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Books like Moorcock's Multiverse: 9 series to read next

Moorcock's Multiverse is fantasy and epic fantasy, about immortality, set in secondary world and early 20th century. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Moorcock's Multiverse is 102 books across 14 series, 1961–2023.

“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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Tolkien's legendarium
Shannara
Sparhawk
Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
Narnia
The Dreamers
The Riftwar
World of Ice and Fire
Sovereign Stone

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.”
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ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy and 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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SparhawkUniverse

universe6 books1989

Epic fantasy and 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.”
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Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

seriesStephen R. Donaldson11 books1977

Epic fantasy and fantasy, dark in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

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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.”
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The DreamersSeries

seriesDavid Eddings & Leigh Eddings5 books2003

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about gods and dark lord, set in secondary world.

“The Elder Gods are not permitted to use their powers to kill, but the young Dreamers can use their dreams to predict and affect the future.”
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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy and 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.”
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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

About political intrigue.

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

seriesMargaret Weis, Tracy Hickman & Don Perrin4 books1999

Epic fantasy and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about magical artifacts and quests, set in secondary world.

“Second in line for succession to the throne, Prince Dagnarus will have his crown...and his queen -- though his heart's prize is a married elfin beauty.”
from the catalogue description of Well of Darkness
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Why these

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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.

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What should I read after Moorcock's Multiverse?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Moorcock's Multiverse on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Moorcock's Multiverse?: Moorcock's Multiverse is 102 books across 14 series, 1961–2023.

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