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series41 books1998

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in north america.

“Sixteen different authors, coordinated by Stirling, each contribute stories set in various corners of the suddenly de-industrialized world as survivors scramble to rebuild.”
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Start with Island in the Sea of Time →

Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
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Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Hobbit, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings

The Broken EmpireUniverse

universe27 books2011

Grimdark, dark in tone.

“What looks like sword-and-castle medievalism is the ash of our own age, and the magic is only physics that learned to listen.”
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Start with Prince of Fools →

includes The Red Queen's War

Mortal EnginesUniverse

universe14 books2001

Science fiction 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.”
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Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Mortal Engines Prequels, Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
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Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes Heritage of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, The Genesis of Shannara, Legends of Shannara

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

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

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

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