Gustavus Adolphus—then the Lunar rebellion in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress will feel familiar. Like Grantville’s constitutional tinkering and Committees of Correspondence, Manny and his allies hash out rights, representation, and strategy while fighting a smarter political war than their opponents expect.

Part of the charm of 1632 is how lived‑in the world feels—mines, mills, field hospitals, and the nitty‑gritty of feeding armies while negotiating with princes. The Peshawar Lancers delivers that same dense, “you are there” immersion, imagining a British Empire transplanted to India after a cataclysm. You’ll get the detailed logistics and culture‑building you liked in Grantville’s alliances and campaigns, but across a vast, dangerous Great Game of an alternate Earth.