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1984by George OrwellISBN 1595404325 (1-59540-432-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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- 1984: ISBN 1421808323 (1-4218-0832-3)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - 1984: ISBN 0451524934 (0-451-52493-4)
Softcover, Signet Classic - 1984: ISBN 0452262933 (0-452-26293-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - 1984: ISBN 0582777313 (0-582-77731-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - George Orwell's 1984: ISBN 0871295423 (0-87129-542-3)
Softcover, Dramatic Pub Co - 1984: ISBN 0881030368 (0-88103-036-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - 1984: ISBN 0899663680 (0-89966-368-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - 1984: ISBN 0451519841 (0-451-51984-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library - 1984: ISBN 0451521234 (0-451-52123-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - 1984: ISBN 061323393X (0-613-23393-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - 1984: ISBN 078389368X (0-7838-9368-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - 1984: ISBN 8495994070 (84-95994-07-0)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones - 1984: ISBN 8423309835 (84-233-0983-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - 1984: ISBN 848328006X (84-8328-006-X)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp - 1984: ISBN 1595404325 (1-59540-432-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library
- 1984: ISBN 1421808323 (1-4218-0832-3)
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1984by Thomas Pynchon, Erich Fromm, George OrwellISBN 0452284236 (0-452-28423-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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The Alterationby Kingsley AmisISBN 0881844322 (0-88184-432-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Alternate Kennedysby Mike ResnickISBN 0812519558 (0-8125-1955-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Amulet Of Samarkandby Jonathan StroudISBN 0786852550 (0-7868-5255-0)
Softcover, Hyperion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amulet Of Samarkand'Book summary:Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the "ultimate sacrifice" for a "noble destiny." If leaving his parents and erasing his past life isn't tough enough, Nathaniel's master, Arthur Underwood, is a cold, condescending, and cruel middle-ranking magician in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The boy's only saving grace is the master's wife, Martha Underwood, who shows him genuine affection that he rewards with fierce devotion. Nathaniel gets along tolerably well over the years in the Underwood household until the summer before his eleventh birthday. Everything changes when he is publicly humiliated by the ruthless magician Simon Lovelace and betrayed by his cowardly master who does not defend him.
Nathaniel vows revenge. In a Faustian fever, he devours magical texts and hones his magic skills, all the while trying to appear subservient to his master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine. In British author Jonathan Stroud's excellent novel, the first of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, the story switches back and forth from Bartimaeus's first-person point of view to third-person narrative about Nathaniel. Here's the best part: Bartimaeus is absolutely hilarious, with a wit that snaps, crackles, and pops. His dryly sarcastic, irreverent asides spill out into copious footnotes that no one in his or her right mind would skip over. A sophisticated, suspenseful, brilliantly crafted, dead-funny book that will leave readers anxious for more. (Ages 11 to adult) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Anubis Gatesby Tim PowersISBN 0441004016 (0-441-00401-6)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anubis Gates'Book summary:Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback, this 1989 edition of the book that took the fantasy world by storm is the first hardcover version to be published in the United States. In his brief introduction, Ramsey Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers's achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy both high and grotesque, of bizarre menace, of poetic fantasy."
The colonization of Egypt by western European powers is the launch point for power plays and machinations. Steeping together in this time-warp stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods, wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology. In the best of fantasy traditions, the reluctant heroes fight for survival against an evil that lurks beneath the surface of their everyday lives. [via]
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A Calculus of Angelsby J. Gregory KeyesISBN 0345406087 (0-345-40608-7)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Calculus of Angels'Book summary:What if Isaac Newton had discovered that alchemy works? J. Gregory Keyes has based his Age of Unreason series on an alternate 18th century shaped by a "science" that grew from Newton's discovery of "philosopher's mercury," which "can transmit vibrations into the aether" and thus "alter the states and composition of matter." In A Calculus of Angels, Keyes continues the tale he began in Newton's Cannon. It's a satisfying sequel that nevertheless leaves the reader impatient for the next book.
Two years have passed since the asteroid struck. The weather is unnaturally cold, the skies perpetually overcast. England is devastated, the French government has collapsed upon the death of Louis XIV. Peter the Great, now inspired by the guardian spirit who preserved Louis, has marched his armies westward into the Netherlands and France. In the New World, the abandoned colonists send a delegation including Blackbeard, Cotton Mather, and a Choctaw shaman named Red Shoes to find out what's happened. In Prague, Newton and his apprentice, Ben Franklin, seek to protect the city from aetheric attack. The mathematically gifted Adrienne de Montchevreuil is also back and expanding her knowledge of the mysterious malakim who inhabit the aether and menace mankind.
Keyes creates a very believable mixture of history, fantasy, and plausibly imagined historical characters. Each book has been exciting, suspenseful, and beautifully written. No admirer of alternate history should miss this series. --Nona Vero [via]
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Carthage Ascendantby Mary GentleISBN 0380805502 (0-380-80550-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carthage Ascendant'Book summary:In a brutal age of bloodshed and miracles where dark sorcery has extinguished the sun, the fate of Western Europe, Africa--and perhaps all the world--rests in the hands of a warrior woman named Ash.
The undefeated legions that are the army of Carthage rampage across the kingdoms of Europe. Beneath a sunless sky, Burgundy alone stands in the path of the Visigoth horde and their legendary slave general, the Faris. Deep in enemy territory lies a living stone idol of frightening power that must be destroyed if anyone is to survive, a being that whispers in Ash's soul, that has guided her through every military campaign, that only she and her enemy--her twin--can hear.
But there is an even greater evil that lurks at Carthage, one that created the stone idol and shaped Ash's existence. It plots with deadly purpose the final annihilation that will wipe Burgundy from the face of the earth. For Burgundy lies at the heart of it all--the richest prize in Europe and the key to the world--the jewel of the Carthaginian campaign.
In a brutal age of bloodshed and miracles where dark sorcery has extinguished the sun, the fate of Western Europe, Africa--and perhaps all the world--rests in the hands of a warrior woman named Ash.The undefeated legions that are the army of Carthage rampage across the kingdoms of Europe.Beneath a sunless sky, Burgundy alone stands in the path of the Visigoth horde and their legendary slave general, the Faris. Deep in enemy territory lies a living stone idol of frightening power that must be destroyed if anyone is to survive, a being that whispers in Ash's soul, that has guided her through every military campaign, that only she and her enemy--her twin--can hear.
But there is an even greater evil that lurks at Carthage, one that created the stone idol and shaped Ash's existence. It plots with deadly purpose the final annihilation that will wipe Burgundy from the face of the earth. For Burgundy lies at the heart of it all--the richest prize in Europe and the key to the world--the jewel of the Carthaginian campaign. [via]
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Counting Up, Counting Downby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345477987 (0-345-47798-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Counting Up, Counting Down'Book summary:From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledoves literary skill and unbridled imagination.
FORTY, COUNTING DOWN: With the help of his time travel software, computer genius Justin Kloster returns to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistakebut all actions have their consequences.
THE MALTESE ELEPHANT: A legendary detective finds himself in grave danger when a noir masterpiece takes a stunning new twist.
GODDESS FOR A DAY: Taking a page from history, a young girl dares to challenge the godsand is richly rewarded for her efforts.
DECONSTRUCTION GANG: Mired in unemployment and despair, an academic finds happiness and intellectual fulfillment in a most unexpected place.
TWENTY-ONE, COUNTING UP: Justin Klosters college life and romantic dreams are rudely interruptedand irreversibly disruptedwhen forty-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself.
Plus twelve more thrilling, unforgettable tales of wonder! [via]-
Departuresby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345380118 (0-345-38011-8)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Departures'Book summary:What if history had taken a different path, made a detour, and deviated just a little bit from the road it chose? Here, Harry Turtledove explores such "what ifs" in twenty alternate-history stories ranging from ancient times to the far, far-different future.
Persia has conquered Greece; Athens is in ruins. Yet even under Persia's rule, the power of the people can never be completely broken. . .
A werewolf boy tears through Cologne's medieval stretts in search of sanctuary from the angry mob. But who will shelter a creature so hated and feared?
A student from the far-off future sets off on a field trip to study Genghis Khan -- and finds him in the twentieth century?
And many more!
"He's one of the finest explorers of alternate histories ever." -- Locus [via] 
Drakonby S. M. StirlingISBN 0671877119 (0-671-87711-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Effendi: The Second Arabeskby Jon Courtenay GrimwoodISBN 0553587447 (0-553-58744-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Empire of Unreasonby Greg KeyesISBN 0345406109 (0-345-40610-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire of Unreason'Book summary:Ten years have passed since Europe plunged into chaos following a directed comet strike on London by Louis XIV's alchemists. The resulting nuclear winter forced everyone southward. The Russian Empire of Peter the Great holds sway, but Tsar Peter has mysteriously disappeared and his chief alchemist, Adrienne de Montchevreuil, has been attacked by a creature of the malakim, who provide the power for many of the technological innovations created by alchemists. Ben Franklin now lives in Charleston and is part of a secret organization, the Junto, that seeks to destroy the malakim and their agents in the New World. Only here have their evil intentions been fully recognized. Now the enemy is on American soil in the form of Scottish king James Stewart and his troops in the East and a mysterious but terrifyingly powerful army led by the Sunboy in the West. Only an alliance of English, French, and Spanish settlers with the Native American tribes have a chance of defeating them.
The series continues to provide an intriguing blend of fantasy and historical characters, plenty of action, and fine writing. This episode, however, begins and ends abruptly. Read the first two books (Newton's Cannon and A Calculus of Angels) first, and be prepared for a cliffhanger ending that will leave readers anxious for the next book. --Nona Vero [via]
Farthingby Jo WaltonISBN 076535280X (0-7653-5280-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farthing'Book summary:One summer weekend in 1949--but not our 1949--the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace with Herr Hitler eight years before.[via]
Despite her parents' evident disapproval, Lucy is married--happily--to a London Jew. It was therefore quite a surprise to Lucy when she and her husband David found themselves invited to the retreat. It's even more startling when, on the retreat's first night, a major politician of the Farthing set is found gruesomely murdered, with abundant signs that the killing was ritualistic.
It quickly becomes clear to Lucy that she and David were brought to the retreat in order to pin the murder on him. Major political machinations are at stake, including an initiative in Parliament, supported by the Farthing set, to limit the right to vote to university graduates. But whoever's behind the murder, and the frame-up, didn't reckon on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being a man with very private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts&and looking beyond the obvious.
As the trap slowly shuts on Lucy and David, they begin to see a way out--a way fraught with peril in a darkening world.-
For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratogaby Robert SobelISBN 1853675040 (1-85367-504-0)
Softcover, Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga'Book summary:For Want of a Nail is an alternate history classic. The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent. In reality, the British general John Burgoyne, heavily outnumbered by American troops, surrendered his army to General Horatio Gates at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, a major turning-point of the Revolution. Robert Sobel takes a step sideways and presents the alternative version: reinforcements arrive at Saratoga, Gates' men flee, and Burgoyne is victorious. Rather than openly allying itself with the American rebels, France withdraws its support, as does Spain, and the colonies surrender. Those former rebels who refuse to live in the Confederation of North America established by the British leave their homes and settle in what becomes the United States of Mexico. From then on the two continental nations find themselves constant rivals, locked in military, political and economic conflict. Sobel provides a detailed, intricately documented insight into two warring powers that develop in such dramatically different ways from their shared origins.[via]More editions of For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga:
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Freedom & Necessityby Emma Bull, Steven BrustISBN 0812562615 (0-8125-6261-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom & Necessity'Book summary:The early 19th century was a heady time of repeated challenges to the assumption that the social order as it stood was supernaturally (divinely) ordained. A particularly sticky web of politics and romance traps Susan Voight and James Cobham in a dense, thrillingly suspenseful plot connecting a reforming democratic labor movement, Chartism, to a secret society, the Trotters Club, whose corrupt members intend to exploit a magical ritual for their personal, complicated purposes of vengeance and power. Layers of truths and falsehoods mislead and confound the protagonists in their dealings with each other and the conspiracies; they come to understand that only honesty can save them. Although the perversion of the natural power of sorcery fails because it is unnatural, the social order, unnatural or not, is more resistant to justice. The swift pace, surprising developments, and appealing characters make it nearly impossible to put this book down. Though the women's rights movement is glancingly acknowledged, the conventionally romantic fulfillment is a little disappointing. Is there no other end for intelligent, financially independent women than maternity and love-partnership (as binding, or more, as legal marriage) with a man? [via]
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Freedom And Necessityby Emma Bull, Steven BrustISBN 0765316803 (0-7653-1680-3)
Softcover, Orb Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom And Necessity'Book summary:The early 19th century was a heady time of repeated challenges to the assumption that the social order as it stood was supernaturally (divinely) ordained. A particularly sticky web of politics and romance traps Susan Voight and James Cobham in a dense, thrillingly suspenseful plot connecting a reforming democratic labor movement, Chartism, to a secret society, the Trotters Club, whose corrupt members intend to exploit a magical ritual for their personal, complicated purposes of vengeance and power. Layers of truths and falsehoods mislead and confound the protagonists in their dealings with each other and the conspiracies; they come to understand that only honesty can save them. Although the perversion of the natural power of sorcery fails because it is unnatural, the social order, unnatural or not, is more resistant to justice. The swift pace, surprising developments, and appealing characters make it nearly impossible to put this book down. Though the women's rights movement is glancingly acknowledged, the conventionally romantic fulfillment is a little disappointing. Is there no other end for intelligent, financially independent women than maternity and love-partnership (as binding, or more, as legal marriage) with a man? [via]
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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George Orwell's 1984by Ralph A. RanaldISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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The Golem's Eyeby Jonathan StroudISBN 1417700246 (1-4177-0024-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golem's Eye'Book summary:The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and Bartimaeus must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem's power. [via]
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- The Golem's Eye: ISBN 0786836547 (0-7868-3654-7)
Softcover, Miramax - The Golem's Eye: ISBN 0786818603 (0-7868-1860-3)
Hardcover, Disney Pr - The Golem's Eye: ISBN 0786851430 (0-7868-5143-0)
Softcover, Disney Pr - The Golem's Eye: ISBN 0606346929 (0-606-34692-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Golem's Eye: ISBN 1417700246 (1-4177-0024-6)
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- The Golem's Eye: ISBN 0786836547 (0-7868-3654-7)
The Grappleby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345464079 (0-345-46407-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Gunpowder Empireby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0765346095 (0-7653-4609-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gunpowder Empire'Book summary:Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California-but during the summer the whole family lives and works in the city of Polisso, on the frontier of the Roman Empire. Not the Roman Empire that fell centuries ago, but a Roman Empire that never fell.[via]
For we now have the technology to move between timelines, and to exploit the untapped resources of those timelines that are hospitable to human life. So we send traders and businesspeople-but as whole-family groups, in order to keep the secret of Crosstime Traffic to ourselves.
But when Jeremy ducks back home for emergency medical treatment, the gateways stop working. So do all the communication links. Jeremy and his sister are on their own, Polisso is suddenly under siege, and there's only so much you can do when cannonballs are crashing through your roof... 
Hitler Victoriousby Gregory Benford, Martin GreenbertISBN 0824086589 (0-8240-8658-9)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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Hitler Victoriousby Martin Harry Greenberg, Gregory BenfordISBN 0425101371 (0-425-10137-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Judgement of Tearsby Kim NewmanISBN 0380732297 (0-380-73229-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judgement of Tears'Book summary:July 1959: The occasion is the marriage of Vlad Tepes, Count Dracula. The world's vampire elite have gathered in Rome for the union. Vlad's past wives have included Hungarian princesses, baronesses from California, and even Queen Victoria; all marriages were arranged for strategic gain rather than love or passion. Reporter Katherine Reed is in Rome to write about the wedding. At just under a century old, she is considered young among the immortal vampires. Now, someone is killing the elders, some of whom have bloodlines stretching back to the Middle Ages.
In this alternative history, to "be turned" means persecution. From the beginning of the century--when the vampires first emerged from legend into the public eye--through World War II (when Hitler began targeting the immortals) the vampires continued to be a source of fear and fascination. But vampirism still has its joys. To accept immortality means an extraordinary heightening of all the senses, and blood is both sustenance and narcotic, sexually pleasing and simultaneously nourishing.
Judgement of Tears blends horror and humor remarkably well. Semigraphic scenes of bloodsucking and neck biting are interspersed with humorous name-dropping. Among the guests at Vlad's wedding are a black-clad, gloomy couple named Addams, a British spy named Bond, and Orson Wells. Edgar Allan Poe is living as a scriptwriter; since being turned, he hasn't had an original idea. In the end, Judgement of Tears is as much a tale of intrigue as it is a horror novel. The backdrop is an old story of petty politics, set in a world that vampires, zombies, and even Frankenstein-like monsters share with the living. The flashes of wit serve to anchor the story to the real world and provide a connection to 20th-century popular culture. The ending reminds readers that politics prevail--whether for mortals or immortals. --Andy Bookwalter [via]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemenby Kevin O'Neill, Alan MooreISBN 1563898586 (1-56389-858-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction that is clever, literate, rich with excitement and hard to put down.
It's 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the secret Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, "Science-Pirate" Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they must combat an insidious threat that will decide supremacy of the London skies, but their success may unleash a far greater threat. With no shortage of action, Moore and O' Neill sustain a high level of suspense, intrigue, mystery and terrific wit that all contribute to an indispensable read. O'Neill's art, so memorable in Marshal Law, produces a London filled with vivid, magnificent architecture and a malevolent atmosphere ripe with thrills and danger. An unmitigated triumph--pure and simple. --Danny Graydon [via]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1898by Alan MooreISBN 1563896656 (1-56389-665-6)
Hardcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1898'Book summary:Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the America's Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction's greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction that is clever, literate, rich with excitement and hard to put down.
It's 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the secret Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, "Science-Pirate" Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they must combat an insidious threat that will decide supremacy of the London skies, but their success may unleash a far greater threat. With no shortage of action, Moore and O' Neill sustain a high level of suspense, intrigue, mystery and terrific wit that all contribute to an indispensable read. O'Neill's art, so memorable in Marshal Law, produces a London filled with vivid, magnificent architecture and a malevolent atmosphere ripe with thrills and danger. An unmitigated triumph--pure and simple. --Danny Graydon [via]
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Lest Darkness Fallby L. Sprague de CampISBN 0345310160 (0-345-31016-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Making Historyby Stephen FryISBN 0091791413 (0-09-179141-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Marching Through Georgiaby S. M. StirlingISBN 0671720694 (0-671-72069-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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- Nineteen Eighty-Four: ISBN 0452254264 (0-452-25426-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Nineteen Eighty-Four: ISBN 0151660344 (0-15-166034-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Nineteen Eighty-four: ISBN 0151660387 (0-15-166038-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Nineteen Eighty-Four: ISBN 0198185219 (0-19-818521-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Nineteen Eighty-Four: ISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
- Nineteen Eighty-Four: ISBN 0452254264 (0-452-25426-4)
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Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticismby Irving HoweISBN 0155658115 (0-15-565811-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Pasquale's Angelby Paul J. Mc AuleyISBN 0380778203 (0-380-77820-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Proteus Operationby James P. HoganISBN 055325698X (0-553-25698-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Resurrection Dayby Brendan DuBoisISBN 0515129496 (0-515-12949-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Separationby Christopher PriestISBN 1882968336 (1-882968-33-6)
Hardcover, Pathway Book Service
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Settling Accounts the Grappleby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345457250 (0-345-45725-0)
Hardcover, Del Rey
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The Shadow of Albionby Andre Norton, Rosemary EdghillISBN 0312864272 (0-312-86427-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Shadow of Albionby Rosemary Edghill, Andre NortonISBN 0812545397 (0-8125-4539-7)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shadow of Albion'Book summary:For well over a half century, Andre Norton has been one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy authors in the world. Since her first SF novels were published in the 1940s, her adventure SF has enthralled readers young and old. With series such as Time Traders, Solar Queen, Forerunner, Beast Master, Crosstime, and Janus, as well as many stand-alone novels, her tales of action and adventure throughout the galaxy have drawn countless readers to science fiction.[via]
Her fantasy, including the best-selling Witch World series, her "Magic" series, and many other unrelated novels, has been popular with readers for decades. Lauded as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, she is the recipient of a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. Not only have her books been enormously popular; she also has inspired several generations of SF and fantasy writers, especially many talented women writers who have followed in her footsteps. In the past two decades she has worked with other writers on a number of novels. Most notable among these are collaborations with Mercedes Lackey, the Halfblood Chronicles, as well as collaborations with A.C. Crispin (in the Witch World series) and Sherwood Smith (in the Time Traders and Solar Queen series). An Ohio native, Ms. Norton lived for a number of years in Winter Park, Florida, and now makes her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where she continues to write, and presides over High Hallack, a writers' resource and retreat.More editions of The Shadow of Albion:
The Sky People: Library Editionby S. M. StirlingISBN 0765314886 (0-7653-1488-6)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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Sorcery and Ceceliaby Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline StevermerISBN 0441775594 (0-441-77559-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorcery and Cecelia'Book summary:A great deal is happening in London this season.[via]
For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at Sir Hilary's induction into the Royal College of Wizards. (Since when does hot chocolate burn a hole straight through one's dress?!)
Then there's Dorothea. Is it a spell that's made her the toast of the town--or could it possibly have something to do with the charm-bag under Oliver's bed?
And speaking of Oliver, just how long can Cecelia and Kate make excuses for him? Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is!
The girls might think it all a magical nightmare . . . if only they weren't having so much fun.More editions of Sorcery and Cecelia:
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Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Potby Patricia C. WredeISBN 1417635959 (1-4176-3595-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorcery And Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot'Book summary:A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.[via]
For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it--so just what are his intentions?) And then there's Oliver. Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is.
Clearly, magic is a deadly and dangerous business. And the girls might be in fear for their lives . . . if only they weren't having so much fun!More editions of Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot:
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Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Sorcery and Cecelia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: ISBN 0152046151 (0-15-204615-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Sorcery And Cecilia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: ISBN 0606328343 (0-606-32834-3)
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Stars & Stripes Foreverby Harry HarrisonISBN 0345409345 (0-345-40934-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Stone Dogsby S. M. StirlingISBN 0671720090 (0-671-72009-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Tide of Victoryby David Drake, Eric FlintISBN 0671319965 (0-671-31996-5)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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The Tide of Victoryby Eric Flint, David DrakeISBN 0743435656 (0-7434-3565-6)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tide of Victory'Book summary:Led by the supercomputer Link, the Malwa Empire has built a deadly army that nothing on 6th century Earth can beat -- nothing, that is, except Belisarius, the greatest general and military genius of the age. Against overwhelming odds, Belisarius has prevailed in one brilliant victory after another -- but his greatest battle is yet to be fought and this time, the future of mankind is in his hands. [via]
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Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactualsby Niall FergusonISBN 0465023231 (0-465-02323-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals'Book summary:This meaty, scholarly collection of essays by gifted historian Niall Ferguson tackles the controversial topic of counterfactual questions: What if Hitler had invaded Britain in WWII? What if JFK had survived his assassination? What if there had been no Gorbachev to usher in the collapse of Communism? What if there had been no American Revolution? Ferguson points out that while questions such as these are a vital part of how we learn as individuals ("What if I had observed the speed limit, or refused that last drink?"), there remains a great deal of resistance--even hostility--to such musings among professional historians. "[I]n the dismissive phrase of E.H. Carr, 'counterfactual' history is a mere 'parlour game,' a 'red herring.'" E.P. Thompson is less charitable, calling counterfactual histories "'Geschichtswissenschlopff', unhistorical shit."
But Ferguson and his distinguished collaborators (many of whom are also Oxford fellows) lodge some convincing counterfactuals of their own to counter this arguably blinkered notion, this "idea that events are in some way preprogrammed, so that what was, had to be." In addition to the what-ifs above, Ferguson and his comrades tackle eight questions in all, including "What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War?", "What if Home Rule had been enacted [in Ireland] in 1912?", and "What if Britain had 'stood aside' in August 1914?" Virtual History makes for a stimulating and intellectually rigorous trip, with Ferguson's own delightful afterword as the collection's crowning jewel, a brilliant--and often bitingly clever--timeline tying together all the threads from 1646 to 1996. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd - Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals: ISBN 0465023223 (0-465-02322-3)
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The Way It Wasn'tby Martin Harry Greenberg, Robert SilverbergISBN 0806517697 (0-8065-1769-7)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Way It Wasn't'Book summary:The Way It Wasn't takes an amusing, intellectually stimulating excursion into speculative history. Here are thirteen memorable stories by renowned science fiction writers, telling what things might be like if... Elvis Presley weren't the "King" but the President of the United States ("Ike at the Mike" by Howard Waldrop)... The Black Death had killed the entire population of Europe in the fourteenth century ("Lion Time in Timbuctoo" by Robert Silverberg)... John F. Kennedy had survived the 1963 shooting in Dallas ("The Winterberry" by Nicholas A. DiChario). Included, too, is fascinating short fiction by Mike Resnick, Susan Shwartz, Larry Niven, Pamela Sargent, Fritz Leiber, Greg Bear, Barry N. Malzberg, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford and Kim Stanley Robinson. After reading these stories - some of the most compelling examples of alternate history anywhere - your mind will keep spinning the question "What If...?" [via]
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Worlds That Weren'tby Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, S. M. Stirling, Mary GentleISBN 0451458869 (0-451-45886-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worlds That Weren't'Book summary:Alternate history is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history had taken a different turn. The obvious changes, like the Nazis winning World War II, have filled innumerable novels. Fortunately, the anthology Worlds That Weren't avoids the obvious with its four fine new novellas from four superior authors: Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams.
The collection opens with "The Daimon," written by Harry Turtledove, AH's best-known practitioner. In Turtledove's turning point, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates chooses to accompany General Alkibiades to war instead of remaining in Athens, and sets Alkibiades on a triumphant, terrible new course.
Set in the British India-dominated alternate history of The Peshawar Lancers, S.M. Stirling's novella is a rousing old-fashioned adventure. "Shikari in Galveston" follows a hunting safari through a regressed American frontier that might have given even Daniel Boone pause.
A prequel to her Book of Ash tetralogy, Mary Gentle's novella "The Logistics of Carthage" concerns Christian warriors serving pagan Turks in a North Africa conquered by Visigoths instead of Vandals, and is the strongest story in Worlds That Weren't.
The collection concludes with "The Last Ride of German Freddie," in which Nebula Award winner Walter Jon Williams considers what might have happened if the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had taken himself and his superman theories to the Wild West. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Worlds That Weren'tby Walter Jon Williams, S. M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451460545 (0-451-46054-5)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Worlds That Weren't'Book summary:Alternate history is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history had taken a different turn. The obvious changes, like the Nazis winning World War II, have filled innumerable novels. Fortunately, the anthology Worlds That Weren't avoids the obvious with its four fine new novellas from four superior authors: Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams.
The collection opens with "The Daimon," written by Harry Turtledove, AH's best-known practitioner. In Turtledove's turning point, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates chooses to accompany General Alkibiades to war instead of remaining in Athens, and sets Alkibiades on a triumphant, terrible new course.
Set in the British India-dominated alternate history of The Peshawar Lancers, S.M. Stirling's novella is a rousing old-fashioned adventure. "Shikari in Galveston" follows a hunting safari through a regressed American frontier that might have given even Daniel Boone pause.
A prequel to her Book of Ash tetralogy, Mary Gentle's novella "The Logistics of Carthage" concerns Christian warriors serving pagan Turks in a North Africa conquered by Visigoths instead of Vandals, and is the strongest story in Worlds That Weren't.
The collection concludes with "The Last Ride of German Freddie," in which Nebula Award winner Walter Jon Williams considers what might have happened if the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had taken himself and his superman theories to the Wild West. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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1984by GEORGE ORWELISBN 9685270880 (968-5270-88-0)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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El amuleto de Samarkanda / The Amulet of Samarkandby Jonathan Stroud, Laura Martin De DiosISBN 8484412393 (84-8441-239-3)
Hardcover, Montena
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Nineteen Eighty-fourby George OrwellISBN 8423328651 (84-233-2865-1)
Hardcover, Ediciones Destino
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El ojo del golem / Golem's Eyeby Jonathan StroudISBN 8484412806 (84-8441-280-6)
Hardcover, Montena
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