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GorSeries

series41 books1966

Sword and sorcery, about slavery and gender and society.

“The Gor series repeatedly depicts men abducting and physically and sexually brutalizing women, who grow to enjoy their submissive state.”
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Start with Tarnsman of Gor →

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

The Dark WorldNovel

Henry Kuttnerstandalone novel1965

Fantasy, about transported to another world.

“Roger Zelazny, author of The Chronicles of Amber, credits this book as being one of his primary influences during his youth.”
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The Broken EarthSeries

series5 books2014

Fantasy, about ecological collapse and survival.

“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 →

The Iron Dragon's DaughterSeries

series3 books1993

About dragons, set in fairyland.

“The Iron Dragon's Daughter follows Jane, a human changeling enslaved in a factory that builds part-mechanical, part-magical dragons used as war machines, in a Faerie that runs on industrial-age technology as much as spellcraft.”
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Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter →

ColdfireSeries

series5 books1991

Dark fantasy, tense in tone.

“C. S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy is set on the human colony world of Erna, where settlers survive alongside the fae, a reality-warping force that gives physical shape to belief and fear.”
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Start with Black Sun Rising →

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