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The Great and Secret Show Clive Barker has the gift; that much is evident. The way he weaves together seemingly distant... | Light of Other Days Best Price: $5.19 I had to stop reading because I could not tolerate this novel any longer! I read 280 pages, and... | Abhorsen (The Abhorsen Trilogy) Best Price: $0.01 Sabriel's father is the famous necromancer called Abhorsen. But when a Dead being brings her... | The Saint of Dragons Best Price: $0.01 When I got my ARC (Advanced Reading Copy, one of the great delights of being a reviewer) of The... | The Hallowed Hunt (Chalion, Book 3) Best Price: $4.25 Generally known as the author of the acclaimed Miles Vorkosigan series of SF novels,... |
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A Hat Full of Sky Best Price: $6.60 A Hat Full of Sky is the thirty-second novel in the Discworld series, following Monstrous... | Smith of Wootton Major People who know anything about the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien know that he disliked allegory. That... | Smith of Wootton Major A visit to Faery. Beware. It may touch your soul.
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Eagle-Sage (The Lon Tobyn Chronicle, Book 3) Best Price: $14.75 I was a bit hesitant about making this purchase since although I found his first book in the... | Ender's Shadow The Bean books are not as good as Xenocide and Children of the Mind. Those are still by... | Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11) Best Price: $2.74 Hello?!
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| Morgawr (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book 3) Best Price: $3.00 New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks became the master of epic fantasy with the... |
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Immortalis (The Second DemonWars Saga, Book 3) Best Price: $12.54 Immortalis (2003) is the third, and concluding, novel in the Second DemonWars Saga, following... | Mistral's Kiss (Meredith Gentry, Book 5) Best Price: $1.48 I was not happy when I picked up "Mistral's Kiss," because the fifth of Laurell K.... | The Approaching Storm (Star Wars) Best Price: $3.55 Ansion is considering seceding from the Republic. Because of its many important alliances, the... | Line of Polity: The Second Agent Cormac Novel (Agent Cormac 2) Best Price: $7.36 First, I'm delighted to find something new to read in the
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The Catch Trap Best Price: $92.82 Those who are familiar with Bradley's Darkover works know that she has tackled the theme of... | Heechee Rendezvous This is the third volume in what turned out to be a four-decker featuring the now-aging Robin... | Have Spacesuit--Will Travel Capsule Summary: Kip wants to go to the moon, but tickets are far too expensive. He enters a... | Smoke Ring Best Price: $8.32 Chances are, when you think of a good Niven book, you don't recall the awe-inspiring plot or... | Immortalis (The Second DemonWars Saga, Book 3) Best Price: $12.54 Immortalis (2003) is the third, and concluding, novel in the Second DemonWars Saga, following... |
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Mistral's Kiss (Meredith Gentry, Book 5) Best Price: $1.48 I was not happy when I picked up "Mistral's Kiss," because the fifth of Laurell K.... | The Approaching Storm (Star Wars) Best Price: $3.55 Ansion is considering seceding from the Republic. Because of its many important alliances, the... | Line of Polity: The Second Agent Cormac Novel (Agent Cormac 2) Best Price: $7.36 First, I'm delighted to find something new to read in the
works of Neal Asher. I really... | Alice in Wonderland I am a big Alice in Wonderland fan and this book is just beautiful. I love the cover... | The Catch Trap Best Price: $92.82 Those who are familiar with Bradley's Darkover works know that she has tackled the theme of... |
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Heechee Rendezvous This is the third volume in what turned out to be a four-decker featuring the now-aging Robin... | Have Spacesuit--Will Travel Capsule Summary: Kip wants to go to the moon, but tickets are far too expensive. He enters a... | Smoke Ring Best Price: $8.32 Chances are, when you think of a good Niven book, you don't recall the awe-inspiring plot or... | Tam Lin Best Price: $2.95 For the most part, it's a college soap opera with bits of the fantastic slapped on here and... | Fiasco Best Price: $11.79 READER BE WARNED: HEREIN BE SPOILERS!
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Complete Robot Best Price: $112.65 Among the thirty-one short stories, totalling some 200.000 words, included in "the... | Riddley Walker: Expanded Editionafterword, Notes, and Glossary This is my favorite book. Images and stories illuminate just what images and stories mean to us... | The Lord of the Rings Best Price: $21.30 This book changed my life. Before it I was a spotty 14 year old hooked on my science studies.... | The Count of Monte Cristo (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $15.88 It's very hard to find an unabridged version of this work and I had to wait a few years... | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Best Price: $7.28 I was expecting something lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek, a global melee of headshots and... |
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Gods Behaving Badly Best Price: $5.64 The gods seem to have been making a comeback recently, at least in the world of fiction. Several... | Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle, Book 1) I won't give a synopsis of the story; you can scroll down to find several of these. If... | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (No. 21) Best Price: $14.50 The annual collection of the best of science fiction edited by Gardner Dozois (until recently,... | Futurama-O-Rama (Simpsons Futurama) Best Price: $7.27 I bought this book right before i went on my vacation to germany in july, i read most of it... | Carpe Jugulum Best Price: $4.21 Carpe Jugulum, the 23rd Discworld novel by the ever-amusing Terry Pratchett, introduces vampires... |
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Fortress of Dragons Best Price: $4.99 Fortress of Dragons (2000) is the fourth fantasy novel of the Fortress series, following ... | The Best-Kept Secret Best Price: $5.99 THE BEST-KEPT SECRET is the third book by Kimberla Roby featuring the infamous character,... | The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove Best Price: $7.00 It's extremely hard to review a book whose title is longer and more obscure than most... | A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows, Book 4) Best Price: $4.22 A Fistful of Charms (2006) is the fourth Urban Fantasy novel in the Rachel Morgan series,... | The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories Best Price: $4.36 I bought this book for the first story "Semley's Necklace" however; all of them... |
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The Thief of Always Best Price: $4.38 Although I read the book a lot quicker than most of Clive Barker's other books, I think this... | Stardust Best Price: $3.54 I hate Fairies.
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Debatable Space Best Price: $2.44 Lena is traveling solo in deep space glad to get away from the perfection of thirty-first... | Of Fire and Night (The Saga of Seven Suns) Best Price: $3.59 Still ticking. This series reminds me of the old Timex commercials. All that is bad about it has... | Child of the Prophecy (Sevenwaters Trilogy, Book 3) Best Price: $4.16 "Daughter of the Forest" was outstanding. I didn't think "Son of... | The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) Best Price: $14.91 Spoilers.
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Children of the Mind (Limited Edition) Before I started reading "Children of the Mind", I would almost never read. I... | 2001: a space odyssey: A novel, Best Price: $125.56 I would recommend this book to anyone that would like a proper introduction to science fiction. ... | The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch Best Price: $5.96 If you're looking for preachy evangelical atheism, this book is for you. When I grab a... | The Science of Discworld II: The Globe Best Price: $6.21 Try enlivening a party with this question: "What's on your mind?" When the babble... | Brave New World Imagine the an ideal world made possible by technology: you get this novel. Of course,... |
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The Devil's Arithmetic Best Price: $2.99 I read the book The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen. This book would be categorized as a... | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Puffin Classics) Best Price: $1.81 I liked Alice In Wonderland because of the strange ryhmes in the book like "Will you... | Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files) Best Price: $28.95 I found Proven Guilty to be an excellent installment of Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files... | House of Dreams Best Price: $7.35 I am torn between really enjoying how well the novel was written, and how depressing the ending... | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld Best Price: $2.99 Wizardry has never seemed so seductive or so dangerous as when Patricia McKillip gives a glimpse... |
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Cloudbearer's Shadow (Sword in Exile, Book 1) Best Price: $4.49 I found this book a bit disappointing. The story simply wasn't gripping me firmly enough,... | Bad Monkeys: A Novel (P.S.) Best Price: $3.19 Enter the world of Jane Charlotte, a mid-thirty washed-up girl from California who is locked up... | The Last Days of Krypton Best Price: $3.08 (And yes, the title is intended as a compliment.)
"The Last Days of Krypton" is a... | Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast Best Price: $2.97 I couldn't wait to finish this book...but not because I loved it, just because I just wanted... | Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War Best Price: $7.50 I loved the first book of Abarat so much that I ordered this book four times! (Well, actually,... |