TÚrin is born into a Middle–earth crushed by the recent victory of the Dark Lord, Morgoth, and his monstrous army. The greatest warriors among Elves and Men have perished and TÚrin's father, HÚrin, has been captured. For his defiance, HÚrin's entire family is cursed by Morgoth to be brought down into darkness and despair.
A towering multi-volume fantasy, The Pearl, is launched by Eric Van Lustbader in The Ring of Five Dragons. Lustbader, one of the most famous and popular writers of the last three decades, returns to the fantasy genre with his most ambitious work yet.
The Kundalan people have suffered for a century under the viciously oppressive, technologically-superior V'ornn invaders, and they can't understand why their goddess Miina hasn't saved them. In the resulting crisis of faith, Kundalan religion falls under the control of evil forces from within who pretend to have no magic of their own and forbid the teaching of traditional sorcery. The V'ornn's mysterious leaders, the Gyrgon, search for the lost Ring of Five Dragons, the key to the door of the fabled Kundalan Storehouse, and perhaps to Kundalan sorcery as well.
Misused, the ring could trigger annihilation for V'ornn and Kundalan alike. Now, from among the oppressed, the hero of prophecy must arise, the Dar Sala-at, who alone can wield the sorcerous power to save the world.
Thus begins a huge epic, rooted in the conflict between spiritual and technological civilizations, that confronts difficult moral and cultural questions in a manner reminscent of Frank Herbert's Dune.
The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel. First published in 1928, it was written between 1915 and 1921 by chemical engineer Edward E. "Doc" Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby. The Skylark of Space is often categorized as the first literary space opera (in the complimentary sense), complete with protagonists perfect in mind, body, and spirit, who fight against villains of absolute evil. The Skylark series has been in and out of print ever since its first publication, in both hardback and paperback editions, and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Frederik Pohl says of the book, "With the exception of the works of H. G. Wells, possibly those of Jules Verne — and almost no other writer — it has inspired more imitators and done more to change the nature of all the science fiction written after it than almost any other single work."[
Oh, I married a wife - she's the plague of my life - and I wish I were single again!! So thought confidence trickster Herbert Bennett when he put on a false moustache, lured his confederate wife to Yarmouth sands, and strangled her...
Daniel’s getting married next week. He’s got his future all worked out.
It’s his past that’s the problem. Daniel never knew his father. All his
mother would say was that his Dad had been a Nigerian who died the year
Daniel was born. He didn’t even know what his Dad looked like until an
old neighbour showed him a picture. But the man in the photo is still
alive. And Daniel will stop at nothing to find him.
Oh, I married a wife - she's the plague of my life - and I wish I were single again!! So thought confidence trickster Herbert Bennett when he put on a false moustache, lured his confederate wife to Yarmouth sands, and strangled her...
