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universe163 books1923

Fantasy.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Fantasy, 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

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

Terra Incognita (Kevin J. Anderson)Series

series4 books2009

Epic fantasy, about quests and war, set in at sea.

“The Edge of the World opens the story, continuing through The Map of All Things and The Key to Creation.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Edge of the World →

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 →

Tékumel: The Empire of the Petal ThroneSeries

series7 books1978

completed

Set in secondary world.

Start with The Man of Gold →

Waterfire SagaSeries

series4 books2014

Fantasy, about quests, set in underwater.

“Serafina, daughter of Isabella, Queen of Miromara, has been raised with the expectation - and burden - that she will someday become ruler of the oldest civilization of the merfolk.”
from the catalogue

Start with Deep Blue →

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