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Lawrence Watt-Evans
Life can be hard in Ethshar of the Sands, especially when you're an aging diva whose husband has just left you. Never mind that he gave her their house and…
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Lawrence Watt-Evans may be best known for his fantasy and science fiction novels, particularly the Ethshar series, but he has published a significant body of short fiction, too, including the…
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Over the years, in a variety of venues, Lawrence Watt-Evans has turned his sharp, analytical, and slightly crazed mind to everything from weaponized poetry to why the Enterprise doesn’t have…
When Morvash of the Shadows, a journeyman wizard, discovers some of the statues in his uncle’s house are real people turned to stone, he sets out to do the right…
For more than four generations the Domdur Empire has been at peace, despite the legends’ prophecy that a Champion of Domdur will be born who will lead them to victory…
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Gregory Kraft could see the ghosts and monsters no one else saw. He could see them. He couldn’t stop them. A dark urban fantasy from Hugo-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans.
Art Dunham had worked in his father’s small-town theater all his life, and had never before seen anything like the group that rented it one summer. The Bringers of Wonder…
A sudden ice age has driven Earth’s population into the tropics, except for a few die-hards eking out a tenuous existence scavenging the snow-covered ruins of civilization. One such straggler…
Twelve thousand years in the future, on a planet far, far away, a country boy named Tulzik Ambroz tracks the man who killed his sister Vika, following him across the…
When he was eight years old, Tom Derringer discovered his father’s journal and learned that the late Jack Derringer was a professional adventurer. For the next eight years Tom studied…
21 of the most poisonous and twisted stories from the archives of award-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans.
In this second installment in the Obsidian Chronicles, Arlian returns to Manfort to heal and soon discovers, to his utter amazement, that he has been named heir to Lord Enzient’s…
In 1884 the Bone Wars between rival paleontologists were in full swing, driving fossil hunters to outrageous lengths in pursuit of the latest finds, when reports came out of the…
Professor Aloysius Vanderhart has been kidnapped, and his daughter has asked young adventurer Tom Derringer to find him and bring him home. Other scientists and adventurers have also gone missing…
When John Mercy-of-Christ's soldiers ran up against weapons like none they had ever seen before, John's campaign to defeat the enemies of The True Word and Flesh came to a…
Here are ten tall tales - stories set in times and lands that never were, but should have been. Join Jolly Jack Dancy's crew as they try to figure out…
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) – here is the fifth Wildside Double: the two-volume War Surplus series…
Every wizard in Ethshar knew that if you needed something special, something difficult to find, that Gresh the Supplier was the man to see. He was expensive, but always delivered…
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From the banks of the river Ankh to the walls of Sto Lat, the entirety of Terry Pratchett’s renowned Discworld series is explored in this expansive resource. Essays discussing a…
This exciting new fantasy by the author of the Ethshar series and Touched by the Gods has been named the Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by Science Fiction Chronicle…
Long out of print, this classic novel in the fabled Ethshar series is back, now with stunning new packaging.
Sterren is kidnapped and dragged to Semma, the smallest of the Small Kingdoms. They made him a noble, with the title of Hereditary Ninth Warlord. Then he learned what his…
She was everything he wanted, and everything he had been promised. A fortune-teller’s prophecy had sent Kelder of Shulara to seek adventure along the Great Highway. He had been ready…
An Alan Rodgers book –P. [4] of cover.
An overman named Garth sought immortal fame. The oracle told him to serve the Forgotten King to get his wish, so the King sends Garth after a basilisk whose gaze…
Garth had given the mighty Sword of Bheleu into the Forgotten King’s keeping. Now he needed it back, and the King demanded that Garth bring him the Book of Silence…
The complete unabridged text of the acclaimed Three Worlds trilogy. It began with fragmentary psychic messages–Earth had been found by the inhabitants of not one, but two alternate realities. Before…
A would-be conqueror had accused Tom Derringer of being a part of Gabriel Trask’s cabal of spies and assassins.Tom had never heard of Gabriel Trask.The experts of the Pierce Archives…
Young Ishta found it in the forest, buried beneath dead leaves: a rounded, flattened oval as black as onyx. But one side held a golden oval, and that oval glowed…
Ethshar? Some readers already recognize the name, but if you aren’t one of them, perhaps a brief explanation is in order. Ethshar is the invented world that has been the…
One day a dockworker named Emmis watches a Vondish ship arrive in Ethshar of the Spices - and finds himself hired as native guide and aide to someone who claims…
Originally published: Del Rey Books, 1996.
Watt-Evans, author of the acclaimed Legends of Ethshar and Worlds of Shadows novels, invites readers on a rollicking, swashbuckling journey.
The Calling. Sooner or later, it claimed every powerful warlock…a growing magical compulsion to go north from Aldagmor that nothing could stop. Hanner the Warlock knew his days were numbered…
Ethshar and the Northern Empire have been at war for hundreds of years. No one remembers why anymore or over what. No one dreams it could ever end until a…
Finding portals to other worlds on their suburban properties, Pel Brown and Amy Jewell become the unwitting helpers to the barbarian world of magic and the Galactic Empire in each…
Hiding his identity as a notorious revolutionary behind the guise of an impoverished scholar, Anrel is unable to forget his past and becomes involved in local uprisings tied to the…
The great wizard Nabal’s death offers many opportunities, both for those who knew him and those who did not. For young conmen Ezak and Kel, it means a chance to…
Ithanalin’s Restoration.
The sword that Garth had stolen from Dusarra marked him as the chosen of Bheleu, god of destruction, and gave him immense power. This power could only be used to…
After many years of peace in the Lands of Men, there came Dragon Weather: a wave of incredible heat, oppressive humidity, dark angry clouds … and dragons.
Garth asked an oracle how he could be remembered forever. The answer sent him into a web of treachery, of ancient secrets and forbidden knowledge, and entangled him in matters…
