The Fantasy Hall of Fame
10 best books like The Fantasy Hall of Fame (Robert Silverberg): The Time of Indifference, The Binding, The Vicar of Wakefield, Appointment in Samarra, Lord of Chaos, BUtterfield 8, The Floatplane Notebooks, Tree of Ages, Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction: How to Create Out-Of-This-World Novels and Short Stories, Redemption
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 1586420054 |
In 1929, the fifth year of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It is a deceptively simple story – five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families...
| Author | Bridget Collins |
| ISBN | 0008272115 |
Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate...
| Author | Oliver Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0192805126 |
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation...
| Author | John O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0375719202 |
O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian...
| Author | Robert Jordan |
| ISBN | 0812513754 |
In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan's extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:
On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not the sky of this world ...
In Salidar...
| Author | John O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0812966988 |
A bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 was inspired by a news account of the discovery of the body of a beautiful young woman washed up on a Long Island beach. Was it an accident, a murder, a suicide? The circumstances of her death were never resolved, but O’Hara seized upon the tragedy...
| Author | Clyde Edgerton |
| ISBN | 0345419065 |
The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long way. Each family member has a story to tell, and stories to be told about one another. Albert Copeland, the head of the family, writes it all down in the notebooks he started once to track the progress of the floatplanes he built, though they...
| Author | Sara C. Roethle |
| ISBN | 0692398929 |
"The seasons are changing. The lines are faltering, undoing the old and bringing life to the new. Trees will fall, and changed earth will be left in their place. A storm is coming."
Finn doesn't remember much about her previous life, and in a world that has been changed by the wars of the Tuatha...
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN | 1599631407 |
Do you envision celestial cities in distant, fantastic worlds? Do you dream of mythical beasts and gallant quests in exotic kingdoms? If you have ever wanted to write the next great fantasy or science fiction story, this all-in-one comprehensive book will show you how. Writing Fantasy & Science...
| Author | Leon Uris |
| ISBN | 0061098442 |
Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimed author of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption. A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world...
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the...
| Author | James Jones |
| ISBN | 1453218475 |
A playwright vacationing in Jamaica becomes dangerously obsessed with deep-sea diving
Ron Grant is one of the finest playwrights of his generation, second only to Tennessee Williams in pure genius. But success does not mean he feels like a man. On vacation in Jamaica with his mistress, an...
Don't You Know There's a War On?: The American Home Front 1941-1945
| Author | Richard R. Lingeman |
| ISBN | 1560254653 |
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency—Pearl Harbor—and America's subsequent involvement in World War II. In this evocative cultural history, Richard Lingeman re-creates the events—historic, humorous,...
| Author | John P. Marquand |
| ISBN | 1199796158 |
This is a novel about a major general - a specialist in combat who became a general through the ambition of his wife Muriel. General Goodwin had led tanks through the turmoil of war with only the usual press attention. But when he pushed aside the tommy-gun of a Russian sentry in Berlin he became the focal...
The Last Revolution: A Novel
| Author | Lord Dunsany |
| ISBN | 1940456126 |
In a time before computers were a mainstay of our lives, Lord Dunsany tells the story which takes place in England about the revolution of self-reproducing machines. Known to have a profound distaste for the Industrial Revolution, The Last Revolution touches on a topic we know all too well today: What...
The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper
| Author | Larry Swindell |
| ISBN | 0385143168 |
If I ingested the necessary amount of salt to be taken with this biography, I would be deeply worried for the health of my heart. So many tropes to be trotted out in 304 pages.
We have the stuff about Clara Bow having been with every man between the ages of 16 and 90; authors never get tired of that,...
| Author | Robert Stone |
| ISBN | 0330372238 |
Outerbridge Reach is a powerful book that grabbed my attention early and held me to the end. Stone draws his characters beautifully, but is unsparing in documenting their shortcomings. Like Moby Dick, it's a story about a man and a boat, but it's also about a quest. The main character, Owen Browne, has...
If you like short stories, and have a soft spot for Americana (like me, who suffers from an enduring nostalgia for his time spent in the USA, and for whom California has a strong mystique for me although I’ve never been), you’ll like John O’ Hara’s ‘Hope of Heaven and other stories'. The collection...
| Author | Seán O'Casey |
| ISBN | 0822205475 |
Sean O'Casey was born in 1880 and lived through a bitterly hard boyhood in a Dublin tenement house. He never went to school but received most of his education in the streets of Dublin, and taught himself to read at the age of fourteen. He was successively a newspaper-seller, docker, stone-breaker, railway-worker...
These three novels trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Midwestern town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic...
| Author | Irving Bacheller |
| ISBN | 1419183567 |
A nearly swashbuckling-type adventure, except that it's set mostly on dry land. Ramon and D'ri experience all sorts of wild adventures that could only take place on the American frontier. They battle the wilderness and the British before they can win their way.
Version B of my review (somehow...
| Author | Philip Wylie |
| ISBN | 1596540133 |
First published in 1930, Gladiator is the tale of Hugo Danner, a man endowed from birth with extraodinary strength and speed. But Danner is no altruist. He spends his life trying to cope with his abilities, becoming a sports hero in college, later a sideshow act, a war hero, never truly finding peace with...
| Author | Nicholas Flokos |
| ISBN | 0395883962 |
On the Greek Island of Samothrace, the natives are born dispossessed. They mourn the loss of their Nike, the most beautiful of classical statues, the timeless embodiment of victory and grace. For centuries she was the island's soul, the winged protectress of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. Buried...
| Author | Josephine Tey |
| ISBN | 0745170854 |
This was a navel adventure story featuring legally recognized pirates. If you had legal authority to raid and plunder you were known as a privateer.
This book was Historical Fiction about the privateer Henry Morgan. His career started when Oliver Cromwell was still in power and ended when...
The Writing Life: Twelve New Zealand Authors
| Author | Deborah Shepard |
| ISBN | 0995109532 |
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Droll Stories, Volume I: The First Ten Tales
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN | 1421976862 |
Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Due to his...
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Millions
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1923. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Another device he used was the surprise...
