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New CrobuzonSeries
series4 books2000
Challenging in tone.
“The New Crobuzon books are three standalone novels by China Miéville set in and around New Crobuzon, a vast, corrupt industrial city in his invented world of Bas-Lag where magic, biopunk technology, and several sentient species coexist.”
from the catalogue
Start with Perdido Street Station →
GormenghastSeries
series6 books1946
completed
Gothic.
“Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968.”
from the catalogue
Start with Titus Groan →
The House on the BorderlandNovel
William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908
About madness, set in otherworld and british isles.
GrishaverseUniverse
universe19 books2012
“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
from the catalogue
Start with Six of Crows →
includes Six of Crows, The Nikolai Duology, The Grisha
VenissSeries
series12 books1990
Eerie in tone.
Start with The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight →
AmbergrisSeries
series20 books1996
Fantasy and weird fiction, set in secondary world and big city.
“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 →