The Gnole
10 best books like The Gnole (Alan Aldridge): Hemingway's Chair, The Pratchett Portfolio: A compendium of characters from the Discworld, The Mermaid Summer, The Stone and the Flute, The Wordsmiths and the Warguild, The Talking Parcel, The War of Powers, King of the Dead, The Thrall and the Dragon's Heart, The Stonor Eagles
| Author | Michael Palin |
| ISBN | 0312205503 |
Martin Sproale is an assistant postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway. Martin lives in a small English village, where he studies his hero and putters about harmlessly—until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster instead of Martin. Slick and self-assured, Nick steals...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0575063483 |
Terry Pratchett's incredible Discworld, floating through space on the backs of four elephants* standing on a giant turtle, supports some of the most popular characters ever imagined in the world of fantasy fiction. But the Discworld people are real, and here they are, warts (except, of course, in...
| Author | Mollie Hunter |
| ISBN | 0064403440 |
About a hundred years ago, they say, a mermaid ruled the cold sea that washed around northern lands. She was beautiful and dangerous, and the fishermen of those parts were careful to speak well of her. All but Eric Anderson, who scorned her very existence - until the day the mermaid smashed his fishing...
| Author | Hans Bemmann |
| ISBN | 0140074457 |
Translated from German, this book just looked too tempting with its 800 pages. Took me a while to get around to reading it, but what a ride once you get on! For those more interested in action-adventure type fiction, this might not be for you-- it has the feel of a quest book, but the quest is largely internal...
While on the run from an arranged marriage, Togura Poulaan accidentally kills a monster and is mistaken for a great hero. The Wordsmiths, an organization of wizards, send him on a quest to solve the mystery of the Odex, a shiny disc that seems to be a magical treasure chest, frequently vomiting forth treasure,...
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0397316089 |
My grandmother gave me this book: a discard from the high school library she worked at for many years. I began writing a sequel in fifth grade to satisfy my longing to envelop myself in the land of Mythologia (I never got past the third chapter). One of the main characters is a talking parrot whose job is to...
| Author | Robert E. Vardeman |
| ISBN | 0450056619 |
It seemed like a routine delivery job.
Except that the parcel was a jug containing a genie called Erimines the Ethical, who knew the secret of immortality but was actually more interested in sex after being bottled up on his own for more than 1,400 years.
Except that the wizard to whom...
| Author | R.A. MacAvoy |
| ISBN | 0747238545 |
Book two of the award-winning Lens of the World trilogy, this volume finds the dwarflike Nazhuret a modest and fastidious lens grinder. Although he could have chosen an exalted and wealthy life as a noble member of the court, he wishes to live in humble and undisturbed poverty with his lady Arlin. But...
| Author | Elizabeth H. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0345302362 |
WAR OF THE DARK ELVES
Brak just wanted to help Ingvold, the elfin girl who was cursed by the witch-queen Hjordis to act as a hag. He never expected his efforts to lead him through a strange gate to the world of the Alfar, where the dark elves were fighting to destroy all the light elves. As a humble...
| Author | William Horwood |
| ISBN | 0099455404 |
Cuillin - last of the great sea eagles of Skye. For her there will be many bitter years of exile, sustained only by a belief that one day her offspring will return to her abandoned homeland.
James MacAskill Stonor - a lonely, bewildered child growing up in a storm-racked English coastal town......
| Author | Craig Shaw Gardner |
| ISBN | 0441769772 |
Holy crap, I hated this book. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for probably nearly 20 years, and I think I may have forgotten that I hadn't read it, because it wasn't familiar to me at all. I certainly would have remembered hating it this much and doing what I want to do now, which is to get it back over to Recycled...
| Author | Sara Douglass |
| ISBN | 0732264545 |
the Demon-King wears the Crown of England and only a man strong enough to resist love can defeat him. Casting aside his vows to the Church, and protected by the powerful Duke of Lancaster and his son Hal Bolingbroke, thomas Neville is now free to pursue his quest for Wynkyn de Worde's casket. But Richard...
| Author | Colin Wilson |
| ISBN | 0914171631 |
COLIN WILSON'S CLASSIC NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY MURDER
A wave of sickening deaths hits the streets of modern London. Young women, mainly prostitutes, are found strangled and mutilated. The police are baffled, the press outraged - not since Jack the Ripper has such a sinister brand of violent...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0006482031 |
At some level of reading, the line between Sci-Fi and Fantasy seems to merge is what I have been given to understand. My reading into both these genres has not been extensive enough to validate this theory either. Both these genres to me are flights of fantasy in varied levels. When Tolkien tells us that...
| Author | Julian May |
| ISBN | 0441012116 |
The four kingdoms in the Boreal Sea that have clashed since time out of mind. But Prince Conrig of Cathra--who waits patiently as his father, the king, slowly dies--is in league with his lover, the seductive sorceress Princess Ullanoth of Moss. And if their secret alliance succeeds, the warring kingdoms...
| Author | Clayton Emery |
| ISBN | 0061054186 |
I liked this book, but not as much as I like other books in the Magic the Gathering realm.
The main thing I did not like in this book, is the un-epicness of the adventure. It seems to me that the struggles overcome by the main characters pale in insignificance to the struggles faced in other fantasy...
| Author | Tom Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0330323075 |
Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister...
| Author | Robert Holdstock |
| ISBN | 0765311100 |
The first book was like a mix of Braveheart and Excalibur with burly dudes chopping off pieces of each other and with some mythical and mystical creatures popping up. The second book was more like Inception with layers of consciousness stuff and a bunch of "wow the author is eating tons of LSD moments"...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0756402247 |
I read the first book in this omnibus, Darkover Landfall in 2008. I'm now continuing with Two to Conquer. I am following my own reading order for the Darkover novels as described on my blog - http://www.brigidsflame.com/feymorgai... - except that I read Darkover Landfall earlier and am reading Two...
| Author | Mark Kurlansky |
| ISBN | 0345448197 |
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 1416520694 |
Harry Silver has already had a lifetime of trouble from ordinary Berserkers, the automated killing machines programmed an age ago to denude the galaxy of life. Now when his own family is kidnapped, he faces a deviant machine, a good fit for some or all of the Galactic Dictionary's definitions of ROGUE:...
