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12 Miles Below is 7 books, 2023–2025.

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Shannara
Stephen King multiverse
Darwath
Earthsea
Cosmere
The Bone World Trilogy
Mortal Engines
Plague of Angels / True Game Metaverse
His Dark Materials

universe50 books1977

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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Start with The Gunslinger →

DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
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Start with The Time of the Dark →

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Reflective in tone.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
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Start with The Final Empire →

The Bone World TrilogySeries

seriesPeadar Ò Guilin3 books2007

Start with The Inferior →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Steampunk.

“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.”
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Plague of Angels / True Game MetaverseSeries

seriesSheri S. Tepper12 books1983

Set in secondary world.

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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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What should I read after 12 Miles Below?: Shannara — the closest match to 12 Miles Below on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with 12 Miles Below?: The Frozen Realm. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for 12 Miles Below.
How big is 12 Miles Below?: 12 Miles Below is 7 books, 2023–2025.

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