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universe13 books1995

Adventurous in tone, about coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

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

BarsoomSeries

series53 books1917

Science fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in mars.

“Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Princess of Mars →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue

Start with Heavy Time →

includes Morgaine, Company Wars, Chanur, Mri Wars, Age of Exploration, Unionside, Era of Rapprochement, Hanan Rebellion

RestoreeNovel

Anne McCaffreystandalone novel1967

Science fantasy, about transported to another world and survival, set in other star systems.

“Torn from Earth by a bizarre and nameless black force, Sara has no idea where she is or why she inhabits a beautiful new body.”
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