A Midsummer Tempest

8 best books like A Midsummer Tempest (Poul Anderson): Lord of Light, Spellsinger, The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys, Mean Streets, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection, The Fifth Knight, Swing Shift

Lord of Light

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0060567236

Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment at the foot of the Bodhi tree and became the Buddha: his teachings swept across India, striking at the roots of decadent Brahmanism. The Hindu priests were understandably alarmed, but were helpless against the doctrine of the eightfold path as the stale air...

Spellsinger

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0743498259

When I was young and dumb--even dumber than I am now--I spent a summer as a live-in staff member at a prestigious, World's-Top-Hideaways-list-making New Zealand luxury lodge, waiting tables and working housekeeping. For a hundred bucks a week in my pocket. This is one of the numerous downsides to having...

The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

Author	Marina Chapman
ISBN	1605984744

The poignant story of a girl who overcomes unique hardship and deprivation - growing up with a troop of capuchin monkeys - to find ultimate redemption.

In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her...

Mean Streets

Author	Jim Butcher
ISBN	0451462491

Jim Butcher delivers a hard-boiled tale in which Harry Dresden’s latest case may be his last.

Nightside dweller John Taylor is hired by a woman to find something she lost—her memory—in a noir tale from Simon R. Green.

Kat Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in too deep...

Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

Author	Alan Alda
ISBN	1400066174

Picking up where his bestselling memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–beloved actor and acclaimed author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some impossible questions he’s asked himself...

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

Author	Gardner Dozois
ISBN	0312157029

Presents 23 of the finest science-fiction works of 1995, including stories by such diverse writers as Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Mike Resnick, and others.

Contents
ix • Summation: 1996 • essay by Gardner Dozois
1...

The Fifth Knight

Author	E.M. Powell
ISBN	1611099331

When mercenary Sir Benedict Palmer agrees to help King Henry II’s knights seize the traitor Archbishop Thomas Becket, what begins as a clandestine arrest ends in cold-blooded murder. And when Fitzurse, the knights’ ringleader, kidnaps Theodosia, a beautiful young nun who witnessed the crime,...

Swing Shift

Author

William D. Arand

Reports to write, forms to fill, coffee to drink, leads to run down.

Gus’s life was a tedium and boredom he’d grown comfortable with. One that he sought out after he’d come back from his tour of duty.

A Detective in the Paranormal Investigations Department. A job he could work...