Falcon
10 best books like Falcon (Emma Bull): Magic for Liars, River of Teeth, The Privilege of the Sword, Swordspoint, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Fall of the Kings, Trouble and Her Friends, Witch World, Free Live Free, Reclamation
Ivy Gamble has never wanted to be magic. She is perfectly happy with her life—she has an almost-sustainable career as a private investigator, and an empty apartment, and a slight drinking problem. It's a great life and she doesn't wish she was like her estranged sister, the magically gifted professor...
| Author | Sarah Gailey |
| ISBN | 0765395223 |
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true.
Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0553382683 |
Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power in the city's ballroom, brothels and boudoirs. Into this alluring world walks Katherine, a well-bred country girl versed in the rules of conventional society. Her mistake is thinking that they apply. For Katherine's...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0553585495 |
The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.
Hailed by critics as "a bravura performance" (Locus) and "witty, sharp-eyed, [and] full of interesting people" (Newsday), this classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected...
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0553585940 |
This stunning follow-up to Ellen Kushner's cult-classic novel, "Swordspoint," is set in the same world of labyrinthine intrigue, where sharp swords and even sharper wits rule. Against a rich tapestry of artists and aristocrats, students, strumpets, and spies, a gentleman and a scholar will find...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812522133 |
Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0441897088 |
Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels. Simon Tregarth, a man from our own world, escapes his doom through the gates to the Witch World....
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0312868367 |
"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway.
Free...
| Author | Sarah Zettel |
| ISBN | 0446602922 |
"Reclamation" Heretic priest turned data pirate, Eric Born has run from his past for years. Then his steady clients - a self-proclaimed master race called the Vitae - kidnap a mysterious pariah named Arla Stone from the Realm of the Nameless, the shattered, pre-technological planet Eric fled long...
Cold Sweats and Vignettes
Four short stories.
I think this series of four short stories was probably a mistake for me, given that I'm not a fan of science fiction, horror or short stories. So if you like these genres in your reading, you'll probably love this book.
The narration by Phil Mayes was suitably menacing, though...
