Download or read book The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok written by Hannes Bok and published by American Fantasy. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An omnibus hardcover of Hannes Bok's three solo fantasy novels: The Sorcerer's Ship, Beyond The Golden Stair and Starstone World. Both The Sorcerer's Ship and Beyond the Golden Stair were previously published as part of Ballantine Books' Adult Fantasy paperback line. Starstone World, is a much shorter and darker piece, which has never been reprinted since it appeared in Science Fiction Quarterly #7, [Summer of 1942], over 75 years ago. These aren't your conventional fantasies, although all the trappings are there. His novels have a sly humor with plots containing unconventional twists and turns; a strange metaphysical bent; and his artist's talent for glorious description.