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Books like Swords Against Darkness: 9 series to read next

Swords Against Darkness is fantasy and sword and sorcery, about quests, 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.

Swords Against Darkness is 5 books, 1977–1979.

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Tolkien's legendarium
Brak the Barbarian
Hyborian Age
Pusadian
Dilvish
Narnia
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms
Moorcock's Multiverse
Tiger and Del

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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Brak the BarbarianSeries

seriesJohn Jakes16 books1963

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Brak the Barbarian →

Hyborian AgeUniverse

universe242 books1929

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

“Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”
from the catalogue description

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PusadianSeries

seriesL. Sprague de Camp9 books1951

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“The Pusadian series is a sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the early 1950s and written under the influence of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with The Eye of Tandyla →

DilvishSeries

seriesRoger Zelazny13 books1965

Fantasy and sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“Centuries ago, the half-elf warrior Dilvish tried to stop a dark sorcerer named Jelerak from completing a terrible ritual, and paid for it by being turned to stone and having his soul cast into Hell.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Passage to Dilfar →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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The Crescent Moon KingdomsSeries

seriesSaladin Ahmed1 book2012

Epic fantasy, set in desert.

“A handful of reluctant heroes must uncover the truth behind the killings before the kingdom tears itself apart.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Throne of the Crescent Moon →

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Tiger and DelSeries

seriesJennifer Roberson10 books1985

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

“Jennifer Roberson's fantasy series pairs Tiger, a desert-born sword-dancer from the south, with Del, a Northern swordswoman trained in her own tradition of blade-magic, as reluctant partners across a hostile borderland.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sword-Dancer →

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 Swords Against Darkness?: Tolkien's legendarium — the closest match to Swords Against Darkness on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Swords Against Darkness?: Swords Against Darkness. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Swords Against Darkness.
How big is Swords Against Darkness?: Swords Against Darkness is 5 books, 1977–1979.
Is Swords Against Darkness finished?: Yes — 5 books, 1977–1979.

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