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Dave
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  		   Posted 6/29/2008 9:37 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Help me build a list: I'm looking for books that feature peopel transported or transferred from earth to a fantasy setting.
 
  1. Guardians of the Flame series by Joel Rosenburg - pretty rough stuff as far as the writing goes, but I enjoyed them
  2. Quag Keep and Return to Quag Keep (although in these books, the characters can't really recall they are from earth)
  3. Gor books by John Norman - no real 'magic' here, although the advanced technology of the priest kings sometimes fill that void
  4. John Carter of Mars - again, technology replaces magic
  5. Thomas Covenant books by Stephen R. Donaldson
  6. Mordant's Need duology by Thomas Covenant (never read these)
  7. Stairway to Forever by Robert Adams (only 2 book finished because he died)
Any more?
 
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  		   Posted 6/29/2008 10:24 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The vast majority of the Narnia books by C.S Lewis involve transportation into a fantasy world (the only exception being The Horse and His Boy) and I'm reasonably sure that Alan Garner's Elidor has some transference between worlds as well.

H Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen/ Gunpower God might sort of fall into the same category, although it is a parallell world (much less technologically developed than our own) rather than a fantasy world per se that the title character finds himself in.

  
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SJHigbee
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  		   Posted 6/29/2008 12:16 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ones that spring to mind are "Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock and Diana Wynn Jones' "Deep Secret" - part of which is set in at convention with very funny scenes. She is a superb writer anyhow...

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ScrewMoonshine
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  		   Posted 6/29/2008 12:27 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
All the books of Madeline L'Engle's "Wrinkle in Time" series involve transportation to a fantastical realm, with the exception of the third(and IMO, best) book, A Swiftly Tilting Planet.

And there's Book 12 of Piers Anthony's Xanth series, Man From Mundania.

Robert Orme

Out now:
"More Than One Way to Protect" in Lords of Justice (www.carnifexpress.net/)
"Time in a Capsule" in Unparalleled Journeys II (www.journeybookspublishing.com/)
"On the Tree Top" in Ultraverse vol.3 #5 (www.ultraverse.us)

Coming soon:
"Replacing Someone" in Aoife's Kiss #26, September 2008 (http://samsdotpublishing.com/aoife/main.htm)

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  		   Posted 6/29/2008 12:56 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" series. Think there were 7 or 8 books.

"Beneath a Persian Sun" upcoming in Carnivah House's "Infinity Swords" anthology
"Peter Piker the Pankin Man" upcoming at Big Pulp
"Killing Just for Fun" upcoming at Demonic Tome

"Deep in the Land of the Ice and Snow" in "The Return of the Sword" anthology
"Terror in the Flare Lights" at The Tiny Globule
"Walking Between the Rain" at Every Day Fiction
"The Note" at Every Day Fiction
"Zombie Tears" at Tales of the Zombie War.
"Steven Spielberg and The Magic Box" at The Ranfurly Review.
"The Death of Lester Williams" at Crimson Highway
"Hot Off the Press" Ray Gun Revival #25, 2007

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AlexMoisi
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  		   Posted 6/30/2008 2:07 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The Dark Tower by Stephen King features many, many traveling between worlds episodes.

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Hazimel
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The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay, a trilogy

Check out my story "Cold Snap" in Lords of Justice from Carnifex Press. It's an anthology of kick-ass super hero novellas.
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John Norman's GOR books with Tarl Cabot featured (in the early part of the series) a guy dragged off of earth to some where else.

Rick Cook's books feature Wiz, a computer programer, who is sucked into a fantasy world. The first one of his and the first one of my accidentally have the same title, Wizard's Bane.

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Gustavo
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Terry Brookks Landover series (starting with Magic Kingdom - For Sale - Sold)
Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon series
Heinlein's Glory Road and Job, a Comedy of Justice

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Anthony G Williams
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  		   Posted 7/3/2008 3:17 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Some lesser-known (but good) ones:

Joy Chant: 'Red Moon and Black Mountain'

R A MacAvoy: 'The Book of Kells'

Alex Comfort: 'Tetrarch'

Sheri Tepper: 'The Marianne Trilogy' (the heroine keeps popping in and out...)

and who could forget the wonderful "Incompleat Enchanter" series by L Sprague de Camp?

 

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Anthony G Williams
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  		   Posted 7/3/2008 3:01 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
There's also Brian Daley's 'The Starfollowers of Coramonde' and its sequel, 'The Doomfarers of Coramonde'. Highly recommended fantasy adventures with laugh-out-loud humour.
 
Greg Bear's 'The Infinity Concerto' and its sequel 'The Serpent Mage'.
 
'The Gandalara Cycle', a trilogy by Garrett and Heydron: effectively an updated version of ERB's 'Carter on Mars' scenario.
 
I think I'm running out out of ideas, but I'll keep perusing my collection...
 

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Steven the Git
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  		   Posted 7/3/2008 9:17 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Tanith Lee, Prince on a White Horse.

    “Hello, I am William Burton, Head of Recruitment and Integration for the Agency for Peaceful Regulation and Definitive Cooperation of Extraordinary Existence.”
 
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DAWaverly
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  		   Posted 7/4/2008 9:12 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
"Armageddon 2419 A.D." a.k.a. 'Buck Rogers' by Philip Francis Nowlan

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"The Journey" at Every Day Fiction
"All That Glitters" at Every Day Fiction

forthcoming
"An Awakening of Shadows" in The Infinity Swords anthology from Carnivah House

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SJHigbee
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"Lisey's Story" by Stephen King. Albeit the fantasy episode is short & most of the book is set in the here and now - it is a pivotal part of the plot. And the book is a masterpiece...

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The Albion Trilogy by Stephen Lawhead

The Harry Potter books! (How could we all forget those? Oversaturation, maybe, like how after a while you forget that your refrigerator is making a constant hum, just blocking it out...)

 
 

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Charles Gramlich
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  		   Posted 7/8/2008 2:51 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
There's a lot of these, where an earthman is transported to a fantasy world. Pretty much all Sword & Planet fits this mold, and that would include:

Dray Prescot series by Alan Burt Akers (Kenneth Bulmer)
Almuric by Robert E. Howard
The Venus series by ERB
Green Star and Callisto series by Lin Carter
World of Tiers series by Philip Jose Farmer
My own Taleran series (Charles Gramlich)
The Llarn series by Gardner Fox
The Blade series by Jeffrey Lord (featuring many planets)
Both a Mars and a Venus series by Otis Adelbert Kline
Gullivar of Mars by Edwin Arnold
Chieftain of Andor and Ardor on Aros by Andrew Offutt
War Gamers World series by Hugh Walker
the Mars trilogy featuring Michael Kane, by Michael Moorcock (originally published under the name Edward P. Bradbury)
Pursuit on Ganymed and The Goddess of Ganymede by Michael Resnick
The Kaldar stories by Edmond Hamilton

Those are ones that come off the top of my head. I know there are more but I'd need to go through my collection to make sure.

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Keralen
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  		   Posted 7/8/2008 10:21 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Then there's that one by Lawrence Watt-Evans that I still can't remember the title of, but I totally hated it. Sorry, LW.
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Dale Staub
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  		   Posted 7/20/2008 10:36 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Here are a couple I didn't spot on the lists.

Maximillion Quest in the book Phoenix prime by Ted white

The entire population of the Earth as well as a couple of aliens in Farmer’s Riverworld series

I have read so many, including quite a few of the ones already listed. I am sure there are many more.

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Dale Staub
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  		   Posted 7/20/2008 10:40 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Oh yeah, I forgot David Brin's book Practice Effect
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  		   Posted 7/20/2008 11:43 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Most of Leigh Brackett's books, but especially the Eric John Stark novels.

Michael Moorcock's City of the Beast. Warrior of Mars series.

The first Witch World book by Andre Norton.

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.
http://www.dianagabaldon.com/

And many of Ken Bulmer's novels, apart from the Dray prescott Scorpio/Kregan series he wrote as Alan Burt Akers. (Which are just as good as any of the ERB Mars or Venus books.)
For a complete list of Ken's books: Part One
http://uk.geocities.com/carognesw/KenBulmer/KBbiblio.htm

Part Two:
http://uk.geocities.com/carognesw/KenBulmer/KBbiblio2.htm

Part Three:
http://uk.geocities.com/carognesw/KenBulmer/KBbiblio3.htm

Cheers: Jaq.

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at www.bikernet.com (Plus many of my motorcycle related articles.)
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  		   Posted 7/25/2008 10:38 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Charles DeLint's Moonheart, and Greenmantle came to mind, many more from him.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Pink Plastic Flamingos" in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/m.html
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Morning Coffee" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/morning-coffee-by-michael-d-turner/
"The Jewel Below" in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com/issues/issue8/vol2-iss8-05.htm
"Happy Landings" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/happy-landings-by-michael-d-turner/
"Teller of Tales" in Every day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/teller-of-tales-by-michael-d-turner/
Read "Silver Shells" In Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/silver-shells-by-michael-d-turner/

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