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universe14 books2001

Post-apocalyptic and steampunk, set in far future.

“In a world where the cities were put on wheels to outrun a war that ended in a single afternoon, Municipal Darwinism is the law: big towns eat small ones, strip them for parts and take their people aboard as citizens or as scrap.”
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Start with Mortal Engines →

includes Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines, Mortal Engines Prequels, Anna Fang

Red QueenSeries

series14 books2015

Fantasy and dystopia, about class conflict.

“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
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Start with Queen Song →

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Start with Heavy Time →

includes Morgaine, Company Wars, Chanur, Mri Wars, Unionside, Era of Rapprochement, Hanan Rebellion, Age of Exploration

The Change / The EventSeries

series41 books1998

Post-apocalyptic, 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 →

Iron WidowSeries

series2 books2021

Fantasy, dark in tone.

“Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow reimagines the rise of Chinese Empress Wu Zetian as a mecha-piloting heroine in Huaxia, a futuristic reinvention of Medieval China.”
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Start with Iron Widow →

MinecraftUniverse

universe207 books2014

“Somewhere in the dark a green thing is walking toward you on four stubby legs, and it does not stop and it does not speak, and when it reaches you it will hiss.”
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Start with The Island →

includes The Elementia Chronicles, Gamerknight999 Sequence, The Far Lands Adventures, League of Griefers, Unofficial Minetrapped Adventures, Unofficial Overworld Heroes Adventures, Official Minecraft Fiction, Unofficial Overworld Adventures

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