Spellsinger

10 best books like Spellsinger (Alan Dean Foster): Centaur Aisle, Another Fine Myth, Lord Valentine's Castle, The Time of the Dark, Thieves' World, Castle Roogna, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold, The Warlock in Spite of Himself, The Dragon and the George, A Malady of Magicks

Centaur Aisle
AuthorPiers Anthony
ISBN0345418522
This book started out really slow! But in the end I loved it, and can't wait to read the 5th. I really don't know why people say these books are so sexist because (view spoiler)[Irene proposes to Dor (hide spoiler)].
Another Fine Myth
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441013465
“C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.”

Skeeve

used to be a magician apprentice until an assassin (who paid for the deed with his life right away) brought an untimely end to his master, but not before the latter summoned a demon.
“The Demon curled its lips back, revealing...
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0061054879
Valentine, a wanderer who knows nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city, and joins a troupe of jugglers and acrobats; gradually, he remembers that he is the Coronal Valentine, executive ruler of the vast world of Majipoor, and all its peoples, human and otherwise...

Valentine's...
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...
Castle Roogna
AuthorPiers Anthony
ISBN0345418514
B&N Synopsis:

Millie, a ghost for 800 years wants only one man--Jonathan, and he's a zombie. To prove himself, Magician Dor volunteers to get the potion that can restore Jonathan to full life. But he has to go back through time to do it, to a peril-haunted, ancient Xanth, where danger lurks...
Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold
AuthorTerry Brooks
ISBN1857232569
Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin....
AuthorChristopher Stasheff
ISBN0441873022
The book starts off as typical sci-fi/fantasy fodder: An undercover agent, Rodney Gallowglass, discovers an entire planet of earth-descended espers who cut off communications with their home planet centuries before. By the time Rodney finds them they've structured their civilization based on...
The Dragon and the George
AuthorGordon R. Dickson
ISBN0345350502
Jim Eckert was a dragon. He hadn't planned it that way, but that's what happened when he set out to rescue his betrothed. Following her through an erratic astral-projection machine, Jim suddenly found himself in a cockeyed world - locked in the body of a talking dragon named Gorbash.
That wouldn't...
AuthorCraig Shaw Gardner
ISBN0441516629
Picked this up off a book swap shelf at a railway station, and now I understand why it was left there. Complete rubbish.

The blurbs on the back cover claim readers will "laugh down the walls" and that "the field needs more humorists of this calibre". No, it really doesn't. The attempted humour...
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441013848
This review is dedicated to Iceland team of UEFA Euro 2016. Guys, you showed everybody you do not have to be a high-paid pro to play a good game.


“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.

Every chapter of...
AuthorJoel Rosenberg
ISBN0451159837
MAGIC'S DEADLY EDGE
The stronghold called Home was prospering, and karl's dream of bringing freedom to everyone in this land peopled by wizards and warriors, lords and slaves, dwarfs and elves and dragons was at last coming true. But by attacking slaver caravans, by offering Home as a haven to any...
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
After the events of the last book Skeeve and Aazh as partners got themselves a very nice base of operations with just one tiny little problem: one of the doors in their dwelling (the kind they use in banks for safe vaults) led into an unknown and potentially deadly dimension. Circumstances forced Aazh...
A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Detective
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN1592245145
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In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming -- none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders'...
M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441014844
Guido and Nunzio may not be the brightest bodyguards in the world - but they certainly are faithful. When Skeeve "the Great" asks them to join the army of Possiltum, the two thugs volunteer without question...
Except: Whose side are they on?
Queen Hemlock's? The Mob's Fairy Godfather's? Skeeve's?...
The Sleeping Dragon
AuthorJoel Rosenberg
ISBN0451453506
CAPTIVES OF SORCERY...
It began as just another evening of fantasy gaming, with James, Karl, Andrea, and the rest ready to assume their various roles as wizard, cleric, warrior, or thief. But sorcerous gamemaster Professor Deighton had something else planned for this unsuspecting group of college...
Myth Conceptions
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441013627
Skeeve and Aazh were minding their own business in an inn they ended up owing as a result of the events of the first book. Their leisure time was interrupted by a soldier who brought an invitation to the great and powerful magician Skeeve (ha!) to accept a position of a court magician in a nearby kingdom....
Deadly Shores
AuthorTaylor Anderson
ISBN0451465660
National bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s explosive WWII alternate-history series continues as a do-or-die battle is waged that risks far more than anyone bargained for.

The long-planned raid on the heart of the Grik Empire has grown more ambitious—and dangerously ill defined....
Hit or Myth
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441013953
Aazh took a leave to take care of his family problems. Skeeve thought it would be easy to live a couple of days without his mentor and for some short time it looked like he was right. Right until the moment his employer the King showed up and asked his court magician to substitute for him while poor overworked...
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