What Long Fantasy Book Series Have The Most Expansive Worldbuilding?

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I'd argue for Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere as a single, interconnected 'series'. It's a cheat, maybe, but the worldbuilding isn't confined to one planet or magic system. Each series—'Stormlight Archive', 'Mistborn'—builds its own incredibly detailed world, but they're all pieces of a larger cosmological puzzle. Seeing how fundamental forces like Investiture manifest differently across worlds, and how characters or ideas subtly cross over, creates a sense of scale that no single series can match. The ambition to craft a unified universe across dozens of books is the very definition of expansive worldbuilding.
2026-07-18 08:37:02
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Not enough people talk about Steven Erikson's 'Malazan Book of the Fallen' in these conversations. It throws you into the deep end with no life preserver, relying on you to piece together millennia of history, competing magic systems, and countless races. The world wasn't built for the reader's convenience; it feels like it existed long before we started reading. You have empires rising and falling, continents with their own gods and conflicts, and an archaeological depth that's honestly staggering. It's less about explaining the rules and more about uncovering a world that's already fully formed and brutally complex.
2026-07-22 14:03:16
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