The Winds of Limbo
9 best books like The Winds of Limbo (Michael Moorcock): Kidnapped, Foxglove Summer, Nova, The Homeward Bounders, The Einstein Intersection, The Sword of the Lictor, The People of the Wind, Infinity's Shore, Conan of the Isles
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0439295785 |
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny...
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 0575132507 |
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some...
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| ISBN | 0375706704 |
These are [at least some of] the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure; as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently); as modern myth told in the S-F idiom... the reader observes, recollects, or participates...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0749702818 |
"You are now a discard. We have no further use for you in play. You are free to walk the Bounds, but it will be against the rules for you to enter play in any world. If you succeed in returning Home, then you may enter play again in the normal manner."
When Jamie unwittingly discovers the sinister,...
| 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....
| 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 | Poul Anderson |
| ISBN | 0451079000 |
An oddly Heinleinian offering by Poul Anderson.
True, the two grandmasters share an affinity for the physical and the libertarian, and both have a natural talent for world building – but Anderson steers this ship clearly along the Missourians path. This is similar to The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress...
| Author | David Brin |
| ISBN | 0553577778 |
For the fugitive settlers of Jijo, it is truly the beginning of the end. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings. Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic—and terrifying—choices....
aaaargh...time for some conan! he's an old man (relatively speaking) in this one, king, w/a son (and possibly other children), listening to some tax dispute, hungering for the hunt, gray (the word is silver...for kings and such...honest plumbers from sheboygan have gray...i call it blonde but that's...
