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Agent of the Terran Empireby Poul AndersonISBN 0839825285 (0-8398-2528-5)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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The Amber Spyglassby Philip PullmanISBN 0375823352 (0-375-82335-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amber Spyglass'Book summary:From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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- The Amber Spyglass: ISBN 0440238153 (0-440-23815-3)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf - The Amber Spyglass: ISBN 0440418569 (0-440-41856-9)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Amber Spyglass: ISBN 0375846735 (0-375-84673-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - The Amber Spyglass: ISBN 0345413377 (0-345-41337-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Amber Spyglass: ISBN 0375823352 (0-375-82335-2)
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- The Amber Spyglass: ISBN 0440238153 (0-440-23815-3)
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Beautyby Sheri S. TepperISBN 0385419406 (0-385-41940-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty'Book summary:With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. Set against a backdrop both enchanted and frightening, the story begins with a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a young woman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday. Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soon finds herself embarked on an adventure of vast consequences. For it becomes clear that the enchanted places of this fantastic world--a place not unlike our own--are in danger and must be saved before it is too late.
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Beggars and Choosersby Nancy KressISBN 0312857497 (0-312-85749-7)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Big Planetby Jack VanceISBN 0812556984 (0-8125-5698-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Planet'Book summary:The objective of the mission from Earth to Big Planet was to ensure that the whole world didn't fall under the domination of the tyrant Lysidder. But when the mission spacecraft crash-lands, the survivors are faced with a 40,000 mile trek across the vast and unknown surface of the planet. [via]
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Bill the Galactic Heroby Harry HarrisonISBN 0380003953 (0-380-00395-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bill the Galactic Hero'Book summary:CHECK IMAGES FOR STORY OUTLINE & INFORMATION ABOUT THE EQUINOX "REDISCOVERY" SERIES. [via]
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The Boat of a Million Yearsby Poul AndersonISBN 0312931999 (0-312-93199-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Brightness Falls from the Airby James TiptreeISBN 0812556259 (0-8125-5625-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Bring the Jubileeby Ward MooreISBN 1557850321 (1-55785-032-1)
Softcover, Bart Books
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Brothers of Earthby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886772907 (0-88677-290-7)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Catseyeby Andre NortonISBN 0839826370 (0-8398-2637-0)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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A Clash of Kingsby Stephen PagelISBN 1892065312 (1-892065-31-2)
Hardcover, Meisha Merlin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clash of Kings'Book summary:How does he do it? George R.R. Martin's high fantasy weaves a spell sufficient to seduce even those who vowed never to start a doorstopper fantasy series again (the first book--A Game of Thrones--runs over 700 pages). A Clash of Kings is longer and even more grim, but Martin continues to provide compelling characters in a vividly real world.
The Seven Kingdoms have come apart. Joffrey, Queen Cersei's sadistic son, ascends the Iron Throne following the death of Robert Baratheon, the Usurper, who won it in battle. Queen Cersei's family, the Lannisters, fight to hold it for him. Both the dour Stannis and the charismatic Renly Baratheon, Robert's brothers, also seek the throne. Robb Stark, declared King in the North, battles to avenge his father's execution and retrieve his sister from Joffrey's court. Daenerys, the exiled last heir of the former ruling family, nurtures three dragons and seeks a way home. Meanwhile the Night's Watch, sworn to protect the realm from dangers north of the Wall, dwindle in numbers, even as barbarian forces gather and beings out of legend stalk the Haunted Forest.
Sound complicated? It is, but fine writing makes this a thoroughly satisfying stew of dark magic, complex political intrigue, and horrific bloodshed. --Nona Vero [via]
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Colour of Magicby Terry PratchettISBN 0060855924 (0-06-085592-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colour of Magic'Book summary:The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless wizard guide, Rincewind ("All wizards get like that ... it's the quicksilver fumes. Rots their brains. Mushrooms, too."). Pratchett spoofs fantasy clichés--and everything else he can think of--while marshalling a profusion of characters through a madcap adventure. The Colour of Magic is followed by The Light Fantastic. --Blaise Selby [via]
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Damia's Childrenby Anne McCaffreyISBN 044100007X (0-441-00007-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Dancer from Atlantisby Poul AndersonISBN 0812523105 (0-8125-2310-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Dark Designby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0345419693 (0-345-41969-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Design'Book summary:The Dark Design is the third book in the epic Riverworld saga, in which almost all of humanity has been resurrected on a strange planet along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. But why have humans been given another chance at life, and who is behind it all? That's what Sir Richard Francis Burton and Sam Clemens set out to discover in two earlier novels, one by riding the "suicide express" (if you die on Riverworld, you're resurrected again at a random point along the river) and the other steaming on the greatest riverboat ever seen. Now Milton Firebrass, Clemens's former enemy and now his No. 1 lieutenant, is planning to use the dwindling iron supply on the Riverworld to create a great airship, which can fly to the North Polar Sea far more quickly than any boat can travel. There he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower thought to house the beings who created this planet.
Jill Gulbirra does not care as much about the mission as she wants the chance to captain the great airship, which in all likelihood will be the last airship ever constructed by humankind. But in landing the coveted role, she faces stiff competition--especially from the greatest swordsman of all time, Cyrano de Bergerac, who turns out to be a natural pilot. But even if Jill can win the command of the airship and even if the ship can reach the river's headwaters, there is no guarantee it can get through the mountain wall that surrounds the tower. And it's likely that one or more agents of the Ethicals--the creators of Riverworld--are on board the airship, plotting its downfall. Worse still, somewhere along the way the airship is sure to encounter the Rex Grandissimus, the steamboat stolen by Sam's archnemesis, King John Lackland. --Craig E. Engler [via]
The Dark Side of the Sunby Terry PratchettISBN 0312182708 (0-312-18270-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Deathbird Storiesby Harlan EllisonISBN 002028361X (0-02-028361-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deathbird Stories'Book summary:Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.
His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat-as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you-ll ever experience.
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Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Deathbird Stories: ISBN 031294084X (0-312-94084-X)
Softcover, Bluejay Books - Deathbird Stories: ISBN 0060111763 (0-06-011176-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - Deathbird Stories: ISBN 002028361X (0-02-028361-X)
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Dolphins of Pernby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0785793186 (0-7857-9318-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Dragon's Eggby Robert L. ForwardISBN 034543529X (0-345-43529-X)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragon's Egg'Book summary:"Forward's book is a knockout. In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind--and this is one of them"--Arthur C. Clarke [via]
The Dying Earthby Jack VanceISBN 0887331920 (0-88733-192-0)
Hardcover, Underwood-Miller
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The Engines of Godby Jack McDevittISBN 0441002846 (0-441-00284-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Ensign Flandryby Poul AndersonISBN 1596870303 (1-59687-030-3)
Softcover, Ibooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensign Flandry'Book summary:The late Poul Anderson, who died in 2001, was one of the giants of science fiction and winner of 7 Hugo Awards, the field's highest honor. ENSIGN FLANDRY is a classic character in the history of science fiction. This definitive omnibus of three Flandry adventures will delight Anderson's legion of fans and continue the ibooks program of important works of science fiction as begun with its ZELAZNY, BESTER, and SILVERBERG reissues.
After the first flowering of the Terran Empire, which has grown increasingly decadent and corrupt, other civilizations in the galaxy threaten to take over the Terran's worlds. In this scenario steps the debonair, tough and pessimistic Dominic Flandry, half-Hans Solo, half-James Bond and a hero for the ages! [via]
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Expedition to Earthby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0345328248 (0-345-32824-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Expedition to Earth'Book summary:There are many ways to recapture the sheer fun that science fiction was back when it wasn't even a bit respectable and the idea that Arthur C. Clarke would one day be Sir Arthur was more or less inconceivable. One of the best ways is to go back to a classic short story collection like this, with its bitterly ironic title story of archaeology and its misunderstandings--the classic "Breaking Strain" in which two spacemen struggle over supplies that will do for one--and "The Sentinel," the story that acted as the seed for the late Stanley Kubrick's collaboration with Clarke, 2001.
Clarke always had a more delicate and poetic side, and this collection includes one of his finest stories along this vein, "Second Dawn," in which telepathically gifted aliens without hands deal with the moral dilemmas of science. Many of the stories address a Space Age that never was--Clarke was assuming that things would happen later than they did, but that more would follow quicker; this in itself gives the book charm as an add-on to its considerable conceptual wit. Few short story collections are SF classics, but this is a major exception. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Family Tradeby Charles StrossISBN 0765348217 (0-7653-4821-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Family Trade'Book summary:308 pp. [via]
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The Final Reflectionby John M. FordISBN 0839828853 (0-8398-2885-3)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Steve Mclean, China MievilleISBN 0141441089 (0-14-144108-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Men in the Moon'Book summary:This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
Foundation's Fearby Gregory BenfordISBN 0061056383 (0-06-105638-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Foundation's Fearby Isaac Asimov, Gregory BenfordISBN 0061052434 (0-06-105243-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Fear'Book summary:This is the first installment of The Second Foundation Trilogy, based on Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation series. Acclaimed hard science fiction writers Gregory Benford, David Brin, and Greg Bear will each produce a work for the trilogy. Benford kicks off exploring the beginnings of the Foundation itself and its creator, Hari Seldon. Seldon is working on a project to ease the inevitable collapse of the universe-spanning Empire and the Dark Ages that will ensue. But the current emperor has other plans, like appointing Seldon first minister and thus thrusting him into a world of political intrigues and assassination attempts that ultimately will bring him up against future history's greatest threat. [via]
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The Game-Players of Titanby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824823 (0-8398-2482-3)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Hellsparkby Janet KaganISBN 0812542754 (0-8125-4275-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hellspark'Book summary:Murder, Mystery, and Interstellar Intrigue! Hugo Award winner Janet Kagan's Hellspark is now back in print! Lassti, a newly discovered planet, is the center of political intrigue. Recently, Oloitokitok, the planet survey team's physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by who? One of his fellow surveyors? Or by one of the Sprookjes, the birdlike natives of Lassti? Are the Sprookjes intelligent? If so, then parties that want the planet for development will lose it. Why is the survey team having so much trouble finding out? Into this situation arrives Tocohl, a Hellspark trader who just wanted to have a vacation on Sheveschke at the St. Veschke festival. After being attacked, rescuing a young woman, and going before a judge, Tocohl has learned all she ever wanted to know about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now she is on her way to find Lasti to find answers to the mysteries there. [via]
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Humansby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0765346753 (0-7653-4675-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humans'Book summary:The background to Humans has Ponter Boddit happy to be back in his own world of Neanderthals. He has reunited with friends and family and returned to his life as a physicist. Yet he can't help but feel that there remains unfinished business from his trip to the parallel world inhabited by the strange, possibly dangerous people who call themselves homo sapiens. And he would like to see Mary Vaughan again.
Humans, the second volume in Robert J Sawyer's Parallax trilogy, tells the story of Ponter's second trip to our world and the opening of the portal between worlds to a few other travellers. It is for the most part a quiet story of the deepening relationship between Ponter and Mary as Ponter continues his investigation of the human world and develops a growing interest in the preoccupation of its residents with religion. Meanwhile, intercut scenes of Ponter in therapy on his homeworld contribute to a growing tension in the story, as the reason for Ponter's feelings of guilt is slowly revealed. At the same time, scientists are beginning to notice that there is something odd happening with the magnetic fields of both Earths.
Although it's the middle volume of a trilogy that began with Hominids, the main story in Humans stands alone. Sawyer's enjoyable prose is sprinkled with sly comments on the mutual foibles of Canadians and Americans and Ponter in particular is given several good lines. Set firmly in our present, Humans relies on hard science for its set-up, but the heart of the novel is Mary and Ponter's acceptance of their love for each other. It's a hard-science-fiction romance and Sawyer tells this story of love across boundaries very well. --Greg L. Johnson, Amazon.ca [via]
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I Dareby Steve Miller, Sharon LeeISBN 1892065037 (1-892065-03-7)
Softcover, Meisha Merlin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Dare'Book summary:The dynamic conclusion to the Agent of Change series in Lee and Miller's Liaden Universe®!
Val Con yos'Pheliuma Scout, former Agent of Change, husband, brother to Turtles, and designated heir to Clan Korval's fortune and mission&whether you considered him respectable or not, no one would call him a gambling man. When he reappears demanding Balance and retribution, he looks exactly like the kind of leader his clan has been producing for generations. On his capable shoulders the fate of his Clan, his world, and his civilization&
Pat Rin yos'Pheliumfond father, bon vivant, ne'er-do-well&and a professional gambler. The enemies of Korval have offered Pat Rin the Ring that would make all of Korval's holdings his own and a Juntavas Judge has offered Pat Rin a world& When he appears with hired guns in tow no one is expecting him and no one knows what he'll do. Pat Rin is a gambling man, and on his wild-card shoulders the fate of his Clan, his world, his civilization&
This long-awaited culmination of the Agent of Change sequence of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's internationally acclaimed Liaden Universe® novels pits unexpected friends and unexpected enemies against each other in a war that spans planets and races and threatens to bring interstellar violence to the very surface of fabled Liad. [via]
Infernoby Larry Niven, Jerry PournelleISBN 0839824505 (0-8398-2450-5)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Infinite Dreamsby Joe HaldemanISBN 0380476053 (0-380-47605-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinite Dreams'Book summary:A Science Fiction novel of both a speculative and fantasy nature, with a bit of social interaction and technology thrown in, by a well respected author in the genre [via]
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Iron Councilby China MievilleISBN 0345458427 (0-345-45842-7)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron Council'Book summary:China Miéville's novel Iron Council is the tumultuous story of the "Perpetual Train." Born from monopolists' greed and dispatched to tame the western lands beyond New Crobuzon, the train is itself the beginnings of an Iron Council formed in the fire of frontier revolt against the railroad's masters. From the wilderness, the legend of Iron Council becomes the spark uniting the oppressed and brings barricades to the streets of faraway New Crobuzon. The sprawling tale is told through the past-and-present eyes of three characters. The first is Cutter, a heartsick subversive who follows his lover, the messianic Judah Low, on a quest to return to the Iron Council hidden in the western wilds. The second is Judah himself, an erstwhile railroad scout who has become the iconic golem-wielding hero of Iron Council's uprising at the end of the tracks. And the third is Ori, a young revolutionary on the streets of New Crobuzon, whose anger leads him into a militant wing of the underground, plotting anarchy and mayhem.
Miéville (The Scar, Perdido Street Station) weaves his epic out of familiar and heavily political themes--imperialism, fascism, conquest, and Marxism--all seen through a darkly cast funhouse mirror wherein even language is distorted and made beautifully grotesque. Improbably evoking Jack London and Victor Hugo, Iron Council is a twisted frontier fable cleverly combined with a powerful parable of Marxist revolution that continues Miéville's macabre remaking of the fantasy genre. --Jeremy Pugh [via]
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KindredISBN 0807083690 (0-8070-8369-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Kindredby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0807083054 (0-8070-8305-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Magic Labyrinthby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0345419707 (0-345-41970-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Labyrinth'Book summary:At the end of The Fabulous Riverboat, Sam Clemens finally set out in the great iron riverboat Not for Hire to reach the headwaters of the massive river on whose shores humanity has been resurrected. After 33 years on the river, Clemens and his crew--including the giant subhuman Joe Miller--are finally near the end of their journey, and only one obstacle remains: the evil Earthly king, John Lackland. John is waiting just upriver in the Rex Grandissimus, the first riverboat that Sam constructed and the one that John and his crew hijacked, and he's hell-bent on sinking Sam's boat (and vice versa). Complicating the battle is the fact that both ships likely contain agents of the Ethicals, the group of advanced beings who created Riverworld for reasons unknown. One or more of the Ethicals themselves may even be on board, as are various humans that the rebel Ethical, known as the Mysterious Stranger (but known to Clemens simply as X), enlisted in his cause, which may or may not lead to humanity's salvation.
The battle is set to take place along the shores populated by members of the Church of the Second Chance, a group that believes they must attain ethical perfection in order to proceed to the next phase of existence. The Second Chancers are not violent, but their charismatic leader, La Viro, may attempt to sink one or both of the iron ships in order to prevent the battle. Among the Second Chancers is former Nazi officer Hermann Goring, who had a run-in with Sir Richard Francis Burton in the first Riverworld novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Burton and his companions--among them several people who were contacted by the Mysterious Stranger--are reluctantly serving on John's boat in order to reach the headwaters of the river. But will any of the humans working for X survive the coming battle? And if so, how can they possibly hope to penetrate the tower in the North Sea where the Ethicals are thought to reside? And what could lowly humans hope to do against a race so advanced that they can reshape entire planets and resurrect all of humanity? --Craig E. Engler [via]
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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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Millenniumby John VarleyISBN 0425062503 (0-425-06250-3)
Softcover, Berkley Books
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Mindstar Risingby Peter F. HamiltonISBN 0812590562 (0-8125-9056-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Morgaine Saga: Gate of Ivrel, Well Of Shiuan, Fires of Azerothby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886778778 (0-88677-877-8)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Pastwatchby Orson Scott CardISBN 0312850581 (0-312-85058-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pastwatch'Book summary:Anyone who's read Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus's voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoking work that is part science fiction, part historical drama, Orson Scott Card writes about scientists in a fearful future who study that tragic past, then attempt to actually intervene and change it into something better.
Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it. Their project focuses on slavery and its dreadful effects, and gradually evolves into a study of Christopher Columbus. They eventually marry and their daughter Diko joins them in their quest to discover what drove Columbus west.
Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times. As usual, Orson Scott Card uses his formidable writing skills to create likable, complex characters who face gripping problems; he also provides an entertaining and thoughtful history lesson in Pastwatch. --Bonnie Bouman [via]
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Pushing Iceby Alastair ReynoldsISBN 0441015026 (0-441-01502-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pushing Ice'Book summary:2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. But when Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit and heads out of the solar system at high speed, Bella is ordered to shadow it for the few vital days before it falls forever out of reach.
In accepting this mission she sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny-for Janus has many surprises in store, and not all of them are welcome... [via] ![[???]: Real Dysfunction: Emergence and Expansion](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/1568655010.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "[???]: Real Dysfunction: Emergence and Expansion")
Real Dysfunction: Emergence and ExpansionISBN 1568655010 (1-56865-501-0)
Hardcover, Grove Pub
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Rocket Ship Galileoby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 044101237X (0-441-01237-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Shadow of Saganamiby David WeberISBN 1416509291 (1-4165-0929-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Sky Roadby Ken MacLeodISBN 0812577590 (0-8125-7759-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Skylark Duquesneby E. E. "Doc" SmithISBN 0824014359 (0-8240-1435-9)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Skylark of Valeronby E. E. "Doc" SmithISBN 0824014340 (0-8240-1434-0)
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Skylark Threeby E. E. Smith, A. J. Donnell, Jack WilliamsonISBN 0803293038 (0-8032-9303-8)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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Spacehounds of Ipcby E. E. "Doc" SmithISBN 0425061604 (0-425-06160-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Starquake/Dragons Eggby Robert L. ForwardISBN 0345388984 (0-345-38898-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Sword & Citadelby Gene WolfeISBN 0312890184 (0-312-89018-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Tales of Nevérÿonby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 081956270X (0-8195-6270-X)
Softcover, University of Arizona Press
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Telempathby Spider RobinsonISBN 0812552334 (0-8125-5233-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Telempath'Book summary:Isham Stone, the world's second-best assassin, goes into the ruins of a city after the greatest killer of all time, Wendall Morgan Carlson. But Carlson is guarded by ghosts--beings from an ancient civilization that shared the Earth with humans for millions of years, and who have now declared war on the human race, all thanks to the man Isham has come to kill. [via]
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Teranesiaby Greg EganISBN 0061059803 (0-06-105980-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teranesia'Book summary:Welcome to Teranesia,
the island of butterflies,
where evolution has
stopped making sense.Prabir Suresh lives in paradise, a nine-year-old boy with an island all his own to name, to explore, and to populate with imaginary monsters stranger than any tropical wildlife. Teranesia is his kingdom, shared only with his biologist parents and baby sister Madhusree. The unexplained genetic mutation of the island's butterflies that brought his family to the remote South Moluccas barely touches Prabir; his own life revolves around the beaches, the jungle, and the schooling and friendships made possible by the net.
When civil war breaks out across Indonesia, this paradise comes to a violent end and his family is broken apart, leaving Prabir with nagging feelings of guilt and an overwhelming, almost irrational, sense of responsibility for his sister. The mystery of the butterflies remains unsolved, but nearly twenty years later reports begin to appear of strange new species of plants and animals appearing throughout the region--species separated from their known cousins by recent, dramatic mutations that seem far too efficient and functional to have arisen by chance from pollution, disease, or any other random catastrophe.
Madhusree is now a biology student; proud of her parents' unacknowledged work, and with no memories of the trauma of the war to discourage her, she decides to join a multinational expedition being mounted to investigate the new phenomenon. Unable to cast off his fears for her safety, Prabir reluctantly follows her. But travel between the scattered islands is difficult, and Madhusree's expedition is out of contact. In the hope of finding her, Prabir joins up with an independent scientist, Martha Grant, who has come to search for clues to the evolutionary mystery and whatever commercial benefits it might bring to her sponsor. As Prabir and Martha begin to untangle the secret of Teranesia, Prabir is forced to confront his past, and to face the painful realities that have shaped his life while also dealing with the implications of an unprecedented biological revolution.
A scientific mystery, an adventure story, and a meditation on the origins of love, Teranesia is Greg Egan's most ambitious and accessible novel yet. [via]
Throyby Jack VanceISBN 0971237514 (0-9712375-1-4)
Hardcover, Vance Integral Edition
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Time and Againby Jack FinneyISBN 0899684033 (0-89968-403-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Again'Book summary:Si Morley is ordered by the American Government to go back to the New York of 1882 on the track of a historical mystery involving fraud and murder by arson. It is in the old New York, with its horse-drawn buses, sleigh rides and vegetable allotments between the streets, that Morley falls in love. [via]
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Trading in Dangerby Elizabeth MoonISBN 0345447611 (0-345-44761-1)
Softcover, Del Rey
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trading In Danger'Book summary:Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her fathers only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, its no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern cant hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. Its adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her familys misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.
Expelled from the Academy in disgraceand returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own futureKy is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunitys door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride and a shot at redemptionas captain of a Vatta Transport ship.
Its a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleets oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Kys style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milk run, they cant stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venturein the name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course.
By snapping up a lucrative delivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceeds to upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove shes got more going for her than just her familys famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat to bravery, when Kys change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, its her military training and born-soldiers instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny. . . . [via] -
World's Endby Joan D. VingeISBN 0312944683 (0-312-94468-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World's End'Book summary:BZ Gundhalinu left Tiamat before the Stargate closed, cutting himself off forever from the woman he loves: Moon Dawntreader Summer is now the Summer Queen and BZ knows he can never again be her lover. This novel is volume two in "The Snow Queen" cycle. [via]
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Dune: La Casa Corrinoby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 1400059429 (1-4000-5942-9)
Hardcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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Dune, La Casa Harkonnen / Dune: House Harkonnenby Kevin J. Anderson, Brian HerbertISBN 8497593472 (84-9759-347-2)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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