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The Broken EarthSeries
series5 books2014
Fantasy, about ecological collapse.
“N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is set on the Stillness, a single supercontinent wracked every few centuries by civilization-ending climate catastrophes called Fifth Seasons.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Fifth Season →
The Bone World TrilogySeries
series3 books2007
Science fiction, dark in tone, about survival, set in secondary world.
Start with The Inferior →
The Ice SchoonerNovel
Michael Moorcockstandalone novel1969
Post-apocalyptic and grimdark, set in far future and at sea.
GorSeries
series41 books1966
Sword and sorcery, about slavery and gender and society.
“The Gor series repeatedly depicts men abducting and physically and sexually brutalizing women, who grow to enjoy their submissive state.”
from the catalogue
Start with Tarnsman of Gor →
The Courier's Daughter TrilogySeries
series3 books2012
Dystopia, tense in tone, about forbidden love.
“Set in a walled, post-collapse city ruled by rigid survival laws, it follows a young woman searching for her missing father against the city's authorities and the monstrous forces beyond its walls.”
from the catalogue
Start with Defiance →
The ScholomanceSeries
series3 books2020
Fantasy, about magic schools and wizards.
Start with A Deadly Education →