Books like Gap
17 fantasy books to read after Gap, by Donaldson, Stephen R., the closest match first.
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1. Snow Crash
by Stephenson, Neal
- On the same lists
Considered by some as a parody of Cyberpunk. This novel popularized and cemented its use of the term avatar to describe online virtual bodies
Meet Hiro Protagonist: hacker, samurai swinging swordsman and pizza delivery boy. When his best friend dies of a brain fry and his ex girlfriend asks for his help, Hiro switches...
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2. Night's Dawn Saga
by Iii, David R. George
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Book Flap Description Space is not the only void... In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the...
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3. Lord Foul's Bane
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
Epic Fantasy that's also very High Fantasy. Features an antihero hero.
Lord Foul's Bane begins the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, a series in which a leprosy-stricken man in the real world is transported to a stereotypical fantasy world....
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4. The Illearth War
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
“The Thomas Covenant saga . . . will certainly find a place on the small list of true classics in its specialized field.”—The Washington Post Book World After scant days...
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The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever book 3
5. The Power That Preserves
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
“A trilogy of remarkable scope and sophistication.”—Los Angeles Times Twice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange otherworld where magic worked. Twice before he had been forced to...
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The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever book 4
6. The Wounded Land
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
Ten years after Thomas Covenant's adventures in the Land, Dr Linden Avery has taken a job at the hospital in his home town. Covenant is pulled back into the Land...
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7. The One Tree
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
“The hottest fantasy writer since J.R.R. Tolkien!”—The Washington Post Thomas Covenant, accompanied by Linden Avery, begins his search for the One Tree aboard the giantship Starfare's Gem. Armed with the...
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8. White Gold Wielder
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
White Gold Wielder: the stunning conclusion to Stephen Donaldson's extraordinary fantasy saga Thomas Covenant realized that despite their awful failure on the Isle of The One Tree, there was no...
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The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever book 7
9. The Runes Of The Earth
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson presents the first novel of the four-volume finale to the series that’s become a modern fantasy classic: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant....
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10. Fatal Revenant
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
- Same author
A sequel to The Runes of the Earth finds Linden Avery returning to the Land in search of her kidnapped mentally ill son, whom she discovers fully healed and at...
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11. Foundation
by Asimov, Isaac
- On the same lists
Some softer elements, like FTL and antigrav cars, but otherwise a rational series.
Book Flap Description One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive...
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12. Altered Carbon
by Morgan, Richard K.
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Humans can transfer their conciousness into new bodies. This sets up a detective style story about a murder.
After dying in a particularly gruesome death, ex UN-envoy Takeshi Kovacs wakes up to find himself "re-sleeved" into a fresh body with a job offer: find who killed Laurens Bancroft...
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13. The Forever War (1976)
by Haldeman, Joe
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In this novel, time travel is a kind of side effect of space travel at near light speeds.
William Mandella is a physics student drafted into an elite force to fight an alien enemy on the far side of the galaxy. Travel between the front lines takes a...
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14. Otherland
by Williams, Tad
- On the same lists
This one has been around for a long while now and pre-dates the whole LitRPG movement. However, as the premise of the story takes place partly in a massive, realistic...
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15. Starship Troopers
by Heinlein, Robert A.
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The world government in this future Earth is run by veterans and citizens must earn the right to vote and hold public office with federal service.
Book Flap Description A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy. ...
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16. Ender's Game (1986)
by Card, Orson Scott
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The first in a famous series that seems to become more literary as its characters age. Follows a child prodigy and in the process makes the reader think about war, the means to war, and even loneliness.
Earth has survived two invasions by an insect-like alien race, and the International Fleet is training the most gifted children to lead the next defence. Six-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is...
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17. Dune
by Herbert, Frank
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The whole series over time shows the colonization and taming of the wild planet Dune over thousands of years.
A blend of sci-fi and fantasy, Frank Herbert's Dune created a foundation for many of the themes in modern genre fiction. Its exploration of ecology, pacifism, and mysticism pairs with...
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