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The 10th Victimby Robert SheckleyISBN 0451149696 (0-451-14969-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages/Volumes 2 and 3by Thomas BulfinchISBN 0451627997 (0-451-62799-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Alternate Asimovsby Isaac AsimovISBN 0451450671 (0-451-45067-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Beyond The Blue Moonby Simon R. GreenISBN 0451458052 (0-451-45805-2)
Softcover, Roc
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The Borders of Lifeby G. A. KathrynsISBN 0451455746 (0-451-45574-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Bridge of Ashesby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0451155610 (0-451-15561-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0452011523 (0-452-01152-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bulfinch's Mythology'Book summary:Here are the world's most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today's readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch's has been heralded for more than a century, it has never been published in so beautiful and accessible a format. Evocative four-color illustrations, many full-page, bring to life key events and characters of these universal tales and sagas -- from the Greek and Roman pantheon of gods to the heroes of the Crusades, from the exploits of Robin Hood to the feats of Richard the Lionheart. As enjoyable now as when Bulfinch first assembled them, these selections come from a variety of works -- Ovid's classic Metamorphoses, Egyptian myths, Eastern mythology, and Hindu, Norse, and Celtic sources. Together they form a remarkable tapestry of human endeavor: dreams, illusions, adventures, loves lost and loves found. In this handsome series, they speak to us afresh, across the ages, vivified through Caselli's inspired art. Original footnotes, indexes, and prefaces make this series not only entertaining, but completely authoritative as well. [via]
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Bulfinch's Mythology Vol. 2 : The Age of Chivalry and the Legends of Charlemagneby Thomas Bulfinch, Norma Lorre GoodrichISBN 0452011531 (0-452-01153-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Circus of Hellsby Poul AndersonISBN 0451151135 (0-451-15113-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Copper Crownby Patricia Kennealy-MorrisonISBN 0451450507 (0-451-45050-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Dead Zoneby Stephen KingISBN 0451155750 (0-451-15575-0)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dead Zone'Book summary:In the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, Gary Westfahl predicts that "King has already earned himself a place in the history of literature.... At the very least, he will enjoy the status of a latter-day Anthony Trollope, an author respected for his popularity and social commentary.... More likely, he will be enshrined as the Charles Dickens of the late 20th century, the writer who perfectly reflected, encapsulated, and expressed the characteristic concerns of his era."
If any of King's novels exemplifies his skill at portraying the concerns of his generation, it's The Dead Zone (1979). Although it contains a horrific subplot about a serial killer, it isn't strictly a horror novel. It's the story of an unassuming high school teacher, an Everyman, who suffers a gap in time--like a Rip Van Winkle who blacks out during the years 1970-75--and thus becomes acutely conscious of the way that American society is rapidly changing. He wakes up as well with a gap in his brain, the "dead zone" of the title. The zone gives him crippling headaches, but also grants him second sight, a talent he doesn't want and is reluctant to use. The crux of the novel concerns whether he will use that talent to alter the course of history.
The Dead Zone is a tight, well-crafted book. When asked in 1983 which of his novels so far was "the best," Stephen King answered, "The one that I think works the best is Dead Zone. It's the one that [has] the most story." --Fiona Webster [via]
Deathstalker Rebellionby Simon R. GreenISBN 0451455525 (0-451-45552-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Deathstalker Warby Simon R. GreenISBN 0451456084 (0-451-45608-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Dhampirby Barb Hendee, J. C. HendeeISBN 0451459067 (0-451-45906-7)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dhampir'Book summary:Paperback Publisher: New American Library (2003) Language: English [via]
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The Disappearedby Kristine Kathryn RuschISBN 0451458885 (0-451-45888-5)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disappeared'Book summary:In a world where humans and aliens co-exist, where murder is sanctioned, and where no one can find safe haven, one group of private detectives is willing to help the "Disappeared" find their way home. Meet the Retrieval Artists.
"One of the most sure-footed authors in science fiction." (Science Fiction Weekly) [via]More editions of The Disappeared:
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0486247147 (0-486-24714-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz'Book summary:Dorothy and the Wizard visit the center of the Earth, where people are vegetables, glass houses grow and Oz characters reappear. Dreamlike adventures, hairbreadth escapes, warm humor, in classic fantasy sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Perennial appeal to young and young-at-heart. 66 black-and-white illustrations.[via]More editions of Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz:
The Eyes of the Dragonby Stephen KingISBN 0451166582 (0-451-16658-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eyes of the Dragon'Book summary:A kingdom is in turmoil as the old king dies and his successor must do battle for the throne. Pitted against an evil wizard and a would-be rival, Prince Peter makes a daring escape and rallies the forces of Good to fight for what is rightfully his. This is a masterpiece of classic dragons-and-magic fantasy that only Stephen King could have written! [via]
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A Fine and Private Placeby Peter S. Beagle, Darrell SweetISBN 0451450965 (0-451-45096-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fine and Private Place'Book summary:This classic, mesmerizing tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and the eternal power of love.
Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura...and a love stronger than the boundaries of the grave and the spirit world.
Praise for Peter S. Beagle:
"Wit, charm, and a sense of individuality." --New York Times Book Review
"It's a fully rounded region, this other world of Peter Beagle's imagination...an originality...that is wholly his own." --Kirkus Reviews
"Both sepulchral and oddly appealing...[Beagle's] ectoplasmic fable has a distinct, mossy charm." --Time
"Delightful." --San Francisco Chronicle [via]More editions of A Fine and Private Place:
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The Firebrandby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0451459245 (0-451-45924-5)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Firebrand'Book summary:[via]Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.
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First Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligenceby Ben Bova, Byron PreissISBN 0452266459 (0-452-26645-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence'Book summary:Scientists and scientific writers come together in this book to confront the challenge of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. [via]
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First Men in the Moonby H. G. Wells, Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0460873040 (0-460-87304-0)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: '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]
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Flatlandby Edwin Abbott Abbott, Valerie M. SmithISBN 0451529766 (0-451-52976-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatland'Book summary:Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction -- charmingly illustrated by author -- describes the journeys of A. Square and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A. Square also entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions -- a revolutionary idea for which he is banished from Spaceland. [via]
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- Flatland: ISBN 048627263X (0-486-27263-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions: ISBN 0451518411 (0-451-51841-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Flatland: ISBN 0451522907 (0-451-52290-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Flatland: ISBN 0451529766 (0-451-52976-6)
Softcover, Signet Classic
- Flatland: ISBN 048627263X (0-486-27263-X)
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The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earthby H. G. WellsISBN 0486448460 (0-486-44846-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earth'Book summary:Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. First published in 1904, this gripping, newly relevant tale of science fiction combines fast-paced entertainment with social commentary as it considers the ethics involved in genetic engineering.[via]More editions of The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earth:
Forerunner Forayby Andre NortonISBN 0451451767 (0-451-45176-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Glass Hammerby K. W. JeterISBN 0451164865 (0-451-16486-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Godheadsby Emily DevenportISBN 0451456807 (0-451-45680-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Gossamer Axeby Gael BaudinoISBN 0451450256 (0-451-45025-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Guilty Pleasuresby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 051513449X (0-515-13449-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guilty Pleasures'Book summary:Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.
Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita's professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn't playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive. [via]
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0451527321 (0-451-52732-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, a great classic recounting the 4 remarkable journeys of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver. For children it remains an enchanting fantasy; for adults, a witty parody of political life in Swift's time and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in 18th-century England. [via]
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- Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0486292738 (0-486-29273-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0460050184 (0-460-05018-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0451522192 (0-451-52219-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0460871161 (0-460-87116-1)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0451511697 (0-451-51169-7)
Hardcover, New Amer Library - Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0451527321 (0-451-52732-1)
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- Gulliver's Travels: ISBN 0486292738 (0-486-29273-8)
The Heir Apparentby Joel RosenbergISBN 0451162129 (0-451-16212-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Heir to the Shadowsby Anne BishopISBN 0451456726 (0-451-45672-6)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heir to the Shadows'Book summary:Anne Bishop plunged into dark fantasy with her first book, Daughter of the Blood. She described a world where Blood Witches have always ruled, drawing males to their courts through seductive power. An ambitious High Priestess destroys more powerful females before maturity and has enslaved the strongest males, weakening magic and corrupting natural bonds between men and women. Sexual violence permeates Terreille. Jaenelle, born to be Queen, is vulnerable until adulthood. Though guarded by male Warlord Princes, Jaenelle is violated. Daemon, her destined Consort, rescues her but is convinced he attacked her and goes mad.
In Heir to the Shadows, Jaenelle's vampiric, adoptive father, Saetan, and her foster-family of demons shelter her. To restore her memory and emotional balance, they move to Kaeleer, where Jaenelle befriends the kindred--animals with magical and communicative powers--and gathers a circle of young Queens. She also heals Lucivar, Daemon's half-brother, who offers a brother's love and a warrior's fealty. As she recovers strength and memory, Jaenelle resolves to restore Daemon and cleanse Terreille.
Bishop subverts readers' expectations; the "darkest" powers reside in virtuous characters, demons and vampires are kindly, and Jaenelle's adolescence is more comically normal than horrific. Her vibrant characters and descriptions will keep readers hooked, anxiously awaiting what promises to be a riveting conclusion. --Nona Vero [via]
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Innkeeper's Songby Peter S. BeagleISBN 0451454146 (0-451-45414-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0451528522 (0-451-52852-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A dazzling mind and driving ambition has carried Griffin into territory never before explored: he has discovered how to make himself invisible. What sacrifice now can be too great? Yet even as Griffin attains his dream, his nightmare begins. This edition contains an introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Well's life and times. [via]
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Island in the Sea of Timeby S. M. StirlingISBN 0451456750 (0-451-45675-0)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island in the Sea of Time'Book summary:It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a would-be conqueror from their own time.[via]More editions of Island in the Sea of Time:
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The Killing Danceby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134511 (0-515-13451-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killing Dance'Book summary:The famous vampire hunter, Anita Blake, continues her hunt for rogue vampires - but she finds herself uncomfortable mixing business with pleasure. The city's most powerful, wealthy, and definitely most attractive vampire has set his sights on her - and Anita is finding him hard to resist. Is this a conflict of interest, or a conflict of the heart? [via]
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Knights of the Black Earthby Margaret Weis, Don PerrinISBN 0451455142 (0-451-45514-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Last Mortal Manby Syne MitchellISBN 0451460944 (0-451-46094-4)
Softcover, Roc
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The Laughing Corpseby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134449 (0-515-13444-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Laughing Corpse'Book summary:Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised Harold's zombie--and that the zombie is a killer. Anita pits her power against the zombie and the voodoo priestess who controls it. Notice to Hollywood: forget Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Anita Blake is the real thing. [via]
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The Lords of the Swordby Hugh CookISBN 0451450655 (0-451-45065-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Lost Princess of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0486403440 (0-486-40344-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Princess of Oz'Book summary:Ozma, the beloved ruler of Oz, has disappeared, so Dorothy, the Wizard, the Cowardly Lion, and a band of loyal chums must search the vast and amazing fairyland of Oz. A suspenseful tale of adventure, humor, and magic, this fanciful tale will enthrall young readers. 94 original black-and-white illustrations and 12 brilliant full-color plates.[via]More editions of The Lost Princess of Oz:
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Lost Worldby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486400603 (0-486-40060-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost World'Book summary:Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he's a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he's a lot of fun. [via]
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Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelledby Harlan Ellison, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0515037982 (0-515-03798-2)
Hardcover, Pyramid Books
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Maiaby Richard AdamsISBN 0451168119 (0-451-16811-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Marvelous Land of Ozby L. Frank Baum, John R. NeillISBN 0486206920 (0-486-20692-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Master of White Stormby Janny WurtsISBN 0451451678 (0-451-45167-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master of White Storm'Book summary:Five centuries after an oppressive force took over their world, two opposing magical princes, Lysaer, Lord of Light, and Arithon, Master of Shadows, hold the power to overthrow the Mistwraith if they can overcome their differences. Reprint. [via]
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Messiah Nodeby Lyda MorehouseISBN 0451459296 (0-451-45929-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Messiah Node'Book summary:A potent mix of technology and salvation is the trademark of Lyda Morehouse's brilliant novels. Now, Messiah Node takes her uniquely-imagined world one step closer to its fate-as AIs and archangels, prophets and criminal masterminds face the final day of reckoning. [via]
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The Mysterious Islandby Jules Verne, Asimov, Isaac (AFT), Bruce SterlingISBN 0451529413 (0-451-52941-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysterious Island'Book summary:Five Union prisoners escape from the seige of Richmond in a balloon, are blown off course and crash on an uncharted island. They must learn to rebuild a society for themselves while awaiting rescue. [via]
Nightmareby Steven R. HarperISBN 0451458982 (0-451-45898-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Not for Gloryby Joel RosenbergISBN 0451158458 (0-451-15845-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Obsidian Butterflyby Laurell K. HamiltonISBN 0515134503 (0-515-13450-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Obsidian Butterfly'Book summary:Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor in slaying, asks Anita to return the favor that she has owed him since she killed a backup he brought in to protect her. He needs Anita's preternatural expertise as well as her firepower. Something is skinning and mutilating a few of its chosen victims, and dismembering others. Edward has no idea what creature could be responsible for such heinous crimes.
Summoning Anita has its downside for Edward, since it means letting her onto his turf. Anita is surprised to find that this normally aggressive man has a personal life, and shocked by his ability to be entirely different from the stone cold killer she's known. She also has problems with the cop in charge in Albuquerque, who believes her powers must be evil, and with the other backups Edward has brought in. Most of all, she has to deal with her own vulnerability--she's tried to shut down her ties to her vampire and werewolf lovers and go it alone, but it turns out to be harder than she thought.
Anita's usual supporting cast is missing, and she's taking time out from her complex love life, but there's plenty of bloody action, vampires, werewolves, and Aztec ritual. Plus a lot more about Edward. Fans will find this installment similar to the earlier books in the series, particularly The Laughing Corpse. --Nona Vero. [via]
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Path of Fateby Diana Pharaoh FrancisISBN 0451459504 (0-451-45950-4)
Softcover, Roc
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Queen of the Darknessby Anne BishopISBN 0451456734 (0-451-45673-4)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen of the Darkness'Book summary:It began with the mystery of Daughter of the Blood. It continued with the magic of Heir to the Shadows. Now, the stunning conclusion to The Black Jewels Trilogy.[via]"Darkly mesmerizing...fascinatingly different...worth checking out." --Locus
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Redshift : Extreme Visions of Speculative Fictionby Al SarrantonioISBN 0451459040 (0-451-45904-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Redshift : Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction'Book summary:In the decades since Michael Moorcock's magazine New Worlds and Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions shattered taboos and transformed science fiction, editors have yearned to do likewise. But science fiction and Western society have changed greatly since the 1960s, and though new taboos have been born, there aren't many left. They can still be shattered, but any taboo-challenging fiction that appears in the same year as the movie Freddy Got Fingered has a tough job, and Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction is hardly as extreme as promised. For example, nonwhite and homosexual characters are rare; the status quo goes largely unchallenged; and a few of the 30 stories are young-adult in tone and subject, with the others having little that would disturb new-millennium youth, a generation accustomed to wearing bondage/fetish gear to the dance clubs. The rare examples of taboo breaking include a black character with a disturbingly thick accent and a posthuman race that commits mass murder for policy; but the anthology's potentially most challenging story gets there as a result of publication after September 11, 2001: Harry Turtledove's well-written but traditional modern fantasy "Black Tulip" is sympathetic to Afghanis.
Ignore the subtitle. Redshift is a very good anthology of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with some stories, like Gregory Benford's "Anomalies" and Joyce Carol Oates's "Commencement," that will become classics of speculative fiction. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Rest Falls Away: The Gardella Vampire Chroniclesby Colleen GleasonISBN 0451220072 (0-451-22007-2)
Softcover, Signet
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Robot Visionsby Isaac AsimovISBN 0451450647 (0-451-45064-7)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robot Visions'Book summary:A collection of 36 of Asimov's most important robot short stories and essays, from "Robbie", his first robot story, and the tales of Susan Calvin and the detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, to the title story, written specifically for this volume. [via]
Ruled Britanniaby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451459156 (0-451-45915-6)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruled Brittania'Book summary:The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. With Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no one to unite them against the enemy who occupies their land.
No one, that is, except William Shakespeare, a playwright presented with the opportunity to pen his greatest work, a drama that will incite the people of Britain to rise against their persecutors-and change the course of history. [via]
Salem's Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0451150651 (0-451-15065-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salem's Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. Lewis, Richard GilmanISBN 0451628217 (0-451-62821-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Silver Crownby Joel RosenbergISBN 0451159837 (0-451-15983-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Sleeping Dragonby Joel RosenbergISBN 0451148339 (0-451-14833-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0451169530 (0-451-16953-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Stolenby Kelley ArmstrongISBN 0452285933 (0-452-28593-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stolen'Book summary:It was in Bitten, Kelley Armstrongs debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful womanand the only living female werewolf.
In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormalswitches, vampires, shamans, werewolvesare then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he finally meets his match. [via]
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The Sword and the Chainby Joel RosenbergISBN 0451453514 (0-451-45351-4)
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Tamsinby Peter S. BeagleISBN 0451458206 (0-451-45820-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamsin'Book summary:Peter S. Beagle creates magic in this coming-of-age ghost story, returning to a subgenre he first explored in A Fine and Private Place. When her mother remarries, 13-year-old narrator Jenny Gluckstein moves from New York City to a run-down, haunted, 300-year-old farm in Dorset, England. In slow-moving early chapters, unhappy Jenny's beloved Mister Cat is quarantined for six months and she must attend an English girl's school. Jenny's voice is painfully genuine, her self-description merciless. If early adolescence brings on flashbacks, wait to read this book.
The pace picks up when Mister Cat returns and Jenny meets Meena Chari, whose belief in the supernatural comes from growing up in ghost-ridden India. First Mister Cat finds a new girlfriend, a ghostly Persian Cat only he and Jenny can see. Then she and her younger stepbrother, Julian, confront a boggart who's been playing tricks on the family. The gnome-like boggart is dressed in a Seven Dwarves hat, Robin Hood garb, "and heavy little boots, ankle-high--I'd have taken them for Doc Martens, except I don't think they make them in boggart sizes." The boggart warns her to beware of the ghost cat, her mistress, and "the Other One" most of all. But one afternoon she follows Mister Cat to meet Tamsin Willoughby, ghost of the farm-founder's daughter. Tamsin is friendly, but won't tell Jenny anything about the Other One, or talk about Edric, apparently her lost love. To free Tamsin's ghost, Jenny must relive the tragic history of 17th-century Dorset and face grave danger.
Tamsin is vintage Beagle: there's a shape-shifting Pooka, a ghostly love story, music, the Goddess, and the Wild Hunt. It's beautifully written and can be read on several levels, including as a loving homage to Thomas Hardy's moody novels (Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd) and poetry (Selected Poems). Or you can lose yourself in the story. Fans of The Last Unicorn will enjoy this one. --Nona Vero [via]
The Throne of Sconeby Patricia Kennealy-MorrisonISBN 0451450515 (0-451-45051-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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To Ride Pegasusby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0460042181 (0-460-04218-1)
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Today We Choose Facesby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0451154886 (0-451-15488-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Uncharted Starsby Andre NortonISBN 0451452321 (0-451-45232-1)
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Vampiresby John SteakleyISBN 0451451538 (0-451-45153-8)
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