Prince of the Godborn

Author	Eleanor Farjeon
ISBN	0064405613

The Glass Slipper' is one of the books that began my lifelong fascination with fairytale retellings, and with tales of magic and marvel, one which drives my writing today. It is told simply, but with such wit and humour, charm and playfulness, that it is far fresher than any other version of the old tale...

Author	Tanith Lee
ISBN	0765345684

The enchanting, magical sequel to The Black Unicorn and The Gold Unicorn!

After several years traveling, Tanaquil — a sorceress like her mother with the ability to mend — returns home only to discover that her true love has been betrothed to her sister, Empress Lizra. Broken-hearted and...

Author	Joy Chant
ISBN	0345021789

When I was a young girl Joy Chant was part of the triarchy from whom I bought and read everything I could get my hands on (the other two being Joan D. Vinge and Elizabeth A. Lynn). So I thought it was about time after all those years to get re-acquainted with my childhood dreams.

As things turned out...

Author	Curt Benjamin
ISBN	0756400546

This first novel in a magnificent new fantasy series draws upon the rich legends, cultures, and traditions of the East to create an epic tale of kingdoms invaded, nobles enslaved, and a young man's desperate quest to find his family and to face the challenge of a destiny which may be beyond any mortal's...

Author	Ricardo Pinto
ISBN	0593050517

Amidst the massacre he helped bring about, Carnelian is now desperate to find a way to avoid more carnage. His spurned lover Osidian—seeking revenge and determined to win back his stolen throne—has deliberately stoked the wrath of the Masters who rule the world from its center, Osrakum. Osidian's...

Author	Judith Tarr
ISBN	0812556445

It's been over 5 years since I read book two of this trilogy, but it didn't hinder the reading, thus could be read as a stand alone. I zoomed through the first 3/4 of the book before I came to a real slowdown despite the action and the twists increasing. I enjoyed the relationship building between the two princes...

Author

Rachel Manija Brown

Welcome back to Las Anclas, a frontier town in the post-apocalyptic Wild West. In this perilous landscape, a schoolboy can create earthquakes, poisonous cloud vipers flock in the desert skies, and the beaches are stalked by giant mind-controlling lobsters.

The tyrant king Voske has been...

Author	Eve Forward
ISBN	0812574621

Young Alex is a slave. But recognized for his potential as an Animist, he is bought by his college and begins rigorous training. Now, Alex must begin his quest for his Anim-the animal with whom he will bond.

Alex hopes it will be an extraordinary creature that will help him earn the money he needs...

Author	Niel Hancock
ISBN	0445040475

Welcome to Atlanton Earth!In the tumultuous third saga of their epic adventures, Broco the Dwarf and his companions, Otto and Bear, must avoid capture by the dark forces. For in their care they possess the sacred Arkenchest, and it must be saved . . . at any cost.Their only hope of reaching safety is a desperate...

Author	Noriko Ogiwara
ISBN	1421537257

There is such a thing as "standard Western fantasy" and sufficiently experienced readers will, at some point or another, get pretty sick of it. There are only so many reluctant Chosen Ones destined to possess the Magical McGuffin that will bring defeat to the Forces of Evil that you can take before all...

Author

Ben Bova

THE IRREPRESSIBLE SAM GUNN
 
A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women--though not necessarily in that order.  A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest...

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0345384768

To the princes of Maggiar, over-mountain was a land they knew only from gran's stories; few people in their little kingdom had ever ventured so far from their valley. But now the wizard Karoly announced that he must make the journey there to seek advice from his witch-sister. For things hadn't been right...

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0446617458

- Aspect published the previous novel in the series, The Skrayling Tree, in hardcover (0-446-53104-9) in 2003 and in mass market (0-446-61340-1) in 7/04. The prior novel. The Dreamthief's Daughter (Aspect hardcover, 2001, 0-446-52618-5; mass market, 2002, 0-446-61120-4) received praise from...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0446606979

This book is an archetype of the Bad Fantasy Novel. It involves:

1. A clear quest in the first chapter.

2. A dull hero who will fulfill that quest without actually thinking about it or having a good reason. They will do it because they’re just so full of virtue. They will have no real background...

Author

Lyndon Hardy

Originally published on my blog here in April 2001.

Having written his first novel around a carefully constructed theory of magic, Hardy undermines it in his second. It is set in a different country in the same world, with a new central character who is unfortunately very similar to the hero...

Author	Greer Gilman
ISBN	0451450949

Ariane came to visit Sylvie at midwinter, hoping to rekindle the old magic of their girlhood game: the Nine Worlds, a fantastical universe founded in a handful of marbles and a tarot of cards, whose myths and kingdoms the two friends had chronicled between them. But when Sylvie disappeared in a moonlit...

Author

Margaret Lovett

I first read The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett at the age of around 11 or 12, and a friend inspired me to re-read it this month. I remember liking it at that age and being very impressed by the characters, plot, and ending, but I regret that I didn't fully appreciate it back then. I very vaguely...

Author	B.R. Collins
ISBN	1599902613

Michael and his friend Francis share a secret passion for Evgard, the fantasy world they have created together. But then Michael finds a note in his locker, revealing that their secret is out. He immediately suspects Francis, and tries to get revenge by telling the school bully—known affectionately...

Author	Simon Hawke
ISBN	9781484098

In the 27th Century, international disputes are resolved through time travel, "clocking" soldiers from the future into conflicts of the past. It seemed like an elegant idea: wartime industries drove the economy without actually putting nations through the physical ravages of war. And since the...