Lake of the Long Sun
10 best books like Lake of the Long Sun (Gene Wolfe): The Phoenix Exultant, Raphael, Forming, The Eye of the Heron, Rats and Gargoyles, The Dubious Hills, The Song of Rhiannon, The Collected Fiction, Vol. 2: The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places, Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, The Collapsium
| Author | John C. Wright |
| ISBN | 0765343541 |
The Phoenix Exultant is a continuation of the story begun in The Golden Age and like it, a grand space opera in the tradition of Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny (with a touch of Cordwainer Smith-style invention).
At the conclusion of the first book, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, was left an exile...
| Author | R.A. MacAvoy |
| ISBN | 0553243705 |
Weakened by his contact with mortals, the Archangel Raphael falls prey to his brother Lucifer, who strips him of his angelic powers. Sold in the Moorish slave markets, confused and humbled by his sudden humanity, Raphael finds his only solace in the friendship of the darkskinned Berber woman Djoura,...
| Author | Jesse Moynihan |
| ISBN | 1907704132 |
Since the dawn of history, we have sought to understand our existence through creationist fables of omnipotent deities and mythical creatures. Jesse Moynihan takes these fifty thousand years of socio-religious postulation and throws them in the blender to create one epic—and irreverent—battle...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0765346125 |
In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group...
| Author | Mary Gentle |
| ISBN | 0451451732 |
It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. This energizes a compelling quest for survival, and prompts the powerful White Crow...
| Author | Pamela Dean |
| ISBN | 0812523628 |
This is a very peculiar book. The Dubious Hills are a place deliberately set aside from the rest of the fantasy world they are part of by a great spell performed by wizards long ago. There is no traffic to speak of in and out and weird rules govern the workings of the inhabitants' lives. For one, each area of...
| Author | Evangeline Walton |
| ISBN | 0020264739 |
The Song of Rhiannon, a retelling of the Third Branch of the Mabinogion, isn't as powerful as The Children of Llyr, which is a relief, in a way. There's a time of healing for the characters, as well as what they suffer during the action of the story, and there's a happy end for them as well. It continues to follow...
| Author | William Hope Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1892389401 |
The second of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles...
Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle
| Author | Michael Andre-Driussi |
| ISBN | 0964279517 |
Lexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and Flower; the short stories "The Cat," "The...
In this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy imagines a wondrous future in which the secrets of matter have been unlocked and death itself is but a memory. But it is also a future imperiled by a bitter rivalry between two brilliant scientists--one perhaps the greatest genius in the...
| Author | R.A. Lafferty |
| ISBN | 0441245900 |
Fourth Mansions was inspired by Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle, & contains quotations from the book, which quotations Lafferty uses as chapter headings. The Interior Castle is a metaphor for an individual's soul; its different rooms, different states of the soul. In the middle of the Castle...
| Author | Hal Clement |
| ISBN | 0345258053 |
Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.
More important,...
Perseids and Other Stories
| Author | Robert Charles Wilson |
Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for...
| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0426177347 |
Yet another title that I have long sought.
Found this gem in the bottom of a box at my local used book store.
Expectations exceeded content.
Initially everything felt rushed. All of the frame work that Burroughs normally sets up was hastily erected. The curtains are raised...
| Author | Joanna Russ |
| ISBN | 0425040402 |
The other day, while complaining about the clumsy prose in Night Film, I allowed tha tit wasn't necessarily worse than a lot of actual genre fiction. But I take it all back, there's no excuse. Just read someone like Delany or, here, Joanna Russ, who, even in an admittedly more frivolous early "time barbarian"...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 2290302147 |
Pauvre Cugel : alors qu'il pensait tenir sa revanche sur Iucounu, le magicien rieur, le voilà renvoyé de l'autre côté de l'océan des soupirs. Pour retourner en Almery et enfin se venger, Cugel se lance donc dans un nouveau périple foisonnant de dangers et de créatures farfelues... Une nouvelle...
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0575075937 |
'Like all good literature, Harrison's stories are worth reading again and again; the more you read, the more you understand.' Iain M. Banks.
Over the last thirty years, M. John Harrison has been inspiring readers and writers alike across the world. His return to science fiction in 2002 with...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0441091660 |
Jane Yolen’s award-winning story about an alien civilization forever changed by the incursion of human social scientists and a mysterious ancient prophecy
The year is 2132 when members of the Anthropologist’s Guild set down on the planet Henderson’s IV, or L’Lal’lor as it is...
