From what I remember their was a war between two different groups of people. The winners put the losers in a labyrinth that was constantly trying to kill them (although I think that was a mistake). One of the labyrinth people escapes and by orders goes to each individual world to reestablish a connection network(?). One the first one he comes across a crazy old man who fails a lot, who turns out to be one of the peoples who entrapped the labyrinth people. One world is nothing but forests that has elves and humans, another is and underground world where the people there bring back the dead, and another is nothing but oceans where their is a race of ultimate evil dragon/snake/eel things. What is the name of this series?
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I'm trying to identify fantasy book series I encountered some time ago. Here are things I remember:   it was a fantasy setting but with some s-f elements; with many worlds and possibility to travel between them; resembling  setting a little, the two main races were non-human and probably hostile to each other,  a labyrinth (?), which somehow played an important role in the plot, a protagonist was some kind of emissary and was sent on a mission to another worlds  time period: 80s - 90s    Does anyone know what it is the name of the series?
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I'm looking for a book (or series of books) which I read as a kid (around 1995). I don't know a lot about the storyline anymore but I remember that there were two distinct alien races in the book with whom humans interacted. One of the races was lizard-like and had as a trait that they had sort of a bladder that filled up when they were upset. When it was full they would go to some sort of temple and release it. They then went completely berserk and fought each other. Sometimes, when they didn't make it to a temple in time, this could happen in the outside world. I think the other race focussed on bio-organic and space ship development and I think they were shaped like small pyramid, but I'm not entirely sure about the last part. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm looking for a manga and just can't remember the name of it. It's about a boy who was killed in his (today's modern) world but he wasn't supposed to die, but another &quot;evil&quot; god intervened in his life. God sends him to another world to reincarnate with some abilities as an apology. He ends up reincarnating as a kid, like a 6-10 year old boy. The evil god had interfered again, making it so he arrived in the body after his parents had abandoned him for not having any skills show up at the ceremony kids go through that shows that. He ends up going to the adventurer's guild and becoming an adventurer, befriending a middle-aged who works there who has a scar on his face and so most people don't approach him. Larucu (what the boy calls himself) learns magic and ends up becoming friends with a lot of high-positioned people, like the king. I don't think this series was finished yet.
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I am looking for a book that I read back in the 90's about a guy who's lost his memory and figures out, eventually, that he's a god and part of the universal battle between good and evil, or maybe chaos and order (no, it's definitely not Chronicles of Amber, although some of the story line is similar). My memory seems to think that he fights as an indestructible flying golden/metal lion or something similar at times. I also seem to remember that he loses his first major battle and has to go off for a long time to heal before he comes back and eventually prevails.   I was thinking it was a story by Roger Zelazny, but I don't see anything in his bibliography that fits exactly. Also, the gods are part of a pantheon — I just can't remember which.
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I've been looking for this series for a long time, I remember the overall series being called "The Dunhau Chronicles" or something similar. Details I remember:  There were two protagonists, the main one being a human woman, who may have been some sort of former military officer or cop, possibly just a diplomat. I think she was ~250 years old, which was possible through modern medicines.  The other one was a blue, furry alien who may have been a prince, or a former prince whose people had recently switched to democracy, he was a weak diplomat as his race had, unusually, descended from prey animals, rather than predators. There was a romance I think between him and the woman. His race's name was the series name- whatever word my memory has morphed into "Dunhau".  For reasons I don't quite remember, the two of them had to flee across space, picking up various allies as they went. At one point, they attended the wedding of I think the prince's allies or supporters at one point, which involved one woman marrying five men, as was the custom. It was a marriage that occurred late in the lives of the men, because the five men were "best friends" who refused to marry unless they could find a woman willing to marry all five of them, which took a while.  At one point, they all get captured by the bad guys, and in order to psychologically break the alien prince, the bad guy orders the woman to be raped in front of him. She manages to dodge this by pretending to be kind of into the idea and possibly throwing the guy against the wall or something? She basically undermines the psychological advantage and the whole thing gets cancelled before anything happens.   This is all I can really remember, if this sounds familiar to anyone please let me know!
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I think this was more of a fantasy series, though it was more subtle than The Lord of the Rings IIRC. Set in modern times - though there was some alternate realm thing that was less modern I think.   I read it about ten years ago, I think, and there were a number of books at that time. My brother and I stopped reading it shortly after the main character summoned a small demon somehow who was a bad influence... I think.  It involved a boy who somehow was at some kind of training school/academy. Unsure where it was located, but it needed a classic portal to get to it I think. I clearly remember some scene involving a car driving at specific speeds to get past some barriers. There may have been something about how the school was (slowly) moving or the wards were shrinking... unsure. I don't think it was only magic based, but that was some element of it. The boy had some kind of strange power that made him an incredible fighter, but he wasn't sure how (at least from what I remember). The recordings of him training just showed a white flash I think. I remember some scene in an elevator going down to the training floor where he went to a level below some adult with him.  There was something else about him joining a group that had twelve members, one for each month, whose powers grew and lessened based on how close the date was to "their" month.  Oh, and there was something about him looking for his mother I think? Perhaps in another "realm"?   Any help is appreciated!
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I forgot the name of these books, but they are for kids, and perhaps 200 pages apiece.  There is some magical element to them, but I forgot what exactly it was. I seem to remember conscience animals at one point, but all the characters are human.  I distinctly remember in one of the last books, there is an island with several large pillars of earth on it, and at least one or two of them are so high that they stretch into the clouds and are impossible to see or climb. Another is covered in grass at the top. The others have bridges across them, and the island is populated by people. The main characters come in a boat with knowledge of some big sea monster, and at the end of the book, the monster knocks over one of the tall pillars, and it does a domino effect. The final and tallest pillar crashes down on the monster and it is found to have spikes on it, like that was it's intended purpose.  I seem to remember the sea creature was released by a pair of boys accidentally from an underground lake in an earlier book. They were adults on the ship at the time that the group reaches the island.  I also distinctly remember a game of chess between a girl and a prison guard (or a prisoner maybe?) that the book showed move-by-move in an earlier book. In the same book, I remember some kind of underground tunnel used to escape from the city's walls where the girl lives.  Anyone know what series this is?
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This is all I can remember.  There are four worlds whose people and technology were all swapped so humans ended up with high tech mech suits that they used to kill each other. There was a supposedly handicapped prince who faked being mentally handicapped and had a giant mech suit hidden underground that he eventually used to wreak havoc on earth.  The protagonist also had a suit and he saved the day. He was in love with a girl who was from another world and when he saved the day, all the people and technology from the different worlds were sent back to their original one causing the girl to leave him. She had colored hair and the final scene was her waking up somewhere with some children commenting on her hair.  There may or may not have been a reference to the protagonists scars in the shape of the constellation of orion on his body.  Any ideas? I've searched the internet for two years trying to find it.
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I read this book a few years ago which was part of a series, but I only found the first book and now I've forgotten the name.  The first book featured 3 children/teens from different places that end up on a quest to search for magic gems/stones together and the story takes place in a medieval kind fantasy world. One is a girl, while the other 2 are boys. One of the boys actually finds a stone/gem while he is on a school field trip (I think the gem/stone is red in colour), and when he picks it up, he gets transported to the fantasy land but ends up in some sort of military training ground/camp somewhere in a desert type area.  He isn't familiar with the fantasy world. The other 2 characters each start out on their own on a quest to collect some magical gems/stones which once collected, can be used to fight an evil ruler (I guess).  But halfway through the book, the girl and boy meet up and continue the quest together while the third boy(transported one) doesn't know that the stone he picked up is actually one of the magical stones others are looking for.  A few other details I remember:   The stone the boy finds is red in colour I think  The cover of the book had a border depicting the stones  It's part of a series or trilogy    Some books with similar storylines, but not the one I'm looking for:     Deltora Quest The Seven Towers Sword of Heaven series Westeria series Diadem series
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Trying to identify a book I read years ago. It had one male human that was (petrified?) for thousands of years. The world had ridiculously huge trees and catlike people. The only bit of steel to be found was his switchblade. Think it was published in the 70s.
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I read part of the series in 2005, a young man was the protagonist, he was traveling to different worlds. I think he was telepathic and the most identifying thing I can remember was he had a flying snake or asp as a pet which possibly was his protector? He was in danger for some reason. Also there was a romantic interest female. The books were very distinct from one another. The second or third book he visited a planet that was extremely bio-diverse, where he was on top of all this vegetation and he realized how many layers of vegetation he would have to get to before he got to the ground and it was vast. I never finished it and it's been driving me nuts.
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I thought it was The Tommyknockers by Stephen King, but after a check with Wikipedia, it appears that's not the case.  What I remember about the story (a TV movie I think, but definitely based on a book) was that the world is created anew every night, and that the old, used up, Earth was eaten nightly by some scary creatures.  The major plot point involved some protagonists not getting onto the new world at midnight, and having to escape from the monsters that were eating up yesterday's planet.  Does this ring a bell for anyone? I'm finding it very hard to Google for.
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I remember reading a book series around 2008 - 2009 — probably as an ebook but maybe a hard copy — which for the life of me I cannot recall. My google-fu skills have failed me too. So here are the details I remember   The name of series started with B... something like Bar@@@@ Set in fantasy time with medieval setting. There was a ancient wizard, who was sort of immortal, or maybe just very very old, disguised as a common man at the start Hero was a young boy, introduced as an orphan, working in some rich noble's kitchen or kitchen farm Magic was used ages ago, but common folk have mostly forgotten about it There are several kingdoms, one in snow, one is an island, one is open grassland, and then there is a huge, big bad evil kingdom in north Wizard helps forge / renew alliance between all kingdoms slowly, having to work through some politics Wizard keeps training the boy in various arts as the series progresses There is eventually a war, but the good kingdoms sort of manage to defeat the evil king (he may have been crazy / megalomaniac) After war, wizard and boy go to the location where evil god (something with T... Tarturs or something) is sleeping, but whose evil keeps seeping into the world The boy, now trained and grown up, fights the god and eventually wins There may have been a middle aged woman, fiery in temper, also a witch, probably daughter of ancient wizard, and mother of hero   I also remember not really liking the books then, sort of having too many deus ex machina, but for some reason have them stuck in my mind recently. Any help would be deeply appreciated!
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It's a world that includes fire, water, air, earth, shadow and light users. This world has at least one archipelago with a king, that's died in the previous squashing of rebellion, his descendant lives known only to few. At the beginning of the series a girl is on a fire-owned submarine vessel that gets attacked by Shadow rebels. The Shadow rebels have at least one base in the archipelago and train people there. I'm not totally sure, but I believe there's also an island that has a lot to do with trade. Also, the fire... clergy, I guess? Has absorbed the light part, so basically there are only 5 separate elements remaining.  Some info I'm not quite 100% sure about, but I think the king of the archipelago might also be called The or a Pharao  Unfortunately this is pretty much all I remember.
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I read this book when I was 15 that I cant seem to find, no matter how many times I search  for it. I'm hoping that someone may have read it, and recognize the details. Its really driving me crazy and I would be eternally grateful if anyone recognizes it.  The book centers around a princess (with "gilded skin") trying to save her kingdom from destruction. It starts off with a gypsy (?) coming into the kingdom with her slave boy. She had cut out his tongue to prevent him from warning the kingdom of her power. Soon, her friend or followers, her kind began to flock to the kingdom, selling idols that corrupt the citizens with greed and suspicion. The kingdom falls into civil war. When it's too weak to fight back, its neighboring kingdom invades, leading to the princess's inevitable destruction.  The princess escapes by using a tunnel that had been hidden in a well. She goes to a old hermit or wizard that was a friend of her fathers. He tells her of Magic Stones that, in the hands of their chosen champion, can have amazing powers. She recalls that the gypsy has a pearl-like stone on her ring, and believes that it poisons people's will, entrances them - and it is because of this gypsy her kingdom has fallen. The old hermit tells her that if she finds the man who can change time, changing the past, she can stop the gypsy from ever entering the kingdom.  She is sent to to top of the world (?) to seek the cave where these stone are kept. At some point the slave boy joins her, but the reasons for this are unknown, she believes he is there to spy on her but takes pity on him and allows him to continue with her. It's guarded (sort of) by a dragon/lizard. The dragon is made of stone, and seems to be able to metamorphosize from any stone matter and although not vicious, tells the princess that she must find it before the sunsets or she will be stuck in the cave forever. The stone originally given her by the dragon guardian turns out to be stone that controls time.  The stone cannot take her into the future but allows her to affect the past. She becomes desperate at some point (I don't remember why) and tries at first to step back to the point where the gypsy is let into the kingdom. After this attempt fails, she follows the boy's life back to the point where he is ambushed by the gypsy and forced into slavery to save his dog - referred to as a "dancing hound". By doing this, the princess is able to corner the gypsy, and freeze her in time. The princess kills the gypsy by crushing her under an oak that she aged.
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I read this story in middle school or high school and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it. I think it started off in a small clan of people, there was a young boy who had just come of age and he had some kind of gift that related to the books? Also I think the injecting was illegal, because I vaguely remember the boy encountering an old man who had a bunch of books that he had to keep hidden. There was also a city and he met a girl there that was Special some how. I may just be merging memories but I think at some point the boy and girl went to an underground city?  Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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I'm looking for a story that I read back when I was a child. Around 2005, maybe? I recall the book seeming pretty old, but it was from a public library, so it could be simply deteriorated by usage.  The world is being afflicted with a mysterious sickness that has no cure and no one knows where did it come from (it is called gray fever, gray plague or something like that).  The story narrates two young princesses, the elder one would be brave and adventurous, while the younger one would be shy and more delicate. They both fantasized with a future where the younger one would fall sick and the elder one would depart trying to find a cure to save her.  But in reality, the elder one falls sick and the young one is forced to depart. I recall some sort of mage/warlock that helps her giving her a pair of boots that would let her walk big distances almost instantaneously. I also recall the younger one being trapped by a dragon, and in the end the elder one dies from the sickness, but is saved being transformed in a fairy. I also think the sickness is eradicated in the end.