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 The New Essential Guide to Alien Species (Star Wars)Best Price: $15.03 Now how are you going to understand the joke unless you know these species. And how are you... |  The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (Discworld Novels)Best Price: $12.27 There's not much to say about this book, aside from "buy a copy." Anyone who loves... |  Frankenstein: the original 1818 text (Broadview Literary Texts)Best Price: $8.95 i read this book right after dracula and well, it's definitely a good read and an edge of your... |  The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-EarthBest Price: $3.99 Sure it's cheap, but is that the only reason for buying a book? Noel's work was already... |  The DREAMS OUR STUFF IS MADE OF: How Science Fiction Conquered the WorldBest Price: $5.98 Try, try as I might, I doubt this review will be as short as I'd like. I'm a recent sci-fi... |
 A Reading Guide to The Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)Best Price: $1.03 This was a very good, very very very good book. It was provacative, and scary, but not in a bad... |  Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science FictionsBest Price: $15.38 In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and... |  The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of TimeBest Price: $12.97 I got this book after Robert Jordan's passing. I wanted as complete a set of WoT materials as I... |  Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume IIBest Price: $4.00 How lucky we are to have Robin Furth's research to guide us through AllWorld. Both volumes of... |  The Psychology of Harry Potter: An Unauthorized Examination of the Boy Who Lived (Psychology of Popular Culture series)Best Price: $7.45 I bought this book, started reading it, then put it down for 6 months because it was so... |
 Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran HogwartsBest Price: $6.24 After finishing book 7, but before rereading all of the HP books, I wanted to read something... |  Companion to Narnia, Revised Edition: A Complete Guide to the Magical World of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of NarniaBest Price: $2.68 The whole picture about any literary work helps us understand it better. This Companion fills... |  The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the ImaginationBest Price: $7.98 To quote a particularly apt back-cover blurb, "What a pleasure it is to roam around in... |  Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's SurfaceBest Price: $2.00 I picked up the book thinking it would provide fodder for some of my own writing, a task it does... |  Men Of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic BookBest Price: $6.45 Disturbing and enlightening, if true. Given that Jones exhibits evidence of at least some... |
 Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, Vol. 1Best Price: $3.97 Concordance: (noun) an index of the principal words of a book with a reference to the passage in... |  Spark Notes The HobbitBest Price: $3.17 This is much better than The Cliff Notes for this book. It has much less mistakes. There are a... |  The Cthulhu Mythos EncyclopediaBest Price: $17.95 #################################################################################################### |  Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?: What Really Happened in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Six Expert Harry Potter Detectives Examine the Evidence.Best Price: $5.55 I found this book very confusing at first. The compiler writes the first piece and he should not... |  Spark Notes 1984Best Price: $0.28 Get your "A" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you... |
 Superman: The Ultimate Guide to the Man of SteelBest Price: $13.71 Superman: The Ultimate Guide to the Man of Steel has been out for a few years now, but with the... |  Spark Notes Brave New WorldBest Price: $0.99 Get your "A" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you... |  The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-EarthBest Price: $7.55 This is an excellent read for any fan of Tolkien's mythopoaeia. Be prepared to discover the... |  The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of THE BELGARIAD and THE MALLOREONBest Price: $3.94 I've read Eddings' fiction, including that stupid book with the talking cat, and do not see how... |  Rhetorics of FantasyBest Price: $18.09 Best to start with the "Health Warning: This book is not intended to create rules. Its... |
 Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century FictionBest Price: $28.97 Gillian Beer's landmark book demonstrates how Darwin overturned fundamental cultural assumptions... |  Codex DerynianusBest Price: $8.97 A nice addition to the Deryni series for the enthusiast. Has a note on each of the characters... |  The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark MaterialsBest Price: $2.14 This is a brilliant concept, and was executed relatively well. My main complaint is that the... |  Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy TalesBest Price: $19.99 It is very interesting and it gives you so much information about the fairy tales and the mass... |  Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift UniverseBest Price: $5.68 This was an excellent book. Simple drawings, without colour, but very necessary. It would have... |
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 The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter: A Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating FactsBest Price: $0.40 After checking this book out from the library I am very glad that I did not waste my money on... |  J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (Two Volume Box Set)Best Price: $18.79 I am a Williams alumni, and I was pleased to present this definitive Tolkien guide to my brother... |  Fitzpatrick's War (Daw Science Fiction)Best Price: $4.13 It's nice, in this day and age, to see a writer unafraid to venture into "contrived"... |  The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in CommunityBest Price: $24.65 Glyer has put together an incredibly researched study of the relationships of "The... |  Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's WorldBest Price: $12.92 This is another of Flieger's book that focuses on a specialized aspect of Middle-earth as the... |
 Conan the PhenomenonBest Price: $17.13 No true REH fan can pass this book up! It's got a history of everyone from writers to artists... |  The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Cornell Paperbacks)Best Price: $13.67 Those interested in the structuralist criticism of the 1960s-70s will find the most joy here,... |  H. Beam Piper: A Biography (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy) (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)Best Price: $45.00 H. Beam Piper is one of science fiction's most enigmatic writers. In 1946 Piper appeared... |  The History of the Hobbit, Volume 2 (History of the Hobbit)Best Price: $19.40 Return to Bag End is the second part of John D. Rateliff's History of the Hobbit. It begins... | |
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