Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue

Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue

Start with Heavy Time →

includes Morgaine, Era of Rapprochement, Company Wars, Chanur, Mri Wars, Hanan Rebellion, Age of Exploration, Unionside

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

Deepgate UniverseSeries

series5 books2006

Dark fantasy, dark in tone, about gods.

Start with Scar Night →

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy and fantasy, dark in tone, about political intrigue.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic and steampunk, 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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Mortal Engines Prequels, Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines, Anna Fang

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