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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 8949709" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Epics, epics…let see what’s on my shelf. I don’t really like all of these,  it some of my all-time faves are in here and others are wildly popular with people I consider at least as worth heeding as me.Fiction:The Dune seriesPatrick O’Brien’s Aubrey & Maturin seriesBernard Cornwall’s Sharpe seriesVernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon The Deep and A Deepness Across The Skymultiple series by Peter HamiltonDan Abnett’s Gaunt and Inquisitor series, Warhammer 40KThe Horus Heresy, by approximately everybody, also 40KGregory Benford, Galactic Center seriesOlaf Stapledon, Last And First Men and Star Maker - in all seriousness, I can’t think of anything on the scale of Star Maker, and yes, I’m including Tolkien‘s unpublished work in that.Non-fiction:Edward Gibbons, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman EmpireJohn McPhee, Annals Of The Former WorldPeter Ackroyd’s history of EnglandJoseph Needham’s history of Chinese science and technologyNo shortage of epics outside of fantasy, I’m thinking.</blockquote>