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Hyperborea is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-ninth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1971. It was the second themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series.
The American Girl series, by various authors, is a collection of novels set within toy line's fictional universe. Since its inception, American Girl has published books based on the dolls, with novels and other media to tie in with their dolls. The books follow various American girls throughout both historical eras and contemporary settings. [1]
Lisa Hayden – Read Russia Prize 2016 [1] Matilda Hays (1820–1897) Hélène Henry-Safier – winner, Read Russia Prize 2012 [1] Mary Herbert (1561–1621) Rachel Hildebrandt [29] Cathy Hirano [30] Mary Hobson; Lakshmi Holmstrom (1935–2016) Anna Holmwood [31] Amanda Hopkinson; Penny Hueston [32] Sophie Hughes [5] Anna Hume (c.1600–c.1650 ...
Shanghai Girls is a 2009 novel by Lisa See.It centers on the complex relationship between two sisters, Pearl and May, as they go through great pain and suffering in leaving war-torn Shanghai, and try to adjust to the difficult roles of wives in arranged marriages and of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.
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Flower Net (1997) by Lisa See is the first of the Red Princess mysteries. [1] The other two novels in the series are The Interior (1999) and Dragon Bones (2003). Flower Net explores the state of US-China relations in the early months of 1997, especially in terms of international politics, human trafficking, and the smuggling of illegal goods such as bear bile, [2] and nuclear trigger devices.
The Thongor series is Carter's prime entry in the Sword & Sorcery genre, serving as a tribute for both the Conan series by Robert E. Howard and the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He pictures the lost continent of Lemuria as a prehistoric kingdom located in the Pacific Ocean during the ice age, where Mesozoic wildlife persisted after a ...
The trilogy was commercially and critically successful. Steven Poole, writing in The Guardian, described "Neuromancer and the two novels which followed, Count Zero (1986) and the gorgeously titled Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)" as making up "a fertile holy trinity, a sort of Chrome Koran (the name of one of Gibson's future rock bands) of ideas inviting endless reworkings".