Harpist in the Wind
10 best books like Harpist in the Wind (Patricia A. McKillip): Tea with the Black Dragon, Lord Valentine's Castle, The Warlock in Spite of Himself, Madouc, Watchtower, The Sword of the Lictor, Courtship Rite, Brittle Innings, Earthquake Weather, Dervish Daughter
| Author | R.A. MacAvoy |
| ISBN | 1585861979 |
Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0061054879 |
Valentine, a wanderer who knows nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city, and joins a troupe of jugglers and acrobats; gradually, he remembers that he is the Coronal Valentine, executive ruler of the vast world of Majipoor, and all its peoples, human and otherwise...
Valentine's...
| Author | Christopher Stasheff |
| ISBN | 0441873022 |
The book starts off as typical sci-fi/fantasy fodder: An undercover agent, Rodney Gallowglass, discovers an entire planet of earth-descended espers who cut off communications with their home planet centuries before. By the time Rodney finds them they've structured their civilization based on...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0441505325 |
The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with rotten fruit. Vexed, King Casmir arranges a contest to marry her off,...
| Author | Elizabeth A. Lynn |
| ISBN | 0743498097 |
Tornor Keep is the legendary tower that guards the winter end of a summer land. But when Tornor is overrun by raiders, a young prince is the tower's last hope-in an enchanting story of a time far removed from ours, and a land alive with warriors, lovers, war and honor. The Watchtower is the first in the memorable...
| 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 | Donald Kingsbury |
| ISBN | 0671460897 |
A vast alien landscape, a human culture based on our own, yet evolved in strange ways by the forces of an inimical nature provide a panoramic backdrop for the romantic adventures of a large cast of memorable & attractive characters.
Courtship Rite is a sf novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury,...
| Author | Michael Bishop |
| ISBN | 0553569430 |
For seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a 5'5" shortstop out of Tenkiller, Oklahoma, the summer of 1943 would be a season to remember. The country's at war, and professional baseball needs able-bodied men. Danny's headed for Highbridge, Georgia - home of the Goober Pride peanut butter factory and the...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 0812555198 |
A young woman possessed by a ghost has slain the Fisher King of the West, Scott Crane. Now, temporarily freed from that malevolent spirit, she seeks to restore the King to life.
But Crane's body has been taken to the magically protected home of Pete and Angelica Sullivan, and their adopted son,...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 0812556127 |
The True Game is told from Peter's point of view and overlaps with the the first book in this trilogy, Jinian Footseer.
Somebody had sent people to kill Jinian. Seers had told them that Jinian was going to be a thorn in their side. After the battle on the wastes of Bleer, Jinian, Peter, Chance and...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0879974664 |
The Gates were relics of a lost era. The Union Science Bureau surmised that they had once linked a whole network of civilizations throughout the galaxy-an empire ruled by a ruthless race known as the qhal. This qhal empire had spanned both Space and Time, for their Gates warped time, enabling qhal travelers...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0345911709 |
Three thousand years before, the monstrous Dark had sprung from loathsome underground lairs to destroy most of humanity. Now they were again ravening and ruining in their blood-hunger. Only a few thousand people had managed to find refuge in the ancient fortress Keep of Renweth.
There, even the...
| Author | Katherine Kurtz |
| ISBN | 0345259521 |
So when last we left our heroes, Cinhil Donal Ifor Haldane had (reluctantly) been plucked from his monastic life and assumed the kingship (by chucking his predecessor Imre's dead body off of a balcony into the royal courtyard).
Saint Camber picks up six months later. Cinhil is still uneasily...
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0879977094 |
I saw her, hanging in the sky like a flake of the moon. A woman, her face masked by a black shireen, her body by a black shift, but her white arms spread, and her white, white, bone-white hair blowing all around her like a flame composed of smoke. Recognition was immediate. It was my mother. I shouted at her....
