Battle Circle
10 best books like Battle Circle (Piers Anthony): The Unforsaken Hiero, Juggling for the Complete Klutz, A Million Open Doors, The Variable Man and Other Stories, Return to Centaur, The Northern Girl, The Collector's Book of Science Fiction by H.G. Wells, A Spectre Is Haunting Texas, Artifact of Evil, Some Will Not Die
| Author | Sterling E. Lanier |
| ISBN | 0345302281 |
Per Hiero Desteen was alone, weaponless and without food or water, facing the unknown perils of the desert in this grim world, five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death.
Sent south to spy on the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean which fought to destroy the emerging civilization...
| Author | John Cassidy |
| ISBN | 0932592007 |
I think that I would give this book two and a half stars.
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| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812516338 |
Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures.
But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0722129629 |
Billed as a complete novel along with a selection of shorts, The Variable Man itself is more of a novella these days. A man is pulled accidentally from his own time into the 22nd century where his very existence is a variable factor that the computers planning the war against Centarus can't plan for.
This...
| Author | Richard Pini |
| ISBN | 0936861207 |
This is hands down one of the weirdest things I have ever read. Like Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz in an ostensibly "classic" fantasy setting, full of puns and weird humor. Digging around the concept of Xanth to better understand what I was reading, I decided that the broader work of Piers Anthony...
| Author | Elizabeth A. Lynn |
| ISBN | 0441007279 |
Elizabeth Lynn's Chronicles of Tornor are richly characterized but have no connecting characters, her style changes per book to fit the period described, and she muses challengingly on both gender and orientation. the cumulative effect of all the life journeys depicted is one that encourages careful...
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 0890092087 |
You can now read H.G. Wells' most famous science fiction exactly as it appeared in illustrated popular magazines at the turn of the century.
Presented here in their entirety - with all the original illustrations by leading artists of the day - are novels such as The War of the Worlds, The First...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0575003898 |
A Spectre is Haunting Texas is a Fritz Leiber novel, 1st appearing as a book in 1969, originally published as a 3-part serial in Galaxy Science Fiction in July, August, and September 1968 .
Scully Christopher Crockett La Cruz is an actor, fortune seeker & adventurer from the isolated orbital...
| Author | Gary Gygax |
| ISBN | 0880382791 |
OERTH...
to some, a cherished homeland.
to others, a target of domination.
When the Artifact of Evil is unearthed from its ancient hiding place, it becomes the object of a battle between the forces of good and evil. At stake is the fate of the entire world of Oerth--and the lives...
| Author | Algis Budrys |
| ISBN | 1587760290 |
If you don't normally like post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will surprise you. If you love post-apocalyptic fiction, read this book: it will be a refreshing change to most other similar novels.
The premise is simple and has been used many times since: a mysterious plague wipes...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0812516958 |
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ACE #1
The sequel to N-Space
Playgrounds of the Mind captures the startling range and variety of Larry Niven's spectacular career, from bestselling novels such as Lucifer's Hammer and The Ringworld Engineers, from his...
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0441091423 |
"For the first fifty pages you'll swear that Harrison has been rummaging in an old trunk. Here's that tired old theme...the lost community of Aztecs who have been cut off in a hidden valley by a landslide centuries ago. Presently they will discover the outside world--our world. The stalwart Aztec maverick...
| Author | Randall Garrett |
| ISBN | 0553259423 |
This is an omnibus of 3 novels; THE STEEL OF RAITHSKAR, THE GLASS OF DYSKORNIS, and THE BRONZE OF EDDARTA.
One moment he was Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor from our own world. The next, he found himself in a young, strong body in the exotic desert world of Gandalara.
He was...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345296613 |
Ethan Frome Fortune had been on Tran-Ky-ky long enough...too long in fact. He wanted out. He wanted to get back to business. He wanted to go home. So he and his sidekick Skua September headed their giant icerigger toward Brass Monkey, the busy off-world trading post where they were sure they could book...
| Author | Paul O. Williams |
| ISBN | 0803298498 |
One thousand years after “the time of fire,” a gentle craftsman and flute player forsakes both his true love and birthright to seek the fabled Shining Sea. Stel, born of proud but rigid Pelbar culture, embarks on an epic quest across an America dramatically changed by a long-ago nuclear war. Following...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0441843174 |
BERSERKERS
The death machines are capable of any treachery, able to assume any disguise, motivated only by their prime directive: to seek out and destroy life wherever it may hide.
MAN
The fragile life-form that hides within its puny frame a curiously unquenchable something ......
The Alchemist in the Shadows
| Author | Pierre Pevel |
| ISBN | 1616143657 |
Paris, 1633: Cardinal Richelieu is on his guard. France is under threat, and a secret society is conspiring against him from the heart of the greatest courts in Europe. To counter the threat, Richelieu has put his most trusted men into play: the Cardinal's Blades, led by Captain la Fargue. When la Fargue...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0345395107 |
From Julian May, the acclaimed author who created the incredible worlds of The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc, comes a bold new science fiction adventure!
When rebellious Asahel Frost was expelled from the Interstellar Commerce Secretariat on trumped-up charges, he lost it all:...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0755100697 |
Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may...
