The Barbed Coil

10 best books like The Barbed Coil (J.V. Jones): Split Infinity, The Far Side Gallery, The Time of the Dark, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Three Hearts and Three Lions, The Initiate, Opal Plumstead, The Silver Crown, On a Pale Horse, The Dragons of Babel

Split Infinity
AuthorPiers Anthony
ISBN0345354915
On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay in Phaze, a world totally ruled by magic. Soon he learned that his alternate self had already been murdered, and that he was next. On Proton, his fate depended on winning...
The Far Side Gallery
AuthorGary Larson
ISBN0836220625
Gary Larson, the American cartoonist and his internationally syndicated cartoon series ‘The Far Side’ – syndicated in more than 1900 newspapers – are both legendary in the annals of newspaper cartoon arena. Collected into more than twenty books, Larson’s works, which got translated...
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,...
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
AuthorAlan Garner
ISBN0152017666
When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone...
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0575074981
The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.
And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century...
The Initiate
AuthorLouise Cooper
ISBN0812533925
The Seven Gods of Order had ruled unchallenged for an aeon, served by the Adepts of the Circle in their bleak Northern stronghold. But for Tarod – the most enigmatic and formidable sorcerer in the Circle's ranks – a darker affinity had begun to call.
Threatening his beliefs, even his sanity,...
Opal Plumstead
AuthorJacqueline Wilson
ISBN0857531093
Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family.

Opal struggles to...
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...
AuthorScott Rockwell
ISBN1565210174
I Really liked the first book and i swear when i read the 6th book For The Love of evil between pages 13-35 it told me about a book that was older than the almanac and used magic in a more potent practical way than what the almanac uses it was incredible and it was from the year 900-1100 roughly about the time 1250...
The Dragons of Babel
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN0765319500
Michael Swanwick has been nominated for the Hugo Award for his writing fourteen times in the last ten years and has won five of them. He is one of the most important and respected living writers of fantasy and science fiction. Until now, his most famous fantasy has been the groundbreaking novel The Iron...
The Cutting Edge
AuthorDave Duncan
Beautiful Queen Inos married the loyal stableboy Rap and made him her king. They were very much in love, and they lived happily ever after.

Fifteen years went by Rap and Inos were comfortable, secure, and truly happy, raising their family in the little backwater kingdom of Krasnegar, well removed...
The Armies of Daylight
AuthorBarbara Hambly
ISBN0345296710
After a year of magical combat, the world is in ruins, and the few surviving wizards, including two stranded Californians, must take to the offensive Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land’s wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered...
The Face of Chaos
AuthorRobert Lynn Asprin
ISBN0441225500
Welcome to Sanctuary, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including:

David Drake
C.J. Cherryh
Janet Morris
Diana L. Paxson
Lynn Abbey
Robert Lynn Asprin

In...
Conan of Cimmeria
AuthorRobert E. Howard
ISBN0441114539
Contents:

9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in
15 · The Curse of the Monolith [“Conan and the Cenotaph”] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss Worlds of Fantasy #1 ’68
33 · The Bloodstained God · L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard · nv Tales of Conan, Gnome,...
The Prophet of Lamath
AuthorRobert Don Hughes
ISBN0345282116
BEWARE THE DRAGON!
The dragon was divided!

Its two heads, Vicia and Heinox, were fighting for control of its massive body. For centuries, it had sat quietly at Dragonsgate, content with its tribute of slaves for food. Now it took to the air, burning villages at random throughout the Three...
The Silent Tower
AuthorBarbara Hambly
Okay, it sounds a little corny, but this book and its sequel... were some of the reasons why I actually thought that relationships could be good. My sire was emotionally abusive to my mom (and sometimes physically so), and the odds of having a good relationship after seeing about 18 years of that... Yeah,...
Ventos do Norte
AuthorDavid Anthony Durham
Um assassino enviado das regiões geladas do norte numa missão.
Um império poderoso cercado pelo seu mais antigo inimigo.
Quatro príncipes exilados, determinados a cumprir um destino.
Prepara-te, leitor, para entrar no mundo deslumbrante de Acácia.

Leodan Akaran,...
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