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universe13 books1995

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
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Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials

The Difference EngineNovel

William Gibson & Bruce Sterlingstandalone novel1990

Science fiction and alternate history, set in british isles and alternate earth.

“The computer age arrives a century early with Babbage's perfection of his 'analytical engine'.”
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The Anubis GatesSeries

series3 books1983

Time travel and historical fantasy, set in british isles and 19th century.

“The plot concerns an English professor who participates in a time travel experiment and ends up trapped in the 19th century.”
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Start with The Anubis Gates →

The Diamond AgeNovel

Neal Stephensonstandalone novel1995

Science fiction, about nanotechnology and coming of age, set in near future.

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction and fantasy, challenging in tone, set in secondary world.

“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
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Start with Perdido Street Station →

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, 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

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