Master of the Five Magics

10 best books like Master of the Five Magics (Lyndon Hardy): Hominids, The Chronoliths, The Time of the Dark, Thieves' World, The King's Justice, The Wounded Land, The Illearth War, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, The Misenchanted Sword, Camber the Heretic

AuthorRobert J. Sawyer
ISBN0765345005
Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist...
AuthorRobert Charles Wilson
ISBN0812545249
Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future.

In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior....
AuthorBarbara Hambly
ISBN0345409957
Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths Reviews.

Once, long ago, I recall walking through the Waldenbooks bookstore at my local mall, trying to find something new to read. After having crammed everything Middle-Earth related into my brain, I needed a new fix of epic fantasy adventure. Sure,...
Thieves' World
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441805914
I read all Aspirin's MYTH series when I was a kid and was a big fan. I saw this in used bookstore and grabbed it to check out one of his more adult written books. Surprisingly good, my type of spec/fantasy book, packed with creative miniplots and ideas, not wordily written, sparse and minimalistic and then...
AuthorKatherine Kurtz
ISBN0345347625
The second book in the second trilogy featuring Kelson Haldane. The Meagan uprising continues from the prior book. King Kelson is ready to lead his army to put down thd rebellion. I love the characters. Deryni magic is considered evil by the Church. Former Archbishop Loris has joined the Mearan pretender...
The Wounded Land
AuthorStephen R. Donaldson
ISBN0345418468
I started this book and found Thomas Covenant was himself, as we knew him in the first series..."woe is me! Life is unfair (to me), all is lost, there is no hope!" So I followed his example....I saved myself! Not again will I suffer through Thomas Covenant's eternal, endless self flagellation and self...
The Illearth War
AuthorStephen R. Donaldson
ISBN0345348664
After scant days in his "real" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moved to fulfill his prophecy of doom.

The Council of Lords found their spells useless, now that Foul the Despiser...
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
AuthorLeonard Peikoff
ISBN0452011019
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—The definitive statement of Ayn Rand’s philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir.
 
This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s classic text on the abstract principles and practical applications of Objectivism,...
The Misenchanted Sword
AuthorLawrence Watt-Evans
ISBN1587152827

- 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...
Camber the Heretic
AuthorKatherine Kurtz
ISBN0345277848
King Cinhil, who had assured peace between the Deryni and humans in Gwynedd, was dying. And the regents who were set to rule in the place of his sickly son were evil men who could very well undo all that Cinhil had accomplished. Once they ruled, no Deryni would be safe. The only hope lay in a discovery that...
The Healers' Road
AuthorS.E. Robertson
An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.

Agna had looked forward to her overseas assignment for the last four years. It was just a side project on the way to taking over her father’s art agency, of course, but she eagerly awaited the opportunity to use her education and prove...
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