Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4134

Secondhand Fantasy Bargain Book Box SP4134

Twenty-four fantasy paperbacks with a 1990s spine: four Katharine Kerr Deverrys, four Jean Auel Earth’s Children, three L.E. Modesitts, three Stephen Lawheads, R. Scott Bakker’s The Darkness That Comes Before, Terry Brooks, Greg Bear, Ian Irvine, Salvatore, Nalini Singh and Anya Seton’s Avalon. Doorstops, every one.

1. Fall of Angels — L.E. Modesitt, Jr. — A starship of angels crashes on a world that hates them and they build a fortress on a mountain called Westwind. The origin story of the Legend of the Angels, and the Recluce book that explains everything else.
2. Darkspell — Katharine Kerr — Nevyn the sorcerer has waited two hundred years for the souls he wronged to be reborn, and they’ve just been born again in the wrong bodies. Deverry book two; the reincarnation structure is unlike anything else in fantasy.
3. The Talismans of Shannara — Terry Brooks — The Shadowen are hunting the heirs who hold the three talismans, and Walker Boh has to become the Druid he swore he’d never be. The Heritage of Shannara finale.
4. The Man Who Was Magic — Paul Gallico — A real magician walks into a city of stage conjurers and they want him dead. Gallico’s gentle, odd fable, illustrated Pan edition.
5. Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood — Katharine Kerr — Rhodry is banished, Jill follows him, and Nevyn is still trying to put right what he did lifetimes ago. Deverry book three.
6. Avalon — Anya Seton — Tenth-century England: a prince of Brittany and a Cornish girl, and a voyage that reaches Vinland before Columbus. Seton’s follow-up to Katherine, and nearly as good.
7. The Plains of Passage — Jean M. Auel — Ayla and Jondalar ride horses and lead a wolf across Ice Age Europe to his people. Earth’s Children book four, the travel book.
8. Daggerspell — Katharine Kerr — A prince’s betrayal in ancient Deverry echoes down three reincarnations until Nevyn can set it right. Book one; the new revised edition.
9. The Darkness That Comes Before — R. Scott Bakker — A monk from a hidden sect walks into the world with powers that read men like books, as a holy war gathers. The Prince of Nothing book one; Steven Erikson says something remarkable has begun, and he’s right.
10. The White Order — L.E. Modesitt, Jr. — Cerryl, a scullery boy with a talent for chaos, is taken in by the white mages of Fairhaven and taught to use it. Recluce from the other side.
11. Songs of Earth & Power — Greg Bear — Michael Perrin reads a poem and walks into the Realm of the Sidhe, where humans are slaves and music is magic. The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage in one volume.
12. Dragonlance: The Barbarians Volume Two: Brother of the Dragon — Paul B. Thompson & Tonya C. Cook — Prehistoric Krynn, before the Cataclysm, and the first dragon-rider. For the Dragonlance completist.
13. The Burning Land — John Fletcher — An epic of passion, struggle and survival across colonial Australia, as big as the country. Historical saga, not fantasy, but it belongs with the doorstops.
14. The View from the Mirror: Dark Is the Moon / The Way Between the Worlds — Ian Irvine — Volumes three and four of the Australian quartet in one book: Karan and Llian against the Charon, and the end of the first Three Worlds cycle.
15. The Iron Lance — Stephen Lawhead — A Scottish nobleman follows the First Crusade to Jerusalem and finds the lance that pierced Christ. Celtic Crusades book one.
16. The Sword and the Flame — Stephen Lawhead — King Quentin has lost his sword and his faith, and the necromancer Nimrood is back. Dragon King Saga book three.
17. The Paradise War — Stephen Lawhead — Two Oxford students follow an aurochs into a cairn and come out in the Celtic Otherworld, where a war is beginning. Song of Albion book one, and Lawhead’s best opening.
18. Angels’ Blood — Nalini Singh — Elena is a vampire hunter hired by an archangel to track a killer, and the archangel is more dangerous than the prey. The first Guild Hunter; Singh’s paranormal at its most addictive.
19. Dragonspell: The Southern Sea — Katharine Kerr — Rhodry is sold into slavery across the sea and Jill goes to buy him back. Deverry book four, the end of the first arc.
20. The Mammoth Hunters — Jean M. Auel — Ayla and Jondalar winter with the Mamutoi, and Ayla meets Ranec, a carver with darker skin than she’s ever seen. Earth’s Children book three, the love-triangle one.
21. The Valley of Horses — Jean M. Auel — Ayla, banished by the Clan, lives alone in a valley with a horse and a cave lion, and Jondalar is walking toward her. Earth’s Children book two, and the one that made her a woman instead of a child.
22. The Order War — L.E. Modesitt, Jr. — Justen, an engineer of Recluce, goes to fight the white mages and discovers order can kill as well as chaos. Recluce book four.
23. Spearwielder’s Tale — R.A. Salvatore — Gary Leger is pulled from New England into Faerie to wear a hero’s armour and wield a spear in a war against a dragon. The whole trilogy in one volume, Salvatore’s lightest.