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May 2002 Catalog - Science Fiction
* SPIDER ISLAND by Jack Williamson - Haffner Press HC. Volume Four in this magnificent program to collect the short fiction and unreprinted serials of Jack Williamson, with an introduction by Edward Bryant and an afterword by Williamson. Includes The Ruler of Fate (1936), Death's Cold Daughter, The Great Illusion, The Blue Spot, The Ice Entity, Spider Island, The Mark of the Monster, The Devil in Steel, Released Entropy, Dreadful Sleep, The Infinite Enemy and The Legion of Time (1938) as well as a few non-fiction articles and a short interview from 1936, for a total of 590 pages. First printing of 1000 copies. ... $35.00
also available:
THE METAL MAN AND OTHERS, HC ... $32.00
WOLVES OF DARKNESS, HC ... $32.00
WIZARD'S ISLE, HC ... $35.00
* IT'S BEEN A GOOD LIFE by Isaac Asimov, edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov - Prometheus HC. Sifted and compiled from Asimov's three massive autobiography volumes, with a few new letters and memoirs, this slimmer (300 page) book gives an excellent overview of Asimov's career, family and writing, with the same friendly, conversational tone that he is so famous for. ... $25.00
* THE PICKUP ARTIST by Terry Bisson - Tor Tpb. In a future where culture and society is brimming with art, Hank Shapiro is a Pickup artist. A man in charge of cataloging, archiving, and then destroying art which is past a certain age. Not a pretty job, but it pays the bills. Besides which, this year's art is better than last year's. Right? ... $13.95
* DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY by Lois McMaster Bujold - Baen HC. Miles Vorkosigan is called back to duty on his way home from his somewhat delayed honeymoon to negotiate a settlement with a quaddie space station after an ugly incident with Barrayaran soldiers in port. But his investigation uncovers more mysteries than it solves, and things take a turn for the worse, with more than the future of the station in peril. ... $25.00
* THE TYRANT (Some other catalogs listed this as THE REDEEMER) by David Drake & Eric Flint - Baen Books HC. On the planet Harfadine, civilization is doomed to collapse if it cannot progress. Adrian, under the guidance of electronic mentors from space, has brought gunpowder and steam power to the Kingdom of the Isles to break the Empire's stranglehold. But to succeed he has to avoid being killed by the King he serves and the barbarians he must recruit. ...$24.00
* CHILDREN OF HOPE by David Feintuch - Ace pb. The seventh novel in the Seafort Saga. Captain Nicholas Seafort survived alien wars and planetary rebellions, but now something more ordinary might cost him his life - vengeance... Seafort sent Derek Carr on a mission that cost Derek his life. Now Derek's son, Randy, sustains himself with dreams of revenge - leading to actions that sparks the most explosive trial in starship history. ...$8.00
* BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD by Ursula K. Le Guin - HarperCollins HC. Short story collection of 384 pages includes the never before published novella "Paradises Lost". Le Guin says "many of the stories are about love, lust, sex, marriage, gender and other such troublesome, but interesting problems human beings have to cope with, no matter what planet they live on or what sex they'll be next Tuesday." ... $24.95
* WARCHILD by Karin Lowachee - Aspect pb. Orphaned and enslaved after a pirate slaughters his parents in a raid on their ship, Jos grows up in a perilous universe torn apart in interstellar war. He struggles to find his own destiny and loyalties in a world of alien enemies and betrayal. ...$7.00
* ORBIS by Scott Mackay - Roc pb. The Benefactor's have been here on earth since before recorded time. They fostered Christanity and humankind. Now three people have learned the truth and the Benefactor's themselves are caught in the mist of a millenium-old conspiracy, with humankind caught in the cross fire. ... $7.00
* TIME PAST by Maxine McArthur - Aspect pb. Times are tense on space station Jocasta as a historic neutrality vote might win freedom form the Confederacy. But when an experiment with a captured jump drive leaves Commander Halley trapped in Earth's past, she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens history itself and will destroy the Confederacy. ... $7.00
also available: TIME FUTURE, pb ... $7.00
* SFWA GRAND MASTERS VOL 3 edited by Frederik Pohl - St. Martin's Press Tpb. Frederik Pohl was authorized by SFWA to edit an anthology in three big volumes featuring substantial selections of the work of all the first fifteen Grand Masters. This final volume features exciting works by the third group of five: Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A.E. Van Vogt and Jack Vance. ... $16.95
* CHASM CITY by Alastair Reynolds - Ace HC. The once-utopian Chasm City-a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet-has been overrun by a virus capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. The entire city becomes infected. Security operative, Tanner Mirabel pursues a low-life postmortal who draws him into a chasm of a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget. ... $23.95
* WHEN THE DEVIL DANCES by John Ringo - Baen HC. After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats humans have dealt him, and has his own battle plan. When he squares off against Major Michael O'Neal, the only winner will be Satan himself. ...$25.00
* GUST FRONT by John Ringo - Baen pb. Earth hangs in the balance as the centaur-like Posleen make a gambit move for control of the planet. It will take more than one good man to save the world. It will take a good team - and that's just what's going up against the gust front. ... $8.00
* NEBULA AWARDS SHOWCASE 2002 edited by Kim Stanley Robinson - Roc Tpb. Includes "Daddy's World" by Walter John Williams, "Macs" by Terry Bisson, "Stellar Harvest" by Eleanor Arneson, a selection from "Darwin's radio" by Greg Bear, "goddesses" by Linda Nagata, "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" by Gardner Dozois and commentaries from a host of writers, including John Clute, Gene Wolfe and Nalo Hopkinson. ... $15.00
* AMAZONIA by James Rollins - Morrow HC. Out of the rain forest stumbles CIA operative Gerald Clark - toungeless, scarred, and eyes wide with terror. Agent Clark dies soon after his discovery. When the CIA reviews the morgue photos it is noted that Agent Clark has two arms - but Clark lost an arm to a sniper bullet before his Amazon journey. The government asks Nate Rand to follow the trail of Clark along with a phalanx of US Rangers. ...$24.95
* JENNA STARBORN by Sharon Shinn - Ace pb. Created out of frozen embryonic tissue, Jenna Starborn grows up unloved and unwanted, until she journeys to the planet Fieldstar to take a job at Thorrastone, an estate owned by an enigmatic and reclusive aristocrat. ... $14.00
* SECOND CHANCES by Susan Shwartz - Tor pb. An homage to Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim". When the war that ravaged Earth is over, Jim, a now-useless 'tin soldier', is tired of fighting. But he still cares about others and holds dear his ideals. These very ideals are put to the test when he is thrust into scandal and chooses to accept a guilt which isn't his. Out of pride, he faces the weight of others' sin. But in the madness of life, Jim may find a second chance. ... $8.00
* WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME by Dan Simmons - Subterranean HC. Five speculative fictions stories, each with a lengthy introduction in addition to a thought-provoking introduction for the whole collection. Includes "Orphans of the Helix" and "On K2 with Kanakaredes", with "Looking for Kelly Dahl" and "The Ninth of Av" new to the US and "The End of Gravity" being published here for the first time anywhere. No Discount. ... $40.00
* THE VISITOR by Sheri S. Tepper - Eos HC. Centuries after an asteroid crashed into Earth, a wasted world is coming alive again- a world that holds promise for young orphan 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. ... $25.95
* ALIEN EMERGENCIES by James White - Orb/ Tor Tpb. Omnibus collection of AMBULANCE SHIP (1979), SECTOR GENERAL (1983) and STAR HEALER (1985), all in unabridged, corrected editions with an introduction by David Langford. ...$19.95
* BEGINNING OPERATIONS by James White - Orb/ Tor Tpb. A fat omnibus of three classic collections: HOSPITAL STATION (1962), STAR SURGEON (1963) and MAJOR OPERATION (1971). With an introduction by Brian Stableford. ... $19.95
* EMPIRE OF BONES by Liz Williams - Spectra pb. Jaya Nihalani, daughter of a street magician on the Indian subcontinent, has been troubled by voices and visions since she was small. What is seen by some as a blessed oracle, and others as mere chicanery, is the development of a human with the ability to tap into alien communications - and the signal that Earth is ready to be absorbed into a vast galactic empire. The aliens have incredible resources-tunable viruses, neuro-networks that surpass any imagined. But India knows better than most horrors that accompany the wonders of colonization, and Jaya, born into the Untouchable caste and a revolutionary at heart, is well-suited to sifting truth from lies, and opportunity from disaster. ... $6.00
* SEA OF SILVER LIGHT: OTHERLAND #4 (OF 4) by Tad Williams - DAW pb. Otherland, once the greatest achievement of the finest minds of the 21st century, has now become a killing ground for small children and those who dare oppose the renegade network, Dread. Now a team of concerned individuals have ventured into Otherland to rescue the children and shut Otherland down, but Dread has other plans. As the virtual world slowly decays and the team desperately search for a way out, they learn that Dread has plans that reach into the real world, and the final destruction of the Earth. ...$8.00
also available:
CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW (#1), pb ... $8.00
RIVER OF BLUE FIRE (#2), pb ... $8.00
MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS (#3), pb ... $8.00
* THE GOLDEN AGE by John C. Wright - St. Martin's HC. A Grand Space Opera in the classic style, set 10,000 years in the future, in an interplanetary utopian society of immortal humans. At a party to celebrate the millenium anniversary of the High Transcendence, Phaethon of Radamanthus House meets first an old man who accuses him of being an imposter and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend, and warns him that Phaethons memories have been altered by the supposedly honorable government. So Phaethon embarks on a quest across the Solar System to regain his true identity. ... $24.95
* SWIFT THOUGHTS by George Zebrowski - Golden Gryphon Press HC. Stories in this diverse collection range from the hard science fiction of "Gödel's Doom" through alternate history like "Lenin in Odessa", to first alien contact, "Bridge of Silence", as well as a healthy dollup of award winners. ... $24.95
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
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