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To Reign in HellNovel
Steven Bruststandalone novel1984
About angels and rebellion and revolution.
MalazanUniverse
universe36 books1999
Epic fantasy, about war, set in secondary world.
“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gardens of the Moon →
includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Witness Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy
JulianSeries
series19 books1976
About deal with the devil and quests, set in secondary world.
Start with ["Ordnung", so pflegte der alte Ritter ...] (English) →
Tales of the Flat EarthSeries
series14 books1978
completed
Set in secondary world.
“The novels take inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights and are similarly structured as interconnected stories.”
from the catalogue
Start with Night's Master →
InfernoSeries
series2 books1976
About redemption and faith and religion.
“In Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle send a science fiction writer to his death and drop him into a modern-dress version of Dante's nine circles of Hell, where he must reason his way toward understanding why he has been damned.”
from the catalogue
Start with Inferno →
Purgatory: The Devil's GameNovel
M. A. Carlsonstandalone novel2021
Tense in tone, about angels.
“Victor Goodspeed is a businessman, taken at the back end of his prime.”
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