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Books like Darkwar: 9 series to read next

Darkwar is 3 books, 1985–1986.

“An innocent pup of the Degnan Packstead, Marika thought it was just a tale to frighten the young.”
from the catalogue description of Doomstalker

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Stephen King multiverse
New Crobuzon
His Dark Materials
Tolkien's legendarium
The Broken Earth
Moorcock's Multiverse
The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Narnia
Deepgate Universe

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 →

New CrobuzonSeries

seriesChina Miéville4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Perdido Street Station →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, 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.”
from the catalogue description

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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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The Broken EarthSeries

seriesN. K. Jemisin5 books2014

Science fantasy, about ecological collapse and survival.

“N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is set on the Stillness, a single supercontinent wracked every few centuries by civilization-ending climate catastrophes called Fifth Seasons.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Fifth Season →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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The Iron Dragon's DaughterSeries

seriesMichael Swanwick3 books1993

Science fantasy, about dragons, set in fairyland.

“The Iron Dragon's Daughter follows Jane, a human changeling enslaved in a factory that builds part-mechanical, part-magical dragons used as war machines, in a Faerie that runs on industrial-age technology as much as spellcraft.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter →

NarniaUniverse

universe38 books1950

Portal fantasy.

“Once there is a wardrobe at the back of a spare room, and behind the fur coats the wood gives way to snow, and a lamp-post burns alone among the trees.”
from the catalogue description

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Deepgate UniverseSeries

seriesAlan Campbell5 books2006

Dark fantasy, about gods.

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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 Darkwar?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to Darkwar on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Darkwar?: Doomstalker. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Darkwar.
How big is Darkwar?: Darkwar is 3 books, 1985–1986.

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