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Book Synopsis The Avram Davidson Treasury by : Avram Davidson
Download or read book The Avram Davidson Treasury written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive collection of one of the century's finest fantasists & features introductions by some of the biggest names in the field. Includes an afterword by Ray Bradbury & Harlan Ellison.
Book Synopsis The Other Nineteenth Century by : Avram Davidson
Download or read book The Other Nineteenth Century written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
Book Synopsis Adventures in Unhistory by : Avram Davidson
Download or read book Adventures in Unhistory written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true...and the things that should be true PREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like." Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as "one of the great short story writers of our times." Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style--the late, great Avram Davidson's unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle's Preface to this volume, "cries out to be read aloud."
Download or read book The Scarlet Fig written by Avram Davidson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Manuscript of a Master It began with an accident, as if Fate had a plan for Vergil Magus . . . After his trials in the Very Rich City of Averno but before his crowning achievement of a certain magic mirror, the great sorcerer and alchemist finds himself on a journey nothing short of epic. Sure he is slated for death in Rome, Vergil seeks safety in the far reaches of the Empire—and finds a world teeming with wonders and magical oddities. The “unhistoric” sea adventure is a deft mix of fantastic fact and fable, showcasing the author’s keen attention to the often forgotten connections between them.
Book Synopsis The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Avram Davidson Publisher :Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC. ISBN 13 :9781955676212 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Limekiller written by Avram Davidson and published by Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC.. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and colorful world where the magical and inexplicable coexist with the outboard motor and the escalation of the American war in Vietnam. British Hidalgo is "a place that you can put your arms around" - welcoming and friendly to the visitor, but uncanny beings dwell in the bush and roam along its coast. Afloat and ashore, Jack Limekiller, master of the working sailboat Saccharissa, encounters ghosts of the colonial past and monsters far older. Set in the imaginary Central American colony of British Hidalgo (a fictionalized British Honduras / Belize), originally published in various magazines, It includes a preface by Grania Davis, introductions by Lucius Shepard and Peter S. Beagle, and concluding material by Henry Wessells, the author, Grania Davis and Ethan Davidson.
Download or read book Roma Eterna written by Robert Silverberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward through the ages -- into a new era of scientific advancement and astounding technologies -- countless upstarts and enemies arise, only to be ground into the dust beneath the merciless Roman bootheels. But one people who suffer and endure throughout the many centuries of oppressive rule dream of the glorious day that is coming -- when the heavens themselves will be opened to them…and the ships they are preparing in secret will carry them on their "Great Exodus" to the stars.
Download or read book Far Horizons written by Robert Silverberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-05-02 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction's most beloved writers--including David Brin, Orson Scott Card, Joe Haldeman, Gregory Benford, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Anne McCaffrey--revisit the remarkable worlds they've made famous in this stellar collection of all-new stories.
Book Synopsis Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by : Robin Sloan
Download or read book Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore written by Robin Sloan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a web-design drone, and serendipity, sheer curiosity and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey have landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than its name suggests. There are only a few customers, but they come in repeatedly and never seem to actually buy anything. Instead they “check out” impossibly obscure volumes from strange corners of the store, all according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he has embarked on a complex analysis of the customers’ behaviour and roped his friends into helping him figure out just what’s going on. But once they take their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the secrets extend far beyond the walls of the bookstore. Evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or Umberto Eco, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like—an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy by : Mike Ashley
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy written by Mike Ashley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and truly awesome collection of comic fantasy masterpieces! It isn't often you find a posse of Greek goddesses putting down insurrection among unruly classical mortals, stranded aliens escaping earth in a church converted into a rocket, or a light-fingered time-traveller attempting to steal the universe - but here they all are, in another selection of bizarre comic fantasies.
Author :Grania Davis Publisher :Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC. ISBN 13 :9781955676007 Total Pages :242 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Dr. Grass written by Grania Davis and published by Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC.. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN M.D. AS OUTRAGEOUS AS YOUR DOCTOR'S BILL! Ernie Spiegelglass gets high, gets involved, and is about to complete his residency...he hopes. Brash, brilliant, and often profane, Ernie (alias Doc Sparrowgrass) enters the world of a San Francisco clinic and turns the entire place upside down with his riotous romances and his own unique style-which includes treating patients like people. The medical establishment is turned off to his idea of medicine-from the heart, not by the book-but Ernie can't turn his back on anyone who comes to him for help, even if it means jeopardizing his career. DR. GRASS is a funny, honest, poignant book about a hippie from the 1960s growing up and not selling out in the 1970s.
Download or read book Infinite written by Jeremy Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson, the master of fast-paced stories blending horror, science fiction, and thrillers, tackles his most ambitious subject to date: reality itself. An amalgam of the works of J.J. Abrams and Ridley Scott, Infinite is a bold SF novel exploring the vastness of space and a man's desire to exist, find love, and alter the course of his life.
Book Synopsis Zion's Fiction by : Sheldon Teitelbaum
Download or read book Zion's Fiction written by Sheldon Teitelbaum and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English-language historical anthology of Israeli fantasy and science fiction, a portal into the speculative fiction from the ultimate ImagiNation.
Download or read book Contagion written by Katherine MacLean and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they touched down on the alien planet Minos, the last thing the crew of the Explorer expected to find was other humans. They'd come through thirty-six light years of space only to find that another group of humans had settled the plant generations before. Still it was a beautiful place...expect for the contagion.
Book Synopsis Black Trillium by : Marion Zimmer Bradley
Download or read book Black Trillium written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three fan-favorite authors present “a classic fantasy quest involving mysterious wizards, rites of passage, and the salvation of a kingdom” (Library Journal). Peace has long reigned in Ruwenda thanks to the magical protection of the Archimage Binah. The realm’s devoted guardian is aging, however, and her magic is weakening. When the kingdom’s triplet princesses were still infants, Binah gave each of them the mystical power of the Black Trillium. But the unthinkable occurs too soon, and Ruwenda is overrun by the ravaging armies of neighboring Labornok before the sisters, Haramis, Kadiya, and Anigel, have time to learn how to use their great gift. Forced to flee, the young princesses must follow their separate destinies through a dangerous and unfamiliar world of Oddlings and enemies—for only the combined power of three magical talismans can help them defeat the malevolent sorcerer who has brought chaos and death to their once-idyllic home. But it will take new kinds of strength and wisdom to confront the great evil that has descended on the World of the Three Moons. Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton, three of the most honored names in fantasy fiction, have joined forces to create an extraordinary world and culture in the first book of the remarkable Saga of the Trillium, a breathtaking tale of duty, peril, love, and magic.
Book Synopsis The Gate Thief by : Orson Scott Card
Download or read book The Gate Thief written by Orson Scott Card and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to The Lost Gate, bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth in The Gate Thief, a novel of the Mither Mages. Here on Earth, Danny North is still in high school, yet he holds in his heart and mind all the stolen outselves of thirteen centuries of gatemages. The Families still want to kill him if they can't control him...and they can't control him. He is far too powerful. And on Westil, Wad is now nearly powerless—he lost everything to Danny in their struggle. Even if he can survive the revenge of his enemies, he still must somehow make peace with the Gatemage Daniel North. For when Danny took that power from Loki, he also took the responsibility for the Great Gates. And when he comes face-to-face with the mages who call themselves Bel and Ishtoreth, he will come to understand just why Loki closed the gates all those centuries ago. The Mithermages series The Lost Gate The Gate Thief Gatefather At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Or All the Seas with Oysters by : Avram Davidson
Download or read book Or All the Seas with Oysters written by Avram Davidson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supposing you were Dr. Morris Goldpepper, D.D.S., kidnapped and brought to a strange new planet, condemned to fashion sets of false teeth for its toothless inhabitants? Supposing you owned a bicycle repair shop and the bicycles began to take on a strange new life of their own? Supposing you found an antique telephone in a curiosity shop, dialed a number and were connected with George Washington? Can you imagine the results? Only Avram Davidson can, and he convincingly transports you to a world where past and future intermingle, where weird creatures and events rub shoulders with everyday reality.
