The Forge in the Forest

Author	Stephen R. Donaldson
ISBN	0345314433

The Creator Of Thomas Covenant Adds Eight New Wonders To The World.

In his first collection of short fiction, the bestselling author of White Gold Wielder presents eight superb stories, including "Gilden-Fire," the famous "outtake" from Illearth War, and two brand new novellas written...

Author	Ian Graham
ISBN	0441012639

First published in 2002, so a bit after George R R Martin started his 'Song of Ice and Fire' but before grimdark fantasy became a bandwagon, "Monument" holds a special place in my remembrance as one of the first modern fantasies that made me such a huge fan of the genre. Re-reading it though is a bittersweet...

Author

Gene Wolfe

I enjoy a good fantastical forest novel as much as the next guy. Gene Wolfe's dependably polished writing delivers thrills and chills in this relatively early work. Set alongside Fifth Head of Cerberus, and Peace, The Devil in a Forest reads almost like children's literature. That is not to say that...

Author	Eric Van Lustbader
ISBN	0345466756

In was Kai-feng, the end of days, the time of chaos.
One by one, the four grisly abominations called the Makkon had come together, marshaling their inhuman armies to reap a bitter harvest of death. Mankind's struggle to turn back the tide of blood was doomed, for soon the hideous Makkon would summon...

Author	E.R. Eddison
ISBN	0345272218

OK, this one is also complicated ... Not so much the broad strokes of the story, this time, though; rather, it's the structure of the book. Unfortunately, Eddison died before completing it; fortunately, he did leave enough notes to allow the book to be understandable even in partial form. Apparently,...

Author	Ricardo Pinto
ISBN	0593050517

Amidst the massacre he helped bring about, Carnelian is now desperate to find a way to avoid more carnage. His spurned lover Osidian—seeking revenge and determined to win back his stolen throne—has deliberately stoked the wrath of the Masters who rule the world from its center, Osrakum. Osidian's...

Author	William Horwood
ISBN	0006472184

A century after the great days of moledom described in the great Chronicles, Privet, a lonely female pilgrim from the north, arrives in fabled Duncton Wood. Only old Stour, Master of the Library, realizes the importance of her quest. For Privet seeks an answer to moledom’s final mystery: where and...

Author	Judith Tarr
ISBN	0812556216

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The Lady of Han-Gilen is the second novel in Judith Tarr’s AVARYAN saga. In the first book, The Hall of the Mountain King,...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0671559915

Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by “ensqualming” or...

Author	Dennis L. McKiernan
ISBN	0451458036

I have been reading Dennis McKiernan for a long time. This book--published in 1999--was supposedly the last of his Midkemia books, but since then he's written and published at least two more. Because this was going to be the last, the author threw many, many bones to his fans: names and places and references...

Author	Mary Gentle
ISBN	0380820420

"It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness." Thus begins a sweeping historical adventure about two dueling swordsmen and the plot to kill a king in the grand tradition of Dorothy Dunnett and Alexander Dumas. The year is 1610. Continental Europe is briefly at peace after years of war, but Henri IV...

Author	Mike Jefferies
ISBN	0061000191

I found a copy of this book in a local used bookstore and I was drawn in by the cover art. Big mistake! The only reason I finished it was because I have a hard time leaving a book on my shelf half-read. It lacks character development, a coherent plot, and detail in general.
The main characters are rarely...

Author

Julian May

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3, 2, 2 stars

I'm a big fan of the Saga of Pliocene Exile, and I also enjoyed the Galactic Milieu. So, since I was unable to get the books one by one as they appeared, I bought the entire Boreal Moon trilogy in one go, excited for a real treat.

This...

Author	Kenneth C. Flint
ISBN	0553276530

A boy, Lugh Lamfada, escapes the destruction of his home by sinister forces. Rescued by sea-god Manannan MacLir, Lugh is sent into Eire on a mission: to aid the Tuatha de Darnann, enslaved by monstrous pirates called Fomor.

Lugh boldly invades the Fomor headquarters, a Tower of Glass, and discovers...

Author	Carole Nelson Douglas
ISBN	0345308360

Irissa, last of the Torloc sorceresses, had been betrayed by the Rainbow Gate that was supposed to lead her to the haven world of her vanished people. The hand of Kendric, companion and Swordsman of Rule, had been torn from her grasp. Then the gate had rejected her into this strange world where a cold moon...

Author	Paula Volsky
ISBN	0553568795

Read the damn prologue.

Not often I say that but for The Wolf of Winter it actually is good advice. For one, it is really short. Like a single page short. And it appears to be a simple piece of random world building that gives the history of a simple title used throughout the book; Ulor, the leader...

Author	Sheri S. Tepper
ISBN	0552131911

"I'll need your help. Come night and the Oracle again, I'm going to try the final couplet."
"Jinian," Murzy breathed while Dodie looked white-eyed at me. "Dangerous."
"And fatal not to," I said, still smiling at them all...
I wove by forest and meadow, branch and leaf. I wove by stream and...

Author	J.V. Jones
ISBN	0446603511

At Castle Harvell demented Prince Kylock grabs the reins of power and hate by murdering his father. Harvell's two young refugees are torn apart by the storms of war:
Headstrong young Melliandra is captured by brutal slavers and Jack, whose wild power works miracles, falls prey to a smuggler's lying...

Author	David Wingrove
ISBN	0440221536

The spellbinding saga of the future continues in the year 2211. The Seven T'ang, the ruling dictatorship of the solar system, is weakened by the birth of a special child, and the forces of rebellion and change are spreading from the mega-cities of Earth to a secretive, planet-wide conspiracy on Mars....

Author	Margaret Weis
ISBN	0553289071

By calling a temporary truce, Derek Sagan and the rebels thwarted the alien Corasian invasion. Enemies once again, the rebels have resumed their defiance and Sagan has retumed to his campaign to topple the corrupt galactic government.  He plans to set up Dion as king of the Starfire dynasty--and...

Author

Brandon Sanderson

This excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s fourth Mistborn novel, The Alloy of Law, contains the Prologue through Chapter Six.

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads, electric lighting, and the first steel-framed...