Marion Zimmer Bradley, Author, Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $18 (320p) ISBN 978-0-88677-561-2
As established in Bradley's previous stories and novels about Darkover, the planet is the home of the descendants of the survivors of a crashed colony ship, who formed a medievally structured society that has endured for centuries. This tepid...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-88677-661-9
First book in Lackey's new Mage Storms trilogy, a sequel to her previous Mage Winds trilogy. (Sept.)
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $25.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0362-1
A fantastic cat-and-mouse game among a shape-changing troll, Elemental Masters and a gifted dancer in Victorian England makes Lackey's latest Elemental Masters installment (after 2005's The Wizard of London) a charmer. When young, impoverished...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $24.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-88677-889-7
In the latest addition to the Valdemar fantasy series (Arrow's Fall; Winds of Fate), Lackey returns to the capitol city of Haven, where young Lavan Chitward has just arrived with his family. Although the move signals a higher Guild standing for his...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $20 (576p) ISBN 978-0-88677-534-6
In this sequel to Winds of Fate, Elspeth, heir to the throne of Valdemar, develops into a strong practitioner of magic under the tutelage of Darkwind k'Sheyna. Accepted as a member of the k'Sheyna clan of the Tayledras, magicians who cleanse lands...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $21.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-88677-611-4
In this first volume of The Mage Storms trilogy, the prolific Lackey's fantastic themes, while not especially distinctive, are nonetheless deployed in entertaining and comfortingly familiar fashion. Picking up where The Mage Winds saga concluded,...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $21.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-88677-660-2
Lackey's latest continues the old-fashioned, simple-is-as-simple-does tradition that has made her numerous series set in and around the kingdom of Valdemar so accessible to so many readers. Her bloated prose is balanced by two-dimensional...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Tor Books $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85812-4
Taking a vacation from the Vale, the setting of her popular fantasy trilogies (Last Herald-Mage, Mage Winds and Mage Storms), Lackey draws inspiration for her resonant new novel from classic Russian folktales. Ilya Ivanovitch is the middle son of a...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author . DAW $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0060-6
Putting a fresh face to a well-loved fairytale is not an easy task, but it is one that seems effortless to the prolific Lackey, best known for her Valdemar series (Arrows of the Queen, etc.). In a brilliant twist, the author sets the classic story...
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Edited by Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0787-2
Lackey opens up the sandbox of her Elemental Masters universe (The Fire Rose, etc.) to other writers in this slightly uneven and passionless historical urban fantasy anthology. A few tales have delightful sparks that facilitate immersion in the...
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Edited by Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0959-3
Warmth and passion abound in Lackey’s second Elemental Masters anthology, which ties in to her ongoing series of novels. The shared universe is thrown open to a wide range of historical urban fantasy stories to build on themes of family, chosen or...
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Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0897-8
Lackey’s long-awaited ninth Elemental Masters fairy tale (after Steadfast) will satisfy her eager fans. As a budding Earth mage in 19th-century Europe, young Rosa studied deep in the Schwarzwald forest of Germany under the tutelage of her adopted...
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Mercedes Lackey. Hyperion, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4847-0784-5
Lackey (the Shadow Grail series) successfully mixes dystopia and fantasy in this series opener. Sixteen-year-old Joy Charmand, endowed with strong magic and skilled in a variety of weapons, is an accomplished monster hunter in her mountain village,...
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Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0872-5
The 11th book in Lackey's Elemental Masters series (after From a High Tower) partners familiar faces with literary great Sherlock Holmes to solve a series of strange events. Series protagonists Nan and Sarah have returned, along with their feathered
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Mercedes Lackey, DAW, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0639-4
In the ongoing exploration of the early days of her popular Valdemar series, Lackey (Foundation) continues the tale of Mags, an orphan Chosen by the telepathic, horselike Companions to train as a Herald. Eventually he will be responsible for keeping
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Mercedes Lackey, Author . DAW $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0122-1
In this elegant, compelling fantasy from the prolific author of the Valdemar series (Arrows Fall, etc.), Lackey combines meticulously detailed dragon lore with emotionally intense, realistic human characters. In the arid desert country of Tia, the...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author . DAW $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0206-8
Making love and not war is the theme of Lackey's entertaining high fantasy, the second in a trilogy (after 2002's Exile's Honor
) within her long-running Valdemar series—not that love is any less of a battlefield. Alberich of Karse,
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Mercedes Lackey, Author . Luna $24.95 (417p) ISBN 978-0-373-80202-9
The prolific Lackey (the Valdemar series) draws on the darker, Brothers Grimm side of fairy lore for her enchanting tale, the first title under a new Harlequin imprint to spotlight romantic fantasy. In the land of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, the...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author . DAW $24.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0216-7
As in its predecessor Joust
(2003), a clear, uncluttered style marks Lackey's latest light entertainment about wizards and dragons and social struggle. Vetch (aka Kiron), the hero of Joust
, has escaped from the oppressive dragon riders of Tia...
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Mercedes Lackey, Luna, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-373-80315-6
Welcome to Eltaria, the land where fairy tales come true. A magical force known as the Tradition focuses on the beautiful Princess Rosamund shortly after her mother's death. After fleeing the Royal Huntsman, Rosamund meets the seven dwarfs, drinks a
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Mercedes Lackey, Author . DAW $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0246-4
In Lackey's well-crafted third Dragon Jousters book (after 2004's Alta
), wing-leader Kiron, the former serf known as Vetch, and a disparate group of refugees from the countries of Alta and Tia flee to the desert, to a hidden refuge that the
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Mercedes Lackey, Author Daw Books $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-88677-516-2
First of a new trilogy, Lackey's fantasy novel, again set in the imperiled magical realm of Valdemar, features strong and believable men, women and creatures. (July)
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Mercedes Lackey, Author . Luna $24.95 (362p) ISBN 978-0-373-80266-1
Lackey's ornate, meandering third installment in her Five Hundred Kingdoms romantic saga (after 2006's One Good Knight
) heralds the fair Princess Ekaterina, seventh daughter of the Sea King, whose magic enables her to surface from the...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Roberta Gellis, Author . Baen $25 (533p) ISBN 978-1-4165-2107-5
Good and evil fairy factions continue to battle over the fate of Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, in this lighthearted, historically detailed third installment in the Scepter'd Isle series (after 2005's Ill Met by Moonlight
). To prevent...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Roberta Gellis, Author . Baen $25 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7156-5
In this exciting historical fantasy from veterans Lackey (Exile's Valor
) and Gellis (Bull God
), Rhoslyn and Pasgen Silverhair, elven twins kidnapped by Vidal Dhu and raised as Unseleighe Sidhe, receive alternative visions of the future. In one,
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Larry Dixon, With Daw Books $22 (464p) ISBN 978-0-88677-577-3
Setting a story in prehistory suggests a enormous potential, a feeling that all is new and possible. Lackey's latest created world (illustrated by husband Dixon) predates the setting of her Valdemar series by a millennium but never quite lives up to
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Larry Dixon, With Daw Books $21.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-88677-631-2
There is pleasure to be taken from novels of intrigue in which readers don't have to think at all, where their hands are held throughout the action and nothing is anything but what it seems. In Lackey and Dixon's second novel of the Gryphon trilogy (
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Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill, Tor, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2707-9
In the first book in the Shadow Grail series, an orphan, suddenly beset by mysterious circumstances, is sent to a posh boarding school accessible only by train, and discovers that she is a magician. Sound familiar? Lackey and Edghill know it, and...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Rosemary Edghill, Author, Rosemary Edghill, Joint Author Baen Books $24 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-31853-6
From veteran Mercedes Lackey and newcomer Rosemary Edghill comes Spirits White as Lightning, the fifth installment in the Bedlam's Bard series. Julliard student Eric Banyan has a few basic problems he doesn't like his teacher, he missed his last
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Rosemary Edghill, Author, Rosemary Edghill, Joint Author Baen Books $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-31955-7
A human bard returns to the mortal world to find himself battling both elven and human demons in this entertaining entry in Lackey's Urban Faerie series. In this sequel to Bedlam's Bard, Eric Banyon moves to New York to finish his Julliard studies...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, James Mallory, Author . Tor $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1594-6
Harrier Gillain, future Knight-Mage, and his best friend, Tiercel Rolfort, High Mage in training, tread familiar ground in this sequel to 2007's The Phoenix Unchained
, following the command of the Light in a quest to destroy the Dark....
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, James Mallory, Author . Tor $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0221-2
At the start of Lackey and Mallory's highly readable conclusion to their Obsidian fantasy trilogy (after 2004's To Light a Candle
), Knight-Mage Kennen, leader of the alliance of humans and elves, has his work cut out for him when the forces
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, James Mallory, Author Tor Books $27.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0220-5
The long-lived elves of the House of Leaf and Star, with their allies (who include unicorns and centaurs), must face some formidable foes-immortal demons, ice trolls, frost-giants, goblins-in Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory's well-wrought fantasy...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Mercedes Lackey, Author Baen Books $22 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-87853-5
For the first half of this disappointing fourth entry in her Bardic Voices series (The Eagle & the Nightingales, etc.), Lackey mixes the conventions of fantasy with those of the police procedural. Poor street-musician girls in the town of Haldene...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Eric Flint, Joint Author, Dave Freer, Joint Author . Baen $27 (848p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3523-9
The prolific Lackey (the Bardic Voices series, the Urban Faerie series, etc.) and cohorts Flint (1632) and Freer (The Forlorn) whip up a luscious bouillabaisse of politics, intrigue, love and black magic set in an "Other-worldly, New-Age Venice.&
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, James P. Baen, Editor, Rosemary Edghill, Joint Author . Baen $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7143-5
In Lackey and Edghill's latest rollicking Bedlam's Bard fantasy (after 2001's Spirits White as Lightning), Eric Banyon finds some new surprises have popped up in his muddled existence as a human artist, magical Bard and former Juilliard...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Larry Dixon, Illustrator Daw Books $21.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-88677-713-5
The Mage Storms trilogy, which is itself but one of several novel-clusters in Lackey's epic Heralds of Valdemar fantasy series, concludes with zest as the mysterious mage-storms--set back temporarily in Storm Rising--continue to produce monsters,...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Larry Dixon, Illustrator Daw Books $18.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-88677-489-9
This first volume of a new trilogy is again set in the imperiled land of Valdemar, encountered earlier in Lackey's Heralds of Valdemar series. The heir to the throne, Herald Elspeth, sets out with Gwena, her Companion (a Guardian Spirit embodied as...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Larry Dixon, Joint Author Daw Books $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-88677-851-4
The latest collaboration between the creator of the Valdemar universe and her husband concludes the trilogy begun with Owlflight and Owlsight. Grown to maturity in the multispecies woodland settlement of k'Valdemar Vale, Darian Firkin has become a...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, James Mallory, Joint Author . Tor $25.95 (604p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0219-9
In the captivating world conjured by veteran Lackey (Exile's Honor) and classical scholar Mallory (Merlin: The Old Magic) in this first of a high fantasy trilogy, there are three types of magic, each of which has its own rules, limits and...
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Mercedes Lackey, Author, Eric Flint, Author, Dave Freer, Author . Baen $26 (832p) ISBN 978-0-7434-7149-7
Lusciously set in alternative-history 16th-century Venice, Corfu and sinister points northeast, this huge sequel to the authors' equally massive and magnetic Shadow of the Lion
will appeal to adolescents of all ages. In this world, broken off...
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Mercedes Lackey, Tor, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2851-9
Powerful women solve magical mysteries in this trio of short urban fantasy novels from the enormously prolific Lackey (The Phoenix Transformed). Fans of the Diana Tregarde series will welcome prequel story "Arcanum 101," in which Diana, a Harvard...
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Edited by Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $7.99 mass market (368p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1468-9
In the latest collection of fantasy short stories set in the land of Valdemar (after Tales of Valdemar), fantasist Lackey and others create heroic stories of men and women using their magical gifts to help others. Most feature heralds with horselike
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Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1733-8
Bestseller Lackey underwhelms in the half-baked first installment of her Founding of Valdemar series, which returns to the sprawling world first visited in 1987’s Arrows of the Queen. Duke Kordas of Valdemar and most of his constituents prepare to...
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Mercedes Lackey. Little, Brown, $18.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5745-1
When one of the Dark Fae crashes her baby half sister Aurora’s christening, 15-year-old Princess Miriam of Tirendell instinctively moves to block the curse, in the process discovering her own innate magical talents in this leisurely paced “Sleeping...
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Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1217-3
With the standalone 16th Elemental Masters novel (after Jolene), Lackey delivers a charming alternate history that imagines legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley using magic to battle werewolves. In 1870 Ohio, 10-year-old Annie is indentured to a...
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Mercedes Lackey. DAW, $28 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1736-9
Bestseller Lackey’s gripping second Founding of Valdemar fantasy (after Beyond) finds Kordas, the former Duke of Valdemar, and his roughly 15,000 constituents having escaped the clutches of an evil empire and set up camp along a seemingly unoccupied
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Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. Tor, $27.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2439-9
Vieliessar Farcarinon has made herself High King of the Elves in the enjoyable second of Lackey and Mallory’s epic fantasy trilogy (following Crown of Vengeance). Most of the Hundred Houses of the elven domains have acknowledged Vieliessar as ruler,
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Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill. Baen, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8430-5
Lackey and Edghill resume their Bedlam Bards urban fantasy series (after 2016’s Silence) with this lackluster novel, in which a young woman is drawn out of her painful reality and into the deep and dangerous worlds below a scenic lake resort....
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Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin. Baen, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2434-2
Lackey and Martin‘s competent tenth novel in the Serrated Edge series (after Silence) sees the village of Silence, Maine, adjusting to life in the aftermath of the defeat of the parasitic Blackthornes, an elven clan that fed on the misery of the...
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Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin. Caezik SF & Fantasy, $27.99 (300p) ISBN 978-1-64710-022-3
Lackey (the Valdemar series) and Martin (the Secret World Chronicles series) go all in on the offbeat, crafting a universe where vampires, werewolves, and zombies are real—and also astronauts. Normal humans (“Norms”) have dealt with the problems...
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