An Alien Heat
9 best books like An Alien Heat (Michael Moorcock): The Shadow of the Torturer, A Maze of Death, The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine, Skinny Legs and All, We Can Build You, Coyote Horizon, To Marry Medusa, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
The Shadow of the Torturer
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671540661 |
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".
You can rarely trust the...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0679752986 |
Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O,...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0312863543 |
A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling...
| Author | Nancy Qualls-Corbett |
| ISBN | 0919123317 |
The ancient connection between spirituality and passionate love has in modern times become lost to the depths of the unconscious, leaving a broad sense of dissatisfaction and boredom in relationships. When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense...
| Author | Tom Robbins |
| ISBN | 1842430343 |
I can't think of any other book I've read very recently that left my mind as thoroughly blown as Skinny Legs and All. I'd only read one other Tom Robbins book -- Still Life With Woodpecker -- so I was prepared for his playfulness, humor, intricate (but goofy) language, and overall trippy feel that all come...
Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's...
| Author | Allen M. Steele |
| ISBN | 0441016820 |
"The master of science-fiction intrigue" (Washington Post) returns to the Coyote universe.
The planet of Coyote has become the last, best hope of humankind, but it has also become the principal point of contact with the hjadd, the alien race encountered by a European starship many years earlier....
| Author | Theodore Sturgeon |
| ISBN | 0375703721 |
Up until one minute ago, Gurlick was merely a specimen of homo sapiens, and a substandard specimen at that. But now this craven, seething, barely literate drunk has ingested a spore that travelled light years before touching down on our planet. A spore that has in turn ingested Gurlick - turned him into...
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
| Author | Robert L. Moore |
| ISBN | 0062506064 |
The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally distant father are all boys pretending to be men, observe the authors of this liberating guide to self-transformation. Writing within a Jungian framework, they perceive symptoms of "Boycaps per book...
