The Chronicles of Amber
10 best books like The Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny): The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, The High Crusade, Men at Arms: The Play, The Riftwar Saga, Three Hearts and Three Lions, The Compleat Enchanter, Stormbringer, Iorich, The Elric Saga Part I
| 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 | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0006473296 |
Since its publication in 1977, Stephen Donaldson's award-winning trilogy has become an indisputable fantasy class, hailed by the critics and loved by millions of readers around the world. Now all three books are available in one paperback volume for the first time.
Thomas Covenant, an embittered...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0743475283 |
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix,...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0552144320 |
In this latest #1 international bestseller, the hilarious and twisted author of Soul Music delivers readers once again into Discworld. Since the captain of the City Watch has left the force to become a gentleman, Discworld is in search of a few good cops. And being a cop in this unpredictable universe...
| Author | Raymond E. Feist |
| ISBN | 0553333240 |
Here is a fantasy series filled with tropes... but it worked, nicely. It falls somewhere in-between what I'd consider 'High Fantasy' and 'contemporary fantasy'. If you're looking for some zany type fantasy world that you hadn't imagined, I wouldn't suggest this series. But if you like your dwarves...
| Author | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0575074981 |
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...
| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
| ISBN | 0345314352 |
The Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages - at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient legend. But slips in time were a hazard, and Shea's magic did not always...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0441787541 |
With Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock brings a superior fantasy series to a to formally effective and emotionally satifying conclusion.
I love the Elric series, and sometimes wonder if I rate the books too highly. After all, the prose, ranging from workmanlike to vigorous, is often evocative...
| Author | Steven Brust |
| ISBN | 0765312085 |
House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head on Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera--longtime friend, sometime ally--has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a capital crime.
It...
The 2011 Re-read:
Elric of Melnibone: Elric, the sickly albino emperor of Melnibone, combats his cousin Yrkoon's machinations for his throne and winds up on a quest across dimensions for a pair of magical black swords.
In the long, long, long, long wait between volumes four and five of...
| Author | Michael Scott Rohan |
| ISBN | 0380705486 |
2.5 – 3 stars
I really feel like I ought to have liked this book more than I did and it might deserve a higher rating, but I can only go by my actual reading experience which was a bit lukewarm; I guess my book biorhythms were off for this one because on the face of it this might otherwise have become...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0575074698 |
I wish to address some complaints at the alleged lack of moral ambiguity in the Hawkmoon stories. It is my impression that those complaining feel that the stories lack of moral ambiguity makes them inferior to Moorcock's stories about Elric or other chataters. There is the oft-heard complaint that...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1406814504 |
A la izquierda, la casa del doctor Rangel, con una gran terraza llena de muebles. Delante de la casa y alrededor, jardín. En el centro de la escena, un asta de bandera. A la derecha, en la jardín, un cenador, con una mesa y tres sillas. Una valla de esto al fondo. De tras de la valla, un camino que va a lo largo...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 0583113443 |
Mighty Elric... Mightier Sword!
Elric-
the most unusual hero in the great tradition of heroic fantasy.
Elric-
the albino sorcerer and battle-thirsty prince.
Elric-
doomed beyond hope to wander a world of barbarism and treachery.
Elric-
seeker of impossible...
Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber
| Author | John Gregory Betancourt |
| ISBN | 0743452402 |
In Roger Zelazny's Amber universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that Amber was not the first true world; rather, it was The Courts of Chaos. The saga chronicled the adventures of the royal family of Amber, culminating...
Sześcioksiąg sagi o Wiedźminie - mistrzu miecza i fachowcu czarostwa strzegącym moralnej i biologicznej równowagi w czarownym świecie fantasy. Komplet składa się z siedmiu tomów zawartych w sześciu książkach.
Są to: Ostatnie życzenie, Miecz przeznaczenia, Krew elfów,...
Każde martwe marzenie. Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza
Deana d’Kllean, niegdyś Pieśniarka Pamięci i mistrzyni miecza, a dziś rządząca pustynnym księstwem wybranka Boga Ognia, stoi na progu wojny. Powstanie niewolników, które wybuchło u południowych granic państwa, zatacza coraz szersze kręgi. Genno Laskolnyk wraz ze swoim czaardanem...
| Author | Michael Scott Rohan |
| ISBN | 0380705478 |
A three volume fantastical adventure series set during an ice age. The first two books are your typical map adventures (like The Lord of the Rings) ie the author draws a map & the novel consists of the characters moving from point A to point Z, via the rest of the alphabet, each letter designating a separate...
