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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 Dark WorldNovel

Henry Kuttnerstandalone novel1965

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about transported to another world.

“Roger Zelazny, author of The Chronicles of Amber, credits this book as being one of his primary influences during his youth.”
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The Broken EarthSeries

series5 books2014

Fantasy, about ecological collapse and survival.

“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 →

New CrobuzonSeries

series4 books2000

Weird fiction and fantasy, 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 →

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy and fantasy, about political intrigue and war.

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

Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

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