Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Spectra
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Dec 1986 My Rating: 0
Summary: Ursula Le Guin's "Always Coming Home "is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.
Publisher: Spectra
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Dec 1986 My Rating: 0
Summary: Ursula Le Guin's "Always Coming Home "is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.
Author: Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Publisher: Spectra
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Dec 2005 My Rating: 0
Summary: In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers he’s got the biggest secret of all.…
Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action-thriller with an exotic twist. Here an ex-cop with nothing to lose finds himself on the trail of a man he doesn’t believe in: "his father.
"Ashraf Bey has been a lot of things–and most of them illegal. Now, having resigned as El Iskandryia’s Chief of Detectives, he’s taking stock of his life and there’s not much: a mistress he’s never made love to, a niece everyone thinks is mentally incompetent, and a credit card bill rising towards infinity. With a revolt breaking out across North Africa, the world seems to be racing Raf straight to hell. The last thing he needs is a father he’s never known. But when the old Emir’s security chief requests that Raf come out of retirement to investigate an assassination attempt on His Excellency, that’s exactly what Raf gets. Now, disguised as an itinerant laborer, Raf goes underground to discover a man–and a past–he never knew…and won’t survive again.
“Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.” –"SF Revu"
"“Felaheen" is SF at its most inventive.” –"Guardian
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Publisher: Spectra
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Dec 2005 My Rating: 0
Summary: In a world where secrets kill, an ex-cop discovers he’s got the biggest secret of all.…
Set in a 21st-century Ottoman Empire, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s acclaimed Arabesk series is a noir action-thriller with an exotic twist. Here an ex-cop with nothing to lose finds himself on the trail of a man he doesn’t believe in: "his father.
"Ashraf Bey has been a lot of things–and most of them illegal. Now, having resigned as El Iskandryia’s Chief of Detectives, he’s taking stock of his life and there’s not much: a mistress he’s never made love to, a niece everyone thinks is mentally incompetent, and a credit card bill rising towards infinity. With a revolt breaking out across North Africa, the world seems to be racing Raf straight to hell. The last thing he needs is a father he’s never known. But when the old Emir’s security chief requests that Raf come out of retirement to investigate an assassination attempt on His Excellency, that’s exactly what Raf gets. Now, disguised as an itinerant laborer, Raf goes underground to discover a man–and a past–he never knew…and won’t survive again.
“Fast, furious, fun and elegant, the Arabesk trilogy is one of the best things to hit the bookstores in a while.” –"SF Revu"
"“Felaheen" is SF at its most inventive.” –"Guardian
"
Author: George Mann
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jul 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: I am not a big science- fiction fan, and do not know the Literature well. Other reviewers on Amazon who do seem to know it quite well, are very disappointed in this work. They find that it omits many major authors, that its focus is too British, and scants the Americans, that it contains errors, and that there are better comparable products on the market.
As a novice I was attracted to one of the sections of the work primarily. There are Chapters on ' The History and Origins of Science Fiction' 'Science Fiction on the Page' ( which talks about tens of writers) 'Science Fiction on the Screen' 'Terms , Themes and Devices in Science Fiction' 'Societies and Awards'.
What interested me was the 'Terms Themes' chapter as I wanted to learn more of the vocabulary of the Genre. And this especially as I find that in certain scientific questions ( A recent discussion of ' the end of the world' in 'Best American Science Writing 2005' highlighted this) where there is no real ' scientific answer' scientists tend to go for the fictional and most imaginary scenarios they can think of.
I am in the midst of reading the 'Terms Themes' section and finding it of great value. Concepts are traced from their origin to their emergent meanings.
So on the whole I believe that this is a good book from which it is possible to derive a lot of information.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jul 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: I am not a big science- fiction fan, and do not know the Literature well. Other reviewers on Amazon who do seem to know it quite well, are very disappointed in this work. They find that it omits many major authors, that its focus is too British, and scants the Americans, that it contains errors, and that there are better comparable products on the market.
As a novice I was attracted to one of the sections of the work primarily. There are Chapters on ' The History and Origins of Science Fiction' 'Science Fiction on the Page' ( which talks about tens of writers) 'Science Fiction on the Screen' 'Terms , Themes and Devices in Science Fiction' 'Societies and Awards'.
What interested me was the 'Terms Themes' chapter as I wanted to learn more of the vocabulary of the Genre. And this especially as I find that in certain scientific questions ( A recent discussion of ' the end of the world' in 'Best American Science Writing 2005' highlighted this) where there is no real ' scientific answer' scientists tend to go for the fictional and most imaginary scenarios they can think of.
I am in the midst of reading the 'Terms Themes' section and finding it of great value. Concepts are traced from their origin to their emergent meanings.
So on the whole I believe that this is a good book from which it is possible to derive a lot of information.
Author: James P. Hogan
Publisher: Spectra
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Oct 1994 My Rating: 0
Summary: When starting this book, I thought the premise looked pretty interesting and I had read other things by Hogan, so I thought it might be pretty good.
It started out a little slow, but once it got going, it seemed like it was going to be ok. Several times there were plot developments that made me think, this is really going to pick up now, but it never really did. Fairly early on in the story, I thought of something that I thought would have been an interesting twist for the end, but later events led me to discard it as a possibility. However, when I got to the end, what I had thought of did turn out to be the twist. Even though events in the story made it difficult. Which was made worse by an entire section of the book that tried to explain how the events unfolded without offering anything of value to the story. Add to this a protagonist who was completely discarded halfway through the story, an abrupt unsatisfying ending, and you get a pretty worthless book.
I wouldn't recommend this book. If you want to read something by Hogan, try Inherit the Stars instead.
Publisher: Spectra
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Oct 1994 My Rating: 0
Summary: When starting this book, I thought the premise looked pretty interesting and I had read other things by Hogan, so I thought it might be pretty good.
It started out a little slow, but once it got going, it seemed like it was going to be ok. Several times there were plot developments that made me think, this is really going to pick up now, but it never really did. Fairly early on in the story, I thought of something that I thought would have been an interesting twist for the end, but later events led me to discard it as a possibility. However, when I got to the end, what I had thought of did turn out to be the twist. Even though events in the story made it difficult. Which was made worse by an entire section of the book that tried to explain how the events unfolded without offering anything of value to the story. Add to this a protagonist who was completely discarded halfway through the story, an abrupt unsatisfying ending, and you get a pretty worthless book.
I wouldn't recommend this book. If you want to read something by Hogan, try Inherit the Stars instead.
Author: John Darnton
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Apr 1996 My Rating: 0
Summary: An exciting novel that will do for pre-historic man what Jurassic Park did for Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Apr 1996 My Rating: 0
Summary: An exciting novel that will do for pre-historic man what Jurassic Park did for Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1994 My Rating: 0
Summary: Ever wanted to know where the ideas came from for those classic science-fiction movies like "The Thing" and "Total Recall" and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" came from? Well, this is your chance to find out. This book is a compilation of 16 short stories that were the inspiration for some classic science fiction movies. I found it very interesting, entertaining -- and sometimes surprising. If you can find it, I highly recommend reading it.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1994 My Rating: 0
Summary: Ever wanted to know where the ideas came from for those classic science-fiction movies like "The Thing" and "Total Recall" and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" came from? Well, this is your chance to find out. This book is a compilation of 16 short stories that were the inspiration for some classic science fiction movies. I found it very interesting, entertaining -- and sometimes surprising. If you can find it, I highly recommend reading it.
Author: Philip Jose Farmer
Publisher: Berkley
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1984 My Rating: 0
Summary: First things first. Phil Farmer is not always the most elegant writer - often, his prose is clumsy and his characters wooden. In all likelihood, you won't like everything you read by him. He's best known for labyrinthine series (Riverworld, Dayworld, World of Tiers) and 'fictional histories' of iconic characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan & Doc Savage, which may or may not be your cup of tea. Okay, enough with the caveats: on the plus side of the ledger, he's an unduplicable and inspired madman with no fear and no restraints upon his literary curiosity. I can't think of anyone even remotely like him, ever. We desperately need more writers in his imaginative weight-class....he may be audacious and outrageous, but he never shatters taboos simply to shock and tittilate (as so many Celebrated Prose Stylists do), but simply to see what might emerge from behind this or that Forbidden Curtain. This paperback, long out of print (WHY??), is not only my favorite Farmer, but one of all time favorite books by anyone. It's the initial Riverworld novella which preceded the series (which incidentally works beautifully as a standalone work - in fact, it's so powerfully surreal and magical that the subsequent series might disappoint you, as it did me), along with a number of Farmer's most unforgettably deranged short stories, many of which sping from premises which would never have occured to anyone BUT Farmer (i.e., 'The Jungle Rot Kid On The Nod' came from Farmer's asking himself: what if WILLIAM Burroughs, rather than Edgar Rice, had written Tarzan?) Usually, in a collection of this type, the novella is the centrepiece and the rest is filler; here, nearly every single collected work is equally indelible. A couple of these stories -'JC on the Dude Ranch', 'The Leaser of Two Evils', 'The Phantom of the Sewer', and the two mentioned previously- have been etched permanently in my mind since I first read them over 25 years ago. (And though I've read quite a bit of Farmer since then, none of it has ever quite equalled this incredible collection - though there've been some close calls.) I'm sure that among sf aficionados, this early version of RIVERWORLD might be considered a nonessential larval-stage curiosity - there never seems to be a shortage of RIVERWORLD novels in print, and that may be keeping this neither-fish-nor-fowl book locked away in obscurity. But please trust me on this one - RIVERWORLD AND OTHER STORIES is Phil Farmer's single greatest collection/definitive statement, and the world needs to see it back in print as soon as possible.
Publisher: Berkley
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1984 My Rating: 0
Summary: First things first. Phil Farmer is not always the most elegant writer - often, his prose is clumsy and his characters wooden. In all likelihood, you won't like everything you read by him. He's best known for labyrinthine series (Riverworld, Dayworld, World of Tiers) and 'fictional histories' of iconic characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan & Doc Savage, which may or may not be your cup of tea. Okay, enough with the caveats: on the plus side of the ledger, he's an unduplicable and inspired madman with no fear and no restraints upon his literary curiosity. I can't think of anyone even remotely like him, ever. We desperately need more writers in his imaginative weight-class....he may be audacious and outrageous, but he never shatters taboos simply to shock and tittilate (as so many Celebrated Prose Stylists do), but simply to see what might emerge from behind this or that Forbidden Curtain. This paperback, long out of print (WHY??), is not only my favorite Farmer, but one of all time favorite books by anyone. It's the initial Riverworld novella which preceded the series (which incidentally works beautifully as a standalone work - in fact, it's so powerfully surreal and magical that the subsequent series might disappoint you, as it did me), along with a number of Farmer's most unforgettably deranged short stories, many of which sping from premises which would never have occured to anyone BUT Farmer (i.e., 'The Jungle Rot Kid On The Nod' came from Farmer's asking himself: what if WILLIAM Burroughs, rather than Edgar Rice, had written Tarzan?) Usually, in a collection of this type, the novella is the centrepiece and the rest is filler; here, nearly every single collected work is equally indelible. A couple of these stories -'JC on the Dude Ranch', 'The Leaser of Two Evils', 'The Phantom of the Sewer', and the two mentioned previously- have been etched permanently in my mind since I first read them over 25 years ago. (And though I've read quite a bit of Farmer since then, none of it has ever quite equalled this incredible collection - though there've been some close calls.) I'm sure that among sf aficionados, this early version of RIVERWORLD might be considered a nonessential larval-stage curiosity - there never seems to be a shortage of RIVERWORLD novels in print, and that may be keeping this neither-fish-nor-fowl book locked away in obscurity. But please trust me on this one - RIVERWORLD AND OTHER STORIES is Phil Farmer's single greatest collection/definitive statement, and the world needs to see it back in print as soon as possible.
Author: Poul Anderson
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jul 1991 My Rating: 0
Summary: One of the best in Anderson's long running Time Patrol Series. In this work, Manse Everard rescues history on a grander scale than ever before Anderson attacks the sometimes tedious concept of temporal paradox in a manner that allows the reader to suspend disbelief and enjoy the rich interplay of his characters and the high adventure characteristic of all of Anderson's works.
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jul 1991 My Rating: 0
Summary: One of the best in Anderson's long running Time Patrol Series. In this work, Manse Everard rescues history on a grander scale than ever before Anderson attacks the sometimes tedious concept of temporal paradox in a manner that allows the reader to suspend disbelief and enjoy the rich interplay of his characters and the high adventure characteristic of all of Anderson's works.
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Teen
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Sep 2004 My Rating: 4
Summary: Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game-winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories."The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul Wiggin......In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection--a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive--until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.
Publisher: Tor Teen
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Sep 2004 My Rating: 4
Summary: Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game-winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories."The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father of Ender. In the years between the first two Bugger Wars, the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. They may have found their man--or boy--in John Paul Wiggin......In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection--a brilliant but arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now a university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student. "The Investment Counselor" is set after the end of the Bugger Wars. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive--until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xeoncide. Also reprinted here is the original award-winning novella, "Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977.
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Ace Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1997 My Rating: 4
Summary: Ross Ed Hager, a good ol' boy on a driving holiday, finds an alien corpse in a backwoods cave; probably an alien, it's got three eyes, three arms, three legs, and some sort of space suit on. Instead of making a fuss, Ross Ed dubs the corpse "Jed" and takes him along to see California. It turns into a very strange road trip indeed -- because Jed is only *sort of* dead.
Publisher: Ace Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1997 My Rating: 4
Summary: Ross Ed Hager, a good ol' boy on a driving holiday, finds an alien corpse in a backwoods cave; probably an alien, it's got three eyes, three arms, three legs, and some sort of space suit on. Instead of making a fuss, Ross Ed dubs the corpse "Jed" and takes him along to see California. It turns into a very strange road trip indeed -- because Jed is only *sort of* dead.
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1993 My Rating: 4
Summary: If Joyce Carol Oates collaborated with Ursula LeGuin...
"Barbara Ehrenreich's novel, KIPPER'S GAME is an incisive and complex, but, ultimately, bleak, thought experiment. The world she creates in this thoughtful technological thriller is intriguing and credible. In particular, Ehrenreich captures effectively the experience of the main character, Della, whose search for her son drives the narrative. Della's quest is more than just a plot device, however. She is at a cross-roads in her life caused by seemingly tragic circumstances that allow her the chance to flourish, if she can ask the right questions of herself. This character's personal challenge adds human depth to an otherwise grim social commentary about environmental and political ruin. Overall, Ehrenreich raises important issues and poses interesting problems. However, the scope of the novel is too ambitious and the resolution too unsatisfying to strongly recommend it. Fans of techno thrillers who prefer a philosophical bent to their plots are the best audience for this novel."
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1993 My Rating: 4
Summary: If Joyce Carol Oates collaborated with Ursula LeGuin...
"Barbara Ehrenreich's novel, KIPPER'S GAME is an incisive and complex, but, ultimately, bleak, thought experiment. The world she creates in this thoughtful technological thriller is intriguing and credible. In particular, Ehrenreich captures effectively the experience of the main character, Della, whose search for her son drives the narrative. Della's quest is more than just a plot device, however. She is at a cross-roads in her life caused by seemingly tragic circumstances that allow her the chance to flourish, if she can ask the right questions of herself. This character's personal challenge adds human depth to an otherwise grim social commentary about environmental and political ruin. Overall, Ehrenreich raises important issues and poses interesting problems. However, the scope of the novel is too ambitious and the resolution too unsatisfying to strongly recommend it. Fans of techno thrillers who prefer a philosophical bent to their plots are the best audience for this novel."
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1993 My Rating: 4
Summary: If you do not trust my opinion, go to the closest library, borrow it and see what you think. This is just a terrible collection. It is no way a good representation of what science fiction, as a genre, has to offer, which is a good thing. Otherwise, it would be really sad.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1993 My Rating: 4
Summary: If you do not trust my opinion, go to the closest library, borrow it and see what you think. This is just a terrible collection. It is no way a good representation of what science fiction, as a genre, has to offer, which is a good thing. Otherwise, it would be really sad.
Author: Spider Robinson
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1994 My Rating: 4
Summary: Spider Robinson's Off the Wall at Callahan's is a collection of epigrams, maxims, proverbs, observations, eye-watering puns, and original song lyrics distilled from the first five volumes of the Callahan's Place series. All of these gems were painstakingly deciphered from blown-up old photos of the wall behind the bar, where Callahan let his customers scrawl graffiti, so, technically, every word is 'off the wall.' There are even capsule bios at the end for every person (real or imaginary) quoted in the graffiti section. Out of print for five years, new fans of Callahan's will be looking for this book.
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1994 My Rating: 4
Summary: Spider Robinson's Off the Wall at Callahan's is a collection of epigrams, maxims, proverbs, observations, eye-watering puns, and original song lyrics distilled from the first five volumes of the Callahan's Place series. All of these gems were painstakingly deciphered from blown-up old photos of the wall behind the bar, where Callahan let his customers scrawl graffiti, so, technically, every word is 'off the wall.' There are even capsule bios at the end for every person (real or imaginary) quoted in the graffiti section. Out of print for five years, new fans of Callahan's will be looking for this book.
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Aug 2002 My Rating: 4
Summary: In "Shadow Puppets", Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of "Shadow of the Hegemon", following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow" has dissipated.
Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in "Shadow of the Hegemon", rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It's up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth.
"Shadow Puppets" is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion. "--Jeremy Pugh"
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Aug 2002 My Rating: 4
Summary: In "Shadow Puppets", Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of "Shadow of the Hegemon", following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in "Ender's Game" and "Ender's Shadow" has dissipated.
Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in "Shadow of the Hegemon", rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It's up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth.
"Shadow Puppets" is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion. "--Jeremy Pugh"
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1974 My Rating: 5
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Publisher: Fawcett Crest
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1974 My Rating: 5
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Author: Stephen R. Donaldson
Publisher: Del Rey
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Sep 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary: The Creator Of Thomas Covenant Adds Eight New Wonders To The World.
In his first collection of short fiction, the bestselling author of White Gold Wielder presents eight superb stories, including "Gilden-Fire," the famous "outtake" from Illearth War, and two brand new novellas written especially for this edition. Enter a world of mystics and unicorns, angels and kings -- all realized with the same dazzling style and imagination that has made Stephen R. Donaldson a modern master of the fantasy genre.
Daughter of Regals is a fantasy novella concerning a unique royal line and an unusual conception of magic.
The Conqueror Worm is a deliciously creepy "horror" piece in which havoc is wreaked by one lowly centipede.
Ser Visal's Tale begins as a simple story told over several flagons of wine at the local inn, this novella ends with a surprising twist.
Gilden-Fire is the famous chapter about Korik of the Bloodguard and his mission to Seareach that was part of the original manuscript of The Illearth War, but omitted from the published version.
Publisher: Del Rey
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Sep 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary: The Creator Of Thomas Covenant Adds Eight New Wonders To The World.
In his first collection of short fiction, the bestselling author of White Gold Wielder presents eight superb stories, including "Gilden-Fire," the famous "outtake" from Illearth War, and two brand new novellas written especially for this edition. Enter a world of mystics and unicorns, angels and kings -- all realized with the same dazzling style and imagination that has made Stephen R. Donaldson a modern master of the fantasy genre.
Daughter of Regals is a fantasy novella concerning a unique royal line and an unusual conception of magic.
The Conqueror Worm is a deliciously creepy "horror" piece in which havoc is wreaked by one lowly centipede.
Ser Visal's Tale begins as a simple story told over several flagons of wine at the local inn, this novella ends with a surprising twist.
Gilden-Fire is the famous chapter about Korik of the Bloodguard and his mission to Seareach that was part of the original manuscript of The Illearth War, but omitted from the published version.
Author: Tim Powers
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary: Post nuclear holocaust LA? - Heard it before! Lost love refound? - Been done. So why read this one? Because it's so different.
Aspects of this book have become quite common place in the SF movie world, that I can't help wondering just how many people read Powers. I can't give any examples here, 'cos I don't want to spoil the astounding revelations exposed throughout the book but if you read it, you'll know what I mean. And you should read it.
Amusing word plays - like the blood lusting Hemogoblin - show Powers humour to be unsubtle, unlike the plot, which is so full of sub-plots and different levels, that you can't help sharing the calm desperation of the main character as he sinks lower and lower into a reality he could not have suspected existed.
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary: Post nuclear holocaust LA? - Heard it before! Lost love refound? - Been done. So why read this one? Because it's so different.
Aspects of this book have become quite common place in the SF movie world, that I can't help wondering just how many people read Powers. I can't give any examples here, 'cos I don't want to spoil the astounding revelations exposed throughout the book but if you read it, you'll know what I mean. And you should read it.
Amusing word plays - like the blood lusting Hemogoblin - show Powers humour to be unsubtle, unlike the plot, which is so full of sub-plots and different levels, that you can't help sharing the calm desperation of the main character as he sinks lower and lower into a reality he could not have suspected existed.
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Oct 1999 My Rating: 5
Summary: "Ender's Shadow" is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "Ender's Game". By "parallel," Card means that "Shadow" begins and ends at roughly the same time as "Game", and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.
Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of "Shadow", and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.
Although it may seem like "Shadow" is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous "Ender's Game", that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of "Ender's Game" hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, "Shadow" manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that "Shadow", like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. "--Craig E. Engler"
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Oct 1999 My Rating: 5
Summary: "Ender's Shadow" is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "Ender's Game". By "parallel," Card means that "Shadow" begins and ends at roughly the same time as "Game", and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil.
Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of "Shadow", and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know.
Although it may seem like "Shadow" is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous "Ender's Game", that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of "Ender's Game" hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, "Shadow" manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that "Shadow", like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. "--Craig E. Engler"
Author: Clive Barker, Richard Dominick
Publisher: Harpercollins
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1994 My Rating: 5
Summary: Five years ago, in his bestseller "The Great and Secret Show" Clive Barker mesmerized millions of readers worldwide with an extraordinary vision of human passions and possibilities.
Welcome to a new volume in that epic adventure. Welcome to Everville.
With Clive Barker's trademark mingling of wild fantasy, eroticism, and visionary horror, "Everville" promises to take its readers on a journey that will awe, arouse, and terrify in equal measure, opening the doors of a new reality for readers of fantasy and horror alike.
On a mountain peak, high above the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that lets onto the shores of the dream-sea Quiddity And there's not a soul below who'll not be changed by that fact...
"Phoebe Cobb," once a doctor's receptionist, is about to forget her old life and go looking for her lost lover, Joe Flicker, in the world on the other side of that door, a strange, sensual wonderland the likes of which only Barker could make real.
"Tesla Bombeck," who knows what horrors lurk on the far side of Quiddity, must solve the mysteries of the city's past if she is to keep those horrors from crossing the threshold.
"Harry D'Amour," who has tracked the ultimate evil across America, will find it conjuring atrocities in the sunlit streets of Everville.
These are but a few of the hugely entertaining characters whose destinies Barker has charted in this book. Enthralling, chilling, and charged with an unbridled eroticism, Everville is above all a novel about the deepest yearnings of the human heart. For love. For hope. For understanding.
And of course Ws about the forces that threaten those dreams. The monsters that are never more terrible than when they wear human faces...
Step onto Everville's streets and enter a world like no other in fiction, created by a man whom the Washington Post called "a mapmaker of the mind, charting the furthest reaches of the imagination."
Publisher: Harpercollins
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1994 My Rating: 5
Summary: Five years ago, in his bestseller "The Great and Secret Show" Clive Barker mesmerized millions of readers worldwide with an extraordinary vision of human passions and possibilities.
Welcome to a new volume in that epic adventure. Welcome to Everville.
With Clive Barker's trademark mingling of wild fantasy, eroticism, and visionary horror, "Everville" promises to take its readers on a journey that will awe, arouse, and terrify in equal measure, opening the doors of a new reality for readers of fantasy and horror alike.
On a mountain peak, high above the city of Everville, a door stands open: a door that lets onto the shores of the dream-sea Quiddity And there's not a soul below who'll not be changed by that fact...
"Phoebe Cobb," once a doctor's receptionist, is about to forget her old life and go looking for her lost lover, Joe Flicker, in the world on the other side of that door, a strange, sensual wonderland the likes of which only Barker could make real.
"Tesla Bombeck," who knows what horrors lurk on the far side of Quiddity, must solve the mysteries of the city's past if she is to keep those horrors from crossing the threshold.
"Harry D'Amour," who has tracked the ultimate evil across America, will find it conjuring atrocities in the sunlit streets of Everville.
These are but a few of the hugely entertaining characters whose destinies Barker has charted in this book. Enthralling, chilling, and charged with an unbridled eroticism, Everville is above all a novel about the deepest yearnings of the human heart. For love. For hope. For understanding.
And of course Ws about the forces that threaten those dreams. The monsters that are never more terrible than when they wear human faces...
Step onto Everville's streets and enter a world like no other in fiction, created by a man whom the Washington Post called "a mapmaker of the mind, charting the furthest reaches of the imagination."
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Sep 2005 My Rating: 5
Summary:
"Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction--period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature."
-The Washington Post Book World
Readers familiar with . . . "Parable of the Sower" and "Bloodchild" will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers.
-Gerald Jonas in "The New York Times"
"Fledgling", Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. "Fledgling" is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
Octavia E. Butler is the author of 11 novels, including "Kindred", "Dawn", and "Parable of the Sower". Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Sep 2005 My Rating: 5
Summary:
"Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction--period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature."
-The Washington Post Book World
Readers familiar with . . . "Parable of the Sower" and "Bloodchild" will recall that [Butler] never asks easy questions or settles for easy answers.
-Gerald Jonas in "The New York Times"
"Fledgling", Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. "Fledgling" is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
Octavia E. Butler is the author of 11 novels, including "Kindred", "Dawn", and "Parable of the Sower". Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and numerous other literary awards, she has been acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations that range from the distant past to the far future.
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1998 My Rating: 5
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Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1998 My Rating: 5
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Author: Kage Baker
Publisher: Harcourt
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary: "Sin exists," says Joseph, an immortal cyborg agent employed by Dr. Zeus, Inc., and in this fourth novel of Kage Baker's Company series, it certainly does. "The Graveyard Game" follows agents Joseph and Lewis as they try to find their missing friend Mendoza, who's been exiled to the Back Way Back as punishment for anti-Company activities.
Dr. Zeus, a time-travel corporation, created cyborgs to selectively preserve artifacts from the past for the edification of the 24th century, when the Company exists. But as the centuries go by for the agents, they hear strange rumors of a "silence" in the year 2355. Ominously, cyborgs who try to investigate disappear forever, hidden away or shut down by Dr. Zeus.
Joseph and Lewis become obsessed with finding Mendoza, and along the way, they uncover evidence of bizarre and dangerous Company deeds. Joseph finds strange underground holding cells, with "retired" agents in vats of preserving fluid. Meanwhile, Lewis researches the activities of Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, the odd mortal who was with Mendoza when she disappeared. The two get together to discuss their disheartening quest in present-day Ghirardelli Square. Cyborgs get stoned on chocolate, and they order round after round of hot cocoa, even snorting the stuff, until a Company security tech finds them:
On the floor between their respective briefcases was a souvenir bag stuffed with boxes of chocolate cable cars, and the table was littered with foil wrappers from the chocolate they had already consumed.... The security tech scanned them and recoiled slightly at the level of Theobromos in their systems. He surveyed the litter of foil wrappers and empty cups, regarded the cocoa powder in Joseph's beard, and sighed. Two old professionals on a sloppy bender. "The Graveyard Game", the best and darkest Company novel yet, showcases Kage Baker's smart, witty style. She teases readers with enough evidence of Company nastiness to make us root for the sometimes morally shifty cyborgs, while continuing to further the substantial plot. It's an extremely satisfying chapter in an excellent science fiction series, one that sets the stage for the confrontation to come. "--Therese Littleton"
Publisher: Harcourt
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary: "Sin exists," says Joseph, an immortal cyborg agent employed by Dr. Zeus, Inc., and in this fourth novel of Kage Baker's Company series, it certainly does. "The Graveyard Game" follows agents Joseph and Lewis as they try to find their missing friend Mendoza, who's been exiled to the Back Way Back as punishment for anti-Company activities.
Dr. Zeus, a time-travel corporation, created cyborgs to selectively preserve artifacts from the past for the edification of the 24th century, when the Company exists. But as the centuries go by for the agents, they hear strange rumors of a "silence" in the year 2355. Ominously, cyborgs who try to investigate disappear forever, hidden away or shut down by Dr. Zeus.
Joseph and Lewis become obsessed with finding Mendoza, and along the way, they uncover evidence of bizarre and dangerous Company deeds. Joseph finds strange underground holding cells, with "retired" agents in vats of preserving fluid. Meanwhile, Lewis researches the activities of Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, the odd mortal who was with Mendoza when she disappeared. The two get together to discuss their disheartening quest in present-day Ghirardelli Square. Cyborgs get stoned on chocolate, and they order round after round of hot cocoa, even snorting the stuff, until a Company security tech finds them:
On the floor between their respective briefcases was a souvenir bag stuffed with boxes of chocolate cable cars, and the table was littered with foil wrappers from the chocolate they had already consumed.... The security tech scanned them and recoiled slightly at the level of Theobromos in their systems. He surveyed the litter of foil wrappers and empty cups, regarded the cocoa powder in Joseph's beard, and sighed. Two old professionals on a sloppy bender. "The Graveyard Game", the best and darkest Company novel yet, showcases Kage Baker's smart, witty style. She teases readers with enough evidence of Company nastiness to make us root for the sometimes morally shifty cyborgs, while continuing to further the substantial plot. It's an extremely satisfying chapter in an excellent science fiction series, one that sets the stage for the confrontation to come. "--Therese Littleton"
Author: Zenna Henderson, Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson
Publisher: Nesfa Press
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1995 My Rating: 5
Summary: A collection of all of Henderson's stories of the People (interstellar refugees), including one "Michal Without," which is published here for the first time. Cover art by Elizabeth Finney.
Publisher: Nesfa Press
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1995 My Rating: 5
Summary: A collection of all of Henderson's stories of the People (interstellar refugees), including one "Michal Without," which is published here for the first time. Cover art by Elizabeth Finney.
Author: Kage Baker
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Dec 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary: From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love.In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr's death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.The Company didn't like that - bad for business. But she's immortal and indestructible, so they couldn't hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back. Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality."Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Dec 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary: From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love.In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr's death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.The Company didn't like that - bad for business. But she's immortal and indestructible, so they couldn't hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back. Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality."Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Panther
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1971 My Rating: 5
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Publisher: Panther
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1971 My Rating: 5
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Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Publisher: Eos
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Oct 2003 My Rating: 5
Summary:
One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.
Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -- for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road -- escape -- beckons. . . . A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion.
Yet something else is free, too -- something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border -- humans, demons, gods.
Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista's retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears -- a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion's castle cannot ease Ista's mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods' own weaving.
In her dreams the threads are already drawing her to unforeseen chances, fateful meetings, fearsome choices. What the inscrutable gods commanded of her in the past brought her land to the brink of devastation. Now, once again, they have chosen Ista as their instrument. And again, for good or for ill, she must comply.
Publisher: Eos
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Oct 2003 My Rating: 5
Summary:
One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm.
Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -- for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road -- escape -- beckons. . . . A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion.
Yet something else is free, too -- something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border -- humans, demons, gods.
Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista's retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears -- a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion's castle cannot ease Ista's mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods' own weaving.
In her dreams the threads are already drawing her to unforeseen chances, fateful meetings, fearsome choices. What the inscrutable gods commanded of her in the past brought her land to the brink of devastation. Now, once again, they have chosen Ista as their instrument. And again, for good or for ill, she must comply.
Author: Grant Naylor
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1990 My Rating: 5
Summary: Omnibus volume of Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life.
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1990 My Rating: 5
Summary: Omnibus volume of Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life.
Author: Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Publisher: Baen
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jun 1986 My Rating: 5
Summary: Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. Will Mother ever understand? And can such an odd beast as love survive an interplanetary war?
Publisher: Baen
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jun 1986 My Rating: 5
Summary: Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. Will Mother ever understand? And can such an odd beast as love survive an interplanetary war?
Author: Fred Lerner
Publisher: Niekas Publications
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 2002 My Rating: 5
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Publisher: Niekas Publications
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 2002 My Rating: 5
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Author: Steven Brust
Publisher: Ace Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1987 My Rating: 5
Summary: I don't like "Teckla"; i can't imagine witnessing anyone's relationship selfdestruct could be considered a pleasant activity. So, i don't like it -- but i do respect it. It is a well-written book, and it is important as far as setting the stage for the rest of the series. "Teckla" and "Phoenix" should be read in succession for best effect.
Publisher: Ace Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1987 My Rating: 5
Summary: I don't like "Teckla"; i can't imagine witnessing anyone's relationship selfdestruct could be considered a pleasant activity. So, i don't like it -- but i do respect it. It is a well-written book, and it is important as far as setting the stage for the rest of the series. "Teckla" and "Phoenix" should be read in succession for best effect.
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Doubleday and Company
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1966 My Rating: 5
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Publisher: Doubleday and Company
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Jan 1966 My Rating: 5
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Author: George Martin, George R.R. Martin
Publisher: I Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Aug 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary:
The alien virus arrived on Earth just after World War II -- and the world was never the same. For those who become infected, there are two results: death, or transformation. And depending on the recipient, death is sometimes the preferable outcome. Only a few lucky ones become superhuman "aces" as a side effect of the virus; the rest are turned into horrible, grotesque "jokers." It's a strange and wonderful, terrible and terrifying world where anything can go. A world that, in a twist of fate, could lie just outside your door.
A world of Wild Cards.
Publisher: I Books
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Release: Aug 2001 My Rating: 5
Summary:
The alien virus arrived on Earth just after World War II -- and the world was never the same. For those who become infected, there are two results: death, or transformation. And depending on the recipient, death is sometimes the preferable outcome. Only a few lucky ones become superhuman "aces" as a side effect of the virus; the rest are turned into horrible, grotesque "jokers." It's a strange and wonderful, terrible and terrifying world where anything can go. A world that, in a twist of fate, could lie just outside your door.
A world of Wild Cards.