Solstice Wood
10 best books like Solstice Wood (Patricia A. McKillip): Bridge of Birds, Little, Big, Sunshine, Spindle's End, The Outlaws of Sherwood, Tamsin, The Ropemaker, The Library of the Unwritten, The Stress of Her Regard, The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set
| Author | Barry Hughart |
| ISBN | 0345321383 |
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.
The quest led them to a host of...
| Author | John Crowley |
| ISBN | 0061120057 |
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0515138819 |
Okay, so I seriously pondered over whether to give this book three stars or four. In the end, I DID enjoy it so I felt generous and gave it four, but it's not without its faults.
Once, when I was a little kid, my parents bought me my favourite ice cream. There's actually only one kind of ice cream that...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441008658 |
Spindle's End (a retelling of Sleeping Beauty) is odd in a lot of respects, and therefore a lot of people aren't going to like it. To outline these:
1. Most of the book is narration. There is very little in the way of dialogue, even when it comes to things that most other authors would have left for...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441013252 |
3.5 stars. I've owned a paperback copy of The Outlaws of Sherwood, a retelling of the Robin Hood folktale, for ages, dating back to the days when I was auto-buying everything Robin McKinley wrote. It's a very different type of book for her: a straightforward historical novel - no fantasy elements at all...
| Author | Peter S. Beagle |
| ISBN | 0451457633 |
Arriving in the English countryside to live with her mother and new stepfather, Jenny has no interest in her surroundings, until she meets Tamsin. Since her death over 300 years ago, Tamsin has haunted the lonely estate without rest, trapped by a hidden trauma she can't remember, and a powerful evil...
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0385730632 |
Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can save...
The Library of the Unwritten
| Author | A.J. Hackwith |
| ISBN | 1984806386 |
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.
Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 0441790976 |
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom.
Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey...
DON'T READ HARRY POTTER, READ THE BARTIMAEUS TRIOLOGY
The reason I liked this series was what it offered that many other fantasy books leave out. The story doesn't operate in a secluded location, disconnected form the rest of the world. In the trilogy the wizards are the elite, the rulers, the...
| Author | Mary Stewart |
| ISBN | 0060548266 |
“I am nothing, yes; I am air and darkness, a word, a promise. I watch in the crystal and I wait in the hollow hills. But out there in the light I have a young king and a bright sword to do my work for me, and build what will stand when my name is only a word for forgotten songs and outworn wisdom, and when your name,...
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
| Author | Alec Nevala-Lee |
| ISBN | 0062571966 |
“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.” — Publishers Weekly
"Alec Nevala-Lee has brilliantly recreated the era. . . . A remarkable work of literary history." — Robert Silverberg
"Science fiction has...
The Orc of Many Questions
| Author | Shane Michael Murray |
Orcs don’t like questions. Everybody with a brain knows that. Orc tribes save their strength for fighting, not thinking. They survive by raiding the lands of weaker races, repeating it year after year to offer tribute to the masters of their mountain home.
Life on Firebrand Peak is short...
| Author | Sharon Lee |
| ISBN | 1982124210 |
Exiled from Liad after bombing a city to save it from The Department of the Interior’s infernal weapons and plans, Clan Korval has gone to ground on the back-water planet Surebleak, whose people are as untamed as its weather. The old Boss-controlled fiefdoms largely fell to Pat Rin yos’Phelium’s...
