Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4117

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4117

Twenty-four fantasy paperbacks with a strong 1980s spine: all six Thomas Covenant books from Lord Foul’s Bane to White Gold Wielder, four C.J. Cherryhs including the Fortress trilogy, Eddings’ Pawn of Prophecy, Janny Wurts, Sara Douglass, Maggie Furey, Hugh Cook, Isolde Martyn, two Dragonlance Barbarians, and a Gor novel for the collector. Doorstops, every one.

1. Fortress of Eagles — C.J. Cherryh — Tristen, the shaped man who may be a wizard’s weapon or a king’s saviour, in the second Fortress novel. Cherryh’s slowest, deepest fantasy, and her best.
2. Dhiammara — Maggie Furey — Book four of the Artefacts of Power: Aurian returns from the past to a world where everyone she loved is dead or changed. Truly compelling, says SFX.
3. Angel with the Sword — C.J. Cherryh — Altair Jones, canal rat of Merovingen, fishes a drowning man out of the water and gets his enemies as well. A rare treat, says Roger Zelazny, and the first Merovingen Nights book.
4. The Magician Out of Manchuria — Charles G. Finney — A magician and his apprentice on a boat down a Chinese river, picking up a sex-mad queen and a lot of trouble. From the Circus of Dr. Lao author; Panther edition.
5. Pawn of Prophecy — David Eddings — Garion, a farm boy, and his Aunt Pol, who isn’t his aunt, and the old storyteller who isn’t old, set off after a stolen Orb. Book one of the Belgariad, and still the easiest fantasy series to fall into.
6. The Dreamstone — C.J. Cherryh — Arafel, the last elf in a Britain where the fair folk are fading, and the men who stumble into her wood. Cherryh’s Celtic fantasy; just keeps getting better and better, says Marion Zimmer Bradley.
7. Dragonlance: The Barbarians Volume Two: Sister of the Sword — Paul B. Thompson & Tonya C. Cook — Prehistoric Krynn, before the Cataclysm, and the first dragon-riders.
8. The Wheel of Darkness — Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child — Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene in a Tibetan monastery and on a cruise ship where an ancient object is driving the passengers mad. Pendergast book eight.
9. The Wounded Land — Stephen Donaldson — Covenant returns to the Land four thousand years on, under the Sunbane, with a doctor called Linden Avery who sees what he can’t. Second Chronicles book one.
10. The Lady and the Unicorn — Isolde Martyn — 1470s England, a woman caught between a Lancastrian husband and a Yorkist lover. Won the RWA Rita; a wonderfully interwoven tapestry of a book, says Barbara Erskine.
11. Slave Girl of Gor — John Norman — Book eleven of Gor: a woman from Earth sold into slavery on Counter-Earth. The series that launched a thousand arguments. Tandem.
12. Daughter of the Dark — Louise Cusack — Book two of the Shadow Through Time trilogy: an Australian fantasy of two worlds and a girl who crosses between them.
13. The Ships of Merior — Janny Wurts — Wars of Light and Shadow volume two: Arithon and Lysaer, cursed to hate each other, raise their armies. Astonishingly original and compelling, says Raymond E. Feist.
14. Shadow Magic — Karen Whiddon — More potent than fiery love or darkest passions: a paranormal romance from the Powerful Magic author.
15. The Power That Preserves — Stephen Donaldson — Covenant’s final confrontation with Lord Foul, and the Land’s last stand. First Chronicles book three.
16. The One Tree — Stephen Donaldson — The quest for the One Tree across the sea, with the Giants of the Search. Second Chronicles book two.
17. Enchanter — Sara Douglass — Axis Rivkahson learns he is the StarMan and the Prophecy is true. Book two of the Axis Trilogy; winner of the 1996 Aurealis Award, and the series that made Australian fantasy.
18. Fortress in the Eye of Time — C.J. Cherryh — A wizard dying in a ruined tower shapes a man called Tristen out of nothing, and sends him into a world at war. The first Fortress book.
19. The Wizards and the Warriors — Hugh Cook — Chronicles of an Age of Darkness volume one: wizards, warriors and a world on the edge. New Zealand fantasy, sardonic and strange.
20. Lord Foul’s Bane — Stephen Donaldson — Thomas Covenant, a leper, is pulled into the Land, told he’s its saviour, and refuses to believe it. The 1977 book that was comparable to Tolkien at his best, said the cover, and the rape in chapter seven that readers argue about to this day. First Chronicles book one.
21. Kingsbane — John Morressy — Who would become the King of Death? Sword and sorcery from the Graymantle author. Playboy Press.
22. Dragonlance: The Barbarians Volume One: Children of the Plains — Paul B. Thompson & Tonya C. Cook — The first of the prehistoric Krynn trilogy.
23. White Gold Wielder — Stephen Donaldson — The return to the Land, Linden’s choice, and the end of the Second Chronicles. Book three.
24. Fortress of Owls — C.J. Cherryh — Tristen, now a lord, with the kingdom’s enemies gathering and his own nature still unknown. The third Fortress book.