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Line Dancing
by Elisabeth Waters
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It's a privilege to be chosen to work on the communication lines that unite your world. But it helps if you really like cats, because carrying a group of them around with you is part of the job. (Published: 2012)
Words: 3270 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy/Young Adult
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Madwoman of the Kilghard Hills [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
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The life of an untrained telepath may be miserable, but is she truly a danger to herself and everyone around her? (Published: 1993)
Words: 4066 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXII
by Elisabeth Waters
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Women of Magic and Valor ... For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, best-selling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a grand generation of popular and acclaimed authors including Mercedes Lackey, Jennifer Roberson, and a host of others. Authors who have appeared within the pages of Sword and Sorceress represent the full spectrum of some of the brightest talent working today--from C.J. Cherryh, Charles de Lint, and Emma Bull... to Laurell K. Hamilton, Diana L. Paxson, and. ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 89961 - Reading Time: 257-359 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Meeting of Minds [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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The MacAran gift is rapport with animals. Sometimes this gift is useful, sometimes it's a nuisance, and sometimes it's just plain strange... (Published: 1991)
Words: 567 - Reading Time: 1-2 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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80
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Men, Halflings & Hero Worship
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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An analysis of the role of love in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. (Published: 1973)
Words: 11214 - Reading Time: 32-44 min.
Category: Fantasy/Classic Literature
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Midsummer Folly
by Elisabeth Waters
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A journeyman mage discovers that the house she's staying in is haunted its previous owner--who wants her to bring him back to life. (Published: 1996)
Words: 3585 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Mind-Eater [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
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Domenic MacAran, forced to spend the night in a haunted castle, found himself some unlikely allies there. (Published: 1990)
Words: 4374 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Night Watches [Temple Cats series 2]
by Catherine Soto
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Lin Mei and her brother Biao Mei have stopped their travels for a time; the caravan is spending the winter in the house of a wealthy merchant. But assassins still show up, there's a strange demoness in the garden, and the kittens are growing steadily... (Published: 2007)
Words: 5693 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Fantasy/Young Adult
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Nightside [Diana Tregarde Series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Urban witch Diana Tregarde and her vampire friend Andre team up to take on an unknown monster. (Published: 1989)
Words: 6153 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy/Dark Fantasy
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85
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Oathbreaker [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Dyan Ardais has already taken the monitor's oath when he is summoned home from Arilinn because his father has just killed his stepmother. The oath binds him not to use his poweres to force his will on another. But his father is insane, obviously dangerous to those around him, and totally unwilling to listen to reason. (Published: 1984)
Words: 6850 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Object Lesson [Darkover series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Varzil the Good has put an end to the laran wars, and peace has come to the land--unless you're planning to combine the Sisterhood of the Sword and the Priestesses of Avarra and establish the first Guildhouse for the Free Amazons. Tayksa n'ha Elayna and her partner Deena know that's bound to require at least one fight. (Published: 1990)
Words: 3555 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Once and Future
by Mercedes Lackey
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Excalibur came to Michael, told him he was King Arthur reborn, and showed him all the good he could do in the world. It is said that those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. What about those who do remember? (Published: 1995)
Words: 3760 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Fantasy/Alternate History
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One Drink Before You Go
by Michael Spence
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Fifteen years ago the enemy king killed her husband. Now he's eating in her inn. Man does not live by roast kradlik alone ... you need something special to go with it. (Published: 1998)
Words: 1285 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Operation Desert Fox
by Mercedes Lackey
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Just because Bachman's World was back-of-beyond of nowhere, and even the most conservative of military planners thought their insistence on having an on-planet defense force to be paranoid in the extreme, that did not negate their right to have it. The law was on their side. But a creative military bean-counter found a cheap solution. Instead of sending the requested Reserve battalion, he sent one man and an outmoded Bolo. (Published: 1993)
Words: 8392 - Reading Time: 23-33 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Out of the Frying Pan
by Elisabeth Waters
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Eirthe, a candlemaker under a curse, hires the mercenary magician/minstrel Lythande to help her break it. (Published: 1991)
Words: 2987 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Playfellow [Darkover]
by Elisabeth Waters
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Hilary Castamir had a little trouble adjusting to life at Arilinn Tower. Many children have imaginary friends, but Hilary's wasn't imaginary. (Published: 1987)
Words: 3588 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Poetic License [Darkover series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Tayksa n'ha Elayna though being King Varzil's personal guard at court was boring, until a petitioner arrived with a truly unusual problem and she became part of the solution. (Published: 1994)
Words: 4773 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Pride, Prejudice, and Paranoia [Treasures series 3]
by Elisabeth Waters, Michael Spence
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Failing one's wizardry finals is bad enough. But then the family matriarch gets involved... [This is a sequel to Salt and Sorcery.] (Published: 2002)
Words: 8798 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Raven
by Raul S Reyes
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She called for a trickster to free an earth-bound spirit. He did more than that. (Published: 1996)
Words: 3967 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Raven's Blade
by Raul S Reyes
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The sword was said to be enchanted. The truth was just as mysterious... (Published: 1998)
Words: 6416 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Rebirth [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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After reading Leslie Williams's story of a trapped sorcerer, "Escape," during the editing of Sword of Chaos, Elisabeth Waters promptly provided this sequel to it ... "So I could sleep at night," she commented. (Published: 1982)
Words: 404 - Reading Time: 1-1 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Roadkill
by Mercedes Lackey
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A pragmatic engineer discovers that just because something looks like a cardboard box doesn't mean that it is one. (Published: 1990)
Words: 2255 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Fantasy/Horror
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Robes [Robes series 1]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
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Each new wizard chose his or her path (and robe color). As an apprentice, Kaitlyn was convinced that only White was worth having. After her test, however, would she still feel that way? (Published: 1993)
Words: 4914 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Safe Passage [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
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Encountering bandits once is bad luck. Encountering them twice means you're having a really bad day. (Published: 1994)
Words: 3051 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Salt and Sorcery [Treasures series 2]
by Elisabeth Waters, Michael Spence
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Behind every great man is a woman--or two--or three--or four... (Published: 1999)
Words: 6363 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Fantasy
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