Newsletter #40 December, 1997 - February, 1998RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION
[PBO stands for paperback original]
| Perry Rhodan #1800 (1st in new reprint series) | $1.95 |
| 1998 Writer's Market | $27.99 |
Abbey, Lynn | The Simbul's Gift (Forgotten Realms: The Nobles Book 6) | $5.99 |
Adams, Scott | The Dilbert Bunch and Please Don't Feed the Egos (short, gifty hc collections of older cartoons) | $6.95 each |
Allan, Margaret | Spirits Walking Woman (Olmec woman in ancient Mexico is worshipped for her gift of prophecy, but follows another destiny) | $5.99 |
Baker, Eric T | Checkmate (colony ship's Contraband Unit's on the take & Aaron Hudson takes the fall in crackdown, must form alliance with AI, torn between loyalty, survival; PBO) | $5.99 |
Bradley, Marion Zimmer_ed | Sword & Sorceress XV (sword_&_sorcery anthology features female protagonists by Paxson, PEZimmer, Wheeler, more; PBO) | $5.99 |
Bucher-Jones, Simon | Not-Dr.-Who New Adventures: Ghost Devices | $5.95 |
Budry, Algis | Entertainment (short stories) | $12.00 |
Bunch, Chris | The Darkness of God (Shadow Warrior #3, space opera) | $5.99 |
Card, Orson Scott/Ferrell,K--ed. | Black Mist & Other Japanese Futures (anthology) | $5.99 |
Cave, Hugh | The Door Below (collection of dark fiction from 1930s to 1990s) | $27.00 |
Cerasini, Marc | Godzilla 2000 (assorted Japanese movie monsters are ravaging the U.S.--will Godzilla help defeat the other monsters or join them?) | $5.99 |
Chetwynd-Hayes, R. | Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes (15 stories, interview with the author, intro by Brian Lumley, edited by Stephen Jones) | $27.00 |
Crispin, A.C. | Alien Resurrection (movie novelization) | $4.99 |
Daley, Brian | GammaLAW 1: Smoke on the Water ("they were warriors...pure, simple, and supreme"; PBO) | $5.99 |
Daley, Brian | Star Wars: Han Solo & the Lost Legacy (reprint) | $5.99 |
Dalkey, Kara | Steel Rose (contemporary fantasy, Elves in Pittsburgh) | $5.99 |
David, Peter | Babylon 5: In the Beginning (movie novelization of feature_length movie launching TV series' 5th season) | $5.99 |
Forstchen, William R | The Lost Regiment 6: Never Sound Retreat (alternate history; 10 years after being swept from the Civil War battlefields, the Union 35th Marine is still fighting alien slavery; PBO) | $6.99 |
Foster, Alan Dean | The Howling Stones (set in Humanx Commonwealth universe) | $6.99 |
Friedman, Michael Jan | Day of Honor (novelization of Star Trek Voyager episode, not to be confused with the other 5 Star Trek books with Day of Honor on the covers) | $5.99 |
Friesner, Esther | To Storm Heaven (ST Next Generation #46) | $5.99 |
Gemmell, David | Bloodstone (a Jerusalem Man fantasy) | $5.99 |
Golden, Christie | Marooned (ST Voyager #14) | $5.99 |
Green, Roland | Tale of the Comet (spells vs. computers, aliens, starships) | $5.99 |
Green, Roland | The Wayward Knights (Dragonlance: The Warriors Volume VII) | $5.99 |
Gressman, Thomas S. | The Hunters (Battletech: Twilight of the Clans III) | $5.99 |
Howarth, Chris/Lyons, Steve | Red Dwarf Programme Guide (2nd Revised Edition) | $6.95 |
Howarth, Chris/Lyons, Steve | The Completely Useless Star Trek Encyclopedia (media tie_in; "bizarre & unmistakeably useless facts") | $5.95 |
Howe, D/Stammers, M/Walker, S | Doctor Who: The Eighties (media tie_in/reference; covers transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, through Sylvester McCoy) | $19.95 |
Howe/Stammers/walker | Dr. Who Handbook: The Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) | $5.95 |
Kidd, Paul | The Council of Blades (Forgotten Realms: The Nobles Book 5) | $5.99 |
King, J. Robert | Vinas Solamnus (Dragonlance: Lost Legends Volume 1) | $5.99 |
Lee, Sharon | Variations Three (signed chapbook, fantasy short stories) | $9.00 |
Maltin, Leonard | 1998 Movie & Video Guide (reference) | $7.99 |
Malzberg, Barry M. | The Passage of the Light (short stories) | $14.00 |
Moon, Elizabeth | Phases (revised and expanded Lunar Activity ) | $5.99 |
Niles, Douglas | Fistandantilus Reborn (Dragonlance: Lost Legends Volume II) | $5.99 |
Norman, Lisanne | Razor's Edge (#4 in series, human and alien telepaths in space) | $6.99 |
Nye, Jody Lunn | The Ship Errant (sequel to The Ship Who Won ) | $6.99 |
Putney/Beverley/Samuel/Harbaugh | Faery Magic (4 stories of romance & fantasy, set in Georgian & Regency England; PBO) | $6.50 |
Rabe, Jean | The Day of the Tempest (Dragonlance: Fifth Age) | $5.99 |
Radford, Irene | Dragon Nimbus History 2: The Last Battlemage (Battlemage Nimbulan's search for magic border for Coronnan brings him discovery that wife is still alive, but she & magic dragons are in danger; PBO) | $6.99 |
Romkey, Michael | The Vampire Virus ("vampire lore & biohazard fact in a fantastic, full_blooded horror novel") | $5.99 |
Russell, Gary | Not-Dr.-Who New Adventures: Deadfall | $5.95 |
Smedman, Lisa | Shadowrun 29: Blood Sport (gaming tie_in; PBO) | $5.99 |
Tan, Cecilia--ed. | Cherished Blood (vampire erotica short stories) | $14.95 |
Tripician, Joe | Official Alien Abductee's Handbook (humor) | $7.95 |
van Belkom, Edo | Lord Soth (Dragonlance: The Warriors Volume VI) | $5.99 |
Wagner, Karl Edward | Exorcisms and Ecstasies (short stories, bibliography, photo section) | $32.00 |
Walker, Robert Martin | Politically Correct Old Testament Stories (humor) | $9.95 |
Westerfeld, Scott | Polymorph (shapeshifters on a future Earth) | $5.99 |
Williams, Tad | Otherland (in near future, global conspiracy aims to sacrifice Earth for promise of universe where any fantasy can be real, but only a few can go) | $6.99 |
Wolverton, Dave--ed. | Writers of the Future Vol. XIII (original stories by new writers) | $6.99 |
Yolen, Jane | Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast (young adult stories) | $17 |
DUE ABOUT DECEMBER 10
Anderson, Kevin J/Moesta, Rebecca | Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights: The Emperor's Plague (young adult; PBO) | $5.99 |
Bloch, Robert_ed | Robert Bloch's Psychos (anthology presented by Horror Writers Assn; includes Matheson, Grant, Friesner, Yolen, King, more) | $5.99 |
Chepaitis, BA | Fear Principle (woman tries to use telepathic link to rehabilitate serial murderers imprisoned on planetoid, but one subject may be her nemesis; PBO) | $5.99 |
Cox, Greg | Star Trek 85: Assignment:Eternity (PBO) | $5.99 |
Dickson, Gordon R | The Dragon & the Djinn (The Dragon Knight goes on quest to Holy Land, but must get past pirates, sea giants & Djinn first) | $6.99 |
Forstchen, William R | Wing Commander : Action Stations (gaming tie_in) | $5.99 |
Grant, Charles | Millenium Quartet 1: Symphony (preacher who realizes he can heal has work cut out for him when First Horseman of the Apocalypse comes to town) | $5.99 |
Halperin, James L | First Immortal (cryonically frozen scientist is revived 83 years later into world of scientific marvels, but finds ethical, moral dilemmas still unsolved) | $24.95 |
Harrison, Harry | Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell (Slippery Jim DiGriz sets out to expose crooked religious cult & get his wife back,even if he has to go to Hell to do it) | $5.99 |
Koller, Jackie French | Dragonling 6: Dragons & Kings (young reader; PBO) | $3.50 |
McCaffrey, Ann | Masterharper of Pern (Robinton has talent & rapport with dragons, but Thread has not fallen for years,Harpers are disfavored &despot plots to take over Pern) | $25 |
Modesitt, LE Jr | Soprano Sorceress (Ames, Iowa, music teacher Anna Marshal makes a wish at wrong time: being pulled into Erde as sorceress wasn't what she had in mind) | $6.99 |
Niven, Larry/Pournelle, Jerry | Lucifer's Hammer (reprint w/new author intro; comet fever grips the world as massive rock approaches earth, but after collision, savagry reigns) | $14.00 |
Osborne, Gary | Deathweave (disgraced Imperial Guard Arden Grenfell gets one last chance to restore her honor-find the runaway Princess & bring her back; PBO) | $5.99 |
Segriff, Larry | Alien Dreams ( Spacer Dreams sequel; Space Guard Cadet's next challenge is living up to Guard expectations while continuing search for family's past; PBO) | $5.99 |
Shelley, Rick | Return to Camerein ( Fires of Coventry sequel; humans marooned on former resort world anticipate end to exile as last battle, truce near in 2nd Commonwealth/ Federation war; PBO) | $5.99 |
Smith, DW/Rusch, KK/Hoffman, NK | Star Trek Voyager 15: Echoes (PBO) | $5.99 |
Turtledove, Harry | Fox & Empire (Gerin the Fox is called in when Aragis the Archer threatens independent baron, bringing closer the war both have avoided for years;PBO) | $5.99 |
Vornholt, John | Buffy, the Vampire Slayer 3: Coyote Moon (TV tie_in; PBO) | $3.99 |
Weber, D/Drake, D/Stirling, SM | More Than Honor (homage to Honor Harrington, incl Harrington family & treecat background; PBO) | $5.99 |
Wells, Angus | Exiles Saga 2: Exile's Challenge (exiles only want peace but get only trouble, must join forces w/tribe as Major faces demonic army in Salvation & the People are incited to violence) | $5.99 |
Wilder, Cherry | Signs of Life ( Second Nature sequel; survivors of transport ship breakup over Rhomary Land try to take over, but original maroonees' descendants have other ideas) | $5.99 |
Willis, Connie | To Say Nothing of the Dog (history is altered when drowning cat is saved by future researchers working in 1889 Coventry, England) | $23.95 |
DUE BY MID_DECEMBER
Adler, Bill Jr_ed | Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written (anthology) | $24.00 |
Anthony, Piers/Pickover, Clifford A | Spider Legs (pollution of ocean leads to mutation of sea creatures which come onto land) | $22.95 |
Dorsey, Candas Jane | Black Wine (reprint; women come to terms with their identity in a barbarous fantasy world) | $13.95 |
Jones, Gwyneth | Phoenix Cafe' (concludes Tiptree & Clarke Award_winning White Queen trilogy; having exploited humanity, superior extraterrestrials set to depart earth) | $23.95 |
Kress, Nancy | Maximum Light (post disaster; with drastically decreased fertility, attempts to reproduce drive some to use prohibited genetic manipulations) | $22.95 |
Meynard, Yves | The Book of Knights (influenced by book on knighthood to become knight, a young boy discovers the secret of his heritage) | $21.95 |
Modesitt, LE Jr | The Spellsong War ( The Soprano Sorceress sequel; as new regent of Defalk, Anna Marshall must defend weakened kingdom against greedy neighbors) | $25.95 |
Mohan, Kim_ed | More Amazing Stories ("final issue" of Amazing Stories (pub 1926_96) incl unpublished stories by Eleanor Arnason, Gregory Benford, Ursula LeGuin, Nancy Springer, Howard Waldrop) | $24.95 |
Norton, Andre | The Warding of Witch World (series conclusion; with Magestone lost & pandimensional gates open, Simon Tregarth returns to lead planet's heroes in final war against dark forces) | $6.50 |
Pelan, John_ed | Darkside: Horror for the Next Millenium (horror anthology includes Ketchum, Massey, Taylor, Ligotti, Ormond, Tem, Navarro, Hodge, more; PBO) | $5.99 |
Weis, Margaret_ed & intro | A Magic_Lover's Treasure of the Fantastic (anthology by Rawn, Card, Feist, Leiber, LeGuin, Niven, Haldeman, Norton, Stasheff, Bradley, more) | $13.99 |
DUE BY JANUARY 10
Anderson, Poul | The Fleet of Stars (Anson Guthrie returns to take dangerous trip across universe to preserve AI_ruled Earth's ability to explore space) | $6.99 |
Benford, Gregory | Cosm (Dr Alicia Butterworth creates baby universe & now everyone-academia, government, church, media-wants a piece of it) | $23.00 |
Bennett, Nigel/Elrod, PN | Keeper of the King (vampire Lord Richard's mission since Middle Ages has been protecting King of England; as 1990's anti_terrorist consultant is drawn into race for Grail) | $6.99 |
Carpenter, Leonard | Conan the Outcast (desert rulers don't want northerner Conan around, but only Conan can stop revival of ancient gods & their sacrifices) | $5.99 |
Chalker, Jack L | The Wonderland Gambit 3: The Hot_Wired Dodo (conclusion of trilogy about man trapped in ultimate virtual reality world) | $6.99 |
Chester, Deborah | Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles 1: The Golden One (new epic begins in far universe over justice, freedom, peace; PBO) | $5.99 |
Clee, Mona | Overshoot (story of 80_year_old Moira Burke, global warming threatening disaster in 2032 & hope in the form of experiment called "The Green Man"; PBO) | $5.99 |
Clough, Brenda | How like a God (computer programmer realizes he can read & change minds, flees humanity but finds neurobiologist who joins him on quest for answers) | $5.99 |
Crowther, Peter/Lovegrove, James | Escardy Gap ("carnival of wonders & horrors...A feast for anyone who loves fantasy & language") | $6.99 |
Danvers, Dennis | Circuit of Heaven (most people've left bodies, souls for virtual cyber_utopia, but Nemo intends to stay flesh but lover's virtual dreams lead them to danger) | $14 |
DeLint, Charles | Trader (quiet, responsible luthier Trader finds he & drunk, loser Devlin've traded bodies, travels to dream/spirit otherworld, faces Devlin, his fears, friends) | $6.99 |
Feist, Raymond E | Serpentwar Saga 3: Rage of a Demon King (bravery of soldier & wealthy merchant not enough to stop nightmare creature from devouring their world) | $6.99 |
Friesner, Ether_ed | Did You Say Chicks?! (anthology; the "Chicks in Chainmail" are back-and they are *not* amused...; PBO) | $5.99 |
Gilman, Carolyn Ives | Halfway Human (alien culture expert tries to help suicidal, light_years_from_ home "bland"-asexual class existing to serve humans but restricted to their world; PBO) | $5.99 |
Hambly, Barbara | Icefalcon's Quest (Darwath milieu; when Dare's prince is kidnapped, only warrior banished by own people & scorned by adopted people can rescue him from aspiring conqueror) | $24.00 |
Hobb, Robin | The Farseer 3: Assassin's Quest (FitzChivalry takes on quest to find the true king & eliminate the man who's stolen the throne & corrupted all he valued) | $6.50 |
Hugh, Daffydd ab | Star Trek: DS9 #22: Vengeance (PBO) | $6.50 |
Jacques, Brian | Pearls of Lutra (Redwall milieu; a set of rose_colored pearls is the prize driving the quests of an evil emperor & a determined young hedgehog) | $5.99 |
Matthews, Susan R | Prisoner of Conscience ( Exchange of Hostages sequel; Inquisitor Andrej Kosciusko learns conspiracy of terror goes far beyond sanctioned torture he uses against Judiciary's enemies; PBO) | $3.99 |
McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonseye (latest Pern novel-need we say more?) | $6.99 |
McQuinn, Donald E | The Prisoner Within (continuation of military sf adventure begun in With Full Honors ; PBO) | $6.99 |
Moscoe, Mike | The Lost Milennium 3: Lost Days (Lt Launa O'Brian & Capt Jack Walking Bear return from 4000BC to radically changed world infected w/different plague from one they went into past to prevent; PBO) | $5.99 |
Pedersen, Ted | Star Trek: DS9 #12: Trapped in Time (young reader; PBO) | $3.99 |
Robinson, Spider | User Friendly (short story collection; "larger_than_life characters...grand vision, with a sense of ecstacy") | $5.99 |
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann | Godmother's Web (Cindy meets old woman on way to Tuba City & takes her to unsuspected world watched over by Navajo Godmother Grandma & her spindle) | $19.95 |
Sheffield, Charles | Tomorrow & Tomorrow (composer turns to futuristic science to save his dying wife) | $5.99 |
Stackpole, M/Macan, D/Biukovic, E | Star Wars X Wing_Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair (graphic novel) | $12.95 |
Stirling, SM | The Ship Avenged ( Ship Who Fought sequel; now courier ship owner, Joat's recruited to track Kolnari raiders, who have their own revenge planned) | $6.99 |
Stout, Amy | One Land Saga 2: The Royal Four (vengeful elfwitch threatens hard_won peace as mercenary & her dragon brother find royal birthright threatened again, this time by bloodline poison; PBO) | $5.99 |
Sumner, Mark | News From the Edge 2: Insanity, Illinois (Savvy McKinnon's back, investigating strange events called in to Global Query-but these are all coming from the same town...; PBO) | $5.99 |
Vornholt, John | Spider_Man: Valley of the Lizard (media tie_in; PBO) | $6.50 |
Wagner, J/Kennedy, C | Star Wars: Boba Fett-Death, Lies & Treachery (graphic novel; adventures of galaxy's most feared bounty hunter/avenger/ protector) | $12.95 |
Weisbrot, Robert | Xena: Warrior Princess: Official Guide to the Xenaverse (media tie_in/reference; behind_the_scenes with cast & crew, episode guide, interviews) | $14 |
Whitman, John | Star Wars:Galaxy of Fear 8: The Swarm (young reader) | $4.99 |
Wolverton, Dave | Golden Queen 3: Lords of the Seventh Swarm (insectoid Dronons've trapped Gallen, Orick & Maggie, believing she's abomination, humanity's only hope, & only escape is below lethal alien jungle) | $6.99 |
Wright, Susan | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: The Best & the Brightest (6 of the Federation's most talented, ambitious young people enter the academy-but one will not survive; PBO) | $6.50 |
Zindell, David | The War in Heaven ( Broken God & The Wild sequel; pilot Danlo wi Soli Ringess prepares to die to heal fractured galaxy; PBO) | $5.99 |
DUE BY MID_JANUARY
Altman, Mark A/Gross, Edward | Trek Navigator (media reference; "every Star Trek episode rated & reviewed", covers all shows & movies) | $13.95 |
Barnes, Steven | Iron Shadows (beautiful detective w/black belt hired to rescue wealthy heiress from mysterious cult rumored to employ erotic rituals & brutal deaths) | $24.95 |
Barton, William | Acts of Conscience (space construction worker visits planet, realizes human colonists are hunting intelligent natives for sport & slave export) | $5.99 |
Bear, Greg | Dinosaur Summer (in alternate 1947, Peter Belzoni & his journalist father go to see the dinosaur circus in S America, but find themselves stranded in dinosaur territory) | $23.00 |
Bunch, Chris | The Seer King (hotheaded cavalry officer Damastes & radical wizard Tenedos survive ambush, begin to outwit enemies, their path leads to power) | $6.99 |
de Lint, Charles | Someplace to be Flying (Newford milieu/Celtic & Native American mythology; residents discover truth behind the "animal people" who 1st walked earth) | $24.95 |
Denton, Bradley | One Day Closer to Death: 8 Stabs at Immortality (collection includes a "Blackburn" tale; author is World Fantasy Award winner) | $23.95 |
Dickinson, Peter/Anderson, Wayne_illus | The Flight of Dragons (reprint; combines fact, fantasy, science, romance aiming to prove existence of dragons, incl flight patterns, eating habits, mating & evolutionary cycles) | $24.95 |
Elliott, Kate | Crown of Stars 1: King's Dragon (young man of humble background seeks destiny promised by Lady of Battles & young woman w/history_making power are swept up in war for humanity's survival) | $6.99 |
Elliott, Kate | Crown of Stars 2: Prince of Dogs (as war tears Wendar & Varre, Alain becomes Count's heir, Liath struggles w/past secrets, Sanglant's imprisoned in Gent & Fifth Brother raises army) | $23.95 |
Golden, Christie | Invasion America (media tie_in; David Carter finds he's only half_human -father was alien prince-& must lead Earth defense agains aliens who've already infiltrated; PBO) | $5.99 |
Goldstein, Lisa | Walking the Labyrinth (reprint; woman's investigation of aunt's magic act leads to house w/extensive subterranean labyrinth, discovery of unusual powers, unexpected family history) | $12.95 |
Gorman, Ed/Greenberg, MH_eds | UFO Files (anthology of stories of alien contact; PBO) | $5.99 |
Gotlieb, Phyllis | Flesh & Gold (telepathic female judge investigates when she sees and amphibious human enslaved & displayed in tank as pleasure house ad) | $22.95 |
Grant, Charles | In the Mood (in Book 2 of the Millennium Quartet , famine sweeps across the world as the Second Horseman rides) | $23.95 |
Hamilton, Peter F | The Nano Flower (telepathic investigator tries to find origin of flower w/genes millions of years advanced over terrestrial DNA; concludes the trilogy) | $25.95 |
Joyce, Graham | Requiem (reprint; widower travels to Jerusalem to search for meaning in life, but suffers increasing madness until entrusted with previously unknown Dead Sea Scroll) | $13.95 |
Joyce, Graham | The Tooth Fairy (erotic coming_of_age story about young man & an unearthly being visible only to him) | $22.95 |
Pierce, Tamora | Immortals 4: Realms of the Gods (young reader; Daine & Numair take dangerous journey from home of gods back to earth to fight battle in Tortall) | $4.99 |
Rowley, Christopher | Dragons of Argonath (Bazil Broketail/dragoneer Relkin 6, as ancient evil threatens Empire, Relkin must draw on untested, frightening magic; PBO) | $6.99 |
Somtow, SP | Darker Angels (shaman dares to raise the dead from Civil war battlefields; expanded from short story, includes historical characters) | $24.95 |
Thurston, Robert | Battletech 36:Twilight of the Clans 4: Freebirth (PBO) | $5.99 |
Van Pallandt, Nicolas | Anvil (Gabriel Kylie comes to city in wasteland made livable by technology to find truth of sister's murder, but secrets he uncovers could destroy planet; PBO) | $6.99 |
DUE BY FEBRUARY 10
Allen, Roger MacBride | Caliban 2: Isaac Asimov's Inferno (politician's murder turns suspicion to Caliban, only robot without 3 Laws) | $5.99 |
Allston, Aaron | Star Wars:X_Wing 5: Wraith Squadron (PBO) | $5.99 |
Anthony, Piers | Geodyssey Saga 3: Hope of Earth (historical epic ranges from Africa's Great Rift Valley to 2100 Andes & includes Swiss Alps' "Ice Man", King Herod, Queen Boudica, Tamurlane, Louis XIV) | $6.99 |
Banks, Iain M | Excession (Culture's espionage section sends Byr Gen_Hofoen to steal dead starship captain's soul & results could bring universal peace or devastation) | $5.99 |
Bova, Ben | Moonrise (ex_astronaut Paul Stavenger dreams of bustling, majestic city on moon & wife Joanna makes it reality despite enemies) | $6.99 |
Bova, Ben | Moonwar (young Doug Stavenger leads Moonbase in its defiance of Earth's ban on the nanotech that created & sustains the colony) | $23.00 |
Carroll, Jerry Jay | Top Dog (when high_powered Wall St exec wakes up as a dog in world of fairy tale forests, magic creatures, monsters, he has good & evil options to explore) | $5.99 |
Clarke, Arthur C | 3001: The Final Odyssey ("grand finale of legendary [sf] series") | $6.99 |
Cole, Allan | Timura Trilogy 1: Wizard of the Winds (powerful young sorceror & would_be king set out to take & hold kingdom) | $6.99 |
Cole, Allan | Timura Trilogy 2: Wolves of the Gods (evil invades Esmir & wizard Timura must emerge from solitude, lead people to safety while Iraj Protarus rises from the dead & pursues them in revenge) | $13.00 |
Crispin, AC/Emerson, Ru | Starbridge: Voices of Chaos (newly discovered feline race Arrekhi requests admission to Cooperative League, but deception & secrets could turn their world into war zone; PBO) | $5.99 |
Davis, Jim | Garfield's 20th Anniversary Collection (comic strip collection) | $14.95 |
DeFilippis, Christopher | Quantum Leap 16: Foreknowledge (media tie_in; PBO) | $5.99 |
Goldin, Stephen | Star Trek: Trek To Madworld (reprint) | $5.50 |
Green, Terence M | Blue Limbo (renegade cop Mitch Helwig is out on the street for revenge, & if his high_tech weaponry doesn't do it, he'll go beyond death) | $5.99 |
Hogan, James P | Mind Matters: Exploring the World of Artificial Intelligence (non_fiction; covers history of science's attempts to develop AI from 40s to present, plus social, political, psychological implications) | $25.00 |
Hood, Daniel | Scales of Justice (magical investigator Liam Rhenford/dragon familiar Fanuilh 4, think they're looking for source of spell that killed wizard;PBO) | $5.50 |
Kanaly, Michael | Virus Clans (scientist discovers certain viruses intelligently plan where, how to multiply, as virus clans spanning millenia evolve, develop plan for humanity) | $12 |
King, Gabriel | The Wild Road (pampered house cat Tag is given magical quest to find King & Queen of cats, bring them to Tintagel before spring equinox, despite the human Alchemist) | $24.95 |
Lee, Adam | Dominions of Irth 1: The Dark Shore (wizarduke Lord Drev & followers battle The Dark Lord & his demons who aim to destroy all Irth) | $5.99 |
Leigh, Stephen | Dark Water's Embrace (100 yrs after explorers were marooned, descendents find struggles w/gender, fertility, birth defects are same as for planet's extinct natives; PBO) | $3.99 |
Modesitt, LE Jr | Adiamante (cyber_warriors bring spaceship fleet back to Earth 10,000 years after their banishment) | $6.99 |
Park, Severna | Hand of Prophecy (slave fights for antidote to the virus that keeps slaves young then kills them, as warships arrive to conquer her planet) | $14.00 |
Pellegrino, Charles | Dust (paleobiologist Richard Sinclair among first to realize natural events & transformed ecology, incl disappearance of insects, are war on humanity) | $15.95 |
Resnick, Mike | Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (on terraformed 22c planet, Koriba establishes & rules utopian society based on Kenya before European influence, but then challenges to power arise) | $25.00 |
Roessner, Michaela | The Stars Dispose (young man learns family's secret culinary magics practiced for generations of Medicis finds himself in inter_city war & intrigue with grand, mystic design) | $6.99 |
Rucker, Rudy | Freeware (when Randy falls for a moldie-artificial, despised lifeform-"she" draws him into mysterious conspiracy that leads to intergalactic intelligence) | $5.99 |
Saberhagen, Fred | A Sharpness on the Neck (Franklin's son Philip Radcliffe draws vampire's enmity in 1792 France, kidnapped Philip & June Radcliffe in 1990s learn of history, jeopardized lives) | $5.99 |
Saberhagen, Fred | Wayfinder's Story: 7th Book of Lost Swords (Sword of Wisdom turns up in hands of Valdemar, a simple grower of grapes searching for perfect woman, as battle against infamous wizard looms) | $4.99 |
Smeds, Dave | X_Men: Law of the Jungle (media tie_in; PBO) | $6.99 |
Werber, Bernard | Empire of the Ants (Jonathan, then others vanish into inherited Paris flat's cellar, while female ant nearby becomes queen of great civilization & discovers secret; Jeff reviews this issue) | $23.95 |
Zahn, T/Baron, M/Dodson, T/Nowlan, K | Star Wars: Dark Force Rising (graphic novel; adaptation of Zahn's 2nd novel) | $17.95 |
DUE BY MID_FEBRUARY
Baker, Kage | In the Garden of Iden (Mendoza is chosen, trained, made immortal by the Company, sent to Renaissance England torn by counter_reformation to save holly species for cancer war) | $23.00 |
Bishop, Anne | Black Jewels 1: Daughter of the Blood (as Dark Kingdom prepares for prophesied arrival of new, powerful-though young & easily influenced-Queen, 3 sworn enemies vie to control her; PBO) | $5.99 |
Bunch, Chris | The Demon King (General Damastes tries to stop Emperor Tenedos' plan for war w/more powerful kingdom & learns of dark bargain made for throne; PBO) | $12.99 |
Calder, Richard | Dead Girls; Dead Boys; Dead Things (omnibus reprint of "gender war that crosses the boundaries of software, wetware, time & reality itself") | $15.95 |
Gould, Steven | Helm (on distant colony world, young man must learn the ways of a warrior to unleash power of forbidden device filled w/Earth's lost wisdom) | $24.95 |
Greenberg, MH/Arthurs, Bruce D | Olympus (anthology of tales of ancient gods by Friesner, Yolen, de Lint, Paxson, Huff, West, McKiernan, more; PBO) | $6.99 |
Hatfield, James/Burt, George "Doc" | Lost In Space: Ultimate Unauthorized Trivia Challenge (TV tie_in/reference) | $14.00 |
Jacques, Brian | The Long Patrol (Redwall 10; young Tammo wants to join hare warriors & journeys with nomad squirrel to Redwall, where the Patrol is protecting Abbey from rat Rapscallions, audio $17.95) | $21.99 |
Kessel, John | Corrupting Dr Nice (con artists traveling in time intercept famous doctor returning to future from Cretaceous w/living dinosaur) | $14.95 |
Koke, Jak | Shadowrun 30:Dragon Heart 3: Beyond the Pale (PBO) | $5.99 |
Latimer, Jonathan | As She Climbed Across the Table (professor falls for partical physicist who's fallen for artificially created nothingness that absorbs,rejects mysteriously) | $12.00 |
Llywelyn,M/Samuel,B/Wiggs,S/Gellis | Irish Magic II (4 novellas of Irish magic & romance) | $5.99 |
Mackay, Scott | Outpost (time travel/alternate history; human prisoners escape alien captivity to discover 2 alien races battling over humanity's past) | $24.95 |
Perry, Steve | Leonard Nimoy's Primortals: Target Earth (creatures taken from earth by aliens millenia ago before ecological disaster are now most advanced, deadly in universe & are back to reclaim earth) | $6.50 |
Rawn, Melanie | Exiles 2: The Mageborn Traitor (Mage Captal Cailet, sisters Sarra & Glenin struggle to rebuild political, economic & magical society in wake of war while enemies continue to threaten) | $6.99 |
Rawn, Melanie | The Diviner ( The Golden Key prequel; story of the Tza'ab Rih nation's foundation on murder, vengeance, love, conquest, betrayal & of new magic's creation) | $24.95 |
Reaves, Michael | Voodoo Child (when a drug dealer summons monstrous evil forces from Invisible World, a voodoo priest who survived previous encounter w/him must stop the drug dealer) | $24.95 |
Rice, Anne | Pandora (chronicler/fledgling vampire David Talbot meets 2000_yo Pandora, 1st vampire made by Marius & learns her to tell her "life"'s story) | $19.95 |
Russell, Mary Doria | Children of God (Father Emilio Sandoz 2, continues quest for secret of God's plan when heavens have shattered belief; sequel to The Sparrow ) | $23.95 |
Sarrantonio, Al | Five Worlds 3: Return (Earth's exiled king is universe's only hope to defeat evil tyrant Prime Cornelian; PBO) | $5.99 |
Sheffield, Charles | The Cyborg from Earth (Jupiter novel; after failing test to join deep space navy, young man is drafted for urgent mission to distant space) | $22.95 |
Stirling, SM | Island in the Sea of Time (after storm, Nantucket residents find selves in Bronze Age coping w/barely understandable, warlike neighbors & a would_be conqueror from own time; PBO) | $6.99 |
Turtledove, harry | Between the Rivers (young merchant is his city's only hope when the gods of other cities combine efforts to punish his city) | $24.95 |
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