The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volumes 1-3: Boxed Set: Dragon's Blood, Heart's Blood, and A Sending of Dragons
10 best books like The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volumes 1-3: Boxed Set: Dragon's Blood, Heart's Blood, and A Sending of Dragons (Jane Yolen): The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, The Firebringer Trilogy, Wolfsaga, Once Upon a Time, Alica, Lady in Gil, Rosetta, The Tripods Boxed Set of 4, Surak's Soul, Last Full Measure
Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
ISBN | 0152050523 |
This series is absolutely one of the fantasy genre's treasures! It's wonderfully light-hearted and humorous; the author revels in puncturing any number of fairy-tale conventions. Princess Cimorene, for instance, isn't kidnapped and enslaved by a dragon --she voluntarily becomes housekeeper...
Author | Meredith Ann Pierce |
ISBN | 0739435701 |
I ordered this trilogy years ago and have read it four or five times, but this is the first since joining GR. Maybe that is what made me pay more attention, or else I have just reached my limit for re-reads of this book. I couldn't remember all details of the story before starting, but every character I met...
Author | Käthe Recheis |
ISBN | 3210250758 |
في وادي الرياح الهامسة، حيث لا يزال العالم منظمًا. تعيش (آكونا)، الذئبة القائدة، ورفيقها (بالوكان) مع جرائهم الثلاثة (إيمياك)، و(شتيرنشفستر) و(شيريكي) -...
Author | Lester del Rey |
ISBN | 0345362632 |
Ten of the top writers of fantasy present their views of the ways and byways of fairyland:
ISAAC ASIMOV -- A most unusual knight meets an even more unusual dragon.
TERRY BROOKS -- A boy and an elf discover courage conquers more than monsters.
C.J. CHERRYH -- Three wishes -- and the strangest...
Author | Bernhard Hennen |
ISBN | 3800055260 |
Was als Reise auf das Rittergut ihrer Großeltern beginnt, wird für die junge Alica zum schaurigen Fantasy-Märchen der etwas anderen Art: In dem Gemäuer treibt ein Geisterfalke sein Unwesen und Alica verliebt sich bald in den jungen Husaren François, der ihr im Spiegel erscheint. Und dann taucht...
Author | Rebecca Bradley |
ISBN | 0441007090 |
reviews.metaphorosis.com
4 stars
Tigrallef, happily reclusive scholar and memorian becomes a lot less happy when called to stand in for his more ... physical brother as the land of Gil's official Hero. Woefully unprepared, he's sent off to Gil to track down a divinely powerful...
Author | Dave Stern |
ISBN | 1416509569 |
The Enterprise encounters an unknown alien ship that attacks them carefully to drive them out of an area it seems to be defending. Hoshi is unable to decipher the signal being broadcast from the ship meaning the crew cannot communicate with the aliens at all. After retreating, the Enterprise becomes...
I read the "Origanal" three books years ago I came accross the boxed set with the fourth book within the last few years. I loved these book then and now. I read them in the follow order The White Mountains, THe CIty of Gold and Lead, the Pool of Fire. I read the book "When the Tripods Came" last. I liked doing...
Author | J.M. Dillard |
ISBN | 0743462807 |
You are alone in the dark reaches of space, surrounded by aliens who do not understand who you are and what you are, and who will not accept your beliefs. Under such circumstances, an emotional human would feel lost, cut off, adrift, but Sub-Commander T'Pol is a Vulcan, and Vulcans control their emotions....
Author | Michael A. Martin |
ISBN | 1416503587 |
Without warning or provocation, a Xindi weapon appears above Earth and unleashes a blast that kills millions across two continents. It is only the first such weapon: a second is being built, and this time it might very well destroy the entire planet. Desperately trying to save the Earth and her people,...
Author | Sondra Marshak |
ISBN | 0553246356 |
A courageous and important book that dares to posit the theory: Kirk & Spock…friends, shipmates, comrades…LOVERS???
A careful reading of this book makes it obvious that the piercing insight of the authors, Ms. Marshak & Ms. Culbreath, perceived far more deeply...
Author | Dean Wesley Smith |
ISBN | 0743448715 |
An original adventure starring Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the very first USS Enterprise: Chief Engineer 'Trip' Tucker III, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Phlox, Science Officer T'Pol, Communications Officer Hoshi Sato, Tactical Officer Malcolm Reed and Helmsman Travis Mayweather.
In...
Author | Kim Schilling |
ISBN | 0470139439 |
An estimated 6 million people own this mischievous creature highlighted in this friendly guide. Including expert information on common misconceptions about ferrets, Ferrets For Dummies also explores how to teach a ferret through "play training," and offers insight about their temperament.
...
Author | Frederik Pohl |
ISBN | 0385265077 |
A race of turtle-like creatures conquers Earth, imposing a gentler set of values on humankind, outlawing destructive technology, and denying the validity of human scientific theories. When their home planet disappears into a black hole, however, the aliens' only hope for the future hinges on the...
Author | Julie Parsons |
ISBN | 0330368818 |
For twelve long years Rachel Beckett has been in prison for the murder of her husband, Martin. A murder she swears she did not commit. For twelve long years she has been denied the touch and the love of her only daughter Amy. Has been forced to watch another woman raise and enjoy her child. Until, at the age...
Author | Jack C. Haldeman II |
ISBN | 0553135805 |
Fun story, but basically a variation of stuff we've seen a million times before. The author needlessly clutters up the TREK universe by introducing new characters instead of relying on familiar ones, and he hinges the plot on a major event in Kirk's past that the book hardly even touches upon, let alone...
Author | Adam Campbell |
ISBN | 1605295493 |
The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever created, this makeover manual is a body-shaping power tool for both beginners and longtime fitness buffs alike. From start to finish, this...
Author | C.J. Cherryh |
ISBN | 0743498755 |
The Empire of Sabis was falling, besieged by the army of a more powerful empire and by hostile wizards. A small group of philosopher-scientists could reverse the tide if they could convince the rulers of Sabis to build the deadly new weapon that they have invented: the cannon. But when the rulers prove...
SHADOW KINGDOMS is the first volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, presenting all of Howard's work for the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously restored to its original magazine texts. Edited by Paul Herman. Introduction by Mark Finn. Cover by Stephen Fabian. This volume contains: Two-Gun...
Author | Gordon Eklund |
ISBN | 1852865326 |
An exciting new adventure of Captain Kirk and the Enterprise. This time the threat comes from Heartland, a planet populated by small but terrifying demons. The moment you need to be really cool, but Kirk has a human failure and falls in love with a beautiful woman, the bearer of a fatal secret. Throughout...
Author | Jerry Oltion |
ISBN | 0671024000 |
There's a bar called "The Captain's Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks...