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New CrobuzonSeries
series4 books2000
Fantasy.
“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 →
MalazanUniverse
universe36 books1999
Epic fantasy, about war.
“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue
Start with Gardens of the Moon →
includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Witness Trilogy, Night of Knives, Path to Ascendancy
The House on the BorderlandNovel
William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908
Eerie in tone, set in otherworld and british isles.
GormenghastSeries
series6 books1946
completed
Fantasy and gothic.
“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue
Start with Titus Groan →
Cities of the WeftSeries
series4 books2020
Fantasy.
“Alex Pheby's Cities of the Weft trilogy is set in a world where reality itself is woven from a substance called 'weft.”
from the catalogue
Start with Mordew →
Zimiamvian TrilogySeries
series4 books1922
completed
Fantasy and epic fantasy, about court intrigue.
“Dissolution of the realm seems certain as alliances are formed and begin to intrigue against each other.”
from the catalogue
Start with Mistress of Mistresses →