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  • Cover of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
    Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

    series · 11 books · 1977

    Epic fantasy, about quests.

    Start with Lord Foul's Bane →

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  • Cover of Gormenghast
    GormenghastSeries

    series · 6 books · 1946

    completed

    Gothic.

    “Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Titus Groan →

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  • Cover of The Young Elites
    The Young ElitesSeries

    series · 3 books · 2014

    About revenge and political intrigue.

    “The second book is called The Rose Society and was released on October 13, 2015.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Young Elites →

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  • Cover of The Broken Empire
    The Broken EmpireUniverse

    universe · 27 books · 2011

    Grimdark.

    “What looks like sword-and-castle medievalism is the ash of our own age, and the magic is only physics that learned to listen.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Prince of Fools →

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    includes The Red Queen's War

  • Cover of New Crobuzon
    New CrobuzonSeries

    series · 4 books · 2000

    Weird fiction, 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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Perdido Street Station →

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  • Cover of Ambergris
    AmbergrisSeries

    series · 20 books · 1996

    Weird fiction, set in 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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with City of Saints and Madmen →

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