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Myth-Fortunes (Myth Adventures)
Robert Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye
Wildside Press, 2008
Immortality - it sounded like a great idea! Aahz falls for the offer of a piece of the rock, literally, when he invests in a scheme to build pyramids. He is so enthusiastic about the concept that he ropes in everyone else he knows to invest - in tombs lower down than his, of course. But all is not perfect: along with the prospect of being remembered for eternity and the best view in the valley of ...
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The Lees of Laughter's End
Steven Erikson
Night Shade Books, 2008
West of Theft, on a vast stretch of ocean known as the Wastes, the free-ship Suncurl pilots its way along the Lees of Laughter's end, away from the city of Lamentable Moll. Aboard the ship, three passengers have become the subject of the crew's gossip: the luckless manservant Emancipor Reese, and his masters, the homicidal necromancers known as Bauchelain and Korbal Broach. But a bizarre force ...
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The Captal's Tower (Exiles, Vol. 3)
Melanie Rawn
MacMillan UK, 2009
When....??
+ Premature e-publication
I read and LOVED the first two books in the Exiles series when they came out. In fact, I found them before I ever tried her Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies (which, though I enjoyed, I love Exiles more).
Then I started to wait for The Captal's Tower.
I read other fantasy authors; this ...
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Imager: The First Book of the Imager Portfolio (The Imager Portfolio)
L. E. Modesitt
Tor Books, 2009
I mager is the beginning of a whole new fantasy in a whole new magical world from the bestselling creator of Recluce. Although Rhennthyl is the son of a leading wool merchant in L’Excelsis, the capital of Solidar, the most powerful nation on Terahnar, he has spent years becoming a journeyman artist and is skilled and diligent enough to be considered for the status of master ...
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Longeye
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Baen, 2009
Hidden from the human-inhabited world by the inimical magical device known as the keleigh, the Vaitura has become a subtle battleground where the once all-powerful Elder Fey strive against each other and the upstart Queen to regain ascendancy. Of all the Elder Fey it is Altimere who is strongest in magical kest and Altimere who is most devious. Pitted against Zaldore and her group seeking to ...
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The Sharing Knife, Volume Four: Horizon (The Sharing Knife)
Lois McMaster Bujold
Eos, 2009
In a world where malices—remnants of ancient magic—can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets—and themselves—from the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, join their ...
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Fire Raiser
Melanie Rawn
Tor Books, 2009
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The Alchemist's Pursuit
Dave Duncan
Ace Trade, 2009
Hampered by arthritis, Nostradamus is in no mood for granting favors or running about looking for trouble. But when his apprentice Alfeo’s mistress asks him to investigate the murder of her beloved courtesan mentor—and promises a fortune in payment—he comes around. It appears that someone is murdering the courtesans of Venice. All were well-known, admired for their skills—and somehow connected ...
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An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat
Glen Cook
Night Shade Books, 2008
Glen Cook has been heralded as the godfather of modern heroic fantasy; his influence on the genre is unquestionable. But long before Garrett, P.I., before The Instrumentalities of the Night, before The Black Company, there was The Dread Empire... The Dread Empire, a gritty world of larger-than-life plots, nation-shattering conflict, maddening magic, strange creatures, and raw, flawed heroes, all ...
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Irons in the Fire
Juliet E. McKenna
Solaris, 2009
The start of a brand new epic fantasy series from well known author Juliet Mckenna. Full of rich characters and high adventure, this new trilogy marks the next stage in the career of this popular writer.
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A Forthcoming Wizard
Jody Lynn Nye
Tor Books, 2009
Halfling Tildi Summerbee led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they managed the family farm...until she was forced to assume the identity of her recently deceased brother and accept his position as apprentice to a great wizard. Now she is on an important quest where the lessons of her apprenticeship pale in comparison to those learned in life-or-death ...
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Escape from Hell
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Tor Books, 2009
Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But now that he's returned to this Dantesque Inferno, can he ever again ...
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Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, Book 11)
Jim Butcher
Roc Hardcover, 2009
The new novel in the hit New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series. The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council—and there’s only one, final punishment for that crime. He’s on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone like Harry Dresden... Now, Harry must uncover a traitor within the ...
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The Breath of God (Opening of the World)
Harry Turtledove
Tor Books, 2008
Once the great Glacier enclosed the Raumsdalian Empire. Now it’s broken open, and Count Hamnet Thyssen faces a new world. With the wisecracking Ulric Skakki, the neighboring clan leader Trasamund (politely addressed as Your Ferocity), and his lover, the shaman Liv, Hamnet leads an exploration of the new territory in hopes of finding the legendary Golden Shrine. But dangers abound. A ...
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Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories
L. E. Modesitt
Tor Books, 2009
superb compilation
+ Delightful and insightful
This enjoyable anthology contains nineteen previously published stories; three never published before including a Recluce tale; five from 1973 to 1990; the remainder since 2000. Two tales are set in the Recluce universe ("Black Ordermage" and "Sisters of Sarronym, Sisters of Westwind") require ...
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