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Way of the Wolf by Tom Elliot
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew Powers and Old. A conflict millennia in the brewing. And at the center of it: one man.Michael has escaped the clutches of the Dark, if only temporarily. Surfacing in the world above, he finds matters no less complex than down below and survival as challenging as it had been in the dungeon.Is the harder path the one you must forge on your own?Many want Michael as their ally...Categorized as:
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Ultimate Level 1: Shattered Dreams by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMax wanted to be a [Baker].Settle down, bake stuff, and enjoy life.The gods, however, ruined that dream.Given [Baker] and a rare black skill, he is now running for his life, trying to grow strong enough to return home. Now Max must find a way to grow strong enough to survive the people and the god hunting him...Categorized as:
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Ultimate Level 1: Shattered Limits by Shawn Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConsume.A rare Black skill, one decreed by the gods to never be seen again.Max is finally getting a handle on the skill, finding enjoyment in battling and striving to grow his skills and stats. His new friends don't know the whole truth, but they flee trouble together, arriving at the human capital of Peltagow...Categorized as:
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Dungeon Master's Guide by E. Gary Gygax
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhether you're running a single adventure or masterminding a complete campaign, the Dungeon Masters Guide is the absolute best source for information. There'r nop need to guess the rules. You'll learn spells, monsters, travel, magic lists, and combat rules...Categorized as:
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Eskau by J.L. Mullins
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe iron-clad reality of the world relentlessly comes for all. Arcanes, the enemies of humanity, thrive upon power harvested from broken human souls. The City Lords and Major Houses rule with unquestioned power.Tala has been seized, torn away from all that she has ever known...Categorized as:
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Nova Terra: Liberator by Seth Ring
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDespite all the advantages that came with being a Titan, for Thorn, it has come with equally Titan sized problems.Thorn has freed himself from an ancient curse and cleared up the political turmoil in the capital, but the looming threat to Northern Angoril posed by the Orc invasion of Rasyn carries him back to the Elven island. But not before he deals with a cultist infestation in his own home...Categorized as:
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Tears of Alron by Vasily Mahanenko
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Magic Academy… An institution shrouded in mystery and secrets. People from all over the different empires want nothing more than to enroll, get their hands on the knowledge stored there, become those most respected in the world—mages. Tailyn Vlashich was one of the lucky few admitted without going through the entrance exams... -
Heroes of Issalia: Rogues and Runes Edition by Jeffrey L. Kohanek
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe return of a long lost magic. A desperate quest for a lost relic. The final battle to save humanity from extinction.This boxed set includes:______________________________________The Buried Symbol: Runes of Issalia, Book 1The Emblem Throne: Runes of Issalia, Book 2An Empire in Runes: Runes of Issalia, Book 3Rogue Legacy: Origins of Issalia, Book 0... -
The Coming Chaos by D.K. Holmberg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe leader of the Ai’thol has worked for centuries on his plan to control the power of the stones. The final steps in that plan come into focus. Altered and augmented by his increased connection to the metal lorcith, Haern must use this ability to protect the women he’s brought with him from the dangerous city of Dreshen...Categorized as:
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King of Shadows by Mike Truk
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRevenge, they say, is a dish best served bloody and twitching.For Kellik, nothing matters so much as defeating his father and destroying his reign over Port Gloom.But as powerful as Kellik has become, his father will surely crush him if he doesn't stay three steps ahead...Categorized as:
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The Council of Elders by D.K. Holmberg
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Shadow Queen begins her attack. Can the Council learn their purpose in time? The four members of the Council begin to work together as they search for the fifth. Finding that person might be the only way to stop the Shadow Queen. They’ll need all the help they can get, but the remaining Elders have disappeared, leaving only those they’ve chosen to replace them... -
Law of Consequences by David Burke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne way or another the end comes for all, gods and men alike. Enemies in both the mortal realm and amongst the gods are coming out.Rob's family has come together though and will stand together against all challengers.Now it's time to show them the final law. Even gods must face the consequences of their actions and who better to showthem than the Sheriff...Categorized as:
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Apocalypse Knights 1 by D.B. King
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe apocalypse is coming… can one war hero stop it? Maximo Strident, war veteran and member of local law enforcement, never wanted to enter the dungeon. With promises of wealth beyond his imagination, his squad mates managed to convince him. Max isn’t a Knight, so he has no magical equipment or spells that could help him against monsters...Categorized as:
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Nova Terra: Kingbreaker by Seth Ring
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHaving defended Moon Wolf Citadel from the super guild, Ragnarok, and carved out a place for himself in Nova Terra, Thorn stands on top of the fantasy world. But Nova Terra is not as simple as it seemed and Thorn quickly discovers the political leaders in the capital of Northern Angoril turning jealous eyes on him...Categorized as:
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Alpha Zero by Arthur Stone
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI should not exist.All children like me are stillborn, or die in infancy. Those who cannot grow stronger, die. No empty child has ever reached a year of age, yet I am now thirteen.It has been a long and miserable thirteen years, where the best I can manage to do is walk with difficulty. Sometimes, I cannot even manage that.My clan has paid dearly for every minute of my life...Categorized as:
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The Wastes by Alexey Osadchuk
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEric has survived where people much stronger than him have found their deaths. And not just that: he's managed to activate his magic supply, tame one of the most dangerous dungeon monsters, find the ancient city of monster hunters and rescue Jay, the girl abandoned by the scouts in Gulper's lair.He left the Dungeons of the Crooked Mountains behind him...Categorized as:
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World-Tree Online by E.A. Hooper
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen an update traps millions of players in the most advanced VR game ever made, one man discovers an exploit that might just take him to the top of the World-Tree. In 2056, the world’s most powerful AI System, ARKUS, comes online. Created to extend human lifespans, it quickly designs new kinds of nanomachine therapies, in addition to making world-changing discoveries in health science... -
Civil War by James A. Hunter, Eden Hudson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBuild. Evolve. Conquer. Welcome to the Civil War ... Roark von Graf—former noble and hedge-mage, current mid-level mob in a MMORPG—has his sights set on taking down the tyrannical Dungeon Lord. But the reigning Troll despot is nearly as devious as Roark, and his followers are much higher level...Categorized as:
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Alpha Transcendent by Arthur Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI had a plan. A good one that I thought through really well. But itonly took a single cunning dwarf accompanied by two goons to force meinto acting earlier than I’d planned to and before I could completeall my preparations. So all my plans needed revision in face of abunch of unpleasant surprises.Instead of using an army of silent helpers to eradicate the scourge,I’d have to act on my own... -
Domestic Decay by Anya Merchant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWilliam "Lockpick" Sorling, former apprentice member of the heroic Crimson Five, returns home to the affectionate women of his mentor team after serving time as a convicted supervillain. Five years have passed, enough time for everything to have changed.He’s changed, even. Gone is the scrawny teenager fiddling with locks in the background...Categorized as:
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Way of Gods by Rhett C. Bruno, Jaime Castle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith old enemies vanquished, new heroes emerge. Sir Torsten Unger must deal with the aftermath of the Drav Cra's failed occupation of Yarrington. But with so much power up for grabs, old enemies begin to show their faces from the darker corners of the city... -
A Stone's Throw by Frank Morin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConnor's supposed to be dead.He's not very good at it.He did save his village . . . by destroying it. And the armies vying to control his powerful curse think he died. But he needs patronage from a high lord or his curse will transform him into a raging monster... -
Hyperborea by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsScience Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy...Categorized as:
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Nova Terra: Stone King by Seth Ring
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrapped in the Abyss by the underhanded scheme of a fallen prince, Thorn and his companions are in for a long walk through the Devil infested wasteland.Hunted by corrupted Devils, Thorn’s only option for making it out alive is taking a chance on the mysterious inheritance of a long dead Elven High Mage...Categorized as:
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Finding a Body by Michael Atamanov
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRead opening chapters here -magicdomebooks.blogspot.com/2018/11/t..Categorized as:
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Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMidnight Sun is the companion volume to Gods in Darkness, and collects all of the Kane short stories and poetry. The Complete Stories of Kane...Categorized as:
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Gods in Darkness: The Complete Novels of Kane by Karl Edward Wagner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKane An immortal, cursed to wander the Earth until he is destroyed by the violence that he himself has created. A warrior and statesman: As comfortable in the shadowy halls of courtly intrigue as he is on the bloody battlefields where those intrigue's inevitably play themselves out...Categorized as:
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The Bear by R.A. Salvatore
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe war of Honce drags on, and the roads and seas are littered with bodies. To everyones stunned disbelief, Yeslnik the Fool has tipped the wars scales in his favor. The reign of the newly self-appointed King Yeslnik is already distinguished as the most bloody and merciless in Honce history... -
The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWritten in the 1930s as a serial for Weird Tales, the famous pulp magazine, Hour of the Dragon is the only novel by Howard featuring his greatest creation, Conan the barbarian. This powerful novel of violent adventure has spawned many imitations in the genre over the years, including a series of best-selling paperbacks which, in imitation of Howard, continued the adventures of Conan... -
Kingdom of the Dead by Павел Корнев
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat could be worse that getting stuck in a virtual world? Instead of enjoying the game, I found myself trapped inside my character’s dead body. Now the only way I can save myself is by procuring the Scroll of Rebirth. The problem is, my chances of getting it are slim. I’m an undead: an outlaw with no friends, only fickle allies, and plenty of enemies...Categorized as:
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Storm Unbound by Leo Hull
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan a washed-up recruit find himself and his way home? Tristan never wanted to be a Bolstered soldier. He wanted the easy city life.Now he is stuck in a land filled with wild women, exotic magic, and dark dangers. His beautiful commander—his only way back and the one person with any faith in him—has caught the eye of a freakish crime lord backed by shadowy powers...Categorized as:
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Conan the Destroyer by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first in a new series of Conan reprints! Conan the Barbarian is one of the most famed figures in fantasy fiction. With the success of the new film starring Jason Momoa and Ron Perlman, the time is right to revisit Robert E. Howard's classic stories... -
The Glass of Dyskornis by Randall Garrett, Vicki Ann Heydron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe authors of The Steel of Raithskar continue the Gandalara Cycle. “This whole series is a kind of literary comfort food . . . to sink into and enjoy.”—SFF ChroniclesRicardo Carillo wakes after a meteor explosion in a new body—and in a strange land of desert and danger named Gandalara, where a stolen gem holds the power to control or destroy... -
The Heroic Villain by Charles Dean
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlthough he was once the promising young CEO of a successful corporation, Lucas abandoned everything he knew and retreated from both the real world and his demanding life following a horrific accident. In order to cope with tragic loss, he began spending his time in virtual reality, lazing about in the sun and living a carefree life...Categorized as:
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Fires of Azeroth by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Gates were relics of a lost era. The Union Science Bureau surmised that they had once linked a whole network of civilizations throughout the galaxy-an empire ruled by a ruthless race known as the qhal. This qhal empire had spanned both Space and Time, for their Gates warped time, enabling qhal travelers to step from point to point across light-years unaged...Categorized as:
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Conan: People of the Black Circle (The People Of the Black Circle; The Devil In Iron; A Witch Shall Be Born; Jewels of Gwahlur) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Phoenix on the Sword is the first volume of stories about Conan The Barbarian, perhaps Robert E. Howard's most famous creation, presenting it as it was originally written and appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously produced to the original magazine texts...Categorized as:
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The Chronicles of Corum by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIncludes the novels The Knight of the Swords, The Queen of the Swords, and The King of the Swords.The gods themselves feel fear. It is the conjunction of the Million Spheres, and all things are possible. Beneath the bloody banners of the Dog and the Bear, the cruel Mabden are sweeping the Earth. The mystic Vadhagh are wiped out-all but one... -
Elric: Song of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe founders of modern literary fancy deserve their own place in the light. The Borealis Legends line is a tribute to the creators of the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres as we know them today... -
The Dame by R.A. Salvatore
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe vast road network of Honce, completed a decade before, had brought great optimism to the people of the land. Commerce could travel more freely and so could armies, and those armies, it was hoped, would rid the land at long last of the vicious, bloody cap dwarfs and goblins... -
Conan the Adventurer by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIntroducing Conan - heroic fantasy's mightiest adventurer from the wilds of CimmeriaThief, pirate, mercenary, warrior and general, he stands invincible - even when the full forces of the supernatural are unleashed against him... -
Conan The Freebooter by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsContents:9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in 15 · Hawks Over Shem [revised by de Camp from “Hawks Over Egypt” by R.E.H. Howard’s original version was eventually published in The Road to Azrael, Bantam 1980] · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’55 54 · Black Colossus · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Jun ’33 99 · Shadows in the Moonlight · Robert E...Categorized as:
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Elric: Tales of the White Wolf by Richard Gilliam, Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsElric of Melnibone, Michael Moorcock's doomed anithrero, has become a pivotal figure in fantasy literature since his first appearance more than thirty years ago... -
Hiero's Journey by Sterling E. Lanier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPer Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath—and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on an extraordinary mission. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death...Categorized as:
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Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConan the Barbarian is a name known throughout Cimmeria, Brythinia, Turan, and all the territories bordering the Vilayet Sea—as well as most countries more familiar to us in the real world. The character has become a multifaceted industry, as famous in our world today as he was in his own world during the Hyborian Age...Categorized as:
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White Plume Mountain by Paul Kidd, Piotr Kucharski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA remorseless ranger. A sentient hell hound pelt with a penchant for pyromania. An irksome pixie who sells intrigue and information. Three companions who find themselves trapped in a city filled with warring priestly factions, devious machinations, and an angry fiend...Categorized as:
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IRON MAGE by Rob Nolan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey all thought he was a nobody… when he was really the most powerful man in the Badlands. Javron is a blacksmith in the middle of nowhere. No one knows his secret: that he has a gift far greater than the most powerful wizards in the land. He bends metal to his will like a sculptor does clay, and has created the deadliest suit of armor the world has ever known...Categorized as:
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Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however...Categorized as:
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Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories by Leigh Brackett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collection of the best stories by one of fantasy and science fiction's most evocative writers, including Sea-Kings of Mars, which combines high adventure with a strongly romantic vision of an ancient, sea-girt Martian civilisation...Categorized as:
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Queen of the Demonweb Pits by Paul Kidd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRevisiting classic adventures has been extremely successful. "Queen of the Demonweb Pits" was one of the most popular adventures ever created for the Dungeons & Dragons game. This novelization appeals to those who have played through the adventure, as well as to those who have an interest in drow elves--one of the most popular races in the game...Categorized as:
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Bastion of Hope by Stone Thomas, Chris Graves
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow to survive when the god of war wants to destroy you and everyone you've ever met? Probably hide, really really well. What did I do? Become head priest of the most beautiful, irritating, quick-thinking, mind-reading, mildly sarcastic goddess I could trip over in the woods, then tell the war god to his face that I was gonna wipe up the pantheon with his ugly mug...Categorized as:
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