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  • Cover of World of Ice and Fire
    World of Ice and FireUniverse

    universe · 19 books · 1980

    About war.

    “Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Game of Thrones →

    similar bydarkpolitical intriguefantasysecondary worldepic fantasy

    includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

  • Cover of Tigana
    TiganaNovel

    Guy Gavriel Kay · standalone novel · 1990

    Historical fantasy, emotional in tone, about identity.

    similar bydarkpolitical intriguesecondary worldfantasyrebellion and revolutionepic fantasy

  • Cover of Malazan
    MalazanUniverse

    universe · 36 books · 1999

    About war.

    “Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gardens of the Moon →

    similar bydarksecondary worldepic fantasy+2 more

    includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, Witness Trilogy

  • Cover of Grishaverse
    GrishaverseUniverse

    universe · 19 books · 2012

    “Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Six of Crows →

    similar byfantasysecondary world+3 more

    includes The Nikolai Duology, Six of Crows, The Grisha

  • Cover of Gormenghast
    GormenghastSeries

    series · 6 books · 1946

    completed

    Gothic.

    “Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Titus Groan →

    similar bydarkfantasysecondary world+1 more

  • Cover of New Crobuzon
    New CrobuzonSeries

    series · 4 books · 2000

    Weird fiction, challenging in tone.

    “The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Perdido Street Station →

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