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series4 books2000

Weird fiction and fantasy, challenging in tone.

“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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Start with Perdido Street Station →

Red QueenSeries

series14 books2015

Fantasy and dystopia, tense in tone.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
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Start with Queen Song →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic 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.”
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Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Mortal Engines Prequels, Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines, Anna Fang

Iron WidowSeries

series2 books2021

Fantasy.

“Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow reimagines the rise of Chinese Empress Wu Zetian as a mecha-piloting heroine in Huaxia, a futuristic reinvention of Medieval China.”
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Start with Iron Widow →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Start with Heavy Time →

includes Company Wars, Morgaine, Unionside, Era of Rapprochement, Hanan Rebellion, Chanur, The Hinder Stars, Mri Wars

The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries

series3 books2012

Tense in tone, about survival and forbidden love.

“Set in a walled, post-collapse city ruled by rigid survival laws, it follows a young woman searching for her missing father against the city's authorities and the monstrous forces beyond its walls.”
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Start with Defiance →

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