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June 2002 Catalog - Science Fiction
* DAW 30TH ANNIVERSARY SF ANTHOLOGY edited by Betsy Wolheim & Sheila Gilbert - DAW HC. A marvelous celebration of 30 years of publishing, with all new stories from Brian Stableford, Ron Goulart, C. J. Cherryh, Brian Aldiss, Tad Williams, Robert Sheckley, C. S. Friedman and more! ... $24.95
* THE SALMON OF DOUBT: HITCHHIKER'S #6 by Douglas Adams - Crown HC. Douglas Adams died in 2001, but his hard-drive lives on, giving us this unfinished but intriguing look at the sixth and final book in the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy. ... $24.00
* DOMAIN by Steve Alten - Forge pb. What does an ancient asteroid, a 2500 year old Myan mystery, and an annual serpent's shadow have in common? Apocalypse. When a ridiculed scientist dies before he is able to prove this theory, his son Mick must pick up where his father left off. This effort to save to save humanity has only one setback. Mick is living in an insane asylum. So as the clock winds down Mick must convince a psychologist of the truth of his fathers theories and attempt an escape, before the asylum becomes the safest place to be. ... $8.00
* FRENZETTA by Richard Calder - Four Walls Eight Windows Tpb. Duane Duart feasts on human brains. He is a reanimated corpse, engineered from the body parts of fallen soldiers. His companion, murderous 17-year-old Princess Frenzetta, is a half-rat, half-human. Together they cut a swath of sex and violence across a decaying future Earth, spurred on by the rumor of sanctuary on the Moon. Blood-drenched violence goes hand-in-hand with erotic acrobatics: opulence and decadence, decay and fertility are Calder's themes. ... $13.95
* ENDER'S SHADOW by Orson Scott Card - Starscape/ Tor pb. A parallel volume to Ender's Game. Earth, anticipating a devastating attack from an insect alien race, is training military geniuses. As an abandoned child, Bean had used his tactical genius to get into a childrens' gang, civilize them, & live to grow older. His success brought him to the attention of Battle School's recruiters, where he eventually become Ender's right hand & friend. ... $6.00
also available: ENDER'S SHADOW, Slipcased, ltd to 200 leather cps and Signed ... $200.00
* PRIMAL SHADOWS by Alan Dean Foster - Tor pb. While his wallet was stolen by a one-night-stand, Bohannon still believes her to be the girl of his dreams, and tracks her through the New Guinea port to an area far upcountry: where headhunters still roam and law and order play by different rules. Beyond the natural threats of poisonous reptiles and bugs, floods and the jungle, he encounters the various evils of men and winds up in a hunt for gold that proves that, more than lust or love, greed is man's most primal instinct. ... $7.00
* SCHILD'S LADDER by Greg Egan - Eos HC. Long ago an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum: a region of new physics, with the potential to devour countless inhabited star systems, was inadvertantly created. Tchicaya is one of the researchers who trawls the border, adding to scientific study of the novo-vacuum A common ground for Preservationists and Yielders alike, those working to halt or destroy the encrouching worlds-eater...and those determined to investigate while allowing its growth, a group he's firmly allied with. The passing decades, and the expansion of the void, widens the great rift between the two faction, an explodes into violence when the most recent results suggest that there may be ...life... in the void. ... $25.95
* OTHER CANYON by Patricia Geary - Tpb. Carla is a "sensitive" - a woman vulnerable to the vibrations and energies of metal that most people can't feel. When she comes into possession of a silver necklace that was probably stolen from the Navajo reservation, she is unable to ignore the signs that compel her to return the necklace, and embarks on a journey to Canyon de Chelly. Along the way, she encounters a bizarre cast of cowboys, Navajos, Hopis, and German experimental filmmakers. Carla must discover new rules for surviving, and what transpires becomes an odyssey that forever blurs the lines between imagination and reality. ... $12.00
* BOUNCING OFF THE MOON: PLANETS #2 by David Gerrold - Tor pb. Charles Dingillian, Chigger for short, and his brothers thought it was a great idea to divorce their parents and explore the galaxy. That is until they become the target of an interplanetary manhunt. Now they are dodging corporate bounty hunters and terrorists who are all after the chip in Bobby's toy monkey. ... $7.00
also available: BOUNCING OFF THE MOON, HC ... $22.95
* MINDWORLDS by Phyllis Gotlieb - Tor HC. The peaceful Lyhhrt are such powerful telepaths that they can read the human mind, erase memories or stop the heart. Their exploitation by the Zamos crime family, along with wrenching technological change, has splintered their society, leaving a small group isolated and . ... $24.95
* AMMONITE by Nicola Griffith - Del Rey Tpb. (1993) Generations ago on the planet Jeep a deadly virus shattered the colony, killing the men and altering the life of the few surviving women. Now, a company has arrived on the planet to exploit its resources. They send a anthropologist to test a new vaccine, but will she choose to use it - and destroy the culture of the planet? ... $14.00
* STARLIGHT 3 edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden - Tor Tpb. Since 1996, Starlight has brought original science fiction and fantasy to the world, with stories that have won the Nebula Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Tiptree Award. and Starlight 1 itself won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Now with Starlight 3, Patrick Nielson Hayden brings new and original stories from SF authors like Stephen Baxter and Geofrey Landis, fantasists such as Jane Yolen and Brenda W. Clough, and up-and-comers such as Cory Doctorow and Greg van Eekhout. Playful to rigorous, melancholy to exuberant, worlds of today or worlds of the far future and past, this year's Starlight contains a sampling from the worlds of SF and fantasy today. ... $15.95
* THE LIGHTER SIDE by Keith Laumer, edited by Eric Flint - Baen pb. Another excellent compilation of Keith Laumer's stories, this time with the humor allowed to take the upper hand. Included in the ten stories are: "The Devil You Don't," "The Great Time Machine Hoax," and "The Planet Wreckers." ... $8.00
* SCOUT'S PROGRESS by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller - Ace pb. Aelliana has a compelling reason to leave her Clan and world. All she needs to do is come up with a spaceship - and learn how to fly it. While her work on updating the crucial math tables used by pilots has brought her admiration and respect from the Scouts, it's just that group that her nadelm has forbidden her to associate with. Previously published in the two novel Tpb omnibus PILOT'S CHOICE. ... $6.50
also available:
LOCAL CUSTOM, pb ... $6.00
PILOT'S CHOICE, Tpb ... $20.00
* FOURTH EMPIRE: STARHAWK #3 by Mack Maloney - Ace pb. Rogue pilot Hawk Hunter has rescued the great forces of the United Planets, and now they must fight the mysterious forces behind the Fourth empire, guerilla style, planet by planet. ... $6.00
* ON A PLANET ALIEN by Barry N. Malzberg - iBooks Tpb. Omnibus republication of three of Malzberg's most intriguing novels: SCOP (1978), the tale of a time traveller trying to stop some of history's worst moments, IN THE ENCLOSURE (1973), the story of Quir, the unfortunate alien endlessly interrogated after first contact with Earth and ON A PLANET ALIEN (1974), where the mission of educating the native inhabitants of Folsom's planet to bring them within the Federation is imperiled by events on the voyage. ... $14.00
* SECRET OF LIFE by Paul McAuley - Tor pb. A strange fungus-like organism growing in the Pacific Ocean imperils the world food chain. Analysis reveals a DNA unlike anything on Earth, and other events lead to believing it might well have come from Mars, brought back by a Chinese mission. Dr. Mariella Anders is recruited by NASA to join an urgent expedition to find out - but faced with corporations, activist groups and superpowers, each following their own agenda, she finds the quest for truth as hazardous as the threat to the ecosystem. ... $8.00
* WHOLE WIDE WORLD by Paul McAuley - Forge HC. Whole Wide World is a compelling cyber-conspiracy thriller set in a world where information is the univeral currency, and some people will do anything to be able to control it. Set in London in the aftermath of the Infowar, a women is murdered before the cybernetic gaze of eager voyeurs. A policeman sidelined to a backwater computer-crimes unit seizes on the chance to contribute to this high-profile murder case, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of high-tech intrigue. ... $25.95
* DANCE OF KNIVES by Donna McMahon - Tor Tpb. When Klale flees the confines of Fisher's Guild, she ends up in Vancouver - an ungoverned and half drowned city - where survival can be tricky amongst the beggers, and where every type of trade is controlled by gangs. When she unknowingly attracts the vengence of a hidden enemy, she seeks the help of Blade - the giant, bioaltered slave of the most notorious blackmailer - Choi Shung Wai. But Blade's psyche has been so twisted by Choi's neural implants, that he doesn't even know he's human - and if Klale can't help him discover his own soul, she may not live to save her own. ... $15.95
* THE FALLEN HOST by Lyda Morehouse - Roc pb. In a society where abuse of nanotech led to a government with powerful religious convictions, three unique individuals are engaged in a race for personal truth, approaching a final, terrible day of revelation. Emmaline is an Inquisitor for the Pope, charged with determining if the world's two known A.I.s have souls. Morningstar is a fallen angel ready to settle things once and for all. Page is a sentient electronic creation whose identity and purpose are becoming clouded - and the issue of having a soul becomes critical. ... $7.00
* LIMIT OF VISION by Linda Nagata - Tor HC. (2001) A young scientist lies dead in a top-secret Hawaiian laboratory, a victim of an illegal experiment with the forbidden nanotechnology known as LoVs-intelligent organisms that live at the limits of human vision. In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, a daring journalist probes a cult rumored to have awesome powers. And in high Earth orbit, a new stage of evolution is about to begin. 1 copy left. ... $24.95
* BEAST MASTER'S ARK by Andre Norton & Lyn McConchie - Tor HC. An entirely new novel about Holsteen Storm, the soldier hero from Norton's earlier novels BEAST MASTER and LORD OF THUNDER. In this he's facing Death-Which-Comes-In-The-Night, a silent, traceless killer that leaves only the cleaned bones of its victims behind. But to vanquish this terrible nightmare, he must enlist the aid of Tani, a genetic engineer from a travelling starship, and she has nothing but hatred for Beast Masters. ...$23.95
* MOUNT DRAGON by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - Tor pb. Mount Dragon is an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico, their goal: a medical breakthrough that promises to bring incalculable benefits to the human race. But while Brent Slopes beleives he is leading the way to a new world order, he may be opening the door to human extinction. ... $7.00
* REVELATION SPACE by Alastair Reynolds - Ace pb. When human colonists settled the Amarantin homeworld, few of them bothered to question the disappearance of its native population almost a million years before. But Dan Solvester is convinced that solving the riddle is vital to human survival. As he nears the truth he also learns that others will do anything to prevent this puzzle from being solved - because public knowledge of the reason could alter reality itself. ... $8.00
also available: REVELATION SPACE, HC ... $23.95
* SPACELAND by Rudy Rucker - Forge HC. A Novel of the Fourth Dimension. Joe Cube snuck the prototype for a new 3D TV system home and attracted the attention of Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our world (which she calls Spaceland) is something like a rug. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. A wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice, and sometimes messily explode. ... $24.95
* HOMINIDS by Robert J. Sawyer - Tor HC. Imagine a parrellel universe where neanderthals and not humans became the dominant species. A scientist from that universe breaks the quantom barrier, and ends up in our own universe. But can Homo sapiens accept the Neanderthal as more than just a freak? A stand alone novel, that serves as the first book in the The Neanderthal Parallax. ... $25.95
* PERMANENCE by Karl Schroeder - Forge HC. Rue Cassels lives in a Cyber Compact world, a world with remote brown dwarf stars which is cut off from other galaxies and dwindling in population. She flees from a brother who threatened to sell her into slavery, and finds an abandoned starship. Now she must find a way to overcome the greed and intrigue of Cyber Compact. ... $27.95
* THE AMAZING DR. DARWIN by Charles Sheffield - Baen HC. Not that Darwin - his grandfather! In an age when superstition is beginning to give way to human reason, no one so fully embodies the spirit of the times as Dr. Erasmus Darwin. No mystery can stand for long againt his enlightened analysis. But when the renowned Dr. Darwin is called upon to heal a man dying of an ailment that seems impossible, he has no idea that it is the beginning of a quest that will lead him to the corners of Europe and an encounter with a famous inhabitant of a certain Scottish loch. ... $24.00
* KINGDOM'S SWORD: STARFIST #7 by David Sherman & Dan Cragg - Del Rey pb. Gunny Charlie Bass and his company of Marines have to slug it out with weird aliens on the planet Kingdom, but the enemy has a deadly weapon that can destroy a platoon with one shot. ... $7.00
* LEGENDS edited by Robert Silverberg - Tor Tpb. (1998) Trade paperback republication of this massive collection where major names in the science fiction and fantasy fields each add one new novella to their most famous or beloved series. Includes work by Stephen King, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. le Guin, Tad Williams and George R. R. Martin. ... $15.95
* WARMASTERS edited by David Weber - Baen HC. Three separate novellas which will each be expanded into novels later this year. In David Weber's "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" young Honor Harrington faces what she thinks are space pirates. In Eric Flint's "Island" one of General Belisarius' soldiers is wounded, his wife will travel a tousand miles to reach his side-and few who get in her way will live to regret it. "Choosing Sides" by David Drake tells the story of Colonel Hammer's revenge for the ambush on one of his troops. ... $24.00
* MARCH UPCOUNTRY: #1 by David Weber & John Ringo - Baen pb. Your average spoiled royalty, Roger MacClintock never knew why no one liked him, nor why his mother sent him off to a backwards planet for negotiations which a third assistant undersecretary of state could handle. But on the decent into the atmosphere, the ship is sabotaged! Now Roger must quickly grow up before he gets himself and his companions killed. ... $8.00
also available: MARCH UPCOUNTRY, HC ... $24.00
* CHRONOLITHS by Robert Charles Wilson - Tor pb. In early 21st-century Thailand a 200 ft stone pillar violently appears in the forested interior, with an inscription commemorating a military victory - sixteen years in the future. Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in Bangkok, obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, our own near future. Scott is an expatriot slacker, who wants only to rebuild his life, but some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the center of the mystery and a final battle with the future. ... $7.00
* KINGDOM OF CAGES by Sarah Zettel - Aspect pb. Humanity is facing extinction. Colonies have spread among the stars, but too many have suffered from disease and poor food stocks. The planet Pandora is a near match for Earth, but when Chena and Teal Trust and their mother move there, they find that the Trusts have a genetic makeup that Pandora's scientists desperately want. And when Chena's mother is murdered, Chena and Teal vow to fight the system that killed her. ... $7.50
also available: KINGDOM OF CAGES, HC ... $24.95
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