Fantasy

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  • Book IV of The Elric Saga. Elric of Melniboné, kinslayer and last lord of a dying race, comes in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna and arrives in Lormyr, the oldest of the Young Kingdoms. His former foe Myshella, Empress of the Dawn, awaits the doom-driven albino in Castle Kaneloon, offering a pact against the Pan Tangian sorcerer. But although Elric bears and destiny greater than he knows and controls the mighty runesword Stormbringer, his pursuit of vengeance drives him to look despair in the face. Previously published under the title The Sleeping Sorceress. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
  • Book II of The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara. The crew of the airship Jerle Shannara are attacked by evil forces, the druid's protégé Bek Rowe and his companions are pursued by the Ilse Witch.  Walker Boh is alone, caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown, pursued by something invisible and hungry.  And it's not human.  It's greedy for the magic of the druids, elves and even the Ilse Witch... It is Antrax - a spirit that commands ancient technologies and mechanical monsters, feeds off enchantment and traps the souls of men. The Ilse Witch comes face to face with Bek, a boy who claims to be the brother she last saw as an infant, now a young man who carries the Sword of Shannara and wields the magic of the wishsong. Cover art by Steve Stone.
  • Book I of The Voyage Of The Jerle Shannara. When a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, an elven prince led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more powerful than any in the world. Of all those who set out on that ill-fated voyage, not one has ever returned. Until now. The rescued elf carries a map covered with mysterious symbols – and Walker Boh, the last of the Druids, has the skill to decipher them. But someone else understands the map’s significance: the Ilse Witch, a ruthless young woman who wields a magic as potent as his own. She will stop at nothing to possess the map – and the magic it leads to. Cover art by Steve Stone.
  • Book III of The Chronicle of Hawklan. Fyorland has fallen, King Rgoric lies dead at the hands of the evil Lord Dan-Tor, who is now master of Fyorland and who is ready to unleash the Dark Lord Sumeral's power over all the lands. Yet Dan-Tor has been grievously wounded by Hawklan's arrow; not all hope is lost in the Darkness. Sylvriss, Rgoric's queen, has escaped to rally the Lords in Exile. In peaceful Orthlund, the arts of war must be painfully relearned.  In the East, ancient foes of Sumeral are at last remembering their vows.  All look to the healer Hawklan for leadership, but he has lain in a coma since his confrontation with Dan-Tor, walking in a world from which none can call him back.  And in the mountains an ancient race stirs, but its allegiance is as yet unknown.  Cover art by Mark Harrison.
  • Book IV of The Rulers Of Hylor. Gael Maddoc is the child of struggling peasant crofters, the guardians of the Holywell.  She leaps at the chance of a better life when she is offered  training as a kedran, a mounted solider. After a simple assignment as a travelling guard goes disastrously wrong, she seeks aid from the Shee to rescue her charges. But the Shee - the dwindling, long-lived Fair Folk - recruit her for their own purposes. Her nascent magical talents and her resourceful survival prove her to be the Wanderer, a legendary figure for whom they have been waiting. Cover art by John Howe.

  • Book II of The Fionavar Tapestry.  Five men and women from our world must play their parts in a colossal war, as the first of all worlds confronts an ancient evil. After a thousand years of imprisonment the Unraveller has broken free and frozen Fionavar in the ice of eternal winter. His terrible vengeance has begun to take its toll on mortals and demi-gods, mages and priestesses, dwarves and the Children of Light. The five brought from Earth across the tapestry of worlds must act to wake the allies Fionavar desperately needs. But no one can know if these figures out of legend have power enough to shatter the icy grip of death upon the land - or if they even want to... Cover art by Martin Springett.

  • Beautiful Pressyne and Elynas, King of Albany, met in the forest; she would only marry him on the condition that he would never enter her chamber when she gave birth or bathed their children.  She gave birth to triplets; Elynas broke the taboo - and Pressyne took her daughters and went to the lost island of Avalon. On their fifteenth birthday, they learnt of their father's betrayal; Melusine swore revenge - and she and her sisters locked their father with his riches inside a mountain. Pressyne flew into a rage and condemned Melusine to be transformed into a half-woman, half-serpent every Saturday. Then Melusine met Raymond of Poitou. He proposed marriage and Melusine agreed, on condition that he must never enter her chamber on a Saturday.  Can the promise be kept this time?
  • Book III of Second Ether. Rose von Bek travels many of London's byways, glimpsing many lives and and many worlds. At times she meets with knights of the road Dick Turpin and Colonel Jack, a man better known to his mukhamirim fellows as plain Sam Oakenhurst. Othertimes with Prince Lobkowitz or her mother Nellie in Begg Mansions, Sporting Club Square. But London is only one of many such scales of existence awaiting the adventurous Rose. One of them, perhaps Las Cascadas - pinned 'twixt  brisk Atlantic and seductive Mediterranean - or Lost Pines Ranch, Texas, home to her eccentric uncle, will surely bring her back to the nefarious Captain Horatio Quelch, pirate of the Singularity, enemy of her kind...Ultimately, the great war between Law and Chaos, which some will call the War in Heaven, spills over into all realms of existence and the final battle is fought to determine the Nature of Reality itself. Cover: St Georges et Dragon by Gustave Moreau.

  • Book I of The Adventures of Oswald Bastable. Suppose that a few of our present inventions had been made earlier and others not discovered at all? How would the last century have evolved differently?  Based on long-missing documents, this is the story of Oswald Bastable, a Victorian captain who found himself in an alternate future - 1973 (from Bastable's point of view, of course) and the airship rules supreme - a future thathas little relationship to his earth or his time. Cover art by Patrick Woodroffe.