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World of Ice and FireUniverse

universe19 books1980

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about political intrigue, set in secondary world.

“Winter is coming, and the men who forget it die first.”
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Start with A Game of Thrones →

includes A Song of Ice and Fire, Targaryen History

Stephen King multiverseUniverse

universe46 books1967

Dark in tone.

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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Start with The Gunslinger →

includes The Dark Tower

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, dark in tone, about war, set in secondary world.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
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Start with Gardens of the Moon →

includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy, Witness Trilogy

After Such KnowledgeSeries

series7 books1953

completed

“After Such Knowledge is James Blish's loosely linked trilogy on the costs of forbidden or dangerous knowledge.”
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Start with Doctor Mirabilis →

Bod OwensSeries

series3 books2007

About coming of age, set in our world and contemporary.

“Neil Gaiman's 2008 novel won both the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and illustrator P. Craig Russell later adapted it into a two-volume graphic novel.”
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Start with The Witch's Headstone →

InfernoSeries

series2 books1976

Dark in tone, about redemption and faith and religion, set in afterlife & underworld.

“In Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle send a science fiction writer to his death and drop him into a modern-dress version of Dante's nine circles of Hell, where he must reason his way toward understanding why he has been damned.”
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Start with Inferno →

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