Tanith Lee books
Discover the best Tanith Lee books in one curated list, from sci-fi classics like The Silver Metal Lover and Metallic Love to dark fantasy gems like Dark Dance and Vivia. Explore this author’s haunting, lyrical worlds — perfect for fans of speculative fiction and gothic storytelling. Find your next unforgettable read today.
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The Silver Metal Lover
by Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale—a beautiful, tragic, sensual, and ultimately triumphant love story of the future. Love is made of more than mere flesh and blood. . . . For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion. Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it. So she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see—not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete?
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Vivia
by Tanith Lee
In medieval Eastern Europe, Vivia is claimed by a dark lord who weds her, seduces her, and makes her a vampire. Then Vivia's mentor abandons her and she is found by Zulgaris, a handsome prince. He marries her but he cannot cure her hunger for blood. Is she doomed? And what will her pregnancy mean?
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Dark Dance
by Tanith Lee
Drawn to the ominous house of Scarabae by the promise of passion, Rachaela soon finds herself a prisoner of her own desire, seduced into a dark and dangerous existence by a lover who bears her family name. Original.
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Metallic Love
by Tanith Lee
Reading her clandestine copy of Jane's Story over and over again as an orphan growing up in the slums, Loren believes that she is too savvy to ever be drawn by a man of metal, until the META corporation brings back an improved version of the original Silver, in the sequel to The Silver Metal Lover. Original.
