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PymSeries

series5 books1838

Adventure, set in arctic & antarctica and at sea.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
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Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

AyeshaSeries

series8 books1886

About immortality.

“The Ayesha books follow H. Rider Haggard's immortal sorceress-queen Ayesha, introduced in his 1887 novel She as the ruler of a hidden civilization who has waited millennia for her lost love to be reborn.”
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Start with She →

The Island of Dr. MoreauSeries

series12 books1896

Science fiction.

“Taken together, the group traces one unsettling premise across more than a century of speculative fiction rather than forming a single ongoing story.”
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Start with The Island of Dr. Moreau →

The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the WastelandsNovel

Sarah Brooksstandalone novel2024

Mysterious in tone.

Southern Reach TrilogySeries

series4 books2014

Science fiction and weird fiction, about madness, set in contemporary.

“In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”
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Start with Annihilation →

Allan QuatermainSeries

series25 books1885

Adventure, adventurous in tone, set in africa.

“An English professional big game hunter and adventurer, in film and television he has been portrayed by Richard Chamberlain, Sean Connery, Cedric Hardwicke, Patrick Swayze and Stewart Granger among others.”
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Start with Marie →

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