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January 2002 Catalog - Science Fiction
* ANNOTATED FLATLAND by Edwin A. Abbott & Ian Stewart - Perseus Publishing HC. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's nemerous Victorian references and traces the scientific evolution of geometric forms and dimensions. There's also an extensive bibliography of Abbott's work and that of Charles Howard Hinton, whose wild but ingenious speculations about the fourth dimension undoubtedly inspired Abbott's fable. ... $30.00
* SPHERICAL HARMONIC by Catherine Asaro - Tor HC. The Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rules of the Skolian Empire, struggle to bring together the remnants of their family in the shadow of an interstellar war. Far too many have died, and many more are missing, but they must move quickly if they wish to reclaim their rightful place as rulers of Skolia. ... $27.95
* OUTLANDERS: TOMB OF TIME by James Axler - Gold Eagle pb. Kane uncovers a mystery in the ruins of an ancient ruins known as Chicago. A cult which pulled the strings of the ancient now threaten to rue again the post apocalyptic world of the new earth. ... $6.00
* SUPER-CANNES by J. G. Ballard - Picador HC. Eden-Olympia is more than just a multi-national business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, with the latest in services and facilities for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothin, yet one day a doctor at Eden-Olympia's clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and her husband Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain Eden-Olympia's smoothly-running surface. ... $24.00
* CRASH by J. G. Ballard - Picador Tpb. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a TV Scientist turned Nightmare Angel of the Highways, experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. ... $13.00
* CONCRETE ISLAND by J. G. Ballard - Picador Tpb. On a day in April, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway into the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludictous predicament soon turns to horror as Maitland realizes that, despite the evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become the mirror of his own mind. ... $13.00
* MANIFOLD: SPACE by Stephen Baxter - Del Rey pb. Japanese scientist Nemoto fears her worse nightmares are coming true. Chilling discoveries reveal that the Moon, Mars, Venus and even the Jovian moons once thrived with life... life that was snuffed out in the distant past by starfaring races. Snuffed out not just once but many times, in cycles of birth and destruction. The recent arrival of alien visitors may well portent a new cycle, especially as they precede a species with an ominous predilection for blowing up suns. ... $7.00
* VITALS by Greg Bear - Del Rey HC. Hal Cousins is one of a handful of scientists on the brink of discovering a way to short-circuit the aging process, experimenting on organisms living in the ocean depths. But as he journeys beneath the sea, his other world is falling apart. Scientists, including Hal's twin brother, are being inexplicably murdered. When Hal returns home to Seattle, he finds himself in an eerie realm where voices speak to him from the dead, where a once-brilliant historian turned crackpot is leading him on a deadly game of hide-and-seek, and where the beautiful, rich widow of his twin is more than willing to pick up the pieces of his life - and take him places he's never been before. But Hal is not the first person to come close to ending aging forever - and those who came before him will stop at nothing to keep the secrets to themselves. ... $24.95
* INCA by Suzanne Alles Blom - Tor pb. Atahualpa -- Exemplary Fortune -- young, untried, considered by many of his fellow Inca to be full of strange ideas must face the conquistadores led by the battle-hardened veteran Francisco Pizarro who are intend on stripping the Inca empire of it's wealth and bringing about their deaths. ... $8.00
Also available in SIGNED hardcover ... $24.95
* SEARCHER: FRONTIER EARTH #2 by Bruce Boxleitner - Ace pb. An alien being in the Arizona of 1882 seeks answers about himself and his origins, while being drawn into the conflict between the men who look for silver and the natives who hold the mountains sacred. ... $7.00
* KILN PEOPLE by David Brin - Tor HC. Set in a perilous future where disposable human duplicates fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters. Albeert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, is on the trail of a discovery so revolutionary that it may alter humanity forever, so valuable it has incited open warfare on the streets. To stop the carnage, Morris must enter a shadowy world where nothing - and no one - is what they seem, and even memory itself is suspect. ... $25.95
* MAD SCIENTISTS CLUB by Bertrand R. Brinley - Purple House Press HC. 40th Anniversary Edition, with original text restored. Take seven lively boys, a clubhouse, an electronics lab above the town hardware store and a good supply of Army surplus equipment and you have both a dream come true and a situation that bears watching. Gathered together in one book are the fun-filled escapades of the young scientists who debuted in "Boy's Life" magazine forty years ago. Illustrated by Charles Greer. ... $17.95
* SHADOW OF THE HEGEMON by Orson Scott Card - Tor pb. Sequel to "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow", "Shadow of the Hegemon" continues the story of Ender's Dragon Army after the war. When, one by one, they are all kidnapped, only Bean escapes and he turns to Ender's older brother, Peter Wiggin, for help. Peter has been manipulating world politics from backstage for years, but with Bean's help, Peter Wiggin will rule the world. ... $7.00
* COLLECTED STORIES OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE by Arthur C. Clarke - tor Tpb. Award winning author and sci-fi guru Arthur C. Clarke has written fourty novels and five short story collections and countles stories for sci-fi magazines. Now, for the first time, all his stories have been collected into one volume.So sit back and enjoy as Clarke spins his over one hundred short tales of the unknown. ... $17.95
* APPLESEED by John Clute - tor HC. It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathaniel Freer it is business as usual. His latest commission, to deliver a shipment of nanoforges to the planet Eolhxir, is routine enough. All seems okeydokey - but it is not. A virulent data plague is infecting the spiral arm of the galaxy all the way from Old Earth, threatening the vast concord of living civilizations. A trap has been laid that will draw Freer into an eons-old conflict, and Eolhxir holds the key to everything. And, yes, Johnny Appleseed makes an appearance. ... $25.95
* OTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY by Avram Davidson - Tor HC. A new collection of Davidson's historical fantasies - tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American Frontier. Includes such treasures as "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire", "Traveller from an Antique Land" and "What Strange Stars and Skies". Witty, whimsical, dark and strange, these are tales of times and places that almost were. ... $27.95
FOREIGN BODIES by Stephen Dedman - Tor Tpb. Mike has a WIN card, so the authorities know he's a citizen. He also has ICE-real money. He's lucky, unlike Swiftie, the stripper who's been sleeping on his balcony. Swiftie - or whoever was in her body - took over Mike's body, kicking his consciousness into hers. Now Mike's on the streets, and somehow in a battle that nobody from this era knows is going on. ... $14.95
STRANGE TRADES by Paul Di Filippo - Golden Gryphon Books HC. cover by Frank Kelly Freas. In this new collection, author Paul Di Filippo reconstructs our (mis)conceptions about what it means to work for a living. The eleven stories gathered here emphasize the moral and spiritual dimensions of employment, and examine the practical and ethical quandaries that future occupations may elicit. Yet not all the professions about which Di Filippo writes are strange, rather it's the exigencies surrounding these jobs that enter the realm of the strange and, occasionally, the surreal. ... $24.95
* INDEPENDENT COMMAND by James Doohan & S.M. Stirling - Baen pb. Peter Raeder and his ship INVINCIBLE have a desperate mission: to hit the alien Fibians behind the lines. The battle drives him deeper into alien space than he'd ever intended to go, his ship to damaged to return home. And then he discovers that the monstrous Fibians may not be monsters after all. ... $8.00
* WORLDMAKERS Edited by Gardner Dozois - St. Martin's Press Tpb. A collection of short stories on the creation and colonization of worlds. Contains works by Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Ian McDonald, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles Sheffield, and more. ... $17.95
* AFTERMATH by Samuel C. Florman - St. Martin's Press HC. The year is 2010 and the world as we know it has come to an end. A huge comet has smashed into the earth off the coast of Clifornia, vaporizing and generating a fiery rain that engulfs the globe in a holocaust. But at the opposite end of the planet is a "safe zone". Also spared from destruction is a luxury cruise containing six hundred of the world's leading engineers and their immediate families. They find the surviving community in KwaZulu Natal. These people have been physically cast back to the stone age, but intellectually they are at the forefront of technological progress of the 21st century, and they have the resources for an industrial revolution. The Aftermath is a provocative adventure that provides a scientifically sound blueprint for surviving Armageddon. ... $24.95
IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND by Michael Flynn - Tor HC. First hardcover republication of this favorite older title. A group of American Idealists build an Analytical Engine, a machine allowing possible futures to be predicted. And when a united Germany and unimaginable bombs coming in 1939 are predicted, the group finds a way to prevent it from ever happening.But nothing can be secret forever. And when a reporter stumbles upon the American Idealists, she discovers a web of intrigue and conspiracies. ... $27.95
* BIKINI PLANET by David Garnett - Roc pb. When the Los Vegas cop Wayne Norton was put into an experimental cryogenic sleep chamber, someone forgot to set the wake-up call. When he's revived 300 years later, it's in a world where everything has changed. Drafted into the GalactiCops, Norton is sent into the galaxy's most ruthless war - and the most prized vacation spot in the known universe. ... $6.00
* SILICON DREAMS Edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff - Daw pb. Are robots and androids the next step in human evolution? Twelve authors, including James P. Hogan, Julie Czerneda, & Jane Lindskold, tackle this topic in this brand new short story collection. ... $7.00
* ORPHANS OF THE SKY by Robert A. Heinlein - Baen pb. Classic fave - back in print. ... $7.00
* CERES STORM by David Herter - Tor pb. The planet Earth and the whole the Solar system is being ecologically changed by nanotech storms. In an isolated colony on Mars, a young man named Daric leaves to find his destiny. Learning he is a clone of an ancient emporer Daric finds that it may be his destiny to reinstate the now abolished empire or to destroy it for all time. ... $7.00
also available in hardcover ... $22.95
* DARK WING by Walter H. Hunt - Tor HC. While the zor are just one of the alien races humanity encountered after learning star-travel, from the very first meeting it has been all out war. For years now, these conflicts have ended in an Earth concession and a new treaty - but the zor have no intention of honoring the agreements. When they mount a surprise attack against human colonies, the normally self-absorbed Earth government mobilizes a battle fleet. Earth would be happy with a stalemate, but Marais, the controversial scholar in charge, believes himself destined to exterminate the zor. ... $27.95
* PSYCHOHISTORICAL CRISIS by Donald Kingsbury - Tor HC. Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the digital augmentation of his familiar, he can barely function among the bewildering complexities of everyday 761st-century life on Spendid Wisdom. Lost along with routine survival skills like navigating the streets and levels of the sprawling capital world are many of Eron's memories, his professional expertise and specialized knowledge. The crime he committed must have been terrrible to warrent such punishment - if only he could remember what it was. ... $27.95
* SHY STEGOSAURUS OF CRICKET CREEK by Evelyn Sibley Lampman - Purple House Press HC. A quality reprint of a classic favorite. Suppose you were hunting around in the desert for a fossil and instead you found a real (and very large) dinosaur, genus Stegosaurus. Joan and Joey Brown did! Only nobody would believe they had found one, which is just as well because George (as they called him) was very shy. Illustrated by Hubert Buel. ... $17.95
* ALIEN FACTOR by Stan Lee & Stan Timmons - iBooks HC. The year is 1942. America has just entered into a world war which might drag on for years and could go either way ... until a strange craft crashes behind German lines, bringing interstellar technology to whoever manages to secure the prize. The Allies send a suicide squad to rescue the aliens and their secrets or destroy them before the enemy can. The first hardcover novel from the legendary Stan Lee, the comics writer behind Sgt. Fury and co-creater of Spider-man and the X-Men. ... $24.95
* BORROWED TIDES by Paul Levinson - tor pb. In a world where money for a space journey is hard to come by, even a slightly mad theory that suggests a possible shortcut to the stars is an attractive possibility. Thus it is decided that the multi-talented crew on the first trip to Alpha Centauri will take a risky space voyage to the nearest star system - and find themselves able, or doomed, to do the impossible - return before they left. ... $7.00
also available in hardcover ... $22.95
* COSMONAUT KEEP by Ken Macleod - tor pb. Matt Cairns is an outlaw programmer and AI-wrangler in socialist Britain, taking on the shady jobs that no one else will touch. He has accepted an assignment from a young American resistance fighter called Jadey, to crack the Marshal Titov, a top-secret orbital station. Suddenly all hell breaks loose, as Matt discovers evidence of contact with an advanced extraterrestrial intelligence, Jadey's cover is blown, and they are propelled on an extraordinary odyssey through time and space. Gregor Cairns, an exobiology student, and his research partner Elizabeth will complete the great work started by his family three centuries earlier--to rediscover the secret of insterstellar travel. ...$8.00
Also availble in hardcover ... $25.95
* DARK LIGHT by Ken Macleod - Tor HC. Continuing the interstellar epic started with Cosmonaut Keep, in Dark Light Macleod delves further into a human future crammed with innumerable varieties of alien life. For intelligence, as it turns out, is rare - on planetary surfaces. It is ubiquitous everywhere else, from the Oort-cloud fringes of planetary systems to the magma furnaces beneath planetary crusts. Among powerful intelligences, there are differing opinions on how to deal with the humans. But the descendents of the original Cosmonauts intend to find answers to their questions, and so they have traveled to the star system next door - to interrogate the gods. ... $24.95
* ACORNA'S SEARCH by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough - Eos HC. Further Adventures of the Unicorn Girl. Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have survived attack, but both their planet and their original homeland are devastated. As they work to rebuild, people begin disappearing, including Acorna's lifemate, Aari. Search for him, Acorna discovers the remains of a subterranean world that belonged to an advanced society long ago. Acorna's quest to find out what happened will take her back into deep space to uncover the origins of her people. ... $25.00
ACORNA'S WORLD by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarbourough - Eos pb. Answering a faint distress signal leads Acorna and he companions to a strange world where they find signs of an attack by the Khleevi. Facing the annihilation of all she holds ear, Acorna and her friends must discover the Khleevi's weakness - and strike first! ... $7.00
AGAINST THE ODDS by Elizabeth Moon - Baen pb. The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing iteself apart. Some of the multineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. ... $8.00
also available ONCE A HERO, pb ... $7.00
also available RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, pb ... $8.00
also available CHANGE OF COMMAND, pb ... $8.00
FUTURELAND by Walter Mosley - Aspect HC. The place is the United States. The time, the near-future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranchised have swollen to a toxic level. High-tech rules the day while human nature, for better or worse, remains constant. In nine interwoven tales, Mosley paints a keen if fictional portrait of what the future could hold if our own political climate continues. Signed by the Author! ... $24.95
ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME WITH MAX MERRIWELL by Pat Murphy - Tor HC. Murphy's previous foray in the fiction of Max Merriwell, There and Back Again, turned Tolkien into a space opera. This new tale of an orphaned girl adopted by wolves in mid-nineteenth-century California is an even wilder mix, with elements of mystery, western, and fantasy/adventure, as filtered through the feminine sensibility of Mary Maxwell. ... $24.95
also available THERE AND BACK AGAIN, pb ... $7.00
* GATES TO WITCH WORLD by Andre Norton - Tor HC. Omnibus republication of the first three Witch World novels, WITCH WORLD, WEB OF THE WITCH WORLD and YEAR OF THE UNICORN, with a new introduction by C. J. Cherryh. ... $27.95
* GETAWAY SPECIAL by Jerry Oltion - Tor HC. Allen Meisner, a card-carrying mad scientist, had developed a fantastic new hyperdrive engine capable of carrying mankind to the stars. But when the Earth government tries to use his engine for evil, it's up to Meisner and his shuttle pilot Judy Gallagher to save humanity. With parts from Radio Shack, a plastic septic tank, an intelligent butterfly, and a tempermental tree they prepare fight the final battle. ... $26.95
* ANNUNCIATE by Severna Park - Eos pb. ThreeSys is a triangle of stars with eleven planets each, where people are divided into three classes - Meshed, Jacked, and Jackless - a caste system of technological access. Meshed humans can access unsurpassed knowledge, enter other dimensions, and manipulate lesser mortals. But three Meshed humans are using this power for evil. ... $7.00
* SALT by Adam Roberts - Gollancz Tpb. Two communities united by the dream of a new beginning travel the deeps of space for 37 years and begin a new colony on the planet Salt. But once there, isolation of a landscape of cruel majesty and ancient enmities tear apart the fledgling civilization. Peter F. Hamilton quotes "A fascinating concept, deftly executed". ... $14.95
* REDSHIFT: EXTREME VISIONS OF SPEC. FICTION Edited by Al Sarrantonio - Roc HC. Thirty-seven works of science fiction, everything from hard science fiction to experimental horror, are contained in this volume. With authors such as Neal Barrett, Jr., Stephen Baxter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Larry Niven, Harry Turtledove, Gene Wolfe, and moe. ...$24.95
* END OF AN ERA by Robert J. Sawyer - Tor Tpb. Two paleontologists time-travel sixty-five million years into the past hoping to solve the mystery of dinosaur extinction. But what they discover shatters any understanding we might have had about the developement of life on Earth. Inventive, imaginative and incredibly well researched. First published in 1994, and almost immediately hard to find. ... $14.95
* WHICH WAY TO THE FUTURE Edited by Stanley Schmidt - Tor HC. Since 1978, Stan Schmidt has been writing essays for Analog magazine. He has questioned animal and machine intelligence, science in public policy, the orthodxy in education, Enrico Fermi's alien-life paradox, and much much more. Now, for the first time, Analog has collected a number of his essays into one fabulous volume. ... $24.95
* AGENT OF VEGA AND OTHER STORIES by James H. Schmitz - Baen pb. After the Galactic Empire fell, the Galaxy was not a nice neighborhood, and most would have laid bets that the Vegan Confederacy was too small and weak to survive, let alone prosper. But prosper it did, to the bewilderment of observers, who didn't know about the Vegans' secret weapon. It had the Zone agents, who uncannily appeared on the spot just when a push in the right place could stop a war, topple a despot, or thwart an invasion. Their main weapon was that the minds of their opponents were open to them. ... $8.00
LOVE IN VAIN by Lewis Shiner - Subterranean Press HC. Previously uncollected stories by a skilled storyteller of American counterculture, including the acclaimed "Love in Vain" and the rare "Castles Made of Sand". ... $40.00
* THE AMERICAN ZONE by L. Neil Smith - Tor HC. In "The Probability Broach", Smith created a world in which George Washington had been executed, there was no Civil War, and *everybody* carries a gun. Now, in the anticipated sequel, Detective Win Bear continues to fight terrorists ruthlesly slaughtering and bombing the North American Confederacy. ... $27.95
* PROBABILITY BROACH by L. Neil Smith - Orb Tpb. To go along with his new book THE AMERICAN ZONE, this long-unavailable novel has been reprinted. ...$15.95
* DARK WATERS: CHRONICLES OF UNBINDING #2 by Robert S. Stone - Ace pb. Through the torture and murder of former Chaldean Ministers, a Yndrian assassin has learned the spell what will plunge the world back into chaos. ... $7.00
* IMMODEST PROPOSALS: THE COMPLETE SCIENCE FICTION OF WILLIAM TENN, VOL. 1 by William Tenn - Nesfa Press HC. Contains the majority of William Tenn's short science fiction, including classic stories such as "Child's Play," "Time in Advance," "Down Among The Dead Men," and "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi." Tenn has long been considered one of the major satirists in the field, called "one of the genre's very few genuinely comic, genuinely incisive writers of short fiction." The next volume in the series, Here Comes Civilization, will contain the remainder of Tenn's short stories and two novels. ... $29.00
* TRUE NAMES AND THE OPENING OF THE CYBERSPACE FRONTIER by Vernor Vinge, edited by Jim Frenkel - Tor Tpb. A feast of articles by computer scientists and journalists on the innovations and developments of cyberspace along with the novella that many credit for being both the earliest example of and the inspiration for virtual reality. With an Introduction by Vinge and an Afterward by Marvin Minsky, this collection includes articles by Danny Hillis, Timothy C. May, Mark Pesce, Richard M. Stallman, Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer. A fascinating look at how science fiction and real science can interact. ... $14.95
FUTURES PAST by A. E. Van Vogt - Tachyon Tpb. Van Vogt's first collection in over twenty years: Enchanted Village, Last Martian, Reflected Men, Cooperate of Else!, Second Solution, Fulfillment, Replicators, and Vault of the Beast. Harlan Ellison writes the introduction. "A. E. Van Vogt represents the highest possible development of the imagination ...." August Derleth ... $17.00
also available FUTURES PAST by A. E. Van Vogt - Tachyon HC. $50.00
* DIVINE INTERVENTION by Ken Wharton - Ace pb. Mandala is an Earth colony, that has been cut off from home for more than a century. During the silence, they have created a unique society with new religious beliefs. However, a new set of cryogenically frozen colonists are on the way. How will this affect the colony, and what does the powers of a young deaf-mute have to do with it all? ... $7.00
* PASSAGE by Connie Willis - pb. Near Death Experiences have been reported by countless individuals, usually as nothing more concrete than a 'tunnel of light'. Dr. Richard Wright has discovered a mind-altering drug that simulates NDEs in a lab - and harbors a radically different theory about what they really are. Joanna, despite her fear of failure and faith in science, volunteers for the simulation drug and will finally see firsthand what's out there. Once again, Connie Willis brings us a novel that mixes hard science fiction with sparks of humor, and deep, personal characterizations with a fast paced plot. Recommended! ... $7.00
also available in hardcover ... $23.95
* SPACE CHILD'S MOTHER GOOSE by Frederick Windsor, illustrations by Marian Parry. - Purple House Press HC.
Little Jack Horner, Sits in a corner,
Extracting cube roots to infinity,
An assignment for boys, That will minimize noise,
And produce a more peaceful vicinity.
First published in 1956, this charming collection of science-fictional nursery rhymes has been a long-sought collectable for decades. Now (hurray!) reprinted in a beautiful, sturdy, affordable hardcover. ... $18.95
* ISLE OF THE DEAD/ EYE OF CAT by Roger Zelazny - iBooks Tpb. Omnibus reprint of ISLE OF THE DEAD and EYE OF CAT. ... $12.00
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