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December 2001 Catalog - Science Fiction
* SECOND CONTACT by J. D. Austin - Ace pb. Dangling on the edge of the galaxy is Kivlan, a planet reputed to be a gracious and accommodating paradise. Even its name means tranquility-but apparently in some dead language. Because when an earthship sends out a friendly hello, Kivlan immediately responds with missile fire. Leave it to Earth to give peace one more chance-by dispatching one more ship to Kivlan. ... $6.00
* MERCHANTS OF SOULS by John Barnes - Tor HC. Following up on the impressive A MILLION OPEN DOORS and EARTH MADE OF GLASS, Giraut Leones is most reluctantly drawn back into working for the Office of Special Projects again. A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual-reality playthings. To the Thousand Cultures, where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens, it's a monstrous crime and reinforces their distaste for Earth. If Giraut cannot stop Earth from ratifying its plans, the tenuous structure of interstellar human civilization may well collapse. ... $25.95
also available A MILLION OPEN DOORS, pb. ... $6.00
EARTH MADE OF GLASS, pb. ... $6.00
* PRECIPICE by Ben Bova - Tor HC. The asteroids are the richest source of metals and minerals known to humankind, now more tantalizing than ever as Earth spirals into environmental disaster. Dan Randolph knows that the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy and ecology, but the price may be more than he wants to pay. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space industry is the way of the future - but he doesn't care if Earth perishes in the process. The Asteroid Wars have begun. ... $25.95
* BLOODTIDE by Melvin Burgess - Tor HC. In the not-too-distant future, London is in ruins, a picked-over carcass where the remains of the city are being fought over by two ruthless gangs of warlords. In a bid of peace, the patriarch of the Volson clan offers his 14 year old daughter as wife to his blood rival Conor. Signy, who has dreamed all her life of joining her father's forces as a soldier in the war against Conor, is completely stunned by the announcement. But if she dares to defy her father, the consequences of her rebellion will set in motion as series of events both horrifying and tragic. ... $24.95
* PARABLE OF THE TALENTS by Octavia Butler - Aspect pb. Lauren's love is divided among her daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God is Change". But in the wake of chaos, the government turns a blind eye to bigots who consider a black female leader a threat. And soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers - or forsake the religion that can transform human destiny. ... $7.00
also available PARABLE OF THE SOWER, pb ... $7.00
* ETERNITY'S END by Jeffrey A. Carver - Tor pb. A science fiction epic of interstellar war, space piracy and star-spanning conspiracy. Renwald escapes seven years of captivity only to find himself the target of a conspiracy that spans light-years. His only hope of evading disaster is to embark on a suicide mission back into the heart of the pirates' stronghold. ... $8.00
* TENEBREA'S HOPE: TENEBREA #2 by Roxann Dawson - Pocket pb. Andrea Flores has become one of the most valued agents of the Tenebrea, the elite fighting force of the Alliance. Following the destruction of the Clone Welfare Institute run by the Cor Ordinate, Andrea is sent on a vital mission alongside H'Roo Parh, a Jod; Tara Gullwing, a clone and Tara's lover, Eric, the clone of Andrea's murdered husband. ... $7.00
also available ENTERING TENEBREA, pb ... $7.00
* STRANGE TRADES by Paul Di Filippo - Golden Gryphon Books HC. cover by Frank Kelly Freas. In this new collection, author Paul Di Filippo reconstructs our (mis)conceptions about what it means to work for a living. The eleven stories gathered here emphasize the moral and spiritual dimensions of employment, and examine the practical and ethical quandaries that future occupations may elicit. Yet not all the professions about which Di Filippo writes are strange, rather it's the exigencies surrounding these jobs that enter the realm of the strange and, occasionally, the surreal. ... $24.95
* ASCENDING by James Alan Gardner - Harper pb. Set in the same universe as EXPENDABLE. A virtually indestructible being and the last of her genetically altered human race, Oar must get to the bottom of a fiendish intergalactic plot before surrendering to the catatonic torpor that claims all of the race. ... $7.00
also available EXPENDABLE, pb ... $7.00
* MARS CROSSING by Geoffrey A. Landis - Tor pb. Twice humanity achieved a manned landing on Mars - only to watch in horror as the crews died through catastrophe. With interest waning (as well as funding) one final team is sent to mars - but from the moment of their landing everything goes wrong. Supplies and life support are low when they realize they must make an agonizing trek halfway across mars to find an abandoned ship - that will only be able to save half of their numbers... ... $8.00
* PLANET AMERICA: STARHAWK by Mark Maloney - Ace pb. Rogue pilot Hawk Hunter has gone AWOL from the Empire's elite X-Forces, searching for the mythical Home Planets. Battling his way across the most dangerous regions of the galaxy, Hunter believes he may have finally found his goal - the planet called America - the possible birthplace of all humanity. ... $6.00
* ACORNA'S WORLD by Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarbourough - Eos pb. Answering a faint distress signal leads Acorna and he companions to a strange world where they find signs of an attack by the Khleevi. Facing the annihilation of all she holds ear, Acorna and her friends must discover the Khleevi's weakness - and strike first! ... $7.00
* GHOST OF THE WHITE NIGHTS by L. E. Modesitt - Tor HC. The concluding novel in the alternate-history trilogy that began with OF TANGIBLE GHOSTS and THE GHOST OF THE REVELATOR. 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. ... $24.95
* AGAINST THE ODDS by Elizabeth Moon - Baen pb. The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. ...$8.00
also available ONCE A HERO, pb ... $7.00
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, pb ... $8.00
CHANGE OF COMMAND, pb ... $8.00
* FUTURELAND by Walter Mosley - Aspect HC. The place is the United States. The time, the near-future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranchised have swollen to a toxic level. High-tech rules the day while human nature, for better or worse, remains constant. In nine interwoven tales, Mosley paints a keen if fictional portrait of what the future could hold if our own political climate continues. Signed by the Author! ... $24.95
* ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME WITH MAX MERRIWELL by Pat Murphy - Tor HC. Murphy's previous foray in the fiction of Max Merriwell, There and Back Again, turned Tolkien into a space opera. This new tale of an orphaned girl adopted by wolves in mid-nineteenth-century California is an even wilder mix, with elements of mystery, western, and fantasy/adventure, as filtered through the feminine sensibility of Mary Maxwell. ... $24.95
also available THERE AND BACK AGAIN, pb ... $7.00
* VENTUS by Karl Schroeder - Tor pb. An artificial intelligence of godlike power goes rogue, and is only destroyed after terrifying struggles, but not before sending seeds of itself throughout the galaxy. Calandria May is sent to the planet Ventus to attempt to communicate with the AI terraforming programs there which have fallen silent long ago. ... $8.00
* SECOND CHANCES by Susan Schwartz - Tor HC. 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 ... $24.95
* LOVE IN VAIN by Lewis Shiner - Subterranean Press HC. Previously uncollected stories by a skilled storyteller of American counterculture, including the acclaimed "Love in Vain" and the rare "Castles Made of Sand". ... $40.00
* MARCHING THROUGH PEACHTREE by Harry Turtledove - Baen HC. A terrible civil war was tearing Destina apart. Neither side could expect an easy victory. The South was larger, but the North had more powerful wizards. Led by officers on unicorns & flying carpets, facing repeating crossbows & deadly sorcerous storms, the very survival of Destina was at stake. ...$21.00
* SENTRY PEAK by Harry Turtledove - Baen pb. The strangest Civil War novel you'll ever read! When Avram became King of Detina, he intended to liberate the serfs, but the northern provinces wouldn't accept his lordship. The war raged for three years, until Avram's General Guildenstern moved against the northern arm under Count Thraxton the Braggart, which held the town of Rising Rock, close by Sentry Peak. It was to be a crucial battle--more than either side knew... ...$8.00
* SHOCKBALL: STARDOC by S. L. Viehl - Roc pb. Having freed themselves from the Hsktskt slave traders, Cherijo and her husband, Duncan, wanted to start looking for a nice, quiet part of the universe where Cherijo's Creator, Joseph Grey Veil, wouldn't find them. But Joseph Grey Veil never gives up. Now the newlyweds are living underground with the help of a renegade band of alien-human half-breeds ... $7.00
* TANGLED UP IN BLUE by Joan D. Vinge - Tor pb. Returning to Tiamat, where the Snow Queen rules determined to break the hold of the Galactic Hegemony on her planet's technological development. Hegemonic Police officer Tree finds himself wounded and his friends and partners dead. He can't remember who's responsible but fosters a strong need for vengeance. ... $7.00
* COLLECTED STORIES OF VERNOR VINGE by Vernor Vinge - Tor HC. For the first time, Vernor Vinge gathers all his short fiction into a single volume. This collection is truly the definitive Vinge, capturing his visionary ideas at their very best. It also contains a never-before-published novella. ...$27.95
* MAELSTROM: STARFISH #2 by Peter Watts - Tor HC. Following the devastation in STARFISH, Lenie Clarke walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world. A cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive". ...$25.95
also available STARFISH, pb ... $7.00
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