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10 best books like The Best of Lucius Shepard (Lucius Shepard): The Book of Three, Year Zero, Time Out of Joint, Dungeon Crawlin' Fools, Thomas the Rhymer, Eye in the Sky, Railsea, Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, The Oxford Book of Short Stories, Scenting the Dark and Other Stories

The Book of Three
AuthorLloyd Alexander
ISBN0805080481
Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was an oracular pig. But the day that Hen Wen vanished, Taran was led into an enchanting and perilous world. With his band of followers, he confronted the Horned King and his terrible Cauldron-Born. These were...
Year Zero
AuthorRob Reid
ISBN0345534417
An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet.
Worse, they were lawyering up. . . .
 
In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner workings of...
Time Out of Joint
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet...
Dungeon Crawlin' Fools
AuthorRich Burlew
ISBN0976658003
This book follows the comic strip adventures of six stick figure heroes as they brave the perils of your favorite fantasy role playing game. It lampoons role playing games and the fantasy genre itself in hilarious fashion weekly on the internet, and now even the technophobic can enjoy their antics in...
Thomas the Rhymer
AuthorEllen Kushner
ISBN0553586971
Award-winning author and radio personality Ellen Kushner’s inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic...
Eye in the Sky
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1400030102
While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a lab accident. When he regains consciousness, he is in a fantasy world of Old Testament morality gone awry—a place of instant plagues, immediate damnations, and death to all perceived infidels. Hamilton...
Railsea
AuthorChina Miéville
ISBN0345524527
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake...
Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
AuthorGreer Gilman
ISBN1931520550
I am wind and memory who spells this . . . Gilman’s second novel, Cloud & Ashes, is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation, and delight. To step into her world is to witness the bright flashes, witty turns, and shadowy...
The Oxford Book of Short Stories
AuthorV.S. Pritchett
ISBN0192801910
V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short story writers, has chosen forty-one stories from nine countries written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years.

The United States, Great...
Scenting the Dark and Other Stories
AuthorMary Robinette Kowal
ISBN1596062673
These things await you: Love and hope in the aftermath of a very personal environmental apocalypse. Fear that comes in being trapped in your own body, enslaved by your own faulty synapses. Dread in a cure that works in unexpected ways. Discovery of what you've always known, but couldn't face, about your...
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