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
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
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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Banks, Dakota
Mortal Path #2: Sacrifice
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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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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Beck, Greig
Alex Hunter #1: Beneath the Dark Ice
In newly-discovered Antarctic caves, Captain Alex Hunter and his team signs of a lost civilization - and an ancient danger. Hunter must rely on his mysterious abilities to save his team.
Novel, 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
St. Martin's - 2010 - ISBN: 031259979X / 9780312599799
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New009739
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Bemis, John Claude
Clockwork Dark #1: The Nine Pound Hammer
Ages 9 and up. Twelve-year-old Ray falls in with a band of young sideshow performers whose talents seem almost magical. Stories he thought were tall tales turn out to be true, and Ray himself may have a part to play in stories only now being written.
Novel, 357 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Connelly seeks death for the scarred man who murdered his daughter. And countless others have lost someone to the scarred man. As they band together to track him, Connelly begins to suspect that the man is more than human, and must decide just how much he is willing to sacrifice to get his revenge.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
Novel, 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Orbit - 2010 - ISBN: 0316054690 / 9780316054690
Book Condition: New.
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Bentley, C.F. (aka Radford, Irene)
Harmonic Empire #2: Enigma
Sissy and Jake hope to establish diplomatic relations between the Harmonic Empire and the wider universe. But when an alien ship crashes into the Harmony Diplomatic Wing of Labyrinthe VII, the precarious balance Sissy and Jake have established begins to dissolve.
Novel, 468 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
DAW - 2010 - ISBN: 0756406250 / 9780756406257
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New009385
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Beukes, Lauren
Moxyland
In the near future, an art-school dropout, an AIDS baby, a tech-activist, and an RPG-obsessed blogger live in a world where your online identity is at least as important as your physical one. Getting disconnected is a punishment worse than imprisonment - but someone's got to stand up to Government Inc.
Novel, 367 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
A suspected case of spontaneous combustion points to a psychic who has built an empire on the desperate dreams of Detroit's poor, She has been trapping wandering spirits, and Anya and her ghost hunter allies must find a way to free them.
Novel, 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
After more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left.
Novel, 418 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765348152 / 9780765348159
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New009335
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Bow, Erin
Plain Kate
Ages 12 and up. Kate's wooden charms are so fine that some even call her 'witch-blade', a dangerous nickname in a town where witches are burned - especially now that the townspeople are looking for someone to blame for the mysterious fog that is ruining the crops. Enter a stranger with an offer: In exchange for her shadow, he'll give Kate the means to escape the town, and grant her heart's wish. But Kate soon realizes that she can't live shadowless forever - and that the stranger's designs are darker than she imagined.
The Royal Society of London has revolutionized philosophy and scientific knowledge. Magic is losing its place in the world, and science threatens to expose the fae, living in a secret city below London, to hostile eyes. Sir Edmond Halley has calculated a comet's return in 1759. Soon the banished Dragon's gaze will fall upon London, and it will return to the city it ravaged once before. It will take both magic and science to save London - but reconciling the two carries its own danger.
Novel, 491 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Tor - 2010 - ISBN: 0765325365 / 9780765325365
Book Condition: New.
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$15.99
Bujold, Lois McMaster - of interest: Carl, Lillian Stewart (editor) / Helfers, John (editor)
The Vorkosigan Companion
Signed by Lois McMaster Bujold. Includes an all-new interview with Bujold, as well as essays by her on crafting the Vorkosigan universe. Plus articles by a variety of authors on the biology, technology, and sociology of Barrayar, appreciations of the individual novels, maps, a complete timeline of the series, and more.
Nonfiction, 656 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
