Dai-San
10 best books like Dai-San (Eric Van Lustbader): Gather, Darkness!, The Stone God Awakens, Nightfall One, Figures of Earth, Prisoner of Conscience, Calix Stay, Bones of the Past, The Clockwork Traitor, The Book of Frank Herbert, Earthworks
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1585861065 |
GATHER, DARKNESS! is a science-fiction classic. It tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0441786529 |
A 20th century scientist is rendered frozen at the molecular level, and then reanimated millennia later by a freak accident to a strange world populated by sentient, anthropomorphic animals, who take his awakening to be the fulfillment of prophecy. He accepts the mantle of godhood and sets about discovering...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0586034668 |
Its my first book by Asimov, and a beautiful introduction to his work, before I embark on the bigger journey through some of his series. Being a fan of short stories, and of sci-fi, coupled with the praise that Asimov gets for his stories, I was prepared to be awed. Lets just say, there was nothing that left...
| Author | James Branch Cabell |
| ISBN | 1414298250 |
Mundus vult decipi - the world wants to be deceived - and the happier man is one whose desires remain unfulfilled inform all of Cabell's writing. As the chroniclers write of Poictesme's redemption:
"For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle,...
| Author | Susan R. Matthews |
| ISBN | 0380789140 |
Andrei Koscuisko is an Inquisitor for the Bench federation of worlds. It is his duty to root out -- quickly, efficiently, quietly -- anyone who would threaten the ruling order.Andrei has been posted to the penal facility at Port Rudistal. Here hundreds of prisoners -- traitors who dared dream of freedom...
| Author | Niel Hancock |
| ISBN | 0445040475 |
Welcome to Atlanton Earth!In the tumultuous third saga of their epic adventures, Broco the Dwarf and his companions, Otto and Bear, must avoid capture by the dark forces. For in their care they possess the sacred Arkenchest, and it must be saved . . . at any cost.Their only hope of reaching safety is a desperate...
| Author | Holly Lisle |
| ISBN | 0671721607 |
The City of the First Folk was an Archaeological Find -- and a Lurking HorrorNever dig up the bones of the past -- because the past never dies, and it resents being buried.... A tiny band of outcast children.... A young girl marked for sacrifice.... An ancient scholar.... A head-hunting mage.... An insane...
| Author | E.E. "Doc" Smith |
| ISBN | 0586043365 |
TREASON THREATENS THE GALAXY
A robber captured in far-off Kolokov knows a secret that threatens the stability of the succession of the Throne of the Empire of Earth. But he withstands the powers of the fatal truth-telling drug nitrobarb and dies before revealing the traitors' names. Daring...
Add to the names of
HEINLEIN
CLARKE
BRUNNER
ALDISS
and other titans of science fiction the name of
FRANK HERBERT
whose epic novel DUNE made SF best-seller history--along with his DUNE MESSIAH, THE SANTAROGA BARRIER, and others.
DAW BOOKS proudly presents...
Out of Africa comes a dead man walking upon the water - a portent of the political adventures into which j Knowle Noland, ex-convict, ex-travellerand captain of the 80,000-ton freighter Trieste Star, is about to tumble headlong.
Choked, disease-ridden towns, robots and prison gangs tending...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879978619 |
The sequel to Hunters of the Red Moon, The Survivors is better in so many ways. It carries forth the tone of Hunters as a good, straightforward adventure story while shading the characters with interesting complications. Sometime after Dane survives the Hunt with Rhianna and Aratak, he finds himself...
| Author | Paul O. Williams |
| ISBN | 0803298501 |
More than one thousand years in the future, the conservative borders of Pelbar society continue to crumble as the people of Pelbar conduct trade, form friendships, and intermarry with members of the tribes now settled peacefully around the citadel of Northwall. Not all agree with the changes, however,...
| Author | James P. Blaylock |
| ISBN | 0586201742 |
As I mentioned in my review of The Elfin Ship, I picked up this charming series again because I had adored the first two as a child. And was delighted to discover Blaylock had written this third book in the series, The Stone Giant, which I had never heard of.
Well...I'm glad I completed the series,...
The Man Who Risked His Partner
| Author | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0765302047 |
Stephen R. Donaldson is one of America's acclaimed storytellers. But in the 1980s, he published three novels about private investigators Mick Axbrewder and Ginny Fistoulari, as paperback originals under the pseudonym "Reed Stephens." In 2001, Tor published a fourth novel about these characters,...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 0312890222 |
Come to the world of the River.
Come to a world distant in time and space, a world where the pace of life is counted by tides of the great River, but where, as in the river itself, there are swift dark currents flowing under a placid surface.
Meet Pamra Don--a young woman scarred by her mother's...
| Author | Karl Edward Wagner |
| ISBN | 0937986720 |
I love the Kane books by Karl Edward Wagner, but I was tempted to rate this final volume even lower : three of the best novellas already published in the previous volumes are gathered here with two shortish stories, so 80 % of the collection is recycled material and it just doesn't feel right to call this...
| Author | Randall Garrett |
| ISBN | 0441491413 |
Lord Darcy Investigates is a collection of short stories by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback in 1981 by Ace Books.
The book collects four Lord Darcy short stories originally published in the magazines Analog Science...
To the Gates of Palanthas
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0786930969 |
Fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, was one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world. I've written numerous novels and short stories set in the world of Krynn, as well as series in other, original worlds. These include: Darksword, Rose of the Prophet, Star of the Guardians,...
| Author | Peter Morwood |
| ISBN | 0712609318 |
I liked this book less than its prequel. (view spoiler)[It feels that anyone the main character meets on his way tends to be someone important for his mission, one way or another; even the ten-years ago deposed heiress to the land, hidden away in an obscure village lost in the biggest forest of the continent......
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0450045986 |
Welcome home, Space Commander Lane. We know you've had a difficult time this past year evading those enigmatic, hostile aliens you encountered out there in the unmapped spaces between the stars. But you've also been gone a total of 10 yrs.-- and things have changed back here on earth.
Take spaceport...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0671559761 |
Essef - The plot centers around one rascally race called the Voions who have been given police powers by the Diplomatic Corps and who are on the verge of taking over the planet. Thrown into the mix are a would-be dictator, a group of Terran rum traders, a spaceship full of beautiful girls that has crashed...
| Author | Patricia Bray |
| ISBN | 0553584774 |
To save his people, he may have to destroy the one thing that protects them . . . his own magic.
Devlin of Duncaer has retrieved the Sword of Light--the legendary weapon of the Chosen One. But while Devlin was fulfilling his sacred quest, dark forces have swarmed the royal court. To defend his country's...
...I'm not entirely sure which novel I would rate higher. Harpy's Flight is more frantic, I liked the tension in that novel and the plot better. The Windsingers is definitely better structured though. I felt some of the tension in the sections with Ki and Dresh was lacking a bit although some readers might...
| 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...
