Hyperborea

5 best books like Hyperborea (Clark Ashton Smith): Up the Walls of the World, The Adventures of Alyx, The Lurker at the Threshold, Sword & Citadel, The King in Yellow

AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0441854710
Up the Walls of the World is a 1978 sf novel by the American Alice Sheldon who wrote under the pen name of James Tiptree, Jr. It was the 1st novel she published having until then worked & built a reputation only in the field of short stories.
The book explores the possibility that telepathy &...
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0671459007
Alyx, assassin and thief — meet her in palaces and back alleys, on the frozen wastes of a distant planet

Since the time of the ancient Phoenicians, Alyx has courted danger like a lover, sweeping through centuries of intrigue, passion and plunder.

Venture with her to the wicked city...
The Lurker at the Threshold
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0786711884
He is not to open the door which leads to the strange time and place, nor to invite Him Who lurks at the threshold ..." went the warning in the old family manuscript that Ambrose Dewart discovered when he returned to his ancestral home in the deep woods of rural Massachusetts. Dewart's investigations into...
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0312890184
The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century"...
AuthorRobert W. Chambers
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5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations".

although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America where on-lookers gather to contemplate...
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