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  • 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

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

    “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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  • Cover of Moorcock's Multiverse
    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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    includes Corum, Hawkmoon, The Elric Saga, Eternal Champion, Warrior of Mars, Oswald Bastable

  • Cover of Sword of the Demon
    Sword of the DemonNovel

    Richard A. Lupoff · standalone novel · 1977

    Mythic fantasy, about demons.

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  • Cover of Sparhawk
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    universe · 6 books · 1989

    Epic fantasy.

    “Sir Sparhawk is not a young man, and he has little patience for the pageantry his order pretends to.”

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    Start with The Diamond Throne →

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  • Cover of The Swordbearer
    The SwordbearerNovel

    Glen Cook · standalone novel · 1982

    Fantasy and sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

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