Find your next SF/F read by mood

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.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

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

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, reflective in tone, about wizards.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

Ixia & Sitia milieuSeries

series12 books2005

Adventurous in tone.

Start with Poison Study →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Final Empire →

includes Elantris, Canticle, The Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, First of the Sun, Threnody, Warbreaker, Komashi

The ScholomanceSeries

series3 books2020

Dark fantasy, about wizards and coming of age.

Start with A Deadly Education →

DarwathSeries

series7 books1982

Dark in tone.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Time of the Dark →

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