Ages 12 and up. Young wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan are part of an elite team investigating the mysterious 'message in a bottle' that holds clues to the long-lost inhabitants of Mars. But not even wizardry is enough to cope with the strange events that unfold when the 'bottle' is uncorked and life emerges once more to shake the Red Planet with its own perilous and baffling brand of magic.
It is commonly said that history is written by the victors: the narrator chooses the events that will be part of the story, and the narrative explains their meaning. In fiction, narrative conventions and cliches make writing and reading familiar stories easier, but also impede writers' efforts to tell unfamiliar stories. Essays from new and established sf and fantasy authors as well as several scholars consider the politics of narrative manifested in fiction, history, and science. Is narrative inherently dangerous? Empowering? Or even liberating?
Contents
Contributors
Preface == L. Timmel Duchamp
Introduction: Going to Narrative == Eileen Gunn
Part I: Narrative and History
Telling Reality: Why Narrative Fails Us == Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lost in the Archives: A Shattered Romance == L. Timmel Duchamp
Patriarchal Imperialism and the Narrative of Women's History == Ellen E. Kittell
The Era of Lost (White) Girls == Rebecca Wanzo
Part II: Narrative Politics
Beyond Madame Curie? The Invisibility of Women's Narratives in Science == Lesley A. Hall
Imagination and Prison == Wendy Walker
Against Accessibility: Renewing the Difficult Imagination == Lance Olsen
Reading The Best of A.E. van Vogt == Alan DeNiro
Stories Are More Important than Facts: Imagination as Resistance in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth == Andrea Hairston
Suspending Disbelief: Story as Political Catalyst == Susan Palwick
Apocalyptic Empathy: A Parable of Postmodern Sensibility == Rebecca Wanzo
Part III: Narrative and Writing Fiction
The Life and/of Writing == Samuel R. Delany
Living Fiction and Storybook Lives == Nicola Griffith
Narrative and Class == Eleanor Arnason
Why We Tell the Story: The Political Nature of Narrative == Rachel Swirsky
Girl in Landscape: How to Fall into a Politically Useless Narrative Rut and Notions of How to Get Back Out == Claire Light
Five years after the zombie outbreak, Death himself descends on a Louisiana town to put down the undead legions that have defied his touch for so long. He finds allies among the human survivors, and a nemesis in a man who seeks to rebuild America as an empire of the undead.
Novel, 293 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 2008)
Ages 8 and up. Struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, Lina and Doon find a book that alludes to a mysterious device from before the Disaster. Together, Lina and Doon must go back underground to retrieve what was lost and bring light to a dark world.
Novel, 285 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Those immortal Guardians who still serve justice seek to end the devastating reign of one of their own; a hired outlander army struggles to stop the horde that has despoiled vast lands and slaughtered countless people in its murderous wake, while still guarding against a burgeoning threat from an aggressively expansionist empire; and the eagle reeves struggle to reorganize after a devastating massacre has decimated their numbers. But a terrible danger looms: a traitor with Imperial ambitions.
Novel, 877 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765349329 / 9780765349323
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Englehart, Steve
Max August #2: The Long Man
Dr. Pamela Blackwell's research could save the lives of countless millions; Max must save her from a mysterious force that is using magick to kill her.
Novel, 379 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765317303 / 9780765317308
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Esslemont, Ian C.
Malazan Empire #1: Night of the Knives
As factions within the Empire draw up battle lines over the throne, the once-in-a-generation Shadow Moon summons an ancient presence for an all-out assault upon the island.
Novel, 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765363496 / 9780765363497
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Farmer, Philip Jose
Riverworld #1 / #2: To Your Scattered Bodies Go / The Fabulous Riverboat
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the modern man, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but not with a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again. Some set sail on the great river, questing for the meaning of their resurrection - and for their mysterious benefactors.
Awards: ♦ To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Winner of the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Novel ♦ To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Shortlisted for the 1972 Locus Award for Best Novel ♦ The Fabulous Riverboat: Shortlisted for the 1972 Locus Award for Best Novel
Omnibus, 443 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1971 / 1971)
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765326523 / 9780765326522
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Farrell, S.L. (aka Leigh, Stephen)
Nessantico Cycle #2: A Magic of Nightfall
A novel of murder and magic, of deception and betrayal, of Machiavellian politics, star-crossed lovers, and a realm facing war on every front.
Novel, 634 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
DAW - 2010 - ISBN: 0756405998 / 9780756405991
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Flint, Eric / Freer, Dave
Slow Train to Arcturus
To get back to his spaceship, the lone survivor of an alien contact team slaughtered by humans must travel through several separate human habitat modules, each one isolated from the others, with its own bizarre dangers and customs.
Novel, 425 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Baen - 2010 - ISBN: 1439133484 / 9781439133484
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Frost, Toby
Isambard Smith #1: Space Captain Smith
In the 25th century, the British Space Empire faces the gathering menace of the evil ant-soldiers of the Ghast Empire hive. The dashing Captain Smith and his crew - a skull-collecting alien lunatic, an android pilot who is actually a fugitive sex toy, and a hamster named Gerald - must collect a New Age herbalist and bring her safely back to the British Space Empire. Straightforward enough - except the Ghasts want her too.
Novel, 306 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Myrmidon UK - 2008 - ISBN: 1905802137 / 9781905802135
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Frost, Toby
Isambard Smith #2: God Emperor of Didcot
When a crazed cult leader overthrows the government of Urn, where sixty percent of the Empire's tea is grown, Smith and his crew find themselves saddled with new allies - a legion of tea-obsessed nomads, an overly-civilized alien horde, and a commando unit so elite that it has only five members. Only together can they defeat the cultist and confront the true power behind the coup - the sinister legions of the Ghast Empire and Smith's old enemy, Commander 462.
Novel, 323 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Myrmidon UK - 2008 - ISBN: 1905802242 / 9781905802241
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Frost, Toby
Isambard Smith #3: Wrath of the Lemming Men
Smith and his crew must defend the Empire and civilize the stuffing out of a horde of bloodthirsty lemming-men - which would be easy were it not for a sinister robotics company, a Ghast general with a fondness for genetic engineering, and an ancient brotherhood of Morris Dancers - who may yet hold the key to victory.
Novel, 320 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Myrmidon UK - 2009 - ISBN: 1905802358 / 9781905802357
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Garcia, Eric
Repo Men movie tie-in (original title: Repossession Mambo)
In a brave new world, you'll never have to die - as long as you keep up your payments. But if you fall behind, a Bio-Repo man will be coming to reclaim your artificial organs.
Novel, 328 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 PB
Harper - 2010 - ISBN: 006171304X / 9780061713040
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Grahame-Smith, Seth
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Signed by the author on the title page. The knowledge that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator fuels Lincoln's lifelong war against vampires and their slave-owning allies.
Novel, 336 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Grand Central - 2010 - ISBN: 0446563080 / 9780446563086
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Grant, Maxwell (Gibson, Walter B.)
Shadow #34: The Blackmail Ring / Murder for Sale
The Blackmail Ring: The Shadow follows a twisting trail of extortion from the back alleys of Paris to the manor homes of New England.
Murder for Sale: The Shadow infiltrates Philadelphia to battle another 'Finger' of The Hand.
Omnibus, 128 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1932 / 1938)
Stuntwoman turned vampire hunter Dawn Madison must fight off a vicious pack of undead teenage girls who are the followers of the captive female master of the London Underground.
Novel, 310 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
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Griffin, Kate (aka Webb, Catherine)
Matthew Swift #2: The Midnight Mayor, or, The Inauguration of Matthew Swift
One by one, the magical wards that guard the city are falling: the London Wall defiled with cryptic graffiti, the ravens found dead at the Tower, the London Stone destroyed. This array of supernatural defenses formed a formidable magical shield. But what could be so dangerous as to threaten an entire city? Resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to find out.
Novel, 467 pages, Hardcover, 1st US Edition
Orbit - 2010 - ISBN: 0316041238 / 9780316041232
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Gryphon, Talia
Gillian Key #4: Key to Justice
Gillian's new patient is a vampire who is hiding his true motives - and his true identity: Dracula.
Novel, 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
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Hall, Teri
The Line
Ages 12 and up. Rachel and her mother live next to the Line, an invisible, uncrossable barrier that encloses the Unified States. It's a safe, quiet life, until Rachel finds a recorded message that can only have come from Away. The voice is asking for help.
The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer.
Novel, 661 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Del Rey - 2010 - ISBN: 0345496566 / 9780345496560
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Hammond, Warren
Juno Mozambe #2: Ex-KOP
Booted off the police force and desperate for cash, Juno agrees to help his former partner Maggie solve a difficult case. A young girl has confessed to murdering her parents, but Maggie isn't buying it, so she sends Juno out to get some answers. He finds that the girl, Maggie's new partner, and a serial killer are all connected; Juno and Maggie must find out how.
Novel, 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
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Harris, Charlaine
Southern Vampire #03: Club Dead
Sookie's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead. When she finds her boyfriend Bill - caught in an act of betrayal - she's not sure whether to save him or sharpen some stakes.
Novel, 292 pages, Hardcover, Reprint (1st HC edition of 2003 paperback original)
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Harvey, Colin
Displacement
Five sf stories.
Contents
Displacement
A Sea of Grass
Strange Trees, Tall Trees
On the Rock
Tall Trees, Strange Trees
Collection, 133 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand
