15 Top fantasy books like Tales of Three Hemispheres by Lord Dunsany

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Tales of Three Hemispheres

By: Lord Dunsany

3.85

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

From "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla": From steaming lowlands down by the equator, where monstrous …

"Nothing like changing your illusions,"

-Lord Dunsany, Tales of Three Hemispheres

If you liked the fantasy plot in Tales of Three Hemispheres by Lord Dunsany , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. Fevre Dream

By: George R.R. Martin

3.89

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy arist… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Sometimes I think … the humanity of him is all hollow, a mask … he is only an old animal, so ancient it has lost even the taste for food, but it hunts on nonetheless, because that is all it remembers…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"Some mate," Karl Framm said with contempt. "Hell, that little stern-wheeler we're chasin' don't draw nothin'. After a good rain, she could steam halfway across the city of N'Orleans without ever noti…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"You know I never held much with slavery, even if I never done much against it neither. I would of, but those damned abolitionists were such Bible-thumpers. Only I been thinkin', and it seems to me ma…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

"ABNER Marsh had a mind that was not unlike his body. It was big all around, ample in size and capacity, and he crammed all sorts of things into it. It was strong as well; when Abner Marsh took someth…"

-George R.R. Martin, Fevre Dream

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3. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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4. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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  • fiction
"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

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5. The Left Hand of Darkness

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The king was pregnant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"The light is the left hand of darkness"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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6. Suffer the Children

By: John Saul

3.72

Format: None pages,

Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found . One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a prett… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Cabal

By: Clive Barker

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

For more than two decades, Clive Barker has twisted the worlds of horrific and surrealistic fiction… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Earth's Last Citadel

By: C.L. Moore , Henry Kuttner

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

Four adventurers find themselves at Carcasilla, earth's last citadel, a billion years from now. It … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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10. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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12. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

13. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

14. Sandkings

By: George R.R. Martin

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Simon Kress returned to his home planet of Baldur from an offworld business trip, he was amuse… read more

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15. Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more

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16. Puck of Pook's Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling , Arthur Rackham

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A pair of children happen across an ancient shrine, where they conjure up an impish sprite named Pu… read more

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17. The Day of the Triffids

By: John Wyndham

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more

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18. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • short stories
"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

19. The Beetle

By: Richard Marsh

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The Beetle' (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man," with … read more

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20. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

Maurice and the rats have teamed up with a young lad named Keith to implement a clever moneymaking … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The second mouse gets the cheese!"

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"I am not so blind that I can't see darkness."

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows."

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"And I say take two, sir," said Maurice urgently. "Two and call it quits?"

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

21. Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail

By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to l… read more

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22. Covenant with the Vampire (The Diaries of the Family Dracul, #1)

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

4.42

Format: 344 pages,

A sensual, terrifying, incredibly accomplished first novel, this fascinating prequel to the classic… read more

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23. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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24. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)

By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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25. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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26. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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27. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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28. The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

By: Arthur Machen

3.89

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentac… read more

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  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"He could even talk about painting, and that's more than can be said of most painters."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

"Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are al…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories

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29. Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

3.68

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Tales of Three Hemispheres by Lord Dunsany

30. Tales of Three Hemispheres

By: Lord Dunsany

3.85

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

From "The Last Dream of Bwona Khubla": From steaming lowlands down by the equator, where monstrous … read more

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  • classics
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Nothing like changing your illusions,"

-Lord Dunsany, Tales of Three Hemispheres

21 Best fiction books like Tales of Three Hemispheres by Lord Dunsany

Transform Your Habits

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

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Fevre Dream

George R.R. Martin

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Transform Your Habits

La carte et le territoire

Michel Houellebecq

3.95

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20 Top fiction books like Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi

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They Lurk

Ronald Malfi

3.79

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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All the Fiends of Hell

Adam L.G. Nevill

4.01

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