Book Related Links
|Bookstores, Publishers etc.| |Favorite books & authors|

Amazon.com 'biggest bookstore on the net' - well, judge for yourself. They also have reviews on many of the books.

LookSmart, books, authors, resources.. worth checking out.

Nerdworld Lot's of links, with description, to bookstores throughout the web.

Another resoursful bookstore, this time in the UK http://www.bookstore.co.uk/

In the states there's quite a few bookshops around, not surprisingly, but I've always found The Future Fantasy Bookstore resourceful to turn too.

Castle Bookshop
"We are a specialist bookseller dealing mainly in books about Archaeology, Local History, Architecture, Wales, Celtic Studies and Linguistics."

Sf-bokhandeln, without any doubt the best bookshop of it's kind in Sweden.

Pocketshop another link for those who're Swedish out there.

Reviews on various S-F/Fantasy books, searchable on authors or titles; Linköpings arkiv.

Publishers on the web:
Delrey
AvonBooks
Tor Books

Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. The funniest, wittiest author in the UK, and, quite possibly the world.
Find out more about him in L-space.
You could also read a short story by him, Theater of Cruelty, here.

L.E Modesitt Jr, his series about a fantasy world with a slightly different approach to magic then the "mainstreem" books is intriguing, and thought-provoking. I quote:

"Entwining issues of magic with maturation, Modesitt's thoughtful coming-of-age tale is adorned with a finely drawn, down-to-earth yet dangerously world, and an intriuingly ambigous view of how good and evil interacts."
- Carol Nelson Douglas, on 'The Magic of Recluce'
author of Probe.

You can also read what's said about him in the Linköping Archives. Or on Amazon.com for that matter

Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time novels.
I can't really say I like his books very much, amongst other things his way of repeating himself is irritating, and the way he describes the women i heartily disagree with, but I'm hooked on them. My main interest is for one of the main characters; Mat.
My own little private, pathetic and quiet protest is that I wouldn't ever buy them in hard cover, should I afford it.
Yes, it's sad. I know.

The first four Thieves World novels, edited by Robert Asprin and written by him and several other authors. Describing an absolutely fascinating city, Asylum, and it's dubious inhabitants. Murder, thieving, corruption, foul play by both Gods and men... you'll find it all there.

Lawrence Watt-Evans, writes quite charming novels, especially about Ethshar.

Bertil Mĺrtenson, an astounding Swedish writer. Unfortunatly, I don't think his books are translated to English.

Mercedes Lackey introduced to me by Svalan for which he has my gratitude.
Her Velgarth books are a great read, and she's written 19 of them this far. All of them are good, more or less, but my favorites are the trilogy 'The Last Herald-Mage' and 'Kerowyn's tale; By The Sword'.

Tad Williams, 'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn'. Good books indeed, classical fantasy and yet no piece of plagiarism. Fastpaced though voluminous, and interesting throughout. Vital characters even die! ;)

OK, and Tolkien of course....

Dick Francis, writes wonderful old-fashion detective stories, mostly somehow involving horses and then particularly racehorses. I just find them irresistable. :)

Shakespeare... of course.

Jane Austen, a marvelous writer which truely appeals to me.

Helene Hanff, with her book "84 Charing Cross Road". A touching selfbiographical story about her correspondans with the Marks & Co. Bookshop for 20 years, starting out as a customer, but soon becoming friends with especially one person in the firm, Frank Doel.
It's a funny, touching, and quite often sarcastic book. Most importantly, it's a piece of reality, presented in the most wonderful way. I absoloutely love this book.
The whole book is solely made up of the real letters that they sent over the years.

Thechov, Russian authour who lived last century, for those of you who don't know about him. It's impossible to describe his work.. you have to read it. I'd recomend "the Bear".

Erich Maria Remarque 'on the westfront nothing new' is a classical and the most known of his books, but he's also written several others.

Sven Hassel Wrote books about WWII, from German soldiers point of view. Not by any means a high quality writer, but his first book 'the legion of the damned' is to me one of the, not best, but most commiting books about the war. It's gritty, detailed and often plain disgusting...

Alf Henrikson, another Swedish writer.
(More about him in the future)

Stagnelius.
Here's my absolute favorite poem of his "Till Förruttnelsen", or "To Putrefication". In Swedish, and translated to English by me.
(With help from Eric, thank you for your help and support, dear. :)

Siegfried Sassoon. His poems about the Great War touches me deeply.
Two of my favorite poems, Aftermath and Vision are to be found on this site where you can search a good title and first line index. Another good site is found on Geocities Capitol Hill

And lastly, I'd like to especially mention the friendliest, cosiest, little bookshop in Sweden; Flemmings Böcker. There's always a cup of coffee(or tea if you prefer), a chair, a laugh, and a warm atmosphere if you stop by.
(OK, so they - No Names Mentioned - can also be a bit tedious with silly jokes.. *grin* Still like the place though.)

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