A far-future space adventure with cat girls, space pirates, and sentient coffee plants.
368 page hardcover coming October 1, 2024
ISBN: 1982193689 / 9781982193683
New
Expected 10/1/2024
ID: #New000270
$28.00
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #17: From the Grave
Signed by the author on the title page. A past case comes back to haunt Minnesota PI McKenzie when a psychic medium speaks his name in connection with a huge amount of stolen - and missing - money.
Hardcover
ISBN: 1250212170 / 9781250212177
Already Received
ID: #New000227
$26.99
Kritzer, Naomi
Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories
Acclaimed writer Naomi Kritzer's marvelous tales of science fiction and fantasy are collected in Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories. Here are seventeen short stories, including her Hugo Award-winning story "Cat Pictures Please," about what would happen if artificial intelligence was born out of our search engine history. Two stories are previously unpublished. Kritzer has a gift for telling tales both humorous and tender. Her stories are filled with both wit and intelligence, and require thoughtful reading.
From Hugo and Locus Award-winning author Naomi Kritzer, Catfishing on CatNet is a thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks.
304 pages, Trade Paperback, reprint of 2019 hardcover
Tor Teen - 2021 - ISBN: 1250165091 / 978-1250165091
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Already received
ID: #New000241
$14.99
Kritzer, Naomi
CatNet #2: Chaos on CatNet
When a mysterious entity starts hacking into social networks and chat rooms to instigate paranoia and violence in the real world, it's up to Steph and her new friend, Nell, to find a way to stop it--with the help of their benevolent AI friend, CheshireCat.
304 pages, Paperback, Reprint
Tor Teen - 2022 - ISBN: 1250165210 / 9781250165213
New
4/26/2022
ID: #New000262
$10.99
Kritzer, Naomi
Liberty's Daughter
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead - an archipelago of constructed
platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists a
generation ago. She's grown up comfortable and sheltered, but starts
doing odd jobs for pocket money.
To her surprise, she finds that she's the only detective that a debt
slave can afford to hire to track down the woman's missing
sister. When she tackles this investigation, she learns things about
life on the other side of the waterline - not to mention about herself
and her father - that she did not expect. And she finds out that some
people will stop at nothing to protect their secrets . . .
Decades ago, the Visitors descended on Earth. They claimed to bring peace and prosperity. Their real goal was the total subjugation of humankind. But humanity did not give up its only home without a fight. After a devastating war, the Visitors were driven back to Mars. Their willing human collaborators were left behind. The task of hunting down these former alien collaborators and bringing them to justice falls to Federal Recovery Agents like Nathan Foster.
Emmogene Anderson was taken to the Visitors as a teenager and was experimented upon by the alien invaders. She carries within her body a semi-functional alien device that allows her to control other people. Until recently, she was serving a prison sentence for aiding and abetting the enemy. That is, until she was broken out by her obsessive ex-lover, Anthony Krieg, a former commando for the Visitors' forces, physically enhanced but mentally unstable.
Now, Nathan Foster and his 14-year-old nephew, Ben, are tasked with bringing the pair to justice. Krieg must be killed, Emmogene captured and returned to the proper authorities. An easy enough job—but Emmogene has been implanted with something else, something much more important
356 pages, Trade Paperback, 2021 first edition
Baen - 2021 - ISBN: 1982125020 / 978-1982125028
New
Signing 7/31/2021
ID: #New000242
$8.99
Lee, Sharon / Miller, Steve
Liaden Universe #24: Fair Trade
Signed by the authors.
Jethri Gobelyn has risen far: from despised youngest on a Terran
family Loop ship to second trader on premier Liaden tradeship Elthoria
under the guidance of his unlikely foster-mother Norn ven'Deelin Clan
Ixin. Master Trader ven'Deelin has taught Jethri much, and she expects
great things from him. Indeed, one might say she demands them. Jethri
has inherited a mission from his father, a plan that will allow family
Loop ships like the one he grew up on to survive the encroachment of
Rostov's Dust. In this, he's backed by several prominent Looper
families who are scheduled to meet and plan at the South Axis Trade
Fair. In what seems to be a fortunate pairing of missions, Master
Trader ven'Deelin sees Jethri become lead trader on his own small
ship, which is scheduled to arrive at the South Axis
Fair. Unfortunately, that "fortunate coincidence" may instead be a
test of Jethri's loyalties, as he's thrust into a tangle of
gray-trading, mistaken identity, misinformation, and galactic
politics.
Hardcover
ISBN: 1982126086 / 9781982126087
New
Expected 5/03/2022
ID: #New000248
$25.00
Lee, Sharon / Miller, Steve
Liaden Universe #25: Salvage Right
Signed by the authors.
A door never closes, but a window opens . . .
With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more.
For centuries, two heroes stood between Tinsori Light and the vulnerable universe—Light Keepers Jen Sin yos'Phelium and Lorith of the Sanderat.
Just when it seemed that they—merely human—must fail, Tinsori Light, enfeebled by aged systems, succumbed to the stress of a unique spatial event—and died, leaving the station a shell.
Luckily, the light keepers have back-up. A mismatched team of arcane specialists are on-station, working non-step to preserve the Light, build trustworthy systems, and open the refurbished station for business.
In fact, ships are already incoming, and it becomes a matter of urgency to sort friend from foe. In particular, the Lyre Institute wishes to acquire Tinsori Light, and will do anything, spend anyone, to achieve that goal.
Novel, 416 pages, Hardcover
Baen Books - ISBN: 1982192682 / 9781982192686
New
Expected July 2023
ID: #New000260
$27.00
Lee, Sharon / Miller, Steve
Liaden Universe #26: Ribbon Dance
Signed by the Sharon Lee.
On a world where cake is a necessity, it takes the Grid to protect the civilized and the deaf from the dire influences of the ambient and to keep the chaotic Haosa at bay. Having arrived at recently Dust-bound Colemeno, Trader Padi yos'Galan is essential to Master Trader Shan yos'Galan's plan to recoup Korval's clan fortunes by establishing new routes for the clan's tradeship. Shan's inner Healer insists Padi come to terms with her as-yet unplumbed psychic abilities, which might place her in the top tier of dramliz, if she can learn control. Padi yearns to concentrate on trade, but Colemeno's fey ambient and deadly long-term politics combine to bring her face-to-face with the Haosa, and in particular with the mysterious and untouchable Tekelia, as Korval's trade mission's necessity of a port audit collide with a cruel history of murder, deception, and brutality. Amid the dangers, Padi unexpectedly finds herself eagerly exploring her dramliz side when faced with the unspoken powers of the ambient, the sky-filling energy of the ribbon dance, and Tekelia's mutable eyes"
Novel, 464 pages, hardcover
Baen Books ISBN 1982193441 / 9781982193447
New
Expected early June 2024
ID: #New000269
$27.00
Lee, Sharon / Miller, Steve
Liaden Universe #23: Trader's Leap
Signed by the authors on tipped-in signature page.
The only bridge between past and future is a leap of faith.
Pursued by enemies, exiled Liaden clan Korval is settling into a new base on backworld Surebleak. Moving is expensive, as is war, and Korval is strapped for cash. Delm Korval has therefore instructed Master Trader Shan yos'Galan to design and implement new trade routes, quickly.
But this is no easy task. Dutiful Passage is targeted by Korval's enemies, denied docking at respectable ports, and cheated at those less respectable. Struggling to recuperate from an attack on his life, while managing daughter Padi's emerging psychic talents, Shan is running out of options—and time. His quest to establish the all-important trade route puts him at odds with his lifemate, while doubting crew desert the ship. Facing the prospect of failure, Shan accepts the assistance of chancy allies and turns the Passage toward a port only just emerging from Rostov's Dust and awash with strange energies.
Without trade, Clan Korval will starve. Will a trader's leap of faith save everything—or doom all?
Hardcover
ISBN: 1982124903 / 9781982124908
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Already Received
ID: #New000231
$25.00
Morehouse, Lyda
Earth's Shadow Book 1: Welcome to Boy.Net
Signed by the author on the half title page.
Lucia Del Toro and Independence "Hawk" Hawkings are a pair of
happy-go-lucky lesbian bounty hunters, united in their passion for
adventure and each other.
This is not the third volume of the Kingkiller Chronicles, but is an illustrated side-adventure in the world.
Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-out of breathing; to watch him trade is to watch an artist at work. But even a master's brush can slip. When he accepts a gift, taking something for nothing, Bast's whole world is knocked askew, for he knows how to bargain—but not how to owe.
From dawn to midnight over the course of a single day, follow the Kingkiller Chronicle's most charming fae as he schemes and sneaks, dancing into trouble and back out again with uncanny grace.
The Narrow Road Between Desires is Bast's story. In it he traces the old ways of making and breaking, following his heart even when doing so goes against his better judgement.
After all, what good is caution if it keeps him from danger and delight?
A signature on the title page and a "Signed Copy" sticker applied by the publisher to the front cover.
226 page hardcover 1st Edition, 1st Printing
DAW Books - 2023 - ISBN 0756419174 / 9780756419172
Book Condition: New.
Already Received
ID: #New000264
$26.00
Weber, David / Holo, Jacob
Gordian Division Vol. 2: The Valkyrie Protocol
Signed by the author on tipped-in signature page
Agent Raibert Kaminski and the crew of the Transtemporal Vehicle Kleio have made a shocking discovery out in the unknown reaches of the multiverse. They've stumbled across a temporal implosion that has claimed two whole universes, and neither Raibert nor his crew can figure out what caused this calamity other than it had something to do with reckless time travel.
The Kleio speeds back to their home universe of SysGov with this dire report, but an audacious plan is put into effect before they arrive. Old colleagues of Raibert's from the Antiquities Rescue Trust, together with a version of Samuel Pepys transplanted from the 17th century into the 30th, have proposed an expedition into the past. Their goal? To branch the timeline by preventing the Plague of Justinian, one of the worst pandemics in human history.
Meanwhile, SysGov's multiverse neighbor, the xenophobic Admin, is stirring. While their ambassadors put on a friendly show, the Admin is amassing a fleet of advanced, heavily armed time machines with SysGov firmly in the crosshairs.
Time is running out for Raibert and his team. But the crew of the Kleio won't go down without a fight, no matter where—or when—the threat to their home comes from.
Hardcover
ISBN: 1982124903 / 9781982124908
New
Expected 10/6
ID: #New000230
$27.00
Wrede, Patricia C.
The Dark Lord's Daughter
When ordinary fourteen-year-old Kayla discovers she is the heir to a dark throne, she must find her place between her life on Earth and her magical inheritance.