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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

Glory RoadSeries

series2 books1963

Adventurous in tone, about quests.

“A veteran of the US military finds himself enlisted in a sword and sorcery style quest by a beautiful warrior empress from a coalition of different universes.”
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Start with Glory Road →

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

Walter GoodwinSeries

series3 books1918

completed

Adventurous in tone, about expeditions, set in early 20th century and lost world.

“The two books follow Goodwin from one uncanny expedition to the next rather than forming a tightly plotted continuing saga.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Moon Pool →

InfernoSeries

series2 books1976

Dark in tone, about redemption and faith and religion, set in afterlife & underworld.

“In Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle send a science fiction writer to his death and drop him into a modern-dress version of Dante's nine circles of Hell, where he must reason his way toward understanding why he has been damned.”
from the catalogue

Start with Inferno →

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Ken Grimwoodstandalone novel1987

Time travel, about second chance, set in our world and late 20th century.

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