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Books like Station Cores: 9 series to read next

Station Cores is litrpg and fantasy, set in secondary world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Station Cores is 25 books across 5 series, 2018–2023.

“You wake as a stone — a single glimmering core lodged in the dark, aware, patient, and greedy for mana.”
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Earthsea
Shannara
Cosmere
Tolkien's legendarium
Darwath
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
Hyborian Age
The Riftwar
Sword of Truth

EarthseaUniverse

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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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.”
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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 →

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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DarwathSeries

seriesBarbara Hambly7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“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.”
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Start with The Time of the Dark →

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) →

Hyborian AgeUniverse

universe242 books1929

Sword and sorcery.

“Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”
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The RiftwarUniverse

universe44 books1982

Epic fantasy.

“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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Sword of TruthUniverse

universe27 books1994

Epic fantasy.

“Truth is a blade, and it cuts the hand that grips it carelessly.”
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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 Station Cores?: Earthsea — the closest match to Station Cores on what it is about, not on what sells.
How big is Station Cores?: Station Cores is 25 books across 5 series, 2018–2023.

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