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ISBN: 0743488571

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Summary: One good turn deserves another and those unpredictable amazons are back, swords sharpened, chainmail polished, and makeup in place, ready to fight the good fight on the field of battle (and also on the bookstore shelves). And if you think they're just male wish-fulfillment fantasies, you'd better say it under your breath where they can't hear you, because these barbarian babes were born to battle. All new adventures by fearless women warriors by Eric Flint, author of 1632; Nebula-winning author Harry Turtledove; Jody Lynn Nye, co-author of the best selling The Ship Who Won; Campbell Award-winner Wen Spencer, and many more, including the inimitable Esther Friesner herself, as fantasy adventure takes a turn for the lighter side.

ISBN: 0671319507

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THEY AREN'T ALL THAT PC, BUT YOU BETTER NOT GET IN THEIR WAY!
From the silly to the simply smashing, the Chicks in Chainmail are back to save us once again! Whether defending a charity ball against rapscallion pirates or taking names at a medievalist tournament in the Asteroid Belt, whether bringing a snotty loremaster to his rightful comeuppance or protecting our schoolchildren from magically-summoned barbarian invaders, whether weekending in the woods to get in touch with their Inner Warrior or showing giant reptiles that Tokyo's not gonna take it anymore, these female fighters will always have what it takes.
So what are you waiting for? Pick up your male -- er, mail!

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ISBN: 0743435486

ListPrice: $18.00

Summary: In the 1960's of an alternative universe and with elements of Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., you have a delightful combination of fantasy and who-done-it. The stories - The Eyes Have It, A Case of Identity, The Muddle of the Woad, and Too Many Magicians - made me laugh, and think and marvel at the talent and imagination of Randall Garrett. I shouldn't read them back-to-back as they can get to be a bit much. If you enjoy Jasper Fforde, you might enjoy Lord Darcy as well.

ISBN: 0441491413

ListPrice: $2.50

Summary: This book contains four short stories about Lord Darcy, Chief Investigator for His Royal Highness Prince Richard of Normandy, and his sidekick Master Forensic Sorcerer Sean O Lochlainn. If you think you'd enjoy an 'alternate history' background where the Anglo-French Empire is ruled by descendants of King Richard the Lion-Hearted--who didn't die of an arrow wound in 1199--and where magic is commonplace, along with gas lights and steam engines, then these stories are worth reading. The atmosphere is very royalist--in a pinch, "the Royal Blood of England always came through"--and very Catholic. Evidently Martin Luther didn't nail his ninety-five theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church in this alternate reality. Lord Darcy himself is a bit of a stuffed shirt, and the author is always bringing in other characters to extol his 'deductive genius' (note to author: show us, don't tell us). However, the Sorcerer Sean is a very ingratiating Irishman who serves to balance Lord Darcy's stuffiness. Some of the mysteries are a bit labored, but I enjoyed them.



NOTE: you might be better off purchasing "Lord Darcy" instead of "Lord Darcy Investigates" because the former volume contains eight short stories (including the following four) and a full-length novel about the aristocratic detective and his sorcerous side-kick.



The stories in "Lord Darcy Investigates:"



"A Matter of Gravity"--Lord Jillbert, Count de la Vexin appears to leap to his death from his laboratory in the Red Tower of the Castle Gisors. Before he died, he had forbidden the marriage of his son and heir to the woman he loved, who happened to be the daughter of Captain Sir Roderique, his Chief Armsman. The Count's daughter believes her father was killed by Black Magic.



"The Ipswich Phial"--The body of a man who turns out to be an Anglo-Norman secret agent is found sprawled on a Normandy beach. He appears to have shot himself in the head, and there are no footprints on the beach except those of the woman who found his body. As usual, Polish secret agents seem to be involved in his death, and in the disappearance of the magical Ipswich Phial.



"The Sixteen Keys"--Lord Sefton is secretly prolonging his youth through magical means. When he is found dead in a locked room, his body has decayed to the point of mummification. The secret naval treaty that he had in his possession has disappeared.



"The Napoli Express"--This short story is a take-off on Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Oriental Express." If you know the solution to the Christie mystery, you might get yourself in trouble by trying to solve "The Napoli Express" in the same fashion. The author definitely sets you up to do so, but Lord Darcy and Master Sean are not fooled.

ISBN: 0441545408

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Illustrator: Bob Adragna

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ISBN: 0898654556

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Edition: 1st ed.

Dimensions: 21 cm

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ISBN: 0915442841

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Edition: 01

Dimensions: 22 cm

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ISBN: 0441816959

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ISBN: 0345379063

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Edition: Reprint

Summary: Druss, Captain of the Axe, was the stuff of legends. But even as the stories grew in the telling, Druss himself grew older. He turned his back on his own legend and retreated to a mountain lair to await his old enemy, death. Meanwhile, barbarian hordes were on the march. Nothing could stand in their way. Druss reluctantly agreed to come out of retirement. But could even Druss live up to his own legends?

ISBN: 0451528980

ListPrice: $14.00

Edition: Reprint

Dimensions: 1 by 6.25 by 9 in.

Summary: Alternate history is the branch of speculative fiction that explores what might have happened if history had taken a different turn. The obvious changes, like the Nazis winning World War II, have filled innumerable novels. Fortunately, the anthology "Worlds That Weren't" avoids the obvious with its four fine new novellas from four superior authors: Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Mary Gentle, and Walter Jon Williams.
The collection opens with "The Daimon," written by Harry Turtledove, AH's best-known practitioner. In Turtledove's turning point, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates chooses to accompany General Alkibiades to war instead of remaining in Athens, and sets Alkibiades on a triumphant, terrible new course.
Set in the British India-dominated alternate history of "The Peshawar Lancers", S.M. Stirling's novella is a rousing old-fashioned adventure. "Shikari in Galveston" follows a hunting safari through a regressed American frontier that might have given even Daniel Boone pause.
A prequel to her Book of Ash tetralogy, Mary Gentle's novella "The Logistics of Carthage" concerns Christian warriors serving pagan Turks in a North Africa conquered by Visigoths instead of Vandals, and is the strongest story in "Worlds That Weren't".
The collection concludes with "The Last Ride of German Freddie," in which Nebula Award winner Walter Jon Williams considers what might have happened if the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had taken himself and his superman theories to the Wild West. "--Cynthia Ward"

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ISBN: 081257608x

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Edition: 1st Mass

Summary: A trip to the Moon? Sounds like the perfect family vacation. Only for 13-year-old Charles "Chigger" Dingillian his family is anything but perfect. His parents fight so much they put the 'dis' into dysfunctional. So when he and his brothers find themselves halfway to the Moon Chigger hits on a plan: if his parents can't find a way to work things out, why not just divorce them? Sound crazy? Until it works. Charles and his brothers are on their own. But their bid for freedom hits a roadblock when Chigger suspects they are targets of an interstellar manhunt. What do these Big Corporations want? And why? Their only hope is to jump off the planet....

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ISBN: 0451458214

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Summary: "The Year the Cloud Fell" will please not only SF and fantasy fans, but also lovers of historical and revisionist Western fiction. In 1886, the U.S. Army experimental dirigible "A. Lincoln" is making a scouting flight above the Unorganized Territory when a terrific thunderstorm strikes the craft to earth. Now the mission commander, the president's only son, is a prisoner of the Cheyenne Alliance. The Indians have no reason to love the president, the implacable enemy they call Long Hair: General George Armstrong Custer. And only the strange shamanic vision of one young Cheyenne woman stands between Captain George Armstrong Custer Jr. and death.
With his debut novel, Kurt R.A. Giambastiani has created a fast-paced, imaginative, intelligent alternate history with a bold, breathtaking climax. "The Year the Cloud Fell" has "gotta" quality, as in "Honey, I'm coming right to bed, but first I just gotta finish this chapter." The novel ends conclusively, yet it also leaves the door open for a sequel that readers will eagerly await.
Unfortunately, whites who create historical fiction or movies about American Indians often end up producing a sort of noble-savage porn, and alternate history provides more possibilities than any other fiction for a simplistic approach to white/Indian interactions. However, Giambastiani has avoided such pitfalls. "The Year the Cloud Fell" provides no easy answers, noble-savage stereotypes, great-white-father saviors, or clich&eacuted situations. Bravo. "--Cynthia Ward"

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