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series3 books2009

Science fiction, about genetic engineering.

“Set in an alternate First World War, Leviathan splits the belligerents into Clankers, who fight with mechanical walkers, and Darwinists, who fight with fabricated living creatures built from spliced DNA.”
from the catalogue

Start with Leviathan →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Science fiction and alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Elric of Melniboné →

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

Duke de RichleauSeries

series4 books1933

completed

Thriller & suspense, tense in tone.

Start with The Forbidden Territory →

Five Children UniverseSeries

series27 books1902

completed

Fantasy, set in british isles.

“Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation.”
from the catalogue

Start with Five Children and It →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, 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.”
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Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines, Mortal Engines Prequels

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