Pick a universe
Nole Moody writes in more than one universe. They don’t share a map — one’s a stranger Britain, another’s a starship a long way from anywhere — but they share a voice: dry, warm, and quietly convinced the sensible one in the room is usually the monster. Start wherever you like.
5 books · Mr. Gorzug
He came through a portal to conquer a world. He stayed to mark its homework.
A nine-foot orc war-chief falls into a struggling Sussex comprehensive and, against all sensible advice, stays to teach. Five books of dry staffroom comedy, paperwork as siege warfare, and a found family assembling itself when nobody is looking.
2 books · Corey Naylor
Die Hard in Space, with an unskilled janitor.
A different universe entirely — no dragons, no portals — but the same dry everyman voice. Comic science fiction aboard a diplomatic cruiser that has just been boarded by pirates. One story told across two books, and both are out now, so the shift can be finished in an evening.
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Modern Britain, leaning up against the old, strange country it came from.
Everywhere else the old strangeness still gets in — usually damp, frequently polite, and almost always obstructed by paperwork. Right now that means a Yorkshire garden centre with something in armour climbing out of the ground beside Aquatic Plants.