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The Locked TombSeries
series6 books2019
About undead and identity, set in space.
“Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth follows Gideon Nav, an indentured swordswoman raised among nuns and skeletons in the Ninth House, who is drafted into a deadly imperial trial by Harrowhark, the necromancer she can't stand.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gideon the Ninth →
Lord of LightSeries
series5 books1967
Adventurous in tone, about gods and reincarnation.
“One of their own, called Sam, breaks with the pantheon to return forbidden knowledge to the ordinary people they rule, touching off a war among the self-styled gods.”
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Start with Dawn →
The Broken EarthSeries
series5 books2014
Fantasy, dark in tone, about ecological collapse, set in secondary world.
“N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is set on the Stillness, a single supercontinent wracked every few centuries by civilization-ending climate catastrophes called Fifth Seasons.”
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Start with The Fifth Season →
VorkosiganUniverse
universe27 books1986
Science fiction and space opera.
“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
from the catalogue
Start with Shards of Honor →
includes Cordelia Vorkosigan, Miles Vorkosigan, Quaddies
Creatures of Light and DarknessNovel
Roger Zelaznystandalone novel1969
Science fiction, dark in tone, about gods, set in space.
“Some humans have god-like powers or perhaps are actually gods—the names and aspects of various Egyptian gods are used.”
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The Sun SwordNovel
Lexxie Couperstandalone novel2009
About chosen one and prophecy, set in otherworld.
“Torin Kerridon, the last warrior from an ancient order, is drawn to an abandoned, dying Earth, where he finds a forgotten young woman.”
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