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Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Best of Avram Davidson written by Avram Davidson and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312867298
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)
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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 076530760X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
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."
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.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312874926
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (749 download)
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.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440552762
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
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.
Author : R.A. Lafferty
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250778689
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Best of R. A. Lafferty written by R.A. Lafferty and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tor Essentials presents science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American original, a teller of acute, indescribably loopy tall tales whose work has been compared to that of Avram Davidson, Flannery O’Connor, Flann O’Brien, and Gene Wolfe. The Best of R. A. Lafferty presents 22 of his best flights of offbeat imagination, ranging from classics like “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” and “The Primary Education of the Cameroi” to his Hugo Award-winning “Eurema’s Dam.” Introduced by Neil Gaiman, the volume also contains story introductions and afterwords by, among many others, Michael Dirda, Samuel R. Delany, John Scalzi, Connie Willis, Jeff VanderMeer, Kelly Robson, Harlan Ellison, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, and Patton Oswalt. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC.
ISBN 13 : 9781955676465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (764 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy written by Avram Davidson and published by Or All the Seas with Oysters Publishing LLC.. This book was released on 2024-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can such things be? Engelbert Esztherhazy, scion, of aristocracy in Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania (fourth largest empire in Europe [the Turks were fifth]), could not have cared less. He had served his country and his Emperor in war; he now led the leisured life of his class. But then events overtook him, caught him up, whirled him about; and when he found his feet again, he was a changed man. The servant of a visiting king was undoubtedly a shaman. What powers did he command? What other powers were secretly at work behind the familiar scenes of south-eastern Europe? But also steam, already powering factories, ships and trains -- what more could it do, portent to the changing world of the late nineteenth century? Road transport... or even powered flight? Think of the dread possibilities for warfare! But when the Autogóndola-Invention took to the skies over the territories that ambitious neighbors -- viz., Ruritania and Graustark -- wished to claim, was it really its steam engine that made it fly? Or did it depend on the unreckoned aid of sorcery? Between the old knowledge and the new, Eszterhazy was to spend his life, searching. Time and time again, the unexpected would visit him, often leaving the learned Doctor to end a notebook entry with "UNEXPLAINED." Here are tales of the most gripping such visitations, now brought together in one comprehensive volume. Several of these stories were collected as The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy, a 1975 Warner Books paperbacks, now long unobtainable. These represent less than half of the present volume, which includes stories of his earlier career, published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories under the aegis of George Scithers. A foreword by Gene Wolfe and an afterword by the author complete The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy. *** "Or All The Seas with Oysters", one of Avram's stylish and witty stories, won the 1958 Hugo award and headed a collection of the same name; among other short story collections are What Strange Stars and Skies, Strange Seas and Shores, and The Redward Edward Papers. His novels range from the far future of Rogue Dragon and Mutiny in Space to the might-have-been Dark and Middle Ages -- comic in Peregrine: Primus and Peregrine: Secundus, haunting in The Phoenix and the Mirror and Vergil in Averno. From 1962 to 1964 he served as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. New York City, Mexico, Belize and California have been his haunts; he has been a U.S. Marine in World War II and a sheepherder* in Israel. *Or shepherd, if you want it to sound romantic.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312199317
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Investigations of Avram Davidson written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time are Davidson's remarkable mystery tales, including: The 1840s murder investigations of New York's chief constable, Jacob Hays; A sinister lesson in New England thrift; A bride who disappears on her wedding day; A slavetrader and a deal gone terribly wrong; Treachery in a nursing home; A greedy antiquarian repents his ways; Expatriates who will kill for a little peace and quiet; and much ado about an exiled earl, Albanian Trotskyites, the Mafia, New Amsterdam river pirates, and the aspiring hooligans known as the Nafia (who "controll all the gumball and India nut machines south of Vesey Street").
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575127996
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Avram Davidson Treasury written by Avram Davidson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was literate, erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his short stories to genre pulp magazines.Here are thirty-eight of the best: all the award-winners and nominees and best-of honored stories, with introductions by such notable authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Peter S. Beagle, Thomas M. Disch, Gene Wolfe, Poul Anderson, Guy Davenport, Gregory Benford, Alan Dean Foster, and dozens of others, plus introductions and afterwords by Grania Davis, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Bradbury.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575127945
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
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.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440544794
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Island Under the Earth written by Avram Davidson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthy, hot-tempered Captain Stag followed a simple man’s quest; Tabnath Lo the trader was driven by obsessions; the enigmatic augurs Castegor and Gortecas manuervered toward secret ends; and around them all the Sixlimbed Folk massed in hatred and plotted barbaric vengeance... “A world of living legend peopled by centaurs, golems, harpies, and primitive but shrewd humans...I was completely caught up in the saga.” Fritz Leiber “It’s always exciting to discover a new dimension in the work of a writer you think you know pretty well. The Island Under the Earth reveals that Avram Davidson is at one of those points of discovery and renewal.” Peter S. Beagle Avram Davidson was a Hugo Award-winning novelist, short story writer, and essayist. With nineteen novels and hundreds of short stories and essays to his name, he won the World Fantasy Award three times. His science fiction and fantasy works are considered a cornerstone of their genres.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575127813
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Peregrine: Primus written by Avram Davidson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peregrine was the illigitimate son of the king of Sapodilla, which, as every schoolboy knows, was the last pagan kingdom in the world to resist Christianity. Cast out of Sapodilla as required by law when he reached his majority, Peregrine sallied forth into the Dark Ages with his page Dafty and the rather time-worn sorcerer Appledore to find his fortune. What he found instead was: dragons, whores, Huns, Roman legions, emperors, and a delightful collection of mysteries and adventures...
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380453931
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Car Sinister written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... the future of man and the automobile ..."--Front wrapper. Each story preceded by 1-3 paragraphs of commentary.
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ISBN 13 : 9780760745922
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Best of Mystery written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of suspenseful stories that originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955676373
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Adventures in Unhistory written by Avram Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
