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October 2002 Catalog - Science Fiction
* INQUISITION: AQUASILVA #2 (OF 3) by Anselm Audley - Pocket HC. On the vast waterworld of Aquasilve, the priestly Domain controls magic, weather and history itself. Determined to crush resistance against their despotic rule, they launched a brutal Inquisition. Young Cathan, heir to the throne of Lepidor, has already escaped the Inquisition once. Now he finds himself keeping barely one step ahead of his vengeful foes. And in decadent Thetia, a hidden conspiracy of dissidents plot to use him to further their own purposes. ... $25.00
also available: HERESY, pb ... $7.00
* SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER by Neal Barrett, Jr - Swan Tpb. (1992) Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales, with an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale. These range from science fiction through fantasy to humor, and are a great introduction to the weird and wonderful world of Neal Barrett, Jr. Copies may be Signed by Joe R. Lansdale. ... $9.50
* STRENGTH OF STONES by Greg Bear - iBooks pb. (1986) Far in the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer a necessary part of their architecture, casting them out to wander in the wilderness and eke out a meager subsistence. But things are beginning to change. The cities are starting to crumble and die because they have no purpose or reason to continue living without citizens. One woman, called mad by some and wise by others, is the only human allowed to inhabit a city. From her lonely and precarious position, she must decide the fate of the relationship between human society and the ancient strongholds of knowledge, while making one last desperate attempt to save the living cities. ... $7.00
* THE GIANT LEAP by Adrian Berry - Forge/ Tor Tpb. Sometime in the next two centuries, humankind will embark on a momentous voyage that will take us out of our solor system and to the stars. The Gian Leap explains why it will happen, how it might happen, and why it is a good idea. Nonfiction . ... $14.95
* RAY BRADBURY: AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE by Jerry Weist - William Morrow & Co. HC. Ray Bradbury is a true national cultural treasure. Although known primarily as a writer and author, he has also made significant contributions to film, television, and the stage. In addition, he was creative consultant on the U.S. Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and created the interior metaphors" for Space Ship Earth at Disney World's Epcot Center in 1982. Featuring magazine illustrations, movie stills and posters, comics, letters, scripts, paintings, photos, book illustrations and jackets from all aspects of Bradbury's illustrious creative life-including on-of-a-kind treasures from his official archivist and from Bradbury's own personal collection-this book pays tribute to this artistic genius's vision. ... $34.95
* WRITERS OF THE FUTURE #18 edited by Algis Budrys - Galaxy Press pb. Once a year, the winners of the new writer contest Writers of the Future are collected together to introduce us to an entirely new crop of athors. Included this time is local author Nnedi Okorafor and articles from Andre Norton and Tim Powers. ... $8.00
* THE ULTIMATE CYBERPUNK edited by Pat Cadigan - iBooks Tpb. A very nice sampling of some of the best stories that helped define "cyberpunk", from early favorites like "Fondly Farenheit" by Alfred Bester to more recent work like "Dr. Luther's Assistant" by Paul J. McAuley, with stories by Cordwainer Smith, Philip K. Dick, Rudy Ruck, William Gibson, Greg Bear, Lewis Shiner and many more. Cadigan provides a marvelous introduction that rounds out the whole topic. ... $16.00
* IMAGO by Amy Sterling Casil - Wildside Press HC. In this first novel by an accomplished short story author, society has fractured between the victims of a mutational virus, dubbed freaks, and the perfect virtual constructs of DisLex, the Imagos. ... $37.95
* DEATHDAY #1 by William C. Dietz - Ace pb. It took Earth only three days to fall from the alien invasion. But Jack Manning is used to killing and while his survival instincts tell him to side with the invaders, his heart tells him something different. Will he find the secret to the alien race before it is too late? ... $7.50
also available: DEATH DAY, HC ... $22.95
EARTHRISE: DEATHDAY #2 by William C. Dietz - Ace HC. The aftermath of a devastating alien invasion holds the seeds for the beginning of a human revolution. ... $23.95
* SEAS OF VENUS by David Drake - Baen Tpb. Omnibus republication of SURFACE ACTION (1990) where humanity has relocated to undersea colonies on Venus, and the wars that ruined Earth continue on the ocean's surface - and THE JUNGLE (1991) where Ensign Brainard and his men face the ragingly letal lifeforms of Venus and ... $15.00
* THE GREAT FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY by Thomas A. Easton - Wildside Press HC. Six huge alien spaceships arrive, and far from destroying the planet - or solving all our problems - they set up what we dub embassies near major universities and start cramming on every aspect of human civilization. ...$32.95
* TIDE OF VICTORY: BELISARIUS #5 by Eric Flint & David Drake - Baen pb. 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 began. But others in the future have sent Aide, a knowledgable woman who can warn, but not lead; teach, but not weild the weapons of war. And she has formed an alliance against all evil in an attempt to prevent Link from succeding. Now the opposing sides of this great conflict march to war, with the entirety of the future in the balance. ... $8.00
* TRAPPED: EXPENDABLE #3 by James Alan Gardner - Eos pb. Life under the Spark Lords is dull but comfortable for Philemon Abu Dhubhai and the other teachers at a third-rate private school of second-rate rich kids, until a student is found murdered by an unknown alien organism and her boyfirend, the prime suspect, goes missing. The investigation that follows snares Philemon and five other misfits, plus one of the planet's most powerful criminals, the girl's mother, and traps them in a conspiracy that could involve the Spark Lords - and even the League of Peoples itself. ... $7.00
also available: ASCENDING, pb ... $7.00
* JUMPING OFF THE PLANET: STARSIDERS #1 by David Gerrold - Starscape/ Tor pb. (2001) After a stressful vacation the Dingillian brothers take a drastic step to temper their lives...they divorce their parents. Now on their own and depending on themselves, they must decide whether to return to a ravaged earth or to find a life on the moon ..... or beyond. ... $6.00
* NIGHTMARE: SILENT EMPIRE by Steven Harper - Roc pb. Kendi Weaver doesn't know he's a Silent, able to look into other people's dreams. Hijacked into slavery, he has resigned himself to a life of servitude. Then the discovery of his innate gift for dream communication changes everything. Suddenly Kendi is a very valuable commodity. ... $7.00
* IDENTIFYING THE OBJECT by Gwyneth Jones - Swan Press Chapbook. (1993) Four fine short stories for a total of 86 pages. Includes "Bold as Love", "Identifying the Object", "Blue Clay Blues" and "The Eastern Succession". ...$8.00
* BOLO STRIKE by William Keith - Baen pb. The enemy is the Aetryx, unknown beings who enslave other species with the promise of immortality. Colonel Jon Streicher prepares to lead the Bolo strike for planetary invasion to stop the invaders. ... $8.00
* PSYCHOHISTORICAL CRISIS by Donald Kingsbury - Tor pb. Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the digital augmentation of his familiar, he can barely function among the bewildering complexities of everyday 761st-century life on Spendid Wisdom. Lost along with routine survival skills like navigating the streets and levels of the sprawling capital world are many of Eron's memories, his professional expertise and specialized knowledge. The crime he committed must have been terrrible to warrent such punishment - if only he could remember what it was. ... $8.00
* VECTORS by Michael Kube-McDowell - Bantam Spectra pb. Dr. Jonathan Briggs is a gifted neuroscientist researching the existence of the human soul. He has access to the latest technology, and the enthusiastic support of his lover, who made her fortune creating virtual reality games. Strange anomalies have begun to show up in his research when suddenly, his life is turned upside down. No longer the dispassionate scientist, he begins a fevered, reckless effort to go beyond belief to proof. ... $7.00
* DIMENSION X: WEB WARRIORS by James Luceno - Del Rey pb. Ever since Tech jumped the Escarpment, an irregularity in cyberspace designed to stop the city's corporate tentacles from reaching an uncharted cyberland, he alone knows the coveted code sequence that made it possible. Now powerful people are deterimined to get that code, and the only escape is back through the Wilds. ... $7.00
also available: MEMORIES END, pb ... $7.00
* GHOST OF THE WHITE NIGHTS by L. E. Modesitt, Jr - Tor pb. Doktor Johan Eschach, Professor of Environmental Science and semi-retired secret agent, had hoped for a quiet life of teaching. But when his wife Llysette is sent to St. Petersburg on a cultural exchange mission, he accompanies her to work behind the scenes on an oil concession in Russian Alaska that Clumbia desperately needs. Instead he discovers a new weapons technology the Russians are developing, a threat even more fearsome than the atomic bombs of Austro-Hungary. ... $7.00
* NEXT OF KIN by Eric Frank Russell - Gollancz Tpb. (1959) Scout-Officer John Leeming knew from the very start that his reconnaissance mission deep into enemy territory was likely to be a one-way trip, but when he was indeed captured by tough and ruthless aliens, he knew he wasn't going to just give up. Armed with a piece of wood, a coil of wire, his quick wits and an imaginary ally called Eustace, Leeming embarked on a campaign to gain his freedom - and coincidentally undermined the entire alien war effort. ... $14.95
* MASKS OF TIME by Robert Silverberg - Gollancz Tpb. (1968) It was a year before the millenium when Vornan-19 materialized, naked, on the Spanish Steps in Rome. Witnesses all agreed that he just descended from the sky, leaving a glowing track as he arced through the air. For Leo Garfield it was the beginning of an extrodinary year - for Vornan claimed to be from the far future, and Garfield, as an expert on the time-reversal of subatomic particles, was seconded to the scienctific team to investigate. ... $14.95
* AMERICAN ZONE by L. Neil Smith - Tor Tpb. In "The Probability Broach", Smith created a world in which George Washington had been executed, there was no Civil War, and *everybody* carries a gun. Now Detective Win Bear continues to fight terrorists ruthlessly slaughtering and bombing the North American Confederacy. ... $15.95
* THE SAUCER OF LONELINESS by Theodore Sturgeon - North Atlantic Books Tpb. Volume 7 of the Complete Stories covers Autumn 1952 to Autumn 1953 and includes "The Touch of Your Hand", "The World Well Lost", "The Dark Room", "The Wages of Synergy", "Mr. Costello, Hero" and 12 others. With a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr where we learn the tenuous connection between Ted Strugeon and Kilgore Trout. ... $18.95
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