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10 reviews
Michael Moorcock

ACE Charter, 1992

Deeper and deeper!
I have been rereading the Elric series in chronological order since I read The Dreamthief's Daughter this year. What is extraordinary is that there is no 'thinning' of the series over the years. In fact all the additional books serve to deepen and strengthen the saga, drawing it to its extraordinary, strongly mythic ending. It is the nearest thing to a mythological cycle that I know and makes ...

Elric of Melnibone (Elric)

88 reviews
Michael Moorcock

ACE Charter, 1996

The most depressing epic saga ever written (and one you should read)
This saga is a bad heroin trip from the first page to the end: and it is just as addictive. I had heard of the stories long before I ever read them, my friends going on and on with their references. You'd think this was written by Tolkien for all of the references and homage paid to it among those who have read it. Well it is all true. The doomed world our anti-hero lives in is dying (from the ...

The Butcher's Boy

27 reviews
Thomas Perry

ACE Charter, 1983

One of my all time favorite books
The Butcher's Boy is not lyrical or beautifully written, it gets straight to the point--action and suspense. It is dark but lightened with sarcastic humor, and it is an intense, page turning thriller: a Female detective desperate to catch the killer, and a killer so well defined that you keep finding yourself rooting for him too. This book has a very satisfying ending no matter which one you were ...

Sea of Death (Gord the Rogue)

1 review
E. Gary Gygax

ACE Charter, 1987

Book Synopsis
Few people have ventured into the Ashen Desert, and fewer still have re-turned to tell of what they saw and how they managed to survive. But a young man named Gord cannot allow himself to be disheartened by this knowledge. Part of an ancient and evil artifact is hidden somewhere in the Ashen Desert, buried beneath the arid and deadly landscape of this forsaken area, and Gord has accepted the ...

Jhereg

90 reviews
Steven Brust

ACE Charter, 1987

Urban Fantasy Pioneer
Along with Glen Cook and Roger Zelazny, Steven Brust redefined and broadened the Fantasy genre back in the 1970's and 80's. While Cook was adapting fantasy to the military with his Black Company novels and Zelazny used travel between the real world and the fantasy world in his Chronicles of Amber, Brust was the first to write a fantasy novel that was essentially grounded in the one location - a ...

City of Hawks (Gord the Rogue, Book 3)

3 reviews
E. Gary Gygax

ACE Charter, 1987

Not Intended To Be Read Last In The Series...
City of Hawks is intended to be read at about the same place as its numeration in the series would imply, not at the end as another reviewer suggested. This book introduces the character of Gravestone, who becomes central in Come Endless Darkness. Also, the book contains a story ( depicted on the cover ) introducing the sword from the Plane of Shadows which later becomes part of Courflamme. ...

Bloody Bones (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)

121 reviews
Laurell K. Hamilton

ACE Charter, 2001

Great read!!
If you like to read about vampire slayers, there's none better than Anita Blake the main character!!!

Come Endless Darkness (Gord the Rogue, No 4)

1 review
Gary Gygax

ACE Charter, 1988

a different tone to the other gord the rogue books
As a long time AD&D fan, I read the first three gord the rogue books some years ago and loved them. I could never find book 4 until now. Having bought it from Amazon, I was excited to get started. I finished it yesterday and, maybe it's just been awhile since I read the others but this one seemed to have a very different tone. Gord himself was represented as an angry, bitter little man, even ...

Night Arrant (Gord the Rogue, No 2)

3 reviews
E. Gary Gygax

ACE Charter, 1987

Wonderful collection of short stories throughout Greyhawk
This is one of the rare books in Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue series. Although begun with TSR (with the release of Artifact of Evil and Saga of Old City), when Gygax was unceremoniously removed from the company, he took his finest creation with him. This one is interesting because instead of being a single tale, the book is divided into 9 short stories, each highlighting a different time and ...

For Your Eyes Only

25 reviews
For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming

ACE Charter, 1987

Nobody did it better than Fleming
All of Fleming's Bond novels, and most of his short stories, are such a relief to read in today's relativist, anti-patriotic, multi-cultural, male-bashing or emasculating culture. These novels (and also Mickey Spillane's) are my measure of what a cultural norm should be. They are such an antidote to the weepy, pseudo-introspective rubbish that passes for popular literature today.

Cry Republic

4 reviews
Kirk Mitchell

ACE Charter, 2000

Liberty or death!
This fine adventure story wraps up Kirk Mitchell's "Procurator" trilogy. The first book ("Procurator") introduced Germanicus Agricola, military governor of Anatolia, serving in the name of a Roman Empire that never fell. In the next book, Germanicus travelled to the New World, to make war with the bellicose Aztec Empire, and their enigmatic Chinese allies. Throughout his career, however, ...

Shadow of a Star

2 reviews
Elmer Kelton

ACE Charter, 1986

Thoughtful rites of passage Western
Elmer Kelton is -at the time i write this review-a 7 times winner of the Spur award for Western writing and won the 2000 poll held by the Western writers of America as the best Westrn writer of them all .I endorse their support for Mr Kelton with one nit picking exception -for me he does not write formulary Westerns thesed days but rather authors novels set in the West The title under ...

Sensei II: Sword Master

1 review
David Charney

ACE Charter, 1984

I can't think of a subject, but read the book anyway...
This is one of the most engrossing books I have read...I may be a bit biased as a fan of all things Japanese, but this -and its predecessor- has to be one of my favorite tales of feudal Japan and ranks up there with Shogun and the rest of Clavell's Asain saga. They are not historcally based, as the books of Clavell are, so the character is completely fictional....i'm pretty sure... At any ...

Expanded Universe

10 reviews
Robert A. Heinlein

ACE Charter, 1993

Alternate Views of Heinlein
For those readers of Heinlein who have limited themselves to his Future History stories, his Lazarus Long saga, or perhaps his early Juveniles, Expanded Universe presents an interesting alternate view of Heinlein's writing including many stories not featured in other anthologies and a number of his nonfiction pieces as well. "Solution Unsatisfactory" tells of an alternate ending to World War II ...

Casca: The Persian

2 reviews
Barry Sadler

Ace Charter, 1982

Casca hot in Persia
This is another great early Casca story. Casca rides from China and saves some kid from the Huns. The kid turns out to be Jugotai's son (see The Warlord) and Casca ends up in Persia where he joins the king's household guard. But the vizier is a sneaky Brotherhood agent who thinks up some nasty fate for Casca and gets the paranoid king to condemn Casca to death. There's some twists and turns ...

Casca #07: The Damned

2 reviews
Barry Sadler

ACE Charter, 1982

Damned hits the mark
The Casca series by Barry Sadler was in many respects a hit-and-miss affair, with some books being rather poor. Much of the best ones came early on and these included this one. It is set in the latter stages of the western Roman empire, and its decline is really felt here. Wht makes the book compelling reading is the fact that Attila the Hun features strongly here and much of the story is ...

The New Barbarians

2 reviews
Kirk Mitchell

ACE Charter, 1986

Roman Empire vs. Aztec Empire.
The Roman Empire and the Aztec Empire are about to rumble, and it looks like Rome holds all the cards. After all, they say, the Aztec are just barbarians. But the Aztec are not as backwards as they might first seem and they are NOT going down without a fight. On top of that, they seem to have allies... I loved this book, but one of the flaws was the lack of an explanation on HOW the Aztec Empire ...

Casca: The Barbarian (Casca #5)

3 reviews
Barry Sadler

Ace Charter, 1981

Top notch novel in the Casca series
Of all the 26 novels in the series to date, this must rank right at the top alongside Number 1. Its typical Sadler; punchy, to the point without being over descriptive yet it flows along beautifully so that the reader goes with the flow and doesn't want to put the book down. Although classed as number 5 in the series its actually the second book sequentially and I believe in fact it was ...

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