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series4 books2000

Fantasy, challenging in tone, set in secondary world.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
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Darker Than You ThinkNovel

Jack Williamsonstandalone novel1948

Science fantasy, about shapeshifters, set in north america and mid 20th century.

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Fantasy, set in secondary world and big city.

“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
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Kefahuchi Tract TrilogySeries

series3 books2002

Science fiction, set in far future and space.

“M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy circles a strange, physics-breaking anomaly in deep space that draws scientists, smugglers, and drifters into its pull across different eras.”
from the catalogue

Start with Light →

Kraken: An AnatomyNovel

China Miévillestandalone novel2010

Urban fantasy and fantasy, about gods, set in contemporary.

Black WaterSeries

series4 books1922

Literary & general, eerie in tone, set in our world.

Start with Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature →

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