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  • Cover of Sword of the Demon
    Sword of the DemonNovel

    Richard A. Lupoff · standalone novel · 1977

    Mythic fantasy, about quests.

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    Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse

    universe · 102 books · 1961

    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 →

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    Hyborian AgeUniverse

    universe · 242 books · 1929

    Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

    “Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”

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    Start with Conan the Victorious →

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    includes Conan Universe, Kull of Valusia

  • Cover of Tolkien's legendarium
    Tolkien's legendariumUniverse

    universe · 163 books · 1923

    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 →

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

  • Cover of Pusadian
    PusadianSeries

    series · 9 books · 1951

    completed

    About quests.

    “The Pusadian series is a sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the early 1950s and written under the influence of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.”

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    Start with The Eye of Tandyla →

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    Brak the BarbarianSeries

    series · 16 books · 1963

    completed

    About quests.

    “John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”

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    Start with Brak the Barbarian →

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