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The Grand Illusion is 4 books, 2021–2025.

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His Dark Materials
Alliance-Union
Nazhuret of Sordaling / Lens of the World
The Acts of Caine
Gormenghast
The Old Kingdom / Abhorsen milieu
The Pledge
Solar Cycle
Cosmere

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.”
from the catalogue description

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Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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Nazhuret of Sordaling / Lens of the WorldSeries

seriesR. A. MacAvoy3 books1990

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“R. A. MacAvoy's trilogy continues through King of the Dead and Winter of the Wolf, following Nazhuret further into the politics of a court he was never meant to be part of.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Lens of the World →

The Acts of CaineSeries

seriesMatthew Stover4 books1998

Science fantasy and grimdark.

“Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes.”
from the catalogue description of Heroes Die

Start with Heroes Die →

GormenghastSeries

seriesMervyn Peake & Maeve Gilmore6 books1946

Gothic.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue description
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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) →

The PledgeSeries

seriesKimberly Derting3 books2011

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution.

Start with The Pledge →

Solar CycleSeries

seriesGene Wolfe18 books1980

Science fantasy, set in far future.

Start with The Cat →

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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