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Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

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, Era of Rapprochement, Chanur, Hanan Rebellion, Mri Wars, Unionside, Age of Exploration, Morgaine

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

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

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

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Dune Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries

series3 books2012

Dystopia, about forbidden love, set in secondary world.

“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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