Hadon of Ancient Opar
7 best books like Hadon of Ancient Opar (Philip José Farmer): The War-Torn Kingdom, Daemonomania, Under the Green Star, Cormac Mac Art, Tarzan at the Earth's Core, Ardneh's World, Yurth Burden
I was absolutely in love with these books as a kid, circa the mid-90s; for me they were sort of a half-way point between a Choose Your Own Adventure novel and a modern computer-based RPG.
The Fabled Lands books aren't so much a story as they are an adventure in a world. Each book can be played alone,...
| Author | John Crowley |
| ISBN | 0553378236 |
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In a perfect world, John Crowley would be universally recognized as one of our greatest living writers. His novels -- which include Little, Big, arguably the finest single volume fantasy of the past half century -- are intricate, beautifully composed creations that demand -- and...
| Author | Lin Carter |
| ISBN | 1587156474 |
On Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse--confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them--until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, appearing in the body of a fabled hero, he is to experience...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0671876511 |
These four stories about the pirate Cormac Mac Art are not Robert E. Howard's best work. None of these stories - the only know Cormac Mac Art stories written by REH - were published in REH's lifetime. According to editor Richard T. Tierney in his introduction, two of these stories were incomplete at REH's...
| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0803262566 |
This was a book I loved when I was fifteen. It involves Tarzan joining an expedition to the hollow world at the Earth’s core, the dinosaur haunted setting of Burroughs Pellucidar novels, to rescue David Innes from the clutches of the Korsars. It’s an odd book which features a lot of running around,...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0671654047 |
I didn't realize until later that it belonged to a series. It's economical and self-contained, and now I'm not sure I want to pursue the other books. The slots where the previous books fit seem better imagined than actually read.
It takes a little work to get past the Thundarr The Barbarian aspects:...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0879977027 |
The world of Zacar was wracked with storms and life there was hard. Yet tow races shared it with no love between them. The Raski were the first people, the Yurth the late comers.
This is the story of Elossa, the Yurth girl who followed the Call that every Yurth sensitive must follow when the time...
