Fantasy & Science Fiction September / October 2010
New fiction, reviews, more.
Contents
Novelets
Eating at the End-of-the-World Cafe == Dale Bailey
The Door in the Earth == Alexandra Duncan
The Literomancer == Ken Liu
Uncle Moon in Raintree Hills == Fred Chappell
Short Stories
The Window of Time == Richard Matheson
How Seosiris Lost the Favor of the King == James L. Cambias
Blind Spot == Rick Wilber and Nick DeChario
Steadfast Castle == Michael Swanwick
F&SF Mailbag == David Gerrold
About It == Terry Bisson
Magazine, 258 pages, Magazine, 1st Edition
Spilogale - 2010 - ISBN: fsfmag0910
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New011250
$7.00
Locus #595 August 2010
Interviews with Patrick Rothfuss and N.K. Jemisin; Sturgeon, Campbell, Mythopoeic, and Shirley Jackson awards info; SF Hall of Fame/Locus Awards weekend; Readercon report; industry news, reviews, more.
Magazine, 66 pages, Magazine, 1st Edition
Locus Publications - 2010 - ISBN: locus0810
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New011235
$6.95
Perry Rhodan: The Cosmic League
2 players, ages 10 and up, game time approximately 30 minutes. In a newly colonized star system, populated by different peoples, you are the captain of a spaceship, striving to become the wealthiest merchant in the Cosmic League.
Boxed Game, Card Game
Z-Man Games - 2010 - ISBN: 681706040622 / 681706040622
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New011316
$24.99
Abnett, Dan
Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero
2010: Queen Elizabeth XXX sits upon the throne of a British empire run by alchemy and superstition. Now Sir Rupert Triumff, dashing swordsman and champion drinker, has uncovered a vile plot to dethrone her glorious majesty. For the honor of the nation: to arms!
Recommended by Elizabeth: A very alternate history, with lots of intrigue and swashbuckling action plus plenty of gratuitous silliness. If you like Christopher Moore and/or Monty Python, check this one out.
Novel, 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
Sirantha Jax forms an army to defend colonists stationed on the outskirts of space from a legion of flesh-eating aliens.
Novel, 353 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Ace - 2010 - ISBN: 0441019412 / 9780441019410
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New010397
$7.99
Alexander, Bruce
Sir John Fielding #2: Murder in Grub Street
A magistrate in 18th-century London and founder of the Bow Street Runners, Sir John Fielding and his assistant, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor, investigate when a Grub Street printer, his family, and two apprentices are murdered in their sleep.
Recommended by Elizabeth.
Novel, 306 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1995)
Berkley Prime Crime - 2010 - ISBN: 0425235602 / 9780425235607
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New008826
$15.00
Allingham, Margery
Albert Campion #15: The Beckoning Lady (alternate title: The Estate of the Beckoning Lady)
Old William Faraday is dead, apparently of natural causes. Another man has been murdered. Mr. Campion's friends Minnie and Tonker Cassands continue to prepare for their annual garden party, but Minnie has serious problems with the Inland Revenue - and the murdered man was a tax inspector.
Novel, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1955)
Meg volunteers to help at a rose show her parents are competing in, then uncovers the body of the wealthy woman on whose estate the competition is being held.
Novel, 317 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's - 2010 - ISBN: 0312377185 / 9780312377182
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New009324
$7.99
Ashley, Mike (editor)
The Mammoth Book of the End of the World
Twenty-four sf stories, six of them original to this volume.
Contents
The End of All Things == Mike Ashley
The Nature of the Catastrophe
When We Went to See the End of the World == Robert Silverberg
The End of the World == Sushma Joshi
The Clockwork Atom Bomb == Dominic Green
Bloodletting == Kate Wilhelm
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth == Cory Doctorow
The Rain at the End of the World == Dale Bailey
The Flood == Linda Nagata
The End of the World Show == David Barnett
Fermi and Frost == Frederik Pohl
Sleepover == Alastair Reynolds
The Last Sunset == Geoffrey A. Landis
Beyond Armageddon
Moments of Inertia == William Barton
The Books == Kage Baker
Pallbearer == Robert Reed
And the Deep Blue Sea == Elizabeth Bear
The Meek == Damien Broderick
The Man Who Walked Home == James Tiptree, Jr.
A Pail of Air == Fritz Leiber
Guardians of the Phoenix == Eric Brown
Life in the Anthropocene == Paul Di Filippo
Terraforming Terra == Jack Williamson
The End of All Things
World Without End == F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
The Children of Time == Stephen Baxter
The Star Called Wormwood == Elizabeth Counihan
Anthology, 500 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
Stories written by Victorian and Edwardian authors, before rocket ships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity became reality.
Contents
Foreword: Brit Boffin Delivers Steampunk's Pure Quill! Or After Such Knowledge, What Thrills? == Paul di Filippo
Introduction: When Steampunk was Real == Mike Ashley
Mr. Broadbent's Information == Henry A. Hering
The Automaton == Reginald Bacchus and Ranger Gull
The Abduction of Alexandra Seine == Fred C. Smale
The Gibraltar Tunnel == Jean Jaubert
From Pole to Pole == George Griffith
In the Deep of Time == George Parsons Lathrop
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings == L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace
The Plague of Lights == Owen Oliver
What the Rats Brought == Ernest Favenc
The Great Catastrophe == George Davey
Within an Ace of the End of the World == Robert Barr
A salvaged piece of sentient spaceship signals the beginning of the second salvo; an Annunaki prince returns after 4500 years of confinement to seek vengeance.
Novel, 316 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Running Blind / The Freedom Trap (alternate title: The Mackintosh Man)
Running Blind: It should have been a simple assignment to deliver a parcel, but Alan Stewart finds himself standing on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, and realizes he's been double-crossed.
The Freedom Trap: When a brilliantly organized gang that gets long-term inmates out of prison springs a notorious Russian double agent, the trail leads Owen Stannard to Malta and to the suave killer masterminding the gang.
Plus previously unpublished short story 'A Matter of Months'.
Omnibus, 565 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1970 / 1971)
Harper Collins UK - 2010 - ISBN: 0007304749 / 9780007304745
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New011060
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Bakker, R. Scott
Neuropath
Tom's best friend Neil was working for the NSA, cracking the minds of suspected terrorists. Now it is Neil himself who has cracked and gone AWOL - to kidnap and mutilate the brains of people with a connection to Tom.
Novel, 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765361574 / 9780765361578
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New009744
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Baldacci, David
True Blue
Young lawyer Roy Kingman and disgraced ex-cop Mace Perry investigate the death of a female partner at Roy's Washington law firm; their investigation takes unexpected turns through both the private and the public world of the nation's capital.
Novel, 569 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
To destroy a cabal in possession of a weapon of unspeakable power - and survive the assassins who are after her blood - Maliha must revert to the old ways and surrender once more to the darkness.
Novel, 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Eos - 2010 - ISBN: 0061687324 / 9780061687327
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New010866
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Baron, Aileen G.
The Gold of Thrace
When an excavation staff member is murdered and a mosaic floor disappears from her site overnight, archaeologist Tamar Saticoy is plunged into the shady side of the antiquities trade.
Novel, 190 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
1943: The OSS sends archaeologists Lily Sampson and Gideon Weil to survey the Trans-Jordanian desert. While trying to clear Gideon from a charge of killing their Bedouin guide, Lily uncovers a Nazi plot.
Mystery bookstore owner Tricia Miles investigates when a gas explosion injures the head of the Chamber of Commerce and kills the owner of the town's historic bookstore. Includes recipes.
Novel, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2010 - ISBN: 0425236013 / 9780425236017
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New009359
$7.99
Baxter, Cynthia
Reigning Cats & Dogs #9: Crossing the Lion
Newlywed veterinarian Jessica Popper investigates the suspicious death of corporate giant Linus Merrywood, in surroundings that make her feel as if she's walked into an old-fashioned game of Clue. There's a butler, an assistant named Scarlett, and a conservatory - as well as secret passageways, moving walls, and a wailing aunt locked in the attic.
Novel, 359 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Bantam - 2010 - ISBN: 0553592386 / 9780553592382
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New010691
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Beagle, Peter S. (editor)
The Secret History of Fantasy
Stories that highlight the new path fantasy literature has taken in the last thirty years.
Contents
Introduction
Ancestor Money == Maureen F. McHugh
Scarecrow == Gregory Maguire
Lady of the Skulls == Patricia A. McKillip
We Are Norsemen == T.C. Boyle
The Barnum Museum == Steven Millhauser
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut == Stephen King
Bears Discover Fire == Terry Bisson
Bones == Francesca Lia Block
Snow, Glass, Apples == Neil Gaiman
Fruit and Words == Aimee Bender
The Empire of Ice Cream == Jeffrey Ford
The Edge of the World == Michael Swanwick
Super Goat Man == Jonathan Lethem
John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner == Susanna Clarke
The Book of Martha == Octavia E. Butler
The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company == Yann Martel
Sleight of Hand == Peter S. Beagle
Mythago Wood == Robert Holdstock
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss == Kij Johnson
Appendix I: The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists == Ursula K. Le Guin
Appendix 2: The Making of the American Fantasy Genre == David G. Hartwell
One day a woman is washed up from the sea, a Lady who is neither mortal nor valkyrie. Thus begins the breaking of the Children of the Light, the tarnishing of their power, and the death of Valdyrgard.
Novel, 318 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765358522 / 9780765358523
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New009746
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Beaton, M.C.
Agatha Raisin #20: There Goes the Bride
Agatha is the prime suspect when her ex-husband's young fiance is shot to death just minutes before saying 'I do'.
Novel, 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
St. Martin's - 2010 - ISBN: 0312373228 / 9780312373221
