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Ashes of Victoryby David WeberISBN 0671319779 (0-671-31977-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ashes of Victory'Book summary:"Why in Christ's name can the woman never bring a ship back intact?" muses Hamish Alexander at the triumphant return of Honor Harrington in Ashes of Victory, the apparent resurrection of a woman he'd seen executed by the Peeps some two years earlier. Yep, she's back: minus a left arm and an eye, minus a few inches of hair, and more than a little banged up in the process, the indestructible, ever-resilient Honor is back from the dead--and she's got some 400,000 liberated POWs from Hades in tow for good measure.
Picking up where Echoes of Honor left off, the ecstatic reunion that begins Ashes proves short-lived as Honor once again lives up to her nickname of "The Salamander," always ending up where the fire's hottest. In the longest book of this naval space-opera series, David Weber plunges his beloved heroine (now an admiral!) into a thick tangle of political plots, as she takes on a more mature, behind-the-scenes role than in previous books. But don't fret: there's still some good action as HH prevents an assassination attempt and Manticore and its allies test-drive their new weaponry. And quite a few characters get what's coming to them too, including a few who drop like picked-off Peeps. All in all, yet another worthy installment in the series--check out On Basilisk Station first if you're new to HH. --Paul Hughes [via]
The Battle of Corrinby Kevin J. Anderson, Brian HerbertISBN 0765340798 (0-7653-4079-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Blood Musicby Greg BearISBN 0441067972 (0-441-06797-2)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Music'Book summary:The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Moving Mars presents the book that launched his career, featuring a scientist who conducts an experiment in cell restructuring that takes on a threatening life of its own. Reprint. AB. LJ. [via]
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Burning Chromeby William GibsonISBN 0441089348 (0-441-08934-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burning Chrome'Book summary:When "Burning Chrome," the title story in William Gibson's first short story collection, appeared, it grabbed readers by the collar and shook them up a bit. Science fiction in the late '70s had grown a little bit stale and, worse, safe. "Burning Chrome" offered a fresh look at a future that was gritty, real, and more than a little dangerous. These stories brought high tech out of antiseptic university laboratories and corporate boardrooms and put it in the streets and alleyways where people found their own uses for it. Sometimes those uses were even legal.
The philosophy of cyberpunk, the movement that Gibson's early books kicked off, is most explicitly stated in "The Gernsbach Continuum," with its rejection of the '30s ideal of a future of flying cars and shining cities. But the real meat of this collection is found in those stories where Gibson involves us with the people who inhabit his world. The technical boy of "Johnny Mnemonic" and the thief-turned-game-player of "Dogfight" (cowritten with Michael Swanwick) would be right at home on the same streets. Most intense and more enigmatic is the recording engineer of "The Winter Market," who is overwhelmingly attracted to and repulsed by the greatest artist he ever worked with. Still, "Burning Chrome," with its tale of vengeance and high-stakes theft, remains the centerpiece of this collection. Read it and you will know why William Gibson became and remains one of the top writers in science fiction. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Caves of Steelby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293400 (0-553-29340-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caves of Steel'Book summary:A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim! [via]
Chronicles of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345368991 (0-345-36899-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles of Pern'Book summary:Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection. [via]
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- The Chronicles of Pern : First Fall: ISBN 0345419596 (0-345-41959-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Chronicles of Pern: ISBN 0345368983 (0-345-36898-3)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - Chronicles of Pern: ISBN 0606283765 (0-606-28376-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Chronicles of Pern: ISBN 0345368991 (0-345-36899-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
- The Chronicles of Pern : First Fall: ISBN 0345419596 (0-345-41959-6)
The City Who Foughtby Anne McCaffreyISBN 067187599X (0-671-87599-X)
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Contactby Carl SaganISBN 0671004107 (0-671-00410-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contact'Book summary:It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and government--the elements that define society--and looks to their impact on and role in the future. His ability to pack an exciting read with such rich content is an unusual talent that makes Contact a modern sci-fi classic. [via]
Crystal Starby Vonda N. McIntyreISBN 0553571745 (0-553-57174-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Darwin's Childrenby Greg BearISBN 0345448367 (0-345-44836-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin's Children'Book summary:Darwin's Children, Greg Bear's follow-up to Darwin's Radio, is top-shelf science fiction, thrilling and intellectually charged. It's no standalone, though. The plot and characters are certainly independent of the previous novel, but the background in Darwin's Radio is essential to nonbiologists trying to understand what's going on. The next stage of human evolution has arrived, announced by the birth of bizarre "virus children." Now the children with the hypersenses and odd faces are growing up, and the world has to figure out what to do with them. The answer is evil and all too human, as governments put the kids in camps to protect regular folks from imagined dangers. Mitch and Kaye, scientists whose daughter Stella is swept up in the fray, become unwillingly involved in the politics that erupt around the issue of the new humans. Harrowing chases, gun battles, epidemics, and tense meetings about civil rights ensue, all brilliantly narrated. But just when you think you've got the book figured out, Bear throws a massive curveball by introducing... religion. That's right, a good old-fashioned epiphany, plopped down in the middle of a hard science fiction novel. But even skeptical readers will be swept along with Kaye as she tries to deal with what's happening to her and how it relates to the fate of her daughter's species. Keep reading past the words that make you uncomfortable--the hot science, the cool spirituality--and you'll be rewarded with a story of complete and moving humanity. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdomby Cory DoctorowISBN 076530953X (0-7653-0953-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom'Book summary:In Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, things are not well in the land of Space Mountain. The operations of Disney World, in this glimpse into the near future, are administered by "ad-hocs," volunteer groups devoted to retaining the old-fashioned charms of the amusement park in a society that has otherwise undergone radical change. Now that you can backup the contents of your brain and download it into a fresh clone, death has become obsolete. And rather than acquiring wealth, people are concerned with earning Whuffie, a measure of good will and admiration among your fellow immortals.
As one of the people in charge of the theme park's Haunted Mansion, Jules has no shortage of Whuffie. While he's delighted with his job and his perky girlfriend Lil, he's increasingly suspicious of the ambitious ad-hoc that's just revamped the Hall of Presidents. "Ad hoc?" Jules grumbles at one point. "Hell, call them what they were: an army." After Jules is "killed"--for the fourth time in the hundred years he's been around--he realizes that the Haunted Mansion is under threat, along with the rest of his beloved Magic Kingdom.
It's the sort of wild, tech-savvy premise a reader might expect from someone with Doctorow's CV--among other things, he's one of the editors of the popular weblog Boing Boing and a 2000 Hugo Award winner for best new writer. Doctorow, a Toronto native who now lives in San Francisco, makes savvy references to recent SF landmarks like Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Snow Crash, and fans of Carl Hiaasen may be reminded of the amusement-park warfare in Native Tongue and the anti-Mickey bile of Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World. But what Doctorow's first novel lacks in originality, it more than makes up for in terms of exuberance and appeal. The action is funny and swiftly paced as the increasingly unhinged Jules tries to discover the identity of his "murderer" and protect the Haunted Mansion. Along the way, Doctorow reconfigures society in a dazzling variety of ways and creates a future that he can call his own. --Jason Anderson [via]
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Dragonseyeby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345418794 (0-345-41879-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonseye'Book summary:When the volcanoes rumble and the powerful storms begin brewing on Pern, it means one thing: Thread. For 257 years Pern has been free of the life-destroying Thread, but now the Red Star has reappeared in the sky and soon the deadly Threadfall will follow. In the holds and weyrs across the land, the genetically-engineered dragons of Pern and their human riders begin feverishly training to combat the Thread, for only dragon fire can destroy the silvery invaders. But, incredibly, one Lord Holder refuses to believe the Thread will fall again, and he may endanger the entire planet. [via]
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Dune No. 3: The Battle of Corrinby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0765305879 (0-7653-0587-9)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Dune: The Battle of Corrinby Kevin J. Anderson, Brian HerbertISBN 0765301598 (0-7653-0159-8)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: The Battle of Corrin'Book summary:Following their internationally bestselling novels Dune: The Butlerian Jihad and Dune: The Machine Crusade, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson forge a final tumultuous finish to their prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune.[via]
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of struggle, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.
Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets . . . and once again, the tide of the titanic struggle shifts against the warriors of the human race. At last, the war that has lasted many lifetimes will be decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.
In the greatest battle in science fiction history, human and machine face off one last time. . . . And on the desert planet of Arrakis, the legendary Fremen of Dune become the feared fighting force to be discovered by Paul Muad'Dib in Frank Herbert's classic, Dune.More editions of Dune: The Battle of Corrin:
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Fantastic Voyageby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553275720 (0-553-27572-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantastic Voyage'Book summary:Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed. [via]
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The Forever Warby Joe HaldemanISBN 0345324897 (0-345-32489-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forever War'Book summary:In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and Avon Books have released the definitive version of The Forever War, published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass. --Craig E. Engler [via]
Get Off the Unicornby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345349350 (0-345-34935-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Glory Roadby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0441294014 (0-441-29401-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glory Road'Book summary:Responding to an ad for a brave, handsome, and emotionally unattached man, E. C. ""Scar"" Gordon is enthralled by the gorgeous Amazon-like technician who interviews him before sending him on the adventure of a lifetime. Reprint. [via]
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Glory Roadby Robert Anson Heinlein, Delaney, Samuel R. (AFT)ISBN 0765312220 (0-7653-1222-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Hominidsby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0765345005 (0-7653-4500-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hominids'Book summary:Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids introduces a new world, a parallel historical universe in which Neanderthals, not Homo sapiens, survived to explore the world and build a civilization. It also tells the story of a man from his own world and the people who try to understand and help him. Ponter Boddit is a Neanderthal physicist working on quantum computing. While running an experiment, he suddenly disappears from his own universe, leaving a puddle of heavy water behind him. Just as suddenly, he appears in our universe, in a container of heavy water at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Trying to understand how a Neanderthal arrived in the laboratory, and how to introduce him to human culture, poses a major problem for Louise Benoit, a physics student, and Mary Vaughan, a geneticist with expertise on Neanderthal DNA.
A parallel story of the Neanderthal world follows Adikor Huld and his attempt to explain why he should not be charged with murder in the disappearance of his partner Ponter. The book nicely contrasts Neanderthal society with our own: Ponter's descriptions of a society where violence is almost unknown and pollution non-existent paint an idyllic picture of his home universe. But Adikor's experiences show a more balanced view: Neanderthals sin, too. The first volume in Sawyer's new Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids is a self-contained story that combines fully drawn characters in both worlds with provocative ideas about physics, history, and evolution. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Honor Among Enemiesby David WeberISBN 0671877836 (0-671-87783-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honor Among Enemies'Book summary:In this sixth outing, Honor is invited to rejoin the Royal Manticoran Navy at the instigation of some of her worst enemies. The RMN has withdrawn from the Silesian Confederacy in an effort to focus on its war with the People's Republic of Haven and the shipping cartels have been losing vessels: cargo, crews and all. Klaus Hauptmann sees a glorious opportunity: invite Honor to command the Q-ships which will draw pirate and privateer fire. If she dies, great; if she succeeds, even better.
Honor and her companion Nimitz find unexpected friends (and enemies) along the way, and fans of this series' space battles will not be disappointed. In addition to a better glimpse of the Silesian systems, we finally get to meet a few of the Andermani.
Want to read more about Honor? Read about Honor's early career in On Basilisk Station, her first encounter with the Graysons in The Honor of the Queen, the beginning of the war with the Peeps in The Short, Victorious War, the continuing story of treachery at home in Field of Dishonor, and her ignominous exile (or training to be an Admiral?) in Flag in Exile. [via]
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The Illustrated Manby Ray BradburyISBN 055327449X (0-553-27449-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Man'Book summary:That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater [via]
Lord of Lightby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0380014033 (0-380-01403-3)
Softcover, Hearst Book Group of Canada, The
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The Lost Kingby Margaret WeisISBN 0553763423 (0-553-76342-3)
Softcover, Spectra
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost King'Book summary:As a corrupt Commonwealth rules the galaxy through the might of its armies, its most influential general--a renegade Guardian of the deposed Starfire royal line--pursues the rumor of a hidden heir to the throne and searches for a woman he loves and is destined to destroy. [via]
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Marsby Ben BovaISBN 055356241X (0-553-56241-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mars'Book summary:Chosen to replace an original crew member, native American geologist Jamie Waterman joins the historic mission to Mars, enduring grueling months of training and, ultimately, the extraordinary adventure that follows. [via]
On a Pale Horseby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345338588 (0-345-33858-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On a Pale Horse'Book summary:When Zane shot Death, he learned, too late, that he would have to assume his place, speeding over the world riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others. Sooner than he would have thought possible, Zane found himself being drawn to Satan's plot. Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved...unless he could discover the only way out....
The first novel of the INCARNATIONS OF IMMORATLITY series.
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The past through Tomorrowby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0441653049 (0-441-65304-9)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Past Through Tomorrow'Book summary:This is the second half of what was published in the USA as the Past Through Tomorrow, as the American book was divided into two halves for the British hardcover edition(s) [via]
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Quicker Than the Eyeby Ray BradburyISBN 0380789590 (0-380-78959-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicker Than the Eye'Book summary:The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant centuries; joining an ancient couple in their wild assassination games; celebrating life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades and has enchanted millions of readers the world over. [via]
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Red Star Risingby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0593037707 (0-593-03770-7)
Hardcover, Bantam
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Star Rising'Book summary:For 200 years there had been no peace on Pern - but now the signs were ominous. Violent weather storms and erupting volcanoes heralded the coming of the second Pass of Thread, when the red planet would rain down its horrifying harvest and destroy every living organism. [via]
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A Scanner Darklyby Philip K. DickISBN 0679736654 (0-679-73665-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Scanner Darkly'Book summary:Mind- and reality-bending drugs factor again and again in Philip K. Dick's hugely influential SF stories. A Scanner Darkly cuts closest to the bone, drawing on Dick's own experience with illicit chemicals and on his many friends who died from drug abuse. Nevertheless, it's blackly farcical, full of comic-surreal conversations between people whose synapses are partly fried, sudden flights of paranoid logic, and bad trips like the one whose victim spends a subjective eternity having all his sins read to him, in shifts, by compound-eyed aliens. (It takes 11,000 years of this to reach the time when as a boy he discovered masturbation.) The antihero Bob Arctor is forced by his double life into warring double personalities: as futuristic narcotics agent "Fred," face blurred by a high-tech scrambler, he must spy on and entrap suspected drug dealer Bob Arctor. His disintegration under the influence of the insidious Substance D is genuine tragicomedy. For Arctor there's no way off the addict's downward escalator, but what awaits at the bottom is a kind of redemption--there are more wheels within wheels than we suspected, and his life is not entirely wasted. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
The Ship Who Searchedby Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes LackeyISBN 0671721291 (0-671-72129-1)
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Singularity Skyby Charles StrossISBN 0441011799 (0-441-01179-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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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?
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Stand on Zanzibarby John BrunnerISBN 0345347870 (0-345-34787-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stand on Zanzibar'Book summary:A Hugo-award-winning novel of over-population, poitical struggles, and warped ethics. "A quite marvelous projection in which John Brunner landscapes a future that seems the natural foster child of the present...Everything compounds into a fractured tomorrow--from the population explosion to Marshall McLuhan to the Territorial Imperative to the underground press..."--Kirkus Reviews [via]
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Star Wars Episode IIby R. A. SalvatoreISBN 034542882X (0-345-42882-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars Episode II'Book summary:There is a great disturbance in the Force. . . . From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo, dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war, and the Senate is hopelessly divided, unable to determine whether to raise an army for battle or keep the fragile peace. It is a stalemate that once broken, could lead to galactic chaos.
Mischievous and resolved, courageous to the point of recklessness, Anakin Skywalker has come of age in a time of great upheaval. The nineteen-year-old apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an enigma to the Jedi Council, and a challenge to his Jedi Master. Time has not dulled Anakins ambition, nor has his Jedi training tamed his independent streak. When an attempt on Senator Padmé Amidalas life brings them together for the first time in ten years, it is clear that time also has not dulled Anakins intense feelings for the beautiful diplomat.
The attack on Senator Amidala just before a crucial vote thrusts the Republic even closer to the edge of disaster. Masters Yoda and Mace Windu sense enormous unease. The dark side is growing, clouding the Jedis perception of the events. Unbeknownst to the Jedi, a slow rumble is building into the roar of thousands of soldiers readying for battle. But even as the Republic falters around them, Anakin and Padmé find a connection so intense that all else begins to fall away. Anakin will lose himselfand his wayin emotions a Jedi, sworn to hold allegiance only to the Order, is forbidden to have.
Based on the story by George Lucas and the screenplay by George Lucas and Jonathan Hales, this intense and revealing novel by bestselling author R. A. Salvatore sheds new light on the legend of Star Warsand skillfully illuminates one of our most beloved sagas. [via] -
Star Wars Episode IIby Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas, Jonathan HalesISBN 0439139287 (0-439-13928-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Star Wars, Episode II Attack of the Clones: Flute Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrackby John WilliamsISBN 0757997120 (0-7579-9712-0)
Softcover, Warner Bros Pubns
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The Stars, Like Dustby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293435 (0-553-29343-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stars, Like Dust'Book summary:A story of galactic intrigue and adventure, this is the second novel of the Galactic Empire, the period between our own time and the universe of Asimov's "Foundation" series. Mankind has conquered space and moved toward the starry heart of the galaxy. [via]
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State of the Art: Short Stories by the New Irish Writersby David MarcusISBN 0340574003 (0-340-57400-3)
Hardcover, Sceptre
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Subtle Knifeby Philip PullmanISBN 0375823468 (0-375-82346-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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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]
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- Subtle Knife: ISBN 0440238145 (0-440-23814-5)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf - Subtle Knife: ISBN 044041833X (0-440-41833-X)
Softcover, Yearling Books - Subtle Knife: ISBN 0375846727 (0-375-84672-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Subtle Knife: ISBN 0679879250 (0-679-87925-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Subtle Knife: ISBN 0345413369 (0-345-41336-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Subtle Knife: ISBN 0345916417 (0-345-91641-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Subtle Knife: ISBN 0375802118 (0-375-80211-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - Subtle Knife: ISBN 0613095049 (0-613-09504-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Subtle Knife: ISBN 0375823468 (0-375-82346-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
- Subtle Knife: ISBN 0440238145 (0-440-23814-5)
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To Ride Pegasusby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0345336038 (0-345-33603-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Ride Pegasus'Book summary:They were four extroardinary women who read minds, healed bodies, diverted disasters, foretold the future--and became pariahs in their own land. A talented, elite cadre, they stepped out of the everyday human race...to enter their own!
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The Tower and the Hiveby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441007201 (0-441-00720-1)
Softcover, Ace Books
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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]
Vector Primeby R. A. SalvatoreISBN 0345428455 (0-345-42845-5)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vector Prime'Book summary:Fifty-seven years have passed since the events of Phantom Menace, 25 since A New Hope, and 21 since the Empire's final defeat over Endor. The still-fragile New Republic, rocked by internal conflict, now faces a potentially overwhelming challenge from beyond the known galaxy: the Yuuzhan Vong, a sinister race of warriors using highly advanced (and creepy) organic "devices" and vehicles, whose immense strength and technological edge lets them fight toe to toe with Jedi. And who better to flesh out these powerful and malevolent aliens, so dismissive and disdainful of humanity, than R.A. Salvatore, the author who almost single-handedly popularized Dungeons and Dragons' equally awful bad guys, the Drow, with his Drizzt Do'Urden books.
In kicking off Del Rey's five-year New Jedi Order story arc, Salvatore must endure the predictable hazing of any new Star Wars author. But an accomplished storyteller backed by legions of fans, the Dark Elf author proves to be up to the task and thankfully sensitive to the well-loved characters he's borrowing time with. Vector Prime sets up the early stages of the covert Praetorite Vong invasion, giving us a closeup glimpse of this nefarious new race and following our heroes' attempts to combat them. Luke struggles with whether to revive the Jedi Council; Mara still fights her deadly disease; Lando is back helping Han, Chewie, and Leia; and Leia and Solo's kids finally come into their own. Prepare yourself, though, for when a major, beloved character gets ceremoniously smushed. (Although we've seen Boba Fett come back from worse.... ) --Paul Hughes [via]
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- Star Wars The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime: ISBN 0345479335 (0-345-47933-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Vector Prime: ISBN 0345428447 (0-345-42844-7)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - Star Wars: ISBN 0345461436 (0-345-46143-6)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books - Vector Prime: ISBN 0345428455 (0-345-42845-5)
Softcover, Del Rey
- Star Wars The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime: ISBN 0345479335 (0-345-47933-5)
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