The Sword of Rhiannon
10 best books like The Sword of Rhiannon (Leigh Brackett): Night's Master, Gather, Darkness!, What Mad Universe, Dwellers in the Mirage, The Broken Lands, The Einstein Intersection, Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1), Star Born, Who Fears The Devil, Black Gods Kiss
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0886771315 |
NIGHT'S MASTER is the first book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales.
Long time ago when the Earth was Flat, beautiful indifferent Gods...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1585861065 |
GATHER, DARKNESS! is a science-fiction classic. It tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and...
Fredric Brown was a true ubermensch of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, and his short stories are still among the best ever written in the genre. I mean that. Best...Ever...Written.
What Mad Universe is one of only a handful of SF novels that he wrote, a tear-inducing shame given...
| Author | A. Merritt |
| ISBN | 0020228724 |
Angry Warrior, Modern Man. . .
Leif Langdon was suddenly ripped from the 20th century and plunged into the ancient world of The Mirage. But his entrance into this awesome land awakened the slumbering Dwayanu, who in this strange incarnation was also Leif. Thus, two-men-in-one battle with...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0671653806 |
I have wanted to read Fred Saberhagen's Sword books for a long time and I had read somewhere that this trilogy was the precursor to them. Perhaps if I had read this when it was originally published I would have liked it more. It was boring and flat to me. In a post apocalyptic world the Empire of the East is enslaving...
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| ISBN | 0819563366 |
The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are 'different' must deal with the dominant cultural ideology....
Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1)
| Author | Alan Burt Akers |
| ISBN | 0860078027 |
On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth.
His name is Dray Prescot, and only the Savanti know his role.
Dray Prescot...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0843959142 |
When Raf Kurbi's Terran spaceship burst into unexplored skies of the far planet Astra and was immediately made welcome by the natives of a once-mighty metropolis, Kurbi was unaware of three vital things:
One was that Astra already harbored an Earth colony -- descended from refugees from the...
| Author | Manly Wade Wellman |
| ISBN | 0440197767 |
There's a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit,...
| Author | C.L. Moore |
| ISBN | 1601250452 |
First published in the pages of Weird Tales in 1934, C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry is the first significant female sword and sorcery protagonist and one of the most exciting and evocative characters the genre has ever known. Published alongside seminal works by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the...
World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0881848417 |
1953. Aflat în permisie, locotenentul Morgan Cargill se lasă convins să însoțească spre casă o tânără abia întâlnită într-un bar, Marie Chanette. Amețiți după câteva pahare, cei doi sunt implicați într-un accident rutier care duce la moartea fetei și fuga lui Morgan de la...
| Author | Edmond Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1419183435 |
Flung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with Zarth Arn, Prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire 2000 centuries in the future!
Suddenly John is thrust into a last-ditch battle between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime....
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 0441669026 |
The Pnume are native to Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin. Historians of Tschai, the Pnume collect its past with scholarly disinterest; they hear rumors of Adam Reith - a man who claims to come from another planet, named Earth - and they...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 1601250436 |
The creator of Conan looks to the stars in one of fantasy's most enduring science fantasy classics! Robert E. Howard's Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow the...
| Author | Jane Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0708881378 |
In the lost world of prehistory, a girl is born. Is she a Goddess? Cija herself believes that she is. For 17 years her mother, the Dictatress, has kept her imprisoned in a tower. She releases her, with one object in view: to seduce Zerd, the snake-scaled "Dragon-General" of an occupying army, then stab...
