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series7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“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 →

Watership DownSeries

series21 books1972

completed

About quests, set in countryside & village and our world.

“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
from the catalogue

Start with Watership Down →

The Change / The EventSeries

series41 books1998

Post-apocalyptic and science fiction, set in north america.

“Sixteen different authors, coordinated by Stirling, each contribute stories set in various corners of the suddenly de-industrialized world as survivors scramble to rebuild.”
from the catalogue

Start with Island in the Sea of Time →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes The Genesis of Shannara, Legends of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, High Druid of Shannara, The First Druids of Shannara

The Demon CycleUniverse

universe18 books2008

Epic fantasy.

“When the sun goes down, the ground breathes out murder.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Painted Man →

includes Demon Cycle, The Nightfall Saga

RailseaNovel

China Miévillestandalone novel2012

Steampunk and weird fiction.

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