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The Half-Life Empire is 3 books, 2023–2024.

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Flatland
Dream Cycle
The Lost Regiment
Dream Archipelago
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar universe
The Courier's Daughter Trilogy
Apprentice Adept
Riverworld
The World of Tiers

seriesEdwin A. Abbott & Ian Stewart2 books1884

Science fiction, set in otherworld.

“Ian Stewart's 2001 Flatterland follows a descendant of that narrator on a tour of stranger geometries, from curved and multidimensional space to relativity, as a knowing homage to Abbott's original.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions →

Dream CycleSeries

seriesH. P. Lovecraft, C. T. Phipps, E. Hoffmann Price, Jack Chapman Miske, Richard Gavin & W. H. Pugmire26 books1919

Horror, eerie in tone.

Start with The White Ship →

The Lost RegimentSeries

seriesWilliam R. Forstchen9 books1990

Military science fiction, tense in tone, about war and survival.

“William R. Forstchen's Lost Regiment series begins with Rally Cry, in which a Civil War Union regiment is swept onto a distant world where humans transplanted from many eras and cultures are farmed as food by an alien race.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Rally Cry →

Dream ArchipelagoSeries

seriesChristopher Priest16 books1976

Literary & general, about identity.

“Novels like The Affirmation and The Islanders, along with numerous short stories, revisit the setting from different, often contradictory angles rather than building one continuous narrative.”
from the catalogue description

Start with An Infinite Summer →

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar universeSeries

seriesEdgar Rice Burroughs, Christopher Paul Carey, John Eric Holmes, uncredited, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, F. Paul Wilson, Lee Strong, Mercedes Lackey & Mike Wolfer24 books1922

Adventurous in tone, set in lost world and underground & caves.

Start with Pellucidar: Dawn of the Deathslayer →

The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries

seriesC. J. Redwine3 books2012

Tense in tone, about survival, set in secondary world.

“Set in a walled, post-collapse city ruled by rigid survival laws, it follows a young woman searching for her missing father against the city's authorities and the monstrous forces beyond its walls.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Defiance →

Apprentice AdeptSeries

seriesPiers Anthony7 books1980

Science fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe and far future.

“Phaze is a lush planet of magic, where Proton is a barren mining planet of science.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with Split Infinity →

RiverworldSeries

seriesPhilip José Farmer, John Gregory Betancourt, Robert Weinberg, Allen Steele, Barry N. Malzberg, Brad Strickland, David Bischoff, Dean Wesley Smith, Ed Gorman, Esther M. Friesner, Harry Turtledove, Jerry Oltion, Jody Lynn Nye, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Mike Resnick, Owl Goingback, Phillip C. Jennings, Rick Wilber, Robert Sampson & Robert Sheckley37 books1965

About faith and religion, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Riverworld is an artificial, or heavily terraformed, planet where all humans who ever lived throughout history have been resurrected.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with River of Eternity →

The World of TiersSeries

seriesPhilip José Farmer, David Bischoff & S. M. Stirling9 books1965

Adventurous in tone, about immortality, set in secondary world.

Start with The Maker of Universes →

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What should I read after The Half-Life Empire?: Flatland — the closest match to The Half-Life Empire on what it is about, not on what sells.
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How big is The Half-Life Empire?: The Half-Life Empire is 3 books, 2023–2024.

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