Best of
Fantasy

1969

The Sky is Filled with Ships


Richard C. Meredith - 1969
    And it has held mankind together through two bloody battles with the powerful Alliance of Rebels. -But when Starship Captain and loyal STC employee, Robert Janas, uncovers secret plans for a third rebel uprising, he is surprised to find that no one inside the STC - not evewn the President, Altho Franken will listen. For the Solar Trading Company is riddled with corruption, and is now more powerful than Earth itself. -The rebel forces are gathering, and Robert Janas is the only person who can save humanity from holocaust..

Conan of Cimmeria


Robert E. Howard - 1969
    Sprague de Camp · in 15 · The Curse of the Monolith [“Conan and the Cenotaph”] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss Worlds of Fantasy #1 ’68 33 · The Bloodstained God · L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard · nv Tales of Conan, Gnome, 1955 53 · The Frost-Giant’s Daughter [revised from “Gods of the North”, The Fantasy Fan, Mar ’34] · Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp · ss Fantasy Fiction Aug ’53 64 · The Lair of the Ice Worms · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss * 82 · Queen of the Black Coast · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss * 119 · The Vale of Lost Women · Robert E. Howard · ss Magazine of Horror Spr ’67 140 · The Castle of Terror · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · nv * 161 · The Snout in the Dark · L. Sprague de Camp, Robert E. Howard & Lin Carter · ss *

The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales


Jay Williams - 1969
    In fact, she couldn't be more different: no swooning, getting saved from dragons, or being whisked off by handsome princes. She knows what she wants and just how to get it.

The Wednesday Witch


Ruth Chew - 1969
    But there's a short, fat woman in a long black dress and a pointed hat banging on the door. Illustrated.

A Small Pinch of Weather


Joan Aiken - 1969
    Imagine ordering a sunny day from the local weather witch, asking an appletree to answer the telephone and making a beautiful garden out of old cereal boxes. What would you do if you inherited a real hair loom, or found three ugly old ladies and a dragon on your doorstep and would you need a bicycle if you had a unicorn to ride?

The Warlock in Spite of Himself


Christopher Stasheff - 1969
     In an interstellar romp that proves science and sorcery can mix, only hard-headed realist Rod Gallowglass can save the people of Gramarye from their doom by becoming--The Warlock in Spite of Himself--if only he believed in magic.

Bran Mak Morn: The Last King


Robert E. Howard - 1969
    Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn, the last king of a doomed race.In ages past, the Picts ruled all of Europe. But the descendants of those proud conquerors have sunk into barbarism . . . all save one, Bran Mak Morn, whose bloodline remains unbroken. Threatened by the Celts and the Romans, the Pictish tribes rally under his banner to fight for their very survival, while Bran fights to restore the glory of his race. Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, this collection gathers together all of Howard’s published stories and poems featuring Bran Mak Morn–including the eerie masterpiece “Worms of the Earth” and “Kings of the Night,” in which sorcery summons Kull the conqueror from out of the depths of time to stand with Bran against the Roman invaders. Also included are previously unpublished stories and fragments, reproductions of manuscripts bearing Howard’s handwritten revisions, and much, much more. Special Bonus: a newly discovered adventure by Howard, presented here for the very first time.

A Walk Out of the World


Ruth Nichols - 1969
    A brother and sister walk through a wood into another world whose inhabitants are convinced that the girl is a descendant of a revered but nearly extinct line of kings.

The War for the Lot: A Tale of Fantasy and Terror


Sterling E. Lanier - 1969
    This year Alec's annual summer visit was marred by something very, very, different. Like electricity in the air, an overwhelming, powerful, all pervasive FEAR gripped the Lot and all of its inhabitants. Suddenly Alec was called to arms with a motley band of animals to defend a way of life and save the Lot from dark and evil forces. Could a young boy with the aid of a woodchuck, a skunk, a raccoon and a deermouse save the Lot ?

Catweazle


Richard Carpenter - 1969
    Then one day was different....the only trouble was that the magic had caused him to fly through Time instead of Space. Catweazle ended up at a place called Hexwood Farm, nine centuries later, where everything he saw appeared to happen by magic.

Fantasms and Magics


Jack Vance - 1969
    Otherwise, the same contents.

Surjo Kandle Sona (Golden Tears of the Sun)


Premendra Mitra - 1969
    A huge novel concerning unbelievable experiences of Ganado (Ghanaram Das, ancestor of Ghanada) in South America. This book is based on Spanish imperialism in Central and south America in the 15 to 16 th Centuries. The fall of the Inca Empire is described here. This is basically a historical fiction with lively characters. In author's own words., "Where truth is stranger than imagination and impossible to believe, to obtain the living description of the astonishing chapters of the World; this time I return to ‘’Tosyo Tosyo’’, that is, to some ancestors of Ghanada."

The Yeggs and the Yahbuts


Richard H.R. Smithies - 1969
    The furry little Yahbuts enjoyed a carefree life on their beautiful island in the North Atlantic. They had two kind protectors-the Noumof and his sister, the Griboff-who flew over the island in their sailing flying machine once a year to make sure everything was all right.