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PymSeries

series5 books1838

Set in 19th century and at sea.

“Jules Verne wrote an unauthorized 1897 sequel, An Antarctic Mystery, resolving Poe's cliffhanger in more rationalist terms, while Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym uses Poe's original as the springboard for a satirical modern story about race.”
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Start with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket →

Meg / Loch UniverseSeries

series11 books1997

Tense in tone.

Start with The Loch →

TarzanUniverse

universe100 books1912

Set in early 20th century.

“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
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Start with Tarzan of the Apes →

includes Tarzan, The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, The Tarzan Trilogy, Tarzan and the Martian Legion, Tarzan's Africa / Opar / Khokarsa

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar universeSeries

series24 books1922

Set in lost world and underground & caves.

Start with At the Earth's Core →

CavorSeries

series2 books1901

About space exploration, set in the moon and early 20th century.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
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Start with The First Men in the Moon →

Dirk PittSeries

series12 books1973

completed

Thriller & suspense, tense in tone.

“Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished.”
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Start with Pacific Vortex! →

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