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2041 A. D.: Twelve Short Stories about the Futureby Jane YolenISBN 0440218985 (0-440-21898-5)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Absolution Gapby Alastair ReynoldsISBN 0441012914 (0-441-01291-4)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Absolution Gap'Book summary:With his "top-notch" (Maxim) debut, Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds was widely hailed as the new leader of cutting-edge hard-science fiction; a reputation he confirmed with the "awe inspiring"* sequel, Redemption Ark. Now, with Absolution Gap, he concludes the saga that made him "the most exciting space opera writer working today" (*Locus).
Ancient killing machines, designed to locate and destroy any life form reaching a certain level of intelligence, have been stirred from eons of sleep. Their latest target: Humanity. Seeking refuge on an apparently insignificant moon light-years away, it begins to dawn on war veteran Clavain and his ragtag companions that to beat one enemy, it may be necessary to forge an alliance with something much worse... [via]More editions of Absolution Gap:
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Accelerandoby Charles StrossISBN 0441014151 (0-441-01415-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Accelerando'Book summary:Expanding upon his award-winning short story cycle from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Charles Stross-author of such revolutionary science fiction novels as Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise-delivers the story fans have been anticipating with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre.
For three generations, the Macz family has struggled to cope with the rampant technological achievements that have rendered humans near obsolete. And mankind's end encroaches even closer when something starts to dismantle the nine planets of the solar system in an effort to annihilate all biological lifeforms. [via] 
Against the Fall of Nightby Arthur ClarkeISBN 042505974X (0-425-05974-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Age of Cataclysmby Alfred L. Webre, Phillip H. LissISBN 0425029115 (0-425-02911-5)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Corp
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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0440238153 (0-440-23815-3)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0436350009 (0-436-35000-9)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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The Bar Code Tattooby Suzanne WeynISBN 0439395623 (0-439-39562-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Beyond Fleshby Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois, Greg Egan, Pat Cadigan, Ian R. MacLeodISBN 0441009999 (0-441-00999-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Flesh'Book summary:These cutting-edge techno-tales by Poul Anderson, Greg Egan, Michael Swanwick, and other masters explore the infinite ways that new technology will free humankind from the boundaries of the flesh. [via]
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The Book of Taltosby Steven BrustISBN 0441008941 (0-441-00894-1)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Taltos'Book summary:Steven Brusts first three novels featuring assassin Vlad Taltos and his jhereg companion were collected in one volume as The Book of Jhereg. The Book of Taltos continues the adventure with books four and five in the seriesTaltos and Phoenix.[via]Vlad Taltos is an assassin unlike no other. Not only is he quick with a sword, but he also possesses a gift for witchcraft conjuring. The latest addition to his already formidable arsenal is a leathery-winged jhereg who shares a telepathic link with Vladmaking him twice as deadly&
The adventures chronicled in Taltos and Phoenix find Vlad accepting a job in the Land of the Dead, but a living human being cannot walk the paths of the dead and return, alive, to the land of men. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), the Demon Goddess is willing to rescue himif Vlad is willing to grant her a favor in return&
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Century Rainby Alastair ReynoldsISBN 0441013074 (0-441-01307-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Century Rain'Book summary:Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space trilogy is "one of the most impressive serial space operas of recent times" (Locus). The award-winning author continues to forge the future of science fiction with Century Rain.
In the far future, the technological disaster known as the Nanocaust left Earth uninhabitable. Archaeologist Verity Auger continues to explore the remnants of the planet's environment. But Verity is needed to examine something far more important-the discovery of mid-twentieth century Earth at the far end of a wormhole. And on this alternate world is a device capable of destroying both Earths if Verity cannot find the man preparing to detonate it in time. [via] -
Changelingby Yasmine GalenornISBN 0425216292 (0-425-21629-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Changeling'Book summary:"The first in an engrossing new series, [Witchling was] a whimsical reminder of fantasy's importance in life" (Publishers Weekly). Now comes Changeling-again featuring Camille, the good witch, Menolly, the vampire, and Delilah, a feline shapeshifter. They're the D'Artigo sisters, half-human, half-Faerie supernatural agents who are now enlisted to find the fiends responsible for slaughtering the weres of Rainier Puma Pride.[via]More editions of Changeling:
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Chasm Cityby Alastair ReynoldsISBN 0441010644 (0-441-01064-4)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chasm City'Book summary:The once utopian Chasm City has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized-leaving only the most wretched, grim sort of existence. It is through this city that Tanner Mirabel must pursue a lowlife postmortal-only to be taken far beyond the mere settling of a score to come face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget. [via]
Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Powerby Susan Leigh FosterISBN 0415121396 (0-415-12139-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Damia's Childrenby Anne McCaffreyISBN 044100007X (0-441-00007-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Dangerous Visionsby Harlan EllisonISBN 0425061760 (0-425-06176-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Danse Macabreby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425207978 (0-425-20797-8)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Danse Macabre'Book summary:Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Times bestselling series.
These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby. [via]More editions of Danse Macabre:
Demon Moonby Meljean BrookISBN 0425215768 (0-425-21576-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Edenbornby Nick SaganISBN 0399151869 (0-399-15186-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Eight Stories from the Rest of the Robotsby Isaac AsimovISBN 0425061191 (0-425-06119-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Extroby Alfred BesterISBN 0413344606 (0-413-34460-6)
Hardcover, Eyre Methuen
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First Channelby Jean Lorrah, Jacqueline LichtenbergISBN 0425085341 (0-425-08534-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Channel'Book summary:Rimon Farris, a rich Sime farmer's son, has a golden future: all he has to do is marry his childhood sweetheart, Kadi, and he's set for life. But Kadi matures into a Gen, as one-third of the human children do, randomly; and suddenly is considered no more than a food animal, a thing to be killed and harvested. The couple refuse to accept their fate, and flee to a strange hybrid community. There they set in motion the greatest social engineering experiment in human history. If it succeeds, Simes will finally be able to live peacefully in a symbiotic relationship with the Gens. But if it fails, all will be lost... Sime~Gen, Book Three. [via]
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. WellsISBN 0425044114 (0-425-04411-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Men in the Moon'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Forever Peaceby Joe W. HaldemanISBN 0441005667 (0-441-00566-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever Peace'Book summary:Julian Class is a full-time professor and part-time combat veteran who spends a third of each month virtually wired to a robotic "soldierboy." The soldierboys, along with flyboys and other advanced constructs, allow the U.S. to wage a remotely controlled war against constant uprisings in the Third World. The conflicts are largely driven by the so-called First World countries' access to nanoforges--devices that can almost instantly manufacture any product imaginable, given the proper raw materials--and the Third World countries' lack of access to these devices. But even as Julian learns that the consensual reality shared by soldierboy operators can lead to universal peace, the nanoforges create a way for humanity to utterly destroy itself, and it will be a race against time to see which will happen first. Although Forever Peace bears a title similar to Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War, he says it's not a sequel. [via]
Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 044092717X (0-440-92717-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Freedom's Challengeby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441006256 (0-441-00625-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Challenge'Book summary:The alien Catteni invaded Earth and enslaved thousands of humans on the planet Botany, where they struggle to survive while colonizing the world for their overseers. Now that theyve proved Botany is capable of sustaining life, Kris Bjornsen and her fellow settlers have no intention of surrendering the home theyve created for themselves[via]
Armed with the knowledge that the true enemy behind the Catteni is the Eosi race, Kris has begun a campaign to free Botanys settlers by raising a rebellion among her people against their parasitic oppressors.
Aided by her Catteni lover, Zainal, Kris and the colonists manage to steal warshipsand discover dissidents on other Eosi-controlled worlds. If all of the subjugated races join forces, they will have an army large enough to win their freedom and their worlds.
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Freedom's Choiceby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441005314 (0-441-00531-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Choice'Book summary:Abducted by the alien Catteni, Kristin Bjornsen was one of many humans brought to the planet Botany as part of an experiment to see if it could support life. Enslaved and forced to colonize a world not their own, the settlers have accepted Botany as their homea home worth fighting for[via]
Kristins people have learned that the aliens responsible for their imprisonment are merely mercenaries, subjugated by the parasitic Eosi Race, and that Botany is being farmed remotely by some unknown speciesa species that may be sympathetic to the colonists struggle for freedom.
The Farmers refuse to join the humans in their rebellion against the Catteni, but they agree to use their technological skills to shield Botany and hide it from its enemiesbuying Kristin and the settlers time to build up their forces and liberate their world
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Freedom's Landingby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441003389 (0-441-00338-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Landing'Book summary:Science fiction, english. Ace books, Chapter one. Kristin Bjornsen wondered if summer on the planet Barevi could possibly be the only season. [via]
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Freedom's Ransomby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441010202 (0-441-01020-2)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Ransom'Book summary:Freedom's Ransom is the fourth novel in Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series, also known as the Catteni Sequence. The sequel to Freedom's Landing, Freedom's Choice, and Freedom's Challenge, Freedom's Ransom will please some fans of this star-spanning science fiction series, but others will find the book slow-paced, talky, and lacking in action. Freedom's Ransom ends conclusively, with no major unresolved plot lines, yet leaves space for at least one sequel.
The planet Botany was settled by a mixed group of humans and aliens, slaves of the alien Catteni and their alien masters, the Eosi. But one Catteni was dropped on Botany with the slaves: Zainal, who helped them win their independence. Now Botany must establish trade with other planets in order to survive. But the other worlds have been ravaged by the Catteni, and once-proud Earth has been reduced to primitive poverty, its technology stolen by corrupt Barevi merchants. To save Botany, Zainal and Kris Bjornsen, his human lover, must find a way to help all the worlds.
While the preface of Freedom's Ransom crisply summarizes the preceding books, this series has so many characters, races, and planets that newcomers should start with the first book, Freedom's Landing. Sophisticated SF readers aren't likely to enjoy the series, but it should hook young adults; if you're looking to broaden a child's reading beyond Harry Potter, try Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series and Dragonriders of Pern series. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 0440238137 (0-440-23813-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Harlequinby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0425217248 (0-425-21724-8)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Heart Danceby Robin OwensISBN 0425216357 (0-425-21635-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Heretics of Dune/300842by Frank HerbertISBN 0425076695 (0-425-07669-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heretics of Dune/300842'Book summary:With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love... [via]
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House of Zeorby Jacqueline LichtenbergISBN 0425077454 (0-425-07745-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Interlude in Deathby J. D. RobbISBN 0425210626 (0-425-21062-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Isaac Asimov's Calibanby Isaac Asimov, Roger MacBride AllenISBN 0441004822 (0-441-00482-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaac Asimov's Caliban'Book summary:When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the result is the creation of Caliban, a conscienceless robot that is not monitored by the Three Laws of Robotics that keep humans safe. Reprint." [via]
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Isaac Asimov's Infernoby Roger MacBride AllenISBN 0441000231 (0-441-00023-1)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaac Asimov's Inferno'Book summary:Continuing the adventures of Caliban, a new novel finds the only robot without a conscience suspected of murder, but the question remains as to whether or not he is capable of leading the new, lawless robots in a rebellion that threatens humanity. [via]
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Isaac Asimov's Utopiaby Roger MacBride AllenISBN 0441002455 (0-441-00245-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaac Asimov's Utopia'Book summary:The exciting sequel to Caliban and Inferno explores the last of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. [via]
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Islandiaby Austin Tappan WrightISBN 0405035500 (0-405-03550-0)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islandia'Book summary:On his death, Austin Tappan Wright left the world a wholly unsuspected legacy. Among this distinguished legal scholar's papers were thousands of pages devoted to a staggering feat of literary creation - a detailed history of an imagined country complete with geography, genealogy, representations from its literature, language and culture. In a monumental labor of love Wright's wife and daughter culled from this material a thousand page novel, as detailed as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Islandia has similarly become a classic touchstone for those concerned with the creation of imaginary worlds.
Islandia occupies the southern portion of the Karain Continent, which lies in the Southern Hemisphere. Its civilization is an ancient one, protected from outside intervention by a natural fortress of towering mountains. To this isolated country - this alien, compelling and totally fascinating world - comes John Lang, the American consul. As the reader lives with Lang in Islandia, as he comes to know this magnetic land, its unique people, its strange customs, he may find himself experiencing a feeling of envy, a wish that he, like Lang, be permitted, at the book's end, to return once more and spend the rest of his days in Islandia. [via]
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Jovah's Angelby Sharon ShinnISBN 0441005195 (0-441-00519-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Labyrinthby Kate MosseISBN 0425213978 (0-425-21397-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Labyrinth'Book summary:In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe. In the present, another woman sees the find as a means to the political power she craves; while a man who has great power will kill to destroy all traces of the discovery and everyone who stands in his way. [via]
The Last Book in the Universeby W.R. PhilbrickISBN 0439087597 (0-439-08759-7)
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The Light Agesby Ian R. MacLeodISBN 0441011497 (0-441-01149-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Light Ages'Book summary:In a bleak and gritty England, in a fantastical Age of Industry, the wealth that comes from magic is both revered and reviled. Here, an ambitious young man is haunted by his childhood love--a woman determined to be a part of the world he despises. [via]
Lucinda, Darklyby SunnyISBN 0425214648 (0-425-21464-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Lyon's Prideby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441001416 (0-441-00141-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lyon's Pride'Book summary:A DESTRUCTIVE SPECIESThe Hive acts as a single entity, relentlessly swarming the galaxy, endlessly propagating on every habitable world they encounterdestroying native populations in the process. They do not recognize any sentience but their own. They do not acknowledge any attempt to communicate with them. They do not understand they leave countless numbers of dead in their wake.A FAMILY LEGACYThe Prime Talents of the Raven-Lyon clantelepaths, teleporters, and telekineticshave protected the Alliance from the Hive breeding contagion for years. Now a fleet orbits the alien homeworld to prevent them from leaving, and a Hive queen and her eggs are in captivity and quarantined. And unless the Raven-Lyons break the language barrier between Human and Hive, the Alliance may have no choice but to eliminate their entire race&[via]More editions of Lyon's Pride:
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M'Lady Witchby Christopher StasheffISBN 0441001130 (0-441-00113-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'M'Lady Witch'Book summary:Confident in her power as daughter of the High Warlock, Cordelia Gallowglass decides she can take her time deciding whether to accept Prince Alain's offer of marriage, until she finds out she has enemies who oppose the union. [via]
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Magic Bitesby Ilona AndrewsISBN 0441014895 (0-441-01489-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Man in the High Castleby Philip K. DickISBN 0425101436 (0-425-10143-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man in the High Castle'Book summary:It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake. [via]
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Masks of Timeby Robert SilverbergISBN 0425038718 (0-425-03871-8)
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Master of Dragonsby Angela KnightISBN 0425214249 (0-425-21424-9)
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Messengerby Lois LowryISBN 0440239125 (0-440-23912-5)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messenger'Book summary:Paperback Publisher: Laurel Leaf 2006-01-01 (2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0440239125 ISBN-13: 978-0440239123 ASIN: B0073N7Q9K Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces [via]
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Midnight in Death: Library Editionby J. RobbISBN 0425208818 (0-425-20881-8)
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Night Lifeby Elizabeth GuestISBN 0425214826 (0-425-21482-6)
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On the Prowlby Eileen Wilks, Patricia Briggs, Sunny, Karen ChanceISBN 0425216594 (0-425-21659-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Prowl'Book summary:These all-new paranormal romances from today's hottest authors feature a female werewolf who comes into her own; a Lord who crosses paths with a fiery mage; a mixed-blood Child of the Moon who faces an uncertain future; and a woman whose sixth sense proves to be a dangerous talent.[via]More editions of On the Prowl:
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Player Pianoby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440170370 (0-440-17037-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Player Piano'Book summary:Vonnegut's spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. [via]
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Prince of Fireby Linda Winstead JonesISBN 0425214818 (0-425-21481-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince of Fire'Book summary:Following the acclaimed Sisters of the Sun trilogy comes the Children of the Sun, a trilogy about the sisters' first-born children. Here in its second installment, Keelia, Queen of the Anwyn, falls for her shape-shifting kidnapper, but still cannot deny the ever-looming Prophecy of the Firstborn: She will betray love in the name of victory. [via]
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Prince of Swordsby Linda Winstead JonesISBN 0425215741 (0-425-21574-1)
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Psionby Joan D. VingeISBN 044050340X (0-440-50340-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psion'Book summary:A sixteen-year-old delinquent who has spent his life lying and stealing becomes involved in a research project which unleashes his extraordinary telepathic powers. [via]
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Quicksilver's Knightby Christopher StasheffISBN 0441002293 (0-441-00229-3)
Softcover, Anson-Cartwright Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver's Knight'Book summary:A young, brave warlock's son finds his loyalties divided between two women, including the beautiful bandit Quicksilver, who has stolen a lord's land for herself, and the sultry witch Moraga, who will do anything for the throne of Gramarye. [via]
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Redemption Arkby Alastair ReynoldsISBN 044101173X (0-441-01173-X)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Redemption Ark'Book summary:Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race accidentally triggers the Inhibitors. Fifty years later, these alien killing machines-designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it-are fast approaching.
The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons-and a renegade named Clavain is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own devices.
And the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether... [via]More editions of Redemption Ark:
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Revelation Spaceby Alastair ReynoldsISBN 0441009425 (0-441-00942-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revelation Space'Book summary:Alastair Reynolds's first novel is "hard" SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. Its events take place over a relatively short period, but have roots a billion years old--when the Dawn War ravaged our galaxy.
Sylveste is the only man ever to return alive and sane from a Shroud, an enclave in space protected by awesome gravity-warping defenses: "a folding a billion times less severe should have required more energy than was stored in the entire rest-mass of the galaxy." Now an intuition he doesn't understand makes him explore the dead world Resurgam, whose birdlike natives long ago tripped some booby trap that made their own sun erupt in a deadly flare.
Meanwhile, the vast, decaying lightship Nostalgia for Infinity is coming for Sylveste, whose dead father (in AI simulation) could perhaps help the Captain, frozen near absolute zero yet still suffering monstrous transformation by nanotech plague. Most of Infinity's tiny crew have hidden agendas--Khouri the reluctant contract assassin believes she must kill Sylveste to save humanity--and there are two bodiless stowaways, one no longer human and one never human. Shocking truths emerge from bluff, betrayal, and ingenious lies.
The trail leads to a neutron star where an orbiting alien construct has defenses to challenge the Infinity's planet-wrecking superweapons.
At the heart of this artifact, the final revelations detonate--most satisfyingly. Dense with information and incident, this longish novel has no surplus fat and seems almost too short. A sparkling SF debut. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Singularity Skyby Charles StrossISBN 0441011799 (0-441-01179-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Singularity Sky'Book summary:This much-anticipated debut novel is set 400 years in the future-and in the wake of perfected time travel, the ultimate advancements in technology and information, and the groundbreaking development of Artificial Intelligence. Is this all a great step for humanity? Or will it be our ultimate downfall?
Singularity Sky is a truly visionary novel of the future, and already its author, Charles Stross, has become the most talked-about new voice in science fiction... [via] -
Slanby A. E. Van VogtISBN 0425054748 (0-425-05474-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slan'Book summary:Slan is legendary science fiction author A. E. Van Vogt's first and best-known novel, back in print from Tor Books's Orb imprint. The story is classic golden age science fiction: Jommy Cross is a slan, a genetically bred superhuman whose race was created to aid humanity but is now despised by "normal" humans. Slans are usually shot on sight, but that doesn't stop Jommy's mother from bringing him to see the world capital of Centropolis, the seat of power for Earth's dictator, Kier Gray. But on their latest trip to Centropolis, the two slans are discovered, and Jommy's mother is killed. Jommy, only 9 years old, unwittingly becomes caught up in a plot to undermine Gray, who may be more sympathetic to slans than the public suspects. The nonstop action and root-for-the-underdog plot has made Slan a science fiction favorite. [via]
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Slapstick : Or Lonesome No More!by Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440180090 (0-440-18009-0)
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Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusadeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440180295 (0-440-18029-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade'Book summary:Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolutionby Paul LevinsonISBN 0415197724 (0-415-19772-4)
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0425049884 (0-425-04988-4)
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The Spell-Bound Scholarby Christopher StasheffISBN 0441006361 (0-441-00636-1)
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The Stars My Destinationby Alfred BesterISBN 0425055248 (0-425-05524-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stars My Destination'Book summary:When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. First published in 1956 (as Tiger! Tiger!), the novel revolves around a hero named Gulliver Foyle, who teleports himself out of a tight spot and creates a great deal of consternation in the process. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for forty years. (Bester fans should also note that Vintage has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.) [via]
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Subtle Knifeby Philip PullmanISBN 0440238145 (0-440-23814-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Subtle Knife'Book summary:With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The dæmons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.
The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens, Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her dæmon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.
As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dæmon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can't quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.
Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be possible," Will demands. "Things have to be true!" It is Philip Pullman's gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful. --Kerry Fried [via]
Titan A. E.by Steve Perry, Dal PerryISBN 0441007368 (0-441-00736-8)
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The Tower and the Hiveby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441007201 (0-441-00720-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tower and the Hive'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey concludes the saga of Angharad Gwyn, the Rowan, her husband Jeff Raven, and their family of powerful telepathically and telekinetically Talented offspring with The Tower and the Hive. ( The first four books in the series are: The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, and Lyon's Pride.) As usual, McCaffrey delivers vividly real characters struggling with personal, political, and ethical issues and finding humane solutions.
Federated Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the Gwyn-Raven clan, provides interstellar shipping and communications for the Star League of Humans and Mrdinis--weasel-like aliens. In following the aggressive, ant-like Hivers, whose "spheres" have repeatedly attacked League worlds, naval vessels have discovered many more habitable planets, including some occupied by Hivers. Who will get to colonize these planets, Humans or Mrdinis? Should all Hivers be destroyed, or is there some way to contain them? Where will more Talents to staff the vital Towers come from? And how best to defeat those whose resentment of the Gwyn-Raven family's powers and friendship with Mrdinis could lead to violence?
McCaffrey's protagonists are four Gwyn-Raven grandchildren, now young adults who find romance and mature while studying both alien races. Old and new fans alike can enjoy her masterful blending of scientific extrapolation and fantasy elements to produce a universe they'll leave regretfully. --Nona Vero [via]
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Undead And Unpopularby Maryjanice DavidsonISBN 0425215997 (0-425-21599-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undead and Unpopular'Book summary:This New York Times bestselling author's Undead series is more popular than ever!
With her birthday coming up, Betsy isn't in the best frame of mind to face the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects. Playing politics is not her strong suit, especially when she finds out her best friend Jessica may have a life-threatening illness. Sure Betsy can save her life by taking it-isn't that what friends are for?-but the choice isn't in her hands.
With her fiancé Eric dodging all the wedding plans, Betsy's plate is full-and not with birthday cake. But who has time to pout? Not even a reluctant vampire queen, who is taking it one high-heeled step at a time in MaryJanice Davidson's creative, sophisticated, sexy, and wonderfully witty series. [via] 
Unto Zeor Foreverby Jacqueline LichtenbergISBN 0425081877 (0-425-08187-7)
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Venus halfshell C195by Kilgore TroutISBN 0440161495 (0-440-16149-5)
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