Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara [SCIENCE FICTION BROOKS]

• Shea Ohmsford, the last descendant of the Shannara bloodline, must take up the Sword of Shannara against the Warlock Lord who would destroy the world (Book 1 of The Shannara Trilogy).

Stephen R. Donaldson - Lord Foul's Bane [SCIENCE FICTION DONALDSON]

• Thomas Covenant is hit by a car and wakes to find himself in an alternate world faced with a desperate quest, yet through it all he refuses to believe in the reality of his situation. (Book 1 of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever)

David Eddings - Pawn of Prophecy [SCIENCE FICTION EDDINGS]

• The simple farm life of Garion, a young orphan, is turned upside down when his Aunt Pol suddenly packs them up and he learns that he is actually a king with magic powers. (Book 1 of The Belgariad)

Kate Elliott - King's Dragon [SCIENCE FICTION ELLIOTT]

• In a land torn by civil war and deadly raids by an inhuman race, two innocents, Alain and Liath, must face personal struggles for identity and assume their true destinies in a battle of sorcery. (Volume 1 of Crown of Stars)

David Farland - The Runelords: The Sum of All Men [SCIENCE FICTION FARLAND]

• A young prince battles a powerful runelord who is laying waste to the countryside and taking endowments such as wit, metabolism, and beauty from people in order to become the sum of all men. (Volume 1 of The Runelords)

Raymond E. Feist - Magician [SCIENCE FICTION FEIST ]

• When invaders from another dimension swarm through the Kingdom of the Isles, Pug, an apprentice magician, is snatched through a magic Rift and granted a new magic which places the destinies of two worlds in his youthful hands. (Volume 1 of The Riftwar Saga)

Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule [SCIENCE FICTION GOODKIND]

• Richard saves Kahlen from four assassins, becoming her partner and protector in the fight to prevent Darken Rahl from acquiring the Sword of Truth and ultimate magical power. (Book 1 of The Sword of Truth)

Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice [SCIENCE FICTION HOBB]

• Fitz, the illegitimate son of a prince, is secretly raised to serve the royal house as an assassin. (Volume 1 of The Farseer)

J.V. Jones - The Baker's Boy [SCIENCE FICTION JONES]

• After years spent copying arcane books of magic, an illiterate baker's boy named Jack develops a talent for sorcery and must run from his evil master, along with a young noblewoman running from an unacceptable marriage. (Volume 1 of The Book of Words)

Guy Gavriel Kay - The Summer Tree [SCIENCE FICTION KAY]

• Five college students are transported from modern-day Canada to Fionavar, where a sorcerer hopes they can help save the land from an evil god. (Book 1 of The Fionavar Tapestry)

Katharine Kerr - Daggerspell [SCIENCE FICTION KERR]

• While the sorcerer Nevyn helps to shape the lives of royalty and fight evil in Deverry, he waits for the woman he loved and wronged to be reincarnated so he can help her to find her true destiny. (First of the Deverry books)

George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones [SCIENCE FICTION MARTIN]

• In a medieval society plagued with seasons of extraordinary length, seven families plot to acquire the throne, while an unknown evil grows in the north. (Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire)

Elizabeth Moon - Sheepfarmer's Daughter [SCIENCE FICTION MOON]

• Paks refuses her father's orders to marry the pig farmer down the road and is off to join the army. And so her adventure begins--the adventure that transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to restore a lost ruler to his throne. (Book 1 of The Deed of Paksenarrion)

Melanie Rawn - Dragon Prince [SCIENCE FICTION RAWN]

• Rohan, new prince of the Desert, and Sioned, the witch fated to be his bride, strive to bring peace to a divided kingdom and save the last of the dragons. (Book 1 of the Dragon Prince trilogy)

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring [SCIENCE FICTION TOLKIEN]

• The hobbit Frodo Baggins inherits his uncle Bilbo's magic ring and, along with three friends and the aid of the wizard Gandalf, must flee his home to keep the ring from falling into the hands of the powers of darkness. (The first part of The Lord of the Rings)

Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair [SCIENCE FICTION WILLIAMS ]

• Unaware of his heritage, Simon begins a quest for the solution to a riddle about long-lost swords of power that are the only hope of salvation in a war fueled by the dark powers of sorcery. (Book 1 of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn)

Janny Wurts - Curse of the Mistwraith [SCIENCe FICTION WURTS]

• For 500 years Athera has been covered by fog and mist and embroiled in chaos and war. The only hope to defeat the Mistwraith is the combined powers of two half-brothers who are divided by generations of blood feud. (Volume 1 of The Wars of Light and Shadow)