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The paladin of the night (The Rose of the Prophet #2)
By Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman. 1989
The Great War of the Gods means nothing to the proud people on the mortal planet--until Akhran the Wandering God…
decrees the union of two mighty feuding clans. Though the families are fierce Warriors, they are few in number. Even the marriage of Khardan and Zohra is not enough to over power the strength of the invading army or prevent the imprisonment of their peoples. Now, with Khardan and Zohra mysteriously missing--seemingly cowards who hid from certain defeat--the two clans have lost all hope of ever again seeing their beloved open skies. But Prince Khardan and Princess Zohra, aided by the wizard Matthew, have been given another mission...a mission that at first seems less useful than counting the many grains of the desert sands, but soon proves to be of far more lasting importance.From the wreck
By Jane Rawson. 2017
From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the…
South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and the disappearance of a fellow survivor, George's fractured life is intertwined with that of a woman from another dimension, seeking refuge on Earth.Brilliance of the moon (Tales of the Otori #3)
By Lian Hearn. 2005
Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede are now married and more resolved than ever to strengthen their domains. Yet their hasty…
marriage has enraged the warlord Arai Daiichi, and has insulted the nobleman Lord Fujiwara, who considered Kaede betrothed to him. Takeo and Kaede attempt to consolidate their powers and fulfil the holy woman's prophecy: your lands will stretch from sea to sea, but peace comes at the price of bloodshed. Five battles will buy you peace, four to win and one to lose...Grass for his pillow (Tales of the Otori #2)
By Lian Hearn. 2003
Takeo, heir to the great Otori clan, has pledged his life to the secret Tribe. His supernatural skills of invisibility…
and acute hearing make him their most deadly assassin. He must deny the spiritual vows of his peaceful upbringing, his birthright of wealth, land and power - and his love for Kaede. If he does not devote himself to the brutal activities of the Tribe, they will kill him. Taeko grows from boy to man, and takes a path that leads to extremes of danger, hardship and sacrifice in the bitter mountain winter. Kaede, now the valuable pawn of ruthless warlords, must use her intelligence, beauty and cunning to assert her place in a world of all-powerful men...Gods of the inferno (The Inheritors #2)
By Fletcher Anthony. 2004
Thousands of years ago, the People lived and worshipped their gods in the rainforests of the Indonesian archipelago. Then the…
Newcomers began to come from the north and the People are forced to move south ... and keep relocating again and again. They must trust those of their kind with whom they used to do battle; they must learn how to cross a river; they must forget their old ways and forge new ideas. Fern is their shaman, and above all her spirit must be forged anew or she and her people will die - not from hunger or starvation or war, but from the loss of their gods and the dying of their spirit ... the very heart of their world. And in contemporary Australia, another Fern must choose between the new world and the old ... and the visions of an ancient shaman may guide her path in the present.Spirits of the earth (The Inheritors #3)
By Fletcher Anthony. 2005
Fern has found the mountain that has haunted her dreams and visions. Is this where her tribe must establish their…
home? Or must she forever wander till the end of time? The People came to this land over a vast and frightening mass of water...They have survived many attacks from others whose place they have stumbled into. They have survived many attacks on their world of spirits, on their memories of their ancestral lands in ancient Java, from whence they were driven by the Newcomers. Now they are the Newcomers. However they manage to solve the differences between themselves and how they deal with the greed and power hungry manipulations of Bright Feather and his woman, Nerida, the land will be stamped by their passing. And by the rituals and myths that they establish to enable them to live at one with the land and its ancient dreaming. In modern-day Australia, another Fern must bring together her past and future for the problems of the present to be resolved...The tiger and the stone (The Inheritors #1)
By Fletcher Anthony. 2002
50,000 years ago: the people, who for time immemorial have lived in the Javanese rainforest, are driven from their ancestral…
hunting grounds by the invaders they call the newcomers. So begins the epic journey that will bring them to Australia. They are the first humans to settle in this southern land. In present day Australia, Fern is visited by two shamans of the past time. They persuade her to join them in a pilgrimage of discovery; a pilgrimage that will take her through a multitude of dangers and suffering, to discover her links with those who have gone before...Factory 19
By Dennis Glover. 2020
We're told that the future will be brighter. But what if human happiness really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022-…
a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the city's residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations - a factory whistle. GoFA's owner, world-famous tycoon Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He's going to defeat the internet's dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero- 1948. Those whose jobs and lives have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that can possibly succeed- by living as if the internet and the smartphone had never been invented. The hold over our lives by Gates, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and their ilk starts to loosen as the revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little people win back the world? We are about to find out.Walkers on the sky
By David J Lake. 1978
Sometimes the sky held only clouds, but at other times it could get quite busy. It could be full of…
sailing ships or bands of mounted warriors or even single figures strolling carefully across the empty air. From the viewpoint of those below they were either apparitions or gods, but in any case to be ignored. From the viewpoint of the sky walkers, those below were neither phantoms nor gods, yet certainly always beneath their notice. Both viewpoints were wrong. Because the time had come when one of the sky walkers was going to do the incredible—fall through. And when that happened, all hell was going to break loose. And did!The end of Mr. Y
By Scarlett Thomas. 2007
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Renegade academic…
Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists - especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y’s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere - a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination?The glamour
By Christopher Priest. 1984
Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb incident. But…
when Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of "the glamour".Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower #5)
By Stephen King. 2003
Determined to reach the Dark Tower, gunslinger Roland and his companions emerge from the forests in the Mid-World on a…
path that leads to a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers in the borderlands. Beyond the town, the rocky ground rises towards the dark source of affliction. Danger is imminent - the Wolves of the Calla are gathering, their unspeakable depredation poised to threaten the soul of the community. Roalnd and his companions must venture all as they face an unknown adversary. And the future of the Mid-World once again faces crimson chaos.The dark tower (The Dark Tower #7)
By Stephen King. 2006
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss. His band of pilgrims…
united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to give birth in New York. Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane which will lead them to Susannah. Yet they come to realise that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters. And finally, his every step shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation, Roland closes in on the Dark Tower...Dreaming again
By Jack Dann. 2008
35 new stories celebrating the wild side of Australian fantasy writing. Welcome to the energy, invention and imagination of Australia's…
finest writers of speculative fiction - from acclaimed international bestsellers to the freshest new voices. Contributors include John Birmingham, Trudi Canavan, Isobelle Carmody, Paul Collins, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Sara Douglass, Garth Nix and many more, plus a previously unpublished story from the late great A. Bertram Chandler.Handling the undead
By John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ebba Segerberg. 2009
The lights are refusing to go out all over Stockholm. There's a mysterious problem in the power system. Every appliance…
in the city is going at full blast and the entire population is struck by blinding headaches. The pressure builds to an intolerable pitch and then...stops. Moments later, in morgues and cemeteries across Stockholm, the dead start to rise, not the nameless zombies of classic horror - but real dead people: mothers, children, grandchildren and spouses. Desperately loved, bitterly missed and now 'reliving'. Which is not, it turns out, the same as being alive.The execution channel
By Ken MacLeod. 2007
It's after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq war. After 7/7. After the Iran war. After the nukes. After…
the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. In a world just down the road from our own, on-line bloggers vie with old-line political operatives and new-style police to determine just where reality lies. James Travis is a British patriot and a French spy. On the day the Big One hits, Travis and his daughter must strive to make sense of the nuclear bombing of Scotland and the political repercussions of a series of terrorist attacks. With the information war in full swing, the only truth they have is what they're able to see with their own eyes. They know that everything else is - or may be - a lie.Legends of Australian fantasy
By Jack Dann, Jonathan Strahan. 2010
Celebrate the legends of Australian fantasy. Extraordinary voices ... extraordinary worlds. These eleven short novels will take you on amazing…
new journeys with favourite characters from the worlds you know and love. Come to Erith, to a faerie tale with a sting, or to Obernewtyn, long before the Seeker was born. Revisit a dark pocket of history for the Magician's Guild or get caught up in the confusion of an endlessly repeating day in the Citadel. Cross the wall, where Charter magic is all that lies between you and death. A trip with a graverobber can be gruesome, and it's hard to share the fear of a woman who must kill her husband if her child is to rule ...A mysterious tale plays out in Sevenwaters. Catch up with Ros and Adi as they prepare for the greatest change of all. Other twists in these fabulous tales bring us to demonic destiny and an alternate WWII.Queen of stones
By Emma Tennant. 1982
Enclave
By Claire G Coleman. 2022
'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to…
assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly safe.' Christine could not sleep, she could not wake, she could not think. She stared, half-blind, at the cold screen of her smartphone. She was told the Agency was keeping them safe from the dangers outside, an outside world she would never see. She never imagined questioning what she was told, what she was allowed to know, what she was permitted to think. She never even thought there were questions to ask. The enclave was the only world she knew, the world outside was not safe. Staying or leaving was not a choice she had the power to make. But then Christine dared start thinking-- and from that moment, danger was everywhere.The memory police
By Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder. 2020
Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can…
be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?