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KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue

Start with Wild Seed →

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott CardSeries

series9 books1979

“Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Changed Man →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

The Dreaming JewelsNovel

Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1950

About genetic engineering and identity.

The PeopleSeries

series33 books1952

completed

Set in north america.

“Zenna Henderson told their story mostly through linked short fiction, gathered into the fix-up novels Pilgrimage and The People: No Different Flesh and later omnibus collections.”
from the catalogue

Start with I (Pilgrimage: The Book of the People) →

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