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August 2001 Catalog - Science Fiction
SECRET OF SPRING by Piers Anthony & Jo Anne Taeusch - Tor pb. Herb is a member of a genetically engineered species - part plant, part human. He's got a good job, a good future, and is bored with life. Spring is taking care of her sorcerer father, who's locked secrets of absolute power into her mind and there are folks out to get that power. She's FAR from bored.... $7.00
EATER by Gregory Benford - EOS pb. An anomolous signal from a remote probe proves to be a wandering black hole beyond the orbit of Pluto, an invaluable opportunity to expand the bounds of physics, but posing no danger to Earth. Further contact leads to one surprise after another - the hole is intelligent and wishes to swap information with us, an unparalleled opportunity paired with incredible danger. ... $7.00
VENUS by Ben Bova - Tor pb. The ground on Venus is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure crushes spacecraft like tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid and the atmosphere is a choking mix of poisonous gases. Van Humphries' older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man on Venus and now his father has offered ten billion dollars to the first person to return with his son's remains. But what Van finds will change everything. ... $8.00
BALSHAZZAR'S SERPENT by Jack L. Chalker - Baen pb. The first of a new galactic epic adventure. The Great Silence that fell after the mysterious failure of the wormholes led to a new Dark Age for mankind. The Church served as a bridge to civilization, with faith keeping hope alive through the search for lost star systems and the desperate defense of scattered settlements. ... $7.00
HAMMERFALL: GENE WARS 1 by C. J. Cherryh - Eos HC. First book in an entirely new series. Marak had been a warrior and a leader, his father's only heir in their rebellious desert tribe, when his long-concealed secret was discovered. He was cast out from the village and given over to their enemies. Since childhood he had experienced visions and voices, now driving him to an uncertain destiny. ... $25.00
FIRST CONTRACT by Greg Costikyan - Tor pb. When the aliens arrived it was just like the Great Depression all over again. No one could compete with their artificial intelligences, flying cars and other products, so everyone went out of business. Johnson Mukerjii wasn't quite ready to end it all despite the loss of his wealth. He finally figured out that he had to find out what the aliens would buy from him. ... $7.00
IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS by Julie E. Czerneda - Daw pb. When setting out to colonize the universe, humanity didn't expect to find intelligent life. So they began to terraform world after world, eager immigrants awaiting their new lives on planets unknown. But technicians made a mistake introducing the alien Quill to worlds they didn't belong on. And when the crews finished their work, the Quills should have been destroyed. But some survived. And mutated. Now humanity is in a state of retreat, fleeing a horrible menace and leaving stranded colonists to be consumed. The search begins for the one thing that may save them, a small child who survived a Quill attack and may hold the secret to their defeat. ... $7.00
TIME AND TIME AGAIN by Dennis Danvers - EOS pb. Susanna Grier is inspired to write a novel after reading a newspaper article from the 18th century. The further she delves into the creation of her masterpiece however, the more she sees sharper and sharper reflections of events and people from her novel appearing in the real world. With the end of the novel quickly approaching she must discover the truth of what happened in the 1700's to prevent it from happening again. ... $6.50
RESURRECTION by Arwen Elys Dayton - Roc pb. Long ago, the Kinley sent out their first ship that could travel faster than light on a mission to explore Earth, lightyears away. But the ship's first mission was also its last. More recently, the Kinley were almost wiped out and for five millennia they attempted to rebuild their civilization. But their ancient enemy returned to finish the job. The Kinley's only hope is the long-lost technology enabling them to break the speed of light and travel across the galaxy in the blink of an eye. So a lone soldier must travel to Earth to recover The Champion, which was last heard from in the time of the Pharoahs. This book includes a signed bookplate produced especially for this book. ...$7.00
WAYWARD MOON: ASTROLOGER 2 by Denny DeMartinoi - Ace pb. In the year 2130, the afterlife is no longer a mystery. Interplanetary travel is possible and popular. Forensic astrologer, Philipa Cyprion, and Lieutenant Artemis Hadrien are solving crimes by way of the stars. Duriken Sunteel wanted to be a hero and died trying. She was only seconds away from resuscitating a dead planet when her life force was ripped from her body. Who's responsible for her death? That's what Philipa Cyprion has to find out and something is making her feel uneasy.. ... $6.50
ISAAC ASIMOV'S FATHER'S DAY EDITED by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams - Ace pb. From the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, today's most creative minds explore the fierce, fragile bond between fathers and their children. With stories by Harry Turtledove, Pamela Sargent, James Patrick Kelly, and others. ... $6.00
LT. LEARY COMMANDING by David Drake - Baen pb. Lt. Daniel Leary commands the corvette Princess Cecile; his friend has the latest in spy apparatus and the skill to prowl the most tightly guarded database. All they lack are enemies and fate is about to supply that in abundance! ... $8.00
THUNDER RIFT by Matthew Farrell - EOS pb. The Earth is in shambles after witnessing the power that has been dubbed, Thunder Rift. The giant energy matrix may prove to be a doorway to a new civilization or a path for an invading army. Now Toria and a team of scientists must breach the rift and face what lies ahead dead on. ... $7.00
FORTUNE'S STROKE by Eric Flint - Baen pb. Link, the supercomputer from the future, has forged the Malwa Empire on Earth in the 6th century using gunpowder weapons and terror to become an unstoppable force. Aide, a human soul embedded in a jewel, has the power of truth and the support of Belisarius, the greatest general of the age. Together they can challenge Link. ... $8.00
TIDE OF VICTORY by Eric Flint and David Drake - Baen HC. Sent back to the 6th century AD, the inhuman monster Link must set the stage for his creators to rise to power. Under his teachings, the Malwa Empire has spread throughout India and Mesopotamia and has began to serve the purposes for which it was begun. But others in the future have sent Aide, a knowledgable woman who can warn, but not lead; teach, but not wield the weapons of war. And she has formed an alliance against all evil in an attempt to prevent Link from succeeding. Now the opposing sides of this great conflict march to war, with all of the future in the balance. ... $22.00
LAST HARBOR by George Foy - Spectra Tpb. Slocum's life collapsed from the perfect house with the perfect wife, and now he lives in a tiny sloop on a harbor in a tiny, dying New England town. He 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 his ex-wife, creditors, and the police, Slocum takes the road offered to him and attempts to win both their freedoms. ... $13.95
CRESCENT CITY RHAPSODY: NANOTECH CYCLE 3 by Kathleen Ann Goonan - Eos pb. Book three of the Nanotech Cycle. A resurrected New Orleans mob boss and voodoun queen become an unlikely savior in a near-future where technology has changed almost beyond recognition and society reaches new levels of totalitarianism. Joe Haldeman says "A great big gumbo of a novel!" ... $7.50
MUTANT FILES edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers - Daw pb. In one way or another they are more than human. They may look just like you and me. They could be walking our streets right now, sitting next to you on the bus, living right next door. But they are the next steps in evolution, genetic mutations with advanced powers of the mind or unique physical abilities--and you'll never know it ,because for them survival lies in secrecy. These are gripping stories about those who have no choice about being different and seek only a way to survive--to have society accept them and the powers they possess. ... $7.00
YEAR'S BEST SF 6 edited by David G. Hartwell - EOS pb. This year's collection includes stories from Brian W. Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg and many more, carefully selected from the pages of ASIMOV'S, F & SF, INTERZONE, ANALOG and others. ... $7.50
STARLIGHT 3 edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden - TOR HC. 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. This collection includes 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. ... $24.95
PROBABILITY SUN by Nancy Kress - Tor HC. In Probability Sun, the sequel to Probability Moon, Nancy Kress returns to the future in which the human race is losing an interstellar war against the mysterious alien, Fallers. A shipload of scientists from Earth is sent to study the enigmatic artifact found on a distant planet, while the military crew of their ship is secretly holding a prisoner for study, the only live Faller ever captured. The artifact is not only a powerful weapon, but possibly the key to a lost superscience that the Fallers may have decoded. Or it may be a doomsday machine for everyone - alien and human. ... $24.95
MEEK by Scott Mackay - Roc pb. A generation ago the inhabitants of the asteroid Ceres, genetically altered humans with a predisposition of violence, had been destroyed by the government that had created them. Now humanity depends on Ceres. Engineers are sent to Ceres to alter it into a world where human children can thrive and grow in Earth-normal gravity, but when the engineers land, they realize they are not alone. And not welcome... ... $6.00
COSMONAUT KEEP by Ken MacLeod - TOR HC. 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 interstellar travel. ... $25.95
MIOCENE ARROW by Sean McMullen - Tor Tpb. In a 40th century America, ancient kingdoms with opulent courts, hereditary engineering guilds, and rigid class distinctions in warfare, a centuries-old balance of power is shattered by a few dozen Australian infiltrators. Against a rich backdrop of war, chivalry, conspiracy, and a deisel-powered arms race, a dangerous secret alliance has formed. Now an unlikely trio of an airlord, an abbess, and a fugitive join together in a desperate race against time. ... $15.95
SATURN'S RACE by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes - Tor pb. Lenore Myles travels to the near-future perfect society called Xanadu. It is home to the wealthiest men and women on Earth and to a secret that would shock the outside world. She stumbles upon the grisly truth behind the glittering facade. Now she is on the run, pursued by Saturn, a mysterious entity that moves aggressively to protect the security breach. ... $8.00
REVELATION SPACE by Alastair Reynolds - Ace HC. 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, as public knowledge of the reason could alter reality itself. ... $23.95
CHRONOSPACE by Allen Steele - Ace HC. The crew from a 24th century timeship prevents the crash of the Hindenburg, but that causes a rift in chronospace and the creation of an alternate timeline. Now the crew is lost in a parallel universe they themselves created, where the repercussions of their actions will be felt by all of humanity. ... $22.95
OCEANSPACE by Allen Steele - Ace pb. Mankind conquers the last terrestrial frontier with the construction of a vast undersea complex, completely self-sufficient. The byzantine plotting of its less-scrupulous inhabitants obscures something even more sinister outside the station. ... $7.00
BREAKTHROUGHS : GREAT WAR 3 by Harry Turtledove - Del Rey pb. Under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt and following a general named, Custer, the US is fighting a war on two fronts in 1917. In the north, US forces in the air and on land are locked in battle against Canada and Great Britain. Meanwhile, in the south, Custer attempts to break through the Confederate entrenchments in Tennessee - something the US has never accomplished. ...$8.00
TERRAFORMING EARTH by Jack Williamson - Tor HC. What might happen to Earth after it is hit by a meteor? This novel takes us past the terrible collision and far into the future, with a group of people who escaped the debacle to establish a safe harbor on the Moon. From Tycho Base they can monitor conditions on the devastated earth. Years, centuries, and millennia pass, as their cloned children through successive generations undertake the enormous challenge of restoring life to a barren planet. ... $24.95
FIRST LANDING by Robert Zubrin - Ace HC. The author of "The Case for Mars" and "Entering Space" brings us his first fiction novel, with all the careful scientific accuracy one could expect. When the first exploratory mission to Mars is stranded five scientists must save themselves. The race is on - not for credit or discovery, but for survival. ... $21.95
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