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Great Science-Fiction
& Fantasy Works

science-fiction & fantasy literature:
a critical list with discussions

Particular Science-Fiction & Fantasy Books By Author:
Last Name Begins With D

You might want to also look at the listings on the two pages bullet-listed below, which are of authors and books not yet read here but which appear, for various reasons--typically, many strongly positive reviews by sources I consider credible--to be plausible candidates for these lists:

• Other Books by Authors Already Listed Here
• Authors Not Yet Listed Here

The Authors:

• Dahl, Roald *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  
  
  
• Dalkey, Kara *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Euryale
  
  
  
• Davidson, Avram ****
  
  (yet another "plus a half-star" case)
  
  
  • Ursus of Ultima Thule
  • The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy
  • The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy
    (includes the Enquiries and adds some five stories of Eszterhazy in youth, but they are late additions to the cycle and regrettably are clearly weaker).
    
    
  • The Island Under the Earth Trilogy:
    
    • The Island Under the Earth
    • # The Six-Limbed Folk
    • # The Cap of Grace
    Those last two books were planned but never written: Davidson abandoned the series.
    
    
  • Limekiller
  • The Peregrine Trilogy:
    
    • Peregrine: Primus
    • Peregrine: Secundus
    • # Peregrine: Tertius
      This last book was planned but never written: Davidson abandoned the series.
    
    
    
  • The Vergil Cycle:
    
    • The Phoenix and the Mirror
    • Vergil in Averno
    • # The Scarlet Fig
    
    
  • The Boss in the Wall
  • Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty
    
    
  • The Short-Story Collections:
    (There are two volumes of preferred editions that collect most of his best short-story work.)
    (There may well be some overlap in the contents of the books listed below)
    
    
    • Or All the Seas with Oysters *
    • What Strange Stars and Skies *
    • Strange Seas and Shores *
    • The Redward Edward Papers *
    • The Best of Avram Davidson *
    • The Collected Fantasies of Avram Davidson *
    • The Avram Davidson Treasury *
    • The Other Nineteenth Century *
  
  
  
• Davies, Robertson ***
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Murther and Walking Spirits
  
  
  
• Davis, Kathryn **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Thin Place
  
  
  
• De Bernieres, Louis *
  
  
  • The Latin American Trilogy:
    
    • The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
    • # Senor Vivo And The Coca Lord
    • # The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
  
  
  
• DeMarinis, Rick # **
  
  
  • Cinder
  
  
  
• Dexter, Susan *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Wizard's Shadow
    
    
  • The Warhorse of Esdragon Cycle:
    
    • The Prince of Ill Luck
    • The Wind-Witch
    • The True Knight
  
  
  
• Dickinson, Peter **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Blue Hawk
    (nominally a "juvenile")
  
  
  
• Disch, Thomas M. **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Camp Concentration
  
  
  
• Dowling, Terry **
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Rynosseros
  
  
  
• Dorsey, Candas Jane *
  
  
  • A Paradigm of Earth
  
  
  
• Ducornet, Rikki *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • Phosphor in Dreamland
  
  
  
• Duncan, Dave *
  (For more possible titles by this author, see the "Unrated Books by Rated Authors" page.)
  
  
  • The Seventh Sword Trilogy:
    
    • The Reluctant Swordsman
    • The Coming of Wisdom
    • The Destiny of the Sword
    
    
  • The Omar Duo:
    
    • The Reaver Road
    • The Hunters' Haunt
    
    
  • The Great Game Trilogy:
    
    • Past Imperative
    • Present Tense
    • Future Indefinite
  
  
  
• Dunsany, Lord *****
  
  A Dunsany bibliography can be confusing, for three reasons: first, many of his original titles are quite similar; second, some of his books are known under two titles; and third--and most serious--many later-assembled collections of his tales, containing a few stories each from a number of his original works, have titles confusingly similar to those original works. I have tried below to sort out some of the mess, though I'm not sure whether I have helped or made it more confusing yet. I have omitted all books composed entirely of poetry or of plays, which is arbitrary on my part but there it is.
  
  
  • The Original Short-Story Books:
    (There is a preferred edition collecting six of the first seven of these.)
    
    
    • The Gods of Pegana
    • Time and the Gods *
      (not be confused with the stupendously ill-named omnibus of like title)
    • The Sword of Welleran *
      (not be confused with the collection The Sword of Welleran Other Tales of Enchantment)
    • A Dreamer's Tales *
      (not be confused with the collection A Dreamer's Tales & Other Stories)
    • The Book of Wonder *
      (not be confused with the collection Book of Wonder, nor with The Last Book of Wonder)
    • Fifty-One Tales * aka The Food of Death *
    • Tales of Wonder * aka The Last Book of Wonder *
    • Tales of Three Hemispheres *
    • The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms *
    • # The Man Who Ate the Phoenix *
    
    
  • The Novels:
    
    • The Chronicles of Rodrigues aka Don Rodriguez
    • The King of Elfland's Daughter
    • The Charwoman's Shadow
    • The Blessing of Pan
    • The Curse of the Wise Woman
    • My Talks With Dean Spanley
    • The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders
    
    
  • The Jorkens Sextet:
    These are all collections of short stories featuring Jorkens.
    (There is now a preferred edition collecting the entire lot.)
    
    
    • The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
    • Jorkens Remembers Africa
    • Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey
    • The Fourth Book of Jorkens
    • Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey
    • The Last Book of Jorkens
    
    
  • Later Edited Collections:
    (There is much overlap in the contents of the books listed below, which contain no tales not in the books listed above.)
    
    
    • Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany *
    • A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories *
    • Book of Wonder *
    • The Sword of Welleran and Other Tales of Enchantment *
    • At the Edge of the World *
    • Beyond the Fields We Know *
    • Gods, Men and Ghosts *
    • Over the Hills and Far Away *
    • Bethmoora and Other Stories *
    • The Exiles' Club and Other Stories *
    • The Lands of Wonder *
    • The Hashish Man and Other Stories *
    • In the Land of Time *
    • Time and the Gods, a collection *
  
  
  

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