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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, about political intrigue and war, set in secondary world.

“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

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

GormenghastSeries

series6 books1946

completed

Gothic, set in secondary world.

“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
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Start with Titus Groan →

Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

series11 books1977

Epic fantasy, about quests, set in secondary world.

Start with Lord Foul's Bane →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

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.”
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Start with Gardens of the Moon →

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

Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

universe102 books1961

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.”
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Start with Elric of Melniboné →

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

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