Richard L. Purtill

• Dec-1979
• / Fantasy
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GOLDEN GRYPHON In those days the blood of the gods circulated among mortals, and wonderworkers lived side by side with ordinary folk. Chryseis was a princess in whom strange forces and ancient mysteries contended. But she herself had to work out t...

• Dec-1980
• / Fantasy
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Weaving from the same magic cloth that endeared the late Thomas Burnett Swann to his myriad fantasy readers, Richard Purtill again explores the wonders of pre-Grecian Kaphtu in this unusual flight of the imagination. This is the story of Ducalion ...

• Jan-1982
• / Suspense
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• Oct-1983
• / Fantasy
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The story of Helen of Troy is one of the great classics of all time, yet there still remains much that could be told. In this unusual fantasy novel, Richard Purtill dares to look behind the scenes to depict in living color what it was really like to ...

• Jul-1984
• / Science Fiction
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Being a clone can certainly have its advantages. For one thing, it's unlikely that someone would go to the trouble to clone the average Joe on the street; more likely one would seek to duplicate a brilliant statesman, a scientific genius, a famous po...

• Jan-2005
• / Fantasy
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Vicki Marsden, an orphan in Edwardian England, little dreams she will encounter the eminent figures of the day: King Edward the Seventh, archeologist Arthur Evans, suffragette Christobel Pankhurst, and journalist G.K. Chesterton. But her adventures a...

• May-2006
• / General Fiction
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LOST TALES OF KAPHTU: BOOK TWO Two women: one an Olympian goddess, one a mortal human being. Two quests: Chryseis searches the Three Worlds seeking a stolen goddess. Alceme strives to find the secret of the gods. When their two quests become one, the...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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After the Trojan War, came the perilous voyage home. This is the true story of Odysseus' return from Troy. Or is it? "I am an old hand at telling tales," he boasts in Letter to Nausicaa, "usually with a purpose: to gain sympathy, to make myself look ...

• Nov-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Worlds collide in an epic adventure across time and space.

Droste’s eyes met mine as he said quietly, “As near as we can tell, from the time of your last genuine memory until now is about five hundred years.”

“Prince Casmir i...