The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
10 best books like The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Sheri S. Tepper): Resonance, Alabaster, Solstice Wood, The Dubious Hills, White Jenna, The Complete Ivory, Bones of the Past, Alchemy and Academe : A Collection of Original Stories Concerning Themselves with Transmutations, Mental and Elemental, Alchemical and Academic, The Golden Horn, Light Music
What does it mean to be alive? What is it worth to stay alive?
Ireland, 1890: two ruthless immortals prowl the theatre district in search of food for their 'Angel'. Ancient, pitiless and caring for none but their own twisted family, they will stop at nothing to maintain their grip on life.
A...
| Author | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| ISBN | 1596060603 |
An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel - or perhaps only voices in her head - searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. Caitlín R. Kiernan first introduced Dancy...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441014658 |
The World Fantasy Award-winning author's foray into the modern world-now in paperback.
No stranger to the realms of myth and magic, World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia A. McKillip presents her first contemporary fantasy in many years-a tale of the tangled lives mere mortals lead,...
| Author | Pamela Dean |
| ISBN | 0812523628 |
This is a very peculiar book. The Dubious Hills are a place deliberately set aside from the rest of the fantasy world they are part of by a great spell performed by wizards long ago. There is no traffic to speak of in and out and weird rules govern the workings of the inhabitants' lives. For one, each area of...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0765343584 |
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Book Two of the Great Alta Saga
Jenna was the White Queen.
Skada was the Dark Queen. She is bound to Jenna—the other half of Jenna’s self. Drawn out of a mirror by a rite of magic, a “dark sister” is...
| Author | Doris Egan |
| ISBN | 0756400414 |
I generally have trouble coming up with "favorites," even within narrow genres. If I had to choose though, The Ivory is my favorite (set of) fantasy book(s). Easily. The blending of the Science Fiction and Fantasy elements is elegant. The protagonist, Theodora, comes from a culture similar enough...
| Author | Holly Lisle |
| ISBN | 0671721607 |
The City of the First Folk was an Archaeological Find -- and a Lurking HorrorNever dig up the bones of the past -- because the past never dies, and it resents being buried.... A tiny band of outcast children.... A young girl marked for sacrifice.... An ancient scholar.... A head-hunting mage.... An insane...
Alchemy and Academe : A Collection of Original Stories Concerning Themselves with Transmutations, Mental and Elemental, Alchemical and Academic
| Author | Anne McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345344197 |
An enchanting collection of tales, enchantments, things magical and strange, devils and demons, professors of potent powers, witchcraft and wizardry, and more. Master fantasy writer Anne McCaffrey has chosen 20 short tales and poems of wonder and awe, written by the finest writers of fantasy today,...
| Author | Judith Tarr |
| ISBN | 0812556038 |
The new characters were just as lovable as the old, this book was phenomenal. The battling was much more exciting in this book than the first, and any issues people had with Alf’s angst and timidity in the first book, rest assured they were finally resolved. He is not the focus as much in this book, which...
| Author | Kathleen Ann Goonan |
| ISBN | 0380803518 |
Once the world worked differently -- before "the Silence" from space quieted the airwaves. Once there was a haven called Crescent City, built through the wonders of nanotechnology to transport its enlightened inhabitants into the cosmos. But humanity has failed the city.
Dania Cooper,...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0345355237 |
I first discovered Julian May about three or four years ago, when I picked up "Jack the Bodiless," Book 1 in the "Galactic Milieu Trilogy." I thought, "Fantastic! Book one! I can start at the beginning!" But after I was already well into Jack the Bodiless, I learned that it was the beginning of a trilogy...
| Author | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| ISBN | 0671836315 |
I'm pretty sure I read this collection of short stories by Vonda N McIntyre about thirty years ago - some of them were definitely very familiar, though as I couldn't remember anything at all about some of the others I may simply have read them in anthologies. I bought a copy a few months ago, and when I heard...
| Author | R.A. MacAvoy |
| ISBN | 0553265571 |
Set against the colorful and magical backdrop of Ireland, The Grey Horse chronicles a time when the Irish people suffered under harsh English overlords who sought to destroy their culture and way of life. Into the Irish town of Carraroe, a magnificent, completely grey stallion appears. The horse brings...
| Author | Phyllis Eisenstein |
| ISBN | 0345276426 |
"This is the story about a boy whose mother is a sorceress who uses spiders to make magic. The boy does not know his father and was told he died. He goes in search for him and to learn about himself. He does not want to be a sorcerer, but a knight like his father. He does not know that his father was really a sorcerer....
| Author | Elizabeth Bear |
| ISBN | 0553591096 |
Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grail brings Elizabeth Bear’s brilliant space opera to a triumphant conclusion.
At last the generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has arrived at its destination: the planet they have come to call Grail. But this habitable jewel just...
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...
A headstrong young prince, enslaved far from home, must rescue his imperiled kingdom and those he loves from an ancient dark sorcery in Nancy Springer’s magnificent third entry in the Book of Isle
The life of young Prince Trevyn of Isle changes forever on the day a mysterious boy named Gwern...
| Author | Michelle West |
| ISBN | 0886777062 |
Finally reading the second book of the Sacred Hunt (I've only had it sitting on my shelf for eight years…) marks my long-overdue return to the books of Michelle West (a.k.a. Michelle Sagara). Her writing is as dense and elegant as ever (and oh-so-hard to read if you're not in exactly the right mood for...
| Author | Suzette Haden Elgin |
| ISBN | 0425058506 |
Suzette Haden Elgin's Ozark Trilogy is a strange beast of the kind published back in the cheap paperback era of the 80s, but which is far too odd and niche to be published today. It's a straightforward cross of science fiction and fantasy with both elements handwaved all to hell and gone by an author who's...
| Author | Patricia Kennealy-Morrison |
| ISBN | 0061059277 |
On a planet far-flung from Earth, the true descendants of the Celts have built a new civilization. Driven from their home by the relentless persecution of priests during the Dark Ages, the Celts fled in great starships to make a home on the green and beautiful world they call Keltia. Now, for the first...
