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46 books · 21 voters · list created January 19th, 2016 by James Parsons (votes) .
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message 1: by James (last edited Jul 06, 2026 09:32PM) (new)

James And surely we must now add Adrian Tchaikovsky Shards Of Earth series to this list? Idris, Ollie, and of course the Vulture God!


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