Kane of Old Mars
10 best books like Kane of Old Mars (Michael Moorcock): We Have Always Lived on Mars, The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr, Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1), Return to Lankhmar, Doctor Syn, Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth Omnibus, Vol. 1, Rumpole and the Golden Thread, Hadon of Ancient Opar, The War-Torn Kingdom, The Complete Pegāna: All the Tales Pertaining to the Fabulous Realm of Pegāna
| Author | Cecil Castellucci |
| ISBN | 1466844175 |
Nina, one of the few descendants of human colony on Mars that was abandoned by Earth, is surprised to discover that she can breathe the toxic atmosphere of the Martian surface. The crew, thinking that their attempts at terraforming and breeding for Martian adaptability have finally payed off, rejoice...
| Author | Paul French |
| ISBN | 0739419412 |
These books are so cute! They all feature David "Lucky" Starr in a sci-fi take on the Lone Ranger. All six books are quite similar in a few ways. For example, Asimov tries to keep you on your toes if you try to figure out who the mastermind villain is, but the villian in each book is a similar character. So once...
Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1)
| Author | Alan Burt Akers |
| ISBN | 0860078027 |
On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth.
His name is Dray Prescot, and only the Savanti know his role.
Dray Prescot...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1565048962 |
And so on to the third of the collected Swords books - reading these books does feel like I am picking up the literary equivalent of a Russian doll - you have this omnibus contains - two books, which in turn turn contain a series of short stories.
I am not going to go through each story plus my no spoilers...
Posing as a respectable vicar in Dymchurch at the turn of the 18th century, Dr. Syn is actually the retired pirate Captain Clegg. Clegg, believed hanged in Rye, is no longer being sought by the authorities. However, country life proves too tame for the good "Dr. Syn," and his attention turns to smuggling....
| Author | Jack Kirby |
| ISBN | 1401232337 |
At long last, DC presents the adventures of Kamandi, the last boy on Earth, in the popular Jack Kirby Omnibus format! In these tales from KAMANDI #1-20, Kamandi - one of the few survivors of a Great Disaster that has destroyed civilization -- must make his way in a world populated by bizarre mutated animals...
| Author | John Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0140063315 |
the title story manages to weave old-fashioned morality, English legalese, colonialism, and the need for African independence into an inoffensive little mystery. but is that a valediction or a condemnation? this take on a loaded topic is certainly tasteful and wryly amusing. but should it be?
in...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0879976373 |
Opar...the Atlantean colony in the heart of Tarzan's Africa.
Opar...in the words of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a hidden city of "gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks."
Opar...is the starting point of this fabulous novel of twelve thousand years past, when Africa had in inland...
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 | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN | 1568821166 |
Lord Dunsany is best known as a favorite of other writers--such as H. P. Lovecraft, who counted him second only to Edgar Allan Poe as an influence on his work. Lovecraft readers will be interested to know that two ideas Lovecraft got from Dunsany were (1) an artificial pantheon of gods and other entities...
| Author | Gerry Conway |
| ISBN | 0785118799 |
From classic foes like Doc Ock to lesser-known lawbreakers like Cyclone, this volume has more villains than you can shake the proverbial stick at! Illusion's the order of the day with the miscreant misdeeds of Mindworm, Mysterio and Mirage - but the Jackal's got something much more enduring in mind!...
| Author | Jim Starlin |
| ISBN | 0785108378 |
The legendary cosmic warrior called Captain Marvel was an agent of the alien Kree, humanoid beings who commanded a galaxy-spanning empire. While stationed on Earth, Mar-Vell's sympathy for the planet's people caused him to disobey a direct order. His punishment: death! Escaping execution, Mar-Veil...
| Author | Edward E. Kramer |
| ISBN | 1565041747 |
This isn't a review, just a note as to why I didn't go forward with reading this. The anthology was a flea market purchase several years ago; I'd never read any of Moorcock's Elric series (or any of his other work), and I thought this might be a good introduction to the character and world(s). Unfortunately,...
| Author | Yves Meynard |
| ISBN | 0312868316 |
A highly underrated book - and it's easy to see why. I initially started this book, but quickly put it down as an overly simplistic story written in the stilted language of a Victorian novel. Several friends recommended it, however, so I picked it up and gave it a second try.
After making it through...
| Author | Henry Kuttner |
| ISBN | 1601250460 |
Explore the origins of Sword & Sorcery with Henry Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis! Published in Weird Tales to satisfy fans of Conan the Barbarian in the wake of Robert E. Howard's death, the four long stories depict a brutal world of flashing swords and primal magic, touched by a hint of Lovecraft's Cthulhu...
| 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...
John Carter of Mars: Warlord of Mars Omnibus
| Author | Marv Wolfman |
| ISBN | 1595826920 |
On the plus side? Dejah Thoris gets to kick some a%&, she’s not just a bauble that people keep stealing from John Carter. [Of course, she still gets kidnapped. A lot. Nevertheless, she’s often instrumental in her escapes, and give her a sword or a radium pistol and she gives as good as she gets.]
On...
| Author | David Lapham |
| ISBN | 0965328015 |
3,5*
A nice tribute to the 40's and 50's Film-Noir. If you like them- I do- you won't be disappointed.
But you won't be surprised either.
David Lapham uses all the ropes of the genre. The main character is moronically blind to a woman desperately fatale, the PI is rotten to the core,...
| Author | Gary Gygax |
| ISBN | 0425113426 |
The life of young thief and adventurer Gord has been building toward a climax for years. Now, in Dance of Demons, the climax has arrived.
In his role as the Champion of Balance, Gord journeys with his comrades to the depths of the demon-infested Abyss and the sublime majesty of the Celestial Sphere....
| Author | John Byrne |
| ISBN | 0785158243 |
It was the world's greatest comic magazine - again! Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had a creator so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel's First Family. Fresh off an earth-shattering and reputation-making run as penciler on UNCANNY...
"Mutant" means change, and there was plenty of that when the Uncanny X-Men counted down to the Marvel Mutant Massacre, beginning with the trial of Magneto! Rachel Summers became Phoenix and the Brotherhood became Freedom Force! Lady Deathstrike became a cyborg, Moonstar a Valkyrie, Colossus a killer,...
King Jorian was rather attached to his head. Hence, he felt his promise to steal the Kist of Avlen, a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts containing magical lore, was a small enough price to pay for a chance to escape his own beheading. But when the quest pitted him against one peril after another - a murderous...
| Author | C.L. Moore |
| ISBN | 1601250452 |
First published in the pages of Weird Tales in 1934, C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry is the first significant female sword and sorcery protagonist and one of the most exciting and evocative characters the genre has ever known. Published alongside seminal works by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the...
