Great Fantasy/Science Fiction Books (mostly fantasy)
Explore the best fantasy and science fiction books with our curated list! Discover epic tales, magical worlds, and futuristic adventures in top-rated fantasy and sci-fi reads.
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Shade's Children (rack)
by Garth Nix
The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade -- once a man, but now more like the machines he fights -- recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power -- and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become ...
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The Dark Elf Trilogy
by R. A. Salvatore
Drizzt Do'Urden, the dark elf, confronts the underground civilization of the evil Drow elves, travels through an endless labyrinth, and battles to survive on the surface world
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Legacy of the Drow
by R. A. Salvatore
Contains four fantasy adventures with Drizzt Do'Urden and his allies who fight the Spider Queen Lolth and her followers in their defense against darkness.
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The Silent Blade
by R. A. Salvatore
Wulfgar returns from the Abyss to find there are demons a hammer cannot crush. Entreri has used his dagger to carve an empire in the back streets of Calimport, as he seeks the head of his oldest foe. Drizzt learns that not all wounds bleed. And not all blades kill.
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The Spine of the World
by R. A. Salvatore
The Road to Redemption Even the brutal streets of a treacherous city can't hide a tortured soul forever. The barbarian Wulfgar sets upon a dangerous path toward redemption when and old friend finds him in the city of Luskan. Wulfgar's journey twists up the windswept peaks of the Spine of the World. He will persevere, for at the end lies his most prized possession -- the life he thought he'd lost forever. Contains 16 pages of roleplaying game rules base on The Spine of the World.
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Servant of the Shard
by R. A. Salvatore
Having seized the Crystal Shard at the end of "The Silent Blade", the dark elf Jarlaxle now struggles to control it. Grudgingly aided by the assassin Artemis Entreri, they must look elsewhere for help before the gem destroys them and all they have worked for.
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Sea of Swords
by R. A. Salvatore
Dark Elf hero Drizzt Do'Urden returns in a fourth fantasy adventure, in the sequel to The Silent Blade, The Spine of the World, and Servant of the Shard. 150,000 first printing.
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The Cleric Quintet
by R. A. Salvatore
The five popular novels featuring Cadderly, the heroic scholar priest, come together in a giant omnibus edition that includes Canticle, In Sylvan Shadows, Night Masks, The Fallen Fortress, and The Chaos Curse. Reprint.
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Otherland: River of Blue Fire
by Tad Williams
A group of unlikely heroes goes up against the ruthless Grail Brotherhood, who are exploiting Earth's children.
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Mountain of Black Glass
by Tad Williams
The struggle to control "Otherland" continues, as the wealthy elites seek hegemony over this dazzling cyber universe, and a cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jonas has to help him survive in the complex virtual reality world. Reprint.
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Sea of Silver Light
by Tad Williams
A small band of adventurers set out to penetrate the veil of secrecy that prevents people from entering Otherland, a private, multidimensional universe controlled by an organization who preys on small children.
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Prospero's Children
by Jan Siegel
It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door never meant to be opened by mortal man--its inception would hasten her own death and the extinction of her vainglorious race. For millennia the key lay forgotten beneath the waves, lost amid the ruins of what had been the most beautiful city on Earth. But however jealously the sea hoards its secrets, sooner or later it yields them up. Now, in present-day Yorkshire, that time has come. And for young Fernanda Capel, life will never be the same again . . .
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The Dragon Charmer
by Jan Siegel
In the enchanting novel Prospero's Children, Jan Siegel introduced an extraordinary heroine and the lushly evocative world of wonders and terrors that quickly enveloped her normal adolescent life. Now Siegel summons us back to the magic with the continuing story of Fern Capel--and the remarkable power of her extraordinary Gift . . . After surviving an amazing, terrifying summer twelve years ago, Fern makes a fateful decision: to deny the mystical powers that pulse through her family's past. Yearning for a simple, quiet life, she decides to marry a man twenty years her senior, a man who insists they wed at the Capels' summer house in Yarrowdale, a place swelling with mood, marvel, and magic. For when Fern returns there with her best friend, Gaynor, ancient, sinister forces reawaken. Yet Fern has had enough: Enough of running from her fate, enough of hiding from her Gift. As she turns to face her destiny, the real world falls away, and Fern is once again swept into another land, removed from Time, void of comfort. It will take all her skill and daring to fight her way back to the present and save the people she loves from the ever-growing danger that threatens to destroy them. And to her utmost surprise, the key to survival is a dragon with the capacity to rule the world . . . but who will relinquish it all to one man. Jan Siegel has created an intense, fascinating world. To surrender yourself under her captivating spell is to remember how remarkably powerful a literary voyage can be.