Carson of Venus

Author

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was one of the big guns of Victorian literature. His books were bestsellers and he garnered considerable critical acclaim as well. And yet today he is not merely mostly unread, he has become a byword by bad writing, with a literary competition...

Author	Patrick O'Brian
ISBN	0393307050

As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency...

Author	David Gemmell
ISBN	0345379071

All of Waylander's instincts had screamed at him to spurn the contract from Kaem the cruel, the killer of nations. But he had ignored them. He had made his kill. And even as he went to collect his gold, he knew that he had been betrayed.
Now the Dark Brotherhood and the hounds of chaos were hunting him,...

Author	Ed Greenwood
ISBN	0786902035

Seriously, why did I ever read this rubbish?
17 May 2012

You have seriously got to be kidding, a bad novelist has turned a bad novel about a seriously annoying character into a franchise. When I ran a search for this book on Goodreads I discovered that there is a whole series of books about...

Author	Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
ISBN	8375062618

Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski - podróżnik, szpieg, awanturnik, wojownik, uczony, dyplomata, poliglota, dziennikarz i wielki erudyta. Podobne określenia można by przytaczać bez końca. Jest drugim po Henryku Sienkiewiczu najbardziej znanym polskim pisarzem na świecie, czego dowodem...

Author	E.E. "Doc" Smith
ISBN	0803293038

In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton’s allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous...