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A quest shaped by honor grows more dangerous as loyalty is tested by deception and dark magic.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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A quest shaped by honor grows more dangerous as loyalty is tested by deception and dark magic. Into the Thinking Kingdoms follows Etjole Ehomba and his companions as they cross hostile realms to rescue a captive Visioness from a necromancer’s grip. This classic fantasy adventure emphasizes character-driven travel, moral resolve, and escalating peril within a richly imagined landscape of monsters, magic, and hard-earned trust.
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of Carnivores of Light and Darkness comes the second fantasy adventure in the Journeys of the Catechist saga.
With his two companions—Simna ibn Sind the swordsman and the massive black cat Ahlitah—at his side, Etjole Ehomba continues his honor-driven quest to find the Visioness of Laconda. Imprisoned in the fortress of an evil necromancer, she is both her captor's obsession and his torment.
Seeking to cross the blighted Semordria Ocean, Etjole and his sidekicks find no one willing to risk its legendary monsters—until they meet a collector of rare animals. He points them to the northern realm of Hamacassar, and then drugs them in order to steal Ahlitah. Escaping the man's conjured assassins, the trio head to the Thinking Kingdoms, across snow-covered mountains to Laconda, with danger and dark magic nipping at their heels . . .
"Foster's latest series combines elements of epic fantasy with folkloric motifs in an engaging picaresque tale of a simple man's honor-bound journey into adventure." —Library Journal
"The story's swift pace and Foster's boundless imagination deliver something very different from the usual fantasy quest saga. In these magical lands, Foster shows that character and common sense can be as important, and as powerful, as any magic." —Publishers Weekly
"There's no doubt that Alan Dean Foster is a master storyteller. I finished Into the Thinking Kingdoms in a single sitting." —Black Gate
"Splendidly packed with illustrious incidents, not to mention a protagonist who grows steadily more intriguing and enigmatic." —Kirkus Reviews
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When strange corpses wash ashore, a herdsman named Etjole answers a dying man’s plea in Carnivores of Light and Darkness.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Sword and Sorcery
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When strange corpses wash ashore, a herdsman named Etjole answers a dying man’s plea in Carnivores of Light and Darkness. His journey into the Unstable Lands becomes a test of faith, courage, and destiny as reality itself turns hostile. This epic fantasy opener is praised for its imagination, earning 4.4 stars on Amazon and critical acclaim.
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A hero's quest begins in this first book of "perhaps [the] most highly regarded fantasy trilogy" from the New York Times–bestselling author (Black Gate).
They washed up on the beach, dead men clad in strange, intricate garments. The Naumkib tribe will eat well tonight. Simple herdsman Etjole Ehomba is wandering among the corpses, when he hears a faint cry . . .
One of the men is still alive—and he implores Etjole for help. His countess-to-be, the Visioness Themaryl of Laconda, has been abducted, carried off by Hymneth the Possessed. The dying man charges Etjole with the duty to find her and restore her to the people of Laconda.
Etjole—herder, fisherman, father, warrior, tracker—is a man of conviction. He cannot ignore a brave and noble man's plea. So he sets off on a journey to find a woman many men were willing to die for and to face his destiny in the Unstable Lands, where people are swallowed up by unreality—by things that should not even exist . . .
"Odd and engaging . . . A wondrous journey." —Locus
"Inventive and filled with flavorsome incident." —Kirkus Reviews
"An epic series which is sure to please many readers." —SF Site
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A strong match for readers drawn to epic fantasy about feared magic, political unrest, and conflicts shaped by war.
Mageborn
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Ten years after the battlemage war, Habreel believes eradicating magic is the only way to secure peace. As magical deaths increase and the Red Tower falls under suspicion, two students and a lawbringer must stop Habreel before magic disappears for good, with a 3.8-star average from more than 1,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to epic fantasy about feared magic, political unrest, and conflicts shaped by war.
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A mad man's conspiracy to eliminate magic threatens to unleash war in this first entry of an epic fantasy sequel series to the Age of Darkness trilogy.
Habreel believes eradicating magic is the only way to ensure lasting peace. He will do anything to achieve his goal, even if it means murdering every child born with magical ability.
As a series of mysterious deaths place the seat of magical learning under suspicion, two students and one lawbringer must do everything they can to combat Habreel and his followers, before magic disappears from the world for good.
"Magic, politics and revolution are at the core of Stephen Aryan's new novel, which is a great start to a new series!" —The Book Bag
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The Knight of Swords follows Prince Corum, last of the Vadhagh and an incarnation of the Eternal Champion, as he seeks vengeance on the Lords of Chaos who…
The Knight of Swords
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · High Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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The Knight of Swords follows Prince Corum, last of the Vadhagh and an incarnation of the Eternal Champion, as he seeks vengeance on the Lords of Chaos who destroyed his race. Maimed and bargaining with gods, Corum fights for cosmic balance while desire and destiny complicate his quest. The opening epic of Michael Moorcock’s legendary fantasy cycle.
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A dazzling epic fantasy of gods and demigods from the Grand Master hailed as “the greatest of all post-Tolkien fantasists” (Time Out).
The ancient races, the Vadhagh and the Nhadragh, are dying. By creating Mankind, the universe has condemned Earth to a pestilence of destruction and fear.
Prince Corum is the last survivor of the Vadhagh race and an incarnation aspect of the Eternal Champion—a being that exists in all worlds to ensure there is “Cosmic Balance” . . . He sets out on a crusade of vengeance against the forces that slaughtered his family and his race, to challenge the unjust power of the puppet masters of Man: the Lords of Chaos. Along the way he will barter with his soul for the limbs of gods to repair his mutilated body, and will encounter a member of the very race who caused the mutilation, the irresistible Rhalina.
The Knight of Swords is the first epic fantasy in the legendary Corum series by a true giant of the genre!
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The city itself becomes unstable when reality starts reshaping itself overnight.
Dream London
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · Urban Fantasy
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The city itself becomes unstable when reality starts reshaping itself overnight. In Dream London, Captain Jim Wedderburn sets out to uncover what has transformed London into a shifting, surreal landscape where streets rearrange, people change, and nothing stays fixed for long. This speculative fantasy blends dream logic, satire, and mystery into a strange urban story where identity and place both feel dangerously uncertain.
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Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He’s adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He’s the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it.
But in Dream London the city changes a little every night and the people change a little every day. The towers are growing taller, the parks have hidden themselves away and the streets form themselves into strange new patterns. There are people sailing in from new lands down the river, new criminals emerging in the East End and a path spiralling down to another world.
Everyone is changing, no one is who they seem to be.
“An unclassifiable gem... shares the surreal, absurdist whimsy of Alice in Wonderland and Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.”
The Guardian
“A sweetly dark satire shot through with Occupy-era indignation and a bizarre dream logic in which everything makes sense as long as you accept that nothing makes sense. This is as strange and unclassifiable a novel as it’s possible to imagine, and a marvellous achievement.” The Financial Times
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Faction Wars erupt on the ninth floor as nine armies battle for a central castle and death becomes permanent.
This Inevitable Ruin
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
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Faction Wars erupt on the ninth floor as nine armies battle for a central castle and death becomes permanent. With the AI failing and NPCs gaining awareness, Carl and his allies finally strike back. Strategy, betrayal, and survival collide as only one of them can move on. Book seven of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series raises the stakes to all out war.
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The time has come! Book seven in the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series is here!
They call it Faction Wars.
The ninth floor.
Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal... It all makes for great fun and even greater television.
After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war.
Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground.
As the AI continues its rapid decline, Carl and company take advantage of the chaos. For the first time ever, the crawlers are fighting back. They are now one of the nine teams. And this season, there’s a tenth army on the playing field. The NPCs, who are normally used as nothing but cannon fodder, have become fully self-aware and formed a team of their own.
For Donut and Katia, the stakes are even higher. Only one of them will be allowed to leave this level.
If they all want to survive, they’re going to need a little help from a veteran or two.
This is it.
This is what they’ve been fighting toward.
This is war.
This inevitable ruin.
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Good for readers who like gateway magic, political intrigue, ambitious heroines, invasion threats, and family secrets.
Blood and Empire
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Blood and Empire begins an epic fantasy series about Bethany, a young seamstress who dreams of becoming a diviner able to navigate the mysterious gateways that unite the empire, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like gateway magic, political intrigue, ambitious heroines, invasion threats, and family secrets.
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Power is never granted… it can only be seized.
BLOOD AND EMPIRE begins best-selling author James Maxwell’s long-awaited new epic fantasy series, THE GATEWAY SAGA—a gripping tale of ambition, sacrifice, and defiance in the face of destiny.
Young seamstress Bethany dreams of becoming a diviner, one of the select few able to navigate the mysterious gateways that unite the empire. But without wealth or education, and only her mother to raise her, she is on a path to disappointment.
Then Bethany meets Charlton, a cleric, who offers her books and guidance, and she glimpses a life she had thought unreachable. Her problems grow, however, when her ambitions draw attention and her father re-enters her life, confronting her with a past she still needs to come to terms with.
As invasion threatens the empire, and intrigue and betrayal create fault lines amongst the highest circles, Bethany must learn to master both powerful forces and herself, in order to confront the darkness within her own bloodline—and save the empire from itself.
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Chaos still grips the Hundred as the immortal Guardians remain corrupted and divided.
Shadow Gate
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Chaos still grips the Hundred as the immortal Guardians remain corrupted and divided. Mortals fight on, unaware of the true source of the rot, while three new Guardians rise and ignite a struggle among the gods themselves. Action, romance, and magic collide as the fate of the land hangs in the balance. From bestselling fantasy author Kate Elliott.
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The captivating, bestselling Spirit Gate swept readers into the turbulent world of the Hundred, where the peace and order of life under the protection of the immortal Guardians has given way to chaos and violence. In the face of a vast horde of marauders led by a rogue Guardian, the bravery and resourcefulness of a lone eagle-reeve and others who risk their lives for the common good have prevented death and destruction from overwhelming the Hundred.
Now in Shadow Gate, the enthralling sequel, the source of corruption of the Guardians is still a mystery to the mortals who fight to withstand the forces that have turned against them. And when three new Guardians emerge, a struggle begins among the immortals, with nothing less at stake than the future of the land and its gods.
With all the color, excitement, and narrative power that have made Kate Elliott an enormously popular writer, Shadow Gate weaves a powerful spell of action, romance, and magic that will entrance legions of readers.
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Peace has reigned for years, but old magic mistakes don’t stay buried.
The Cutting Edge
Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure
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Peace has reigned for years, but old magic mistakes don’t stay buried. When prophecies warn of Pandemia’s collapse, King Rap learns a long-ago error could shatter the laws holding magic in check. Forced onto a perilous quest, he must face gods, war, and his own past to prevent the realm from falling into chaos.
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The Aurora Award–winning author of the Man of His Word novels returns to the magical realm of Pandemia with the first in his Handful of Men series.
For fifteen years, Queen Inos and King Rap—the former stable boy and secret sorcerer—have ruled Krasnegar wisely and happily, raising a family and prospering in their remote little kingdom.
But a darkness is encroaching, foreshadowed by prophecies of unimagined cataclysms across Pandemia. Prince Emshandar, better known as Shandie to Krasnegar's royal family, is engaged in several conflicts along the Impire's borderlands, as armies of djinns, gnomes, and other races declare and wage war. His grandfather, the aged imperor himself, continues to behave more erratically and tyrannically with each passing hour.
Rap dismisses the warnings as superstitious nonsense and the borderland battles as far from home and none of his kingdom's affair. But on the night of the birth of his fourth child, Rap is visited by a god who regales him with a cryptic tale of Pandemia's impending doom. Once upon a time, a young sorcerer made an error, an error that now threatens to nullify the Protocol, the treaty that has controlled the use of magic for a millennium. Without the Protocol, the realm will fall into chaos and certain destruction—unless Rap embarks on a dangerous quest to right his long ago wrong . . .
The beginning of a new series by the author of the Seventh Sword novels and many other acclaimed works of fantasy, The Cutting Edge is "deftly woven and set forth with a refreshingly unpretentious clarity and directness: imagine David Eddings rewritten by Kate Wilhelm. Grab this one" (Kirkus Reviews).
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Dark Matter Ascension follows Jace, who refuses to surrender after loss, injury, and the collapse of Earth under a Cosmic System.
Dark Matter Ascension
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · LitRPG · Sword and Sorcery
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Dark Matter Ascension follows Jace, who refuses to surrender after loss, injury, and the collapse of Earth under a Cosmic System. With only his instincts and an unlikely river otter companion, he must survive one brutal week against relentless predators. Survival offers a single reward: the power to ascend and a chance to reclaim what he lost.
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One week. If you survive, you choose a Cosmic Power ... If you survive.
Jace isn’t one to give up. Not when his sister dies. Not when he loses his legs. And definitely not when The Cosmic System takes over Earth.
With nothing more than his street smarts, the clothes on his back, and a river otter companion, he must survive a planet full of vicious predators that see him as an easy meal.
If he can survive? He gets to choose a Cosmic Power and a Class. A path to ascension. A way to bring his sister back.
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Legendary Shadow Blacksmith follows Julian, a blind autistic savant whose life of loss finds new purpose through the Otherworld Project.
Legendary Shadow Blacksmith
Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · LitRPG
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Legendary Shadow Blacksmith follows Julian, a blind autistic savant whose life of loss finds new purpose through the Otherworld Project. Living as a powerful clone on a distant planet, he gains abilities that transform grief into ambition. As fame and power grow across two worlds, Julian must decide whether he will become a hero or surrender to the darkness within.
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Born blind in a war-torn world, an autistic savant's only solace was blacksmithing—until even that was overshadowed by loss and despair. But when he joins the Otherworld Project, a chance to live as a powerful clone on a distant planet, he uncovers an astonishing secret.
With newfound abilities, Julian’s rise to fame begins. Will he become a hero across two worlds, or let darkness consume them both?
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The Bystander drops horror fan Riley Lawrence into a town where movie tropes dictate who lives and dies.
The Bystander
Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · LitRPG
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The Bystander drops horror fan Riley Lawrence into a town where movie tropes dictate who lives and dies. Trapped in a deadly game with assigned archetypes, Riley learns survival depends on pretending not to notice the monsters hunting them. As rules bend and danger escalates, he and his friends must exploit horror logic to stay alive.
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In a town where horror movie tropes come to life, one’s only chance to survive is to play their role, in the first book of a spine-tingling gamelit series.
When horror-obsessed Riley Lawrence and his group of college friends arrive in the small town of Carousel for their Centennial Celebration, the few decrepit cars parked in the street don’t scare them. But when they enter a locked building, an animatronic usher hands them each a ticket, and the lights dim, Riley realizes they’ve entered the inescapable patchwork of a horror movie set. And they’ve each been assigned an archetype—Scholar, Athlete, Eye Candy, Final Girl—to play out as the curtains rise.
Assigned the Film Buff archetype, Riley’s doomed to repeat a pattern: knowing exactly who the killer is but never surviving the attacks himself. After all, film buffs may know what’s coming, but they’re always the first to be hunted down. Until, that is, Riley learns he can avoid a death or two by exploiting the Oblivious Bystander trope. It seems monsters and killers won’t harm him as long as he can convincingly pretend he hasn’t noticed them.
To make it through this deadly game, Riley and his friends will need to leverage their tropes effectively to determine what’s trapping them there in the first place. But as the rounds continue and escape seems farther and farther out of reach, they’ll be forced to ask themselves: Would they survive in a horror movie?
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