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series4 books2000

Fantasy and weird fiction, challenging and dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“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 →

MalazanUniverse

universe36 books1999

Epic fantasy, about war.

“Pity the historian who tries to map this world; pity more the god who thinks he rules it.”
from the catalogue

Start with Gardens of the Moon →

includes Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Kharkanas Trilogy, Night of Knives, Witness Trilogy, Path to Ascendancy

Zimiamvian TrilogySeries

series4 books1922

completed

Epic fantasy, about court intrigue.

“Dissolution of the realm seems certain as alliances are formed and begin to intrigue against each other.”
from the catalogue

Start with Mistress of Mistresses →

CosmereUniverse

universe54 books2005

Epic fantasy.

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

Start with The Final Empire →

includes Mistborn, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, Elantris, Canticle, Komashi, Lumar, Cosmere non-canon

Cities of the WeftSeries

series4 books2020

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Alex Pheby's Cities of the Weft trilogy is set in a world where reality itself is woven from a substance called 'weft.”
from the catalogue

Start with Mordew →

The Second ApocalypseSeries

series11 books2003

Epic fantasy and grimdark, about war.

Start with The Darkness That Comes Before →

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