Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy

5 best books like Wizardry and Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy (Michael Moorcock): A Shadow in Summer, The Fractal Prince, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, Orbitsville, A Betrayal in Winter

A Shadow in Summer
AuthorDaniel Abraham
ISBN0765313405
The city-state of Saraykeht dominates the Summer Cities. Its wealth is beyond measure; its port is open to all the merchants of the world, and its ruler, the Khai Saraykeht, commands forces to rival the Gods. Commerce and trade fill the streets with a hundred languages, and the coffers of the wealthy...
AuthorHannu Rajaniemi
“The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”
A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,” shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate...
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0143107380
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural

Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber...
AuthorBob Shaw
ISBN0575070986
[He] was a man who had looked on many worlds in his lifetime, yet his face was the face of a man in shock.

You’ll be forgiven if Orbitsville reminds you a lot of Ringworld. Both deal with megastructures around a star. Around a star, just in case you missed that part; these things are huge. Where...
A Betrayal in Winter
AuthorDaniel Abraham
ISBN0765313413
Daniel Abraham delighted fantasy readers with his brilliant, original, and engaging first novel, A Shadow in Summer. Now he has produced an even more powerful sequel, a tragedy as darkly personal and violent as Shakespeare's Macbeth.
 
As a boy, Otah Machi was exiled from his family, Machi's...
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