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series41 books1998

Science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in north america.

“Sixteen different authors, coordinated by Stirling, each contribute stories set in various corners of the suddenly de-industrialized world as survivors scramble to rebuild.”
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Start with Island in the Sea of Time →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
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Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes The Genesis of Shannara, Legends of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, High Druid of Shannara, The Dark Legacy of Shannara, The Defenders of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara

The Broken EmpireUniverse

universe27 books2011

Grimdark, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“What looks like sword-and-castle medievalism is the ash of our own age, and the magic is only physics that learned to listen.”
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Start with Prince of Fools →

includes The Red Queen's War

Sipstrassi or Stones of PowerSeries

series6 books1987

completed

Post-apocalyptic.

Start with Wolf in Shadow →

The Tribe (Ambelin Kwaymullina)Series

series3 books2012

About psychic powers and found family, set in secondary world.

“Kwaymullina's debut novel, it tells the story of a nearly utopian world after an apocalypse, where some people have begun to have magical abilities, and are persecuted and detained for it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf →

New World TrilogySeries

series3 books1980

Science fantasy.

“In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years from now, humans are a dying species.”
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Start with World Enough, and Time →

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