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Earthsea
His Dark Materials
Gormenghast
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Moorcock's Multiverse
Erith
The Inheritance (Jemisin)
Cluster
Cosmere

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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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.”
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GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
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Start with Titus Groan →

The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieuSeries

seriesGarth Nix11 books1995

Start with An Essay on Free Magic: (A manuscript fragment from the Great Library of the Clayr) →

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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ErithSeries

seriesCecilia Dart-Thornton4 books2001

Epic fantasy, about quests and fae.

Start with The Enchanted: A Tale of Erith →

The Inheritance (Jemisin)Series

seriesN. K. Jemisin9 books2010

Epic fantasy, about gods and political intrigue.

Start with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms →

ClusterSeries

seriesPiers Anthony9 books1977

Science fiction, set in other star systems and far future.

“Anthony originally conceived of and wrote the series as a trilogy but later added two additional volumes.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Cluster →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

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What should I read after Nameless (Adrian J Smith)?: Earthsea — the closest match to Nameless (Adrian J Smith) on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Nameless (Adrian J Smith)?: Whispers of Ash. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Nameless (Adrian J Smith).
How big is Nameless (Adrian J Smith)?: Nameless (Adrian J Smith) is 4 books, 2021–2022.

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