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Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (Eds)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good

Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day. Here are twenty-two brand-new adventures set in the world of Jack Vance's greatest novel. A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A mil lion cities have fallen to dust. Here live a few thousand souls, dying, as the Earth dies beneath them. Just a few short decades remain to the long history of our world. At the last, science and magic are one, and there is evil on Earth, distilled by time ! Earth is dying. Half a century ago, Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth, and fantasy has never been the same. Now, for the first time, Jack has agreed to open this intriguing and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists, to play in as their very own. The list of twenty-two contributors eager to honour Jack Vance by writing for this anthology includes Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, and George R.R. Martin himself. Review: 'The Dying Earth is one of the best and most influential fantasy works of the twentieth century' Terry Pratchett 'The world that Vance created ranks with Tolkien's Middle-earth and Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age as one of fantasy's most unforgettable and influential settings.' George R R Martin First published 2009. ...Show more

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Jack Vance SF Gateway Omnibus: Big Planet, The Blue World & the Dragon Masters and Other Stories by Jack Vance

$14.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good

From the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic science fiction and fantasy titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to the fantastic work of Jack Vance, one of the field's most beloved authors. Highly acclaimed, Jack Vance has won and been nominated for the HUGO, NEBULA and WORLD FANTASY AWARDs among many others, and in 1997 was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. This omnibus contains the novels BIG PLANET, which revolutionised the planetary romance, THE BLUE WORLD, and the collection, THE DRAGON MASTERS AND OTHER STORIES, the title story of which won the HUGO AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION. ...Show more

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Lyonesse by Jack Vance

$10.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: good

The Elder Isles, located off the the coast of Old Gaul, are made up of ten contending kingdoms, all vying with each other for control. At the centre of much of the intrigue in this tale is Casmir, the ruthless and ambitious King of Lyonnesse.

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Ecce and Old Earth by Jack Vance

$8.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: good

This sequel to "Araminta Station", features the character of Glawen Clattuc, who helped save the unique planet Cadwal. The charter that granted Cadwal conservation has disappeared - and Glawen and Wayness Tamm are sent across a variety of planets to try and retrieve it.

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Nightlamp by Vance Jack

$10.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: A\Novel of the Gaean Reach Ser. | Reading Level: good

Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed, the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told. In The Handbook of the Planets, the entry de scribing Kammerwelt: the fourth world in the entourage of Robert Palmer's Star, drifting through a sector known as The Dragon's Maw out toward the edge of the galaxy. Here a boy aged five, beaten and alone, is found by tourists Luel and Perceia Fath from the distant world of Gallingale. The boy knows his first name, Jaro, and is thereafter haunted by an inner voice of torment and a memory of his mother's terror - throughout a childhood and youth made happy by the Faths on Gallingale. Academics both, Jaro's adoptive parents insist that Jaro gain a good education before embarking on a quest to learn the truth of his origins. However, before Jaro has completed his course at the Institute, the Faths are both blown to bits by a fellow academic making a statement about the neglect of his own work. Jaro teams up with space vagabond Evan Tarr and old schoolfriend Skirl to journey to Kammerwelt where the appalling events of his early years come into focus - and his quest becomes a search for vengeance. His mother was murdered; his father was lost on the strange and deadly planet Romarth. And on Romarth the full truth is at last revealed: Evan Tarr is his father, and in a deep dungeon there lives Jaro's twin Garlet... the voice in Jaro's head, now that of a twisted psychopath who will stop at nothing to kill Jaro... ...Show more

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Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

$8.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Renegades of Pern Ser. | Reading Level: good

In the beginning, before Thread, before the Dragons, before the Holds and the Weyrs and the elite Dragonriders of Pern, was just the great ships gliding through space with nearly six thousand colonists prepared to tackle the mighty task of beginning a new world on a strange planet. It was a jewel of a p lanet, with rivers and seas and mountains, and breathable air and growing things. Then came the terror. The strange, unidentifiable circles in the grass suddenly revealed a meaning, and every living thing was at risk. Many died - a horrible and consuming death. All resources, every man, woman and child had to fight the terrible nightmare of Thread. But a new creature was about to save the planet. From the delicate fire lizards a new life was born - a new symbiosis between man and beast. ...Show more

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Alastor by Jack Vance

$10.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good

Here, collected in one volume, is his Alastor trilogy: three classic SF adventure novels that are Jack Vance at his best.Trullion: Alastor 2262 / Marune: Alastor 933 / Wyst: Alastor 1716The Alastor Cluster: A sprawling system of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited planets, the cluste r is ruled by the mysterious Connatic. He sees all and knows all, but with five trillion people contained within such far-flung boundaries, sooner or later something is bound to give.Trullion: Alastor 2262 An idyllic world where food is bountiful, the oceans are clear, and no one is ever wanting, World 2262 of the Alastor Cluster is in for a rude awakening. The Trill, a once-peaceful race populating the waters of Trullion, are now gambling their lives away on the planet-wide game hussade. What reward could be worth such risks?Marune: Alastor 933 Though the Connatic knows all, there is one man of whom he knows nothing, one man who knows nothing of himself. Pardero is determined to find out who he is and what cruel enemy forced him to forget his own life. But when he finally returns home to Marune, World 933 of the Alastor Cluster, the mystery only deepens.Wyst: Alastor 1716 On Wyst, World 1716 of the Alastor Cluster, millions of people live together in harmony, work only a few hours each week, and share the fruits of their labor equally. Wyst seems a utopia. But the Connatic, knowing better than to take utopia at face value, one day decides to investigate-a decision that may cost him his life. ...Show more

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Maske: Thaery by Jack Vance

$8.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good

There is a Hole at the eastern fringe of the known universe. Deep within it hangs a lost star, Mora, with twin planets, Maske and Skay. On wild Maske there is a rocky peninsula inhabited by a clan of warlike dreamers, the Droads. The eldest son, Trewe, is by birthright Droad of Droad. The second son has no choice but to turn his face toward adventure. His name is Jubal Droad... ...Show more

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Emphyrio by Jack Vance

$10.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks | Reading Level: very good

Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy. But they know little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its religion austere and unforgiving, and primitive -- to maintain standards, even the most basic use of automation is punish able by death. When Amiante, a wood-carver, is executed for processing old documents with a camera, his son Ghyl rebels, and decides to bring down the system. To do so, he must first interpret the story of Emphyrio, an ancient hero of Halman legend. ...Show more

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King of Ashes (#1 Firemane) by Raymond E. Feist

$8.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: The\Firemane Saga Ser. | Reading Level: good

A new novel from internationally bestselling author Raymond E. Feist. The world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every member of his family executed by Lodavico, the ruthless King of Sandura, a man with ambitions to rule the world. Ithrace's ruling fam ily were the legendary Firemanes, and represented a great danger to the other kings. Now four great kingdoms remain, on the brink of war. But rumour has it that the newborn son of the last king of Ithrace survived, carried off during battle and sequestered by the Quelli Nacosti, a secret society whose members are trained to infiltrate and spy upon the rich and powerful throughout Garn. Terrified that this may be true, and that the child will grow to maturity with bloody revenge in his heart, the four kings have placed a huge bounty on the child's head. In the small village of Oncon, Declan is apprenticed to a master blacksmith, learning the secrets of producing the mythical king's steel. Oncon is situated in the Covenant, a neutral region lying between two warring kingdoms. Since the Covenant was declared, the region has existed in peace, until violence explodes as slavers descend upon the village to capture young men to press as soldiers for Sandura. Declan must escape, to take his priceless knowledge to Baron Daylon Dumarch, ruler of Marquensas, perhaps the only man who can defeat Lodavico of Sandura, who has now allied himself with the fanatical Church of the One, which is marching across the continent, imposing its extreme form of religion upon the population and burning unbelievers as they go. Meanwhile, on the island of Coaltachin, the secret domain of the Quelli Nacosti, three friends are being schooled in the deadly arts of espionage and assassination: Donte, son of one of the most powerful masters of the order; Hava, a serious girl with fighting abilities that can set any opponent on their back; and Hatu, a strange, conflicted lad in whom fury and calm war constantly, whose hair is a bright and fiery shade of red... ...Show more

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The Hobbit (Illustrated Novel) by J. R. R. Tolkien

$10.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good

Read the classic edition of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth. Featuring more than 60 colour paintings and pencil drawings by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee, Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambiti ous life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon... The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century. It is now available in a smart new package, and is illustrated throughout in gorgeous watercolour and delicate pencil by Alan Lee, Conceptual Artist for Peter Jackson's films, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN. ...Show more

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Rage of a Demon King (Serpentwar #3) by Raymond E. Feist

$8.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Serpentwar Saga | Reading Level: very good

The third novel in the besetselling Sepentwar series. The ultimate darkness approaches... As the Emerald Queen's shadow lengthens once more across the land of the Midkemia, her forces stand ready to launch a devastating invasion. But come the battle's dawn, the magician Pug, and his life-long friend Tom as, will discover that something far worse than the Queen's sorcery is afoot. Swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the descending plague. A foul and terrible thing has escaped a devoured world to feed on one consumed by chaos; an insatiable nightmare creature which seeks to own and corrupt the source of life itself. When the final conflict is joined, reptile will stand against man and magician against demon; and those who battle for good must be victorious... or all is doomed. Rage of a Demon King is the third book in the Serpentwar Saga. The fourth and concluding book in the quartet is Shards of a Broken Crown. ...Show more

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