Across the Dark Metropolis
10 best books like Across the Dark Metropolis (Michael de Larrabeiti): The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, For Love of Mother-Not, Agatha H and the Airship City, The Complete Compleat Enchanter, The Tar-Aiym Krang, Bloodhype, The End of the Matter, Orphan Star, The Two Georges, The Reckoning
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
Seven stories of fantasy and fun by the fantastic Roald Dahl.
The Boy Who Talked With Animals - in which a stranded sea turtle and a small boy have more in common than meets the eye.
The Hitchhiker - proves that in a pinch a professional pickpocket can be the perfect pal.
The Mildenhall Treasure...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345346890 |
From bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, an exciting early Pip and Flinx novel that shows the origins of a certain boy with special powers--and the mini-dragon that becomes his devoted sidekick. . . .
Flinx was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely compelling...
Agatha H and the Airship City
Adventure! Romance! Mad Science!
The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties...
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 0671698095 |
This omnibus volume brings all five of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's "Compleat Enchanter" tales together in one nearly 500 page volume -- a good thing or bad thing depending on one's perspective, since each one of them is short, and really, light enough, to tempt one towards perusing on into...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345908570 |
Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space around it.
Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers -- a teeming, constantly shifting...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345310217 |
It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating slow death, and there was no known antidote.It was a killer!Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated from the humanx galaxy years before. At least that's what everyone thought. But somehow, mysteriously, that dreadful substance was...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345334655 |
Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra -- Ab for short -- Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake.
There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx's mysterious...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345324498 |
One man in the Universe holds the key to the mystery of Flinx’s past–and that man is trying to kill him!
It is a strange childhood for a kid, to be adopted by the restless Mother Mastiff and raised in the bustling marketplace of Drallar. Flinx never knew the mom and dad who abandoned him years...
| Author | Richard Dreyfuss |
| ISBN | 0812544595 |
A precious and historic painting has been stolen by terrorists—radical separatists who will stop at nothing to shatter the union. Colonel Thomas Bushell, the government’s most fearless agent, is the only man who can stop them.
But this is not our world. For the stolen painting depicts...
| Author | Beverly Lewis |
| ISBN | 0764224751 |
Katherine Mayfield, die nuwe eienaar van die Mayfield-landgoed, het haar lewe lank van ’n luukse lewe gedroom. Maar soos die jare verbygaan, mis sy haar Amish-gesin en dierbare vriendin Mary Stoltzfus. Verban uit die eenvoudige lewe wat sy eens geken het, vind Katherine troos in vrywillige diens...
| Author | Beverly Lewis |
| ISBN | 0764224735 |
I live in a very strict Amish community. I do not share one physical trait with the rest of my family now or in generations past. I seem to have a streak of creativity and music within me that the rest of my family does not. My mother had 2 miscarriages before I came along. For some reason she does not summon the...
| Author | Jack Dann |
| ISBN | 0553378570 |
TOMO I
Este sim é um verdadeiro Romance Histórico!!!
Já tive oportunidade de ler outros livros onde me cruzava com os ilustres personagen de Florença na altura de Leonardo Da Vinci, mas nunca em tão grande número.
É-nos apresentado um vasto desfile de personagens Históricas,...
| Author | Beverly Lewis |
| ISBN | 1556618670 |
I enjoyed the second book in this series, but I got pretty frustrated with the main character's willingness to forget her adoptive mother--her love, her sacrifices--ultimately the past 22 years of her life! She fell in love with the idea of her birthmother. Before she even met her, she convinced herself...
Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery & Fantasy
This one-of-a-kind collection features stories from some of the biggest names in mystery and fantasy-blending the genres into a unique hybrid where PIs may wear wizard's robes and criminals may really be monsters.
Sit in on a modern-day witch's trial, visit the halls of a magical boarding...
Arsene Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes: The Stage Play
| Author | Frank J. Morlock |
| ISBN | 1932983163 |
Arshne Lupin has stolen the Sultan Diamond under the nose of the French Police and Sherlock Holmes has sworn to recover the stone and arrest his rival - all in less than a week This 1910 French stage play pitting France's notorious Gentleman Burglar against England's Great Detective has never before...
Several Authors wrote short stories for this book. At least they kept the timeline intact (stories built on previous story).
The stories are all decent. Worth reading - once. There are only so many themes that can come of the formula of the worlds involved. The basic theme seems to be 1. end up...
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 0671721348 |
I'd read an earlier collection of Harold Shea stories before, and the ones here are follow-ups written well after the death of co-author Fletcher Pratt. I actually first heard of this series from a review in The Baum Bugle of "Sir Harold and the Gnome King," which brings Shea into Oz. That story is in here,...
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 0671698656 |
Dirk Barnevelt knew he wasn't a hero, but somebody had to find the explorer who'd vanished on the low-tech planet, Krisha and to do that, somebody had to single-handedly rescue a beautiful princess from bloodthirsty pirates and to do that, somebody had to lead the fleet against an impregnable fortress,...
