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September 2001 Catalog - Science Fiction
* SUPERTOYS LAST ALL SUMMER LONG by Brian Aldiss - Griffin/ St. Martin's Tpb. And Other Stories of Future Time. A really fun short story collection with a new forward by Aldiss that goes into detail about his ongoing work with Stanley Kubrick and how it lead to his writing two follow-up stories to the title story. After Kubrick's death, Steven Spielberg built from the three stories to produce "A.I.", this summer's successful SF movie. Also included in the collection are "Apogee Again" (written for the birthday of Michael Moorcock), "Headless", "Steppenpferd" and "Dark Society", as well as, several new stories. ... $13.95
* MENDOZA IN HOLLYWOOD by Kage Baker - EOS pb. This third book in the Company series follows the lives of a group of cyborgs from the 24th century who've traveled back in time to conduct research. Botanist Mendoza meets her fellow cyborgs at a stagecoach inn on Cahuenga Pass in 1862. From Porfirio, the security tech, who has broken the rules by maintaining contact with his mortal family, to Oscar, an anthropologist who gathers information in the guise of a travelling salesman, to Imarte, who interacts a bit more intimately ("I'm compiling fascinating material on mores and sexuality") we get to know the lives of these operatives from the future. ... $7.00
also available,
IN THE GARDEN OF IDEN, pb ... $6.00
SKY COYOTE, pb ... $6.00
* HOMEFALL by Chris Bunch - Roc pb. The fourth book in the Last Legion series, where the Last Legion must find out what happened to the Confederation. The Legion must travel from one galaxy to another to seek the answers without letting their enemies find out the truth of the vanished government. ... $7.00
also available,
THE LAST LEGION, pb ... $7.00
FIREMASK, pb ... $7.00
STORM FORCE, pb ... $7.00
IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS by Julie E. Czerneda - Daw pb. Humanity had set out to colonize the universe, terraforming world after world, with eager immigrants awaiting their new lives on unknown planets. But when the alien Quill were brought to worlds they didn't belong on, catastrophe occurred. Now humanity is in a state of retreat, fleeing a horrible menace, and leaving stranded colonists to be comsumed. 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
* PROJECT AURA : PSYCHIC WARRIOR #2 by Robert Doherty - Dell pb. Secret U.S. military operations have produced an elite group of commandos able to leave their bodies-and their souls-to fight anywhere, anytime, using the devastating power of the human mind. Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton is one of them, and he's seen the damage and destruction the new weapons can cause. But now a psychic cabal called the Priory is killing without mercy, aiming for world domination, and infiltrating the Psychic Warriors themselves. ...$6.00
* YEAR'S BEST SF 18TH COLLECTION edited by Gardner Dozois - St. Martin's Press HC. As always, one of the finest short story collections published, with an impressive range of talens including Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul J. McAuley, Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepard and Michael Swanwick. ... $29.95
* YEAR'S BEST SF 18TH COLLECTION - St. Martin's Press. Also available as a trade paperback. ... $18.95
* RANKS OF BRONZE by David Drake - Baen pb. First published in 1986. The Galactics need fighters who could win battles without the aid of technology. So when Rome's legions suffered disaster at Carrhae, secretive alien traders were waiting to buy them on the Persian slave market. What they did not understand was the madness of enslaving a Roman legion and leaving them with swords in their hands. ... $6.00
* BROTHER JOHN by Rutledge Etheridge - Ace pb. The Duelists are the finest warriors mankind has ever produced, with bodies as strong as their code of honor. The Rookie is over seven feet tall, weighing in at 700 pounds. On his home planet of Janus he's considered a freak. But when he meets one of the famed Duelists, he hopes to find his calling in this brotherhood. But the Academy is not for everyone, john and the other candidates must pass a grueling series of tests. And the price of failure is death. ... $6.50
* RATS, BATS AND VATS by Dave Freer & Eric Flint - Baen pb. Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble, stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but with rat values. Bats that were crazy revolutionaries planning to throw off the yoke of human enslavement - with high explosive. Then there was the girl they rescued. Rich. Beautiful. With a tag-a-long alien tutor and a lemur-like pet with a big mouth. And they all decide to follow along on Chip's suicide mission. ... $8.00
* EMPTY CITIES OF THE FULL MOON by Howard V. Hendrix - Perigee HC. In a terrifying near future, a new technology resurrects an old plague that inflicts madness on all it's victims. Totally destroying all progress and urbanization, the malicious disease puts the world under the sway of the full moon, and fundamentally changes what it means to be human. ... $22.95
* SKY ROAD by Ken MacLeod - Tor pb. Humanity's future in space will be determined from the failures of the past. Only the secret files from the first space age left by Myra Godwin can move humanity forward. Clovis, a scholar working in the spaceship construction yard is seduced into looking into the dark past by his mysterious girlfriend Merrial. ... $7.00
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 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. ... $25.95
* TIME TRADERS by Andre Norton - Baen pb. Omnibus of the two novels TIME TRADERS and GALACTIC DERELICT. ... $7.00
* STAR SOLDIERS by Andre Norton - Baen HC. Omnibus publication of STAR GUARD (published in 1955) and STAR RANGERS (published in 1953). ... $18.00
TIME TRAVELERS STRICTLY CASH by Spider Robinson - Tor pb. Second collection of Callahan's Saloon stories, now back in print in an affordable paperback: including my favorite with the time traveler "Alfie", a (not very disguised at all) characature of Alfred Bester. ... $6.00
TELEMPATH by Spider Robinson - Baen pb. For thousands of years, ghosts have lived side by side man, niether knowning of the other. And for centuries after their discovery, man still refused to accept their existence. We had assumed life belonged exclusively to solids and liquids. Now we are at war, and on the brink of annihilation. ... $7.00
* HOLDING THE LINE: SPECIAL OPS SQUAD by Rick Shelley - Ace pb. Sergeant Drak, just back from fighting on the planet Dintsen, is given a daunting task. Assigned to an experimental regiment as a Spec ops Squad leader, he must try to create a unit made up of every alien race in the Alliance, despite the bad blood between many of the aliens. Before training is completed, the Ilion Federation attacks the core worlds, and Drak's half-formed unit is sent out to hold them off. ... $7.00
* CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson - Avon HC. We picked up a few copies of this sought-after hardcover at a discount from another bookseller! ...$10.00
* BLOOD AND IRON: AMERICAN EMPIRE #1 by Harry Turtledove - Del Rey HC. By the end of the Great War, the Confederate States, France and England all fell to the combined power of the U. S. and Imperial Germany, Russia had self-destructed and Japan retired to fight another day. However, peace is fragile indeed in North America, where bitter enemies share two long, bloody borders. In the North Canadian nationalists resist the colonial power of the United States while the once-mighty Confederate States have been pounded into poverty and merciless inflation. The time is right for madmen, demogogues and terrorists. ... $27.95
* MARCH TO THE SEA: MARCH UPCOUNTRY #2 by David Weber & John Ringo - Baen HC. Under the right circumstances, even the most spoiled brat can grow up fast, and it turns out that under his petulant exterior Prince Roger is a true MacClintock, a scion of the warrior dynasty which created the Empire of Man a thousand years before. Stranded by an assassination attempt on a deadly jungle planet, the Marines assigned to guard him are now determined to get him off Marduk alive. ... $24.00
also available,
MARCH UPCOUNTRY, HC ... $24.00
* SISTER EMILY'S LIGHTSHIP & OTHER STORIES by Jane Yolen - Tor Tpb. Nebula Award winning author Jane Yolen brings to print twenty-eight enchanting tales of the heart. Includes such favorites as "The Traveler and the Tale", "The Thirteenth Fey" and "Sister Death" as well as two new stories. Heralded as America's Hans Christian Anderson, Yolens' true stories revive the spirit and warm the soul. ... $13.95
* DAMNATION ALLEY by Roger Zelazny - ibooks Tpb. First published in 1968, now back in print. In an apocalyptic future Los Angeles, Hell Tanner is no hero: he's a car thief, a smuggler and a killer. Facing life in prison for his crimes, he's given the choice to rot in a tiny cell or attempt to drive a case of medical supplies to plague-ridden Boston. Inhabiting the radioactive wasteland between are a fatal assortment of humans and animals that have survived the killing storms, but with terrible changes. ...$12.00
* WRITERS OF THE FUTURE XVII edited
by Algis Budrys - Bridge pb. The 17th anthology, with the winning stories
from this year's writing contest for previously unpublished authors. Also
includes essays on writing and publishing from Roger Zelazny, L. Ron Hubbard
and Sergey Poyarkov as well as a new introduction by Algis Budrys. ... $8.00
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