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Aristoiby Walter Jon WilliamsISBN 0812514092 (0-8125-1409-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0804900248 (0-8049-0024-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in 80 Days'Book summary:Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Vernes hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber. Set from the text of George M. Towles original 1873 translation, this Modern Library Paperback Classic of Vernes adventure novel comes vividly alive, brilliantly reecting on time, space, and one mans struggle to reach beyond the bounds of both science and society. [via]
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, Jane Bingham, Adam StowerISBN 0794507417 (0-7945-0741-7)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.[via]
This edition of Around the World in Eighty Days includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Justin Leiber.More editions of Around the World in Eighty Days:
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Around The World In Eighty Daysby Jane Bingham, Adam StowerISBN 079450826X (0-7945-0826-X)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around The World In Eighty Days'Book summary:When Phileas Fogg read in his newspaper that it was possible to travel around the world in only eighty days, his friends laughed. "It can't be done!" said one. So Phileas Fogg set out to prove it could. He insisted he was prepared for anything -- but he can't have expected to be chased around the world by a policemen. Detective Fix is convinced Fogg has stolen fifty-five thousand pounds and he's determined to stop him at any cost. [via]
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Beggars & Choosersby Nancy KressISBN 0812550102 (0-8125-5010-2)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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Berserker's Planet: Library Editionby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0812509811 (0-8125-0981-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Big Timeby Fritz LeiberISBN 0839823347 (0-8398-2334-7)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Callahan's Legacy: Library Editionby Spider RobinsonISBN 0812550358 (0-8125-5035-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callahan's Legacy: Library Edition'Book summary:This is the fifth book in the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series, a short read that once again brings together the Callahan regulars in a plot that combines the usual group therapy, the best/worst puns ever to see print and epic, world-saving deeds. This time around the gang must save Earth from a decidedly nasty alien, and only group telepathy will do the trick. Spider Robinson, whose cutting wit and keen insights are in full force, takes the opportunity to dive deep into the psyche of his various mainstay characters, making for some darkly intimate reading. [via]
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Callahan's Secretby Spider RobinsonISBN 0812572297 (0-8125-7229-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callahan's Secret'Book summary:Callahan's Place is open for business, and all of the "regulars" are here--a talking dog, an alcoholic vampire, and two telepaths--enhancing their joys by drowning their sorrows. Everyone, that is, but Mickey Finn, a seven-foot tall alien in danger of enslavement at the hands of a traveller from across the galaxy...[via]
Come inside, pull up a chair, order a drink, make a toast, and let Spider Robinson introduce you to the most unique patrons to frequent any establishment, at a bar where the most important law is "shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased." And if there's time left at the end of the night, just maybe they'll save the world...More editions of Callahan's Secret:
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Cellby Stephen KingISBN 0786285680 (0-7862-8568-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cell'Book summary:Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror's homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page.
In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton's estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.
Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate Cell as a departure--King's writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal Dark Tower series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn't hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like Cell. --Daphne Durham [via]
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The Chain of Chanceby Stanislaw Lem, Louis IribarneISBN 0810117304 (0-8101-1730-4)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Chantry Guildby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0812575598 (0-8125-7559-8)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chantry Guild'Book summary:A lone ship piloted by Dorsai Amanda Morgan runs the blockade of Earth. She has come to rouse Hal Mayne from his researches on The Final Encyclopedia. The news she brings is frightening: Bleys Ahrens plans to lead the forces of the Younger Worlds in a single headlong attack on Earth that must destroy both sides. But Amanda hasn't come to fight. She spirits Hal away to Kultis, where the secretive Chantry Guild holds mastery over the Alternate Forces. The answers he finds there may decide humanity's most critical moment. [via]
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China Mountain Zhangby Maureen F. McHughISBN 0812508920 (0-8125-0892-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'China Mountain Zhang'Book summary:This 1993 winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award focuses on Zhang Zhong Shan, a young engineer in a U.S. dominated by a hugely successful Marxist China. The fact that he's gay in an era where homosexuality is punishable by death, and that he's only half Asian--his mother was Hispanic, but his parents had his genes altered to suppress his ancestry--add to his frustration and feelings of oppression. When he loses his place in the social labor system, Zhang moves to Shanghai and finds work within a Marxist system whose injustices he recognizes and whose delusions he resists. Using the resources available, Zhang struggles to shape a place for himself, and manages to affect the lives of others in the process. [via]
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Cities of the Red Nightby William S. BurroughsISBN 0805017631 (0-8050-1763-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night'Book summary:While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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Coilsby Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen, Fred SternhagenISBN 0812558774 (0-8125-5877-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coils'Book summary:A new entity is being born. Its cells are microprocessors, its soul lives in data banks from Wall Street to Red Square. It is neither good nor evil. But it is very dangerous. The Angra Oil Corporation thinks it is just another resource to be used up....[via]
Coils: The story of a man and a woman trapped in the battle between a soulless corporation and the soul of a new machine.More editions of Coils:
Darwiniaby Robert Charles WilsonISBN 0812566629 (0-8125-6662-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Deceiversby Alfred BesterISBN 0812531868 (0-8125-3186-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deceivers'Book summary:Way back in the 1950s, Alfred Bester established himself as one of the greats of SF with a number of dazzling short stories and two major novels: The Demolished Man (1953) and The Stars My Destination (1956, also known as Tiger! Tiger!), both much reprinted. The Deceivers, his final SF novel, appeared in 1981.
It's a colorful, whimsical romp that plays entertainingly with themes from Bester's peak years, though without his old driving, compelling savagery. Hero Rogue Winter is a "Synergist," acutely sensitive to the world's patterns: in one set-piece sequence he follows an intuitive trail from 12 drummers drumming in a street parade to the goal of a (metaphorical) partridge in a pear tree. Winter is also heir-apparent to the Maori Mafia, which controls much of the Solar System's crime, but he must single-handedly battle the dread mammoths of Ganymede to earn his crown. Meanwhile, he has fallen helplessly in love with a sexy nonhuman shapeshifter from Titan, making him vulnerable to minions of the insidious Manchu Duke of Death, who plans to smash the syndicate that's smuggling the priceless miracle fuel Meta from the heavily defended mines of Saturn's Chinese/Japanese-dominated moon Triton.
Bester crams this wild farrago of a narrative with wisecracks, junk science, circus glamor, odd catch phrases, bits of self-conscious cleverness and excess, Chinese esoterica like the Mirror-and-Listen Mystery, and his trademark typographic tricks. Amusing candyfloss nonsense; quite readable, but definitely not in the same league as his 1950s classics. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Dorsai!by Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0812503988 (0-8125-0398-8)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorsai!'Book summary:Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe.[via]
Donal Graeme is Dorsai, taller and harder than any ordinary man. But he is different as well, with talents that amaze even his fellow Dorsai. And once he ventures out into the stars, the future will never be the same....More editions of Dorsai!:
The Dream Masterby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0839823452 (0-8398-2345-2)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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The Eternity Codeby Eoin ColferISBN 0786814934 (0-7868-1493-4)
Softcover, Hyperion
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eternity Code'Book summary:The third instalment of high-tech, criminal whiz-kid adventures set in the fairy-magic-filled world of Master Artemis Fowl may be reassuringly familiar but it is also bulging with author Eoin Colfer's trademark wit and thrilling seat-of-the-dwarf-pants adventure. Following on from Artemis's opening encounter with the fairy underworld in Artemis Fowl and its thumping sequel Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Encounter, The Eternity Code takes the books' eponymous young anti-hero, who with each successive adventure turns out to be a little less bad after all, on his most dangerous mission yet.
Artemis and his bodyguard Butler have set up a meeting in Chicago with dangerous international businessman Jon Spiro. In his latest eager attempt to make money, using a priceless futuristic cube of purloined Fairy gadgetry that can do just about anything, Artemis has underestimated Spiro and arrived at the rendezvous under-prepared. Big mistake. It is an ambush, and though Artemis escapes with his life, Butler is mortally wounded.
The cube may be lost but Artemis refuses to accept his friend's demise and quickly deep freezes Butler in the restaurant kitchen. He calls on the only people he knows who might be able to get him back--Holly Short of the subterranean Fairy police and her race's super-advanced technology. Holly and Artemis must find a way to bring Butler back from the dead and retrieve the lost Eternity Cube that could change the balance of power between humans and fairies forever. It is a Herculean task and the price exacted upon Artemis for such assistance is very high indeed.
What Colfer's latest plot may lack in depth or sophistication is more than made up for by the sheer verve and energy of his settings, characters and action. These books are very entertaining indeed and hugely readable, and once you're a Fowl fan you'll be hooked until Artemis decides to go straight. Recommended for ages nine and above. --John McLay [via]
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Softcover, Hyperion - The Eternity Code: ISBN 0786819146 (0-7868-1914-6)
Hardcover, Miramax - The Eternity Code: ISBN 0786818158 (0-7868-1815-8)
Softcover, Hyperion Books - The Eternity Code: ISBN 0786259205 (0-7862-5920-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Eternity Code: ISBN 0786814934 (0-7868-1493-4)
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Eye of the Sibylby Philip K. DickISBN 0806513284 (0-8065-1328-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eye of the Sibyl'Book summary:A collection of stories by the celebrated science fiction writer includes never-before-published selections as well as the author's standards--``The Little Black Box'' and ``The Pre-Person'' among them. By the author of The Man in the High Castle. Original. [via]
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Factoring Humanityby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0812571290 (0-8125-7129-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Folk of the Fringeby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812500865 (0-8125-0086-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Folk of the Fringe'Book summary:Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the plague, there exited a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. The climate has changed. The Great Salt Lake has filled up to prehistoric levels. But there, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.[via]
A civilization cannot be reclaimed by powerful organizations, or even by great men alone. It must be renewed by individual men and women, one by one, working together to make a community, a nation, a new America.More editions of The Folk of the Fringe:
Four for Tomorrowby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0824014448 (0-8240-1444-8)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Frameshiftby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0765313162 (0-7653-1316-2)
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Freeze Framesby Katharine KerrISBN 0812551737 (0-8125-5173-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freeze Frames'Book summary:Five generations of the Corey family are overseen by the ominous Nick Harrison, who tells the stories of Maggie, Janet, Tiffany, and two others at pivotal moments when their lives hang in the balance. Reprint. [via]
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The Gold Coastby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0812552393 (0-8125-5239-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gold Coast'Book summary:In a prophetic glimpse into America's near future, Robinson provides a sweeping novel of courageous characters triumphing over the dehumanization of a too-large society. "What a bold, manic, wonderful book this is!"--Los Angeles Times. Reprint from Tor. [via]
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The Golden Transcendence: or, The Last of the Masqueradeby John C. WrightISBN 0765349086 (0-7653-4908-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Transcendence: or, The Last of the Masquerade'Book summary:Begun with The Golden Age, continued with The Phoenix Exultant, and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence, The Golden Age trilogy is Grand Space Opera, an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. Van Gogt, Roger Zelazny and Cordwainer Smith. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the elan of SF's golden age writers in the suspenseful and passionate tale of Phaeton, a lone rebel unhappy in utopia.[via]
The end of the Millennium is imminent, when all minds, human, posthuman, cybernetic, sophotechnic, will be temporarily merged into one solar-system-spanning supermind called the Transcendence. This is not only the fulfillment of a thousand years of dreams, it is a day of doom, when the universal mind will pass judgment on the all the races of humanity and transhumanity.
The mighty ship Phoenix Exultant is at last in the hands of her master, Phaethon the Exile is at her helm and his dream of starflight in alive once more. He is being hunted by alien agents, the eerie and deadly Lords of the Silent Oecumene, who would steal the Phoenix Exultant and turn it into a weapon.
The all-encompassing Mind of the Golden Transcendence is waking. Will it endorse Phaeton's dream or face the first interstellar war?More editions of The Golden Transcendence: or, The Last of the Masquerade:
The Halloween Treeby Ray Bradbury, Joseph MugnainiISBN 0785796126 (0-7857-9612-6)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPréISBN 0786222735 (0-7862-2273-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 7 CDs) --Andrew Nieland [via]
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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Princeby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0786277459 (0-7862-7745-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince'Book summary:The deluxe edition includes a 32-page insert featuring near scale reproductions of Mary GrandPré's interior art, as well as never-before-seen full-color frontispiece art on special paper. The custom-designed slipcase is foil-stamped and inside is a full cloth case book, blind-stamped on front and back cover, foil stamped on spine. The book includes full-color endpapers with jacket art from the Trade edition and a wraparound jacket featuring exclusive, suitable-for-framing art from Mary GrandPré.
Potter News You Can Use
J.K. Rowling has revealed three chapter titles from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to be:
- Chapter Two: "Spinners End"
- Chapter Six: "Draco's Detour"
- Chapter Fourteen: "Felix Felicis"
A Few Words from J.K. Rowling
"I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. Im sure that I will always be a writer. It was wonderful enough just to be published. The greatest reward is the enthusiasm of the readers." --J.K. Rowling. Find out more about Harry's creator in our exclusive interview with J.K. Rowling.
Why We Love Harry
Favorite Moments from the Series
There are plenty of reasons to love Rowling's wildly popular series--no doubt you have several dozen of your own. Our list features favorite moments, characters, and artifacts from all five books. Keep in mind that this list is by no means exhaustive (what we love about Harry could fill five books!) and does not include any of the spectacular revelatory moments that would spoil the books for those (few) who have not read them. Enjoy.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Harry's first trip to the zoo with the Dursleys, when a boa constrictor winks at him.
- When the Dursleys' house is suddenly besieged by letters for Harry from Hogwarts. Readers learn how much the Dursleys have been keeping from Harry. Rowling does a wonderful job in displaying the lengths to which Uncle Vernon will go to deny that magic exists.
- Harry's first visit to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. Full of curiosities and rich with magic and marvel, Harry's first trip includes a trip to Gringotts and Ollivanders, where Harry gets his wand (holly and phoenix feather) and discovers yet another connection to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. This moment is the reader's first full introduction to Rowling's world of witchcraft and wizards.
- Harry's experience with the Sorting Hat.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- The de-gnoming of the Weasleys' garden. Harry discovers that even wizards have chores--gnomes must be grabbed (ignoring angry protests "Gerroff me! Gerroff me!"), swung about (to make them too dizzy to come back), and tossed out of the garden--this delightful scene highlights Rowling's clever and witty genius.
- Harry's first experience with a Howler, sent to Ron by his mother.
- The Dueling Club battle between Harry and Malfoy. Gilderoy Lockhart starts the Dueling Club to help students practice spells on each other, but he is not prepared for the intensity of the animosity between Harry and Draco. Since they are still young, their minibattle is innocent enough, including tickling and dancing charms.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Ron's attempt to use a telephone to call Harry at the Dursleys'.
- Harry's first encounter with a Dementor on the train (and just about any other encounter with Dementors). Harry's brush with the Dementors is terrifying and prepares Potter fans for a darker, scarier book.
- Harry, Ron, and Hermione's behavior in Professor Trelawney's Divination class. Some of the best moments in Rowling's books occur when she reminds us that the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts are, after all, just children. Clearly, even at a school of witchcraft and wizardry, classes can be boring and seem pointless to children.
- The Boggart lesson in Professor Lupin's classroom.
- Harry, Ron, and Hermione's knock-down confrontation with Snape.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Hermione's disgust at the reception for the veela (Bulgarian National Team Mascots) at the Quidditch World Cup. Rowling's fourth book addresses issues about growing up--the dynamic between the boys and girls at Hogwarts starts to change. Nowhere is this more plain than the hilarious scene in which magical cheerleaders nearly convince Harry and Ron to jump from the stands to impress them.
- Viktor Krum's crush on Hermione--and Ron's objection to it.
- Malfoy's "Potter Stinks" badge.
- Hermione's creation of S.P.E.W., the intolerant bigotry of the Death Eaters, and the danger of the Triwizard Tournament. Add in the changing dynamics between girls and boys at Hogwarts, and suddenly Rowling's fourth book has a weight and seriousness not as present in early books in the series. Candy and tickle spells are left behind as the students tackle darker, more serious issues and take on larger responsibilities, including the knowledge of illegal curses.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry's outburst to his friends at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. A combination of frustration over being kept in the dark and fear that he will be expelled fuels much of Harry's anger, and it all comes out at once, directly aimed at Ron and Hermione. Rowling perfectly portrays Harry's frustration at being too old to shirk responsibility, but too young to be accepted as part of the fight that he knows is coming.
- Harry's detention with Professor Umbridge. Rowling shows her darker side, leading readers to believe that Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven for young wizards. Dolores represents a bureaucratic tyrant capable of real evil, and Harry is forced to endure their private battle of wills alone.
- Harry and Cho's painfully awkward interactions. Rowling clearly remembers what it was like to be a teenager.
- Harry's Occlumency lessons with Snape.
- Dumbledore's confession to Harry.
Begin at the Beginning
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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PaperbackHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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PaperbackHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Dragons of DeltoraA Few Words from Mary GrandPré
"When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing--she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision." Check out more Harry Potter art from illustrator Mary GrandPré.Did You Know?
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The Little White Horse was J.K. Rowling's favorite book as a child. 
Jane Austen is Rowling's favorite author. 
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandpreISBN 0786222727 (0-7862-2272-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'Book summary:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Cassette Travel Bag is a complete and unabridged reading by Stephen Fry on six cassettes, contained in a travel box. A CD travel bag is also available.
Just when it seems that there cannot possibly be another twist to the Harry Potter tale, Stephen Fry dons his haughtiest and naughtiest tones to bring Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to vibrant life on audio. Harry Potter has spent the first 10 years of his life at the mercy of the dreadful Dursleys--the aunt, uncle and fat, spoilt brat of a cousin who reluctantly gave him a home after the death of his mother and father. But on his 11th birthday Harry discovers that he is no ordinary boy, and despite the best efforts of his hideous relatives he escapes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his new life as a trainee wizard. And the rest, as they say, is history...
As Harry battles against the evils thrown in his path, Stephen Fry injects the proceedings with a wry, dry and extremely contagious humour that perfectly suits the tale, wringing out the best in Harry and his cohorts as they get to grips with their new lives at the sharp end of Hogwarts. Fry's innate upper-class drone is perfectly suited to the telling of this most magical tale, cracking into the high-pitched squawking of Hermione the swat, or the gentle tones of the firm but fair Dumbledore, or the evil sniping of slimey Snape at precisely the right moments.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fine story and much has been written about its success, but until you have heard Fry's cracking reading of this most magical of stories then you simply haven't lived. As with any audio book, this one is perfect for car journeys and an ideal way of introducing reluctant readers to the magic that is Harry Potter. (Ages 9 and over) --Susan Harrison
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Hestiaby C. J. CherryhISBN 0783891539 (0-7838-9153-9)
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The Hobbitby J.R.R. TolkienISBN 0808520806 (0-8085-2080-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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The Hobbit or There and Back Againby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0786251778 (0-7862-5177-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again'Book summary:Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry- footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit.
This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the later novels is foreshadowed here. A word of caution, however: as Bilbo discovers early on, travel and adventure are addictive things; embark on this journey to the Lonely Mountain with Tolkien's reluctant hero, and you might not be able to stop there. And the road taken to the distant mountains of Mordor in the ensuing trilogy is an even more perilous one. [via]
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Hunters of Duneby Kevin J. Anderson, Frank HerbertISBN 0765312921 (0-7653-1292-1)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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Jumping Off the Planetby David GerroldISBN 081257608X (0-8125-7608-X)
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Jupiterby Ben BovaISBN 0812579410 (0-8125-7941-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jupiter'Book summary:He made planetfall on Venus and all but colonized Mars, so it's not surprising that SF don Ben Bova finally set his sights on our solar system's swirling, red-eyed sovereign.
As with his previous planetary exploration books, Jupiter plants you right in the heart of the action, witness to the speculative science and political intrigue--and in this case, religious machination--that surround a fast-paced, dangerous, and technically fleshed-out mission. Our unlikely hero on this touchdown is an earnest, likeable, hard-working grad student named Grant Archer, a frustrated astrophysicist who's been shanghaied aboard Jupiter's Gold space station to fulfill a ROTC-style public-service commitment. What's worse, this devout young man has been ordered by the New Morality--the American flavor of the conservative religious order that runs Earth nowadays--to spy on some suspicious research involving alleged Jovian life forms.
Bova begins his book with an A.C. Clarke quote: "The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths." This tells you pretty much everything you need to know about where this book's going, and who, respectively, will be wearing the white and the black hats (unfortunately, some of the characterizations don't get much deeper). That the central protagonist is both a Christian and a scientist makes for some fertile character development, but Bova's not exactly gunning for God here--he's happy just to blast away at narrow-minded ideologues and other assorted religious fanatics. (But that, of course, is about as easy as making teenagers depressed.) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Land That Time Forgotby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mike Resnick, J. Allen St. JohnISBN 0803261543 (0-8032-6154-3)
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Learning the World: A Scientific Romanceby Ken MacLeodISBN 0765313316 (0-7653-1331-6)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning the World: Or, a Scientific Romance'Book summary:Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.[via]
The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year journey. For its long-lived inhabitants, the centuries have been busy. Now a younger generation is eager to settle the system. The ship is a seed-pod ready to burst.
Then they detect curious electromagnetic emissions from the system's Earth-like world. As the nature of the signals becomes clear, the choices facing the humans become stark.
On Ground, second world from the sun, a young astronomer searches for his system's outermost planet. A moving point of light thrills, then disappoints him. It's only a comet. His physicist colleague Orro takes time off from trying to invent a flying-machine to calculate the comet's trajectory. Something is very odd about that comet's path.
They are not the only ones for whom the world has changed.
"We are not living in the universe we thought we lived in yesterday. We have to start learning the world all over again."More editions of Learning the World: A Scientific Romance:
The Life of the World to Comeby Kage BakerISBN 0765354322 (0-7653-5432-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of the World to Come'Book summary:From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.[via]
Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love.
In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr's death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.
The Company didn't like that - bad for business. But she's immortal and indestructible, so they couldn't hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back.
Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality.
"Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.
Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.More editions of The Life of the World to Come:
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Lord of Chaosby Robert JordanISBN 0812513754 (0-8125-1375-4)
Softcover, Forge
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Lost on Venusby Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Allen St. John, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0803262191 (0-8032-6219-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost on Venus'Book summary:Lost! Space adventurer Carson Napier made a grievous miscalculation and became stranded on dangerous, mist-shrouded Venus. But Napier refused to quit. He won the love of the beautiful Duare, princess of Vepaja, became a pirate, fought villains, then lost his beloved to the evil Thorist kidnappers.Napier's adventures on Venus continue in this pulse-pounding sequel to Pirates of Venus. Here the intrepid and wry explorer takes on a savage world in order to rescue the princess from her sworn enemies. Napiers epic quest for Duare takes him through the streets of the City of the Dead, into the terrifying Room of the Seven Doors, and face to face with fantastic and perilous creatures. Featuring what may be Burroughss most realistic hero, Lost on Venus brims with the action, suspense, and wit unique to the Master of Adventure.This edition features an introduction by celebrated writer Kevin J. Anderson and the original illustrations by J. Allen St. John.[via]More editions of Lost on Venus:
Magicby Isaac AsimovISBN 0788153676 (0-7881-5367-6)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtubby Stanisaw LemISBN 0816491283 (0-8164-9128-3)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs Found in a Bathtub'Book summary:The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.[via]More editions of Memoirs Found in a Bathtub:
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Mendoza in Hollywoodby Kage BakerISBN 0765315300 (0-7653-1530-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mendoza in Hollywood'Book summary:Ah, pity poor Mendoza. She's a botanist stuck in dusty southern California in 1862, with a broken heart, bizarre companions, lousy food (frijoles and steak again, anyone?), and no plants to study. On top of all that, she's immortal--a cyborg created and maintained by Dr. Zeus, also known as the Company. From its 24th-century headquarters, the Company sends orders back in time to Mendoza and her fellow cyborgs, who collect stuff from the past and send it ahead through time machines for inscrutable uses. But things go from bad to worse for our heroine when drought and smallpox decimate the region, leaving her with nothing to do but pine for her three-centuries-lost mortal love, the martyred Nicholas Harpole. But what's this? Along comes a British agent--the spitting image of Nicholas--hell-bent on upsetting the Union in its hour of need. Mendoza must decide whether to help him in his plot to ensure British rule of the Americas, thereby directly disobeying her Company mandates. She finds herself in a weird race against time itself in this story of science fiction adventure, mystery, and comedy, with not a few reverential in-jokes about SoCal culture thrown in for good measure.
Kage Baker's style and wit make her novels among the best reads in science fiction today. Mendoza in Hollywood, the third book in the Company series (10 are planned) is simply delightful, with the focus back on dear, tragic Mendoza, and tantalizing hints of mysterious conspiracies aplenty. Lots of questions remain unanswered, but Baker weaves such a delicious tale, it's a pleasure to be teased. The series began with In the Garden of Iden and Sky Coyote. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Miocene Arrowby Sean McMullenISBN 0765344556 (0-7653-4455-6)
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My Enemy, My Ally #18by Diane DuaneISBN 0785747559 (0-7857-4755-9)
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Mystby Rand MillerISBN 0786861592 (0-7868-6159-2)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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The Myst: Book of Atrusby David Wingrove, Rand Miller, Robyn MillerISBN 0786881887 (0-7868-8188-7)
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N-Spaceby Larry NivenISBN 0812510011 (0-8125-1001-1)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'N-Space'Book summary:On an L.A. talk show Arthur C. Clarke was once asked to name his favorite writer. His answer was "Larry Niven." Countless others agree. The Baltimore Sun and Kirkus Reviews have both dubbed Niven "the premier writer of hard SF," and Gregory Benford has hailed him as "the paradigm of SF personality of the last several decade."[via]
Now Larry Niven presents us with his undisputed masterwork. N-Space contains, very simply, the best SF of his career--marvelous fiction, a wealth of anecdotes and gossip, plus Niven's own special brand of wit and excitement.More editions of N-Space:
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Neanderthalby John DarntonISBN 0786208244 (0-7862-0824-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neanderthal'Book summary:In the remote mountains of central Asia, an eminent Harvard archeologist discovers something extraordinary. He sends a cryptic message to two colleagues. But then, he disappears. Matt Mattison and Susan Arnot--once lovers, now academic rivals--are going where few humans have ever walked, looking for a relic band of creatures that have existed for over 40,000 years, that possess powers man can only imagine, and that are about to change the face of civilization forever. [via]
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O-Zoneby Paul TherouxISBN 0804101515 (0-8041-0151-5)
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Odd Johnby William Olaf StapledonISBN 0824014375 (0-8240-1437-5)
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The Ophiuchi Hotlineby John VarleyISBN 0803761201 (0-8037-6120-1)
Hardcover, Dial Press/James Wade
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The Path of Daggersby Robert JordanISBN 0812550293 (0-8125-5029-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Path of Daggers'Book summary:Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time epic is one of the most popular fantasy series of all time for a reason. Jordan's world is rich and complex, and he's assembled an endearing, involving core of characters while mapping out an ambitious and engaging story arc.
But with the previous book, Crown of Swords, and now with Path of Daggers, the series is in a bit of a holding pattern. Path continues the halting gait of the current plot line: Rand is still on the brink of losing it, all the while juggling the political machinations around him and again taking to the field against the Seanchan. The rest of the Two Rivers kids and company don't seem to be moving much faster. Egwene continues to slowly consolidate her hold as the "true" Amyrlin (finally getting closer to Tar Valon and the inevitable confrontation with Elaida), and Nynaeve and Elayne keep on wandering toward the Lion Throne, again on the run from the Seanchan. Mat Cauthon is barely mentioned, and fellow ta'veren Perrin keeps busy with politics in Ghealdan. The ending does provide promise, though, that book nine might match the pace and passion of the previous books.
If you're already hooked, you could sooner overcome a weave of Compulsion than avoid picking up a copy of Path of Daggers. But if you're new to the series, start at the beginning with the engrossing, much-better-paced Eye of the World. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Philip K. Dick Readerby Philip K. DickISBN 0806518561 (0-8065-1856-1)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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The Phoenix Exultantby John C. WrightISBN 0765343541 (0-7653-4354-1)
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Pirates of Venusby Edgar R. Burroughs, Thomas Floyd, F. Paul WilsonISBN 0803261837 (0-8032-6183-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pirates of Venus'Book summary:The shimmering, cloud-covered planet of Venus conceals a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands of feet into the sky; ferocious beasts stalk the wilderness below; rare flashes of sunlight precipitate devastating storms; and the inhabitants believe their world is saucer-shaped with a fiery center and an icy rim. Stranded on Amtor after his spaceship crashes, astronaut Carson Napier is swept into a world where revolution is ripe, the love of a princess carries a dear price, and death can come as easily from the blade of a sword as from the ray of a futuristic gun.Pirates of Venus is the exciting inaugural volume in the last series imagined and penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This commemorative edition features new illustrations by Thomas Floyd, the original frontispiece by J. Allen St. John, an afterword by Phillip Burger, a glossary of Amtor terms by Scott Tracy Griffin, a map of Amtor drawn by Edgar Rice Burroughs that appeared in the first edition, and an introduction by acclaimed science fiction and horror novelist F. Paul Wilson.[via]More editions of Pirates of Venus:
The Positronic Manby Isaac Asimov, Robert SilverbergISBN 0792720725 (0-7927-2072-5)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Prentice Alvinby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812502124 (0-8125-0212-4)
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Red Prophetby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812524268 (0-8125-2426-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Prophet'Book summary:The first tale of Alvin Maker, "Seventh Son", introduced people to a very familiar but just slightly different pioneer America where magic works, and many people have special talents. In "Red Prophet", listeners learn more about those talents, both the minor gifts of the white people and the much grander gifts of the Indians. Abridged. November '98 publication date. [via]
The Second Angelby Philip KerrISBN 0805059628 (0-8050-5962-8)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0808521403 (0-8085-2140-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via]More editions of Silmarillion:
The Sky Roadby Ken MacLeodISBN 0812577590 (0-8125-7759-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Snareby Katharine KerrISBN 0812551745 (0-8125-5174-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snare'Book summary:The author of the beloved Deverry series Dragonspell, Darkspell, The Red Wyvern, turns her hand to a new kind of tale.[via]
On the planet known as Snare, the descendants of Islamic fundamentalist emigrants have created beautiful enclaves, where they can sit on a patio enjoying green grass and "true-roses," but the nomadic tribes live in a much harsher landscape, where the grass is purple, the trees are orange, and the huge and dangerous sentient Cha'Meech lizards roam the landscape.
Idres Warkannan and his companions are on a quest through this landscape, looking for the only man who can redeem their Islamic civilization from its despotic ruler and restore justice to the population. Zayn Hassan, refugee from the despot's service, finds himself living among the tribes of the "comnee," where Healer and Spirit Rider Ammadin, seeing the dangers all around her, is beginning to doubt the gods who are her only protection.
To save herself and her people, Ammadin journeys eastward into war, intrigue, and adventure - and finds more than she bargained for on all counts.More editions of Snare:
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Song of Kaliby Dan SimmonsISBN 0812515927 (0-8125-1592-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song of Kali'Book summary:"O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." It is remarkable that prior to writing this first novel, Dan Simmons had spent only two and a half days in Calcutta, a city "too wicked to be suffered," his narrator says. Fortunately back in print after several years during which it was hard to obtain, this rich, bizarre novel practically reeks with atmosphere. The story concerns an American poet who travels with his Indian wife and their baby to Calcutta to pick up an epic poem cycle about the goddess Kali. The Bengali poet who wrote the poem cycle has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Horror critic Edward Bryant calls Song of Kali "an exactingly constructed, brutal, and uncompromising study of the degree to which an evil place may permeate and steep all that makes us human" and writes that it embodies "the stance of a psychologically violent novel about a violent society as a defensible and indisputably moral work of art." Song of Kali won a World Fantasy Award. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Songs of Earth and Powerby Greg BearISBN 0812536037 (0-8125-3603-7)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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The Spell Swordby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0783890664 (0-7838-9066-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Stainless Steel Rat's Revengeby Harry HarrisonISBN 0802755259 (0-8027-5525-9)
Hardcover, Walker
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Star of Dangerby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 078389063X (0-7838-9063-X)
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Star Trek Next Generation: Sparticusby T.L. MancourISBN 0835911047 (0-8359-1104-7)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co
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Star Wars Episode I: The Visual Dictionaryby David West Reynolds, Hans Jenssen, Richard ChasemoreISBN 0789447010 (0-7894-4701-0)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Starfarersby Poul AndersonISBN 0812545990 (0-8125-4599-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starfarers'Book summary:When evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETI astronomers, an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy is planned and an eclectic team of scientists is chosen to make the trip. But because the origin of the alien signals is thousands of light-years away, the crew will age only a few years while millennia pass on Earth. And though they are ready to face the ramifications of such a voyage, none of the starfarers are prepared for what awaits them at the outer edge of the cosmos--or back at the planet they once called home.[via]More editions of Starfarers:
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Starfishby Peter WattsISBN 0812575857 (0-8125-7585-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Starfish'Book summary:Peter Watts's first novel explores the last mysterious place on earth--the floor of a deep sea rift. Channer Vent is a zone of freezing darkness that belongs to shellfish the size of boulders and crimson worms three meters long. It's the temporary home of the maintenance crew of a geothermal energy plant--a crew made up of the damaged and dysfunctional flotsam of an overpopulated near-future earth. The crew's reluctant leader, basket case Lenie Clarke, can barely survive in the upper world, but she quickly falls under the rift's spell, just as Watts's magical descriptions of it enchant the reader: "Steam never gets a chance to form at three hundred atmospheres, but thermal distortion turns the water into a column of writhing liquid prisms, hotter than molten glass."
Watts is investigating monsters. Gigantic deep sea monsters, surgically-altered-from-human monsters, faceless jellied-brain computer monsters--which monsters are human, which are more than human, which are less? Watts keeps the story line stripped down to showcase the theme of dehumanization. The anonymous millions who live along the unstable shore of N'AmPac come under threat (a triggered earthquake, and perhaps a disaster that's slower but even more pitiless) from their own dehumanized creations. But Watts is less interested in whether Lenie can save the dry world as in whether she can save herself. In Starfish, Watts stretches the boundaries of humanity up, down, and sideways to see whether its dimensions reveal anything we'd be proud to be a part of. --Blaise Selby [via]
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Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sandby Samuel R. Delany, Carl FreedmanISBN 0819567140 (0-8195-6714-0)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand'Book summary:Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism--have only become more pressing with the passage of time.
The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to "point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more"? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by "cultural fugue," and the other is--you! [via]More editions of Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand:
Strangers from the Skyby Margaret Wander BonannoISBN 0785747591 (0-7857-4759-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Sun of Sunsby Karl SchroederISBN 0765315432 (0-7653-1543-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sun of Suns'Book summary:It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.[via]
Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . .More editions of Sun of Suns:
There Are Doorsby Gene WolfeISBN 0812503015 (0-8125-0301-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Trouble and Her Friendsby Melissa ScottISBN 0812522133 (0-8125-2213-3)
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Trouble on Tritonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 081956298X (0-8195-6298-X)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trouble on Triton'Book summary:In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with . . . our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of "the happily reasonable man," Bron Helstrom -- an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth's own Outer Mongolia. Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he -- or she -- seems. [via]
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Venusby Ben BovaISBN 0812579402 (0-8125-7940-2)
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Wounded Skyby Diane DuaneISBN 0785747680 (0-7857-4768-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wounded Sky'Book summary:An alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive -- and the U.S.S Enterprise" will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew -- and time becomes meaningless.
Now Captain Kirk and his friends face their greatest challenge -- to repair the fabric of the Universe before time is lost forever! [via]
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The Wreck of the River of Starsby Michael FlynnISBN 076534033X (0-7653-4033-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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