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universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

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

The Change / The EventSeries

series41 books1998

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, 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, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, Legends of Shannara, Word and the Void, The First Druids of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel

The Night LandSeries

series5 books1912

“Framed as a seventeenth-century narrator's vision of that future, the story follows his far-future self on a journey out into the night to find a woman he believes is his lost love reincarnated.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Dream of X →

The Broken EmpireUniverse

universe27 books2011

Grimdark.

“What looks like sword-and-castle medievalism is the ash of our own age, and the magic is only physics that learned to listen.”
from the catalogue

Start with Prince of Fools →

includes The Red Queen's War

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Science fiction and steampunk, set in far future.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
from the catalogue

Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Mortal Engines Prequels, Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines

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