The Wizardry Consulted
10 best books like The Wizardry Consulted (Rick Cook): Castle Perilous, Sleipnir, Digital Knight, Fever Season, The Wood Nymph and the Cranky Saint, Dog Wizard, Princess Resurrection, Vol. 2, World Killers, Requiem for the Conqueror, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Book III
| Author | John DeChancie |
| ISBN | 0759231982 |
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.
Castle Perilous is a giant castle with 144,000 rooms that are portals to other worlds. These portals are constantly shifting in and out of other dimensions and occasionally they temporarily open up somewhere on Earth. At those times people may stumble...
| Author | Linda Evans |
| ISBN | 0671875949 |
The sad thing is their are some really cool ideas like the idea that Odin is a villain and that it looks at the monsters as more of as tragic characters instead of as villains like they usually are. But the problem comes mostly with the main character Randy is just really boring and seems more like a gary stu...
Jason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence. The a body with two holes in its neck and no blood left turned up at his back...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0886772249 |
Carried by the dark, winding waterways of Merovingen, the yearly fever spreads, wreaking havoc with the plots and counter-plot of even the greatest Houses, laying low the likes of such key players in the games of power as Thomas Mondragon himself.
And as the fever-fed canal city is brough to...
| Author | C. Dale Brittain |
| ISBN | 0671721569 |
New light fantasy from the author of, Bad Spell in Yurt. When the king goes on vacation, Daimbert, wizard to the king, learns there's a great deal to be said for the quiet life, as he faces an all-too-beguiling wood nymph, a plague of magical horned rabbits, a scandalous duchess's fondess for young wizards,...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0345377141 |
On any given day in Los Angeles, you might meet a person claiming to be a wizard from another world. In the case of Antryg Windrose, it happened to be true.
Though Joanna Sheraton was an A-1 professional hacker, she could honestly say that computers weren’t her whole world—nor was the city...
Princess Resurrection, Vol. 2
| Author | Yasunori Mitsunaga |
| ISBN | 0345496825 |
IMMORTALITY BITES
Hiro is a Blood Warrior, which means he’s the natural prey of vampires, demons, monsters, and other creatures of the night. Even worse, he needs the help of Hime, the somewhat crazy Princess who gave him the dubious gift of immortal life at the price of eternal servitude....
| Author | Jack McKinney |
| ISBN | 0345353048 |
The bearlike Karbarrans and the swashbuckling amazons from Praxis, the feral natives of Garuda and the Human Robotech heroes -- these oddly -- met champions banded together with other races, from other planets, to form the Sentinels.
Yet what fighting force could hope to dislodge the Invid...
| Author | W. Michael Gear |
| ISBN | 0886774772 |
Book one of The Forbidden Borders trilogy, is the story of Staffa Kar Therma, an extraordinarily brilliant military strategist. He is the leader of an elite mercenary group, The Companions, whose services are sought out by the two competing empires of Sassa and Rega. Staffa has in turns helped both...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Book III
| Author | Kevin Eastman |
| ISBN | 0915419289 |
Unless you’re a purist who just has to read everything you could be forgiven for skipping this book. There’s some kind of really annoying apprentice to a time lord who steals a magic scepter and transports the turtles into another comic book. It’s annoying and makes no sense and is full of silly...
| Author | S.M. Stirling |
| ISBN | 0671721437 |
Nothing about this book is good: to describe the characters as one-note would imply that they have distinguishable personalities, the plot (?) doesn't really hang together at all, and the worldbuilding is painfully earnest
and overdetailed (4 languages! 40 pages of appendices full of pseudo-scientific...
| Author | Lisanne Norman |
| ISBN | 0886778298 |
The world of Jalna had revealed many secrets to the Sholan-Human teams sent there on a rescue mission. Yet the planetary conflicts had led to the injured Carrie and Kusac being placed in cryo on a non-Sholan vessel, with Kaid desperately trying to rush them back to Sholan medical facilities. But before...
Doctor Who and the Face of Evil
| Author | Terrance Dicks |
| ISBN | 0426200063 |
Setting the controls for Earth, the Fourth Doctor is surprised when the Tardis lands in a primeval forest. Has the Tracer gone wrong or has some impulse deep in the unconscious mind directed him to this alien planet? In investigating the forest, the Doctor meets and assists Leela, a warrior banished...
M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action / Sweet Myth-tery of Life
| Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
| ISBN | 0441009824 |
I have both of these books separately, this is the review for -M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action-. I plan on reading the next one later this year and then calling it quits on this series.
The saga continues actually overlapping the last book but with different characters. I was probably smiling a lot when...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0812524608 |
When a strange starship appears mysteriously on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger's preposterous demand: End an all-out war with an interstellar rival, or face devastating consequences....
