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Life in Exile is 4 books, 2020–2021.

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Stephen King multiverse
Kairos
Minecraft
Alliance-Union
Shannara
Darwath
His Dark Materials
Underland Chronicles
Malazan

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 →

KairosSeries

seriesMadeleine L'Engle11 books1962

Science fiction.

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MinecraftUniverse

universe207 books2014

“Somewhere in the dark a green thing is walking toward you on four stubby legs, and it does not stop and it does not speak, and when it reaches you it will hiss.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Island →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

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DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“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.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Time of the Dark →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Underland ChroniclesSeries

seriesSuzanne Collins5 books2003

Epic fantasy, about coming of age, set in underground & caves.

“The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Gregor the Overlander →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue description

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What should I read after Life in Exile?: Stephen King multiverse — the closest match to Life in Exile on what it is about, not on what sells.
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How big is Life in Exile?: Life in Exile is 4 books, 2020–2021.

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