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April 2002 Catalog - Science Fiction
* YEARS OF RICE AND SALT by Kim Stanley Robinson - Bantam HC. When the Black Plague hit Europe in the 1400's, almost a third of the people died. But how might human history have diverged if, instead, close to 99% of the population was killed. Robinson's complex and insightful epic follows the colonization of the New World by China, the Industrial Revolution that sprang from India, and the far-reaching changes that come from having Buddism and Islam as the primary religions of the planet. Signed Bookplate included! ... $25.95
* ROCK RATS: ASTEROID WARS #2 by Ben Bova - Tor HC. With her mentor, space industrialist Dan Randolph, dead, pilot Pancho Barnes finds herself battling Randolph's ruthless old rival, Martin Humphries, who is out to control Astro, drive independent asteroid miners out of business, revenge himself on Pancho and regain his old flame Amanda, now the wife of miner Lars Fuchs. ... $24.95
JUPITER by Ben Bova - Tor pb. All that Grant Archer wanted was a quiet life on the far side of the moon. The forces of New Morality had other plans. Now Archer's on Jupitor spying for the organization, but what he finds may overpower his desire for a quiet life and d him to the discovery of a lifetime. ... $8.00
* TRANSLATOR by John Crowley - Morrow HC. The troubled Kit Malone registers for a college class to be taught by an exiled Russian Poet. As the two forge a friendship, he asks her to help translate his work. With the tension of the cold war accelerating toward a crisis in Cuba, the atmosphere on campus becomes contentious, while a delicate love grows between these displaced people. It will not be until years later that Kit will realize what really happened on her last night with Falin, while the country held its breath against the threat of war. ... $24.95
* A WORKING OF STARS by Debra Doyle & James D. MacDonald - Tor HC. Strange dreams and prophetic visions draw Arekhon out of his tranquil new life on the planet Entibor, driving him back to his home world of Eraasi to help complete the Great Working. But there he finds that a massive cultural revolution has transformed the world and could lead to an interstellar war. ... $25.95
* FALLING STARS: FIRESTAR #4 by Michael Flynn - Tor pb. The triumphant conclusion of the Future-History Epic of the Space Age. Humanity has been monitoring the heavens and finds that certain asteroids have altered their orbit and are headed for a collision with earth. Can a crew of pilots, computer specialists, members of the space industry complex, and various movers & shakers, band together to save humanity? ... $8.00
* REUNION: PIP AND FLINX by Alan Dean Foster - Del Rey pb. Alan Dean Foster returns to the Humanx universe for a new Pip and Flinx novel. Flinx uses his enhanced empathic abilities to finesse his way into a top secret security installation on Earth, trying to find information on the Meliorare Society and his past, as his empathic powers begin to evolve into something unknown. The information he uncovers leads Flinx into AAnn space, and danger: the return of an old enemy - an enemy as evil as she is beautiful. ... $7.00
* DIUTURNITY'S DAWN: FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH #3 by Alan Dean Foster - Del Rey HC. Human diplomat Fanielle Anjou and her thranx counterpart work to overcome the mutual suspicions between two races, but fanatical xenophobes on both sides, as well as the duplicitous AAnn, will do anything to ensure that an alliance never occurs. ... $25.00
PHYLOGENESIS: FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH #1 by Alan Dean Foster - Del Ray pb. Humans and the Thranx agreed to share cultures despite the repulsion they'd yet to overcome. Since they need allies, both species decided on a slow process of limited contact. But, they never planned for a chance meeting between a poet and a thief. ...$7.00
DIRGE: FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH #2 by Alan Dean Foster - Del Rey pb. The diplomatic relations between humans and thranx are put on hold with the discovery of an ideal planet to colonize - Argus V. And with it comes a new race of spacefaring aliens, the pitar. ... $7.00
* THE LAST HARBOR by George Foy - Spectra pb. Slocum had it all: a perfect wife, a perfect familly, a perfect home, and a perfect job. But when all this collapses, he must leave his perfect life and live in a tiny sloop in a tiny harbor in a tiny, dying New England town. In his solitiude, Slocum sits and studies the "Smuggler's Bible", dreaming of sailing away to freedom and happiness. Then one day, an ocean liner docks alongside him, and offers his only hope of salvation. Aboard is a single woman, seemingly captive on her own ship. Hounded by ex-wife, family, former employers, creditors, and the town police, Slocum takes the only road offered to him into another life and attempts to win both their freedoms. ... $7.00
* A SPIRIT OF THUNDER by Kurt R. A. Giambastian - Roc pb. An American Frontier that never was... 1886 - the people of the U.S. are further encroaching on territory of the Cheyenne Alliance. But the war-weary Cheyenne have been sent a new weapon. When George Custer, Jr. , the president's son, crash landed into the hands of the Cheyenne, he grew to think of his father's enemys as his friends, and is now fighting side by side with them against his father's army. If anyone knows how to win against President George Custer, it would be his son... ... $7.00
* FALLEN DRAGON by Peter F. Hamilton - Aspect HC. On a youthful impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he learns is ruthless and exploitative. He plans on saving enough money to buy a position in a better corporation. His platoon is sent to quell a local resistance force and Lawrence plans to steal the fabled Fallen Dragon to get his money. ...$25.95
THE CONFEDERATION HANDBOOK by Peter F. Hamilton - Aspect pb. This companion volume to the massive Night's Dawn trilogy, published here in the USA as six paperbacks, sheds new light on the six-hundred year history, culture, politics and traditions of the Confederation and its diverse worlds, colonies and inhabitants. ... $7.00
LOCAL CUSTOM by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Ace pb. A prequel to the Liaden novels, Master trader Er Thom finds himself torn between the marital customs of his people and his feelings for Terran scholar Anne Davis, but he soon discovers that their romance could have bitter interstellar consequences. Paperback reprint of the first of two novels in PILOT'S CHOICE. ... $6.00
* PICOVERSE by Robert A. Metzger - Ace HC. When funding for a fusion power project is cut, Katie faces an uncertain future. In walks the mysterious Alexandra Mitchel, who commandeers the Sonomak project - creating a team that includes Katie and her ex-husband - and reveals her true goal: to use Sonomak to create a new universe, one million-millionth the size of our own. Now, all systems are go on an experiment to deliberately rip apart the fabric of space-time... ... $22.95
* ANTARCTICA REMAINDER! by Kim Stanley Robinson - HC. Only $1.00 more than the paperback! Its landscape poses a challenge to survival; yet its beauty has long fascinated scientists. Now Antarctica faces the dissolution of a treaty - clearing the way for its resources to be plundered. Eco-terrorists carry out a campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land. ... $8.00
* VALENTINE by Lucius Shepard - Four Wall Eight Windows HC. A hurricane alert waylays a journalist in a coastal town. This safe harbour hosts an unlikely reunion, as he finds himself stranded with a lost love. This will be the first in a chain of events that will link these estranged lovers - and to a conjunction of curious passages that suggest that the nature of their love is not governed by chance alone. A haunting and erotic tale of love, lost and found. ... $18.00
* DYING INSIDE by Robert Silverberg - iBooks Tpb. First published in 1972, now back in print, with an introduction by John Clute. David Selig was born with an awesome power--the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his talent in the pursuit of pleasure. Then, one day, his power began to die... ... $12.00
* CASSANDRA COMPLEX by Brian Stableford - Tor pb. World War III, the biotech war, is on the horizon and the world we know is coming to an end. A scientist has disappeared with a secret discovery, and suddenly, Lisa, a forensics specialist, is attacked in her apartment - Why are people after her, for a secret belonging to an old co-worker? What did he discover that everyone needs? Set earlier in Stablefords "future history" stories, this independent tale is both suspense and cutting edge science fiction. ...$7.00
* DARK ARARAT by Brian Stableford - Tor HC. After a long voyage from Earth, a shipload of human colonists in suspended animation finally arrives at a suitable planet to build new lives for themselves. But their new colony is threatened by the possible presence of an alien race that has left ancient ruins of great cities, and by a murderer responsible for killing the scientist leading the expedition into the ruins. ... $25.95
* BONES OF THE EARTH by Michael Swanwick - Harper HC. Paleontologist Richard Leyster has no idea that his entire world is about to be turned upside-down when a secretive stranger named Griffin enters his office with a ice cooler and a job offer - until he opens the cooler to reveal the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. Griffin, Leyster soon learns, is the guardian of an impossible technology that allows humans to travel through time, a gift he will share with Leyster - if Leyster accepts his terms. ...$25.95
* OCEANS OF SPACE edited by Brian Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg - Daw pb. Sixteen original tales of adventurers and explorers who roam the seas of distant worlds and far-flung starways. With stories from Andre Norton, Mike Resnick, Jody Lynn Nye, Jean Rabe, Ed Greenwood, J. Robert King, Roland Green, Ron Goulart, Tom Dupree, Dennis O'Neil, Bill Baldwin, Bill Fawcett, Simon Hawke, Robert Greenberger and C. J. Henderson. ... $7.00
THE FRESCO by Sheri S. Tepper - Eos pb. Centuries after an asteroid crashed into Earth, a wasted world is coming alive again- a world that holds promise for young orpahn Dismé Latimer. Among her possesions is a mysterious book, written by her ancestor Nell Latimer. A book whose 'myth' suggests that a band of scientists-including Nell-has miraculously survived to this day. Dismé is destined to find the truth, a quest that will bring her face-to-face with unimaginable evil. ...$7.50
* COLONIZATION: AFTERSHOCKS by Harry Turtledove - Del Rey pb. The saga begun in WORLDWAR continues as the nations of Earth battle The Race and each other. Now up to the 1960s, rapidly evolving human technology keeps the reptilian invaders on their toes, even as Mao seizes power in China and the Jews and Deutsche maintain their animosity for each other. ... $7.00
IN DEATH GROUND by David Weber & Steve White - baen pb. Reissue. ... $8.00
* RETURN TO THE WHORL: SHORT SUN #3 by Gene Wolfe - Tor Tpb. The third and final volume of the Book of the Short Sun. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, visited the great starship the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Wolfe's magical skill with words once again brings us to a strange and seductive climax. ... $15.95
also available: RETURN TO THE WHORL, HC ... $24.95
IN GREEN'S JUNGLES : SHORT SUN #2 by Gene Wolfe - Tor Tpb. While Horn's search for his mentor Silk continues, he joins the household of the Duko. Escalating conflicts with the Duko's neighbors lead him to becoming a military advisor while also working to protect the Duko's family from Fava, a blood-drinking inhumu. ... $15.95
also available: IN GREEN'S JUNGLES, HC ... $24.95
ON BLUE'S WATERS: SHORT SUN #1 by Gene Wolfe - Tor Tpb. Though life is hard on Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves. But Horn's the only one who can locate Silk - the leader from "Book of the Long Sun" - and convince him to return and lead them to prosperity. So Horn sets sail across the planet, to Whorl - the ship still inhabited by the people that brought the settlers to Blue - in search of Silk. ... $15.95
also available: ON BLUE'S WATERS, HC ... $24.95
Other Gene Wolfe books back in print:
SHADOW & CLAW - Tor Tpb. Book 1 and 2 of the New Sun. ...
$14.95
SWORD & CITADEL - Tor Tpb. Book 3 and 4 of the New Sun. ... $15.95
URTH OF THE NEW SUN - Tor Tpb. ... $14.95
LITANY OF THE LONG SUN - Tor Tpb. Book 1 and 2 of the Long Sun.
... $16.95
EPIPHANY OF THE LONG SUN - Orb Tpb. Book 3 and 4 of the Long Sun.
... $17.95
FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS - Tor Tpb. ... $12.95
PEACE - Tor Tpb. ... $12.95
STOREYS FROM THE OLD HOTEL - Tor Tpb. ... $14.95
ISLAND OF DOCTOR DEATH AND OTHER STORIES AND OTHER - Tor Tpb. ...
$14.95
FREE LIVE FREE - Tor Tpb. ... $15.95
DEVIL IN A FOREST - Orb Tpb. ... $13.95
* LAST DEFENDER OF CAMELOT by Roger Zelazny - iBooks Tpb. A collection of classic Zelazny short stories first published in 1980, including "He Who Shapes," the basis for his novel THE DREAM MASTER, "Damnation Alley" which became first a novel and then a cult movie, "Passion Play," his first published work as well as old favorites such as "Here There Be Dragons" along with the previously uncollected storey "Come Back to the Killing Fields, Alice, My Love". ... $14.95
* ISAAC ASIMOV'S ROBOTS AND ALIENS #1 by Stephen Leigh & Cordell Scotten - iBooks Tpb. Omnibus reprint of the first two Robots and Aliens novels. ...$14.00
* ISAAC ASIMOV'S ROBOTS AND ALIENS #2
by Robert Thurston & Jerry Oltion - iBooks Tpb. Omnibus
reprint of the Robots and Aliens novels INTRUDER and ALLIANCE along with
essays by Isaac Asimov. ... $14.00
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