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Fiction

TexasProgresive

(12,275 posts) Mon Nov 25, 2013, 06:43 AM Nov 2013

Looking for 2 SciFi books

One had "star lords" who fought great wars during which planets and galaxies went out of existence, of something like that.
The other had a kraken which was controlled by a miniature kraken token encased in a transparent substance- maybe a cube. It was quite small like on a key chain.

I read these years ago and I can't stand that I can't remember the titles or authors.

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Looking for 2 SciFi books (Original Post) TexasProgresive Nov 2013 OP

Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merit Agnosticsherbet Nov 2013 #1

Edmond Hamilton wrote some books about Star Lords and Star Kings TexasProgresive Nov 2013 #2

FYI TuxedoKat Jan 2014 #3

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

1. Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merit

Reply to TexasProgresive (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 10:30 AM

Nov 2013

Perhaps.

The other, look up the Dray Prescott series by Kenneth Bulmer or E. E. Doc Smith which has a similar tale.

TexasProgresive

(12,275 posts)

2. Edmond Hamilton wrote some books about Star Lords and Star Kings

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:17 AM

Nov 2013

So maybe that's one

The A. Merit book doesn't ring a bell but I will see if I can locate it.

Thanks

TuxedoKat

(3,821 posts)

3. FYI

Reply to TexasProgresive (Original post)

Thu Jan 2, 2014, 11:02 PM

Jan 2014

I have been looking for some obscure books I read back in the '70s. There are a number of forums where you can post info about your books and hopefully someone will identify them for you. Here are a some of the forums:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/185-what-s-the-name-of-that-book

http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?31776-Lost-book-title (This one is for SciFi)

This one below is $4.00 per search, but if your title is found you can use that towards the cost of the used book:

Here's another one I was looking for earlier but couldn't find it has links to other search forums too:

hhttp://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:Name_that_Bookttp://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/?page_id=8

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