The Chalice

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0380720868

Weirdly, this might be my least favorite fantasy by Feist. I'm usually quite happy with them. Interesting characters, great locations, solid adventures, great plots. And generally, the worldbuilding is something quite good.

So what happened here? A confluence of factors that may not bother...

Author	Tim Powers
ISBN	0441004016

Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency...

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0765304740

Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of Xenocide, before it was split into two novels.

At the start of Children of the Mind,...

Author	Terry Goodkind
ISBN	0812551478

There is an alternate cover edition here.

Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizard. The New World, and all the freedom of humankind, is under threat from the Imperial Order after he had brought down the barrier between the Old and New World. The Imperial Order has already sent...

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0553588117

This Author’s Preferred Edition of Raymond E. Feist’s bestselling coming-of-age saga celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of its publication. Feist introduces a new generation of readers to his riveting novel of adventure and intrigue, revised and updated as he always meant it to be written....

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0553563734

Long recovered from the ravages of the Riftwar, the land and people of the kingdom of the Isles thrive. Nicholas, the youngest son of Prince Arutha, is intelligent and gifted but vastly inexperienced. In hopes of hardening him, his father sends him and his irreverent squire, Harry, to live at Rustic...

Author

Terry Goodkind

There is an alternate cover edition here.

As his beloved Kahlan lies close to death, Richard Rahl, who distrusts prophecy more than anyone, is confronted by a compelling vision - one that bears a terrible price. It would mean taking Kahlan away to safety while abandoning his people to a grim...

Author	Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN	2290032042

So. Two stars. That’s a really low rating for me. Normally, if I really don’t like a book, I just move on with my life. But this one had elements that hit close to home for me.

Sorry, I realize that I was just speaking Midwestern Understatement. What I meant to say was that this book is a tangible...

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0006497012

A TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION IN A WORLD OF MURDER, MAGIC AND INTRIGUE.

Roo Avery, recently returned from a harrowing brush with the armies of the Emerald Queen, is now free to choose his own destiny and his ultimate ambition is to become one of the richest and most powerful merchants in Midkemia.

But...

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0380789833

The terrible Emerald Queen is vanquished…but the war in Midkemia is not yet won, as the remarkable Raymond E. Feist concludes his magnificent Serpentwar Saga with Shards of a Broken Crown—a spellbinding tale of magic, conflict, and treachery that sees the rise of a new threat from the ashes of defeat,...

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0380974738

Wow! This book has it all! Magicians, demons, serpent-people, elves, Dragon Lords, dwarves, alternate dimensions, magical portals, romance, deception, revenge, sea battles, mountain battles, battles of wit, fire oil, catapults, flaming moats, political intrigue, and even evil cannibals!

Sometimes...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	0345315499

A FEW ALTERATIONS
Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, master wizard, had troubles--again!
Ruddygore had defeated the Dark Baron and exiled him from the magical realm of Husaquahr to Earth. But he hadn't counted on the Baron's using an earthly computer to create even more effective spells.
Of...

Author	Dave Duncan
ISBN	0380975866

For five years Edward Exeter has resisted the destiny circumscribed in the Filoby Testament - a sacred and mystical text that has named him the one who will bring death to Death. For five years the young Englishman has passed back and forth through secret portals that link his world with the farthest flung...

Author

Jack L. Chalker

While the initial battle for Husaquahr has been won, dark forces are gathering to the south. *** One of the Council of Thirteen has to be the Dark Baron and the Baron is plotting with the Demon Prince to shatter the fragile peace and bring Armageddon to the magic world beyond the Sea of Dreams. *** But before...

Author	Dave Duncan
ISBN	0380781301

A masterful world-builder and award-winning fantasist nonpareil, DAVE DUNCAN carries us through the hidden portals that link two war-wounded worlds...into a miraculous realm where mortals become gods. THE GREAT GAME IS AFOOT! In the midst of the horror of the first World War, a stranger falls from...

Author	Barbara Hambly
ISBN	0446615366

Barbara Hambly creates interesting worlds and ideas. In this book she has a society where magic has always existed--but only men have the power.

Now, she presents a tale of what effect it would have on any society when such a basic, familiar ability---magic--suddenly changes. As men lose magical...

Author

Sharon Lee

Novelette.

For Moss, home is his father’s pack slung across his back and an empty stretch of highway. Kicked out of the house at sixteen, he’s hitching cross country to the Atlantic Ocean to keep a promise he made a long time ago. But when he arrives in the seaside town of Archers Beach, Maine,...

Author	Terry Goodkind
ISBN	0399156046

Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he...