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Anyone have good fantasy or sci-fi recommendations? I have read a ton of speculative fiction and am always looking for more good, completed series. I tend not to read something if it's ongoing. Sadly the subreddits I've found for fantasy don't tend to skew towards my taste.
Some examples of more obscure fantasy series I've enjoyed:
Malazan
The Traitor Son Cycle
The Black Company
The Second Apocalypse
The Inda Quartet
Chronicles of the Black Gate
Mother of Learning
Commonwealth Saga
Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Void Trilogy
Diaspora (Greg Egan)
Aching God Series
Annihilation
The Broken Earth
Memory, Sorrow, Thorn
Book of the New Sun
Otherland
Gravity Dreams
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Magician series by Feist
As you may be able to tell I prefer my series to be somewhat morally gray, and at least try to have a system of magic/technology that makes internal, consistent sense.
I've heard Worth the Candle is good but haven't gotten around to reading it. Any other suggestions in line with the books/series I listed above?
I have been enjoying Pact and Pale. Its magic system is internally robust and well-developed, in my opinion. Sadly, it doesn't quite meet your criteria three times: its system has baked-in morality (though it's not linked to contemporary morality and it's one of the core conflicts of the serials that characters don't always agree with it), it is more like TVTropes than science, and Pale is ongoing.
Wildbow is great, really enjoyed worm. I can usually tolerate baked in morality if it's written well, but the ongoing nature of the story is usually a dealbreaker.
Pact is finished.
Didn't know this, thanks.
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