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  • Cover of Shannara
    ShannaraUniverse

    universe · 50 books · 1977

    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 →

    similar bysecondary worldfantasy

    includes The Genesis of Shannara, Word and the Void, Legends of Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel

  • Cover of The Night Land
    The Night LandSeries

    series · 5 books · 1912

    “Framed as a seventeenth-century narrator's vision of that future, the story follows his far-future self on a journey out into the night to find a woman he believes is his lost love reincarnated.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Dream of X →

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  • Cover of Mortal Engines Universe
    Mortal EnginesUniverse

    universe · 14 books · 2001

    Science fiction and steampunk, set in far future.

    “In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Mortal Engines →

    similar bypost-apocalypticsurvival+2 more

    includes Mortal Engines Prequels, Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines

  • Cover of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
    Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverSeries

    series · 11 books · 1977

    Epic fantasy, about quests.

    Start with Lord Foul's Bane →

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  • Cover of The Broken Empire
    The Broken EmpireUniverse

    universe · 27 books · 2011

    Grimdark.

    “What looks like sword-and-castle medievalism is the ash of our own age, and the magic is only physics that learned to listen.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Prince of Fools →

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    includes The Red Queen's War

  • Cover of The Change / The Event
    The Change / The EventSeries

    series · 41 books · 1998

    Science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in north america.

    “Sixteen different authors, coordinated by Stirling, each contribute stories set in various corners of the suddenly de-industrialized world as survivors scramble to rebuild.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Island in the Sea of Time →

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