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A blend of science fiction, romance, and sheer zaniness. An errant laser beam zaps an aspiring cartoonist, dispersing his molecules…
throughout the universe, but does not kill him. The sole witness to the incident--psychologist Lauren Steele--becomes the target of a mad military officer's paranoid fantasies. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
The author offers a fictional account of what he feels was behind Lee Harvey Oswald's shooting of President Kennedy. DeLillo…
follows Oswald through his time in the marines, his defection to the Soviet Union, and his return. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller
More than 6000 colonists land on the uninhabited planet Pern. Everything goes well until they experience the first Threadfall --…
deadly spores that fall from the sky in silver threads and devour everything in their path. Followed by "Moreta, dragonlady of Pern." (Origins of Pern ; 1)
A fantasy romance that follows a married couple's journey through a parallel universe where the possibilities of their pasts still…
exist. The courtship and marriage of the couple was first recounted in the "Bridge Across Forever." Bestseller
Fantasy novel set on a distant planet where human colonists and winged natives coexist in an uneasy symbiosis. A young…
woman whose mother committed suicide in the World River flees from the Temples and ends up aboard the ship of the man who found her mother's body and who carved a magical statue of it. Meanwhile the girl becomes an object of hot pursuit when both humans and avians conspire to upset the balance of order, each to their own advantage
First published in 1948, this comic, surrealistic fantasy novel astonished numerous critics who hailed it as "an extraordinary work of…
inventive virtuosity." The absurdist narrator-hero H. Hatterr, a Eurasian, is a Dickensian-like character. His life story is one of adventures with sages and women, compounding humor with the sensual and the spiritual. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
As more people fall under Mrs. Tuggle's spells, Lynn and Mouse grow more desperate in their efforts to find a…
way to stop the old woman's evil. For grades 5-8. 1978
Surrealistic visions of war and carnage, parallel worlds, Hindu shadow-creatures, Nazis in various guises, winds with supernatural energy, and a…
vast, immobilized dragon are some of the elements of terror in this collection of eleven dark tales of fantasy. Strong language and violence
In this tale of royal marriages and wars between black and white magic, the assistant pig-keeper leads his companions on…
one last great quest. Sequel to "Taran wanderer" (DC06448). Grades 5-8. 1969. (Prydain chronicles ; 5)
Once again Omri places his small plastic Indian figures in the cupboard, and, with a twist of his magical key,…
brings them to life. But this time one of the figures, Little Bear, is embroiled in war with the French and the Algonquin Indians, and Omri must enter Little Bear's world if he is to save him and his village. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard." For grades 4-7 and older readers
Minikin Snickasnee can ride on a broom and brew magic spells, and doesn't ever have to go to school because…
she is a witch's daughter. But she is very unhappy because she wants to be just an ordinary child. For grades 3-6
The Blossoms are back again as Junior builds another of his impossible inventions--the Green Phantom, a flying saucer made from…
air mattresses and garbage bags. Pap gets stuck overnight in a trash dumpster while trying to rescue a puppy, and Vern hesitates at bringing his new friend, Michael, home to meet his very unusual family. For grades 5-8
Jan, a restless, defiant unicorn, is anxious to know the world beyond. On the long, dangerous journey to his initiation,…
he is forced into a fearful battle with the unicorns' dreaded enemy, the three-headed wyvern. Near death, Jan has a vision and awakes as the legendary Firebringer, the long-awaited leader of his people. For grades 6-9 and older readers
Unlike the other kids he knows, Benjamin hates computers. He would rather spend his time in his friend Velma's used-bookstore.…
Then one day, to his horror, a cable snatches him into Velma's new computer and he finds himself in the middle of Computer Kingdom with the dreaded Computer Police out to get him. For grades 5-8
When Tom goes to his aunt's home during his summer vacation, he discovers adventure in a special garden where the…
clock strikes thirteen, and where one day is summer and the next, winter. Grades 4-7. 1958.
Mym, the second son of the Raja of Gujarat, takes up the Red Sword of the Incarnation of War, but…
his efforts to ease the sufferings of war are thwarted by Stan. Some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "With a tangled skein". 1986. (Incarnations of immortality ; 4)
Sebastian's misadventures begin when he is fired from the Baron's orchestra. He meets an orphaned princess who has run away…
to escape marriage, and he offers to help her. Grades 4-7. 1970.
In this fantasy tale based on the movie "Willow," legend says that an infant will be born who will destroy…
Queen Bavmorda. When the child is born they know she is special, but will she be the downfall of Queen Bavmorda? What part will Willow Ufgood play? Some violence
A pudgy, lonely, motherless schoolboy enters the magical world of Fantasiana when he steals a beautifully bound book and begins…
"The Neverending Story." As he follows the marvelous adventures of the exotic creatures, he learns that only a human can save this kingdom and that he must enter the story to help them and himself. Spanish language
A contemporary fantasy. In the Pennsylvania Dutch country, teenager Bobbi Yandro is something of a misfit, child of a father…
killed in Vietnam and a mother living in a mental hospital. Bobbi's life changes dramatically when her grandfather brings home a black, blue-eyed mustang stallion that is a good deal more than a horse