The Great Time Machine Hoax

10 best books like The Great Time Machine Hoax (Keith Laumer): The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, Lord Foul's Bane, Ivanhoe, Earth Abides, Alas, Babylon, Gormenghast, The Andromeda Evolution, Tomoe Gozen, Swords and Deviltry, The Crossroads of Time (Crosstime

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
AuthorRobert E. Howard
ISBN0345483855
Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellanea drafts, notes, maps by author.
Cimmeria poem
1 The Phoenix on the Sword 1932
2 The Frost-Giant's Daughter 1976
3 The God in the Bowl 1952
4 The Tower of the Elephant 1933
5 The Scarlet Citadel 1933
6 Queen of the Black...
Lord Foul's Bane
AuthorStephen R. Donaldson
ISBN0345348656
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.

Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah....
Ivanhoe
AuthorWalter Scott
ISBN0140436588
For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...
AuthorGeorge R. Stewart
ISBN0345487133
”The trouble you’re expecting never happens; it’s always something that sneaks up the other way. Mankind had been trembling about destruction through war, and had been having bad dreams of cities blown to pieces along with their inhabitants, of animals killed, too, and of the very vegetation...
AuthorPat Frank
ISBN0060741872
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just...
Gormenghast
AuthorMervyn Peake
Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight...
The Andromeda Evolution
AuthorMichael Crichton
ISBN0062473271
The Evolution is Coming.

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle—designated The Andromeda Strain—killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant...
Tomoe Gozen
AuthorJessica Amanda Salmonson
ISBN0441816533
In a dimension next to ours, there is a world very much like Earth...

In that world there is an island empire called Naipon, where the gods and demons known only as legends in our Japan roam freely over the land, bringing good an evil to its people as they choose. There are mighty warriors, samurai,...
Swords and Deviltry
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN1595820795
For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met.

'The two thieves had themselves been robbed by two youths, who eyed each other suspiciously over the sprawled, senseless bodies.

Fafhrd said: 'Our motives for being here seem identical.'...
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0441123112
When Blake Walker foiled a murder attempt on one of his neighbors he somehow found himself drafted into a frantic chase for a dangerous criminal - through the almost infinite levels of alternate Earths.

It was a chase that would take him through level upon level of unknown dangers in search of...
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