Titles starting with M from Fantastic Planet Books

A princess, joining the quest for a missing magical orb that may protect the land from Torak, begins to fall in love with the former farmhand Garion, whose powers keep growing stronger. The third book in the Balgariad series.

Although this classic children's fantasy was originally published as the sixth installment of the Chronicles of Narnia, it actually takes place earliest in the sequence. Set at the turn of the 20th century, it features Digory Kirke, the elderly owner of the magic wardrobe so critical to THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, as a boy. Using rings crafted by Digory's Uncle Andrew, an unscrupulous and not terribly skilled magician, Digory and his friend Polly travel to various other worlds, where Digory rashly awakens a sinister, overbearing witch-queen locked in magical slumber, and inadvertently transports her to London and then to Narnia at the moment of its creation.

In the sequel to "The Mirror of Her Dreams", Terisa and Geraden are drawn into a battle that threatens their chances of ever leaving the magical land of Mordant.

Following an aborted tenure with NASA, Reid Malenfant, now an extremely wealthy businessman, has developed his own space program. Surrounding himself with the best and brightest scientists that money can hire, he discovers a rift in time that suggests a number of possible timelines into the future. Through this rift, Malenfant and his team may be able to shape the future but, in doing so, could irreparably destroy the past.

It seems as if nothing can save the animals holed up in Redwall Abbey from the siege of the evil one-eyed rat Cluny and his wicked band. Matthias, a young novice at the Abbey, vows to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior, founder of the Abbey, and use it against Cluny. On his quest to find the sword, Matthias befriends many animals, and these friendships, along with the sword, help Matthias triumph over the evil Cluny and bring peace to the Abbey.

A boy sets off on a quest to find the relatives of his cat familiar, who has been killed. Facing danger and mystery at every turn, he is forced to grow up as he seeks a secret society of cats.

This work of social SF is set in a brutal near-future London, where the class divisions have never been sharper and the rush-hour commute may literally be a duel to the death. Chris Faulkner is a rising star at Shorn Associates, a corporation that makes its profits by determining which will be the winning side in various petty wars, investing both in dictatorships and in insurgents to ensure the accuracy of its predictions. Helped by his wife, Chris is gradually beginning to see that this is perhaps not the most ethical way to live, but he may not survive long enough to find another path. MARKET FORCES won the 2005 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel.

The brown-skinned, yellow-eyed people of Mars live a beautiful, peaceful life rich with art, music, and philosophy, until the humans from Earth land on their planet and attempt to colonize it in this classic collection of linked short stories. The planet Mars acts as a mirror to the worst (and, very occasionally, the best) of humanity--sometimes literally, as when the telepathic Martians masquerade as the humans' long-dead relatives. Eventually, the humans are defeated, both on Mars and on Earth, by their own weaknesses. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES is not hard SF in any sense. It's a poetic, mythic vision of Mars, as Percival Lowell might have imagined it to be when he saw shadows through his telescope and thought they were canals. And it's a series of vignettes about real people who react in very familiar ways in a strange place. As Bradbury describes it in his introduction to the revised 1997 edition, he was attempting to write WINESBURG, OHIO, set on Mars.

Martin, a slave mouse, becomes a warrior and starts on a quest for freedom with other furry friends. A part of the "Redwall" series.

Vampiric beings, insane gunmen, obsessed film editors, and bizarrely scarred individuals all have their roles to play in this frisson-inducing collection of literary speculative fiction and horror, edited by Michael Chabon. The luminaries in this anthology include Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Roddy Doyle, Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), and Jonathan Lethem. Each story features an illustration in black-and-white by Mike Mignola, creator of the critically acclaimed comic book series HELLBOY.