Nova's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 May 2018 09:40:00 -0700 60 Nova's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems (Dover Literature: Poetry)]]> 80582 Voluspo, one of the broadest literary conceptions of the world's creation and ultimate destruction; the Lokasenna, a comedy bursting with vivid characterizations; and more.]]> 288 Unknown 0486437108 Nova 0 to-read 4.34 1969 The Poetic Edda: The Mythological Poems (Dover Literature: Poetry)
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]]> The Middle Ages 246255 352 Morris Bishop 061805703X Nova 5 3.90 1968 The Middle Ages
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]]> <![CDATA[The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre]]> 36315 “H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. Lovecraft

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrifying visions, including:

The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos—a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind.

The Dunwich Horror: An evil man’s desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon.

The Colour Out of Space: A horror from the skies—far worse than any nuclear fallout—transforms a man into a monster.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Rising from the depths of the sea, an unspeakable horror engulfs a quiet New England town.

Plus twelve more terrifying tales!]]> 406 H.P. Lovecraft Nova 5 4.31 1963 The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
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Currently Reading: The Shadow Out Of Time
]]> Armor 6219268 261 Sean Morrison 0690099703 Nova 5 3.29 1963 Armor
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]]> <![CDATA[The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Penguin Classics)]]> 462596 106 Jesse L. Byock Nova 0 to-read 4.09 1977 The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki (Penguin Classics)
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]]> King Harald's Saga 721023
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 192 Snorri Sturluson 0140441832 Nova 0 to-read 4.04 1230 King Harald's Saga
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]]> <![CDATA[Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories]]> 107510
The remaining four -Hreidar the Fool, Halldor Sorrason, Audun´s Story, and Ivar´s Story- were written without first-hand knowledge of Scandinavia, and describe the adventures of Icelandic poets and peasants at the royal courts of Norway and Iceland. Pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics give these stories their distinctive character and cohesion.]]> 144 Unknown Nova 0 to-read 3.89 1958 Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories
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]]> Laxdæla Saga 287064 272 Unknown 0140442189 Nova 0 to-read 3.98 1245 Laxdæla Saga
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]]> <![CDATA[The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes]]> 381112 The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times.

Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says "may well grace anyone's bookshelf."]]> 343 Anonymous Nova 0 4.28 1270 The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
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]]> Egil's Saga 331089 243 Anonymous 0140447709 Nova 0 4.02 1240 Egil's Saga
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]]> The Sagas of Icelanders 102534 Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America. Sailing as far from the archetypal heroic adventure as the long ships did from home, the Sagas are written with psychological intensity, peopled by characters with depth, and explore perennial human issues like love, hate, fate and freedom.]]> 782 Jane Smiley 0141000031 Nova 5 4.32 1997 The Sagas of Icelanders
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]]> <![CDATA[Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)]]> 38169 323 Pat Frank 0060741872 Nova 5
Its a good though obviously very dated look at post-nuclear holocaust and how society rebuilds itself afterwards.

This is an area of great interest to me because Post-Apocalypse fiction shows us that despite all our advancements as a people and as a civilization, the basic need to survive can drive us to all manner of lawlessness and depravity.

In essence it is watching order restore itself from the dark ages.]]> 4.07 1959 Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
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I was "forced" to read this back in high school and actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

Its a good though obviously very dated look at post-nuclear holocaust and how society rebuilds itself afterwards.

This is an area of great interest to me because Post-Apocalypse fiction shows us that despite all our advancements as a people and as a civilization, the basic need to survive can drive us to all manner of lawlessness and depravity.

In essence it is watching order restore itself from the dark ages.
]]> 1632 16967
1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.

2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time

THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....

When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot.

At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.]]> 597 Eric Flint 1416532811 Nova 2
Though there is a apparently a large following of this series, it failed to capture my interest like The Cross-Time Engineer series by Frankowski.

I suppose thats because there are so many characters and there is so much already at these people's disposal in terms of technology and science.

Then again...perhaps it was just the writing style that didnt pique my interest beyond the first book.]]> 4.05 2000 1632
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I was pretty disappointed.

Though there is a apparently a large following of this series, it failed to capture my interest like The Cross-Time Engineer series by Frankowski.

I suppose thats because there are so many characters and there is so much already at these people's disposal in terms of technology and science.

Then again...perhaps it was just the writing style that didnt pique my interest beyond the first book.
]]> <![CDATA[At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror]]> 32769
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At the Mountains of Madness � [Cthulhu Mythos] � (1936) � novel by H. P. Lovecraft
The Dreams in the Witch-House � [Cthulhu Mythos] � (1933) � novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
The Shunned House � (1928) � novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
The Statement of Randolph Carter � [Randolph Carter] � (1920) � shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft]]> 184 H.P. Lovecraft 0345329457 Nova 5 4.26 1981 At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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]]> <![CDATA[When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran, #1)]]> 132694
For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan. And Marid Audrian has been made an offer he can’t refuse.

The 200-year-old “godfather� of the Budayeen’s underworld has enlisted Marid as his instrument of vengeance. But first Marid must undergo the most sophisticated of surgical implants before he dares to confront a killer who carries the power of every psychopath since the beginning of time.

Wry, savage, and unignorable, When Gravity Fails was hailed as a classic by Effinger’s fellow SF writers on its original publication in 1987, and the sequence of “Marid Audrian� novels it begins were the culmination of his career.]]> 288 George Alec Effinger 0765313588 Nova 3 3.92 1986 When Gravity Fails (Marîd Audran, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors]]> 751823
Greatest of all is he called Cthulhu. Only in ancient, blasphemous manuscripts can that name be found... and those who decipher it are left pale and numb, aware that in the very act of decipherment they have become both pawn and prey of an ultra-worldly power that renders human existence both tenuous and trite.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall remain... long after they have devoured us.

Contents:

"Introduction" by David Drake

"Arkham" (poem)

"The Black Stone"

"The Fire of Asshurbanipal"

"The Thing on the Roof"

"Dig Me No Grave"

"Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls" (poem)

"The Valley of the Worm"

"The Shadow of the Beast"

"Old Garfield's Heart"

"People of the Dark"

"Worms of the Earth"

"Pigeons From Hell"

"An Open Window" (poem)]]> 247 Robert E. Howard Nova 5 4.25 1987 Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors
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]]> <![CDATA[The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories]]> 160149 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King.

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.]]> 420 H.P. Lovecraft 0141182342 Nova 5 4.21 1928 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
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]]> Virtual Girl 622101 248 Amy Thomson 0441865003 Nova 5 3.48 1993 Virtual Girl
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]]> Warsprite 2748009 313 Jefferson P. Swycaffer 088038915X Nova 3 2.91 1990 Warsprite
author: Jefferson P. Swycaffer
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]]> Hyperborea 854552
Contents:

"Introduction" (Lin Carter)
Hyperborea
"The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem)
"The Seven Geases"
"The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
"The White Sybil"
"The Testament of Athammaus"
"The Coming of the White Worm"
"Ubbo-Sathla"
"The Door to Saturn"
"The Ice-Demon"
"The Tale of Satampra Zeiros"
"The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles"
The World's Rim
"The Abominations of Yondo"
"The Desolation of Soom"
"The Passing of Aphrodite"
"The Memnons of the Night"
"Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle", by Lin Carter]]> 205 Clark Ashton Smith 0345022068 Nova 3 4.26 1971 Hyperborea
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]]> Venus on the Half-Shell 171066 Hwang Ho. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with a cat-like alien queen in heat. Now, with his pet owl, his dog Anubis and a sexy robot companion, Simon charts a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of a multiverse full of surprises to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.]]> 204 Kilgore Trout 0352398469 Nova 2 3.78 1974 Venus on the Half-Shell
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]]> <![CDATA[Orcs (Orcs: First Blood, #1-3)]]> 1037549 711 Stan Nicholls 0575074876 Nova 3 3.48 2002 Orcs (Orcs: First Blood, #1-3)
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]]> Samba 684293 256 Alma Guillermoprieto 067973256X Nova 2 3.75 1990 Samba
author: Alma Guillermoprieto
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]]> Life and Death in Shanghai 537404
Life and Death in Shanghai is the powerful story of Cheng’s imprisonment, of the deprivation she endured, of her heroic resistance, and of her quest for justice when she was released. An astounding portrait of one woman’s courage, Life and Death in Shanghai is also a penetrating account of a terrifying chapter in twentieth-century history.]]> 547 Nien Cheng 014010870X Nova 4 4.31 1986 Life and Death in Shanghai
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]]> Long Walk to Freedom 318431
Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in a Jewish firm in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s.

He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account.]]> 656 Nelson Mandela 0316548189 Nova 4 4.34 1994 Long Walk to Freedom
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]]> Gates of Fire 1305
Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .

“A novel that is intricate and arresting and, once begun, almost impossible to put down.”—Daily News

“A timeless epic of man and war . . . Pressfield has created a new classic deserving a place beside the very best of the old.”—Stephen Coonts]]> 526 Steven Pressfield 055338368X Nova 5 4.40 1998 Gates of Fire
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]]> Eaters of the Dead 7673 304 Michael Crichton 0060891564 Nova 3 3.70 1976 Eaters of the Dead
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]]> <![CDATA[Lord Conrad's Lady (Conrad Stargard, #5)]]> 1487053 296 Leo Frankowski 0345368495 Nova 5 3.79 1990 Lord Conrad's Lady (Conrad Stargard, #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Conrad's Quest for Rubber (Conrad Stargard, #6)]]> 1197498 Conrad Stargard has come a long way since he was first transported from the twentieth century to the thirteenth. Thanks to his knack for "inventing" such astonishing things as steam engines, machine guns, radios, and riverboats, he's turned Medieval Poland into a military powerhouse--capable of repelling invasions by marauding Mongols and Teutonic troops alike.
Now, with enemies vanquished, industry booming, and peace in the land, it is time to continue Poland's remarkable technological progress. And doing so requires harvesting raw materials only Lord Conrad knows where to "discover." Thus is founded the Explorer's Corps, whose intrepid members set out to map new frontiers from the Arctic Circle to the Amazon. But can even Conrad's knowledge of the far future prepare him and his subjects for what lies just beyond the borders of their kingdom?]]> 292 Leo Frankowski 0345368509 Nova 5 3.56 1998 Conrad's Quest for Rubber (Conrad Stargard, #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Radiant Warrior (Conrad Stargard, #3)]]> 1637787
Conrad Stargard, a 20th-century Pole marooned in 13th century Poland has just ten years to prevent the Mongol Hordes from slaughtering everyone in Poland.

So he "invented" all the modern advances, things like prefabricated housing, playboy clubs, the steam engine, universal education, the cloth factory, and belly dancing.

But wars are fought by warriors, not strong economies, and Conrad would need the very best. So he set out to create an army...]]> 281 Leo Frankowski 0345327640 Nova 5 3.95 1989 The Radiant Warrior (Conrad Stargard, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The High-Tech Knight (Conrad Stargard, #2)]]> 1197497
Somehow, Conrad found himself under investigation by the Inquisition, got himself knighted, was granted his own fief, and made a few enemies.

Somehow, he had to round up a few vassals, build himself a city, and figure out how to survive armed combat against the Champion of the Teutonic Knights, one of the Toughest Men Alive.

Then he'd have time to worry about the Mongols . . .]]> 247 Leo Frankowski 0345327632 Nova 5 4.04 1989 The High-Tech Knight (Conrad Stargard, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Flying Warlord (Conrad Stargard, #4)]]> 555870 232 Leo Frankowski 0345914422 Nova 5 3.95 1989 The Flying Warlord (Conrad Stargard, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cross-Time Engineer (Conrad Stargard, #1)]]> 765081
One moment Conrad Schwartz was a hungover hiker in the mountains of modern Poland, the next he was running for his life from an angry Teutonic Knight.

At first Conrad just thought he'd stumbled across a mad hermit. But several days of ever stranger events convinced him that he had somehow been stranded in 1231 A.D.

And that meant Conrad had to turn Medieval Poland into the most powerful contry in the world. Otherwise the Mongols were destined to detroy it--in just ten years!]]> 259 Leo Frankowski 0345327624 Nova 5 4.04 1986 The Cross-Time Engineer (Conrad Stargard, #1)
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]]> Bran Mak Morn: The Last King 409594
In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race.

Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard’s published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn–including the eerie masterpiece “Worms of the Earth� and “Kings of the Night,� in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders.

Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard’s handwritten revisions, and much, much more.

Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.]]> 376 Robert E. Howard 0345461541 Nova 5 4.04 1969 Bran Mak Morn: The Last King
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]]> <![CDATA[The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #3)]]> 33484
Witness, then, Howard at his finest, and Conan at his most savage, in the latest volume featuring the collected works of Robert E. Howard, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Greg Manchess. Prepared directly from the earliest known versions—often Howard’s own manuscripts—are such sword-and-sorcery classics as “The Servants of Bit-Yakin� (formerly published as “Jewels of Gwahlur�), “Beyond the Black River,� “The Black Stranger,� “Man-Eaters of Zamboula� (formerly published as “Shadows in Zamboula�), and, perhaps his most famous adventure of all, “Red Nails.�

The Conquering Sword of Conan includes never-before-published outlines, notes, and story drafts, plus a new introduction, personal correspondence, and the revealing essay “Hyborian Genesis”—which chronicles the history of the creation of the Conan series. Truly, this is heroic fantasy at its finest.]]> 416 Robert E. Howard 0345461533 Nova 5 4.34 2005 The Conquering Sword of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)]]> 21063
This lavishly illustrated volume gathers together three of Howard's longest and most famous Conan stories-two of them printed for the first time directly from Howard's typescript-along with a collection of the author's previously unpublished and rarely seen outlines, notes, and drafts. Longtime fans and new readers alike will agree that "The Bloody Crown of Conan" merits a place of honor on every fantasy lover's bookshelf.

THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE
Amid the towering crags of Vendhya, in the shadowy citadel of the Black Circle, Yasmina of the golden throne seeks vengeance against the Black Seers. Her only ally is also her most formidable enemy-Conan, the outlaw chief.

THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON
Toppled from the throne of Aquilonia by the evil machinations of an undead wizard, Conan must find the fabled jewel known as the Heart of Ahriman to reclaim his crown . . . and save his life.

A WITCH SHALL BE BORN
A malevolent witch of evil beauty. An enslaved queen. A kingdom in the iron grip of ruthless mercenaries. And Conan, who plots deadly vengeance against the human wolf who left him in the desert to die.]]> 367 Robert E. Howard 0345461525 Nova 5 4.31 2004 The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
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Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellanea drafts, notes, maps by author.
Cimmeria poem
1 The Phoenix on the Sword 1932
2 The Frost-Giant's Daughter 1976
3 The God in the Bowl 1952
4 The Tower of the Elephant 1933
5 The Scarlet Citadel 1933
6 Queen of the Black Coast 1934
7 Black Colossus 1933
8 Iron Shadows in the Moon 1934
9 Xuthal of the Dusk 1933
10 The Pool of the Black One 1933
11 Rogues in the House 1934
12 The Vale of Lost Women 1967
13 The Devil in Iron 1934]]> 496 Robert E. Howard 0345483855 Nova 5 4.17 2002 The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Divine Encounters (Earth Chronicles #5.5)]]> 959227 The Ultimate Human Experience

The interaction between mankind and spiritual beings -- of Divine Encounters -- as recorded inscriptures and ancient texts provides a powerful drama that spans Heaven and Earth, involving worship and devotion, eternity and mortality, love and sex, jealousy and murder. But how much of these are based on real happenings and how much is based on myth?

With a visionary's ardor and a scientist's attention to detail, Zecharia Sitchin, author ofThe Earth Chronicles, gives a stunning account of human interaction with celestial travelers. He also provides further proof that prophetic dreams,visions, UFO encounters, and other extraordinary phenomena are indeed the hallmark of intervention by intergalactic emissaries who reach out from other realms to enlighten, guide, punish, and comfort us in times of need. Sitchin's research and theories, illustrated with maps and charts, chronicle a magnificent and inspiring journey through history, from the dawn of time to the approach of the millennium.

]]> 400 Zecharia Sitchin 0380780763 Nova 4 4.15 1995 Divine Encounters (Earth Chronicles #5.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard]]> 109488 Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, King Kull, and others that defined heroic fantasy, lived and died in the small town of Cross Plains, Texas. While his books remain in print, Howard himself has fallen into obscurity, his life mired in speculation and half-truth. This engaging biography traces the roots of his writings, correcting long-standing misconceptions, and offers a tour of Howard's world as he saw it: through his own incomparable imagination.

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