# | Year | 1st Read | Title | Author(s) | My Rating | |
---|
1 | 1975 | | As the Green Star Rises Green Star Saga #4 | Lin Carter | | |
2 | 1974 | | By the Light of the Green Star Green Star Saga #3 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter | | |
| LEN CARTER'S FABULOUS SAGA
Miscast in the role of assassin, inhabiting the stolen body of a stalwart savage, the star-wanderer from Earth found himself in dangers beyond even his wildest imaginings.
His friends had fled, his princess with them, and awaiting him were the islands of the sky with their merciless masters, the prowlers of the dark tree bottoms with their horrible steeds, and the treachery of his comrades in captivity.
But this was what he had left his safe home on Earth for - and his adventures BY THE LIGHT OF THE GREEN STAR, however knife-edge, were the very staff of life to him!
Roy Krenkel illustrates this third marvel adventure of Lin Carter's bestselling saga.
A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
- NEVER BEFORE IN PAPERBACK -
- FROM DAW - The other volumes in the Green Star saga: 1. UNDER THE GREEN STAR UQ1030 2. WHEN THE GREEN STAR CALLS UQ1062 'i¦-friBrY117111•11101111ff
| |
3 | 1967 | 2019 | Conan Conan #1 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN AT HIS GREATEST... EPIC FANTASY AT ITS BEST
"Conan is the superman - or super-barbarian, rather - into whom the prolific Robert Erwin Howard was best able to inject his furious dreams of danger and power and unending adventure, of combative and sexual prowess, of hot impulses instantly followed, yet a fighting man's code never broken. Conan is a true hero of Valhalla, battling and suffering great wounds by day, carousing and wenching by night, and plunging into fresh adventures tomorrow. While the Hyborian Age through which Conan cuts his bloody swath is the most fully realized of Howard's fantasy worlds; mapped, geographically and economically plausible, provided with a stirring history and prehistory covering many cultures, and peopled by kings and beggars, peasants and poets, hags and queens and lusty girls, as well as warriors and warlocks." - FRITZ LEIBER
HERE ARE SEVEN OF THE MOST EXCITING CONAN STORIES, INCLUDING THREE NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED ANYWHERE
Meet Conan, the gigantic adventurer from Cimmeria - and discover one of the greatest thrills in modern fiction! With important background material, and a new, more detailed introduction by :. Sprague de Camp. | |
4 | 1977 | 2021 | Conan of Aquilonia Conan #11 | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp | | |
5 | 1969 | 2019 | Conan of Cimmeria Conan #2 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN OF CIMMERIA
Conan in his most savage adventures!
"When he twisted his bullneck to look upward, the blood froze in Conan's veins. The mist that had obscured the top of the pylon was gone. The rising half moon shone on and through an amorphous thing, which squatted obsenely on the summit of the column. It was like a huge lump of quivering semi-translucent jelly - and it lived. Throbbing, bloated life pulsed within it. The moonlight glistened wetly upon is as it beat like a huge living heart. As Conan watched in horror, the thing sent a trickle of jelly down the shaft toward his constrained body...."
Eight harrowing, demonic adventures in the life of Conan including: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST and THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER. | |
6 | 1968 | 2021 | Conan of the Isles Conan #12 | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp | | |
7 | 1971 | 2020 | Conan the Buccaneer Conan #6 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp | | |
| CONAN THE BUCCANEER
"Conan stood silently at the quarterdeck rail as the Westrel veered into strange waters. With only he pole star to guide him, what might he encounter in the darkly glittering immensity? What fabulous isles and unknown peoples? Only his prey, the evil Zarono, knew better whiter he was bound!
"The mighty barbarian laughed gustily. Crom! A man could die but once. Enough to combat the terror when one met it, with steel in the hand and battle madness in the heart. He, Conan, would take his chances on the Nameless Isle."
Thrill with the most colossal hero of epic fantasy as he battles the demonic powers of Thoth-Amon in a mighty adventure in search of fabulous treasure and a beautiful princess! | |
8 | 1967 | 2020 | Conan the Usurper Conan #8 | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
9 | 1968 | 2020 | Conan the Wanderer Conan #4 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter L Sprague de Camp Robert E Howard | | |
| CONAN THE WANDERER
Conan, nearly invincible and the mightiest of mankind's heroes, finally meats his match!
"No wor was spoken. No word was necessary.... Kosatral came upon him in an irresistible surge. There was a fleeting concussion, a fierce writhing and intertwining of limbs and bodies, and then Conan sprang clear. In that instant of contact he had experienced the ultimate madness of blasphemed nature; no human flesh had bruised his, but metal animated and sentient; it was a body of living metal which opposed his...."
This the most fabulous figure of epic sword-and-sorcery fiction meets diabolical dangers in the four superb Conan adventures included in this volume. | |
10 | 1976 | | In the Green Star's Glow Green Star Saga #5 | Lin Carter | | |
11 | 1984 | | Kellory the Warlock Chronicles of Kylix #3 | Lin Carter | | |
12 | 1971 | | The Quest of Kadji Chronicles of Kylix #1 | Lin Carter | | |
13 | 1969 | 1980 | Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings" Cover Blurb | Lin Carter | | |
| TOLKIEN'S WORLD"This survey of Tolkieniana is filled with the kind of information to gladden a hobbit fancier's heart... it delves into Professor Tolkien's life, the inspiration and sources of The Lord of the Rings, and examines the genre of fantasy romance in general..." - San Francisco Examiner"...certain to please the hundreds of thousands of those who have enjoyed the three novels..." - Best Sellers- WHAT'S INSIDE - - The Lives and Times of Professor Tolkien
- How The Lord of the Rings Came to be Written
- The Trilogy - Satire or Allegory?
- Tolkien's Theory of the Fairy Story
- Tolkien's Basic Sources
- On the Naming of Names
- Some People, Places, and Things
- The Men Who Invented Fantasy
- And many more fascinating chapters | |
14 | 1972 | | Under the Green Star Green Star Saga #1 | Lin Carter | | |
15 | 1973 | | When the Green Star Calls Green Star Saga #2 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter | | |
| UNKNOWN WORLD FOR CONQUEST!
To him, his native Earth was a prison of the mind and body. For him, only the lure of the wonder world that revolved in the rays of the nameless green star was worth the struggle to live. And finally the call came....
But awaiting him there was only the body of a primitive youth, while the city of his beloved princess was far away. And once revived, he found himself the puppet of a half-mad experimenter in immortality and the companion of the last living monster of a race that had once been ruler of that world.
Lin Carter, master of fantasy, has produced another marvelous novel in the Burroughs-Merritt tradition to stand alongside his UNDER THE GREEN STAR.
- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL - | |
16 | 1978 | | The Wizard of Zao Chronicles of Kylix #2 Cover Blurb | Lin Carter | | |
| LIN CARTER
"A few years ago it occurred to me that it might be fun to design an entire eolar system full of planets, and set a novel on each planet - and not science fiction novels either, as you might logically expect - but heroic fantasy. Not only would this be fun to do, but, since nobody else has ever done it before, it could be an original and interesting experiment." - Lin Carter
THE WIZARD OF ZAO is just such a novel. Taking place on a planet revolving around the star Kylix in the Constellation of the Unicorn, it is Lin Carter at his most imaginative. For the story of the wondering green wizard, the most powerful wonder-worker of that amazing sphere , of his newly purchased slave girl who knew nothing of civilized ways, and of the mystical beasts and curious humans they encountered is a constant source of delight. For the wizard did have a purpose to his travels - and thereby hangs the tale!
- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL - NEVER BEFORE IN PAPERBACK
| |