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John Brunner
The Sheep Look Up is a classic science fiction novel that was originally published in 1972 and has been out of print for a number of years. The book is a brilliant and vivid cautionary tale on the impact of pollution on our planet. The book was nominated for a Nebula Award and voted one of the ten best British science fiction novels of all time by the British Science Fiction Association.
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David Gerrold The Man Who Folded Himself is a classic science fiction novel by award winning author David Gerrold. This work was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards and is considered by some critics to be the finest time travel novel ever written.
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The Star Wolf Series David Gerrold
The Voyage of the Star Wolf, Middle of Nowhere, Blood and Fire*
The Morthans were physically and mentally superior. Descended from humans, they were now, literally, "more-than"
human . . . and considered the human race to be little better than animals. They would stop at nothing to conquer the remaining human-controlled worlds.
Free E-book of "The Trouble With Tribbles," by David Gerrold
*First Time in Print!
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James Gunn
“One of the very best fictional portrayals of contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence ever written!”
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Jacqueline Lichtenberg This science fiction thriller, integrating vampire romance, first contact and page-turning suspense, follows Astronomer Titus Shiddehara, scientist and one of a race of vampiric aliens called the Luren, as he works to stop a group of fellow Lurens from contacting their home planet via a government hailing project designed to contact alien civilizations-- contact which could doom Earth and all its residents to slavery or annihilation.
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Dreamspy
This companion novel to Those of My Blood continues in deep space, where the luren are only one of many races populating the galaxy. Two powerful governments, the Teleod and the Metaji, are in the midst of a galactic war that threatens to destroy the delicate fabric of the space-time continuum. The only ones in position to prevent this are Kylliki, a Teleod Telepath working for the Metaji, Zuchmul, a luren, and Elias, an ordinary man made extraordinary by his normal human ability to dream-- a galactically-unique capability that makes him an ideal spy.
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Jean Lorrah Blood Will Tell is a highly engaging vampire fantasy by the author of the Sime-Gen series that combines police procedural, mystery, romance and action. The novel was released as an e-book in 2001 and was named best vampire novel of 2002 by the Lord Ruthven Assembly in a field of 150 other vampire novels, including the latest releases in a number of best-selling vampire series.
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Savage Empire: Dark Moon Rising Jean Lorrah
The Aventine Empire is crumbling under the attacks of savages armed with strange and dangerous powers. Exiled from the empire, a powerful telepath named Leonardo is captured by the savages, and finds himself in unfamiliar territory. Prepared for their brutality and mindless aggression, Leonardo soon learns their world differs from what he has been taught, and he is forced to question all of his previously held assumptions.
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Savage Empire: Prophecies
Zanos the Gladiator and Astra, a master reader, are loyal citizens of the Aventine Empire. But secrets and conspiracies bring them together and propels them into a desperate flight to the Savage Empire. A prophecy of peace and hope might provide a new life for them there-- if their pursuing enemies don't kill them first.
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In the Face of Death
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro On the eve of the American Civil War, Madelaine de Montalia—- vampire, scholar and some-time lover of Count Saint-Germain—- falls in love with General William “Tecumseh” Sherman, one of the war’s most brilliant strategists and feared commanders. Their passion, barred by Tecumseh’s duty to his family and his country and limited by his all-too-human mortality, can only result in sorrow. Can they both find the courage they need to love in the face of death?
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Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire Series
Red Death, Death and the Maiden, Death Masque, Dance of Death
Jonathan Barrett's family expected that attending school at Oxford, an ocean away from his home in Long Island, would change him-- he just didn't know how much. The impending Revolutionary war forces the newly educated Jonathan to leave his lover, Nora, and return home to the Barrett estate in America. There he learns his affair with Nora has left him with supernatural powers, a craving for blood and the ability to escape death itself. Brand new edition of the well-loved series, with over forty pages of new material in every volume. |
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The Flying Sorcerers
Larry Niven and David Gerrold Shoogar was the greatest wizard the villagers had ever known. His spells struck terror in the hearts of even his most powerful enemies, and could lay waste to an entire countryside. The stranger, Purple, had come from nowhere, but his magic was as strong as any that Shoogar or his village had ever seen. Their final confrontation would change the villagers' lives in ways none of them ever could have expected. . . .
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Yaleen
Ian Watson Yaleen's life has always been defined by the Black Current, a strip of black running along the center of the river that separates the eastern bank from the mysterious western side. Longing for the freedom being a river-woman gives, Yaleen drinks of the black current and joins the River Guild. But when her brother Capsi discovers a way to cross to the forbidden western side, Yaleen is caught in the middle of a battle that could end the world.
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David Gerrold David Gerrold takes you on a tour of alternate universes . . . universes where Santa Claus isn't nice and the best man is actually elected president; where Ronald Reagan and Gregory Peck command the plane carrying the first atomic bomb and John F. Kennedy stars in the hit show Star Track; where Franz Kafka doesn't write fiction and the Devil holds educational seminars. Introduction by Mike Resnick.
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Pamela Sargent
Having expelled men from their vast walled cities to a lower-class wilderness, the women in this post-nuclear future universe dictate policy and chart the future through control of scientific and technological advances. Among their laws are the rules for reproductive engagement, an act now viewed as a means of procreation rather than an act of love. In this rigidly defined environment, a chance meeting between a woman exiled from the female world and a wilderness man triggers a series of feelings, actions and events that ultimately threaten the fabric of the women's constructed society.
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Deathworld
Harry Harrison On the planet Pyrrus, its human settlers are locked in an unending war against the local wildlife that is growing steadily worse. In a last attempt to check the flow of destruction they take a final desperate chance—putting their faith in the gambler Jason dinAlt. They give him all the funds the planet possesses, hoping that this stake will win the millions needed for ever more destructive weapons to avert planetary oblivion. It is mankind against an entire planet that has but one goal: their destruction. This omnibus edition of Harry Harrison's classic Deathworld novels also includes the short story "The Mothballed Spaceship."
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Simon R. Green Shadows Fall: a small town in the back of beyond, where legends go to die when the world stops believing in them. An elephants' graveyard of the supernatural, where the real and the imagined live side by side, and lost souls find their way home. Town mayor, Rhea Frazier, and Leonard Ash used to be close—but they’ve mostly avoided each other since Ash died. Now a brutal serial killer and the prophesized return of James Hart have thrown Shadows Fall into disarray, and Rhea, Ash and the rest of the town’s inhabitants are scrambling to figure out how it all fits together. They’re all afraid of one thing: the death of Shadows Fall.
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David Gerrold Book one of the Sea of Grass trilogy
When
Kaer’s extended family signs up to emigrate to Linnea, a
planet known for horses as large as houses and dangerously
mistrustful natives, Kaer is certain the move will bring the
divided household closer together. The
training is tough, but Kaer’s family is up to the challenge.
Soon they begin working like Linneans, thinking like Linneans,
even accepting Linnean gods as their own. The family’s
emigration seems to be just around the corner.
But
then, a disaster on Linnea itself changes everything.
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Mark W. Tiedemann “well-written and engrossing” –David Brin “perfectly balanced between speculative science and authentic emotion” –Sharon Shinn Corporate security officer Mace Preston is at the end of his rope. When his wife dies in what appears to be a construction accident on Mars, he takes it upon himself to figure out what happened, an investigation that eventually costs him his job. Convinced the accident was sabotage, Mace's search for the truth is thwarted at every turn, and his quest becomes an obsession. Soon he and new émigré Nemily Dollard are caught in a tangled web of interplanetary politics and terrorism that persists in connecting Nemily with Mace's long-dead wife. . . .
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Mike Resnick Book one of the Penelope trilogy Somewhere out there among the stars is a very frightened eight-year-old girl named Penelope. The Democracy wants her dead. Three-Fisted Ollie and Cemetery Smith want her dead. The military wants her dead. Jimmy the Spike wants her dead. A thousand bounty hunters want her dead. The populations of entire alien worlds want her dead. Not very good odds. Penelope has only one thing in her favor: although she doesn’t know it, she just might be the most powerful and dangerous human being who has ever lived.
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Wonder's
Child
Jack Williamson Science fiction legend Jack Williamson's classic autobiography is much more than the story of a single man's life and work; it is an amazing look at the entire twentieth century from the perspective of a man on a "long search for endurable compromise with society." It is impossible to separate Jack Williamson from science fiction; Wonder's Child serves as a biography of both. (New version with twenty years of new material, including portions of Williamson's diary from World War II.)
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The
Sundered Series
Into
the Dark Lands Erin is a healer, and against the nature of her birthright she has learned to wield a sword and use it to bring death to the enemies of her people. Scarred by the losses that war always demands, she is the chosen champion of Light and the enemy of darkness. Her journey will lead her into the Dark Heart's stronghold, and into the hands of her people's greatest enemy. For three hundred years Lady Sara has slept, held by her Lord’s magic while he prepared the world for her waking. Now the last of the lines has fallen, bringing at last the peace Sara had always desired, and Stefanos, First Servant of the Dark Heart, summons a slave to attend her waking, one who will give her comfort as he cannot—another of her blood.
Sara, once Erin of Elliath, the last of her line, wakes without memory of her life before, without the knowledge that would warn her of the forces that threaten her from without. For the Dark Heart is not pleased with her return. And Stefanos, weakened by the rules his bond-mate set centuries before, is unable to stop the rising tide of darkness...
The harrowing tale of Erin of Elliath, warrior and healer, continues in this episode of the battle between good and evil. When Erin rejects her position as Lady Sara, wife to the First Servant of the Dark Heart, she escapes from her husband’s realm with the help of Darin, the Patriarch of Culverne and the last of his line. After combining forces with the deposed prince of Marantine and a mysterious old man—who has magic skills that neither Erin or Darin can identify—the foursome hatch a plan to wrestle control of the usurped kingdom of Marantine away from the priests of the Dark Heart. Meanwhile, Erin continues to struggle with her part in the betrayal of her people, the deaths of her most beloved friends, as well as her feelings for the man who doomed them for her sake.
Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light After a fierce battle, Erin of Elliath and her comrades have brought hope back to the Servants of the Bright Heart. The throne of Marantine has been reclaimed, and a new king rules the last remnants of Lernan’s people. Within the lands of the Dark Empire, however, the power of the Bright Heart grows dim. The last stronghold of the Light, the well of Lernan’s power, is quickly draining in the shadow of the inexorable forces of Darkness. The High Priests compete for supremacy, and even the nobility of the Dark Empire has begun to feel the burden of their never-ending war. The First of the Sundered, Lord Stefanos, has returned, once again walking the night and devouring the innocent in mourning for his lost beloved—Lady Sara, Erin of Elliath. Erin is determined to free the Light and release her long-dead friends from the purgatory of the Dark Heart. She must once more journey into the heart of the Dark Lands to confront the legacy of Lady Sara and the inevitable destiny of the lines, forcing her toward a final confrontation with her most formidable and ancient enemy—the man she loves.
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James Gunn First came James Gunn's The Listeners, then Carl Sagan's Contact and the film it inspired. Now Gunn's latest novel, Gift from the Stars, puts a new spin on one of the oldest themes in science fiction: aliens, and what happens when they reveal themselves to us. Gift from the Stars explores how it would really happen: accidentally, over bureaucratic resistance and personal betrayal, with disturbing questions, paranoia, humor and, most of all, the unexpected.
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Oracle In Oracle, Mike Resnick continues the saga he began in Soothsayer. Penelope Bailey, the little girl whose psychic talent and ability to bend events—and men—to her will frightened all of humanity and prompted an attempt on her life, is now a grown woman living on the planet Hades. Still being pursued by those who see her as a dangerous foe, Penelope is soon caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a bounty hunter, a government agent and an out-for-profit, outlaw cyborg—none of who suspect the true depths of her power.
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Star
Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers Harry Harrison’s classic comic space opera brings us the wild, galaxy-hopping adventures of two brash young scientists and college students, Jerry Courtenay and Chuck van Chider. When the young men turn their genius to developing a faster-than-light space drive in their homemade workshed, chaos ensues. Their plan to sneak it aboard their football team’s airplane as a harmless prank backfires, sending the boys, their crush Sally and the seemingly loveable school caretaker, Old John, hurtling through the solar system towards Titan. The icy moon of Saturn, inhabited by hideous creatures, is only square one in their journey, however, as the foursome becomes embroiled in a vast, intergalactic battle that spans the far reaches of space and time.
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This is My Funniest This collection of 29 short stories from masters of science fiction—each tale chosen by the authors as the funniest they have ever written—presents wildly hilarious stories with a preface written by the authors providing valuable insight into their selection and themselves. Featured contributors include David Brin, Esther Friesner, Harry Turtledove, Connie Willis, and many more, with stories such as "Amanda and the Alien," "Franz Kafka, Superhero!," "Space Rats of the CCC," "The Soul Selects Her Own Society," and "Too Hot To Hoot.”
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Prophet Penelope Bailey was born with a gift … and a curse. She is able to peer into the future and influence the course of events. Some fear her, some worship her, and many have sought to control her. On the run from the time she was a child, her strange talent has managed to keep her alive … barely. Twice the hired assassin Iceman has sought out Penelope Bailey. Both times she managed to survive. But this third time, the stakes are higher. Iceman is determined to resolve things, one way or another. But Penelope isn’t a child anymore and is hiding on a planet in plain sight. This time, she isn’t running. |
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This is my Funniest 2 What do science fiction's top comic writers all have in common? They're all in this book! In This is My Funniest 2 award-winning science fiction author, Mike Resnick, collects 29 short stories from the top names in science fiction. Each author has hand-picked his or her essay, selecting his or her funniest story for inclusion in the anthology. Contributors include David Drake, Gregory Benford, Janis Ian, Gene Wolf and Brian Hopkins, Kevin Anderson, and many more, including stories such as Drake’s “Airborne all the Way.” Wolfe and Hopkins’ “Rattler,” Ron Goulart’s “The Robot Who Came to Dinner,” and Kay Kenyon’s “The Acid Test.” |
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