British Literature: Fantasy

Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.

As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the "Starclimber" and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.

Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are inseparable twin brothers who stumble upon The Dark Library, where secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are housed, but after their father forbids them to ever return to the library Konrad falls gravely ill and Victor seeks out a cure for his brother beyond traditional medicine.

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.

The people of Krikkit are planning to destroy the rest of the universe.

Arthur Dent is forced to leave his idyllic life and travel on the back of a mysterious Perfectly Normal Beast to save the Earth and others.

In this science fiction spoof, a sequel to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Arthur Dent and his friends encounter new adventure and danger in their space travels.

Further adventures of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, and the all new voidoid gang upon returning to Earth after eight years of crazed wanderings around the galaxy in this science fiction spoof which continues the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe."

Shadow sets out on a journey across America fighting old myths and the gods of modern technology and material obsession when he takes employment with a man named Wednesday--otherwise known as the god Odin--after his release from prison and his wife's sudden death.

Charlie Nancy was leading a comfortable life until his father died and discovered that dear old dad was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he had a brother, Spider, who inherited some of his father's godlike abilities.

At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.

The third volume in the Claidi Journals trilogy finds the heroine on a quest to find her beloved Argul who believes she willingly abandoned him on their wedding day--a journey that brings her to the Raven Tower and a woman who just might be her mother.

When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.

Claidi, kidnapped on the day of her wedding by guards from Wolf Tower, is taken to a strange palace with mechanical servants and rooms that move, but she is able to win the trust of palace keeper Prince Venn, and together they plan her escape. Presented in the form of journal entries.

After generations of existing in the human-sized world, a group of four-inch-high nomes discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square called the Thing.

King Verence unwittingly invites trouble when he opens the doors of the castle to Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, to celebrate the birth of his daughter.

A wizard named Rincewind is pursued, not by a deadly messenger, but by Death himself while guiding a tourist through the unique land of Discworld.

When Agnes Nutter predicts that the end of the world is days away, the demon Crowley and his angel friend, Aziraphale, team up to save humankind.

As autumn comes to Ankh-Morpork, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes and the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen.

Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary, solves the mystery of an attempted assassination and a theft that leads to a chase from the halls of Discworld royalty to the fat mines of Uberwald.

The citizens of Discworld have a fire-breathing problem on their hands when a noble dragon--one of a supposedly extinct species--appears in town and assumes the throne.

Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.

When Discworld's opera house is found to be haunted, a trio of witches is summoned to flush out the unwanted ghost but the results only seem to complicate matters.

Tiffany, a young witch-to-be in the land of Discworld, teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue toughs, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

Witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, forcing her to turn to the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.

An invitation to an art exhibit sets off memories in a now grown-up Richard of the pivotal summer of 1976 when, as a lonely and naive fifteen-year-old vacationing in South Wales, he comes under the enthralling influence of the artistic, uninhibited, sometimes cruel, and ultimately tragic Dalton family.

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.

Henry Alherton, Pyrgus, and Holly Blue must save the Faerie Realm from the evil Hairstreak and with the help of forest faeries, find their way back from exile.

While simultaneously trying to prevent and prepare for war between the Faeries of the Night and Faeries of the Light, Queen Holly Blue is kidnapped from her Uncle Hairstreak's home by human Henry Atherton and learns she must face another, far greater enemy.

When a terrible plague takes over the faerie realm and causes its inhabitants to age unnaturally quickly, Henry and Blue must find a cure in order to save the realm.

Scientists around the world jump into action when the Earth is infected with a ten-dimensional superstring nanovirus that literally eats rock, transforming into liquid, and then into black holes that devour the fabric of space-time.

Reid Malenfant, gambling that the exploration and colonization of space will provide a brighter future for the struggling inhabitants of Earth in 2010, builds a spacecraft to be piloted by the genetically enhanced Sheena 5, not realizing that Sheena has plans of her own.

In the year 2015, the world is thrown into chaos when a red moon appears in the Earth's orbit, and NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant and his wife, Emma, have landed on the strange planet, where they learn the powerful truth about the origins of the universe.

When a young man discovers a time machine, he finds himself stranded in a far off galaxy with no way to return home and nothing to defend himself with against the planet's inhabitants.

An alternate history in which American historian Mary Wooler is caught in the Nazi invasion of England and uncovers a conspiracy that threatens both the past and future.

Jon Shannow struggles to defeat the mysterious Deacon and his evil crusade before their evil, violent actions lead to the end of the world.

Young Thuro turns to the mountain warrior Culain for help when he is chosen to travel to the land of the Mist and retrieve the Sword of Power that can defeat the armies of the ruthless Witch Queen.

Waylander the Slayer, once a champion of the Drenai, now finds himself hunted by his own people, and his situation worsens when he is separated from his daughter, the beautiful and deadly Battle Queen of Kar-Barzac, who also has a price on her head.

Druss, Captain of the Ax, has given up the warrior life and retired to his mountain lair to wait for death, but he is called out of his self-imposed exile to fight one last battle when the Nadir hordes launch an assault against the six-walled fortress, Dros Delnach, the only thing protecting the Drenai people.

Presents the third volume in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, in which brilliant and brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ranson amasses forces to fight against a sinister technocratic organization, secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, that is plotting to "recondition" society.

A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.

When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help to fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden Lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.

Presents the first volume in Lewis's Space Trilogy, originally published in 1943, in which Dr. Ransom, kidnapped by a megalomaniacal physicist and his assistant, and taken to the red planet of Malacandra as a human sacrifice, escapes and sets out on an adventure in a land very different from Earth.

Dr. Ranson faces evil when the planet Perelandra is invaded by a dark force who strives to create a new world order.

Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil.

Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.

Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism. Sequel to "Prince Caspian."

Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.

In the mountains of Switzerland, the wicked Count Karlstein plots to abandon his two nieces in a hunting lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly hounds.

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Presents Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, in which Lyra and Will, two orphaned children from different worlds, discover objects that give them insight into truth and wisdom and find themselves at the heart of the final war between the Authority and Lord Asriel. Includes additional material by Pullman after each book.

In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg. Includes illustrations and a board game.

The discovery of the One Ring ignites the great war between good and evil in Middle-earth, as a courageous group of adventurers embarks on a perilous quest to destroy the dangerous artifact.

Presents six episodes, in verse and prose, from the history of Valinor and Middle-earth, the imaginary lands created by J.R.R. Tolkien, including "The Fall of Gondolin," each with notes and commentary.

Contains the three-volume "Lord of the Rings," an epic adventure set in the fantasy world of the Third Age of Middle-earth, and includes the prequel, "The Hobbit," which introduces the characters, setting, and situation around which the trilogy revolves.

Contains two epic poems that describe episodes from the history of Middle-earth, the imaginary land created by J.R.R. Tolkien, including "The Lay of the Children of Hurin," and "The Lay of Leithian."

Contains The Fellowship of the ring, The Two towers, and The Return of the king, appendices, indexes, and notes on the text.

A dog who has been turned into a toy dog encounters rival wizards and experiences various adventures on the moon with giant spiders, dragon moths, and the Great White Dragon.

Includes "The Silmarillion," and four short works: "Ainulindalë," "Valaquenta," "Akallabeth," and "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age."

Presents translations of three medieval English poems, including the Arthurian Romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; "Pearl," an elegy on the death of a young child; and "Sir Orfeo," the story of a king who goes into exile after his wife is stolen by magic.

The dark forces of Mordor spread throughout Middle-earth and the fellowship forged to destroy the One Ring of power is broken, leaving Frodo the hobbit and Sarnwise Gamgee alone to return the ring to Mount Doom.

Contains the second portion of Tolkien's narrative writing on the subject of the Elder Days in the years after "The Lord of the Rings," telling of the conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord, and continuing the saga of Turin Turambar and his sister Nienor.

Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.

Artemis Fowl, having reverted to his criminal ways, travels to Berlin to steal a famous painting from a German bank, not realizing his old rival, Opal Koboi, has been waiting for a chance to destroy him.

Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.

Twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

When an army of fairy space probes programmed to destroy Atlantis return to Earth, Artemis Fowl attempts to stop the destruction of the city while dealing with his delusional and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl goes up against his arch rival Opal Koboi one more time after Opal reanimates dead fairies, who were buried in the grounds of Fowl Manor, and the spirits possess his little brother.

Teenager Artemis Fowl solves a temporal equation that helps him and Captain Holly Short track fairy demons who are appearing from another dimension, but there is another person who has figured out the formula and abducts one of the beings.

Artemis's fairy friends help him travel back in time to find a cure for his mother's rare disease which can only be cured by the brain fluid of now-extinct African lemurs, and is shocked to discover that his younger self was responsible for bringing about the animal's extinction.

Orphan Meg Finn's soul becomes the object of a battle between the demonic and the divine after she is killed in an accidental explosion while attempting to rob an elderly manand arrives in the afterlife to find the tally on her good and evil deeds is dead even.

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to apprehend a criminal who is murdering characters from works of literature and has chosen Jane Eyre as his next victim.

Conway, one of four people whose plane crashed while they were fleeing a civil war in a foreign land, is rescued along with the rest of his group by a mysterious Chinese man who takes them to safety in Shangri-la, a land of peace and beauty where they are offered near immortality on the condition that they never leave.

A collection of disparate characters from different countries and centuries find their stories linked through a bizarre series of events.

In a world similar to Victorian London, Thaniel, a seventeen-year-old hunter of deadly, demonic creatures called the wych-kin, takes in an lost, possessed girl, and becomes embroiled in a plot to unleash evil on the world.