Elvendude
10 best books like Elvendude (Mercedes Lackey): Point of Dreams, Pawn's Dream, Bedlam Boyz, Avatar, The Three of Swords, The Ring of Allaire, The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Chrome Circle, Shroud of Shadow, The Well-Favored Man: The Tale of the Sorcerer's Nephew
Author | Melissa Scott |
ISBN | 0312875894 |
The city of Astreiant has gone crazy with enthusiasm for a new play, The Drowned Island, a lurid farrago of melodrama and innuendo. Pointsman Nicolas Rathe is not amused, however, at a real dead body on stage and must investigate. A string of murders follow, perhaps related to the politically important...
Author | Eric S. Nylund |
ISBN | 0380778874 |
"Dreaming awake and asleep," Roland Pritchard's life is a busy one. When he wakes in our world, he's stuck in a marginal job trying to care for his disturbed mother; when he sleeps in our world, he pursues a scholar's life in the isolated, mysterious Abbey. Sleeping or waking, both lives are frustratingly...
Author | Ellen Guon |
ISBN | 0671721771 |
I downloaded a bunch of free books from the Baen library, and I don't think a single one of them was any good, at least for my taste.
This one was--I don't know, maybe it's meant to be a middle-grade book, in which case some of the behaviour might make sense? But for an adult, it was just stupid. The...
Author | Louise Cooper |
ISBN | 0812508025 |
On her eternal quest to rid the world of the evil she had unleashed upon it, the wayfarer Indigo has been many things: penitent, messenger, pilgrim.
And perhaps now an avatar for the dead?
For Indigo's journey has lead her to the Dark Isles, where a cult of death has ensnared her and her...
Author | Fritz Leiber |
ISBN | 0739430165 |
The never-ending re-read
Book 1 - Swords And Deviltry:
- The Snow Women: Fafhrd, young skald in training, is torn between duty to his pregnant wife to be and his desire to see the world in the company of an actress visiting the Cold Wastes...
And here we are again after ten years on the shelf,...
Author | Susan Dexter |
ISBN | 0345292731 |
Master magician Blais was dead, murdered by the evil ice-lord Nimir. Now there was only Tristan, an ill-trained apprentice, to carry on the quest to rescue Allaire, a princess held in enchanted sleep in Nimir's frozen halls. Though a thousand master mages had already failed in the quest, Tristan must...
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
ISBN | 0446601403 |
Moonrise • (1988) • shortstory by Dorothy J. Heydt
Final Exam • (1988) • shortstory by Jennifer Roberson
Counterexample • (1989) • shortstory by L. A. Taylor
The Adinkra Cloth • (1989) • shortstory by Mary C. Aldridge
To Father a Sohn • (1989) • shortstory by Patricia...
Author | Mercedes Lackey |
ISBN | 0671876155 |
Fourth in the red-hot SERRAted Edge series. There are mages out there . . . and some of them are kind of cute--like Tannim, a young human mage with a taste for hot Celtic rock, fast cars and dangerous women. Now he thinks he's found Ms. Right, but there are some small problems: Her father is a dragon; she's...
Author | Gael Baudino |
ISBN | 0451452941 |
Natil is the last of the Elven race, and in this novel she takes a runaway nun, Omelda, under her wing during the time of the Inquisition. Natil's powers are mostly gone, except for her miraculous harp playing, which is the only thing that saves Omelda from suicide. Natil herself is suicidal, and wants...
Author | Elizabeth Willey |
ISBN | 0812519884 |
Welcome to Argylle -- and its ruling family, a brilliant flighty, civilized, and occasionally dangerous clan of nearly immortal warriors and magicians. Where young Prince Gwydion, stuck with ruling the Dominion, is finding his reign...eventful. Where strange Things keep turning up. Plagues of...