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  • Cover of Kairos
    KairosSeries

    series · 11 books · 1962

    completed

    Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

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  • Cover of Twilight Zone
    Twilight ZoneUniverse

    universe · 40 books · 1960

    Science fiction, set in our world.

    “Picture, if you will, an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon: a tired salesman, a frightened child, a man who wants only to be left alone.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Stories from the Twilight Zone →

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    includes Twilight Zone Collections, Twilight Zone Anthologies, The Twilight Zone Novels, Twilight Zone Scripts (Richard Matheson), Twilight Zone Scripts (Rod Serling), Twilight Zone Doubles

  • Cover of American Gods
    American GodsSeries

    series · 10 books · 1999

    Mythic fantasy, about gods.

    “Gaiman's 2005 novel Anansi Boys is set in the same mythological world and shares the trickster god Mr. Nancy, but follows a different protagonist and story, making it a loose companion rather than a direct sequel.”

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    Start with Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story →

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  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    About robots, set in far future.

    “There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Foundation →

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    includes The Positronic Robot Stories, Trantorian Empire, Foundation, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)

  • Cover of Southern Reach Trilogy
    Southern Reach TrilogySeries

    series · 4 books · 2014

    Weird fiction and horror, eerie in tone, about madness.

    “In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director.”

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    Start with Annihilation →

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  • Cover of His Dark Materials Universe
    His Dark MaterialsUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1995

    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.”

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    Start with Northern Lights →

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    includes The Book of Dust, His Dark Materials