lawrence watt-evans

Hi, I'm looking for help to identify a book that I read about 30 years ago, of which I can only remember the story line and I'd like to know the title of the book and the author so that I can perhaps read the book again and perhaps other books by the same author. The story line that I remember...

I dont remember the title of the book and the characters have names that are super normal. The first book is from the point of view of Sword who lost his name when he took up the mantle of Sword. He trained under the previous sword everyday before picking up the dying mans sword and mantle. The...

sci-fi novel: 1990s found as a paperback in local library. It reads like a sequel but I have never found another in the series. Earth has sent explorers programmed with multiple personalities (to better cope with different situations) into space to assess planets for danger. Their ships are...

I'm looking for a trilogy written sometime in the 60s or 70s, I think. One of the books has a 'halfman' riding a giant black cat on the cover. This book starts with the halfman visiting a human village and meeting a man dressed all in yellow (in a pub). The halfman turns out to be an avatar...

The Wizard Lord Lawrence Watt-Evans Tor, Mar 2006, $26.95, 336 pp. ISBN 0765310260 The Wizard Lord rules over Barokan, but his powers are kept somewhat in check by The Chosen Ones (the Leader, the Seer, the Swordsman, the Beauty, the Thief, the Scholar, the Archer, and the Speaker) who can...

The Ninth Talisman Lawrence Watt Evans Tor, May 2007, $25.95, 300 pp. ISBN 0765310279 After the Swordsman killed the Dark Lord of the Galbook Hlls, a Wizard Lord gone rogue, he returned to his small community of Mad Oak and became part of the farming community. He is one of eight Chosen, men...

The Summer Palace Lawrence Watts-Evans Tor, Jun 2008, $24.95 ISBN: 9780765310286 The Red Wizard continues his campaign to kill all other magical practitioners including his peers and the Chosen, those humans specifically selected by the Council of Wizards to protect people from magical abuse of...

A Young Man Without Magic Lawrence Watt-Evans Tor, Nov 2009, $27.95 ISBN: 9780765322791 In Lume, food riots break out while noble magicians use commoners as sacrifices to bring in a needed harvest. The orphaned son of two renowned sorcerers who died using magic, Anrel Marau shows no skills so...

There are 2 books i'm looking for, and i think they're by the same author: In the first one there is a kingdom at war and someone from the kingdom hires a warlock to fight for him. The strange part is the kingdom is near the edge of the world, and as the warlock gets closer to the edge of the...

There are two stories that I remember reading as a child and I'd like to look them up. Unfortunately the intervening decades have cleared my memory of the titles and no amount of googling for the things I remember can locate them. Any ideas about how I can get my hands on these again would be...

I'm having a devil of a time trying to remember the title of a book I read sometime in the early eighties. It may have been written earlier than that, and there were indications that it was part of a larger series though I can't remember reading anything else with the same character. All I...

I hope the good people in this forum can help me identify a fantasy book series I've lost in memory. I believe it was published in the 1980s - at least that's when I read and collected the paperback books. The gist of the series had the hero (male) complete a gamut of labors (like Hercules)...

there are two books i read a while back that i no longer have and am not sure if i have the titles right b/c i can't find them online anywhere. one i am pretty sure was called "queen of demons" except that its not the "david drake" one i keep finding, at least i am pretty sure. the...

What does a chap do with an enchanted sword? This is what Valder, an army scout, has the problem of finding out after his sword is enchanted by a disgruntled wizard in a hurry and finding that enchantment can be a double edged. Obviously it kills people, even if only one at a time. So the...