<p>Offers a collection of stories that features the watering holes of space and the many creatures that frequent them, by such authors as Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Ford, and Anderson</p>

Another Round at the Spaceport Bar

Literature & Fiction

Schweitzer, Darrell

Scithers, George H.

United States

Avon/Books

Weird Trails is the "mockumentary" of pulp magazines — a hilarious sendup of both H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Weird Tales and westerns! Purporting to be a facsimile of the April 1933 issue of Weird Trails magazine, it is a modern classic! Features M.M. Moamrath's "Riders of the Purple Ooze" and many more Lovecraft-inspired stories.

Weird Trails: The Magazine of Supernatural Cowboy Stories

BETANCOURT, JOHN GREGORY

Cacek, P.D.

Goulart,Ron

Frost, Greg

Moamrath, M. M.

Wildside Press

Another selection of fascinating, informal conversations with the creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, presented exactly as originally published.Here are authentic voices from 1983 through 2002: Peter S. Beagle, Octavia Butler, Philip Jos Farmer, Charles L. Harness, Michael Kandel, R.A. Lafferty, Jack McDevitt Tim Powers, Charles Sheffield, Susan Shwartz, Michael Swanwick, Evangeline Walton, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, and George Zebrowski.

Speaking of the Fantastic

History & Criticism

<p>A self-standing companion to Darrell Schweitzer's British Fantasy Award-nominated The Mask of the Sorcerer, the present volume collects all the Sekenre stories, which proved very popular when originally published in Weird Tales, Interzone, Adventures in Sword &amp; Sorcery, and elsewhere.</p>

Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

A self-standing companion to Darrell Schweitzer's British Fantasy Award-nominated The Mask of the Sorcerer, the present volume collects all the Sekenre stories, which proved very popular when originally published in Weird Tales, Interzone, Adventures in Sword & Sorcery, and elsewhere.

"If ever your heart has said, _The great days are no more. The golden afternoon of golden tales has faded into night, and I came late, born out of time, to warm my hands at the embers that flicker and fade hour by hour_ -- read this. . . Here are ghosts grim and gentle, red gold of Ophir, and fell weavings. Here is a tale to keep Scheherazade talking a hundred years." -- Gene Wolfe  "Darrell Schweitzer is a fine writer . . . Not only is he skilled in the exotic use of the best trappings of Fantasy, he employs a disquieting awareness of the dark nooks of the mind and soul. . . .Best of all, Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound." -- Tanith Lee  "Superlative." --Interzone  Darrell Schweitzer has been three-times nominated for the World Fantasy Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the novella "To Become a Sorcerer," which forms the first four chapters of this book. He is also the author of _The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess,_ and nearly 300 short stories, many of which are collected in such volumes as _Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out, Transients, Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes,_ and _The Great World and the Small._ An expert on fantastic fiction, who has written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he is also co-editor of the legendary _Weird Tales_ magazine.

Mask of the Sorcerer

Darrell Schweitzer has been three-times nominated for the World Fantasy Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the novella "To Become a Sorcerer," which forms the first four chapters of this book. He is also the author of _The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess,_ and nearly 300 short stories, many of which are collected in such volumes as _Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out, Transients, Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes,_ and _The Great World and the Small._ An expert on fantastic fiction, who has written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he is also co-editor of the legendary _Weird Tales_ magazine.  _The Mask of the Sorcerer_ is one of the ten best fantasy novels of the past generation. The plot is compelling and moves at breathtaking pace. The characters are intriguing, multi-dimensional, lovingly drawn. The fear is chilling, the excitement intense. But mostly _The Mask of the Sorcerer_ is about magic. True magic. Magic that rings in the bones and the soul, magic that very few contemporary writers can understand or create. Darrell Schweitzer _is_ a sorcerer, and his knowledge of magic is awesome. _The Mask of the Sorcerer_ is authentic, a beacon shining above a sea of imitations. Unique as all great creations are unique, it stands alone." -- Morgan Llywelyn

We Are All Legends

In the 1970s, the heyday of swords and sorcery, a deluge of bad heroic  fantasy flooded the market; as a result, since the early '80s, hardly any  swords-and-sorcery books have been published outside the Conan the Barbarian  series, the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser books, Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion  series, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist Sword and Sorceress anthology  series. The derivative '70s swords and sorcery deserved to be washed away, but  some worthwhile works disappeared as well. Two lost series that deserved far  better are Karl Edward Wagner's Kane books and Darrell Schweitzer's Sir Julian  stories. Both series are well written and intelligent, and they share an even  rarer trait: the dark, brooding sensibility that helped make Robert E. Howard's  sometimes purple (and always scarlet) Conan stories so popular and memorable.  Now the Wildside Press has reprinted We Are All Legends, the  long-unavailable collection of 13 linked stories about Sir Julian, the Crusader  damned by God after a night spent with a Satanic witch. Julian roams Europe and  the East, and strange lands not found on any map, seeking to escape his fate. In  "The Lady of the Fountain," Julian's encounter with a lamia may destroy both the  knight and his closest companion. In "The Veiled Pool of Mistorak," Faerie lords  send Julian on a grim quest to find a city that exists no more and a man doomed  ever to live. In "The One Who Spoke with the Owls," the penniless knight accepts  a job before learning its terms and wakes to discover he has been hired to slay  a pagan witch. "The Castle of Kites and Crows" presents a vision of cosmic  reality that will chill the soul of anyone raised in a Christian faith. While  the first-person narration occasionally makes Julian sound more self-absorbed  than accursed, We Are All Legends is a fine entertainment that merits the  attention of fantasy and horror fans. --Cynthia Ward

Borgo Pr

The Shattered Goddess

Neil Gaiman's talent is so vast that any exploration of his work can only be described as a beginning. Here is one such beginning, an examination of the creative genius being The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline and so much more. His prose fiction has achieved enormous acclaim and popularity. Now leading scholars provide insights into the Sandman universe, its mythological underpinnings, Gaiman's technique and his relationship to other masters of the fantastic imagination. Two extensive interviews with Gaiman are included, along with a thorough bibliography of his work to date.

The Neil Gaiman Reader

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Another Round at the Spaceport Bar

Weird Trails: The Magazine of Supernatural Cowboy Stories

Speaking of the Fantastic

Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer

Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer

Mask of the Sorcerer

Mask of the Sorcerer

We Are All Legends

The Shattered Goddess

The Neil Gaiman Reader