The Final Nightmare
10 best books like The Final Nightmare (Jack McKinney): The Stars My Destination, Lord of Light, The High Crusade, Ancestral Night, The Chronicles of Amber, The Compleat Enchanter, Witch World, Arrow's Fall, Stormbringer, The Complete Chronicles of Conan
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| ISBN | 0679767800 |
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0060567236 |
Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment at the foot of the Bodhi tree and became the Buddha: his teachings swept across India, striking at the roots of decadent Brahmanism. The Hindu priests were understandably alarmed, but were helpless against the doctrine of the eightfold path as the stale air...
| 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 | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 1473208742 |
Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants.
She thinks she knows who she is.
She is wrong.
A routine salvage mission uncovers evidence of a terrible crime and relics of powerful ancient technology. Haimey and her small crew run afoul of pirates at the outer limits of the Milky...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 1857987268 |
Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving...
| 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 | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0441897088 |
Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels. Simon Tregarth, a man from our own world, escapes his doom through the gates to the Witch World....
| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 0886774004 |
With Elspeth, the heir to the throne of Valdemar, come of marriageable age, Talia, the Queen's Own Herald returns to court to find Queen and heir beset by diplomatic intrigue as various forces vie for control of Elspeth's future.
But just as Talia is about to uncover the traitor behind all these intrigues,...
| 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 | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0575077662 |
Conan the Barbarian: born on a battlefield in Cimmeria, his life was spent wandering the world of the legendary Hyborian Age. From boy-thief to pirate, mercenary and outlaw, ultimately becoming King of Aquilonia, Conan carved a red swathe through lost cities and unexplored jungles, facing hideous...
| 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...
| Author | Joanne Bertin |
| ISBN | 0812545419 |
Dragonlord Linden Rathan, last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, has spent six hundred years alone, searching for his soultwin while his fellow Dragonlords watch over humanity's Five Kingdoms.
When the Queen of Cassori dies mysteriously, Linden and the other Dragonlords are called...
| Author | Michael Moorcock |
| ISBN | 1565041933 |
This series of stories was written in the dark days of declining Britain before the countries of Europe took mercy upon that wild and lonely Goddess and invited her in off her storm tossed Atlantic rock into the EEC.
In this future, unity has failed, Europe is a patchwork of tiny, frequently warring...
| 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...
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0871404532 |
"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century…the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period’s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore...
Pellucidar: The Inner World, Vol 1
| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| ISBN | 1846771188 |
PELLUCIDAR - The Inner World - Volume 1 - At the Earth's Core & Pellucidar Wealthy David Innes and his scientist friend Abner Perry use Perry's invention the "iron mole" to bore 500 miles into the Earth's crust. In the great tradition of scientific romances, what they encounter inside our planet...
| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| ISBN | 1500333662 |
Mars series are the books created by the American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of...
