The Three of Swords

Author	Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN	0451458974

Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world.

The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is rent by a feud between its two most powerful dukes, the noble troubador...

Author	Barry Hughart
ISBN	0345321383

When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.

The quest led them to a host of...

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0140050930

As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode...

Author	Samuel R. Delany
ISBN	0839823282

Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted...

Author	Gene Wolfe
ISBN	0671631934

This, as well as the first two books and theoretically the last in the series, is rapidly becoming the most difficult work of SF I've ever read. Why? It's not particularly difficult to follow; the Hero's Quest is rather straightforward throughout. Nor is the main character Severian particularly uninteresting...

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0380803267

In the mountains of Midkemia,
a boy came brutally of age in blood and
in terror. And now he lives for one
purpose alone ... revenge!

An exceptionally skilled swordsman, youngTal Hawkins was the only survivor of the massacre of his village -- rescued, recruited, and trained by the...

Author	Cordwainer Smith
ISBN	0345329317

The Gem Planet, the Storm Planet, the Sand Planet...one of these marvel worlds held the secret Casher O'Neill sought. Casher had wandered the inhabited the galaxy seeking justice, seeking the cosmic power that would enable him to return to his home world and overthrow its usurper. But in the search...

Author	Cordwainer Smith
ISBN	0515039691

Storyline: 2/5
Characters: 2/5
Writing Style: 2/5
World: 3/5

Every now and then a little golden age science fiction found its way back into a genre that was on its way to abandoning it. Not that science fiction ever completely outgrew its pulp adolescence, but by 1964 it was becoming...

Author	Robert E. Howard
ISBN	0575089873

A master of all genres of pulp, from historical adventure and detective stories to Western and boxing fiction, Robert E. Howard invented the genre now known as Sword-and-Sorcery, and it is for these larger than life tales of heroic fantasy and horror that he is best remembered. Plucked from the...

Author	Amos Elon
ISBN	0006375316

We went to Jerusalem once for a holiday. Man, what a place. Guys with automatics slung over their shoulder, walking around in jeans and t-shirt; looney bearded religious types jumping on to large flower pots and declaiming some stuff about the Messiah or the Dead Sea Scrolls or the End Times or Microsoft;...

Author	Robert Holdstock
ISBN	2207261654

Il existe, dans un coin reculé du Herefordshire, une forêt qui n'apparaît sur aucune carte. Bien qu'il s'agisse d'un tout petit bois, on peut progresser des journées entières vers son cœur. Cette forêt, qui date de la dernière glaciation, est bouillonnante de magie, peuplée de créatures...

Author

Robert Holdstock

Omnibus edition including The Hollowing and Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn

Ryhope Wood: a tract of English woodland in the Herefordshire countryside wherein reside the creatures and configurations of ancient myth, the mythagos. In Ryhope Wood, ancient secrets and memories, both real and imaginery,...

Author

Walt Disney Company

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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5,...

Author	Clark Ashton Smith
ISBN	0586039562

Cosmic Horror...Daemonic Strangeness...Weird-Heroic Fantasy...The Macabre And Terrible Visions of Clark Ashton Smith...

Here are 17 bizarre stories by master fantasist Clark Ashton Smith, who was described by H.P. Lovecraft as 'unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living'. They...

Author	Clark Ashton Smith
ISBN	0586043527

Ghoulish tales of weird fantasy and sheer horror by the master of the macabre

A universe of remote and paralysing fright - jungles of poisonous and iridescent blossoms, evil and grotesque temples in forgotten elder worlds, and dark morasses of spotted death-fungi in spectral countries beyond...

Author	Cordwainer Smith
ISBN	0722179413

I had to do a intensive search to rediscover this story line of the "underpeople." I've been reading so many current fantasy books that have such a similar theme of humans combined with animal DNA to produce an entire new race, I couldn't get this old story out of my head. I read this originally as short stories...

Author	Cordwainer Smith
ISBN	0515011835

This is the 1st edition.

The universe of Cordwainer Smith

Giant planoforming ships ply the spaceways...

Men "built" from animals do mankind's labor - and plot in secret...

Living weapons guard the most important secret in existence...

A thousand planets...

Author	Cordwainer Smith
ISBN	2070314898

Chef-d'œuvre mythique et singulier de la science-fiction, le cycle des Seigneurs de l'Instrumentalité compose au fil de ses tableaux une légende des siècles futurs, empreinte de poésie et d'une profonde humanité. Une vision inoubliable de notre avenir, d'une ambition comparable au Fondation...