Series
The Great Game
Dave Duncan · 3 novels · 1995–1997
The Great Game is Dave Duncan's fantasy trilogy: Past Imperative (1995), Present Tense and Future Indefinite. It follows a young man from Edwardian England drawn out of his ordinary schoolboy life and into a war-torn magical world, where the two settings and their conflicts turn out to be intertwined. The trilogy follows one continuous journey across its three volumes.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
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The Great Game at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s3
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Present Tensedarkest · most intense
- Future Indefinitebrightest · calmest