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New CrobuzonSeries
series4 books2000
Weird fiction, dark 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 →
Zimiamvian TrilogySeries
series4 books1922
completed
Epic fantasy, about court intrigue.
“Dissolution of the realm seems certain as alliances are formed and begin to intrigue against each other.”
from the catalogue
Start with Mistress of Mistresses →
MalazanUniverse
universe36 books1999
Epic fantasy, dark in tone, 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 →
includes The Kharkanas Trilogy, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Night of Knives, Witness Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy
ErewhonSeries
series4 books1872
completed
Literary & general and satire, reflective in tone.
Start with Erewhon, or, Over the Range →
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera, set in far future and other star systems.
“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue
Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
The Second ApocalypseSeries
series11 books2003
Epic fantasy and grimdark, dark in tone, about war.
Start with The Darkness That Comes Before →