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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0395796776 (0-395-79677-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Anthem: Library Editionby Ayn RandISBN 0451166833 (0-451-16683-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthem: Library Edition'Book summary:Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age. [via]
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The Atrocity Archivesby Charles StrossISBN 0441013651 (0-441-01365-1)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atrocity Archives'Book summary:[via]Charles Stross takes a departure from his epic science fiction to craft this cross between Len Deightonstyle espionage and H.P. Lovecraftian horror.
Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic.
But somehow, he is...
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Beyond the Fall of Nightby Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory BenfordISBN 0441056121 (0-441-05612-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Blind Assassinby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385720955 (0-385-72095-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blind Assassin'Book summary:Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin , she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a- novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. The novel has many threads and a series of events that follow one another at a breathtaking pace. As everything comes together, readers will discover that the story Atwood is telling is not only what it seems to be--but, in fact, much more. The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale , it is destined to become a classic. [via]
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Chung Kuoby David WingroveISBN 0440613868 (0-440-61386-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chung Kuo'Book summary:CHANGE IS ON THE AIR: The generals of the Middle Kingdom await the decision of the emperor.The campaign to secure the border from China to Iraq has reached a strange impasse. Two blood enemies have united against their common cause. But with the lives of thousands at his whim, the exalted Tsao Ch'un, the Son of Heaven, cannot decide. Destroy the Middle East in one blinding flash? Or take another path? THE WAY IS UNCLEAR: In the court of Tsao Ch'un, men of power have become smiling lackeys, whose graces conceal their fear, or their ambition. With his family held hostage by the empire, General Jiang Lei finds himself appointed to a special task: the orchestration of the last great war against the West. The total dominion of America. WAR APPROACHES: But life in the world of levels continues. No hint of war, or want, or discontent can infiltrate the oppressive, ordered society that replaces the world Jake Reed once knew. Since the first airships rolled over the horizon, nothing has been the same. His new life means new thinking, new customs, a new way of behaving, and with his every move scrutinized, Jake can only serve the bureaucracy of new China. But he is not the only citizen who feels discontent with the anodyne new order... [via]
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The City and the Starsby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0451163109 (0-451-16310-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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City of Illusionsby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0441107087 (0-441-10708-7)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Close Encounters of the Third Kindby Steven SpeilbergISBN 0440113326 (0-440-11332-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Colonizationby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0345430220 (0-345-43022-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colonization'Book summary:Harry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII and its aftermath. His Worldwar Series began the story when a fleet of lizard-like aliens arrived to conquer Earth in May 1942. It ended in 1945 with a negotiated peace between the Race, the nuclear powers (the Reich, the USSR, and the USA), and the much-weakened Britain and Japan.
Colonization: Second Contact continues the saga, but you need not read the previous series to enjoy it. When the colonists arrive in 1962, they're unprepared for a half-conquered world. After several of their ships are destroyed by a nuclear missile of mysterious origin, they accuse the conquest forces of incompetence. Muslims in the conquered Middle East are staging an Intifada, the Chinese Communists continue guerrilla warfare against the invaders, and everyone's smuggling ginger, which is powerfully addictive among the Race and has unanticipated effects on the female colonists.
Turtledove's cast of characters includes sharply drawn alien soldiers and civilians as well as a mix of convincing historical and fictional humans from all over the world. He covers all the sixties issues: generational conflict, the drug culture, racial inequality, the threat of atomic apocalypse, and the frustration of soldiers in an unwinnable war. If you enjoy alternate history and old B movies, this book's for you. --Nona Vero [via]
The Complete Storiesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0385416067 (0-385-41606-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Cyber Wayby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0441132456 (0-441-13245-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Doctor Who and the Crusadersby David WhitakerISBN 0426113160 (0-426-11316-0)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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Doctor Who and the Five Doctor'sby Terrance DicksISBN 0426195108 (0-426-19510-8)
Softcover, Allen, W. H.
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Doctor Who: Dragonfireby Ian BriggsISBN 0426203224 (0-426-20322-4)
Softcover, General Publishing Company, Limited
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Dragon's Eggby Robert L. ForwardISBN 034543529X (0-345-43529-X)
Softcover, Del Rey
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Dragonlover's Guide to Pernby Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye, James Clouse, Todd Cameron HamiltonISBN 0345412745 (0-345-41274-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragonlover's Guide to Pern'Book summary:A much-needed update to the classic companion to Anne McCaffrey's canonical novels and numerous short stories about Pern, this book includes a few recipes, information about knitting patterns, Craft and Hold badges, and more. As a reference, it is marred by the lack of cross-referencing within the book (though there is an index) and by the lack of scales with the drawings of various animals and places. It will be invaluable to readers like me who can't recall just where they read that name before, or what Weyr a rider is from, or where that small Hold is, and it provides a useful overview of the high points of Pernese history--though it's no substitute for the pleasure of reading the stories! [via]
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Dream Parkby Larry Niven, Steven BarnesISBN 0441167306 (0-441-16730-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dream Park'Book summary:For fifteen virtual reality gamers undertaking a four-and-half day quest, the fantasy slaying of monsters is suddenly interrupted-by murder. [via]
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Earth Abidesby George R. StewartISBN 0345487133 (0-345-48713-3)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth Abides'Book summary:An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature. Its impact is still fresh, its lessons timeless. When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly, inexorably, breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into barbarism . . . or extinction. This is the story of one such survivor, Isherwood Ish Williams, an intellectual loner who embraces the grim duty of bearing witness to what may be humanitys final days. But then he finds Em, a wise and courageous woman who coaxes his stunned heart back to life and teaches him to hope again. Together, they will face unimaginable challenges as they sow the seeds of a new beginning. One of the finest of all post-holocaust novels. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [via]
The Engines of Godby Jack McDevittISBN 0441002846 (0-441-00284-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Ensign Flandryby Poul AndersonISBN 0441207294 (0-441-20729-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Eternal Frontiersby James H. SchmitzISBN 0399110739 (0-399-11073-9)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Evolutionby Stephen BaxterISBN 0345457838 (0-345-45783-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evolution'Book summary:Following up his cosmic Manifold series, Stephen Baxter peers back on a more prosaic history in the worthy yet uneven Evolution. The book is nothing less than a novelization of human evolution, a mega-Michener treatment of 65 million years starring a host of smart, furry primates representing Homo sapiens's ancestry. Each stage of our ancestry is represented by a character of progressively increasing intelligence, empathy, and brain size, who must survive predation and other perils long enough to keep the natural-selection ball rolling. While Baxter carefully follows some widely accepted theories of evolution--punctuated equilibrium, for instance--he also strays from the known in postulating air whales and sentient, tool-wielding dinosaurs. And why not? There's nothing in the fossil record to contradict his musings about those things, or about the first instances of mammalian altruism and deception, which he also lets us observe. From little Purga, a shrewlike mammal scurrying under the feet of ankylosaurs, all the way through Ultimate, the last human descendant, Baxter adds drama and a strong story arc to our past and future. But he spends too much time on details of the various prehumans' lives, which can become repetitive: fight, mate, die, ad infinitum. And readers eager for a science-fictional adventure will only find satisfaction in the posthuman chapters at the end. Despite these flaws, Evolution grips the attention with an epoch-spanning tale of the random changes that rule our genetic heritage. Recommended. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Freedom's Choiceby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441005314 (0-441-00531-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Choice'Book summary:A group of slaves, brought to an uninhabited planet by their catenni masters, who have taken over earth, must learn to survive in their new surroundings, but some struggle with calling their new planet home and consider a rebellion in order to return to their true home [via]
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 037582345X (0-375-82345-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Golden Compass: ISBN 0440238137 (0-440-23813-7)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf - Golden Compass: ISBN 0440418321 (0-440-41832-1)
Softcover, Yearling Books - Golden Compass: ISBN 0375838309 (0-375-83830-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Golden Compass: ISBN 0375938303 (0-375-93830-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Golden Compass: ISBN 0345413350 (0-345-41335-0)
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Great Sky Riverby Gregory BenfordISBN 0446611557 (0-446-61155-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Sky River'Book summary:The third novel in the award-winning author's classic Galactic Center series is available once again. "A challenging, pacesetting work of hard science fiction that should not be missed."--"Los Angeles Times." [via]
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Hammer's Slammersby David DrakeISBN 0441316026 (0-441-31602-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Hidden Empireby Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0446610577 (0-446-61057-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Empire'Book summary:The author of the New York Times bestsellers Dune: House Atreides and Star Wars: Darksaber delivers the first book in an all-new epic science fiction adventure trilogy.In our galaxys distant future, humans are one of three known intelligent races. Having had the ability to navigate star travel for only a few centuries, we are considered the new kids on the block in a long- established universe. The second intelligent race is the Ildirans, who are ruled by their Mage-Imperator; and the third race, the Klikiss, seems to have vanished and left behind a world full of artifacts and remarkable technology, which humans are now beginning to find and utilize. One such piece of technology is a device that has the power to turn a gaseous and useless supergiant planet into a small sun, thereby creating a new solar system in which humans can live. But when the device is tried for the first time, it awakens the wrath of a previously unsuspected fourth race, the Hydroguesand a galaxy-spanning war that threatens all life begins. [via]
In the Ocean of Nightby Gregory BenfordISBN 044661159X (0-446-61159-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Isaac Asimovby Isaac AsimovISBN 038541627X (0-385-41627-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lilith's Broodby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0446676101 (0-446-67610-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lilith's Brood'Book summary:The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BROOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evocative, sensual -- and disturbing -- epic of human transformation.
Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story... [via]More editions of Lilith's Brood:
MacRoscopeby Piers AnthonyISBN 0380002094 (0-380-00209-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Manifoldby Stephen BaxterISBN 0345430808 (0-345-43080-8)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manifold'Book summary:Award-winning author Stephen Baxter turns to the origin of species in this final novel of the Manifold trilogy. Reid Malenfant and Emma Stoney are flying over Africa when a new moon appears in the sky--and Emma disappears. She finds herself on the Red Moon with people resembling human evolutionary ancestors, with whom she must learn to live in order to survive. On Earth, Malenfant teams with Japanese scientist Nemoto on a desperate rescue mission that leads to greater questions about the origin of the alien moon, and ultimately of humankind.
Because the Manifold novels take place in alternate universes, Origin works well as a stand-alone read. Baxter effectively explores how modern humans and their ancestors might be thoroughly alien to one another, but the book is more focused on thoughtful scientific speculation than in-depth characterization. However, readers who are swept away by novels of cosmic scope and compelling imagination will find Big Idea science fiction at its best. --Roz Genessee [via]
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Manifold : Originby Stephen BaxterISBN 0345430794 (0-345-43079-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Masters of the Vortexby E. E. Smith, E. D. SmithISBN 0425060462 (0-425-06046-2)
Softcover, Tarcher
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Mercenaryby Piers AnthonyISBN 0380872218 (0-380-87221-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Middle Kingdomby David WingroveISBN 0440207614 (0-440-20761-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Naked God Pt. 1: Flightby Peter F. HamiltonISBN 0446608971 (0-446-60897-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Omegaby Jack McDevittISBN 0441012108 (0-441-01210-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Omega'Book summary:[via]A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system--and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world--without revealing their existence.
The One Treeby Stephen R. DonaldsonISBN 0345418476 (0-345-41847-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Patchwork Girlby Larry NivenISBN 0441653154 (0-441-65315-4)
Softcover, Ace Book
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A Phule and His Moneyby Peter J. Heck, Robert L. AsprinISBN 0441006582 (0-441-00658-2)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Phule Me Twiceby Peter J. Heck, Robert L. AsprinISBN 0441007910 (0-441-00791-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Phylogenesisby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0345418611 (0-345-41861-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phylogenesis'Book summary:The Humanx Commonwealth is Alan Dean Foster's signature fictional universe, the setting of, among others, his Adventures of Flinx series (which begins with For the Love of Mother Not) and the Icerigger trilogy. But how did the Commonwealth come to be? How did two seemingly dissimilar races--the gregarious, warm-blooded humans and the reserved, insectile thranx--form a union that would become so strong and prosperous as to eventually dominate our part of the galaxy?
The actual first contact between the humans and the thranx takes place in the quite exciting Nor Crystal Tears, but you don't have to have read that novel to follow what happens in Phylogenesis. In this book, which takes place soon after the first contact, the races have embarked on a program of slow, careful cultural exchange. If all goes well, the planners feel, in some decades a few tentative agreements might be reached. But they never planned on the chance meeting of a rogue thranx poet and a human thief who's hiding in the Amazon jungle. The events that surround the friendship of these two, each an outcast from his own society, will force scientists and politicians of both races to alter not only their plans but also their beliefs about human/thranx compatibility.
Foster makes excellent use of his knowledge of Latin American culture to paint a picture of a vibrant yet realistic future South America. The Amazon jungle is presented in such vivid detail it seems almost an alien world itself. Fans of the Commonwealth novels won't want to miss this crucial chapter in its history. --Brooks Peck [via]
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The Planet of the Robot Slavesby Harry HarrisonISBN 0380756617 (0-380-75661-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Planet of the Robot Slaves'Book summary:A sequel to the author's "Bill, the Galactic Hero", published over 20 years ago, this book is the first of a new series of novels featuring Bill. With two right arms, an artificial foot, and a set of surgically-implanted tusks, Bill sets out to find the source of Chinger-controlled metal dragons. [via]
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Polarisby Jack McDevittISBN 0441012531 (0-441-01253-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Polaris'Book summary:The luxury space yacht Polaris carried an elite group of the wealthy and curious thousands of light-years from Earth to witness a spectacular stellar phenomenon. It never returned. The search party sent to investigate found the Polaris empty and adrift in space, the fate of its pilot and passengers a mystery.
Sixty years later, prominent antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is determined to find the truth about Polaris-no matter how far he must travel across the stars, no matter the risk. [via] -
Politicianby Piers AnthonyISBN 0380896850 (0-380-89685-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politician'Book summary:This is the third in the series BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT, featuring the stages in the life of Hope Hubris, the Tyrant of Jupiter, and his beloved sister Spirit. [via]
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Psionby Joan D. VingeISBN 044050340X (0-440-50340-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psion'Book summary:Orphaned young and forced to survive on the streets of a distant planet, telepathic Cat is the ultimate future punk, but he is swept into a struggle for his life when two interstellar powers want to use his mind as a weapon. Reprint. H. AB. [via]
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Queen of Angelsby Greg BearISBN 0446361305 (0-446-36130-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen of Angels'Book summary:In this brilliant, evocative novel, Greg Bear takes the reader into a strangely familiar, near-future world -- and shatters our conceptions of perfection, punishment, and the elusive nature of the human soul.
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Robot Adeptby Piers AnthonyISBN 044173118X (0-441-73118-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robot Adept'Book summary:The robotic Mach and the human Bane are the only contact between the technological world of Photon and the fantastical world of Phaze. So the Adverse Adepts devise a scheme to control the duo by kidnapping their lovers. [via]
Robot Dreamsby Isaac Asimov, Ralph McQuarrieISBN 0441011837 (0-441-01183-7)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robot Dreams'Book summary:Robot Dreams spans the body of Asimov's fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially for this collection. TP: Ace. [via]
Sewer, Gas & Electricby Matt RuffISBN 0446606421 (0-446-60642-1)
Softcover, Aspect
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Ship of Foolsby Richard Paul RussoISBN 0441007988 (0-441-00798-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Stories of Ray Bradburyby Ray BradburyISBN 0394513355 (0-394-51335-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Tar-Aiym Krangby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0345908570 (0-345-90857-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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This Immortalby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0441806988 (0-441-80698-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Immortal'Book summary:Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. He has also been given a job that he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour around the shattered remains of Earth after a catastrophic nuclear war is not something he relishes. Especially when it it rapidly becomes clear that he is at the centre of high-level intrigue that could determine the future of Earth itself. But Conrad Nomikos is a very special guy and he's been around - for a very long time. [via]
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Time Travelers Strictly Cashby Spider RobinsonISBN 0425097226 (0-425-09722-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Travelers Strictly Cash'Book summary:The second book continuing the stories of the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space. Pull up a chair, grab a glass, and listen to stories spun by the most entertaining characters in this galaxy and beyond. [via]
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To Dream in the City of Sorrowsby Kathryn M. DrennanISBN 0345452194 (0-345-45219-4)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Dream in the City of Sorrows'Book summary:Ambassador to the alien world of Minbar, former Babylon 5 commander Jeffrey Sinclair, is one of the first to learn the truth about the Shadows, the ancient race pursuing the destruction of the galaxy. Sinclair also discovers a startling secret: he is the linchpin in the plan to stop them. Now, Sinclair is asked to revive the legendary Minbari warrior group, the Rangers, but it may cost him his one chance to love...and his life.
Catherine Sakai, a commercial pilot and planetary surveyor, has lost her heart to Jeffrey Sinclair. Not even an attack by the Shadows can stop her from going to Minbar to join him...and the Rangers. As she trains with other pilots, including the mysterious Marcus Cole, the time is coming when their skills will be tested on their first mission. Led by Sinclair, they will venture into deepest space, into a battle of stealth and might, and toward a fate that none but the bravest can face...and none but the luckiest will survive. [via]More editions of To Dream in the City of Sorrows:
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The Tower and the Hiveby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441007201 (0-441-00720-1)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tower and the Hive'Book summary:Anne McCaffrey concludes the saga of Angharad Gwyn, the Rowan, her husband Jeff Raven, and their family of powerful telepathically and telekinetically Talented offspring with The Tower and the Hive. ( The first four books in the series are: The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, and Lyon's Pride.) As usual, McCaffrey delivers vividly real characters struggling with personal, political, and ethical issues and finding humane solutions.
Federated Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the Gwyn-Raven clan, provides interstellar shipping and communications for the Star League of Humans and Mrdinis--weasel-like aliens. In following the aggressive, ant-like Hivers, whose "spheres" have repeatedly attacked League worlds, naval vessels have discovered many more habitable planets, including some occupied by Hivers. Who will get to colonize these planets, Humans or Mrdinis? Should all Hivers be destroyed, or is there some way to contain them? Where will more Talents to staff the vital Towers come from? And how best to defeat those whose resentment of the Gwyn-Raven family's powers and friendship with Mrdinis could lead to violence?
McCaffrey's protagonists are four Gwyn-Raven grandchildren, now young adults who find romance and mature while studying both alien races. Old and new fans alike can enjoy her masterful blending of scientific extrapolation and fantasy elements to produce a universe they'll leave regretfully. --Nona Vero [via]
The Toynbee Convectorby Ray BradburyISBN 0394547039 (0-394-54703-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Triplanetaryby E. E. "Doc" SmithISBN 0425090558 (0-425-09055-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triplanetary'Book summary:This is the first of E. E. "Doc" Smith's six Lensman books, and although it isn't as fast-paced as later Lensman novels, it sets the stage for what is perhaps the greatest space-opera saga ever told. Through a series of vignettes spanning millions of years, readers will learn how the titanic struggle between the good Arisians and the evil Eddorians first came to pass, and about how humanity was chosen (and bred) to assume the awesome power of the lens. A short foreword by science fiction scholar John Clute puts the entire series into perspective. [via]
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The Zenith Angleby Bruce SterlingISBN 0345468651 (0-345-46865-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zenith Angle'Book summary:Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in todays reality. Now in The Zenith Angle, he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in Americas escalating war on terror.
Infowar. Cybercombat. Digital security and techno-terror. Its how nations and networks secretly battle, now and into the future. And for Derek Van Vandeveer, pioneering computer wizard, a new cyberwarrior career begins on the fateful date of September 11, 2001.
Happily married with a new baby, pulling down mind-blowing money as a VP of research and development for a booming Internet company, Van has been living extralarge. Then the devastating attacks on America change everything. And Van must decide if hes willing to use the talents that built his perfect world in order to defend it.
Its our networks versus their death cult, says the government operative who recruits Van as the key member of an ultraelite federal computer-security team. In a matter of days, Van has traded his cushy life inside the dot-com bubble for the labyrinthine trenches of the Washington intelligence communitywhere rival agencies must grudgingly abandon decades of distrust and infighting to join forces against chilling new threats. Vans special genius is needed to make the countrys defense systems hacker-proof. And if he makes headway there, hell find himself troubleshooting ultrasecret spy satellites.
Americas most powerful and crucial eye in the sky, the KH-13 satellitecapable of detecting terrorist hotbeds worldwide with pinpoint accuracyis perilously close to becoming an orbiting billion-dollar boondoggle, unless Van can debug the glitch thats knocked it out of commission. Little does he suspect that the problem has nothing at all to do with software . . . and that whats really wrong with the KH-13 will force Van to make the unlikely leap from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful exSpecial Forces commando, and root out an unknown enemy . . . one with access to an undreamed of weapon of untold destructive power. [via]
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