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
Author | Piers Anthony |
ISBN | 0345418522 |
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)].
Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
ISBN | 0441013465 |
“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...
Author | Robert Silverberg |
ISBN | 0061054879 |
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...
Author | Barbara Hambly |
ISBN | 0345409957 |
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,...
Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
ISBN | 0441805914 |
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...
Author | Piers Anthony |
ISBN | 0345418514 |
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
Author | Terry Brooks |
ISBN | 1857232569 |
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....
Author | Christopher Stasheff |
ISBN | 0441873022 |
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
Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
ISBN | 0345350502 |
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...
Author | Craig Shaw Gardner |
ISBN | 0441516629 |
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...
Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
ISBN | 0441013848 |
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...
Author | Joel Rosenberg |
ISBN | 0451159837 |
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...
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
Author | Algernon Blackwood |
ISBN | 1592245145 |
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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'...
Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
ISBN | 0441014844 |
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?...
Author | Joel Rosenberg |
ISBN | 0451453506 |
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...
Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
ISBN | 0441013627 |
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....
Author | Taylor Anderson |
ISBN | 0451465660 |
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....
Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
ISBN | 0441013953 |
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...