The Crystal Gryphon
10 best books like The Crystal Gryphon (Andre Norton): The Blessing Way, Red Harvest, Immortal Rain, Vol. 1, The Dain Curse, The Continental Op, The Goblin Mirror, Rider at the Gate, Enter Into Valhalla, Cardassia and Andor, Jondelle
| Author | Tony Hillerman |
| ISBN | 0061000019 |
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Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0752852612 |
I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...
| Author | Kaori Ozaki |
| ISBN | 1591827221 |
Kaori Ozaki, Immortal Rain, vol. 1 (Tokyopop, 1999)
I've gotten into the manga habit over the last few years, and have been reading in roughly equal amounts from the big three. Dark Horse is off in its own little niche, while Viz and Tokyopop are adapting the more mainstream material for American...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0752851802 |
Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat. Gabrielle Dain-Leggett has enough secrets to fill a closet, and when...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0752856170 |
Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0345384768 |
To the princes of Maggiar, over-mountain was a land they knew only from gran's stories; few people in their little kingdom had ever ventured so far from their valley. But now the wizard Karoly announced that he must make the journey there to seek advice from his witch-sister. For things hadn't been right...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0446603457 |
This sounded like a concept that would be quite fascinating: on a remote planet, a colony of humans have set up a sort of wild west society in which they depend on the sentient nighthorses, creatures which bond with humans. Most of the wildlife is telepathic and has the ability to send distorting emotion...
Bethany Anne has hidden for years now - but her patience has disappeared...
She needs to help her new allies on their planet, but the Ooken have other ideas.As Bethany Anne has grown in power, someone on the Kurtherian side has taken control.
Will Bethany Anne and her team be able to handle the deviousness...
| Author | Una McCormack |
| ISBN | 0743483510 |
Within every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of "Unity" and in the daring tradition of "Spock's World, The Final Reflection, " and "A Stitch in Time, " the civilizations most closely tied to "Star Trek: Deep Space...
| Author | E.C. Tubb |
| ISBN | 0099144905 |
'Earth is real,' Dumarest insisted. 'A world old and scarred by ancient wars. The stars are few and there is a great single moon which hangs like a pale sun in the night sky.' In the quest for his legendary birthplace, Earl Dumarest has traversed galaxies. Now, at least, he reaches Ourelle, a planet close...
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu
| Author | Sax Rohmer |
| ISBN | 0857686038 |
London, 1913—the era of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the Invisible Man. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known… Dr. Fu-Manchu.
Denis Nayland Smith pursues his quarry across...
The House of the Four Winds
| Author | John Buchan |
| ISBN | 1842327720 |
The House of the Four Winds is a novel of adventure by John Buchan, first published in 1935. It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson McCunn books.
The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia in the early 1930s. It concerns the involvement of some...
| Author | James E. Gunn |
| ISBN | 0802755526 |
Yesterday I read a Gunn short story titled The Gravity Business, which was published in 1956. I was not too impressed by it, but I wanted to give the author another try. I found one other of his titles at Project Gutenberg: Breaking Point, which was first published in the March 1953 issue of Space Science...
"One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to save us from ourselves."
--SF Site
For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, STAND ON ZANZIBAR) and...
Dragons have returned to the world, and they’re wreaking havoc on human civilizations.
Only one man has the power to stop them.
Born an outcast who’s never fit in, Telryn “Trip” Yert has spent his entire life hiding a secret that could get him killed:
In a world where...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0446604240 |
On a distant planet, all the native creatures communicate telepathically, projecting images which drive humans to madness. As a result, the people live in walled cities and owe their lives to the nighthorses, equines who can bond with certain riders and provide a telepathic "buffer". But one savage...
Destroyer: A Military Space Opera (The Bad Company Book 5)
Humanity’s greatest export—Justice. Peace can never last.When things are going right, be very afraid. The laws of chance are coming.And they’re bringing an alien destroyer, invisible to systems, sensors, as well as the naked eye. Even Ted is stymied. Kill or be killed.
Terry Henry Walton...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879979682 |
I was voting on a list of Sci-fi books and I realized that this book hasn't had a lot of attention. I read this in High School and it's affected everything sci-fi wise from what I read to those things I tried to write and even Television Shows.
This is an adventure story into the vast unknown void of...
