Find your next SF/F read by mood

universe13 books1995

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction, challenging and dark 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 →

The Iron Dragon's DaughterSeries

series3 books1993

Science fantasy, dark in tone, about dragons, set in fairyland.

“The Iron Dragon's Daughter follows Jane, a human changeling enslaved in a factory that builds part-mechanical, part-magical dragons used as war machines, in a Faerie that runs on industrial-age technology as much as spellcraft.”
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Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter →

RailseaNovel

China Miévillestandalone novel2012

Weird fiction, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

The Cinder SpiresSeries

series3 books2015

Set in secondary world.

“Continuing with Warriorborn and The Olympian Affair, it marks a departure in setting from Butcher's contemporary-fantasy Dresden Files while keeping his fast-paced adventure style.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Aeronaut's Windlass →

Clockwork AngelsSeries

series5 books2012

Steampunk.

“Clockwork Angels began as the concept behind Rush's 2012 album of the same name, which drummer and lyricist Neil Peart expanded into a full steampunk fantasy novel together with author Kevin J. Anderson.”
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Start with Clockwork Angels →

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