9 Books by Avram Davidson
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Overview: Avram Davidson was an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964. His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Masters of the Maze
The Maze is a pathway between worlds and times. Its Masters know the secret, but decline to interfere. Its Guardians at different levels prevent invasion of one world by the inhabitants of another. But the alien hive-creatures called Chulpex mean to find their way past the Guardians to colonize a new world; and one ordinary, untrained Earthman is catapulted into wild adventure in his determination to stop them.
The Island Under the Earth
Earthy, hot-tempered Captain Stag followed a simple man s quest; Tabnath Lo the trader was driven by obsessions; the enigmatic augurs Castegor and Gortecas manuervered toward secret ends; and around them all the Sixlimbed Folk massed in hatred and plotted barbaric vengeance...
A world of living legend peopled by centaurs, golems, harpies, and primitive but shrewd humans...I was completely caught up in the saga. Fritz Leiber
It s always exciting to discover a new dimension in the work of a writer you think you know pretty well. "The Island Under the Earth" reveals that Avram Davidson is at one of those points of discovery and renewal. Peter S. Beagle
The Other Nineteenth Century
Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
Mutiny in Space
Marooned on a lost planet at the edge of Space. Their only companions? A howling army of screaming, crazed women.
Captain Marrus Rond and his command staff were castaways, and the Starship Persephone was in the hands of the mutineers. Abandoned on an unknown planet, the ship s deposed officers moved slowly through the depths of a dark, twisted alien forest, seeking food and shelter--and some way home.
What they found was beyond their imagination.
To read "Mutiny in Space" today is like having a window into the past. Michael Swanwick
Rork!
Rork! Rork! RORK!
Ran Lomar wanted only to be left alone to get away from it all. That’s why he volunteered for duty on Pia 2, the most remote, isolated world in the Galazy.
His assignment was simple. The problem on Pia 2 was redwing, a plant used throughout the Galaxy as a medical fixative. Redwing grew only on Pia 2 and lately, less and less was being harvested. Lomar’s job was to find out why, and to do something about it.
A simple job. Or so it seemed. Tan Carlo Harb, the Station Officer, tried to warn him. But Lomar had to find out for himself about the strange inhabitants of Pia 2 the Tocks, the Tame ones, and the Wild ones, and the mysterious, legendary “rorks” that everyone feared...
Clash of Star-Kings
Set during the reign of the Aztecs in Mexico, two alien forces, dormant for centuries, enter a confrontation on a remote mountain that will decide Earth's fate. The Great Old Ones benevolently ruled before the cruel Aztecs were shaped by the Huitzil, who came from the Evil Stars and taught the Aztecs how to conquer and demanded endless human sacrifice.
The Kar-Chee Reign
Earth is flat, empty, weary, and bare.
Her children, too, had left her, all but a few who lived peacefully off the land. And then came the Kar-Chee, to crack Earth open and suck out what remained of her richness, threatening the twilight of th old planet with an evil beyond anything that had gone before. With them they brought their servants, beasts so creul and horrible that men could recall their like only from ancestral nightmares, and named them "Dragons . . ."
Ursus of Ultima Thule
The Bear
Swarthy, hairy, ostracized by others of his tribe, Arnten set off to lead a life of proud an lonely independence in his primitive world of Thule Ultima Thule where med huddled in animal skins against the arctic cold, and used crude clubs and spears to kill the giant prehistoric animals that roamed the land.
But Arnten “The Bear” was quicker of body and sharper of mind than his fellow men, and he had a special destiny: a path beset with mortal dangers and evil witchery which he must overcome, to save himself, his world, his woman, and o conquer the evil one whom they called “The Wolf.”
Rich with weird beauty, mystery, and magic by one of the most highly acclaimed masters of epic fantasy.
The Enemy of My Enemy
From the back cover: "Jerrod Northi-rogue, pirate and a citizen of Pemath-was desperate enough to want to go through the transformation. It cost 100,000 units for the Craftsmen to endow him with the Seven Signs--a rather steep price even for him. But he would pay it somehow, for since the attack of the deadly leeris, he feared that the cost of missing this opportunity to find a refuge in the land of Tarnis would be even higher."
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Overview: Avram Davidson was an American Jewish writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. Davidson edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1962 to 1964. His last novel The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Masters of the Maze
The Maze is a pathway between worlds and times. Its Masters know the secret, but decline to interfere. Its Guardians at different levels prevent invasion of one world by the inhabitants of another. But the alien hive-creatures called Chulpex mean to find their way past the Guardians to colonize a new world; and one ordinary, untrained Earthman is catapulted into wild adventure in his determination to stop them.
The Island Under the Earth
Earthy, hot-tempered Captain Stag followed a simple man s quest; Tabnath Lo the trader was driven by obsessions; the enigmatic augurs Castegor and Gortecas manuervered toward secret ends; and around them all the Sixlimbed Folk massed in hatred and plotted barbaric vengeance...
A world of living legend peopled by centaurs, golems, harpies, and primitive but shrewd humans...I was completely caught up in the saga. Fritz Leiber
It s always exciting to discover a new dimension in the work of a writer you think you know pretty well. "The Island Under the Earth" reveals that Avram Davidson is at one of those points of discovery and renewal. Peter S. Beagle
The Other Nineteenth Century
Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
Mutiny in Space
Marooned on a lost planet at the edge of Space. Their only companions? A howling army of screaming, crazed women.
Captain Marrus Rond and his command staff were castaways, and the Starship Persephone was in the hands of the mutineers. Abandoned on an unknown planet, the ship s deposed officers moved slowly through the depths of a dark, twisted alien forest, seeking food and shelter--and some way home.
What they found was beyond their imagination.
To read "Mutiny in Space" today is like having a window into the past. Michael Swanwick
Rork!
Rork! Rork! RORK!
Ran Lomar wanted only to be left alone to get away from it all. That’s why he volunteered for duty on Pia 2, the most remote, isolated world in the Galazy.
His assignment was simple. The problem on Pia 2 was redwing, a plant used throughout the Galaxy as a medical fixative. Redwing grew only on Pia 2 and lately, less and less was being harvested. Lomar’s job was to find out why, and to do something about it.
A simple job. Or so it seemed. Tan Carlo Harb, the Station Officer, tried to warn him. But Lomar had to find out for himself about the strange inhabitants of Pia 2 the Tocks, the Tame ones, and the Wild ones, and the mysterious, legendary “rorks” that everyone feared...
Clash of Star-Kings
Set during the reign of the Aztecs in Mexico, two alien forces, dormant for centuries, enter a confrontation on a remote mountain that will decide Earth's fate. The Great Old Ones benevolently ruled before the cruel Aztecs were shaped by the Huitzil, who came from the Evil Stars and taught the Aztecs how to conquer and demanded endless human sacrifice.
The Kar-Chee Reign
Earth is flat, empty, weary, and bare.
Her children, too, had left her, all but a few who lived peacefully off the land. And then came the Kar-Chee, to crack Earth open and suck out what remained of her richness, threatening the twilight of th old planet with an evil beyond anything that had gone before. With them they brought their servants, beasts so creul and horrible that men could recall their like only from ancestral nightmares, and named them "Dragons . . ."
Ursus of Ultima Thule
The Bear
Swarthy, hairy, ostracized by others of his tribe, Arnten set off to lead a life of proud an lonely independence in his primitive world of Thule Ultima Thule where med huddled in animal skins against the arctic cold, and used crude clubs and spears to kill the giant prehistoric animals that roamed the land.
But Arnten “The Bear” was quicker of body and sharper of mind than his fellow men, and he had a special destiny: a path beset with mortal dangers and evil witchery which he must overcome, to save himself, his world, his woman, and o conquer the evil one whom they called “The Wolf.”
Rich with weird beauty, mystery, and magic by one of the most highly acclaimed masters of epic fantasy.
The Enemy of My Enemy
From the back cover: "Jerrod Northi-rogue, pirate and a citizen of Pemath-was desperate enough to want to go through the transformation. It cost 100,000 units for the Craftsmen to endow him with the Seven Signs--a rather steep price even for him. But he would pay it somehow, for since the attack of the deadly leeris, he feared that the cost of missing this opportunity to find a refuge in the land of Tarnis would be even higher."
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