Damiano's Lute
10 best books like Damiano's Lute (R.A. MacAvoy): The Shadow of the Torturer, The Red Threads of Fortune, Castle Waiting, Vol. 1, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, The Elfstones of Shannara, The Wounded Land, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, Castle Waiting, Vol. 2, The Machine Stops and Other Stories
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...
The Red Threads of Fortune
| Author | J.Y. Yang |
| ISBN | 0765395398 |
The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven, available now.
Fallen prophet, master of the elements,...
| Author | Linda Medley |
| ISBN | 1560977477 |
Castle Waiting graphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil,...
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
| Author | Guy Delisle |
| ISBN | 1897299214 |
Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country. While living in the nation's capital...
The Elfstones of Shannara
| Author | Terry Brooks |
| ISBN | 0736693416 |
Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....
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| Author | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0345418468 |
I started this book and found Thomas Covenant was himself, as we knew him in the first series..."woe is me! Life is unfair (to me), all is lost, there is no hope!" So I followed his example....I saved myself! Not again will I suffer through Thomas Covenant's eternal, endless self flagellation and self...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671416162 |
Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic of the Master of Power, a legendary figure of mythic proportions. Armed with his sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw, Severian continues his journey to Thrax, the city of his exile. Bizarre apes, strange...
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0671631934 |
This, as well as the first two books and theoretically the last in the series, is rapidly becoming the most difficult work of SF I've ever read. Why? It's not particularly difficult to follow; the Hero's Quest is rather straightforward throughout. Nor is the main character Severian particularly uninteresting...
| Author | Linda Medley |
| ISBN | 1606994050 |
Ohhhh these graphic novels are like cookies. Book cookies. Nom nom nom nom. The kind of book cookie you don't know you're craving until you see it on the shelf. I guess they're like cookies that someone else is making and you don't realize until you smell them baaaaaaaking and all of a sudden you NEED one....
The Machine Stops and Other Stories
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0233991670 |
"The Machine Stops," a classic piece of science fiction by E. M. Forster, is an ode to original thinking, to the expressiveness of the human body, and to the difficult work of articulating individual identity and the mechanics of insight. It is, at heart, the story of a mother and her son, Vashti and Kuno,...
