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Books like Metal Dragons: 9 series to read next

Metal Dragons is about dragons and war, set in secondary world, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Metal Dragons is 4 books, 2008–2011.

“The renegade airmen who fly the corps's mechanical, magic-fueled dragons are Volstov's greatest weapon.”
from the catalogue description of Havemercy

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World of Ice and Fire
Tolkien's legendarium
The Riftwar
The Codex Alera
Dragon Trilogies
Malazan
Cosmere
Sparhawk
Grishaverse

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Fantasy and epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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 RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“On the world of Midkemia a tear opens in the air itself, a rift hung between stars, and through it march the armies of an empire from another world entirely.”
from the catalogue description

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The Codex AleraSeries

seriesJim Butcher6 books2004

Fantasy and epic fantasy, adventurous and tense in tone, about war and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Jim Butcher's six-book series, continuing through Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, and First Lord's Fury, builds from small-scale political maneuvering into full-scale war.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Furies of Calderon →

Dragon TrilogiesSeries

seriesMelanie Rawn6 books1988

Fantasy and epic fantasy, tense in tone, about dragons and political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“The Dragon Prince trilogy focuses on Prince Rohan of the Desert and his Sunrunner wife, Sioned, while the Dragon Star trilogy focuses on their son, Pol.”
from the catalogue description
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MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war, set in secondary world.

“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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CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Final Empire →

SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Fantasy and epic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”
from the catalogue description

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GrishaverseUniverse

universe19 books2012

“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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 Metal Dragons?: World of Ice and Fire — the closest match to Metal Dragons on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Metal Dragons?: Havemercy. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Metal Dragons.
How big is Metal Dragons?: Metal Dragons is 4 books, 2008–2011.

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