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10 best books like The Green Millennium (Fritz Leiber): The Shape of Water, The Diamond Throne, The Stars My Destination, Castle of Wizardry, The Inverted World, Queen of Sorcery, Guardians of the West, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Enchanters' End Game, Bloodchild

The Shape of Water
AuthorAndrea Camilleri
ISBN0142004715
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes...
The Diamond Throne
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0345367693
'You'd better get ready to ride, Sparhawk.'

Meet Sparhawk: Pandion Knight and Queen’s Champion. If this were D&D his character class would likely be Paladin; he can cast spells, but mostly prefers to just chop off heads with his considerable broadsword.

Sparhawk is a bit of...
The Stars My Destination
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN0679767800
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...
Castle of Wizardry
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0345335708
A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!

THE BELGARIAD

It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil...
The Inverted World
AuthorChristopher Priest
ISBN0060134216
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move,...
Queen of Sorcery
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0345335651
The Trail of Prophecy...

Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was at...
Guardians of the West
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0345352661
Garion has slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled—or so it seemed. While the strange child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power, Garion was learning to rule...
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
AuthorJeff Speck
ISBN0374285810
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical...
Enchanters' End Game
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0345300785
THE DRIVE OF PROPHECY

The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of Garion, there was a descendant of Riva Iron-grip to rule as Overlord of the West.

But the Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the east, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion....
Bloodchild
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
Contains the short story Bloodchild only.

Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in search of a life free of persecution. Now they live alongside the Tlic, an alien race who face extinction; their only chance of survival is to plant their larvae inside the bodies of the humans.

When...
Magician's Gambit
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0345335457
Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, is confused. Everyone knows the tales of the Orb protecting the West from the evil god Torak are just silly legends. But here she is, forced to join a dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believes in sorcery, but Garion's aunt and grandfather seem...
King of the Murgos
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0552148032
In this second book of The Malloreon, Garion and Ce'nedra continue the quest begun in Guardians of the West. In their party travel the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and the little Drasnian, Silk.

Garion knows that it is the mysterious figure Zandramas...
The Ruby Knight
AuthorDavid Eddings
ISBN0345373529
When provoked, Sparhawk was not the most reasonable of men.

The Ruby Knight is a direct continuation of The Elenium, picking up almost exactly where The Diamond Throne let off, so don’t let grass grow beneath your feet between books. That said, this book doesn’t have the same impetus going...
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