Waters Luminous and Deep
10 best books like Waters Luminous and Deep (Meredith Ann Pierce): The Hidden Land, Becoming Human, Harrowing the Dragon, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, Half-Human, Terribly Twisted Tales, Curses, Inc. and Other Stories, Singer in the Snow, Sword and Sorceress VII, The Fate of Mice
| Author | Pamela Dean |
| ISBN | 0142501433 |
"That talent of mine that in my country turns to sorcery, in yours turns to this making up." (italics mine).
Essentially, this and the Secret Country should have been one book. I would have still been furious with it for being desperately and deliciously subtle, but the jarring feeling of the...
| Author | Valerie J. Freireich |
| ISBN | 0451453964 |
Had to order this in paperback as I couldn't find an ebook on Amazon or anywhere else. I enjoyed reading this a lot. Wouldn't really call this the 2nd book of a series since it worked perfectly as a stand-alone.
It's a future where clones are being made for specific purposes - 'toolmen'. They're...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441014437 |
A fantasist without equal, Patricia A. McKillip has created worlds of intricate beauty and unforgettably nuanced characters. For 25 years, she's drawn readers into her spell, spinning modern-day fables with a grace rarely seen. Now she presents a book of previously uncollected short stories, full...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142403202 |
Firebirds is more than simply an anthology -- it is a celebration of wonderful writing. It gathers together sixteen original stories by some of today's finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. Together, they have won virtually every major prize -- from the National Book Award to the World Fantasy...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0590955888 |
Like us, but not quite...
A girl who hears the sea amongst the busy streets of Manhattan. A princess born with the strength to clutch a sword hilt. A winged boy who cannot fly. In these stories, the kind where trees can become men and girls wake up with snakes for hair, people are not always what they...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756405548 |
Eighteen original stories that take familiar fairy tales and shift them around to give an entirely new slant.
Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when young and impressionable. They stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions or filtered...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0440227674 |
Vande Velde expertly mixes horror and humor as well as the best and worst that human nature has to offer in this collection of short fiction, and she does it without relying on blood and guts.The best of these stories is the title piece. Bill has invited Denise to the school's end of the year dance, but decides...
| Author | Louise Marley |
| ISBN | 0142407488 |
On the ice planet of Nevya, people rely on Cantors and Cantrixes, men and women with the ability to channel psi energy through music, creating heat and light. Mreen is possibly the most talented Cantrix on Nevyaabut she is unable to make a sound. She is accompanied to her first posting by a younger Singer,...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0886774578 |
IN THE MAGIC REALMS
a quickly woven spell may proved the key to power or to a power weaver's downfall, while a skilled blade wielder may survive dangers beyond even a sorceress wildest imaginings.
So join today's top magic makers and talented newcomers as they guide you to kingdoms where:
a...
| Author | Susan Palwick |
| ISBN | 1892391422 |
Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless...
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 1618730916 |
In her vivid and sly, gentle and wise, long-anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors—the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat—and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them....
| Author | Kara Dalkey |
| ISBN | 0064408094 |
Genre: fantasy
Summary: This story continues the journey of Nia who is trying to save her hometown of Atlantis from a power-hungry, mad mermyd and his companion Farworlder. This sequel, however, is told from the viewpoint of Corwin, an urchin who lives on land. He was collecting by the seashore...
1 Lily. She has the power to heal, but no speech - until a mage hears words from her mind.
2 Ruen. The princess was abandoned by her uncle deep in a cave to die at the hands of a stagman - who will surprise fate.
3 Erana. Given as a babe to a witch, raised beside the witch's troll son, she learns...
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0380765268 |
In a novel inspired by the myth popularized by Wagner's Ring Trilogy, Paxson recounts the first part of the Nibelungenlied legend. Children Brunahild and Sigfrid are raised along their fated paths, each immersed in the special knowledge that will mold them into leaders of their people. Soon they are...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0345311922 |
Kethan, son of Gillan and Herrel, heir to the House of Car Do Prawn, destined to become lord of Arvon, acquires a leopard-skin belt with strange powers, its clasp a leopard's head made from jargoon stone. Unable to take it off, Kethan becomes part man, part beast. In the perilous confrontation between...
