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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0786285109 (0-7862-8510-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:God is dead. Meet the kids.
When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Angel With the Swordby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886771439 (0-88677-143-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Primeby Paul PreussISBN 0743498267 (0-7434-9826-7)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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The Ballad of Beta 2by Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0839823932 (0-8398-2393-2)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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Black Fireby Sonni CooperISBN 0671705482 (0-671-70548-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Brave Free Menby Jack VanceISBN 0934438870 (0-934438-87-0)
Hardcover, Underwood Books
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The Butlerian Jihadby Brian Herbert, Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0765305852 (0-7653-0585-2)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Butlerian Jihad'Book summary:Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope.[via]
Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, an acclaimed SF novelist in his own right, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Their New York Times bestselling trilogy, Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen, and Dune: House Corrino, formed a prequel to the classic Herbert series that was acclaimed by reviewers and readers alike. Now Herbert and Anderson, working from Frank Herbert's own notes, reveal a pivotal epoch in the history of the Dune universe, the chapter of the saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: The Butlerian Jihad.
Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the long-ago war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." Now, in Dune: Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters. We learn the circumstances of the betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen; and we experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire that lasted until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV.
Herein are the foundations of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Suk Doctors, the Order of Mentats, and the mysteriously altered Navigators of the Spacing Guild. Here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange . . . .
Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill . . . but victory may be short-lived. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge. Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier's fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause. Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. It will have to be enough.More editions of The Butlerian Jihad:
The Chanur Saga: The Pride of Chanur, Chanur's Venture, The Kif Strike Backby C. J. CherryhISBN 0886779308 (0-88677-930-8)
Softcover, Daw Books
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The City of Gold and Leadby John Christopher, Joe BurlesonISBN 0689856660 (0-689-85666-0)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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Cloud Warriorby Patrick TilleyISBN 0727810952 (0-7278-1095-2)
Hardcover, Severn House Pub Ltd
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Counter-Clock Worldby Philip K. DickISBN 0839824858 (0-8398-2485-8)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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Cowlby Neal L. AsherISBN 0765315122 (0-7653-1512-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cowl'Book summary:In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc across time and undo their defeat. The most fanatical of them is the superhuman Cowl, more monstrous than any of the creatures outside his prehistoric redoubt.[via]
Cowl sends his terrifying hyperdimensional pet, the torbeast, hunting through all the timelines for human specimens. It sheds its scales -- each one an organic time machine -- where its master orders. Anyone who picks one up is dragged back to the dawn of time, where Cowl awaits. Then the beast can feed, growing ever larger . . .
In our own near-future, Tack is one of U-gov's programmable killers. When a scale latches onto him, his doom seems inevitable, but the Heliothane have other ideas: they can use Tack against Cowl. Tack is no stranger to violence, but the Heliothane, hardened in their struggle for humanity's very existence, have much to teach him. He will need it all for his encounter with Cowl.
Once one of Tack's targets, Polly escaped with her life when a torbeast scale snatched her. Now, like Tack, she must learn fast as she is dragged back to Day Zero. To cheat death again, she will have to help him save the human race.
With Cowl, Neal Asher, acclaimed author of Gridlinked and The Skinner, has created his most powerful novel yet. 
Cryptozoicby Brian AldissISBN 0755100530 (0-7551-0053-0)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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The Dark Light Yearsby Brian Wilson AldissISBN 075510062X (0-7551-0062-X)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dark Light Years'Book summary:The Utods are a highly advanced alien species from whom the human race might learn much, with superior technology and a profound philosophy. But when they meet, their customs and conventions are far beneath what humankind considers to be civilized. Brian Aldiss's satirical depiction of the first encounter and subsequent violent conflict between mankind and a gentle, intelligent race which it cannot understand was first published in 1964, but its archly ironic message of cultural misunderstanding and the potential for catastrophe it entails resonates as strongly today. 'Flies straight to its mark with hardly a word wasted: a treat for the fans and required reading for anyone seriously interested in the fiction and ideas of today.' Kingsley Amis [via]
Destination, Voidby Frank HerbertISBN 0839825501 (0-8398-2550-1)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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Dictionnaire General De LA Langue Francaise Du Commencement Du 17E Siecle Jusqu'a Nos Jours: General Dictionary of the French Language from the Beginby Adophe HatzfeldISBN 0828867666 (0-8288-6766-6)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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Dune: The Butlerian Jihadby Kevin J. Anderson, Brian HerbertISBN 0765340771 (0-7653-4077-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dune: The Butlerian Jihad'Book summary:Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings, a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope.[via]
Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, an acclaimed SF novelist in his own right, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Their New York Times bestselling trilogy, Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen, and Dune: House Corrino, formed a prequel to the classic Herbert series that was acclaimed by reviewers and readers alike. Now Herbert and Anderson, working from Frank Herbert's own notes, reveal a pivotal epoch in the history of the Dune universe, the chapter of the saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: The Butlerian Jihad.
Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the long-ago war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." Now, in Dune: Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the war that will liberate humans from their machine masters. We learn the circumstances of the betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen; and we experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire that lasted until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV.
Herein are the foundations of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Suk Doctors, the Order of Mentats, and the mysteriously altered Navigators of the Spacing Guild. Here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange . . . .
Ten thousand years before the events of Dune, humans have managed to battle the remorseless Machines to a standstill . . . but victory may be short-lived. Yet amid shortsighted squabbling between nobles, new leaders have begun to emerge. Among them are Xavier Harkonnen, military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus; Xavier's fiancée, Serena Butler, an activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions; and Tio Holtzman, the scientist struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human cause. Against the brute efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only imagination, compassion, and the capacity for love. It will have to be enough.More editions of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad:
Escape from Kathmanduby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0812500598 (0-8125-0059-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Exile Waitingby Vonda N. McIntyreISBN 0812545524 (0-8125-4552-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Exiles at the Well of Soulsby Jack L. ChalkerISBN 0743436032 (0-7434-3603-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Eyes of Heisenbergby Frank HerbertISBN 0765342529 (0-7653-4252-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyes of Heisenberg'Book summary:A New World in Embryo[via]
Public Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons . . . only no one ever requested it.
When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law; when Dr. Potter did not rearrange the most unusual genetic structure of their future son, barely an embryo growing in the State's special vat-the consequences of these decisions threatened to be catastrophic.
For never before had anyone dared defy the Rulers' decrees . . . and if They found out, it was well known that the price of disobedience was the extermination of the human race . . .More editions of Eyes of Heisenberg:
The Forever Machineby Frank Riley, Mark CliftonISBN 0881848425 (0-88184-842-5)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Four for Tomorrowby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0671720511 (0-671-72051-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Frameshiftby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0765313162 (0-7653-1316-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Galapagosby Joan E. RatajackISBN 0831795964 (0-8317-9596-4)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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Gather, Darknessby Fritz LeiberISBN 0839826397 (0-8398-2639-7)
Hardcover, Gregg Press
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George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Goblin Reservationby Clifford D. SimakISBN 0881848972 (0-88184-897-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Golden Ageby John C. WrightISBN 0812579844 (0-8125-7984-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Age'Book summary:The Golden Age is the most ambitious and impressive science fiction novel since China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. Amazingly, it is John C. Wright's debut novel.
In the far future, humans have become as gods: immortal, almost omnipotent, able to create new suns and resculpt body and mind. A trusting son of this future, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, discovers the rulers of the solar system have erased entire centuries from his mind. When he attempts to regain his lost memories, the whole society of the Golden Oecumene opposes him. Like his mythical namesake, Phaethon has flown too high and been cast down. He has committed the one act forbidden in his utopian universe. Now he must find out what it is--and who he is.
A novel influenced by Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, and A.E. van Vogt, yet uniquely itself, The Golden Age presents a complex and thoroughly imagined future that will delight science fiction fans. John C. Wright has a gift for big, bold concepts and extrapolations, and his smoothly written novel pushes cyberpunk's infotech density to a new level, while abandoning cyberpunk's nihilistic noir tone for SF's original optimism. Big ideas are joined by big themes; Wright provocatively explores the nature of heroism, the nature of power, and the conflict between the rights of the individual and those of society.
Fiction as ambitious as The Golden Age is never flawless. Action fans will find this novel too talky. A change of quests late in the novel is jarring. And, while this Romance of the Far Future suitably examines the heroic virtues, its unfortunate subtext is "heroism is a guy thing." This far-future novel published in 2002 maintains a credulity-shattering mid-20th-century sexual status quo.
Not all plotlines are resolved in The Golden Age, and a sequel is forthcoming. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami, Alfred BirnbaumISBN 0679743464 (0-679-74346-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'Book summary:Japan's most widely-read and controversial writer, author of A Wild Sheep Chase, hurtles into the consciousness of the West with this narrative about a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters--not to mention Bob Dylan and Lauren Bacall. [via]
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High Justiceby Jerry PournelleISBN 067169877X (0-671-69877-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Judas Roseby Suzette Haden ElginISBN 0886771862 (0-88677-186-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Key Out of Timeby Andre NortonISBN 0809501686 (0-8095-0168-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Key Out of Time'Book summary:Key Out of Time -- the fourth book in the Time Traders series, following The Time Traders, Galactic Derelict, and The Defiant Agents -- again features Ross Murdock as the hero. Accompanying a group of settlers to the now-empty water-planet Hawaika, he is sent back in time through a Time Gate . . . and must learn to survive ten thousand years in the past [via]
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Knight of Shadowsby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0688087264 (0-688-08726-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Legends from the End of Timeby Michael MoorcockISBN 0879972815 (0-87997-281-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0791056651 (0-7910-5665-1)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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The title, J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on J.R.R. Tolkien, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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The Madness Seasonby C. S. FriedmanISBN 0886774446 (0-88677-444-6)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Magnificatby Julian MayISBN 0679441778 (0-679-44177-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Maker of Universesby Philip Jose FarmerISBN 0932096077 (0-932096-07-7)
Hardcover, Phantasia Pr
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Malacia Tapestryby Brian W. AldissISBN 0755100719 (0-7551-0071-9)
Softcover, House of Stratus Ltd
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Memory Primeby Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-StevensISBN 0671743597 (0-671-74359-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Memory Primeby Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-StevensISBN 0671658131 (0-671-65813-1)
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Neveryona, orby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562718 (0-8195-6271-8)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neveryona, or'Book summary:In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.
The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame. [via]More editions of Neveryona, or:
Only You Can Save Mankindby PratchettISBN 074514957X (0-7451-4957-X)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Paingod and Other Delusionsby Harlan EllisonISBN 0759229945 (0-7592-2994-5)
Softcover, E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paingod and Other Delusions'Book summary:Robert Heinlein says, ?This book is raw corn liquor ? you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor.? Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories: They not only knock you down?they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship filled with hideous mutants rejected by the world that gave them birth. Touching and gentle and shocking stories from an incomparable master of impossible dreams and troubling truths. [via]
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Pilgrimageby Zenna HendersonISBN 083982498X (0-8398-2498-X)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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Price of the Starsby Debra Doyle, James D. MacDonaldISBN 0812517040 (0-8125-1704-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Price of the Stars'Book summary:Freebooter at heart, spacer by trade, Beka Rosselin-Metadi doesn't want to hear about how her father whose rugged general ship held back the Mageworlds -- or her highborn mother whose leadership has held the galaxy together since. Beka pilots spacecraft -- as far from her famous family as possible.
Then Beka's mother is assassinated on the Senate floor, and her father offers her the title to Warhammer, prize ship from his own freebooting youth -- if she agrees to deliver the assassins to him "off the books."
Looking for assassins has a tendency to make assassins look for you. In doing so, Beka's arranged her own very public death and adopted a new identity; now all she has to do is leave a trail of kidnappings and corpses across five star systems, and blow the roof off the strongest private fortress in the galaxy. [via]
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The Quantum Roseby Catherine AsaroISBN 0812568834 (0-8125-6883-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quantum Rose'Book summary:The beautiful young noblewoman Kamoj Quanta Argali rules a declining province on a distant planet that has lost the high technology of its original colonists. To save her people, Kamoj has contracted to marry Jax Ironbridge, the moody, unpredictable ruler of a prosperous land. Then a mysterious stranger from another world proposes a marriage that neither honor nor law will allow Kamoj to refuse.
The Quantum Rose is the sixth novel in the acclaimed Saga of the Skolian Empire, following the novels Primary Inversion, Catch the Lightning, The Last Hawk, The Radiant Seas, and Ascendant Sun. This intelligent, entertaining series combines space opera, hard SF, future history, military SF, and romance in a rare and potent blend. The Quantum Rose is an interplanetary adventure, but the space-opera and hard-SF elements are less prominent, as the plot focuses on a compelling and complicated love triangle, the clash of very different cultures, and an approach to war that SF has almost never considered.
A Nebula Award finalist, Catherine Asaro has won the Analog Readers' Poll, the Sapphire Award, and the Homer Award. In addition to the Saga of the Skolian Empire, she has written the near-future SF novels The Veiled Web and The Phoenix Code. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Radixby A. A. AttanasioISBN 068800508X (0-688-00508-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Return of Nathan Brazilby Jack ChalkerISBN 0743499018 (0-7434-9901-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Schismatrixby Bruce SterlingISBN 0877956456 (0-87795-645-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schismatrix'Book summary:Description: 288 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Sterling, Bruce--Science Fiction. Form/Genre: Science fiction. [via]
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The Service of the Swordby David WeberISBN 0743488369 (0-7434-8836-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Service of the Sword'Book summary:Readers can't get enough of Honor Harrington and her world, and here David Weber is again, accompanied by some of the top science fiction writers in the field, with new adventures of the best starship commander in the galaxy, and explorations of previously uncharted corners of her universe. It's a party-and you're invited! [via]
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Ship Who Wonby Anne McCaffrey, Jody L. NyeISBN 0671876570 (0-671-87657-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ship Who Won'Book summary:Like Helva, the Ship Who Sang (and Nancia from PartnerShip and Tia from The Ship Who Searched), Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. And like those others, Carialle decided she would strap on a spaceship. Now she is on a mission to search the galaxy for intelligent beings. [via]
Sign of Chaosby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0877959269 (0-87795-926-9)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Stalking the Nightmareby Harlan EllisonISBN 0932096166 (0-932096-16-6)
Hardcover, Phantasia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalking the Nightmare'Book summary:Pure, 100-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high! Here youll find twenty of his very best stories and essays (including the four-part Scenes from the Real World), an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, he created for NBC; Tales from the Mountains of Madness; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life: sex, violence, and labor relations. With a knockout, an absoloutely killer, Foreword by Stephen King. [via]
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Star Diariesby Stanislaw LemISBN 0816492832 (0-8164-9283-2)
Hardcover, Seabury Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Diaries'Book summary:These diaries come from the pen of Cosmonaut Ijon Tichy and recount his spinning in time-warps, spying on robots and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae. [via]
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Starfishby Peter WattsISBN 0812575857 (0-8125-7585-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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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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The Starry Riftby James TiptreeISBN 0812556275 (0-8125-5627-5)
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Strangers from the Skyby Margaret W. BonannoISBN 0671734814 (0-671-73481-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strangers from the Sky'Book summary:In the twenty-first centruy humanity has united after countless years of warfare, and turns toward the stars. But when an alien spacecraft crashlands in the South Pacific bearing visitors from another world, the Vulcans, Earth must decide whether to extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of war.
In the distant future, horrible dreams torment Admiral James T. Kirk, dreams prompted by his reading of Strangers From the Sky, a book about that historic first contact. He dreams of an alternate reality where he somehow changed the course of history, and destroyed the Federation before it began. [via]
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Strangers from the Skyby Margaret Wander BonannoISBN 0785747591 (0-7857-4759-1)
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Strength of Stonesby Greg BearISBN 0743452631 (0-7434-5263-1)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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Sunfallby C. J. CherryhISBN 0879978813 (0-87997-881-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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They'd Rather Be Rightby Mark CliftonISBN 0898651654 (0-89865-165-4)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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Throyby Jack VanceISBN 0971237514 (0-9712375-1-4)
Hardcover, Vance Integral Edition
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Time Tradersby Andre NortonISBN 0839824211 (0-8398-2421-1)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Traders'Book summary:In an effort to discover the source of the alien technology the Russians are using, Ross Murdock travels back in time to Britain in the year 2000 B.C. to uncover the Russian base of operations. [via]
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A Touch of Strangeby E. WaldoISBN 0836935225 (0-8369-3522-5)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Trace of Memoryby Keith LaumerISBN 0812516893 (0-8125-1689-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Valentine Pontifexby Robert SilverbergISBN 0877955441 (0-87795-544-1)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Variable Starby Robert A. Heinlein, Spider RobinsonISBN 076531312X (0-7653-1312-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Variable Star'Book summary:A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.[via]
When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe.
There was just one small problem. He was broke. His only goal in life was to become a composer, and he knew it would take years before he was earning enough to support a family.
But Jinny wasn't willing to wait. And when Joel asked her what they were going to do for money, she gave him a most unexpected answer. She told him that her name wasn't really Jinny Hamilton---it was Jinny Conrad, and she was the granddaughter of Richard Conrad, the wealthiest man in the solar system.
And now that she was sure that Joel loved her for herself, not for her wealth, she revealed her family's plans for him---he would be groomed for a place in the vast Conrad empire and sire a dynasty to carry on the family business.
Most men would have jumped at the opportunity. But Joel Johnston wasn't most men. To Jinny's surprise, and even his own, he turned down her generous offer and then set off on the mother of all benders. And woke up on a colony ship heading out into space, torn between regret over his rash decision and his determination to forget Jinny and make a life for himself among the stars.
He was on his way to succeeding when his plans--and the plans of billions of others--were shattered by a cosmic cataclysm so devastating it would take all of humanity's strength and ingenuity just to survive.More editions of Variable Star:
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Wild Cardsby George R. R. MartinISBN 0743475208 (0-7434-7520-8)
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Wildsideby Steven GouldISBN 0765342464 (0-7653-4246-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wildside'Book summary:A suspenseful example of an emerging subgenre, the homage to Heinlein's young adult fiction, this novel will satisfy readers of all ages. Eighteen-year-old Charlie Newell has inherited a ranch from Uncle Max, who is missing, presumed dead. Hidden behind a pile of old hay in the barn is a tunnel that doesn't lead to the airstrip but to a pristine, uninhabited parallel Texas stocked with extinct megafauna. Charlie recruits four friends to help him exploit the wild side of his ranch, but the project becomes wilder than they expect, and they find themselves in danger not from saber-toothed tigers, but from their fellow Americans. [via]
The Winter of the Worldby Poul AndersonISBN 0812523113 (0-8125-2311-3)
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Witch Worldby Andre NortonISBN 083982355X (0-8398-2355-X)
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The Witlingby Vernor VingeISBN 076530886X (0-7653-0886-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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World's Apartby Joe HaldenmanISBN 0893661902 (0-89366-190-2)
Hardcover, Washington Ave Books Inc
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Wyst:Alastor 1716by Jack Vance, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0879974133 (0-87997-413-3)
Softcover, Daw Books
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