Download or read book Shapechangers written by Jennifer Roberson and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1984-02-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “beautifully lyrical” sword and sorcery adventure, starring a courageous young heroine—the first book in the Chronicles of the Cheysuli epic fantasy series (Romantic Times) Exiled for more than two decades, a race of magical shapeshifting warriors wage a battle against the sorcerers who have threatened their very existence . . . They were the Cheysuli, a race of magical warriors gifted with the ability to assume animal shape at will. For centuries, they had been allies to the King of Homana, treasured champions of the realm. Until a king’s daughter ran away with a Cheysuli liege man and caused a war of annihilation against the Cheysuli race. Twenty-five years later, the Cheysuli were hunted exiles in their own land, feared for their sorcery, their shapeshifting. This is the story of Alix, the daughter of that ill-fated union between Homanan princess and Cheysuli warrior, and her struggle to master the call of magic in her blood, and accept her place in an ancient prophecy she cannot deny.
Download or read book The Queen s Secret written by Benjamin Towe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen's Secret recounts deeds of elves and dragons in ancient Donothor. Enmity and eye color separate Dark Elves and Gray Elves. Young Dark Elf Cellexa hates the Grays and blames them for the deaths of his father and idolized older cousin. Cellexa's animosity drives him to infiltrate the Grays, where he discovers beautiful Myrrhna. Is his hatred unfounded? The burden of kingship unexpectedly falls on his shoulders. With that burden comes the need to rekindle the mutually beneficial relationship with Donothor's black dragons and gain the fealty of renegade Dark Elf elders. Learned mentors, brave High Guards, and steadfast friends support the young king. King Cellexa makes a perilous journey to treat with the mighty Dragonlord Xollos. Cellexa often thinks of the lovely Gray Elf. Extraordinary events bring Myrrhna and Cellexa together. Can their love survive the ancient enmity between their peoples? Can Xollos and Myrrhna help Cellexa overcome his enemies, unite the chaotic Dark Elves, and save his kingdom?
Download or read book As American as Mom Baseball and Apple Pie written by Linda J. Holland-Toll and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does nothing less than redefine the very genre of horror fiction, calling into question the usual conventions, motifs, and elements. Unlike many critics of this genre, Linda Holland-Toll sees dis/affirmative horror fiction acting neither to soothe fears nor reduce them to the vicarious “thrills ‘n’ chills” mode, but as intensifying the fears inherent in everyday life.
Download or read book Margaret Atwood s Textual Assassinations written by Sharon Rose Wilson and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alabaster Moon written by Gareth Wayne Dodd and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryan Steward, a former U.S. Navy Seal unsung hero of the Vietnam War who earned the ire of his superiors by starting to ask why instead of how high when ordered to jump, and his unbeknownst to him, alien, shape changing tiger cat, Shagrags, are sailing from San Diego, California, to the Galapagos Islands when three aliens board Bryan’s sailboat, toss him and Shagrags into a huge bubble and descend five miles deep into the ocean. Once inside the alien’s headquarters in an active, underwater volcano, Bryan is put on trial in the Hall of Judgment for the sins of humanity against humanity, especially its children, and against Mother Nature. If found guilty, the aliens will combine their technology with the forces of nature, including Earth’s sentient marine life, to exterminate the human race and claim Earth as their own. The aliens have combined telepathy with teleportation to search the galaxies for centuries because the sun of their home planet, Arthania, is nearing supernova. The only planet they’ve found suitable for migration is Earth. But during the 100 years they’ve spent below Earth’s oceans, constructing facilities that use the heat of volcanos to raise the temperature of ocean currents while observing the actions of mankind, have convinced Arthanians the two species cannot co-exist.
Download or read book Inside Science Fiction written by James E. Gunn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Gunn has had a long and distinguished career in science fiction. In addition to his stories and novels, he has written extensively about the reading, writing, and criticism of science fiction. Many of these essays were published in The Science of Science-Fiction Writing (Scarecrow, 2002). A second collection of essays, Inside Science Fiction, was originally published in 1992, and is now available in this revised, updated, and expanded edition. With the addition of five new articles written since 1992, Inside Science Fiction represents Gunn's latest thoughts about the genre. The book is divided into four major sections that tackle various aspects of the genre: - "Getting Inside Science Fiction," in which Gunn discusses his relationship with the genre - "Science Fiction and the Teacher" illustrates various approaches to teaching science fiction - "Science Fiction on Film and Television" deals with the film industry's approaches to science fiction, in particular, Gunn's experiences of seeing his novel The Immortals turned into a made-for-television movie and subsequent series - "Science Fiction and the Real World" examines the impact of science fiction on the world and what the future holds for the genre Inside Science Fiction offers a complete overview of science fiction for readers and viewers from an author, reader, and teacher who has seen it from all sides for more than seventy years.
Download or read book The Daughter s Way written by Tanis MacDonald and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daughter’s Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women’s elegies with a special emphasis on the father’s death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mouré as elegiac daughteronomies—literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets’ investigation into the function and limitations of elegiac convention. Some poets treat the father as a metaphor for socio-political power, while others explore more personal iterations of loss, but all the poets in The Daughter’s Way seek to redefine daughterly duty in a contemporary context by challenging elegiac tradition through questions of genre and gender. Beginning with psychoanalytical theories of filiation, inheritance, and mourning as they are complicated by feminist challenges to theories of kinship and citizenship, The Daughter’s Way debates the efficacy of the literary “work of mourning” in twentieth-century Canadian poetry. By investigating the way a daughter’s filial piety performs and sometimes reconfigures such work, and situating melancholia as a creative force in women’s elegies, the book considers how elegies inquire into the rhetoric of mourning as it is complicated by father-daughter kinship.
Download or read book Magic Bites written by Ilona Andrews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the “intriguing world” (Locus) of Kate Daniels with this special edition of Magic Bites... Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way out of her league—but she wouldn’t want it any other way... This special edition includes in-depth information about the world of Kate Daniels, with descriptions of its characters and factions. Explore Kate’s Atlanta like never before with answers to FAQ and a quiz to find your place there. And don’t miss the prequel story “A Questionable Client,” as well as scenes of events in Magic Bites from Curran’s point of view.
Download or read book Breaking Midnight written by Emma Holly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund is an elder among the upyr, a shape-changing race of immortals. Kidnapped by rivals, he's now a pawn in a deadly game to control the world, and only the love of the mortal beauty, Estelle, can save him.
Download or read book Werehunter written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE WOMAN WHO REDEFINED FANTASY In the short span of a. few years, Mercedes Lackey has risen from an exciting new talent to a reigning superstar of fantasy. Last year's Fiddler Fair was a showcase of the wide scope of her talent; ranging from fantasy to science fiction, from screwball humor to macabre supernatural terror. Now comes the successor to that top-selling volume; Werehunter. Lope through the night with a young woman who has been given the power to transform herself into a leopard, but who now finds herself pursued by a hunter who is more than human: Follow the adventures of Skitty, ship's cat extraordinaire, and telepathic problem-solver. Ride with a late night driver on a solitary road who learns that what appears to be a piece of cardboard blowing across the road is actually something very sinister in disguise. Join Lackey's celebrated occult detective Diana Tregarde as she attends a gathering of romance writers and encounters a visitor whose passionate desire is for fresh, warm blood. Return to the world of the Heralds of Valdemar. And there's much more. Lackey's many fans will know what to expect: unforgettable characters in spellbinding stories from a grand master of fantasy and science fiction. And readers just discovering her have a treat in store. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "She'll keep you up long past your bedtime." -Stephen King 'She sweeps you along and never lets you go." -Locus "An undoubted mistress of the well-told tale."-Booklist " . . highly, highly recommended . . . ." -Khan
Download or read book Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe written by James M. Ward and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halcyon Blithe, being a young man of good breeding and lineage as well as endowed with those qualities and abilities of a sorcerous nature and wishing to fulfill his full potential, is ready to assume his proper place in the world. He aims to seek his fortune among those who tend and sail the awesome nautical juggernauts-the dragonships. With this in mind, Blithe gladly accepts his rank as Midshipwizard and becomes a member of the crew who man the dragonships-vessels which harness the bodies and strength of living dragons with seafaring technology. Combining elements of Hornblower with Harry Potter, and Robert Louis Stevenson with Robin Hobb, Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe is a nautical tale rich in magic and intrigue. A tale set against a panorama of fantastic naval battle as we follow the career of a young midshipwizard as he moves up through the ranks of His Majesty's Navy.
Download or read book Thirttene Friends written by Benjamin Towe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirttene Friends is a prequel to the Elfdreams of Parallan and Donothor series and chronicles the early life of the sorcerer Rhiann Klarje and the sorcerers efforts to preserve the treasures of the world of Magick Sagain. The discovery of the source of Sagains Magick and a great spell that conquers space and time facilitates Rhianns travels to other worlds. and the establishment of the circle of Thirttene Friends in Green Vale in the World of the Three Suns. Preternatural Old Ones, including the Siren Maranna and a host of fantastic creatures, and steadfast Gnome friends help the young sorcerer in his efforts. Dark forces from within and without Sagain oppose his efforts. Thirttene Friends provides an introduction to the worlds Sagain, Donothor, and Parallan, the World of the bThree Suns. The stories continue in Lost Spellweaver, First Wandmaker, Wandmakers Burden, Emerald Islands, Menders Tomb, Deathquest to Parallan, Orb of Chalar, Chalice of Mystery, and Death of Magick.
Download or read book The Moorlanders written by Steven D. Coles and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moorlanders seek to defend their ancient homeland from a tyrannical sorcerer intent on claiming the Moor to extract its minerals. To save both their way of life and themselves, the Moorlanders must supress their peaceful natures and do battle. Caradoc, a young, courageous Moorlander, must lead his friends, Fontanella and Hamilcar, the badger, through danger, meeting many fantastical characters and creatures along the way. An evocative historical fantasy for children and young adults of all ages, capturing the history and beauty of Dartmoor, with a strong environmental message and an absorbing cast of rich and varied characters.
Download or read book Shapechanger written by Elizabeth Ergas and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1989-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the dark, all-powerful Shapechanger, waiting throughout the centuries for the time when he would unleash his terrible longing. Then the woman he had dreamed about came along, and the creature swore to kill and kill again to possess and share with her the secret of eternal life!
Download or read book Unwonted Spellweavers written by Benjamin Towe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drelvish Spellweavers are born during approximations of the Gray Sun Andreas. The gifts of Andreas to the People of the Forest, the ancient spell book, replicates at a Spellweavers birth. Rarely Grayness bequeaths Magick to a diverse lot, unwonted Spellweavers, who are not Drelvish, dwell in other realms, and connected to Drelvedom by wisps of Magick and threads of fate. Magick oft comes at high cost. Sometimes the unwonted gifts of Grayness are also unwanted. Albtrume . . .
Download or read book Needle in a Timestack written by Robert Silverberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty classic stories from the Science Fiction Grand Master who “seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals” (The Washington Post Book World). Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best—intelligent, inventive, and visionary. This collection showcases his talent for thought-provoking science fiction, ranging in themes from time travel to space travel, the media to mortality. In the titular story—now a feature film by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley—a jealous ex-husband warps time in a vindictive attempt to destroy his former wife’s new marriage. Thirty-one identical sons have a shocking surprise for their mother in “There Was an Old Woman.” The prophetic “The Pain Peddlers” depicts reality TV in a way that allows viewers to revel in a voyeuristic, adrenaline-fueled rush. Also included are Silverberg’s Hugo Award–winning “Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another,” and the Locus Award winner “The Secret Sharer,” a Joseph Conrad–inspired tale of a ship captain drawn into a strange alliance with a stowaway. The New York Times Book Review hailed Silverberg as “the John Updike of science fiction.” The stories in Needle in a Timestack unite us in our humanity, in the face of science, technology, and our own changing culture.
Download or read book Harbinger written by Shae Ford and published by Shae Ford. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen years ago, a long and bloody rebellion wracked the six united regions of the Kingdom. Now the new King wields the vast and unvanquished army of Midlan with his right hand, and with his left has granted a small group of thugs, the nobles he calls his Sovereign Five, unbridled rule over the other regions. As if this weren't bad enough, the King has also outlawed the practice of whispering - which is a problem for Kael. It's not like he asked to be born a whisperer: He didn't ask for his strange healing powers any more than he asked to be the village runt. And when he rescues a wounded girl from the perils of the Unforgivable Mountains, his luck only gets worse. She couldn't have been just any girl: She had to be Kyleigh - the sword-wielding renegade knight with all of Midlan on her trail. Then one miserable, snowy evening, things go from bad to worse, and Kael is left with no choice but to follow Kyleigh down the mountains and into the tumultuous lowlands. She leads him on one mad quest after the next - eventually pulling off an act of such mischievous proportions that it threatens to change the Kingdom as they know it.
