His Lordship the ever-humble Emrak
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Hey all, been really enjoying Fallen London. These are some of my favorite stories to read so I'm a natural fit for this game.  Can any of you recommend novels that are similar in nature to FL?
Here's some similar ones I know of that you all might enjoy:
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Alternate history Elizabethan London where magic fuels a bloated Empire.
The Nightside series by Simon R Green. Fallen London, pretty much, just set in the modern-day. The theme and tone are so similar I'm pretty sure this had to be an inspiration for Fallen London!
The List of Seven by Mark Frost. It's been a while since I read this, but it's set in London in the 1800s with Arthur Conan Doyle investigating a series of murders that occurred at a seance... *cue dramatic music*
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Shadowcthuhlu
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8/15/2016
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The City of Saints and Madman by Jeff Vandermeer
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Dirae%20Erinyes. Closed to calling cards, but open for all other social action. I also love to roleplay.
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PJ
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You should read Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Actually I would recommend reading everything Neil Gaiman's ever written, but Neverwhere is set in a creepy alternate London.
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IgnatuStone
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I loved the Bartimaeus Trilogy when I was younger. I spent a whole summer in middle school trying to create a Golem because of it. Glad to see someone else enjoyed it.
edited by IgnatuStone on 8/15/2016
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Eglantine-Fox
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The Lies of Locke Lamora, if the part of it you enjoyed was criminal capers in an older setting.
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Eglantine Fox, the charming and androgynous Correspondent, teetering between hobbies of seduction and self-destruction.
Siobhan O'Malley, Irish patriot (or 'bl__dy Fenian' if you're impolite).
Isidore Day, an up-and-coming London gentleman. All allegations of wrongdoing are categorically denied.
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phryne
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The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger.
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Accounts: Bag a Legend • Light Fingers • Heart's Desire • Nemesis • no ambition
Exceptional Stories, sorted by Season and by writer ― Favours & Renown Guide
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Dr Cop
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8/15/2016
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Alexis Kennedy actually posted some recommendations on the Failbetter Blog, way back in 2011: http://www.failbettergames.com/you-asked-we-answer-part-2-and-the-scientific-expedition/
I personally read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell around the same time I became obsessed with Fallen London, and the two bled together and cross-pollinated in my mind, not least because both have a similar tone, and both seem to adopt a similar lightweight pastiche of 19th-Century writing styles. I still imagine Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell's London existing in perpetual darkness, deep underground; and I still half-expect to stumble upon the book's particular version of Faerie in Fallen London.
Shadowcthuhlu wrote:
The City of Saints and Madman by Jeff Vandermeer
iirc there might be a shoutout to Vandermeer in Fallen London, in the form of Ambergrissian Brandy
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sosisqua
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nice thread
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