Tactics of Mistake
10 best books like Tactics of Mistake (Gordon R. Dickson): The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set, Magician: Apprentice Volume 1, The Mote in God's Eye, The Forge of God, Fallen Dragon, From the Two Rivers: The Eye of the World, Part 1, Footfall, Helliconia Winter, Bolo, Assassin's Apprentice / Royal Assassin
| Author | Robert Jordan |
| ISBN | 0312875045 |
Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time epic is one of the most popular fantasy series of all time for a reason. Jordan's world is rich and complex, and he's assembled an endearing, involving core of characters while mapping out an ambitious and engaging story arc. The Age of Prophecy is a time of magic...
| Author | Raymond E. Feist |
| ISBN | 0785127224 |
Collects comic 1-6.
To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic...
Very entertaining, interesting, intriguing, thought provoking, etc.
Good science fiction.
Robert A. Heinlein himself is quoted as saying something to the effect that this was the best science fiction novel he had ever read. I don’t know that I’d go that far, but this was very...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0765301075 |
On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw, a geologist working in Death valley, finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area As more unexplained phenomena spring up...
| Author | Peter F. Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0330480065 |
Deploying invulnerable twenty-fifth-century soldiers called Skins, Zantiu-Braun's corporate starships loot entire planets. But as the Skins invade bucolic Thallspring, Z-B's strategy is about to go awry, all because of: Sgt. Lawrence Newton, a dreamer whose twenty years as a Skin have destroyed...
From the Two Rivers: The Eye of the World, Part 1
| Author | Robert Jordan |
| ISBN | 0765341840 |
An American Library Association “Best Books for Young Adults”
A VOYA “Best Books for Young Adults”
For Rand al’Thor and his pals, life in the sleepy village of Emond’s Field has been pretty dull. Until the appearance on festival night of Moiraine, a mysterious woman...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345418425 |
They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.
The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first...
| Author | Brian W. Aldiss |
| ISBN | 0743445163 |
This is the final volume of the Helliconia Trilogy -- a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0425075591 |
Bolo. Originally developed as far back as the 1980's by the Bolo Division of General Motors, these great artillery machines took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavors: War.
But let Bolo speak for itself. In the action-packed Annals of the...
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.
I read The Farseer Saga years ago and have since considered it one of my favorite fantasy epics. It's one (along with The Lord of the Rings and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn) that I often suggest to new fantasy readers. But after more than a decade of reading...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0765310244 |
Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0531150844 |
Falkenberg's first lesson is that loyalty is to the fleet and not to the precarious coalition government of Earth. His second is that the navy's mission is to exist, preserving the peace in the far-flung corners of the galaxy in the hope that at least some portions of the human race may be saved when Earth...
| Author | Terry Brooks |
| ISBN | 0345461460 |
The fate of a world rests on an unlikely hero. . . .
Tucked away in peaceful Shady Vale, the young half-elf Shea Ohmsford gives little thought to the outside world. Yet far to the north, the evil Warlock Lord has dispatched shadowy Skull Bearers, creatures twisted by dark sorcery, to hunt him down....
The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #1 (Wheel of Time, #1-3)
| Author | Robert Jordan |
| ISBN | 0812538366 |
This a big commitment...
I want to start this review by being very explicit -- don't start unless you have the time to finish in one go (over many months). There is so much detail and so many characters (all sounding similar) that it would be difficult to get through without an online guide...or...
