The Blue Star
10 best books like The Blue Star (Fletcher Pratt): Hiero's Journey, The Best of Leigh Brackett, The Fallible Fiend, Dwellers in the Mirage, The Coming of the King (Books of Merlin, #1), Zothique, Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Swords Against Darkness, Figures of Earth, Kai Lung's Golden Hours
| Author | Sterling E. Lanier |
| ISBN | 0345308417 |
Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath -- and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on an extraordinary mission. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death. Now the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean was waging...
The Best of Leigh Brackett
| Author | Leigh Brackett |
| ISBN | 0345259548 |
There was once a young girl who created a host of strange and wonderful worlds. These were her very own planets, with such fascinating features as the Sea of Morning Opals, the Mountains of White Cloud, wicked Canal cities, and lost lands full of magic and mystery.
That girl's name is Leigh Brackett....
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 0786246626 |
The demon Zdim was happy with his philosophy on the Twelfth Plane, until he was conjured to Prime Plane to serve the human wizard Maldivius. There, to a logical fiend, men seemed wholly irrational. He was ordered to eat the first being to enter a sanctum, then beaten for devouring the wizard's apprentice,...
| Author | A. Merritt |
| ISBN | 0020228724 |
Angry Warrior, Modern Man. . .
Leif Langdon was suddenly ripped from the 20th century and plunged into the ancient world of The Mirage. But his entrance into this awesome land awakened the slumbering Dwayanu, who in this strange incarnation was also Leif. Thus, two-men-in-one battle with...
| Author | Nikolai Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0553283952 |
This book had huge amounts of potential that it didn't quite live up to. Tolstoy has wrote some great non fiction on British Dark Ages history and pre-Christian European religion (do your self a favor and read his book Quest for Merlin!) but as far as fiction his writing style just didn't flow well. It took...
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 0345219384 |
Tales of Zothique is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, and edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the sixteenth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1970. It was the first themed collection of Smith's works...
After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element...
| Author | Andrew J. Offutt |
| ISBN | 0890832390 |
Edited and introduced by Andrew J. Offutt.
Contents:
7 · Foreword · Andrew J. Offutt · fw
12 · Nekht Semerkeht · Robert E. Howard & Andrew J. Offutt · nv *
49 · The Tale of Hauk · Poul Anderson · nv *
80 · The Smile of Oisia · George W. Proctor · nv *
118 · Pride...
| Author | James Branch Cabell |
| ISBN | 1414298250 |
Mundus vult decipi - the world wants to be deceived - and the happier man is one whose desires remain unfulfilled inform all of Cabell's writing. As the chroniclers write of Poictesme's redemption:
"For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle,...
| Author | Ernest Bramah |
| ISBN | 1587152096 |
Kai Lung's Golden Hours By Ernest Bramah. Preface: Hilaire Belloc. Man is born to make. His business is to construct; to plan; to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end and in which it is far easier to neglect it...
| Author | Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne |
| ISBN | 0330239465 |
This obscure adventure novel, though popular in its time, is quite entertaining, not exactly literature and that term has been greatly overused, a yardstick... if you like H. Rider Haggard who influenced this author, you'll have an enjoyable read. To me a book is good or bad anything else is superfluous...The...
| Author | E.R. Eddison |
| ISBN | 0345272218 |
OK, this one is also complicated ... Not so much the broad strokes of the story, this time, though; rather, it's the structure of the book. Unfortunately, Eddison died before completing it; fortunately, he did leave enough notes to allow the book to be understandable even in partial form. Apparently,...
| Author | Manly Wade Wellman |
| ISBN | 0440197767 |
There's a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit,...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0671654047 |
I didn't realize until later that it belonged to a series. It's economical and self-contained, and now I'm not sure I want to pursue the other books. The slots where the previous books fit seem better imagined than actually read.
It takes a little work to get past the Thundarr The Barbarian aspects:...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 0345032616 |
At about the 2/3 mark I started to reconsider what this was about. It is clearly in the vein of a chivalrous romance, its events and adventures unspooling as though from a storyteller's tongue, all sort of strung together and barely contained by the basic frame of Osberne's courtly romance with Elfhild...
Earl Aubec and Other Stories
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 1565049861 |
This is the 14th volume in the acclaimed Eternal Champion series by Michael Moorcock. The series collects in newly edited and revised form all the tales of this fantasy master's most famous meta-character, the Eternal Champion. Some aspects of this champion are beloved by countless readers of fantasy,...
| Author | Stanley G. Weinbaum |
| ISBN | 0345238907 |
Okay this was a book I picked up because of the cover. However I will this time admit it was more because I recognised the artist than I did the author. The piece is by Peter Ellson and goes by the same names as the book. Peter Elson was yet another artist featured in the books of Paper Tiger so I sort of use that...
