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GorSeries

series41 books1966

Sword and sorcery, dark in tone, 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.”
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Start with Tarnsman of Gor →

MajipoorSeries

series29 books1980

Science fantasy.

“The setting is a mixture of science fiction and fantasy elements.”
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Start with Lord Valentine's Castle →

Apprentice AdeptSeries

series7 books1980

Adventurous in tone, set in parallel universe and far future.

“Phaze is a lush planet of magic, where Proton is a barren mining planet of science.”
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Start with Split Infinity →

Jack of ShadowsSeries

series4 books1971

Fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests and reincarnation.

Start with Jack of Shadows →

The Broken EarthSeries

series5 books2014

Dark in tone, 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.”
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Start with The Fifth Season →

The Iron Dragon's DaughterSeries

series3 books1993

Dark in tone, about dragons, set in fairyland.

“The Iron Dragon's Daughter follows Jane, a human changeling enslaved in a factory that builds part-mechanical, part-magical dragons used as war machines, in a Faerie that runs on industrial-age technology as much as spellcraft.”
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Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter →

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