Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe38 books1950

“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

Start with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe →

includes Narnia, Narnia Solo Adventures

SpellsingerSeries

series9 books1983

Adventurous in tone, about quests and music.

“Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series follows Jon-Tom, a UCLA law student pulled into a fantasy world by the wizard Clothahump, where he discovers he can cast spells by singing along with his guitar.”
from the catalogue

Start with Spellsinger →

Quag KeepSeries

series2 books1978

completed

Adventurous in tone, about quests.

“Andre Norton's Quag Keep holds a notable place in gaming history as the first novel set in Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk, written after Norton took part in an actual Dungeons & Dragons session with Gygax himself.”
from the catalogue

Start with Quag Keep →

Spearwielder's TalesSeries

series3 books1993

Epic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about dragons and quests.

“The Woods Out Back, The Dragon's Dagger, and Dragonslayer's Return follow Gary as he's pulled back into that world again and again, growing into the role thrust on him.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Woods Out Back →

DarwathSeries

series7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“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.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Time of the Dark →

Mordant's NeedSeries

series2 books1986

Adventurous in tone, about political intrigue.

Start with The Mirror of Her Dreams →

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