Books tagged: literary fantasy

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Regenerated    by Carolyn Kephart
Price: Free! 3900 words. Published on August 3, 2009. .

Cela had always hoped she'd find Jorgen again someday...but was this really Jorgen? A tenderly bitter tale of love and giant lizards, first published in Quantum Muse. Carolyn Kephart is the author of the acclaimed epic fantasy 'The Ryel Saga,' the contemporary magic realism novel 'Queen of Time,' and 'PenTangle: Five Pointed Fables,' available at Smashwords and other online bookstores.
Viking Saga    by Mark Coakley
Price: Free! 69630 words. Published on November 7, 2009. .

Viking Saga is a pulse-pounding literary historical thriller, set in 793 AD, when Norway was ruled by many small kingdoms and folk still worshipped the old gods. Halfdan the Black -- a young fighter and beer-soaked poet, with a Norse father and African mother -- vows revenge for the killing of his king. Halfdan's fate leads him through real historical events, eg the raid on the Lindisfarne nunnery
The Ryel Saga: A Tale of Love and Magic    by Carolyn Kephart
Price: $2.99 USD. 228410 words. Published on January 19, 2010. .

Ryel Mirai seeks to rediscover the spell that will release his mentor from the wraithworld of the Void, but a malignant sorcerer likewise imprisoned has enlisted the aid of Ryel's strongest rival to find the spell first. This special 'director's cut' edition combines the critically acclaimed duology WYSARD and LORD BROTHER and adds a wealth of bonus material.
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year One    by Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Price: $2.99 USD. 103390 words. Published on February 10, 2010. .

Fourteen short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine. Features authors Marie Brennan, Richard Parks, and Campbell Award finalist Aliette de Bodard. Includes "Thieves of Silence" by Holly Phillips, named to Locus's 2009 Recommended Reading List, and "Father's Kill" by Christopher Green, winner of the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story.
The Secret Thoughts Of Leaves    by Anne Brooke
Price: $0.99 USD. 1770 words. Published by Untreed Reads on April 19, 2010. .

When Henry wakes up one morning, he discovers that the trees in his garden are very different - how will he respond to the strange call of the leaves?
Girlfriends Lost    by John Blandly
Price: $0.99 USD. 5370 words. Published on November 17, 2010. .

All John ever wanted was a girlfriend. What else could he focus on? He never had that many girlfriends, and if they think that he's forgotten them, they should think again. He was too young, he didn't know what he was doing--there are so many reasons.
Chasing the Minotaur    by Terry Hayman
Price: $4.99 USD. 80200 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 19, 2010. .

When his wife dies in his arms, celebrated painter Emery Lake withdraws from painting and from life. To save him, his grown daughter arranges a house exchange in the south of France. But the sun-drenched landscapes are only the beginning as Emery finds a place in the foothills of Mont Sainte-Victoire where Picasso, Renoir, Cézanne, and Van Gogh mysteriously still walk and paint, scheme and love.
Dominance Games: An Essay on Power A Novel    by B Schiff
Price: $1.99 USD. 50770 words. Published on January 26, 2011. .

Back alleys. Aphrodisiacs. Sweet honor, power, revenge. A hard, tough country with life full, intimidation fast, heat coming as a whippet, a whirlwind. A hard cynical little novel. 50,000 words. Dominance Games. A dirty rapt primer. a mean searing little story. Intimidation stalks time and decades. A tempered stew radiates out from the sinews and muscles of longing and regret.
Lust Games: An Essay on Honor A Novel    by B Schiff
Price: $1.99 USD. 58090 words. Published on January 29, 2011. .

Honor; the wicked master. Redemption, the tough and unforgiving act. Lust; the wicked mistress. Death. Legacies. A heathen home. Paradise lost. Lust driven temptresses. Besotted clowns. Worlds in flux. Cynical chiselers, power hungry bastards, low rent power vacuums. Integrity. Victory. Two lovers. A muse. Lust Games: an Essay on Honor, 58, 000 words. High rent parades of fools.
Prophets of the Ghost Ants    by Clark Thomas Carlton
Price: $2.99 USD. 119820 words. Published on June 29, 2011. .

"Clark Carlton has written one of the most engrossing, original and powerful novels I've read in years. Ghost Ants is a monumental cross-genre book, an allegory like Animal Farm, as well as a thrilling adventure into a whole new world. Exciting, visionary, a tour de force."  - Lawrence Bender, producer of Inglourious Basterds, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, An Inconvenient Truth