Books like Tales from the Archives: 9 series to read next

universe · 13 books · 1995

Fantasy, 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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series · Tim Powers · 3 books · 1983

Time travel and historical fantasy, set in british isles and 19th century.

“The plot concerns an English professor who participates in a time travel experiment and ends up trapped in the 19th century.”

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series · China Miéville · 4 books · 2000

Weird fiction and fantasy, challenging in tone, set in secondary world.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”

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universe · 14 books · 2001

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, set in far future.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”

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universe · 102 books · 1961

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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series · Michael Swanwick · 3 books · 1993

Science fantasy, dark in tone, about dragons, set in fairyland.

“The Iron Dragon's Daughter follows Jane, a human changeling enslaved in a factory that builds part-mechanical, part-magical dragons used as war machines, in a Faerie that runs on industrial-age technology as much as spellcraft.”

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series · Scott Westerfeld · 3 books · 2009

Alternate history, adventurous in tone, set in early 20th century.

“Set in an alternate First World War, Leviathan splits the belligerents into Clankers, who fight with mechanical walkers, and Darwinists, who fight with fabricated living creatures built from spliced DNA.”

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series · Jim Butcher · 3 books · 2015

Set in secondary world.

“Continuing with Warriorborn and The Olympian Affair, it marks a departure in setting from Butcher's contemporary-fantasy Dresden Files while keeping his fast-paced adventure style.”

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series · Kevin J. Anderson & Neil Peart · 5 books · 2012

Steampunk.

“Clockwork Angels began as the concept behind Rush's 2012 album of the same name, which drummer and lyricist Neil Peart expanded into a full steampunk fantasy novel together with author Kevin J. Anderson.”

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