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Black Easter
James Blish
1968 · 165 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Positive
Baines is a filthy rich arms dealer and connoisseur of destruction. Ware is the greatest living black magician. They will work together to throw the world into chaos. And not even the efforts of the white magicians of Monte Albano will stop them.
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Teenage Girls Can Be Demons
Hailey Piper
2025 · 336 pages · 1 review
Others: Positive
13 terrifying coming-of-rage stories from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, perfect for fans of Clive Barker, Mariana Enriquez and Eric LaRocca 13 coming-of-rage stories the way only Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper can tell them—wildly inventive, brilliantly imaginative, and completely and utterly enthralling. A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls in "Why We Keep Exploding;" an impossible world of sinister desire opens beneath a family basement in "A Living Piece of Time;" a girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her in "The Long Flesh of the Law;" and in the acclaimed novella "Benny Rose, the Cannibal King," a Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world. These stories take our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into new and terrifying shapes, where the monsters are real and you'll do whatever it takes to get away, or get even.
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The Cross of Fire
Barry Malzberg
1982 · 224 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Positive
In the far future, it has become possible in advanced psychotherapy for a man to be given dreams as vivid as reality in which he may play any part he chooses. If that man were inclined to see his life as a struggle between good and evil, and if he were blessed with a profound sense of the black humour inherent in his situation, he might choose to play the part of Jesus, called the Christ. If he were inclined to write a book, it might be this one.
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The Dying Earth
Jack Vance
1950 · 176 pages · 10 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy deodands. Twk-men ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: the evil are charming, the good are dangerous.
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Picnic on Paradise
Joanna Russ
1968 · 157 pages · 1 review
Others: Positive
Hurled through time to a strange future world where unseen forces clashed in an inexplicable war, Trans-Temporal Agent Alyx was given the job of guiding eight very important tourists to a station of safety. Alyx seemed exactly right for the job: she was tough, resourceful, and exerienced in the hard hand-to-hand fighting of Earth's barbaric past. But when she found what traps and dangers she faced in this gleaming tomorrow, even Alyx began to fear...
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Big Planet (Ace SF, G-661)
Jack Vance
1957 · 218 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Leaning positive
The objective of the mission from to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet...and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and the survivors face an epic 40,000-mile trek across the dangerous landscape. A SF landmark. "One of the finest writers the science fiction field has ever known."--Poul Anderson. "Vividly compelling...Vance at the top of his form."--Damon Knight.
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