Heir of Sea and Fire

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	L. Sprague de Camp
ISBN	0345314352

The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages - at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient legend. But slips in time were a hazard, and Shea's magic did not always...

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

Lyndon Hardy

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Maxwell's Demon: "Master of the Five Magics" by Lyndon Hardy



(Original Review, 1980-10-02)


Just out from Del Rey is MASTER OF THE FIVE MAGICS by Lyndon Hardy (who "became interested in fantasy...

Author	Tanith Lee
ISBN	0886771978

When the world was flat and the gods had not yet restructured the universe, the cities and hopes of mankind hung upon the whims of the immortal lords of all diabolical powers.

For these, such as Azhrarn, Night's Master, and Uhlume, Death's Master, the world was a flesh-and-blood playground...

Author	Katherine Kurtz
ISBN	0345256263

Young Kelson Haldane has claimed his birthright and assumed the throne of Gwynedd. For the first time in centuries, a king of Deryni heritage, possessing extraordinary magical abilities, rules the realm.But the priesthood of the Eleven Kingdoms has held sway over the Crown for generations. They...

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	Elizabeth A. Lynn
ISBN	0441006876

Watchtower was the first in a breathtaking fantasy trilogy...now the Chronicles Of Tornor continues. Kerris has spent seventeen years training his mind as scholar and scribe of Tornor. His brother Kel is one of the chearis - the dancing warriors of Arun - who teaches him the beauty of patterning. This...

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	Lawrence Watt-Evans
ISBN	1587155907

Watt-Evans expands his story and sends Garth, via the Forgotten King, to another portion of the map, this time with the job of stealing "whatever lies upon the seven altars of Dusarra." Soon Garth arrives in Dusarra and discovers that this job is, in fact, a hell of an undertaking.

What is a straightforward,...