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universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The History of the Lord of the Rings

PusadianSeries

series9 books1951

completed

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“The Pusadian series is a sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp, begun in the early 1950s and written under the influence of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Eye of Tandyla →

Sun Wolf and StarhawkSeries

series7 books1984

Fantasy and sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, about wizards, set in secondary world.

“Sun Wolf's partnership with his lieutenant Starhawk carries across The Ladies of Mandrigyn, The Witches of Wenshar, and further volumes as both are drawn deeper into magic neither originally wanted.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Ladies of Mandrigyn →

Sword of the DemonNovel

Richard A. Lupoffstandalone novel1977

Mythic fantasy, about magical artifacts.

Brak the BarbarianSeries

series16 books1963

completed

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in secondary world.

“John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”
from the catalogue

Start with Brak the Barbarian →

Hyborian AgeUniverse

universe242 books1929

Sword and sorcery and fantasy, adventurous in tone, set in secondary world.

“Earlier still lies the Thurian Age of Kull of Valusia, brooding forerunner to Conan.”
from the catalogue

Start with Conan the Victorious →

includes Conan Universe, Kull of Valusia

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