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Moorcock's MultiverseUniverse
universe102 books1961
Set in secondary world.
“The Multiverse is not one world but an endless lattice of them, worlds folded within worlds, each a variation on the last — and through every one of them walks a single conscripted soul.”
from the catalogue
Start with Elric of Melniboné →
includes Corum, Hawkmoon, The Elric Saga, Eternal Champion, Warrior of Mars, Oswald Bastable
Tolkien's legendariumUniverse
universe163 books1923
Fantasy, set in secondary world.
“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →
includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings
ShannaraUniverse
universe50 books1977
Epic fantasy.
“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue
Start with Imaginary Friends →
includes A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, Legends of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, High Druid of Shannara, Paladins of Shannara
StarsideNovel
Alex Asterstandalone novel2026
Epic fantasy, about quests and revenge.
“Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two.”
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PusadianSeries
series9 books1951
completed
About quests.
“The Pusadian series is a sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the early 1950s and written under the influence of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Eye of Tandyla →
Sword of the DemonNovel
Richard A. Lupoffstandalone novel1977
Mythic fantasy, about quests and demons.