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Gestation by John Gold
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTo face Death itself, to hide from deadly guards, to conduct dark rituals and to use forbidden death magic? Being sent to Hell is definitely not what 12-year-old Anji would have ever expected from a government orphanage program. Chrysalis — the project of the century. It is a hyper-realistic fantasy RPG game, set in the Middle Ages... -
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The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThing is a young girl who hides beneath a mask. Her companions include a crow, a toad, a goldfish, and a kitten, each in some way handicapped. Never has there been a more unlikely band of unheroic heroes. Yet each needs the other to discover what they all seek -- the Dragon of the Black Mountain, who can restore them to health and happiness... -
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Of Cinder and Bone by Kyoko M.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOF CINDER AND BONE is Ron Howard's Ransom meets Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park! After centuries of being the most dangerous predators on the planet, dragons were hunted to extinction. That is, until Dr. Rhett “Jack” Jackson and Dr. Kamala Anjali cracked the code to bring them back. Through their research at MIT, they resurrected the first dragon anyone has seen alive since the 15th century... -
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Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDemocracy is crumbling in the Interstellar Dominion Electorates and if Dar and Samantha can't get their message to Terra in time, a coup is inevitable. What's more, every police ship in space has just been alerted that Dar and Samantha are dangerous telepaths to be shot on sight...Categorized as:
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Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTo master five greats arts of magic and win a queen was not enough for Alodar the apprentice. He must do what no man dared! Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five great arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired siege of her frontier castle. But aspire he did...Categorized as:
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Secret of the Sixth Magic by Lyndon Hardy
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe laws of the five magics were being set aside. If the world was to be saved it was up to Jason the scribe. But what was he to do? He had writer's block and suffered from agoraphobia. He was not a hero for the sagas.Edited to change the characteristics of the protagonist. Contains glossary and author's afterward... -
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Riddle of the Seven Realms by Lyndon Hardy
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe worst of the mess they were in, Kestrel knew, was that it was all his own fault. It all began when he had tried to cheat the lady wizard Phoebe with a load of worthless wood. When she insisted on testing his sample, the demon Astron had burst through the flame.Explanation of the realms of order and chaos revised. Contains glossary and author's afterward... -
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Fast Ships, Black Sails by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDo you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer,...Categorized as:
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The True Game by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrass, has helped redefine speculative fiction. Award winner, national bestseller, and one of the genre's most respected and acclaimed talents, she has transcended the boundaries of science fiction and fantasy with her widespread success... -
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The Complete Morgaine by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTogether for the first time in one volume—all four novels in the dark science fiction epic, the Morgaine Cycle.The gates were relics of a lost era, a linked network of portals that the ruthless Qual empire used to span Time and Space... -
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The Dreaming Tree by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTHE TWILIGHT OF FAERYIt was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed only with fairy voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place---the small forest of Ealdwood---which kept the magic intact, and protected the old ways...
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