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universe70 books2007

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Bones →

includes Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, Magnus Bane, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices, The Eldest Curses, The Last Hours

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

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 The Book of Dust, His Dark Materials

EarthseaUniverse

universe19 books1964

Epic fantasy, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“There is a lesson every wizard of Earthsea learns young: to know a thing's true name is to hold its whole being, and to speak it is to move the balance of the world.”
from the catalogue

Start with A Wizard of Earthsea →

includes Earthsea Cycle

KairosSeries

series11 books1962

completed

Science fiction.

Start with A Wrinkle in Time →

Richard ForthrastSeries

series2 books2011

Science fiction, about virtual reality, set in north america and virtual world.

“The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain.”
from the catalogue

Start with Reamde →

AlderleySeries

series4 books1960

Mythic fantasy, about quests, set in contemporary and british isles.

“The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen →

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