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Books like Apprentice Adept: 9 series to read next

Apprentice Adept is science fantasy, set in parallel universe and far future, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Apprentice Adept is 7 books, 1980–1990.

“Phaze is a lush planet of magic, where Proton is a barren mining planet of science.”
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Lord of Light
His Dark Materials
Barsoom
Stephen King multiverse
InterWorld
Moorcock's Multiverse
Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus universe
Majipoor
Tolkien's legendarium

Lord of LightSeries

seriesRoger Zelazny, Shariann Lewitt & Steve Perry5 books1967

About gods and reincarnation.

“One of their own, called Sam, breaks with the pantheon to return forbidden knowledge to the ordinary people they rule, touching off a war among the self-styled gods.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dawn →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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BarsoomSeries

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Rob Dorsey, Geary Gravel, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Stuart Moore, Austin Grossman, Bebe Balocca, Catherynne M. Valente, Chris Claremont, Chuck Dixon, David Barr Kirtley, Garth Nix, Genevieve Valentine, Joe R. Lansdale, John Coleman Burroughs, John Joseph Adams, Jonathan Maberry, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Mike Resnick, Peter S. Beagle, Robin Wasserman, S. M. Stirling, Theodora Goss, Tobias S. Buckell & William Gilmour53 books1917

Set in mars.

“Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
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Start with A Princess of Mars →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Gunslinger →

InterWorldSeries

seriesMichael Reaves, Mallory Reaves & Neil Gaiman3 books2007

Portal fantasy, about coming of age, set in contemporary.

“Michael Reaves developed the story with Neil Gaiman, and Reaves's daughter Mallory Reaves co-wrote the two sequels.”
from the catalogue description

Start with InterWorld →

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus universeSeries

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Geary Gravel, Matt Betts, Neal Romanek & Richard A. Lupoff14 books1933

Set in venus & inner planets.

Start with Skies of Venus →

MajipoorSeries

seriesRobert Silverberg & Matthew J. Costello29 books1980

Science fantasy.

“The setting is a mixture of science fiction and fantasy elements.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Lord Valentine's Castle →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Apprentice Adept?: Lord of Light — the closest match to Apprentice Adept on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Apprentice Adept?: Split Infinity. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Apprentice Adept.
How big is Apprentice Adept?: Apprentice Adept is 7 books, 1980–1990.

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