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  • Cover of To Reign in Hell
    To Reign in HellNovel

    Steven Brust · standalone novel · 1984

    Mythic fantasy, about angels and rebellion and revolution.

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  • Cover of Tales of the Flat Earth
    Tales of the Flat EarthSeries

    series · 14 books · 1978

    completed

    About demons, 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 →

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  • Cover of Malazan
    MalazanUniverse

    universe · 36 books · 1999

    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 →

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    includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Witness Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy

  • Cover of Moorcock's Multiverse
    Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

    universe · 102 books · 1961

    Set in secondary world.

    “The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Elric of Melniboné →

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    includes Corum, The Elric Saga, Hawkmoon, Eternal Champion, Warrior of Mars, Oswald Bastable

  • Cover of Wheel of the Infinite
    Wheel of the InfiniteNovel

    Martha Wells · standalone novel · 2000

    Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

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  • Cover of The Dark Star Trilogy
    The Dark Star TrilogySeries

    series · 2 books · 2019

    Mythic fantasy, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

    “Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy opens with Black Leopard, Red Wolf, in which a mercenary tracker is hired to find a missing boy and is drawn into a war between kingdoms across a continent built from African history and mythology.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Black Leopard, Red Wolf →

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