I am trying to remember the name of a Fantasy series from the 1980's. It contained at least 7 novels.  I remember it was about a magic bottle that was entered by use of the ring. Each novel, whilst a separate story, was connected to the others, building the story of the bottle from different perspectives.  Went to re-read them but found they had been "tidied away" during a house move.  Any ideas on either title of the series or one of the books?
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I have vague recollection of a book (possibly a short series) that involved a bottle trap. When you interacted with the bottle, you were sucked into it and found yourself in a multi-level 'dungeon'. I think there might of been a bottle at that bottom to get yourself out. The same book might have had something about having slow conversations with stones, but it might not and I am really just interested in the bottle concept. It certainly was not written this century. If I had to guess, I would say the 80's, but that is only a guess.
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As a kid I read a book about two boys who hate each other and are opposites to each other (lanky red-haired runner vs. stocky black-haired wrestler). They're transported to a parallel world where they have to undertake some sort of quest. Miscellaneous memory-fragments:   I think there's a magical yin-yang amulet. There's a wolf-spirit or wolf-god. Possibly called Fenrir? What we call magic they call science; what we call poetry they call magic. They're summoned into the other world by a bald man in a robe who looks a little like Varys from GoT.   Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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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 was reading  and was strongly reminded of a series I remember reading in my teens.  This would have been a series of novels (possibly just one), published in English, and likely before 1980 - I read it in the 90s and it was fairly old, a used book.  I do not think it is the same as the linked question, which is why I'm asking this separately.  It was definitely a fantasy, not sci-fi.  Plot:  At least two girls (and possibly also some boys/other girls) are transported from modern Earth into a fantasy world.  I think they're a group of friends, possibly with some romantic pairings, and are in the 16-25 age range.  The first significant scene I remember is two of the girls ending up in a city, where they are taken in by an older female artist (might have been a different creative type, like a sculptor/actress).  She's lesbian/bisexual.  At some point she attempts to give one of the girls a love potion, but they reverse it on her, so instead the artist falls in love with the girl and accompanies her for the rest of the books.  Twist: It's later revealed that the artist's friends recognized the love potion and removed it.  She pretended to be in love and went along because she thought it would be interesting.  At some point at least one of the girls ends up basically being a magical sex slave/prostitute.  I remember her being tattooed or painted - I think in blue - and also possibly given some magical jewellery/piercings that ensure her obedience/love of her owner.  I do not remember much of the over-arching plot, just a few disjointed pieces:  The world has chaos/wild magic storms.  The books might have called them something else.  Anyone or anything caught by these storms is transformed into something else entirely, so different objects or species.  These show up throughout as minor plot encounters.  I think they can be defended against with a special material.  Near the very end, a large storm engulfs a major city, giving it entirely new architecture and transforming the inhabitants into green, hermaphrodites with a centaurish body structure.  I am not 100% sure this was the same novel, but I recall a secondary character with a secret - at night he turns into a woman (not just his body, but an entirely different person).  At some point it's revealed that the woman was his lover, and he saved her life by sharing his body with her - of course, now they can never meet/touch again.
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I remember starting, and losing, a book in the late 80s, early 90s, that I have been trying to  remember for a while now.  It's not much to go on, I realise, but the main crux of the plot, until I left the book in a phone booth :/, was an ice age (either implied or stated, I can't recall) was starting, and a (I think implied) glacier was moving closer to the main castle or walled city of the novel.   The setting was not specifically High Fantasy, but a medieval style setting.  The interesting thing I always remember about the book was that the antagonist appeared to be the ice itself, slowly, but inexorably, getting closer.
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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 read a trilogy of books 5-10 years ago (it could have been an old story by then though) and went to recommend to a friend - but I can't for the life of my remember the author/titles.  In this world, magic and blacksmithing are linked somehow - "mastersmiths"enchant their creations while making them. There are few true "mastersmiths" who can craft in this way, and are held in high, almost god-like esteem.  What I remember:  The main protagonist is recruited by a mastersmith who teaches him the trade     it turns out this master is a bad guy, and he was helping him build some mega-sword of super-death   Later in the story he goes into a sort of self-imposed exile, not making anything too fancy     until someone talks him out of it? I think?   I'm hazy on the main plot details in this one, but     near the end of the book, he forges what to modern eyes would be an iron-man suit, possibly fighting a dragon...   Can anyone help?
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I could use some help identifying a book I read some time in the last year or so. The book goes between two different stories:  1) A student of magic finds a book in a cave that turns out to be a person transformed into a book. The book talks to the student and they share thoughts. At some point, the student runs away, chase ensues, and at the very end of the book, he manages to travel to another plane.  2) A girl in a religious society where magic is forbidden. She is the daughter of painters. She discovers she can see magic. Falls in love with some random painter, risks performing magic to not be pregnant, does it again so she can, and is arrested and sent to some prison thing.  The common element between the stories is that magic use leaves behind a smudge of some kind that can be visible.  Any assistance is appreciated.
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I'm trying to track down a book I borrowed form a library in the UK around 2000/2001. Here are the details I remember:  The story is set in a fantasy world; no connections to our world The main characters are four children who have no connection initially but are brought together over the course of the story The children are all taken in by an elderly woman who starts to develop their magical skills Each of the children has a different type of magic: one is nature, another is related to fabric or clothes A significant plot point is the girl with nature based magic takes in and rears a baby bird. A lot of time is spent discussing how much work it will be to care for this animal The title may have something to do with weaving or thread but I might be confusing this with another story
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In Zelda games, bottles are pretty useful and often there are one or two that are well-hidden. I'm a bit surprised in this one that I've only done 3 dungeons of the game and already found 4 bottles.  How many are there, and where can I find them all?
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When I was a child/teenager, I remember reading a series about someone/someones playing some sort of augmented reality games. The players all wore glasses of some sort so they could see the game world, but underneath everything was a prop or robot. So while the glasses the player wore showed the players monsters, in reality they were actually robots walking around, and instead of a razor sharp sword, it would be a sword style object.  I can't remember if the books were in a series or just in the same game world, but there was more then one. It would have been before 2000. The games they played were like live action roleplaying, it would take several days. I remember in one book they went to some desert, maybe navada or somewhere like that in the US to compete in some event.  It's been bugging me trying to think of the series, so any help would be appreciated.
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I am trying to recall the title of a book series I read in 1980-1981 where the hero was a human astronaut that discovered an alien aircraft crashed on the surface of the moon.  His investigation of the crash site gave him access to alien robots that empowered him to force peace on earth and led to his adventures throughout the universe - some of which involved time travel, etc.  It was a simple paperback novel series that was easy to read without a lot of heavy science.  Is anyone familiar with this series?
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I only remember reading the first book. It was in middle school (around 2009-2011) so I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I know once I see or read the title I'll know it.   I remember that it followed two main characters, a girl and a boy.  The boy was high born and was from a time of magic. He was sent to wizard school in a castle where he and the other boys were taught Socrates style, having to figure out the information on their own with little teaching. They had a cafeteria area where you could eat anything you wanted as long as you could concentrate enough to conjure it from the stone, so the boy ate apples, which he remembered most of all because he fed them to his horses. Eventually, after months of the same thing, the boys began to trade food. But he decided to use the stone to conjure soap, and that's when they gave him new robes, as in him moving up in rank.  The girl was born on a farm. Her mother was sick, so she went to get a healer. They killed her mom, and stole all her valuables from the farm house. I remember more, but I think it would confuse rather than help.  Key information: I believe the stories tie into each other like one is from the past, the other the future...  The books' tone was kind of dreadful with the hope of something better, like the boy could become a great wizard and the girl could solve a problem to this magical rebellion I think or learn more magic.
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I remember reading this great trilogy series about 10-15 years ago. It's about a family living in a dystopian walled city where people are sorted and classed by their intelligence.  The protagonists are twins, a boy and girl. They defy the system and are exiled from the city, along with another boy. They journey across a desert and have many adventures etc. This is only in the first book.  I remember the cover being a big 'S' shaped symbol. It had something to do with a wind chime that was central to the plot.  Edit: There is already another question with the same answer . I did do a search on stackoverflow before I posted this question of course, but I feel I would never have know it's the same question just looking at the title. It's up to the community to close this question as a duplicate.
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I want to find the name of a book I read many years ago. The story is set in Britain. The weather is controlled by magic. I read it in the 60's or early 70's
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I have been searching for so long for a certain series of novels.  The only things I remember about the series is that the covers had an eye and a house partly submerged under water. It was a series of 6 books, each with a different colour. The plot concerns a woman who mysteriously appears after a flood in a southern town ruled by the matriarch of a family. The mysterious woman ends up marrying this matriarch's son and then the fun begins: disappearances and good fortune to those who deserve it.  If this sounds at all familiar, please help.
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This is a series my father read when he was younger (he was born in the 60s) and had me read as a kid, the book cover had the look and feel of classic fantasy novels such as the Wheel of Time series.  It is set in a medieval kingdom, the premise of the book was that in the past a portal had opened up to another world and an alien race tried to invade, they were beaten back and the portal was shut.   From what I remember as the series progresses another portal opens up and a war starts with said alien race.  At one point in the series one of the main characters ends up going through the portal and ends up as a slave to an alien race. Where he was enslaved was akin to a plantation in a swamp (I believe).   There is also a very vague memory of female assassin like character in a castle on an peninsula. Full disclosure, that detail may be from a different series/not very helpful.