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2013883 No.2013883 [Reply] [Original]

Do you know a sci-fi novel with a universe that is as detailed as Lord of the Rings?

>> No.2013890

Star Wars?

>> No.2013905

>>2013890
What else?

>> No.2013906

>>2013890
uh maybe if you count every single bit of the extended universe, with all the books and comics and video games

I think OP is looking for a sci-fi universe created by one author that is as extensive as Tolkien's middle earth

>> No.2013912
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2013912

does Dune qualify?

i havent read LOTR or anything past the first Dune book so i dunno. but on the back of my copy it says "I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings" -- Arthur C. Clarke

/shrug

>> No.2013916

the Hitchhiker's Guide

>> No.2013940

>>2013916
Op asked for a novel, not a cheap radio show!

>> No.2013941

the Gormenghast trilogy is about the setting as much as it is about the characters, especially in the first two books.

>> No.2013945

>>2013941
There are only 2 books

>> No.2013949

>>2013941
I don't think Gormenghast in science fiction

>> No.2013976

>>2013945
Are you jokingly pretending the third doesn't exist or do you really not know about the third one?

>>2013949
I copmletely skipped over that word and focused on "Lord of the Rings", which made me think fantasy. Sorry.

>> No.2013979

Dune

>> No.2013981

Someone already said Dune. Aside from that, I'd say Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

>> No.2013984

a series of unfortunate events

>> No.2014006

Holocaust: A History by Deborah Dwork