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Mistborn: The Final Empire, also known simply as Mistborn or The Final Empire, is a fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson.It was published on July 17, 2006, by Tor Books and is the first novel in the Mistborn trilogy, followed by The Well of Ascension in 2007 and The Hero of Ages in 2008.
A fantasy world created for the Xanth series of novels, also known as The Magic of Xanth Xeelee universe: Raft: 1991 Stephen Baxter: Setting for the Xeelee Sequence of novels and short stories, featuring a far future galaxy colonised by the descendants of man engaged in a war with a hypertechnological race called the Xeelee. Yoknapatawpha ...
The novel received acclaim from critics. Kirkus Reviews gave a positive review, praising its "philosophical musings about politics, power, and revenge" and applauding its depth despite a relatively short page count for a fantasy novel. [3] A reviewer for The Guardian called it "groundbreaking" and "a gripping tale of intrigue and politics". [4]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The lists of fantasy novels has been divided into the following three parts: List of fantasy novels (A–H) ...
On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony, first published in 1983.It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. The book focuses on Zane, a photographer about to commit suicide who instead kills Death and must assume his office.
[7] Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Little, Big is "a book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy." [8] In Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, David Pringle described the book as "a work of architectonic sublimity" and wrote that "the author plays with masterly skill on the emotional nerves of awe, rapture, mystery and enchantment."
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The book concludes with Raistlin's test at the Tower of High Sorcery of Wayreth. The account of the test conflicts somewhat with a story that appeared in one of the books of the Dragonlance Legends trilogy, but gives a much more detailed account of how Raistlin came by his golden skin and hourglass eyes, and also how he bested the ancient ...