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SCIENCE FICTION and FANTASY
The Chosen: Rogue Angel #4 by Alex Archer - Gold Eagle, pb $6.50 0373621221
Brass Man: Gridlinked #2 by Neal Asher - Tor, Tpb $14.95 Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected a horrific killing machine named Mr. Crane to assist in a similar hunt. Mr. Crane, an insane, indestructible, artificial man now in a new metal body, seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. And he is on a collision course with Ian Cormac. 0765317311
Myth Adventures Two by Robert Asprin - Meisha Merlin, HC $39.95 The omnibus compilations of Robert Asprin's Myth Adventure Series continues in this collection including M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link, Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections, M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action, Sweet Myth-tery of Life, Myth-ion Improbable and Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. Includes illustrations by Phil Foglio. 1592221122
also available in Tpb $24.95 1592221130
Myth-nomers and Impervections by Robert Asprin - Ace, pb $6.99 (1987) Skeeve leaves the rest of the M.Y.T.H. crew behind as he follows his mentor, Aahz, to the demon’s home dimension of Perv. 0441014615
Gods and Pawns: The Company by Kage Baker - Tor, HC $24.95 Eight Company stories, collected for the first time, including the novella “To the Land Beyond the Sunset”, with Lewis and Mendoza, and involving a strange tribe in Bolivia whose members claim to be gods. “Standing in His Light” features Van Drouten and her role in the career of the artist Jan Vermeer. Also includes original novellette “Hellfire at Twilight”. 0765315521
Capacity by Tony Ballantyne - Bantam Spectra, pb $6.99 Helen is waking to a dark new reality, a borrowed existence as a personality construct. She finds an unexpected guide in Judy, a geisha-faced virgin who’s on a mission. Together, the two of them begin a dangerous run through dozens of imagined worlds in an attempt to trap a psychopath haunting the shadowed areas of virtual space - a killer who brutally murdered an earlier version of Helen and who plans to kill again. 055389296
Emperor: Time’s Tapestry #1 by Steven Baxter - Ace, HC $24.95 A Celtic noble betrays his people at the behest of his mother's belief in The Prophecy, and sides with the conquering Roman legions. For the next 400 years, Britannia thrives - as does the family that contributed to Rome's reign over the island with the construction of Emperor Hadrian's Wall and the protection of Emperor Constantine from a coup d'tat. And even when the sun begins to set on the Roman Empire, The Prophecy remains. For those capable of deciphering its signs and portents, the future of Earth is in their hands. 0441014666
Designated Targets: Weapons #2 by John Birmingham - Del Rey, pb $7.99 (2005) The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction. 0345457153
Airs Beneath the Moon by Toby Bishop - Ace, pb $6.99 In the Duchy of Oc, the most precious of creatures are the winged horses blessed by the goddess Kalla. When one is born, it is immediately taken to the Academy of the Air to be trained and watched over. But when a spirited peasant girl bonds with a winged horse of her own, the Academy gets more than it bargained for. (Pseudonym of Louise Marley) 0441014623
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond - Simon & Schuster Aladinn, Tp $6.99 (1976) Three American children transplanted to Wales for one year find an ancient harp-tuning key that returns them to the the 6th century. Newberry Honor winner. 1416927719
Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan - Tor, pb $7.95 (2003) Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night. 1582349436
Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler - Warner, Tpb $14.95 Omnibus of Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988) and Imago (1989). The story of Lilith Iyapo, who is resurrected centuries after her death by the powerful Oankali who are healing Earth by merging themselves with humanity. Now they must share the planet with their alien offspring. 0446676101
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - Warner, Tp $13.95 (1993) When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. 0446675504
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler - Warner, Tpb $13.95 (1998) Lauren's love is divided among her daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God is Change". 0446675784
Seed to Harvest by Octavia E. Butler - Warner, Tp $18.99 Omnibus of Wild Seed (1980), Mind of My Mind (1977), Clay’s Ark (1984) and Patternmaster (1976). In ancient Africa, a female demigod of nurture and fertility mates with a powerful, destructive male entity. Together they birth a race of madmen, visionaries, and psychics who cling to civilization's margins and back alleys for millennia, coming together in a telepathic Pattern just as Earth is consumed by a cosmic invasion. Now these new beings-no longer merely human-will battle to rule the transfigured world... 0446698903
Also see the HORROR section for the Tpb reprint of Fledgling.
Scar Night by Alan Campbell - Bantam Spectra, HC $22.00 Suspended by chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss, the ancient city of Deepgate is home to a young angel, an assassin, and a psychotic murderer hungry for revenge-or redemption. But soon a shocking betrayal will unite all three in a desperate quest. 0553384163
Glint by Ann Coburn - Harper Eos, HC $17.99 If Ellie is to find her brother, she must be like Argent, behave like the other girl would. Follow Argent's way, a spiral way, outside the edges of reality. And just as Argent gets help from the mysterious Lukos, could another outsider, living on the fringes of society help Ellie in her hunt for her brother? 0060847239
The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann - Prometheus Pyr, Tp $15.00 (1984) The Titanic is brought back from the bottom of the sea and refurbished, only to be sunk again for those who want the ultimate decadent experience. Some passengers pay to commit suicide by "going under" with the ship. A stunning odyssey of a man searching through the glittering, apocalyptic landscape of the next century for a woman lost to him in a worldwide outbreak of telepathic fear. 1591024870
Bridgehead by David Drake - TOR, pb $6.99 (1986) Three travelers, claiming to be from a utopia six thousand years hence, are helping Dr. Gustafson and his graduate staff invent a time transport. Their stated goal: to stop war and secure a peaceful future. Overloaded and overtaxed, the transport experiments start to go wrong. Dreadfully wrong. What the professors don’t know is that the Travelers have their own plans for the machine. 0765356473
Crown of Stars: Crown of Stars #7 by Kate Elliot - Daw, pb $7.99 (2006) The land is beginning to recover from the cataclysmic return of the spell-cast Aoi lands to earth. But many new alliances are forming even as Sanglant struggles to legitimize his own leadership. The Aoi are carrying out random attacks - while implicating him as their leader. Stronghand has begun a march of conquest. Adelheid and Antonia have made an unholy alliance. And Sabella and Duke Conrad are moving to seize Sanglant's crown. Cultures, religions, and races are clashing for control of this strange new world. 0756404061
Grantville Gazette III: Ring of Fire edited by by Eric Flint - Baen, HC $25.00 The third short story anthology of the Ring of Fire series launched with the novel 1632. Includes stories by Virginia DeMarce, Gorg Huff, Francis Turner, Eva Musch, Wood Hughes, David Carricos and Danita Ewing. 1416509410
The James Tiptree Award Anthology #3 edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin and Jeffrey D. Smith - Tachyon, Tp $14.95 Through their subversive, engaging stories, Tiptree Award–winning authors offer fascinating speculations on the ever-increasing mutability of our public and private selves. Includes work by Geoff Ryman, Nalo Hopkinson, Ted Chiang, Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Aimee Bender. 1892391414
Feast of Souls: Magister #1 by C. S. Friedman - Daw, HC $25.95 A terrifying world in which the fuel for sorcery is the very fire of the human spirit, and those who hunger for magical power must pay for it with their lives. In this epic tale of nightmarish shadows and desperate hope, the greatest threat of all may not be that of ancient enemies returned, or ancient wars resumed, but of the darkness that lies within the hearts of men. 0756404320
Circus of the Damned: Anita Blake #3 by Laurel Hamilton - Berkley, Tp $14.00 (1995) A rogue master vampire hits town, and Anita gets caught in the middle of an undead turf war. Jean-Claude, the Master Vamp of the city, wants her for his own-but his enemies have other plans. And to make matters worse, Anita takes a hit to the heart when she meets a stunningly handsome junior high science teacher named Richard Zeeman. They're two humans caught in the crossfire - or so Anita thinks. 0425201392
The Assassin King: Symphony of Ages #6 by Elizabeth Haydon - Tor, HC $25.95 Two gatherings of great import are taking place. A convocation of dragons mourn the death of Llauron and the loss of lore and control over the Earth itself. The second gathers together the rulers of the alliance that protects the Middle Continent, the new Duke of Navarne, the Lord Marshall, the King of Ylorc, and his Sergeant-Major, in a council of war. 0765305658
The Minister’s Daughter by Julie Hearn - Simon Pulse, Tp $7.99 (2005) Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife...and, some say, a witch. Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister's daughter: beautiful and refined, innocent and sweet-natured...to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret -- a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light. Historical fiction set in the 17th century with a fantasy element. 0689876912
Rebel Fay: Noble Dead #5 by Barb Hendee and J. C. Hendee - Penguin Roc, HC $23.95 Desperate to free his mother from a caste of ruthless elven assassins, Leesil joins his beloved Magiere, the sage Wynn, and their canine protector, Chap, on a difficult journey through mountains and harsh winter. 0451461215
Traitor to the Blood: Nobel Dead #4 by Barb Hendee and J. C. Hendee - Roc, pb $7.99 (2006) Magiere the dhampir and Leesil the half-elf embark on a quest to uncover the secrets of their mysterious origins - and for those responsible for orchestrating the events that brought them together. 0451460901
Sunset: Warriors: The New Prophecy #6 by Erin Hunter - HarperCollins, HC $16.99 New challenges face the wild cat Clans with both terror and adventure. Book 12 in the Warriors series from the writing team of Kate Cary and Chenth Baldry. 0060827696
The Cobra King of Kathamndu: Children of the Lamp #3 by P. B. Kerr - Scholastic Orchard, HC $16.99 Djinn twins, John and Philippa Gaunt travel from New York to London to Nepal and India on a whirlwind adventure to help their friend and fellow djinn, Buck, find out who murdered his friend using the venomous snakebite of the king cobra. 0439670233
Cupid: a Tale of Love and Desire by Julius Lester - Harcourt, HC $17.00 This is the story of Cupid - the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs - finally getting his comeuppance. When the god of love falls in love himself, things are bound to get interesting. And when he crosses his mama, Venus, in the process . . . Well, things could get downright messy. 015202056X
Wolf Hunting: Wolf #5 by Jane Lindskold - Tor, pb $7.99 (2006) Still in Liglimon, Firekeeper and her wolf companion Blind Seer respond to a request for assistance from Truth, the soothsayer-jaguar. They come across evidence of people with an unhealthy interest in ancient magic. But Truth knows more than she is telling. 0765351439
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier - Knopf, HC $16.95 There are many mysteries within the wildwood. Jena and her sisters share a fantastic secret that enables them to escape the confines of their everyday life in rural Transylvania. They have kept it hidden for nine long years. When their father falls ill and must leave their forest home over the winter, Jena and her oldest sister Tati are left in charge. All goes well until a tragic accident allows their over bearing cousin Cezar to take control. 0375833641
Changelings: Twins #1, Petaybee #4 by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough - Del Rey, pb $7.99 (2006) The twins Ronan and Murel have a special relationship with the sentient planet that is their home. Like their father, each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet’s creatures. But when a visiting scientist witnesses their startling metamorphosis and becomes obsessed with their capture, Sean and Yana send them to stay with a powerful family friend on an orbiting space station. 0345470036
Maelstrom: Twins #2, Petaybee #5 by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough - Del Rey, HC $23.95 Telepathic twins Murel and Ronen help the refugees from Halau to reach Petaybee. But their friend Marmion, who provided transport, has been arrested by the Intergalactic Enterprises Company. 0345470044
Bridge of Souls: Quickening #3 by Fiona McIntosh - Harper Eos, pb $7.99 (2006) Wyl Thirsk, former general of the Morgravian army and bearer of the curse known as Myrren's gift, is running out of time. Marriage between his beloved Queen Valentyna and his sworn enemy, the despotic King Celimus, is imminent, even while war looms between the two nations. Trapped in a body not his own, with his friends and supporters scattered throughout the realm, Wyl is as desperate to prevent the wedding as he is to end Myrren's gift -- a magic that will cease only when he assumes the throne of Morgravia. 0060747617
Solstice Wood by Patricia McKillip - Ace, Tp $14.95 (2006) When her beloved grandfather dies, bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn knows she must finally return to her childhood home in upstate New York and face the grandmother who raised her and the woods which so beguiled and frightened her. But it's not until she meets the Fiber Guild: a group of local women who meet to knit, embroider, and sew, that Sylvia learns why her grandmother watches her so. A power exists in the forest, a force the Fiber Guild seeks to bind in its stitches and weavings. 0441014658
Wolf Star: Merrimack #2 by R. M. Meluch - Daw, pb $7.99 (2006) In the long war with the Palatine Empire, the pride of the Terran space fleet are its sister starships, the U.S.S. Merrimack and the U.S.S. Monitor. Now that the Palatine forces have secretly captured the Monitor and its codes, they can remotely seize control of the Merrimack-leaving her almost helpless. But as both sides struggle for supremacy, they are about to be attacked by an alien life-form - the Hive, a biological force with only one imperative: to seek and devour. 0756403839
The Stone Light: Dark Reflections #2 by Kai Meyer - Simon and Schuster McElderry, HC $16.95 Merle - carrying the mysterious Flowing Queen within her - and Vermithrax, the winged stone lion, are flying into Hell. They are looking for help in freeing Venice from the invading Egyptian pharaoh and his mummy warriors. But some truly nightmarish surprises await them as they travel to the center of Hell and encounter its sinister ruler - Lord Light. 0689877897
The Wave by Walter Mosley - Warner, pb $7.50 Errol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking for him by name and claiming to be his father who has been dead for several years. Curious he sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds there will change his life forever. But once Errol has been touched by the Wave, a presence infecting the planet, can anything be the same again? 0446618187
Savage Messiah: Destinies of Blood and Stone #1 by Robert Newcomb - Del Rey, pb $7.99 (2006) Tristan and his trusted allies embark on a desperate quest to cleanse his blood and restore the Orb of the Vigors. It is a journey that will lead from the Sea of Whispers to the mysterious Well of Forestallments, and it will change everything the Chosen Ones think they know about themselves and their destiny. 0345477081
The Diamond Isle: Dreamtime #3 by Sean Nicholls - Harper Eos, Tp $14.95 Cursed with immortality and fits of blind, deadly rage, swordsman Reeth Caldason has wandered the world seeking both revenge for his slain tribe and a cure for his affliction. 0060738936
War of Three Waters: Watershed #3 by Douglas Niles - Ace, pb $7.99 (1998) The war between the three lands turns in the dark lord's favor, as humans and Faerines rally valiantly to make one last stand against his countless minions. But through the power of Aura, the Man and Woman of Three Waters have seen their destiny. They must travel to the bleak wasteland beyond the Watershed and - with the legendary sword of their ancestors - strike at the very heart of evil. 0441005322
Emlyn’s Moon: Magician #2 by Jenny Nimmo - Scholastic Orchard, HC $9.99 (1987) Young magician Gywn and his friend Nia have been warned to stay away from Emlyn Llewelyn, the strange boy who claims his mother lives on the moon. And yet, a mysterious magic continues to draw them to him. But why? 0439846765
Three Hands for Scorpio by Andre Norton - Tor, pb $6.99 (2005) Drucilla, Sabina, and Tamara, identical sisters born to Desmond, Earl of Skorpys, understand the price of being princesses in a realm bordered by fractious neighbors. For generations their land has been plagued by incursions, raiding parties, and more serious conflicts with Gurlyon, the land to their North. But when these three are kidnapped as part of a plot they are taken to a mysterious realm where they experience terrors unlike anything they could imagine. 0765343851
Skybreaker: Airborn #2 by Kenneth Oppel - Harper Eos, pb $6.99 (2005) Matt Cruse is first to identify the Hyperion, the private airship of a reclusive and fabulously wealthy inventor that disappeared forty years ago with its owner. Armed with the Hyperion's coordinates, which only he possesses, Matt, heiress Kate de Vries, and a mysterious young gypsy board the Sagarmatha, an airship fitted with the new skybreaker engines that will allow them to reach the Hyperion, 20,000 feet above the earth's surface. Pursued by others who want the Hyperion and will stop at nothing to get it, and surrounded by dangerous high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions are soon fighting not only for the Hyperion but for their very lives. 0060532297
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin - Fairwood Press, Tp $16.00 (1968) After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero. Belligerent soccer player, intrepid explorer of ventilation shafts, Mia tests all the boundaries of her insulated world. Now she must survive a month unaided in the wilds of a colony world, and will find that her most vital lessons are the ones she must teach herself.
The White Tyger: Roumania #3 by Paul Park - Tor, HC $25.95 Miranda Popescu is at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between conjurers. Her enemies are the mad Baroness Ceausescu, serving as a figurehead-of-state, and the ghost of the sinister Elector of Ratisbon. 0765315297
Decipher by Stel Pavlou - St. Martin’s Griffin, Tp $14.95 (2002) A small group of scientists must decipher an unknown language discovered in Antarctica to make sense of the sudden awakening of ancient sites if humanity - and its home - is to survive the ultimate catastrophe. 0312366965
Platinum Pohl: the Collected Best Stories by Frederik Pohl - Tor Orb, Tp $16.95 (2005) Thirty stories gathered from SFWA Grand Master career, including “The Merchants of Venus”, “Fermi and Frost”, “The Gold at Starbows End” and “Servant of the People”. 0765301458
Time Twisters edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greeenberg - Daw, pb $7.99 17 new stories of daring adventurers who meddle with time including: a science fiction fan who warded off an alien invasion of Earth through contemporary culture...Joan of Arc's training in future history...and an FBI hunt for a Mafia don who found his way back to the age of knighthood. 0756404053
Chandlefort: In the Shadow of the Bear #2 by David Randall - McElderry, HC $16.95 Clovermead must confront dangerous secrets from her family's troubled past when a mysterious stranger appears in Chandlefort. Perhaps he is the old friend of Clovermead's real father, as he claims to be - or perhaps an old enemy of the Cindertallows who seeks a final revenge. When Clovermead unintentionally puts her mother's life in mortal peril, her only chance to make amends and save the mother she has just begun to know is to set off on a dangerous journey to a distant abbey. The life of her mother, the salvation of Chandlefort, and the freedom of the bears enslaved by the overwhelming power of Lord Ursus all depend on Clovermead. 0689878702
Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly - Pocket, pb $7.99 (2005) It’s a race against time - and well armed adversaries - on the greatest treasure hunt of all time -- to find the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 1416505067
Water Rites by Mary Rosenblum - Fairwood Press, Tp $17.00 Omnibus of the novel Drylands (1993) and three related novelettes, “Water Bringer," "Celilo," and "The Bee Man."
The Mad Professor by Rudy Rucker - Thunder’s Mouth, Tp $15.95 Twelve stories including “Chu and the Nants”: a bizarre future following a Verge Singularity, in which hyperintelligent computers have taken over the solar system, “Panpsychism Proved”: breaks down the boundaries between mind and matter, exploring the notion that every object has a mind, and “Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation”: an exhilarating collection of mini-stories taking us to the outrageous extremes of theoretical speculation. 1560259744
Earthseed by Pamela Sargent - Tor Teen, Tp $6.99 (1983) To Zoheret and her shipmates, Ship has been mother, father, and loving teacher, preparing them for their biggest challenge: to survive on their own, on an uninhabited planet, without Ship’s protection. Now that day is almost upon them...but are they ready to leave Ship? Ship devises a test. And suddenly, instincts that have been latent for over a hundred years take over. Zoheret watches as friends become strangers-and enemies. Can Zoheret and her companions overcome the biggest obstacle to the survival of the human race-themselves? 0765352877
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi - Tor, pb $6.99 (2004) The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce -- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. 0765348276
The Treasures of Weatherby by Zilpha Keatley Snyder - Atheneum, HC $15.95 Harleigh J. Weatherby IV feels misunderstood. At age twelve he is about as tall as a six-year-old, and no one lets him forget it. Now he is homeschooled at the Weatherby mansion, where strict Aunt Adelaide is always on his case about something. Then Harleigh meets Allegra. When she literally flies over the walls of Weatherby and into Harleigh's life, the two form an unlikely friendship. Allegra is fascinated by the enormous Weatherby mansion, and sneaks inside. 141691398X
Powers of Detection edited by Dana Stabenow - Ace, pb $7.99 (2004) Sit in on a modern-day witch's trial, visit the halls of a magical boarding school with murder on the curriculum, spend some time with Sookie Stackhouse, visit London's hidden world of the Nightside, and become spellbound with eight more tales of magical mystery. Includes stories by Michael Armstrong, Donna Andrews, Anne Bishop, Jay Caselberg, Mike Doogan, Laura Anne Gilman, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, Anne Perry, Sharon Shinn and John Straley. 044101464X
The Quantum Connection: Warp Spped #2 by Travis S. Taylor - Baen, pb $7.99 (2005) Imprisoned and likely to be dissected by the aliens we were not quite yet at war with, Steven Montana better hope that his knack for reverse engineering hardware can make a difference here. 0743498968
The Silver Bough by Lisa Tuttle - Bantam Spectra, Tp $12.00 (2006) Appleton was once famous and outsiders are still drawn to the charming village, including three very different American women. When a sudden landslide cuts Appleton off from the wider world – and the usual constraints of reality – the village reveals itself to be an extraordinary place, inhabited by legendary beings, secret rooms, and the blossoming of a rare fruit not seen in decades. 0553587358
Plague of Memory: Stardoc by S. L. Viehl - Penguin Roc, pb $7.99 Dr. Cherijo Torin is not herself. With no memory of her past she sees herself as a different person and has no desire to remember who she once was. But Cherijo must remember if she's to develop a cure for the Hsktskt plague before their race becomes extinct. 0451461231
The Strangeling by Saskia Walker - WildSide, Tp $13.95 One woman alone holds the power to undo the hundred-year-old curse of an invincible army of dead men who wait to prey upon the living. Maerose must drive back the evil spirits by mating with a man of faith on the dark night of Samhain at the very gates of the underworld. But a mad man aligned with the demonic forces threatens to possess her. 0809557932
Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber - Tor, HC $25.95 Here is the saga of humanity, reduced by an implacable alien enemy to a single colony on the distant world of Safehold. To avoid broadcasting the signals of an industrial civilization, the rulers of Safehold have built a religion designed to keep society medieval forever. Now, hundreds of years later, an android awakens a rebirth that will provide the humans with their last chance to learn the truth and rejoin the universe. 0765315009
Oath of Swords by David Weber - Baen, Tp $15.00 (1995) Bahzell has plenty of problems. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages. In addition, there’s a violated hostage bond, a vengeful prince, a price on his head. So how does he end up a thousand leagues from home, neck-deep in political intrigue, assassins, demons, psionicists, evil sorcery, white sorcery, dark gods, good gods, bad poets, greedy landlords, and most of Bortalik Bay? Well, it's all the War God's fault. . . This edition also includes a new novella “Sword Brother”. 1416520864
Exodus: Stars at War #7 by Steve White and Shirley Meier - Baen, HC $26.00 An implacable foe with telepathic cohesion in battle, near-immortality, and eons-advanced engineering skills threatens to wipe humanity from the galaxy. Their one weakness? No FTL. But that won’t last long. Now a hard-bitten and brilliant admiral, his brain plucked from cryo and fitted to a new body, must put aside a generation of differences and join with his greatest foe to face the alien ravagers. For when human existence is on the line, we need all the heroes we can get-even if we have to bring them back from the dead! 1416520988
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce - Harcourt, HC $17.00 Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall - the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magickal butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator anyway. Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, she stumbles upon the long-banished butler--and into a mind-blowing muddle of intrigue and betrayal. 0152054332
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Clive Woodall - Ace, pb $6.99 (2005) Darkness has fallen over the realm of Birddom. The skies rain blood, no nest is safe, and the winds are thick with fear, pain, and death. Driven by an unslakable desire to kill and conquer, the black-feathered magpies have hunted down and slaughtered countless species of smaller birds into extinction. Led by the power-mad Slyekin a reign of terror has laid waste to the beauty and freedom that was once Birddom. Now, Slyekin is preparing to launch his final assault against all that was once pure, and proclaim his vile dominion. 0441014631
HORROR
Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur - Bantam Spectra, pb $6.99 (2006) A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne’s Directorate of Other Races, an organization created to police the supernatural races – and protect humans from their depredations. 0553588451
Dark Angel by Lucy Blue - Pocket, pb $6.99 Roxanna, a vampire princess, is sworn to break the curse that banished her kind to the dark. Awakened from her years-long slumber by Gareth's voice, she preyed on his attackers and kept him alive to feed her hunger. But every night with Gareth makes her want him more... 1416511962
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler - Warner, Tp $13.99 The story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. 0446696161
Eternal Hunger: Candace Steele #3 by Cameron Dean - Ballentine, pb $6.99 Attached by a member of the Board, an ancient, powerful, and secret vampire sect with a vendetta against Ash, Candace realizes the only way she can save her life is to give herself to Ash and become a vampire. 0345492552
Hell to Pay: Nightside #7 by Simon R. Green - Ace, pb $6.99 In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin, one of the last of the immortal human families, plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone - or something - is blocking Taylor's abilities. 0441014607
The Shadowkiller by Matthew Scott Hamsen - Simon & Schuster, HC $25.00 After a fire claims the lives of a Bigfoot family, the surviving male goes on a bloody rampage through the Pacific Northwest. 0743294734
Rising Moon: Nightcreature by Lori Handeland - St. Martin’s, pb $6.99 Denizens of The Big Easy know its steamy nights can hide any number of sins and secrets. Private-eye Anne Lockhart is counting on it. Her life has been in a holding pattern ever since her sister Katie disappeared without a trace…but when a clue leads Anne to a jazz club in the French Quarter, everything changes. Rising Moon’s proprietor, John Rodolfo, is mysterious in his own right, a gifted musician who reaches deep into Anne’s soul and whose mere presence taps into desires she can’t afford to indulge... 0312938500
Heat of the Night by Emma Holly - Berkeley Sensation, Tp $14.00 Compilation of the novel Hunting Midnight (2003), where the leader of a pack of shapeshifting immortals is betrayed by his longtime lover, and novella "The Night Owl," in which a member of the same pack has been sent to America where his power can grow. 0425211355
No Dominion: Joe Pitt #2 by Charlie Huston - Del Rey, Tp $13.95 Joe Pitt, vampire detective, is down on his luck, and takes on a small job for his old boss at the Society. 0345478258
Daughter of Hounds by Caitlin R. Kiernan - Penguin Roc, Tp $14.00 They are the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and concealed in shadows to be raised by ghouls, they are now changelings in service to the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly forbidden and punishment is swift and severe for those who disobey. 0451461258
Threshold by Caitlin R. Kiernan - Penguin Roc, pb $6.99 (2001) Still shaken by the recent death of her beloved grandfather, Chance Matthews is not prepared to deal with this strange girl with alabaster skin who knows things about Chance that she can't possibly know. She says she is charged by an angel to battle monsters and she needs Chance's help. And among the artifacts left by her geoligist grandparents, there lies a fossil of a creature that shouldn't ever have existed. But it did. And still does. 045146124X
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz - Charnel House, HC : Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature.
You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore - William Morrow, HC $21.95 Life had been challenging enough as a 19-year-old wannabe writer working the night shift. But now Tommy’s girlfriend has decided he needs to join her as one of the undead, and finding dinner is going to be trickier than reheating yesterday’s burrito. 0060590297
Slices by James A. Moore - Earthling, HC $45.00 Short story collection with both original and hard-to-find reprint stories. Limited to the number of copies pre-ordered by 10/31/2006.
Hart & Boot and Other Stories by Tim Pratt - Night Shade Books, Tpb $14.95 A new collection of thirteen stories, three original, from the author of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl and Little Gods. The title story, "Hart & Boot" was selected for Best American Short Stories 2005 by Michael Chabon. Weird, magical and urban. 1597800538
Blue Devil Island by Stephen Mary Rainey - Gale Group/ Five Star, HC $ AUTUMN, 1943: a remote South Pacific island is the base of operations for an American offensive against the Japanese, but signs appear of past habitation by natives that resemble no known living race. 1594144427
A Mortal Glamour by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - WildSide , Tp $12.95 (1985) Amidst the many calamities of the late 14th century something sinister is at work among the sisters of la Tres Saunte Annunciacion, a force the women and the men around them seem powerless to fight. What is overwhelming both the holy and the damned? The true horrors of a dark age combine with ingenious imagination for a tumultuous tale of tragic love and disastrous desire. 0809557940
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DragonLance: The Measure and the Truth: Rise of Solamnia #3 by Douglas Niles - Wizards of the Coast, pb $6.99 0786942479
Fantastic Four : The Baxter Effect by Dave Stern - Pocket Star, pb $7.99 1416510664
Forgotten Realms: The Crystal Shard: Icewind Dale #1, legend of Drizzt #4 by R. A. Salvatore - Wizards of the Coast, pb $7.99 (1988) Left for dead, the young barbarian Wulfgar is rescued by the dwarf, Bruenor, in exchange for five years of service . . . and friendship. With the help of the dark elf, Drizzt, Bruenor reshapes Wulfgar into a warrior with both brawn and brains. 0786942460
Forgotten Realms: The Hunter’s Blades Collector’s Edition by R. A. Salvatore - Wizards of the Coast, HC $27.95 Omnibus of The Thousand Orcs (2002), The Lone Drow (2003) and The Two Swords (2005). 0786943157
Magic the Gathering: Planar Chaos: Tome Spiral #2 by Timothy Sanders - Wizards of the Coast, pb $6.99 0786942495
Star Trek: Missing in Action: New Frontier by Peter David - Pocket, pb $7.99 (2006) Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur find themselves catapulted headlong into another universe, far from the New Thallonian Protectorate and Sector 221-G... a place where an ancient war rages between two powerful alien races. 0743429591
Warhammer 40,000: Soul Drinkers by Ben Counter - Black Library, Tp $10.99 Like all Space Marine Chapters, the Soul Drinkers are bound to serve the Imperium by ancient vows. But when an ancient relic of the Chapter is misappropriated, the Soul Drinkers face a terrible dilemma - betray the Imperium, or lose their honour? Omnibus of three novels. 1844164160
World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde by Christie Golden - Pocket, pb $7.99 Long ago, on the idyllic world of Draenor, the noble orc clans lived in relative peace with their enigmatic neighbors, the draenei. But the nefarious agents of the Burning Legion had other plans for both of the unsuspecting races. The demon-lord Kil'jaeden set in motion a dark chain of events that would succeed not only in eradicating the draenei, but forging the orc clans into an single, unstoppable juggernaut of hatred and destruction. 0743471385