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Blood Musicby Greg BearISBN 0877957207 (0-87795-720-7)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Blood of Amberby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0877958297 (0-87795-829-7)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Callahan's Legacy: Library Editionby Spider RobinsonISBN 0812550358 (0-8125-5035-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callahan's Legacy: Library Edition'Book summary:This is the fifth book in the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series, a short read that once again brings together the Callahan regulars in a plot that combines the usual group therapy, the best/worst puns ever to see print and epic, world-saving deeds. This time around the gang must save Earth from a decidedly nasty alien, and only group telepathy will do the trick. Spider Robinson, whose cutting wit and keen insights are in full force, takes the opportunity to dive deep into the psyche of his various mainstay characters, making for some darkly intimate reading. [via]
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Catch the Lightningby Catherine AsaroISBN 0812551028 (0-8125-5102-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Congoby Michael CrichtonISBN 081613202X (0-8161-3202-X)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Counter-Clock Worldby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824858 (0-8398-2485-8)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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Cruel Miraclesby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812523040 (0-8125-2304-0)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Cuckoo's Eggby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886773717 (0-88677-371-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Defenderby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886779111 (0-88677-911-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Dhalgrenby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562998 (0-8195-6299-8)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dhalgren'Book summary:What is Dhalgren? Dhalgren is one of the greatest novels of 20th-century American literature. Dhalgren is one of the all-time bestselling science fiction novels. Dhalgren may be read with equal validity as SF, magic realism, or metafiction. Dhalgren is controversial, challenging, and scandalous. Dhalgren is a brilliant novel about sex, gender, race, class, art, and identity.
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
Dhalgren is many things, but instantly accessible isn't one of them. While most of this big, ambitious, deeply detailed novel is beautifully pellucid, the opening pages will be difficult for some: the novel starts with the second half of an incomplete sentence, in the viewpoint of a man who doesn't know who he is. If you find the early pages rough going, push on; the story soon becomes clear and fascinating. But--fair warning--the central nature of the disaster, of its strange devastations and disruptions, remains a puzzle for many readers, sometimes after several readings.
Spoiler warning: If you want to figure out the secret of the novel as you read Dhalgren, then stop reading this review right now! If you want to know the secret before you start, this is what the novel is about: the experience of existence inside a novel. Time passes differently for different characters. A river changes location. Stairs change their number. The Kid looks in a mirror and sees not himself, but someone who looks an awful lot like Samuel R. Delany. Central images include mirrors, lenses, and prisms, devices that focus, reflect--and distort. The Kid fills a notebook with a journal that may be Dhalgren, and is uncertain if he has written much, or any, of it. The characters don't know they're in a novel, but they know something is wrong. Dhalgren explores the relationship between characters and author (or, perhaps, characters, "author," and author).
The final chapter can be even tougher going than the opening pages, with its viewpoint change and its stretches of braided narrative--and the novel ends with the beginning of an unfinished sentence. But the last chapter becomes clear as you persevere; and when you get to that unfinished closing line, turn to the first line of the novel to finish the sentence and close the narrative circle. --Cynthia Ward [via]
Dictionnaire General De LA Langue Francaise Du Commencement Du 17E Siecle Jusqu'a Nos Jours: General Dictionary of the French Language from the Beginby Adophe HatzfeldISBN 0828867666 (0-8288-6766-6)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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The Einstein Intersectionby Samuel R. Delany, Neil GaimanISBN 0819563366 (0-8195-6336-6)
Softcover, University of Arizona Press
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The Faded Sun Trilogy: Kesrith / Shon'Jir / Kutathby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886778697 (0-88677-869-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Flowers for Algernonby Daniel KeyesISBN 0877207518 (0-87720-751-8)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Food of the Godsby H. G. WellsISBN 0848812166 (0-8488-1216-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Foreignerby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886776376 (0-88677-637-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreigner'Book summary:Two hundred years after a group of humans had lost a war to the atevi, Bren Cameron, the only human allowed into the atevi society, realizes he must forge a bond between the two seemingly incompatible species. 50,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. [via]
The Futurological Congress (from the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy)by Stanisaw LemISBN 0816492220 (0-8164-9222-0)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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The Golden Apples of the Sun.by Ray BradburyISBN 0837151600 (0-8371-5160-0)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Apples of the Sun.'Book summary:This deluxe hardcover includes never before published material. [Note: This edition is NOT signed by Mr. Bradbury.] [via]
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Harvest the Fireby Poul AndersonISBN 0812553756 (0-8125-5375-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harvest the Fire'Book summary:Poul Anderson, a legend of SF, is the writer whom the mantle of Robert A. Heinlein descended upon. Anderson devoted his career to the visionary enterprise of creating science fiction set in a carefully extrapolated human society of the future in the spirit of Heinlein.[via]
Nowhere does he succeed more powerfully than in the works set in the future history that began in Harvest of Stars, continued in The Stars Are Also Fire, and now leaps into the distant future in Harvest the Fire. This is no less than the tale of the expansion of humanity to the limits of the solar system and beyond. It also chronicles the evolution of machine intelligence, until humans and machines come into conflict in an age when the outward urge and the urge to change are the chief barriers to utopia for many humans--and for their machines.
Harvest the Fire is the story of politics and poetry: of a poet, Jesse Nicol, who aspires to great work in an era when human literary greatness is apparently all in the past, who travels to the Moon and falls in love with a beautiful revolutionary, Falaire--a woman determined to escape from the care of machines. For the machines are now the masters of humanity, and the great work of Falaire is freedom, which must be stolen from the machines.
With the precision and clear focus of a master, Poul Anderson tells a sharp and poignant tale against an epic interplanetary background. Harvest the Fire is hard SF raised to the intensity of poetry.More editions of Harvest the Fire:
Hothouseby Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0839823258 (0-8398-2325-8)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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I Will Fear No Evilby Robert Anson HeinleinISBN 0839824491 (0-8398-2449-1)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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In the Days of the Cometby H. G. WellsISBN 0816707111 (0-8167-0711-1)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Inheritorby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886777283 (0-88677-728-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inheritor'Book summary:Six months after the return of the alien atevi to the human colony it had placed there two centuries earlier, the rise of a polarizing political faction threatens to send the fledgling planet into war, and three people become a society's only hope. [via]
Into the Dreamby William SleatorISBN 0844671886 (0-8446-7188-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Invaderby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886776872 (0-88677-687-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invader'Book summary:Nearly two centuries after a human colony is abandoned on an alien planet, the two races have reached a tenacious peace agreement, but when the human ship returns unexpectedly, both governments are thrown into chaos. [via]
The Investigationby Stanislaw LemISBN 0816491658 (0-8164-9165-8)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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Legendsby Robert SilverbergISBN 0812566637 (0-8125-6663-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legends'Book summary:The great anthology of short novels by the masters of modern fantasy.[via]
Robert Jordan relates crucial events in the years leading up to The Wheel of Time in "New Spring."
Ursula K. Le Guin adds a sequel to her famous books of Earthsea, portraying a woman who wants to learn magic, in "Dragonfly."
Tad Williams tells a dark and enthralling story of a haunted castle in the age before Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, in "The Burning Man."
Terry Pratchett relates an amusing incident in Discworld, of a magical contest and the witch Granny Weatherwax, in "The Sea and Little Fishes."
Long Huntby Debra DoyleISBN 0812534964 (0-8125-3496-4)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Lucifer's Hammerby Larry NivenISBN 0872234878 (0-87223-487-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucifer's Hammer'Book summary:Monumental devastation will sweep across the globe if the newly-discovered Hamner-Brown comet collides with the one major obstacle in its path: Earth.
For millionaire Tim Hamner, the comet is a ticket to immortality. For filmmaker Harvey Randall, it's a shot to redeem a flagging career. And for astronauts John Baker and Rick Delanty, it's a second chance for glory in outer space.
But for a world gripped by comet fever, fascination quickly turns to fear. And only those who survive the impact will know the even greater terror, when rich and poor, politicians and killers, turn to each other or against each other--and the remnants of humanity grow savage to battle for what little remains . . .
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Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercuryby Isaac AsimovISBN 0839824890 (0-8398-2489-0)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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The Madness Seasonby C. S. FriedmanISBN 0886774446 (0-88677-444-6)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Majipoor Chroniclesby Robert SilverbergISBN 0877953597 (0-87795-359-7)
Softcover, Arbor House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Majipoor Chronicles'Book summary:[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]
[Read by a Full Cast which includes: Stefan Rudnicki, Arte Johnson, Emily Janice Card, Mirron Willis, J. Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Gabrielle de Cuir, Don Leslie, and Scott Peterson]
The national bestselling saga of Robert Silverberg's stunning imagination that began with Lord Valentine's Castle continues in Majipoor Chronicles.
The young street urchin Hissune helps Lord Valentine regain his throne, and as a reward, he is sent into the depths of the Labyrinth, a massive library of memory cubes in which the entire history of Majipoor is preserved. As Hissune prepares for a summons to return to Castle Mount, he relives the lives of Majipoor's most famous and notorious inhabitants, learning more about the people and his new land than anyone else in the kingdom. As he becomes one with its many peoples -- dukes and generals, thieves and murderers, Ghayrogs and Metamorphs -- he discovers wonder, terror, longing, and love and learns wisdom that will shape his destiny. [via]More editions of Majipoor Chronicles:
Merchanter's Luckby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886771390 (0-88677-139-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Mindstar Risingby Peter F. HamiltonISBN 0812590562 (0-8125-9056-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Mountain of Black Glassby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886778492 (0-88677-849-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountain of Black Glass'Book summary:Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.
An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.
"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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My Teacher Fried My Brainsby Bruce CovilleISBN 0833570110 (0-8335-7011-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Notebooks of Lazarus Longby Robert A. Heinlein, D. F. VassalloISBN 0876544731 (0-87654-473-1)
Softcover, Pomegranate
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Otherlandby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886778441 (0-88677-844-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Otherland'Book summary:Otherland, the quartet of which Mountain of Black Glass is the powerful third part, combines some terrifying speculation on the future of virtual reality with adventures no less terrifying because they are technologized dreaming. These are dreams the adventurers cannot awaken from and in which, if they die, they are really dead.
An epidemic of comatose children has led Renie and her San friend !Xabbu into the net and to a series of dream worlds created as palaces by the corrupt aspiring immortals, the Grail Brotherhood. Two of those children, Orlando and Fredericks, have become adventurers in their own right, while their parents' lawyer Ramsey follows real-world money and lesbian cop Calliope tracks a serial killer with serious ambitions to become an angry god. In this volume, adventures take place in a mythic ancient Egypt and a rambling Gormenghastlike house before all the virtual adventurers meet where they were always destined to, before the walls of Troy.
"All around, death. It was not a quiet presence during the long day--not a pale-faced maiden bringing surcease from pain, not a skillful reaper with a scalpel-sharp blade.... Death on the Trojan plain was a crazed beast that roared and clawed and smashed, which was everywhere at once, and which in its unending fury showed that even armored men were terribly frail things."
Tad Williams takes the gameworld and turns it on its head, passionately; how do we know that what bleeds does not feel pain? He writes a classic of cyberspace adventure that has a sorrowful heart. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
The Penultimate Truthby Philip K. DickISBN 0881844934 (0-88184-493-4)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Pilgrimageby Zenna HendersonISBN 083982498X (0-8398-2498-X)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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Planet Of Exileby Ursula Le GuinISBN 0824014235 (0-8240-1423-5)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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The Planet Savers : Winds of Darkoverby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0886776309 (0-88677-630-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Planet Savers : Winds of Darkover'Book summary:In The Winds of Darkover, the Storn family is held hostage in the frigid High Hellers, while in The Planet Savers, the Terrans of Gottman IV desperately seek a cure to a disease of epidemic proportions. Reprint. [via]
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Precursorby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886779103 (0-88677-910-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Precursor'Book summary:C.J. Cherryh creates thought-provoking stories of cultures in collision featuring well-drawn characters and plenty of intrigue. Precursor directly follows Inheritor in the Foreigner series (which includes Foreigner and Invader). The series introduces the atevi, aliens with a culture based on loyalty, legal assassination, and inborn mathematical gifts.
Two hundred years ago humans crash-landed on the atevi homeworld. The two races are nearly incompatible; peace is maintained by limiting contact to a single human diplomat, the paidhi. His name is Bren Cameron.
In the first trilogy, the starship Phoenix (the same ship that brought the human colonists) returned, fleeing alien attack in another sector. The Phoenix asked both atevi and human communities to help reopen the orbital station and rearm the ship. Bren coordinated an atevi shuttle-building program and trained the Phoenix representative, Jase Graham, in living on a planet and dealing with aliens. Now he faces family crises while ensuring that the atevi remain equal partners in the space effort. He must deal with the very different culture of the Phoenix crew and the alien space station environment while maintaining cooperation with the colonists and representing atevi interests.
Precursor ends abruptly. Are the aliens coming? Will the Phoenix crew, colonists, and atevi be able to protect their system together? Will Bren be able to retain any of his humanity? If you enjoy stories that make you think about how space travel and contact with aliens would really play out, treat yourself to this meaty SF series. --Nona Vero [via]
A Princess Of Marsby Edgar Burroughs, Frank E. Schoonover, Ray BradburyISBN 0812968514 (0-8129-6851-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Psychloneby Greg BearISBN 0812531655 (0-8125-3165-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Puppet Mastersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0839825080 (0-8398-2508-0)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Radio Free Albemuthby Philip K. DickISBN 0877957622 (0-87795-762-2)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Radio Free Albemuth'Book summary:A preliminary to Dick's masterwork, Valis, in which Phil appears as an explicitly named autobiographical character for the first time. Soon to be a major new film. As America gasps in the stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars! ARAMCHEK! the word scratched in the sidewalk of the President's childhood home. ARAMCHEK! the name of the subversive society 'with no official membership' whose sole purpose is to overthrow the American government. ARAMCHEK! the word printed on a book which contains the President's signature -- a book in the hands of a Communist Party organiser. ARAMCHEK! the name of a woman who may hold the key -- and who has only weeks to live. Will the agents of the omniscient Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the seek-and-destroy tactics of President Ferris F. Freemont extend the mind-numbing grip of the Antagonist across the parameters of the free world? In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest science fiction writer. This prophetic novel of social control and political oppression is now to be turned into a major new movie starring Alanis Morrissette, which promises a provocative and edgy antidote to the summer blockbusters. [via]
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The Renegades of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 083356109X (0-8335-6109-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Replayby Ken GrimwoodISBN 0877957819 (0-87795-781-9)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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River of Blue Fireby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886777771 (0-88677-777-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River of Blue Fire'Book summary:Tad Williams began his Otherland series with the massive City of Golden Shadow and continues it with the equally hefty River of Blue Fire. Williams says it will require four (big) books to tell his complex, multithreaded tale, and at the rate that the plot of this second novel moves, readers will see what he means. Not that the book is a slow read; in fact, River is as much a suspenseful page-turner as the first book.
As River opens, we join up again with the ragtag bunch of searchers trapped in an astoundingly detailed and frightfully dangerous virtual world known as Otherland. Lurking in disguise among the group is the brutally vicious serial killer Dread, trying to find information that will help him overthrow his Grail Brotherhood masters. The group follows a ubiquitous river through world after world, unable to go offline, and subject to the increasingly terrifying certainty that things in this supposedly virtual place are all too real. Meanwhile, Paul Jonas, an amnesic (but somehow pivotal) character fleeing from two sinister beings, finds more and more of his memory as he does his own Huck Finn river trip. As in the first novel, each new world that the characters enter, from Paleolithic Ice Age to something suspiciously like Oz, is fully realized and completely unpredictable.
Williams is a master at parceling out information to the reader in dribs and drabs, which is frustrating yet tantalizing, like a particularly good computer game. When the group is split up and the adventure divides further, the reader senses the author as a puppet master, following some incredibly complex flows of information. The best course is just to hang on and enjoy Williams's deft characterizations, lush descriptions, and wildly divergent plot. If you've ever been white-water rafting, you'll recognize the feeling. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Saturn's Raceby Larry Niven, Steven BarnesISBN 0812580109 (0-8125-8010-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Schismatrixby Bruce SterlingISBN 0877956456 (0-87795-645-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schismatrix'Book summary:Description: 288 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Sterling, Bruce--Science Fiction. Form/Genre: Science fiction. [via]
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The Secret Ascensionby Michael BishopISBN 0812531574 (0-8125-3157-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Shattered Chainby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0839825021 (0-8398-2502-1)
Softcover, Irvington Publishers
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The Siegeby Peter David, Joanne SuterISBN 0835914933 (0-8359-1493-3)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co
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Sign of Chaosby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0877959269 (0-87795-926-9)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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The Sky Roadby Ken MacLeodISBN 0812577590 (0-8125-7759-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Slanby A. E. Van VogtISBN 0824014413 (0-8240-1441-3)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis
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The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hellby Harry HarrisonISBN 0812551079 (0-8125-5107-9)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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DiGriz is strenuously fighting boredom on a ritzy pleasure planet when his beloved wife disappears while vising the Temple of Eternal Truth, an enigmatic institution that promises its patrons a sneak peek at Heaven--for a price.
Determined to get his wife back, diGriz takes on the Temple. He thinks he's ready for anything, but he never expects to find himself banished to Hell, complete with pointy-tailed devils. Has Divine judgement caught up with the Rat at last?
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0881037222 (0-88103-722-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Stone Canalby Ken MacLeodISBN 0812568648 (0-8125-6864-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Stormqueenby Marion Zimmer Bradley, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0879973811 (0-87997-381-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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To Your Scattered Bodies Goby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0839826206 (0-8398-2620-6)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le Guin, Gail GarratyISBN 0816144303 (0-8161-4430-3)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Tritonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0839823711 (0-8398-2371-1)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Trouble on Tritonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 081956298X (0-8195-6298-X)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trouble on Triton'Book summary:In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with . . . our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of "the happily reasonable man," Bron Helstrom -- an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth's own Outer Mongolia. Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he -- or she -- seems. [via]
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Trumps of Doomby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0877957185 (0-87795-718-5)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Two to Conquerby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0886771749 (0-88677-174-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Vby A.C. CrispinISBN 0839828403 (0-8398-2840-3)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Valor's Choiceby Tanya HuffISBN 0886778964 (0-88677-896-4)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Way Stationby Clifford D. SimakISBN 0837604400 (0-8376-0440-0)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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We Can Build Youby Philip K. DickISBN 0879977930 (0-87997-793-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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When Gravity Failsby George A. EffingerISBN 0877958513 (0-87795-851-3)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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When True Night Fallsby C. S. FriedmanISBN 0886776155 (0-88677-615-5)
Softcover, Daw Books
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The Winds of Darkoverby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0839825110 (0-8398-2511-0)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0881037559 (0-88103-755-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard of Earthsea'Book summary:Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu) tell the whole Earthsea cycle--a tale about a reckless, awkward boy named Sparrowhawk who becomes a wizard's apprentice after the wizard reveals Sparrowhawk's true name. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world. Teens, especially, will be inspired by the way Le Guin allows her characters to evolve and grow into their own powers.
In this first book, A Wizard of Earthsea readers will witness Sparrowhawk's moving rite of passage--when he discovers his true name and becomes a young man. Great challenges await Sparrowhawk, including an almost deadly battle with a sinister creature, a monster that may be his own shadow. [via]
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The World Jones Madeby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824831 (0-8398-2483-1)
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The World Without Tigers?by Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0886776295 (0-88677-629-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The World Wreckersby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0839825153 (0-8398-2515-3)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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World's Endby Joan D. VingeISBN 0812523687 (0-8125-2368-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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