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Tim Powersstandalone novel1987

Historical fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in at sea and age of sail & 18th century.

Mel Odomstandalone novel2003

Adventure and historical fiction, set in at sea and 19th century.

“Facing the risks of nineteenth-century sailing, including pirates and unscrupulous captains, a young mate sets his sights on a whale with an unusual reputation and finds his crew stalked by a menacing force.”
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New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction and 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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PymSeries

series5 books1838

Adventure, about expeditions, set in arctic & antarctica and 19th century.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
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Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

Particular PassagesSeries

series5 books2021

Fantasy, eerie in tone, set in otherworld.

“From the Amazon description: 15 Stories, 15 Authors Down a forgotten hallway lie rooms no one has entered.”
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Islands in the SkyNovel

Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1952

Science fiction, about space colonization and space exploration, set in near future.

“Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”
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