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
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.
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
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.
iirc there might be a shoutout to Vandermeer in Fallen London, in the form of Ambergrissian Brandy :)