Shadow's End
10 best books like Shadow's End (Sheri S. Tepper): Dragonsinger, The Bonesetter's Daughter, Dust, Parable of the Talents, Dragonsong, Ariah, The White Dragon, The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran / An Earthly Crown / His Conquering Sword / The Law of Becoming, The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide, Jim Henson's The Power of the Dark Crystal, Vol. 1
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0689860072 |
I won't go into depth as this is a book I've read several times since first encountering it as a teenager ages ago and there are literally hundreds of detailed reviews. One thing that inspires me about Dragonsinger, though, is that it doesn't follow the contemporary form of having everything go wrong...
The Bonesetter's Daughter
| Author | Amy Tan |
| ISBN | 0345457374 |
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .
In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule,...
On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change....
Ariane, Princess of the House of Rule, was known to be fiercely cold-blooded. But severing an angel’s...
| Author | Octavia E. Butler |
| ISBN | 0446610380 |
This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise...
A book doesn't have to be Great Literature or even particularly good to appear on my "formative fiction" shelf, it just has to be a book with a meaning that changed me or helped me to understand myself and the world in a new way. Fortunately, Dragonsong is also a very good book of its type.
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Ariah's magical training has been interrupted. Forced to rely on a mentor, Dirva, who is not who he claims to be, and a teacher who is foreign and powerful, Ariah is drawn into a culture wholly different from the elven one that raised him.
As his friendship with Dirva's brother blossoms into a...
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345341678 |
Yes by all means, judge a book set in a feudalistic world surrounded by dragon on your personal interpretation of feminism on Earth circa 2013. This makes no sense to me. If you're going to read a book I think you should read a book and suspend your sense of self to really get a feel for the world that's being...
A special four-in-one edition of Kate Elliott’s sweeping and addictive Jaran series
In Jaran, the Earth of the future is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar. Her...
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide
| Author | Leah Buley |
| ISBN | 1933820187 |
Review copy provided by O'Reilly Press
There are plenty of books on user experience, heck there are probably 5 more being written right now. So why should you read Leah Buley's "The User Experience Team of One?" Not only is this a well written book, but Leah also fills a current void in the UX literature,...
Jim Henson's The Power of the Dark Crystal, Vol. 1
An official sequel to Jim Henson’s cult classic fantasy film The Dark Crystal.
Years have passed since the Dark Crystal was healed and peace was restored on Thra. Though Jen and Kira have ruled as King and Queen, they have become distracted by power. The planet is sick and those on the surface...
