Her Majesty's Wizard

Author

Piers Anthony

Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.

For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would...

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441013465

“C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.”

Skeeve

used to be a magician apprentice until an assassin (who paid for the deed with his life right away) brought an untimely end to his master, but not before the latter summoned a demon.
“The Demon curled its lips back, revealing...

Author	David Farland
ISBN	0812541626

Young Prince Gaborn Val Orden of Mystarria is traveling in disguise on a journey to ask for the hand of the lovely Princess Iome of Sylvarresta when he and his warrior bodyguard spot a pair of assassins who have set their sights on the princess's father. The pair races to warn the king of the impending danger...

Author	Piers Anthony
ISBN	0345418514

B&N Synopsis:

Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks...

Author	Terry Brooks
ISBN	1857232569

Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin....

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0743498259

When I was young and dumb--even dumber than I am now--I spent a summer as a live-in staff member at a prestigious, World's-Top-Hideaways-list-making New Zealand luxury lodge, waiting tables and working housekeeping. For a hundred bucks a week in my pocket. This is one of the numerous downsides to having...

Author

Lyndon Hardy

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.



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	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0345350502

Jim Eckert was a dragon. He hadn't planned it that way, but that's what happened when he set out to rescue his betrothed. Following her through an erratic astral-projection machine, Jim suddenly found himself in a cockeyed world - locked in the body of a talking dragon named Gorbash.
That wouldn't...

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441013848

This review is dedicated to Iceland team of UEFA Euro 2016. Guys, you showed everybody you do not have to be a high-paid pro to play a good game.


“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.

Every chapter of...

Author

Piers Anthony

Twenty-five years ago, Piers Anthony fascinated us with the creation of Xanth–a wondrous land where magic rules supreme. Since then, the dazzling world of Xanth has delighted millions of readers. Now, here are the first three novels of this classic series to enthrall a whole new generation. . . .

A...

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441009530

Again this is two-books-in-one, which makes it a bit harder to review than otherwise. I also find that my reactions to them were very different. I had read them before, I think one time and certainly not more than twice, and remembered some of that, which had some impact on my appreciation. It is the fifth...

Author	John DeChancie
ISBN	0759231982

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

Castle Perilous is a giant castle with 144,000 rooms that are portals to other worlds. These portals are constantly shifting in and out of other dimensions and occasionally they temporarily open up somewhere on Earth. At those times people may stumble...

Author	Fred Saberhagen
ISBN	0812519345

I really enjoyed this book. It's like a heist movie but in an epic fantasy setting, and it's quite a refreshing change from all the newer fantasy novels that seem to follow the same basic formulaic plot.

The second book picks up the story five years later, and we get to follow Mark, Ben, and Barbara...

Author	Robert Jordan
ISBN	0812538366

This a big commitment...

I want to start this review by being very explicit -- don't start unless you have the time to finish in one go (over many months). There is so much detail and so many characters (all sounding similar) that it would be difficult to get through without an online guide...or...

Author	Joel Rosenberg
ISBN	0451453506

CAPTIVES OF SORCERY...
It began as just another evening of fantasy gaming, with James, Karl, Andrea, and the rest ready to assume their various roles as wizard, cleric, warrior, or thief. But sorcerous gamemaster Professor Deighton had something else planned for this unsuspecting group of college...

Author	Robert Lynn Asprin
ISBN	0441013627

Skeeve and Aazh were minding their own business in an inn they ended up owing as a result of the events of the first book. Their leisure time was interrupted by a soldier who brought an invitation to the great and powerful magician Skeeve (ha!) to accept a position of a court magician in a nearby kingdom....

Author	Lawrence Watt-Evans
ISBN	1587152827

- Wirikidor? What kind of name is Wirikidor?
- An old one, soldier. It's from a language so old that the name of the tongue is forgotten and no trace remains of the people who spoke it. It means 'slayer of warriors', and it was part of the spell I put on the thing, so now that's its name.

The...

Author	Julia Justiss
ISBN	0373298242

He's never forgotten her. But can he forgive her?

When Alastair Ransleigh sees Diana, Duchess of Graveston, for the first time since she jilted him, he makes her a shockingly insulting offer…the chance to become his mistress. And even more shockingly, she accepts!

But the widowed...