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March 2002 Catalog - Fantasy
* DRAGON BONES by Patricia Briggs - Ace pb. Most everyone thinks Ward of Hurog is a simple-minded fool - and that's just fine by him. Few know that his foolishness is feigned, and that it's all that's saved him from death at the hands of his abusive father who has always seen Ward as a bitter rival for power. When his father dies, Ward becomes the new lord of Hurog...until a nobleman declares that he is too dim-witted to rule. To regain his kingdom, Ward must prove himself worthy - and quickly. For he has seen a pile of magical dragon bones hidden deep beneath Hurog keep, bones that can be dangerous in the wrong hands... ... $7.00
* SILVERCLOAK: KING'S DAGGERS #3 by Dave Duncan - Avon/ Harper pb. The King's Daggers must stop the world's most deadly assassin from killing King Ambrose. Only White Sister Emerald and Sir Stalwart have the power and the knowledge to stop the assissin, and track him back to the person who hired him. ... $6.00
also available:
SIR STALWART: KING'S DAGGERS #1, pb ... $6.00
CROOKED HOUSE: KING'S DAGGERS #2, pb ... $6.00
* FORWARD THE MAGE by Eric Flint and Richard Roach - Baen HC. Even the Philosophical Strangler's hands are tied when the King's dreams become nightmares. Youthful artists-swordsman Benvenuti came to the city of Goimr planning to become the Royal Artist, only to find the King of the realm insane, filled with prophetic dreams of impending catastrophe for civilization. Escaping arrest by the Secret Police, he found himself embroiled with a revolutionary agitator and a gigantic madman and Benvenuti was swept up ina whirlwind of plotting and perilous wizardry as he traveled across the vast sub-continent. ... $24.00
* THE PHILOSOPHICAL STRANGLER by Eric Flint - Baen pb. Mighty Greyboar, the worlds greatest professional strangler, is dissatisfied - wondering what is the point of it all. That's when he comes across the Great Philosophy of life - and he is reborn! But Ignace, his agent, is skeptical when all of Greyboar's philosophical preoccupation leads from one disaster to another. Before they know it they are embroiled with an abbess at odds with her deity, heretics on the run, dwarves needing to be saved - and all the things that a normal self respecting assassin would avoid. ... $8.00
also available: THE PHILOSOPHICAL STRANGLER, HC ... $24.00
* KINGDOMS OF LIGHT by Alan Dean Foster - Aspect pb. A pastoral, magical kingdom has been conquered by sadistic goblin-warlocks, and the powerful wizard who protected it has been blasted to cinders. From his ashes, a final enchantment transforms his six household pets to human form, still possessing their animal insticts and uncanny magical talents. Now these six heroes must escape assassins, journey into the rainbow, and bring back the pure White Light that alone can shatter the goblin hex that curses their land. ... $7.00
* MALADY OF MAGICS: ENEBEZUM #1 by Craig Shaw Gardner - Ace pb. First published in 1986, this reprint tells the story of the wizard Ebenezum who is cursed to be allergic to magic. However, the wizard and his apprentic must go on a quest and face tap-dancing demons, enchanted chickens and sinister shrubbery. ... $6.00
* MULTITUDE OF MONSTERS: ENEBEZUM #2 by Craig Shaw Gardner - Ace pb. First published in 1986, this second book in the adventures of Ebenezum deals with the issue of discrimination among the mythical and imaginary beasts. Ebenezum's apprentice must become a spokeman for this cause, because the wizard has been turned into a shoe. ... $6.00
* NIGHT IN THE NETHERHELLS: ENEBEZUM #3 by Craig Shaw Gardner - Ace pb. First published in 1987. The wizard Ebenezum and his apprentice, Wuntvor, must do everything in their power to save Vashta, Cith of the Forbidden Delights, from Guxx, the rhyming demon. ... $6.00
DARK OF THE GODS by P. C. Hodgell - Meisha Merlin Tpb. The omnibus collection of P.C. Hodgell's first two books, GOD STALK and DARK OF THE MOON, as well as the short story BONES. All 3 tales revolve around Jame, one of the chosen people of the Three-Faced God. She's fighting a demonic entity, seeking out her twin brother and attempting to kill a god. All in one of the most lively and diverse cities in fantasy literature. ... $20.00
SEEKER'S MASK by P. C. Hodgell - Meisha Merlin Tpb. Reunited with her twin brother (who, due to fluctuating time streams, is 10 years older than her) Jame now faces the most forbidding challenge of all - becoming a member of the High Court. Between the constricting rules of propriety and dangerous political intrigues, perhaps being a penniless vagabond wasn't such a bad thing after all! Recommended - but you should read the first two novels before this one. ... $18.00
* TOWER ON THE RIFT by Ian Irvine - Aspect pb. Volume 2 of the View From the Mirror. The city of Thurkad has fallen and those gathered for the Great Conclave have scattered. The sensitive Karan is left for dead and her lover is captured by a renegade planning to use the Twisted Mirror for an act of millennial vengeance. All the magic users are powerless and fearing what is to come when the path of all villains and heroes meet in the cursed desert of the Dry Sea. ...$7.50
* CASTAWAYS OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN by Brian Jacques - Ace pb. Starting in Copehagen, in 1620, and ranging through time, the travels of the cursed ship are told through the eyes of a young man and his black Labradore in a tale of shipboard adventure, cruel villains and life in a small, nineteenth century English town. ... $7.00
* THE BLACK CHALICE by Marie Jakober - Ace Tpb. A powerful duke returned from the Crusades to build a new empire for himself and his God. One woman set her hand against him: a pagan witch of ethereal beauty, keeper of the Grail of Life. Caught in between was Karelian, a disillusioned warrior hero who hungered for a love - and a truth - he could live with. ... $15.00
* HERETIC KINGS: MONARCHIES OF GOD #2 by Paul Kearney - Ace pb. When Himerius, a ruthlessly ambitious religious lunatic, gains a powerful and influential position in the religious hierarchy, three of the five Ramusian Kings who oppose him find themselves in a fight to the death in order to preserve their thrones. ... $7.00
also available: HAWKWOOD'S VOYAGE: MONARCHIES OF GOD #1, pb ... $6.50
* IRON WARS: MONARCHIES OF GODS #3 by Paul Kearney - Ace pb. Among the five waring Ramusian kingdoms, three Heretic Kings refuse to recognize the new pontiff. Fighting to retain his throne, Abelyn of Hebrion succumbs to injuries, sinking into a deep coma - leaving his kingdom vulnerable to the machinations of those closest to him. While in the East, Corfe CearInaf is the sole surviver of the Merduk attack on the city of Aekir, and has risen in rank to his own command. Now from the West, the evil influence of the shapeshifting immortal, Aruan, seeps into the Five Kingdoms. And a deal is brokered to heal King Abelyn - no matter the price. ... $6.50
* ST. PATRICK'S GARGOYLE by Katherine Kurtz - Ace pb. It is modern day Dublin. Paidraig, once an avenging angel, now protector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, has just witnessed the theft of one of the cathedral's artifacts. Vengeful once again, he tracks it down, but what he finds is far from what he expected. Now the gargoyles of Dublin must face down the ultimate evil. ... $7.50
* SHADOW OF THE LION by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer - Baen HC. It's 1537 and the bronze statue of the great winged Lion stares out over a Venice where magic thrives. The young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, know that they must stop the sorcerer Chernobog, who has sent a monster to wreak havoc on the city. Yet for them to succeed, the ancient House of Valdosta must rise again. A House condemned by the same vile and vicious Duke of Milan who now searches for them. ... $27.00
* SERPENT'S SHADOW by Mercedes Lackey - DAW pb. Maya Witherspoon faces almost insurmountable obstacles while establishing her medical practice in 1909 London. As the daughter of a prominent British physician and a Brahmin woman of the highest caste, she is disdained by both cultures. As a doctor who is not only female but in her mid-twenties, few will take her seriously. And as one who has inherited great magical power- but no training to guide it- she will be hard put to face down the deadly foe that has followed her from her native India. ... $7.00
* ODYSSEY by Keith Laumer, ed. by Eric Flint - Baen pb. A collection of classic Laumer stories, including Galactic Odyssey (aka Spaceman!), serialized in IF magazine (May-July, 1967) and published by Berkley in 1967. "A Trip to the City" (aka "It Could Be Anything"), first published in Amazing, January 1963. "Combat Unit" (aka "Dinochrome") was first published in F&SF in November 1960 and "Hybrid" from F&SF in November 1961. "The King of the City" was first published in Galaxy in August 1961. "Once There Was a Giant" was first published in F & SF, November 1968. Dinosaur Beach was first published by Scribner's in 1971. ... $7.00
* VINCALIS THE AGITATOR by Holly Lisle - Aspect Tpb. Based on a science of sorcery, the Hars Ticlarim is a miraculous place of mansions built on clouds, but this incomparable beauty hides a dark cover: the magic draws its power from the agony of slaves who are killed for sorcerous fuel. Wraith, a boy with an uncanny resistance to magic, Solander, a brilliant mage who believes he has discovered a totally new form of magic, and Luercas, a sadistic nobel who will commit any crime that furthers his ambition are all pitted against the rulers of a globe-spanning power that has endured for millennia. Rulers who will do anything to stay in power forever. ... $13.95
* DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST: SEVENWATERS #1 by Juliet Marillier - Tor pb. Scorcha is the seventh child, and only daughter, of Lord Colum. She is loved and protected and has only known peace in her short life. All this ends, when her father is bewitched and her brothers put under a spell that only Scorcha can lift. She leaves all she knows, to embark on a journey of pain, loss, and terror. When she is kidnapped and taken to a foreign land, it seems all is lost. But magic knows no boundaries, and Scorcha must make a choice that might shatter her world. ... $7.00
SON OF THE SHADOWS: SEVENWATERS #2 by Juliet Marillier - TOR HC. Because of her sacrifice, her brothers were brought home, but not all were able to escape the spell that turned them to swans. It is up to Sorcha's daughter, Liadan, to fulfill the task of the Sevenwaters clan. She embarks on a journey that will show her how hard-won the peace she grew up in was, and she will need all her courage to keep it that way. ... $25.95
* SHADOWSINGER: SPELLSONG #5 by L. E. Modesitt Jr. - Tor HC. Exciting conclusion to the Spellsong series. In a world where music is the key to magic, Secca, the foster daughter of the soprano soceress, has taken on new responsibilities and authority. As is to be expected, an army is preparing to attack the kingdom of the new sorceress. ...$27.95
* MEETING OF THE WATERS: WATCHERS #1 by Caiseal Mor - Pocket pb. Book 1 of the Watchers. Brave Aoife was the daughter of a king. One winter's night she takes part in an act of careless mischief with consequences that could never have been imagined. In the western forests a deadly force is stirring, and enemies are approaching from the shore. The druid Dalan has been sent to unite two squabbling kings in the face of this danger, but chaos confronts him at every turn, and Dalan is beginning to suspect an even greater enemy is moving against Innisfail. ... $8.00
MOVING PICTURES by Terry Pratchett - HarperTorch pb. Discworld's pesky alchemists have discovered how to get gold from silver - the silver screen that is. But the click click of moving pictures isn't just stirring up dreams. The magic of the Holy Wood is drifting out into the boundaries of the universes, where raw realisties, the could-have-beens, the never-weres and wild ideas are beginning to ferment into a really stinky brew. And it's up to would-be actor Victor Tugelbend and Gaspode the Wonder Dog to rein in the chaos and bring order back to the Discworld. ... $7.00
ERIC by Terry Pratchett - HarperTorch pb. In an attempt to have three wishes granted--to become immortal, to rule the world, and to have the world's most beautiful woman fall in love with him-- Eric, an inept demonologist, summons up Rincewind, the universe's most incompetent wizard, to help him. Hilarity ensues. ... $7.00
(Only two more titles, REAPER MAN and WITCHES ABROAD, to go - both due out in August 2002 - and ALL of the Discworld books will be back in print. Hurray!)
* LEOPARD IN EXILE: CAROLUS REX #2 by Andre Norton & Rosemary Edghill - Tor pb. It was not long ago that the Duchess of Wessex was Sarah Cunningham, a young American woman, until an unkown magic swept her into a parallel universe with a history different than her own. She'd finally gotten used to English nobility - even the elaborate gowns - but then she's suddenly yanked back to her home in America - but it's not the America she knew. Now among familiar faces she fights to save Native American ways, attempts to help her friend find her husband, and seeks out the holy grail - sought also by the Marquis de Sade for a most foul purpose. ... $7.00
also available: SHADOW OF ALBION, pb ... $7.00
* HIDDEN DRAGON: STARGODS #1 by Irene Radford - DAW pb. Fleeing the forces of the Galactic Terran Empire the three outlaw O'Hara brothers seek refuge on a strange world populated by humans who have returned to a primitive society, and by mystical dragons who are worshipped as gods. ... $7.00
* SWORD-SWORN: TIGER AND DEL #6 by Jennifer Roberson - DAW HC. Legendary fighters and fugitives from both the North and the South, Tiger and Del continue their quest to uncover the mysteries of Tiger's origins - and discover that he is heir to a powerful magic that could hold the key to his ultimate fate. ... $24.95
* ONE KINGDOM: SWAN'S WAR #1 by Sean Russell - HarperTorch pb. The cataclysm began more than a century earlier, when the King of Ayr died before naming an heir to the throne. The violent schemes of the families competing for rule have devestated the kingdom. Now the few who wish for peace face treachery from both their families and others in power. ...$8.00
* WIZARD IN A FEUD by Christopher Stasheff - Tor pb. Gar Pike, the Rogue Wizard, and Alea have landed on a planet to do some minor repairs. Not long after, they discover one of the indigenous life forms: Fairies. As Gar Pike and his companion explore this strange planet, they discover everyone seems to be at war with everyone else. While secretly desiring peace, no one is willing to listen to anyone else and everyone is quick to take offense. By posing as healers, Gar Pike and Alea team up with the Fairies, Druids, and Little Folk in an attempt to bring peace once and for all. ... $7.00
* THE SHEPHERD KINGS by Judith Tarr - Forge Tpb. A novel set during the Hyksos occupation of Lower Egypt thousands of years before Christ, Judith Tarr's latest follows the path of young Iry, a former slave hand-picked by the avatar of the Horse Goddess to be her high priestess, and the man who was once her master, is now her servant. ...$18.95
* PERIL'S GATE: ALLIANCE OF LIGHT #3 by Janny Wurts - Eos HC. The fate of all realms hangs on the resolution of the brutal conflict born of prince against prince. For years Lysaer, Prince of Light, has sought the destruction of his mage-trained half-brother Arithon, who flees into the winter wilds and must learn to survive there. But Arithon's plight has brought a dangerous ally out of seculsion. The renegade Fellowship Sorcerer, Davien the Betrayer, has emerged to take a hand in the Shadow Master's fate. ... $27.95
also available:
THE FUGITIVE PRINCE: ALLIANCE OF LIGHT #1, pb ... $6.50
GRAND CONSPIRACY: ALLIANCE OF LIGHT #2, pb ... $7.00
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