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series4 books2011

Grimdark and fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Rigus is the greatest city in the Thirteen Lands, a glittering metropolis of crystalline citadels and sumptuous manors, where gentlewomen hide delicate smiles behind silken sleeves and bored nobles settle affairs of honor with cold steel.”
from the catalogue

Start with Low Town →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Fantasy and epic fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the worlds, there was Adonalsium, and then there was not.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Warbreaker, Threnody, Canticle, Cosmere non-canon, First of the Sun

AmbergrisSeries

series20 books1996

Fantasy and weird fiction, set in secondary world.

“Ambergris is the fictional, fungus-ridden city Jeff VanderMeer uses as the throughline for a loosely connected cycle of increasingly strange fiction, beginning with the linked stories of City of Saints and Madmen.”
from the catalogue

Start with City of Saints and Madmen →

NightsideSeries

series23 books2003

Urban fantasy, set in contemporary and british isles.

“Simon R. Green's noir fantasy series, beginning with Something from the Nightside, follows Taylor deeper into the district's politics and his own mysterious origins across fourteen novels.”
from the catalogue

Start with Something from the Nightside →

Takeshi KovacsSeries

series3 books2002

Science fiction and cyberpunk, about identity, set in far future.

“Takeshi Kovacs is a former elite soldier turned freelance troubleshooter in a future where human consciousness can be digitized and transferred between bodies, or sleeves, making death an inconvenience for those who can afford new ones.”
from the catalogue

Start with Altered Carbon →

Wolfhound Century / Vissarion LomSeries

series3 books2013

About totalitarianism, set in early 20th century and eastern europe.

“Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.”
from the catalogue

Start with Wolfhound Century →

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