Bibliography for GURPS Fantasy
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You can find an index of all the GURPS bibliographies we have online here. If you spot any broken links or other problems with this page, please report them to [email protected]. Bibliography for GURPS Fantasy Fact and Speculation The New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (Hamlyn, 1968). Anglo, Sydney, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (Yale University Press, 2000). Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (MJF Books, 1996); The Masks of God, in four volumes: Primitive Mythology, Oriental Mythology, Occidental Mythology, Creative Mythology (Arkana, 1991). Cotterell, Brian, and Kamminga, Johan, Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Ancient and Traditional Material Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Daniels, Peter T., and Bright, William, The World's Writing Systems (Oxford University Press, 1996). de Camp, L. Sprague, The Ancient Engineers (Ballantine, 1963). Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel (Norton, 1997). Dixon, R.M.W., The Rise and Fall of Languages (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Graves, Robert, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Amended and Enlarged Edition (Octagon, 1972). Guadalupi, Gianni, and Manguel, Alberto, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Macmillan, 1980). Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Houghton Mifflin, 1990). Keegan, John, The Face of Battle (Penguin, 1978). Critical Studies Carter, Lin, Imaginary Worlds (Ballantine, 1973). Clute, John, and Grant, John, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (St. Martin's Griffin, 1999). Fonstad, Karen Wynn, The Atlas of Middle-Earth, revised edition (Houghton Mifflin, 1991). Arguably this ought to go under "Factual Information," as it's a serious scholarly reference work about geography – it just happens to be the geography of Middle-Earth. One of the best models for extracting a detailed description of a setting from a work of fiction. Frye, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton University Press, 1957). Hume, Kathryn, Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature (Routledge, 1985). Irwin, Robert, The Arabian Nights: A Companion (Allen Lane, 1994). Jones, Diana Wynne, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (Vista, 1996). Le Guin, Ursula K., "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie," in The Language of the Night (HarperCollins, 1992). Tolkien, J.R.R., "On Fairy Stories," in Poems and Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1994). Also available in The Tolkien Reader (Ballantine, 1966). Folklore, Mythology, and Classics Alighieri, Dante, The Divine Comedy (New American Library, 2003). Barrie, J.M., Peter Pan (Viking, 1991). Beowulf (Norton, 2001). Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz, The Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz, and others in the Oz series. The complete series has been reprinted by Dover Publications. Cabell, James Branch, Figures of Earth (Wildside Press, 2001), The Silver Stallion (Del Rey, 1979), and Jurgen (Dover, 1978). Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (omnibus edition, Norton, 1999), and The Hunting of the Snark (Norton, 2006). Both of these volumes have been annotated by Martin Gardner. Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales (Penguin, 2003). Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," in The Complete Poems (Penguin, 1997). Dunsany, Lord, The King of Elfland's Daughter (Del Rey, 1999) and Time and the Gods (Kessinger, 2004). Egil's Saga (Penguin, 1977). Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, Faust (Princeton University Press, 1994). Haggard, H. Rider, She (Oxford University Press, 1998). Hesiod, Theogony (Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1991). Hesse, Hermann, Steppenwolf (Picador, 2002). Homer, The Odyssey (Penguin, 1999). Kingsley, Charles, The Water-Babies (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1983). Kipling, Rudyard, "The Brushwood Boy" in The Day's Work (Fredonia, 2000), Puck of Pook's Hill (Blue Unicorn, 1998), and Rewards and Fairies (Kessinger, 2004). Kouyaté, Mamadou, Sundiata (Longman, 1995). MacDonald, George, "The Light Princess" in The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin, 1999), The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin, 1997), and The Princess and Curdie (Puffin, 1996). Malory, Thomas, Le Morte d'Arthur (Signet, 2001). Maeterlinck, Maurice, The Blue Bird (Kessinger, 2004). Nesbitt, E., Five Children and It (Puffin, 1996) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (Puffin, 1996). The Saga of the Volsungs (University of California Press, 1990). Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest (both Signet, 1998). Vālmīki, The Rāmāyaṇa (Penguin, 1998). Virgil, The Aeneid (Vintage, 1990). Vyasa, The Mahabharata (University of Chicago Press, 2000). Fiction Alexander, Lloyd, The Book of Three (Holt, 1964); The Black Cauldron (Holt, 1965); The Castle of Llyr (Holt, 1966); Taran Wanderer (Holt, 1967); The High King (Holt, 1968). Anderson, Poul, Operation Chaos (Doubleday, 1971) and Three Hearts and Three Lions (Doubleday, 1961). Beagle, Peter S., The Last Unicorn (Ballantine, 1968). Bellairs, John, The Face in the Frost (Ace, 1978). Blish, James, Black Easter (Doubleday, 1968) and The Day After Judgment (Doubleday, 1971) [reissued in one volume as The Devil's Day (Baen, 1990)]. Borges, Jorge Luis, Labyrinths, edited by James E. Irby and Donald A. Yates (New Directions, 1988). Brust, Steven, Jhereg (Ace, 1983) and The Phoenix Guards (Tor, 1991), Five Hundred Years After (Tor, 1994), The Paths of the Dead (Tor, 2002), and The Lord of Castle Black (Tor, 2003). Bujold, Lois McMaster, The Curse of Chalion (Eos, 2001) and Paladin of Souls (Eos, 2003). Bull, Emma, War for the Oaks (Orb, 2001). Card, Orson Scott, Seventh Son (T. Doherty Associates, 1987). Carey, Jacqueline, Kushiel's Dart (Tor, 2001); Kushiel's Chosen (Tor, 2002); Kushiel's Avatar (Tor, 2003); Kushiel's Scion (Grand Central, 2006); Kushiel's Justice (Grand Central, 2007); Kushiel's Mercy (Grand Central, 2008); Naamah's Kiss (Grand Central, 2009); Naamah's Curse (Grand Central, 2010); and Naamah's Blessing (Grand Central, 2011). Cherryh, C.J., Rusalka (Del Rey, 1989). Cook, Glen, "Black Company" series: The Black Company (Tor, 1984); Shadows Linger (Tor, 1984); The White Rose (Tor, 1985); Shadow Games (Tor, 1989); The Silver Spike (Tor, 1989); Dreams of Steel (Tor, 1990); Bleak Seasons (Tor, 1996); She Is The Darkness (Tor, 1998); Water Sleeps (Tor, 1999); and Soldiers Live (Tor, 2000). Cook, Glen, "Garrett, P.I." series: Sweet Silver Blues (Signet, 1987); Bitter Gold Hearts (Signet, 1988); Cold Copper Tears (Signet, 1988); Old Tin Sorrows (Signet, 1989); Dread Brass Shadows (Roc, 1990); Red Iron Nights (Roc, 1991); Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Roc, 1994); Petty Pewter Gods (Roc, 1995); Faded Steel Heat (Roc, 1999); Angry Lead Skies (Roc, 2002); Whispering Nickel Idols (Roc, 2005); Cruel Zinc Melodies (Roc, 2008); Gilded Latten Bones (Roc, 2010); and Wicked Bronze Ambition (Roc, 2013). These are gradually being collected into three-in-one omnibus volumes: Introducing Garrett, P.I. (Roc, 2011), Garrett Takes the Case (Roc, 2012), and Garrett for Hire (Roc, 2013). Crowley, John, Little, Big (Bantam, 1981). Davidson, Avram, The Adventures of Doctor Esterhazy (Owlswick, 1991). de Camp, L. Sprague, and Pratt, Fletcher, The Compleat Enchanter (Doubleday, 1975). De Lint, Charles, Moonheart (Ace, 1984). Donaldson, Stephen R., Lord Foul's Bane (Del Rey, 1977), The Illearth War (Del Rey, 1977), The Power That Preserves (Del Rey, 1977). Eager, Edward, Half Magic, Knight's Castle, Magic by the Lake, The Time Garden, and Seven-Day Magic. The first four are also available as a boxed set. Eddison, E.R., Mistress of Mistresses: A Vision of Zimiamvia (Dutton, 1935); A Fish Dinner in Memison (Dutton, 1941); The Mezentian Gate (Elek Books, 1958) [reissued in one volume as Zimiamvia]. The Mezentian Gate was published in incomplete form long after Eddison's death in 1945. Effinger, George Alec, Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson (Swan Press, 1993). Ford, John M., The Dragon Waiting (Timescape Books, 1983). Gaiman, Neil, and Pratchett, Terry, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Workman, 1990). Garfinkle, Richard, Celestial Matters (Tor, 1996). Garner, Alan, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley (Random House, 1969) and The Moon of Gomrath: A Tale of Alderley (HarperCollins, 1983). Garrett, Randall, Lord Darcy Investigates (Ace, 1981), Murder and Magic (Ace, 1981), and Too Many Magicians (Ace, 1979) [reissued in one volume as Lord Darcy (Baen, 2002)]. Gentle, Mary, The Book of Ash (Eos, 1999-2000). Hamilton, Laurell K. A Kiss of Shadows (Del Rey, 2000), A Caress of Twilight (Ballantine, 2002), Seduced by Moonlight (Ballantine, 2004), A Stroke of Midnight (Ballantine, 2005), Mistral's Kiss (Ballantine, 2006), A Lick of Frost (Ballantine, 2007), Swallowing Darkness (Ballantine, 2008), Divine Misdemeanors (Ballantine, 2009), and A Shiver of Light (Berkley, 2014). Heinlein, Robert, "Magic Inc.," in Waldo & Magic, Inc. (Doubleday, 1950) and "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag," in The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Gnome, 1959) [reissued in one volume as The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (Tor, 1999)]. Holdstock, Robert, Mythago Wood (Gollancz, 1984), Lavondyss (Gollancz, 1988), The Hollowing (Harper Collins, 1993). Howard, Robert Ervin, Conan the Barbarian (Gnome Press, 1954), and Conan the Conqueror: The Hyborian Age (Gnome Press, 1950). The three-volume Wandering Star/Del Rey Conan of Cimmeria set is easier to find and restores the original text: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian