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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879269 (0-679-87926-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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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]
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The Apocalypse Trollby David WeberISBN 0671578456 (0-671-57845-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apocalypse Troll'Book summary:David Weber, author of the enormously popular Honor Harrington military SF series, takes to deep space and the high seas in the opening chapters of Apocalypse Troll. The fateful space battle and resulting spaceship crash that bring together Colonel Ludmilla Leonova and Captain Richard Aston, U.S. Navy, set the stage for another rip-roaring, guns-blazing science fiction adventure. When Captain Aston finds out Colonel Leonova's secret, he eagerly offers his help, then finds himself in the middle of an extremely dangerous military situation. Weber's fast plots, nonstop action, and attention to detail are what makes his books so much fun to read, and Apocalypse Troll is no exception. --Adam Fisher [via]
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Blood and Goldby Anne RiceISBN 0679454497 (0-679-45449-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Gold'Book summary:Time heals all wounds, unless, of course, you're a vampire. Cuts may heal, burns vanish, limbs reattach, but for the "blood god," the wounds of the heart sometimes stay open and raw for centuries. So it is for Marius, Anne Rice's oft-mentioned and beloved scholar. We've heard parts of his tale in past volumes of the Vampire Chronicles, but never so completely and never from his own lips. In Blood and Gold, Rice mostly (but not entirely) avoids the danger of treading worn ground as she fills out the life and character of Marius the Lonely, the Disenchanted, the Heartsick--a 2,000-year-old vampire "with all the conviction of a mortal man."
Plucked from his beloved Rome in the prime of his life and forced into solitude as keeper of the vampire queen and king, Marius has never forgiven the injustice of his mortal death. Thousands of years later, he still seethes over his losses. Immortality for Marius is both a blessing and a curse--he bears "witness to all splendid and beautiful things human," yet is unable to engage in relationships for fear of revealing his burden.
New readers to the Chronicles may wish for a more fleshed-out, less introspective hero, but Rice's legions of devoted fans will recognize Blood and Gold for what it is: a love song to Marius the Wanderer, whose story reveals the complexities and limitations of eternal existence. --Daphne Durham [via]
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Boogeymanby Mel Gilden, Dave SternISBN 0671709704 (0-671-70970-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cellby Stephen KingISBN 0743292332 (0-7432-9233-2)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cell'Book summary:Cell is an apocalyptic horror novel published by American author Stephen King in 2006. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals. [via]
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Cloud Warriorby Patrick TilleyISBN 0727810952 (0-7278-1095-2)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Deadman Switchby Timothy ZahnISBN 0671697846 (0-671-69784-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Deathkillerby Spider RobinsonISBN 0671877224 (0-671-87722-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deathkiller'Book summary:Wireheads are the new junkies, with electricity their drug of choice. Once the socket is surgically attached to the skull, a mild current constantly stimulates the pleasure centers, producing ectasy beyond measure - and if wirehead is left plugged in and unattended, he or she will starve to death while experiencing indescribable joy. Which is what would have happened to Karen if a highly ethical burglar named Joe hadn't broken into her apartment, pulled her plug, and talked her out of committing suicide by ectasy. Now, Karen is determined to bring down those who sell the equipment that makes wireheading possible, but as she and Joe attempt to trace the source of the wirehead technology, they keep turning up indications of a shadowy global conspiracy -not to control the world, but to prevent anyone fromn realizing that the masters of mind control have been controlling us all for some time now... [via]
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The Devil's Heartby Carmen Carter, Kevin RyanISBN 0671794264 (0-671-79426-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Heart'Book summary:The Devil's Heart is a legendary object of unsurpassed power and mystery. Worlds that believe in magic consider it Darkness's mightiest talisman; and worlds of science consider it a lost artifact of some ancient and forgotten race. Some say the Heart enables its possessor to control people's minds and to amass wealth enough for a dozen lifetimes, while others think it capable of raising the dead, perhaps even changing the flow of time itself. But to all, the location of this fabled object has remained a mystery, until now.
An isolated archaeological outpost has suddenly stopped responding to repeated requests for information. Sent to discover why, the "U.S.S. Enterprise" TM crew finds a devastated outpost and a dying scientist, whose last words fall on disbelieving ears: the Devil's Heart has been found.
As the quest for the Heart unfolds, Captain Jean-Luc Picard discovers that beyond all the legends and age-old secrets lies an awful truth: whoever holds the Devil's Heart possesses power beyond imagining. [via] -
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agencyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0671625829 (0-671-62582-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'Book summary:What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza -- not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge). To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it, then read it) -- or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. 'A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy epic.' The author [via]
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Don't Panicby Neil GaimanISBN 0671664263 (0-671-66426-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Panic'Book summary:Told in the same fanciful, irreverent style as the Hitchhiker trilogy, with scraps of scripts, letters and comments from Adams, Don't Panic is the perfect companion to one of the most successful series in publishing history. [via]
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Doomsday Worldby Carmen Carter, Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, David SternISBN 0671741446 (0-671-74144-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doomsday World'Book summary:The planet Kirlos -- an artificial world built by a mysterious long-dead race called the Ariantu. Kirlos is now home to many races from both the Federation and the K'vin Hegemony, who have enjoyed years of peaceful co-existence and profitable trade. The planet also hold a wealth of undiscovered archaeological treasures, which the Enterprise" and its crew are dispatched to help uncover.
Sent to the surface to assist an archaeological team, Geordi, Data, and Worf soon find themselves cut off from the Enterprise -- and the prime suspects in a series of terrorist attacks. The three Enterprise crewmen are imprisoned, relations between the K'vin and the Federation begin to crumble, and Kirlos' ancient underground machinery awakens from a centuries long dormancy, primed to release the most powerful destructive force ever known. [via]
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Dwellers in the Crucibleby Margaret W. BonannoISBN 0671741470 (0-671-74147-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Exilesby Howard Weinstein, David SternISBN 0671705601 (0-671-70560-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Eyes of the Beholdersby A. C. Crispin, David SternISBN 0671700103 (0-671-70010-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eyes of the Beholders'Book summary:After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and description, all of them, dead in space.
At the center of the graveyard lies a huge, incredibly powerful artifact, constructed by an ancient alien race. And as the crew struggles to solve the mystery of the artifact, they unwittingly trigger its awesome power, a power that threatens insanity and death to all aboard the Starship Enterprise. [via]
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Faces of Fireby Michael Jan Friedman, Dave SternISBN 0671749927 (0-671-74992-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customsby Robert A. Heinlein, Robert James, Spider RobinsonISBN 074325998X (0-7432-5998-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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From Time to Timeby Jack FinneyISBN 0684818442 (0-684-81844-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Time to Time'Book summary:Set 25 years after the events in his "mind-boggling, imagination-stretching" (san francisco examiner) time and again, the sequel finds ruben prien still at work with the project, still dreaming of altering man's fate by going back in time to "adjust" events--or, as some might say, to interfere with destiny [via]
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The Galactic Pot-Healerby Philip K. DickISBN 0679752978 (0-679-75297-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Galactic Pot-Healer'Book summary:What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination. [via]
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Generationsby J. M. DillardISBN 0671537539 (0-671-53753-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Generationsby John VornholtISBN 0671519018 (0-671-51901-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Ghost of a Chanceby Mark A. Garland, Charles G. McGrawISBN 0671567985 (0-671-56798-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost of a Chance'Book summary:Badly damaged in a close encounter with a dwarf star, the "Voyager" TM discovers a planet being torn apart by tremendous volcanic stresses. The planet's primitive inhabitants will surely perish unless the "Voyager" intervenes -- but the Prime Directive forbids them to act. And then the dilemma is increased by the arrival of another starship, a Televek vessel, whose crew offer to help both the "Voyager" and the people of the crumbling planet. But Janeway senses something amiss with their saviors, and she's haunted by ghostly visions warning her of a threat that make her loathe to accept anything from the Televek, even though they may be her only hope. [via]
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Ghost Shipby Diane L. CareyISBN 0671746081 (0-671-74608-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Ship'Book summary:In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them. And the nightmare heralds a danger to the EnterpriseTM itself, for if Picard can't discover a way to communicate with the creature, it could absorb his crew just as it did the Russians. [via]
The Gripping Handby Larry NivenISBN 0671795740 (0-671-79574-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gripping Hand'Book summary:In the sequel to The Mote in God's Eye, twenty-five years after the quarantine of the alien Moties within their own solar system, the walls separating them from the rest of the universe are beginning to crumble. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. [via]
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Guises of the Mindby Rebecca Neason, Kevin RyanISBN 0671798316 (0-671-79831-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Hothouseby Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0671559303 (0-671-55930-3)
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Hunting Partyby Elizabeth MoonISBN 0671721763 (0-671-72176-3)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Imbalanceby V. E. Mitchell, Dave SternISBN 0671775715 (0-671-77571-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In the Days of the Cometby H. G. WellsISBN 0701205806 (0-7012-0580-6)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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Into the Dreamby William SleatorISBN 0679803483 (0-679-80348-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Invitation to the Gameby Monica HughesISBN 0671866923 (0-671-86692-3)
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Kahlessby Michael Jan FriedmanISBN 0671547798 (0-671-54779-8)
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Kindredby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0671834835 (0-671-83483-5)
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Kissing through a Pane of Glassby Peter Michael RosenbergISBN 0671718061 (0-671-71806-1)
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The Kobayashi Maruby Julia EcklarISBN 0671658174 (0-671-65817-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kobayashi Maru'Book summary:A freak shuttlecraft accident -- and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications -- with nothing, in short but time on their hands.
Time enough for each to tell the story of the Kobayashi Maru -- the Starfleet Academy test given to command cadets. Nominally a tactical exercise, the Kobayashi Maru is in fact a test of character revealed in the choices each man makes -- and does not make.
Discover now how Starfleet Cadets Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu each faced the Kobayashi Maru...and became in turn Starfleet officers. [via]
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 0674539001 (0-674-53900-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Man-Kzin Warsby Poul Anderson, Dean Ing, Larry NivenISBN 0671720767 (0-671-72076-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man-Kzin Wars'Book summary:At the dawn of interstellar exploration, an unarmed human vessel was attacked by a warship of Kzinti, the fiercest warriors in Known Space. That was a fatal mistake for the Kzinti, of course. . . . [via]
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Man-Kzin Wars IIIby Larry NivenISBN 0671720082 (0-671-72008-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man-Kzin Wars III'Book summary:The Mind Slavers are back--and only the cat-like Kzinti can save mankind now. This volume includes all-new tales of Larry Niven's Known Space--including one by Niven himself. Another blockbuster in the ongoing chronicle of humanity's greatest war. Original. [via]
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Marooned in Realtimeby Vernor VingeISBN 0671656473 (0-671-65647-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marooned in Realtime'Book summary:Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.[via]
In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man.
Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi.More editions of Marooned in Realtime:
Memoirs of an Invisible Manby H.F. SaintISBN 0689117353 (0-689-11735-3)
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Miles, Mystery & Mayhemby Lois McMaster BujoldISBN 0671318586 (0-671-31858-6)
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Mutineer's Moonby David WeberISBN 0671720856 (0-671-72085-6)
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My Enemy, My Allyby Diane DuaneISBN 0671704214 (0-671-70421-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Enemy, My Ally'Book summary:Ael t' Rlailiiu is a noble and dangerous Romulan Commander. But when the Romulans kidnap Vulcans to genetically harness their mind power, Ael decides on treason. Captain Kirk, her old enemy, joins her in a secret pact to destroy the research laboratory and free the captive Vulcans. When the Romulans discover their plan, the Neutral Zone seethes with schemes and counter-schemes, sabotage and war. [via]
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My Teacher Fried My Brainsby Bruce Coville, Patricia MacDonaldISBN 0671727109 (0-671-72710-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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My Teacher Glows in the Darkby Bruce Coville, Patricia MacDonald, John PierardISBN 0671727095 (0-671-72709-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Neanderthalby John DarntonISBN 0679449787 (0-679-44978-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neanderthal'Book summary:An exciting novel that will do for pre-historic man what Jurassic Park did for Tyrannosaurus Rex. [via]
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Now Wait for Last Yearby Philip K. DickISBN 0679742204 (0-679-74220-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Now Wait for Last Year'Book summary:Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time -- and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy -- and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the Male better or to keep him poised just this side of death.
Now Wait for Last fear bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional -- and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time it is. [via]More editions of Now Wait for Last Year:
Paris in the Twentieth Centuryby Jules Verne, Richard Howard, Eugen WeberISBN 0679444343 (0-679-44434-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Peace Warby Vernor VingeISBN 0671559656 (0-671-55965-6)
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The Peacekeepersby Gene DeWeeseISBN 0671736531 (0-671-73653-1)
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Prettiesby Scott WesterfeldISBN 0689865392 (0-689-86539-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pretties'Book summary:Tally has finally become 'pretty'. Her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are cool, her boyfriend is totally gorgeous, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted. But beneath all the fun - the non-stop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom - is a nagging feeling that something is very wrong. Something important. And sure enough, when a message from Tally's 'ugly' past arrives, the fun stops cold. Now Tally has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life... [via]
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Probeby Margaret W. Bonanno, Dave SternISBN 067179065X (0-671-79065-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Probe'Book summary:Ten years have passed since Captain Kirk and the "EnterpriseTM crew brought back hump-backed whales from the twentieth century to communicate with the mysterious Probe which threatened Earth. The Probe is returning to Earth and has plotted its course, and the Enterprise must continue to delve into the mystery of its language, and its cosmic purpose to save Earth once again. [via]
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Probeby Margaret Wander BonannoISBN 0671724207 (0-671-72420-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Probe'Book summary:Star Trek quarter century. Now Bonanno presents Star Trek IV--the most popular Star Trek movie of them all. Kirk, Spock and their shipmates find themselves headed for a final confrontation not only mysterious probe, but with the Romulan Empire.--Science Fiction) [via]
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The Proteus Operationby James P. HoganISBN 0671877577 (0-671-87757-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Proteus Operation'Book summary:When malcontents from a utopian twenty-first century use their time gate to transform Hitler into an invincible conqueror, a band of freedom-fighting Americans launches the Proteus project and builds a second time gate. Reprint. [via]
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Psychloneby Greg BearISBN 0727840509 (0-7278-4050-9)
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Radio Free Albemuthby Philip K. DickISBN 0679781374 (0-679-78137-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Radio Free Albemuth'Book summary: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. [via]
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Radixby A. A. AttanasioISBN 068800508X (0-688-00508-X)
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Replayby Ken GrimwoodISBN 068816112X (0-688-16112-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Replay'Book summary:Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market. A novel of gripping adventure, romance, and fascinating speculation on the nature of time, Replay asks the question: "What if you could live your life over again?"
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Revolt in 2100by Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0671577808 (0-671-57780-8)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Sarekby A. C. Crispin, Kevin RyanISBN 0671795627 (0-671-79562-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarek'Book summary:In a novel of epic scope and power, the life of Sarek--Spock's father--is explored in fascinating detail, as readers enter the scene after the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. When Spock visits Vulcan, father and son find themselves working together to foil a far-reaching plot to destroy the Federation--a plot Sarek has seen in the making for nearly his entire career. [via]
The Siegeby Peter David, K.W. JeterISBN 0671870831 (0-671-87083-1)
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Sixth Columnby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 067157826X (0-671-57826-X)
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Specialsby Scott WesterfeldISBN 0689865406 (0-689-86540-6)
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Star Trek Insurrectionby J. M. DillardISBN 0671517422 (0-671-51742-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Trek Insurrection'Book summary:The novelization of the biggest event in Star Trek's nearly 30-year history: Paramount's Star Trek: Generations, the first Star Trek: The Next Generation motion picture--based on the most successful syndicated dramatic television show of all time. Includes a special illustrated behind-the-scenes look at the making of the feature film. 8-page photo insert. [via]
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Subtle Knifeby Philip PullmanISBN 0679879250 (0-679-87925-0)
Hardcover, 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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Tehanuby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845332 (0-689-84533-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tehanu'Book summary:Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Nebula Award for Science Fiction. Unlike the tales in the trilogy, this novel is short and concise, yet it is by no means simplistic. Promoted as a children's book because of the awards garnered in that category by her previous work, Tehanu transcends classification and shows the wizardry of female magic. The story involves a middle-age widow who sets out to visit her dying mentor and eventually cares for his favorite student. [via]
Time for the Starsby Robert Anson HeinleinISBN 068419211X (0-684-19211-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Time for Yesterdayby A. C. CrispinISBN 0671038575 (0-671-03857-5)
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Time in the galaxy has stopped running its normal course. That can only mean one thing -- the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet command reunites three of its most legendary figures -- Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock of Vulcan, and Dr. Leonard McCoy -- and sends them on a desperate mission to contact the Guardian, a journey that ultimately takes them 5,000 years into the past. They must find Spock's son Zar once again -- and bring him back to their time to telepathically communicate the Guardian.
But Zar is enmeshed in troubles of his own, and soon Kirk, Spock and McCoy find themselves in a desperate struggle to save both their world -- and his! [via]
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Timescapeby Gregory BenfordISBN 0671253271 (0-671-25327-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Timescape'Book summary:Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and saving the Earth. It's 1998, and a physicist in Cambridge, England, attempts to send a message backward in time. Earth is falling apart, and a government faction supports the project in hopes of diverting or avoiding the environmental disasters beginning to tear at the edges of civilization. It's 1962, and a physicist in California struggles with his new life on the West Coast, office politics, and the irregularities of data that plague his experiments. The story's perspective toggles between time lines, physicists, and their communities. Timescape presents the subculture and world of scientists in microcosm: the lab, the loves, the grappling for grants, the pressures from university and government, the rewards and trials of relationships with spouses, the pressures of the scientific race, and the thrill of discovery.
Timescape merits the tag "hard science fiction"; it tells the story of scientists, and readers can't help but learn something about tachyons and physics while reading it. Yet much of the story is about humanity: the men John Renfrew and Gordon Bernstein and their relationships--between husband and wife, lover and lover, English working class and upper class, professor and student, and academician and colleagues.
Winner of the Nebula Award in 1980 and the John W. Clark Award in 1981, Timescape offers readers a great yarn, in terms of both humanity and science. [via]
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Tombs of Atuanby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689845359 (0-689-84535-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tombs of Atuan'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 second book of Le Guin's Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the "Nameless Ones" who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she? [via]
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Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Tombs of Atuan: ISBN 0689852037 (0-689-85203-7)
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Total Recallby Piers AnthonyISBN 0688052096 (0-688-05209-6)
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U.S.S. Enterprise Ncc-1701-D Blueprintsby Rick SternbachISBN 0671500937 (0-671-50093-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'U.S.S. Enterprise Ncc-1701-D Blueprints'Book summary:A senior member of the design team for Star Trek: The Next Generation presents an incredible journey through the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D. From the bridge to the ship's holodecks, these exciting, detailed blueprints reveal every deck, every corridor, and every corner of the ship. Includes thirteen large format (22" X 34") blueprints and an exclusive 16-page booklet. [via]
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The Voyage Homeby Vonda N. McIntyreISBN 0671702831 (0-671-70283-1)
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Warchildby Esther M. Friesner, John Ordover, Lois TiltonISBN 0671881167 (0-671-88116-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Warchild'Book summary:A message left behind by the Kai Opaka gives Commander Benjamin Sisko a fateful mission: find a young Bajoran girl destined to be a great healer who could bring together the warring factions of Bajor. While Lt. Dax tries to find the healer, Dr. Bashir goes planetside to treat a rare disease that is killing the children in Bajor's resettlement camps.
Surrounded by thousands of dying children, Bashir goes A.W.O.L. from Deep Space Nine, vowing not to return until the plague has been stopped. But by the time Dax finds the girl from the Kai's prophecy the child has fallen victim to the plague. Now, with the fate of the entire planet at stake, Commander Sisko must find Dr. Bashir in time to save the child who may be Bajor's last chance for peace. [via]
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Warpedby K. W. JeterISBN 0671567810 (0-671-56781-0)
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We Can Build Youby Philip K. DickISBN 067975296X (0-679-75296-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Can Build You'Book summary:Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold.
Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate. [via]More editions of We Can Build You:
Werehunterby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0671578057 (0-671-57805-7)
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sangby Kate WilhelmISBN 0671494090 (0-671-49409-0)
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A Wizard of Earthseaby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0689317204 (0-689-31720-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A 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 0679742190 (0-679-74219-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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