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universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
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Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

GrimusNovel

Salman Rushdiestandalone novel1975

Literary & general, about quests and identity, set in otherworld.

“After drinking a mysterious fluid that grants him immortality, the young Axona man Flapping Eagle sets out on a centuries-long search for his vanished sister, drifting through identities and eras as the decades pass without aging him.”
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Nicholas GraydonSeries

series3 books1923

completed

Adventurous in tone, set in lost world.

“The pairing forms a classic lost-world adventure from the pulp era.”
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Start with The Face in the Abyss →

Castaways of the Flying DutchmanSeries

series3 books2001

completed

Adventurous in tone, set in our world and at sea.

“Brian Jacques's Castaways of the Flying Dutchman follows Neb and his dog Denmark, the sole survivors of the cursed ghost ship's crew, condemned to eternal youth and wandering the world to help people in trouble wherever they land.”
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Start with Castaways of the Flying Dutchman →

The Well at the World's EndNovel

William Morrisstandalone novel1896

Epic fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

Set in secondary world.

“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
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Start with Elric of Melniboné →

includes Corum, The Elric Saga, Eternal Champion, Hawkmoon, Warrior of Mars

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