Black Easter

8 best books like Black Easter (James Blish): They'd Rather Be Right, The Reluctant Swordsman, Dragonlinks, The Hunters' Haunt, The Haunted Woman, The Time Machine, Last Days, Elfsong

AuthorMark Clifton
ISBN0898651654
Bossy was right. Always. Invariably. She was limited only in that she had to have facts -- not assumptions -- with which to work. Given those facts, her conclusions and predictions were inevitably correct.

And that made Bossy a 'ticking bomb.'

Bossy had been designed as a servomechanism...
The Reluctant Swordsman
AuthorDave Duncan
ISBN0345352912
Yes, I'm giving this the rare 5 star rating. I'm a bit surprised I decided to go that high...but it's a good read. No deep emotional depths here, no great philosophical insights just a good adventurous read.

Wally is dying, well actually he seems to be dead. But instead of heading off to the after...
AuthorPaul Collins
ISBN0141314257
An all-powerful, enchanted mailshirt from the stars. Six links are missing. An orphan, a streetwise urchin and a swordsman must find the links before the greatest evil known descends upon Qzar. Jelindel dek Mediesar led a charmed life until Lindrak assassins murdered her family. Fleeing to the markets,...
AuthorDave Duncan
ISBN1585861146
A blizzard savaged the mountain peaks, but at an inn called the Hunters' Haunt, travelers found safe refuge, a cozy room, and a roaring fire. All but Omar, the Trader of Tales -- against whom the innkeeper had been nursing a grudge. But before he could pitch Omar out into the storm, his other guests proposed...
AuthorDavid Lindsay
ISBN0809532344
Victorian-era romance—stiff-mannerisms and lacquered morality and formalized discourse—curiously carried through to Home County life in post-Great War England; yet, this being a book by Lindsay, endowed with an intriguing blend of supernatural-cum-psychological excavation, spiritual...
The Time Machine
AuthorShirley Bogart
ISBN0866119833
SUMMARY
"This is my mini model of the time machine", said the young scientist proudly. Filby and everyone else just stared boringly. Then a random man yelled " Well make it do something!". Then...POOF...it was gone! Filby was amazed as he ran his hands over the table that the model had been sitting...
Last Days
AuthorAdam Nevill
ISBN1250018188
Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is...
Elfsong
AuthorElaine Cunningham
ISBN0786916613
I regret that I have to rate this with "I did not like it", because Elaine Cunningham is a better writer that others who garnered one-star ratings from me for their Forgotten Realms novels (Ed Greenwood, I'm looking at you). Unfortunately, I simply did not like this book, despite my efforts. Before starting...
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