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1984by George OrwellISBN 0899663680 (0-89966-368-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Ackermanthologyby Forrest J. Ackerman, John LandisISBN 0918736250 (0-918736-25-0)
Softcover, Sense of Wonder Pr
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Legends & Loreby Lawrence Schick, James M. Ward, Rob Kuntz, Jeff DeeISBN 0935696229 (0-935696-22-9)
Hardcover, TSR
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Legends & Lore'Book summary:Deities & Demigods Cyclopedia provides the Dungeon Master with gods, heroes and monsters from myth, fiction and legend for use in rounding out an Advanced D&D campaign. Within this book are fifteen pantheons of divinities, each profusely illustrated. Also included are new material on clerics' conduct and their relationships with their deities, information on character mortality and immortality, and more! [via]
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Another Fine Mythby Robert Asprin, Kelly Freas, Polly FreasISBN 091544254X (0-915442-54-X)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Fine Myth'Book summary:After a magician's death, his apprentice, who is a thief, experiences a variety of adventures via a short-circuited dimension jumper. [via]
Bernie Wrightson's Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331939 (0-88733-193-9)
Softcover, Underwood Books
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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie WrightsonISBN 0887331947 (0-88733-194-7)
Hardcover, Underwood Books
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Beyond Ragnarokby Mickey Zucker ReichertISBN 0886777011 (0-88677-701-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Ragnarok'Book summary:A continuation of the Last of the Renshai trilogy backs up several centuries before the time of the previous novels, when a young, untested Renshai warrior tries to stop a crew of demonic elves bent on bloody vengeance against humans. Reprint. [via]
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The Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-Earthby Daniel GrottaISBN 0894710354 (0-89471-035-4)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Black Orchidby Neil Gaiman, Karen Berger, Tom Peyer, Dave McKean, Mikal BairISBN 0930289552 (0-930289-55-2)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Orchid'Book summary:A New York Times BestsellerBefore introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman wrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in the Vertigo mold. Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman's frequent collaborator, Dave McKean, BLACK ORCHID is now collected in hardcover for the first time.After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death. Now, as this demigoddess attempts to reconcile human memory and botanical origins, she must untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to her death. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in the Amazon rainforest, this book takes the reader on a journey through secrets, suffering and self-rediscovery. [via]
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The Black Swanby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0886778905 (0-88677-890-5)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Swan'Book summary:Mercedes Lackey takes readers back to the ballet with her latest fairy tale fantasy, The Black Swan, which retells the story of Swan Lake. Lackey preserves much of the ballet's action but provides a happier ending than the original German folktale had. She also gives the characters depth and motivation by providing them with histories.
Baron Eric von Rothbart, a powerful sorcerer, hunts down women who have betrayed men and transforms them into swans who can only resume their true forms by moonlight. His lonely daughter Odile, who watches the flock and studies spells, longs vainly for his approval. One day von Rothbart tells Odette, the swan princess, that she can break the spell by winning and holding a man's faithful love for one month. He's even chosen a candidate, Prince Siegfried. Unfortunately, the prince is a womanizing hedonist. Should Odette succeed nevertheless, von Rothbart secretly plans a trap for them and the prince's ambitious mother, Queen Clothilde, who schemes to rule in her own right. But he must use Odile, who has befriended Odette and is no longer her father's puppet.
Some readers may find the descriptions of dancing and costumes tedious--and Prince Siegfried a questionable hero. Odile, however, is as vivid a heroine as any Lackey's written. --Nona Vero [via]
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0899664237 (0-89966-423-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. [via]
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloonby Spider RobinsonISBN 0894900145 (0-89490-014-5)
Hardcover, Enslow Pub Inc
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Camelot 3000by Mike Barr, Brian Bolland, Richard BruningISBN 0930289307 (0-930289-30-7)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Camelot 3000'Book summary:Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: DC Comics (October 1, 1997) Language: English ISBN-10: 0930289307 ISBN-13: 978-0930289300 [via]
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Castle Fantasticby John DeChancie, Martin H. GreenbergISBN 0886776864 (0-88677-686-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Cloak of Night and Daggerby Rosemary EdghillISBN 0886777240 (0-88677-724-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Confessions of a Deathmaidenby Ruth FranciscoISBN 0892967730 (0-89296-773-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Joseph CiardielloISBN 0895771853 (0-89577-185-3)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:Twain, Mark "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in the revolutionary Bed Book Landscape Reading Format - a new approach to reading in bed as well as other places people enjoy reading while lying down, such as the beach, or on a grassy lawn in the park. Bed Books provide the freedom to lie in any comfortable position without being obligated to sit up in order to read. They can be an essential aid for readers who may be prone to back and neck strain when assuming the contorted body positions normally required for reading while lying down, and for those who have previously found it difficult or impossible to read books in bed, such as the elderly and the disabled. Bed Books can also be read sitting up as easily as with a conventional book. See the current Bed Book Catalog at: www.bedbooks.NET www.readinginbed.com [via]
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Contactby Carl SaganISBN 089621687X (0-89621-687-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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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]
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Crown of Shadowsby C. S. FriedmanISBN 0886777178 (0-88677-717-8)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crown of Shadows'Book summary:More than a millennium after the human race forges an uneasy stalemate against the demonic human-psyche feeders known as the fae, a pain-hungry demon called Calesta declares war on all living beings. Reprint. [via]
The Cup of Morning Shadowsby Rosemary EdghillISBN 0886776716 (0-88677-671-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Daughter of Regalsby Stephen R. DonaldsonISBN 0937986631 (0-937986-63-1)
Hardcover, Donald m Grant
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The Dragon's Touchstoneby Irene RadfordISBN 0886777445 (0-88677-744-5)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Elf Fantasticby Martin H. GreenbergISBN 0886777364 (0-88677-736-4)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Enchanted Forestsby Katharine Kerr, Martin H. GreenbergISBN 0886776724 (0-88677-672-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Essential Ellisonby Harlan Ellison, Terry Dowling, Richard Delap, Gil LamontISBN 0914261010 (0-914261-01-0)
Hardcover, Nemo Press
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Fifth Quarterby Tanya HuffISBN 0886776511 (0-88677-651-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0899666930 (0-89966-693-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create lifeand the monster that became his legacy.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
" A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the worlds finest books to their full potential.
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0914061070 (0-914061-07-0)
Softcover, Orchises Pr
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Guardian of the Balanceby Irene RadfordISBN 0886778751 (0-88677-875-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Hit or Mythby Robert AsprinISBN 0898653312 (0-89865-331-2)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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J.R.R. Tolkein: Architect of Middle Earth A Biographyby Daniel GrottaISBN 0914294288 (0-914294-28-8)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'J.R.R. Tolkein: Architect of Middle Earth A Biography'Book summary:J. R. R. Tolkien is one of the most beloved and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little is known about the personal life of the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. After a traumatic childhood, Tolkien experienced the bloody trenches of World War I, then lived most of his life as an Oxford scholar in a cloistered academic community. In this fascinating illustrated biography, author Daniel Grotta examines how much of Tolkien's personal experience fired his incredible imagination and led to the creation of Middle-earth and its inhabitants.[via]More editions of J.R.R. Tolkein: Architect of Middle Earth A Biography:
Jerlayneby Lynn AbbeyISBN 0886778093 (0-88677-809-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Little Myth Markerby Robert AsprinISBN 0898654130 (0-89865-413-0)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Myth Marker'Book summary:The sixth of Robert Asprin's "Myth" series. The mob wants him married; the magicians want him dead. Legendary car-shooting ace, the Sen Sen Ante Kid, wants to take him for a cool half-million in a game of dragon poker. Otherwise, life for Skeeve, extra-dimensional magician, is perfect - or almost. [via]
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Logan's Runby William F. Nolan, George Clayton JohnsonISBN 0899668968 (0-89966-896-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Logan's Run'Book summary:It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But when Logan meets and falls in love with Jessica, he begins to question the very system he swore to protect and soon they're both running for their lives. When Last Day comes, will you lie down and die... or run! Bluewater Comics proudly presents a new adaptation of William F. Nolan's masterpiece of dystopian future: Logan's Run. [via]
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M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Actionby Robert L. AsprinISBN 0898657881 (0-89865-788-1)
Hardcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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M.y.t.h. Inc. Linkby Robert AsprinISBN 0898654726 (0-89865-472-6)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'M.y.t.h. Inc. Link'Book summary:As the "Myth Adventures" continue, Skeeve is now reluctant president of the corporation of work-for-hire magicians. [via]
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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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Myth Conceptionsby Robert Asprin, Kelly Freas, Polly FreasISBN 0915442949 (0-915442-94-9)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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Myth Directionsby Robert AsprinISBN 0898652502 (0-89865-250-2)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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No Quarterby Tanya HuffISBN 0886776988 (0-88677-698-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Quarter'Book summary:Bannon and Vree, a brother-and-sister assassin team, must share Vree's body when Bannon's is stolen from him and begin a desperate quest into a neighboring kingdom in order to regain Bannon's body from Gyhard. Original. [via]
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Oathbloodby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0886777739 (0-88677-773-9)
Softcover, Daw Books
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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]
Owlflightby Mercedes Lackey, Larry DixonISBN 0886778042 (0-88677-804-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Owlknightby Mercedes Lackey, Larry DixonISBN 0886779162 (0-88677-916-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Owlknight'Book summary:Owlknight follows Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon's two earlier novels about Darian Firkin, Owlflight and Owlsight. By now the boy who ran from barbarian invaders is both knight of Valdemar and a master mage; he is governor of a small province and in love with Keisha who returns his feelings, but he still has problems and responsibilities. For one thing, he has never solved the mystery of what happened to his parents. For another, Keisha refuses to marry him lest his role as governor and hers of healer come into conflict--and there are still barbarians beyond the border who threaten one day to come back.
The story of how these problems are all resolved is told in a quiet tone unusual in this sort of epic fantasy. Darian has as much to look within for the solution to these issues as to struggle in the outside world. The woodland journey during which he does this is much of the time a celebration of the renewal of the human soul by the natural world.
Lackey and Dixon have found a courtly, meditative way of telling an attractively simple story. Darian's growth to final maturity is inevitable, but still fascinating. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Owlsightby Mercedes Lackey, Larry DixonISBN 0886778034 (0-88677-803-4)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Owlsight'Book summary:Darian has been living in the temporary encampment of the Tayledras "Hawkpeople" for nearly four years, working as liaison between them and the survivors of his own ravaged village. But as he is about to return with the Tayledras back to their home Vale to continue his magician's apprenticeship, Darian suddenly learns that his parents, missing for five years, are alive--trapped inside the borders of the treacherous Eastern Empire. [via]
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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 0907785697 (0-907785-69-7)
Hardcover, Sai Publications
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston Leroux, Andre CastaigneISBN 0892962798 (0-89296-279-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonald, Linda Hill GriffithISBN 0891915575 (0-89191-557-5)
Hardcover, David C Cook
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The Renegades of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0893662844 (0-89366-284-4)
Hardcover, Washington Ave Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renegades of Pern'Book summary:As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the Weyrs, whose dragons were Pern's greatest weapon against Thread.
But not everyone on Pern was part of that system of mutual care and protection, particularly those who had been rendered holdless as punishment for wrongdoing. And there were some, like Jayge's trader clan, who simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of a hold. Others, like Aramina's family, had lost their holds through injustice and cruelty. For all the holdless, life was a constant struggle for survival.
Then, from the ranks of the criminals and the disaffected, rose a band of renegades, led by the Lady Thella. No one was safe from Thella's depredations, and now her quarry was Aramina, reputed to have a telepathic link with dragons. But when Thella mistakenly vented her rage on Jayge's family, she made a dangerous mistake. For Jayge was bent on revenge . . . and he would never let her have the girl who heard dragons!
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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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The Sandman Libraryby Neil GaimanISBN 0930289595 (0-930289-59-5)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sandman Library'Book summary:The immense popularity of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is due in large part to the development of his characters. In The Doll's House, the second book of the Sandman magnum opus, Gaiman continues to build the foundation for the larger story, introducing us to more of the Dream King's family of the Endless.
The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, finding several things out of place; most importantly, an anomaly called a dream vortex has manifested itself in the form of a young girl who unknowingly threatens to rip apart the Dreaming. And there's the smaller matter of a few nightmares having escaped. Among them is Gaiman's creepiest creation: the Corinthian, a serial killer with a miniature set of teeth in each eye socket. Because later volumes concentrate so much on human relationships with Gaiman's signature fair for fantasy and mythology, it is sometimes easy to forget that the Sandman series started out as a horror comic. This book grabs you and doesn't let you forget that so easily. --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Sea of Silver Lightby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886779774 (0-88677-977-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea of Silver Light'Book summary:With Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams completes his massive Otherland quartet, one of SF's more intriguing explorations of the eroding boundaries of the human and the nonhuman, the living and the dead. Otherland is a sequence that contains many secrets, and Williams plays fair by unpacking all of them in the final book. A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his treacherous sidekick Johnny Wulgaru, a serial killer with a chance to play God forever.
Williams manages a vast cast of emotionally involving characters with considerable panache, but the real strength of the book is its endlessly questing intelligence; it is, among other things, an enquiry into the nature of storytelling as a way for human beings to give structure to their perceptions of the universe around them. It is as story that Sea of Silver Light ultimately works so well--involving us in the grueling descent of a vast mountain, the siege of an underground fortress, gun battles in a nightmare Wild West. Williams never neglects to tell us how things feel. He efficiently ties up every plot strand and convincingly reveals every secret in this large, complex plot. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Sing the Four Quartersby Tanya HuffISBN 0886776287 (0-88677-628-7)
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Solaris: Romanby Stanisaw LemISBN 0899683517 (0-89968-351-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Spirit Foxby Mickey Zucker Reichert, Jennifer WingertISBN 0886778077 (0-88677-807-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spirit Fox'Book summary:Spirit Fox marks the first collaboration between bestselling fantasy writer Mickey Zucker Reichert and talented newcomer Jennifer Wingert....
It is the story of a magic-filled land at war. A mythical battle of gods and goddesses. An epic struggle that could ultimately destroy an entire civilization unless a special young woman, spirit-linked to a fox at birth, can harness the gift that runs like a wild creature trapped within her soul...
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"Readers looking for a good, rousing tale of high fantasy can skip over Terry Brooks and David Eddings and sink their imaginations into Mickey Zucker Reichert..."-- South Bend Tribune
"Her writing is altogether magnificent."-- Kliatt [via] 
Startide Risingby David BrinISBN 0932096387 (0-932096-38-7)
Hardcover, Phantasia Pr
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Storm Breakingby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0886777550 (0-88677-755-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Storm Breaking'Book summary:As Storm Breaking opens, the western allies, led by Karal, Karsite Sunpriest and delegate to the Valdemaran Court, and the Adepts Firesong and An'desha, have traveled deep into the Dorisha Plains to locate the ancient ruins of the Tower of Urtho, Mage of Silence, creator of the gryphons. Legend has it that below the Tower, deeply buried beneath the plains, is Urtho's Vault, hidden stronghold of some of the most powerful magical weapons ever devised - weapons that Urtho himself felt were too dangerous to use. With the help of the Shin'a'in plainsmen, they have successfully excavated this ancient arsenal, and risked their lives triggering one of these antique but potent tools of death to unleash a monstrous burst of mage-energy. With this explosion of magical power, Karal, Firesong, and their companions have temporarily counteracted the ever-increasing waves of the mage storms. But they know that this desperate action will not save them - they have bought themselves precious time, but are still far from a permanent solution. They know now that the mage storms are an "echo" through time of the prehistoric Cataclysm which destroyed Urtho's Tower, created the vast and barren Dorisha Plains, and permanently warped their world more than two thousand years ago. And they also know that if they don't find a way to banish these magical vibrations they will culminate in another Cataclysm - this time destroying their world for good. But the Vault is not the only thing buried for centuries below the Dorisha Plains, and camped in the ruins of what once was the workplace of the most ingenious mage their world has ever known, the desperate allies soon come to realize that their solution may lie beneath the dust at their feet. The saving of their world just might be accomplished by the work of a man who has been dead for millennia![via]More editions of Storm Breaking:
Storm Risingby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0886777127 (0-88677-712-7)
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Storm Warningby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0886776619 (0-88677-661-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Storm Warning'Book summary:Illustrated By Arthur Pinsak And Mary Gillim. [via]
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0893753572 (0-89375-357-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Summon the Keeperby Tanya HuffISBN 0886777844 (0-88677-784-4)
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The Sword of Maiden's Tearsby Rosemary EdghillISBN 0886776228 (0-88677-622-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword of Maiden's Tears'Book summary:Stumbling across a being from the world of Elphame, a mugging victim in New York City, student librarian Ruth Marlowe and her friends learn that the muggers stole a magical sword that changes mortals into Grendel-like monsters. Original. [via]
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Tailchaser's Songby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886779537 (0-88677-953-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tailchaser's Song'Book summary:Fifteen years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted readers with his first novelthe story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M'an.[via]The book was Tailchaser's Song, the author was Tad Williams. The legend was born.
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Time Machineby H. G. WellsISBN 0899682839 (0-89968-283-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Machine'Book summary:When the Time Traveler courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything had changed. H.G. Wells's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination is regarded as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction. [via]
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To Green Angel Towerby Tad WilliamsISBN 0886775981 (0-88677-598-1)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Green Angel Tower'Book summary:Miriaamele and Simon embark on a perilous quest through war- and magic-torn lands as they and the valiant followers of Josua Lackhand struggle to make a stand against the Storm King's seemingly unstoppable evil forces. Reprint. [via]
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To Reign in Hellby Steven BrustISBN 0916595005 (0-916595-00-5)
Hardcover, Steeldragon Pr
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A Tolkien Bestiaryby David Day, I. Miller, M. Foreman, A. Curless, L. PostmaISBN 0920080472 (0-920080-47-2)
Softcover, Harbour Publishing Company, Limited
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0895773473 (0-89577-347-3)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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Venus on the Half-Shellby Kilgore TroutISBN 0899683061 (0-89968-306-1)
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Watership Downby Richard George AdamsISBN 0901720313 (0-901720-31-3)
Hardcover, Rex Collings Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watership Down'Book summary:Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is often praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won't "get" it, into reading it), but it's equally praiseworthy as just a corking good adventure.
The story follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, complete with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a "lapine" glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human nature as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. --Paul Hughes [via]
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0891906231 (0-89190-623-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'Book summary:Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely proffering a plate of rum cakes, fresh from the poisoner's kitchen. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, is full of a macabre and sinister humor, and Merricat herself, its amiable narrator, is one of the great unhinged heroines of literature. "What place would be better for us than this?" she asks, of the neat, secluded realm she shares with her uncle and with her beloved older sister, Constance. "Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic, burying talismanic objects beneath the family estate, nailing them to trees, ritually revisiting them. She has made "a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us" against the distrust and hostility of neighboring villagers.
Or so she believes. But at last the magic fails. A stranger arrives--cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune. He disturbs the sisters' careful habits, installing himself at the head of the family table, unearthing Merricat's treasures, talking privately to Constance about "normal lives" and "boy friends." Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods. The result is crisis and tragedy, the revelation of a terrible secret, the convergence of the villagers upon the house, and a spectacular unleashing of collective spite.
The sisters are propelled further into seclusion and solipsism, abandoning "time and the orderly pattern of our old days" in favor of an ever-narrowing circuit of ritual and shadow. They have themselves become talismans, to be alternately demonized and propitiated, darkly, with gifts. Jackson's novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more--like some of her other fictions--as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normality itself. "Poor strangers," says Merricat contentedly at last, studying trespassers from the darkness behind the barricaded Blackwood windows. "They have so much to be afraid of." --Sarah Waters [via]
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When True Night Fallsby C. S. FriedmanISBN 0886776155 (0-88677-615-5)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Winds of Furyby Mercedes LackeyISBN 0886776120 (0-88677-612-0)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winds of Fury'Book summary:Book Three of The Mage Winds trilogy. No longer the willful novice of Winds of Fate, Princess Herald Elspeth has completed her magical training. She returns to her homeland with her beloved partner Darkwind. Will they be strong enough to confront the magical evil that is threatening their land?[via]More editions of Winds of Fury:
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