The Alchemy of Blood by Stableford, Brian ***.The Alchemist’s Pursuit by Duncan, Dave *.The Alchemist’s Apprentice by Duncan, Dave *.
The Alchemaster’s Apprentice by Moers, Walter **.An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories by Duncan, Andy ***.Against a Dark Background by Banks, Iain M.After Silence by Carroll, Jonathan ****.The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs by Blaylock, James ****.The Adventures of Pinocchio (Deluxe Edition) by Collodi, Carlo *.The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Volume One by Leiber, Fritz *.The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy by Davidson, Avram ****.Across the Far Mountain by Hancock, Niel **.Return to the page top. ↑ The Actual List: (The listings are alphabetical by title, except that titles beginning with The, A, or An are listed by the next word in the title.) Every book referenced on this site is collected in the list below. Note also that this list includes some books that are not on the actual main science-fiction & fantasy authors/books list-those extras are other books mentioned here and there on this site, whether books of criticism or other odds and ends. Those discussions are not profound analyses: they are meant to help you rank the authors and books on your personal “to-read” list.
Those author pages each contain the same list of the author’s books as do the books-by-author pages, plus a brief discussion of the author and of those books (warning: not all the discussions are in place yet, though all the pages-and book lists thereon-are).
(I have now added a couple of other lists to try to minimize that gap: one is books yet unread here but by authors already in these lists, the other-working from what I hope to be reputable critical sources-books yet-unread here by authors not yet in these lists but recommended by those reliable-one hopes-other sources.)Įach book title on the list below is a link to the availability listings for it at ABEbooks every author name is a link to a page here about that author. Omission of a given book may mean I didn’t think highly enough of it to include it- or it may simply mean that, even in two-thirds of a century of science-fiction and fantasy reading, I still haven’t gotten to that book (as I say in several places on this site, that is especially likely to be true of books from the last decade or two, when annual science-fiction and fantasy title-publication totals have been staggering). This books-by-title page is not, nor is it meant to be, a list of every good science-fiction and fantasy book: it is a list of the science-fiction and fantasy books that I know and like.
What dangers await the Colonel and the acrobat?Įvolved Publishing presents a globe-trotting adventure in the tradition of such greats as "Around the World in 80 Days." A murder in Antwerp begins a path of mystery that leads all the way to the most isolated island on Earth. The Sphinx's immense value has also drawn the attention of the world's most deadly treasure hunters. The criminal seeks a precious figurine, The Blue Star Sphinx, but he's not alone. Beatrix, feeling the Colonel may have the answers to her problems, pledges to help him catch the criminal he seeks in exchange for passage on his magnificent balloon. This larger-than-life English gentleman, reputed to have a voracious appetite for female conquests, is most notable for travelling the world in a four-story hot air balloon called The Ox.īeatrix flees that night to join the Colonel, and the two of them make a narrow escape-Beatrix from her abusive ringleader, the Colonel from a freshly-made cuckold. One night in Switzerland, the mysterious Colonel James Bacchus attends Beatrix's show. More than anything, she wants to know her place in the world of the halcyon 19th century, a time when the last dark corners of the map were being sketched out and travel still possessed a kind of magic. A peculiar explorer and downtrodden acrobat span the globe on a building-sized hot air balloon, in search of a precious artifact and the murderous treasure hunter who seeks it.īeatrix, a spirited but abused acrobat in a travelling circus, seeks more than her prison-like employment offers.