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ISBN: 0399143971

ListPrice: $23.95

Edition: 01

Dimensions: 24 cm

Summary: The colonists of the planet Botany return to the planet where they were abandoned, carrying the technology to battle the deadly Eosi and unleash a surprise attack at the enslaved planet Earth

ISBN: 0399142703

ListPrice: $16.77

Edition: 01

Dimensions: 24 cm

Summary: A group of slaves, brought to an uninhabited planet by their Catenni masters, who have taken over Earth, must learn to survive in their new surroundings, but some struggle with calling their new planet home and consider a rebellion in order to return to their true home.

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ISBN: 0812510992

ListPrice: $5.99

Summary: Anne McCaffrey's dragons are the stuff of which SF/fantasy legends are made. All of her dragon books for many years have been national bestsellers. She is one of the most popular writers ever in fantasy and science fiction.The Girl Who Heard Dragons is a feast for McCaffrey fans and for all readers - a big, satisfying compilation of her fiction never before collected in book form. Best of all, it opens with an original short novel of Pern, "The Girl Who Heard Dragons." In addition, the book contains 24 beautiful black and white drawings by award-winning artist Michael Whelan.Romance, humor, colorful description and affecting characters are Anne McCaffrey's hallmarks and the fifteen stories herein have these virtues in abundance. No wonder the Chicago Sun-Times described her as a "master of the well-told tale.""The Girl Who Heard Dragons" is the story of Aramina, a teenage girl of Pern who hears dragons - a skill which does not seem likely to help solve her family's problems. They are "holdless," and must constantly roam the land, trying to hide from bandits. Aramina's mother fears losing her daughter completely to the life of a dragonrider, but McCaffrey has another fate in mind for her young heroine.The fourteen other stories - all just as good - are:Velvet Fields Euterpe on a Fling Duty Calls A Sleeping Humpty Dumpty Beauty The Mandalay CureA Flock of Geese The Greatest Love A Quiet One If Madam Likes You.... Zulei, Grace, Nimshi and the DamnyankeeCinderella Switch Habit Is an Old Horse Lady-in-WaitingThe Bones Do Lie

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ISBN: 0451454057

ListPrice: $4.99

Summary: Several months ago I read a first novel by Will McCarthy and was impressed. The novel is AGGRESSOR SIX. This is a novel of alien contact and war. What makes it different from others of a similar theme is that physics actually plays a part. The aliens have a huge empire (still just a spot on the map) that has existed for eons. Long enough for the forces of the spiral arm to have stretched and split the collection of worlds. Lo and behold, almost next door they run into humanity which is also attempting to expand into the stars. The aliens attack and humanity loses. Word gets out to Earth that the aliens are on their way.
It will be many years before they arrive. Many plans are hatched to try and deal with the aliens who have reached humanity's furthest settlement and wiped it out. One of these plans is to train soldiers to live and think like the aliens and thus hopefully come up with a way to turn the invaders aside. This is called an aggressor six; a six-member group that is at once a colony and a family. They train and train. Later they find out that they are only one of three sixes. The other two are a six of dolphins and a six of machine AIs. The dolphins kill some researchers and it is decided that the plan does not work. But the humans are close. The machines are VERY dangerous if you say the wrong thing to them, but the machines understand the aliens. The aliens are getting closer (still a year or so away from Earth).
This is a novel that does an excellent job of creating alien aliens. Not just strange, but plausible in their own right. A wonderful book for fans of hard SF.

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ISBN: 0880384557

ListPrice: $4.50

Summary: For one fateful weekend, the annual science fiction and fantasy convention, Rubicon, has all but taken over a usually ordinary hotel. Now the halls are alive with Trekkies, tech nerds, and fantasy gamers in their Viking finery *all of them eager to hail their hero, bestselling fantasy author Appin Dungannon: a diminutive despot whose towering ego more than compensates for his 5' 1" height . . . and whose gleeful disdain for his fawning fans is legendary.

Hurling insults and furniture with equal abandon, the terrible, tiny author proceeds to alienate ersatz aliens and make-believe warriors at warp speed. But somewhere between the costume contest and the exhibition Dungeons & Dragons game, Dungannon gets done in. While die-hard fans of Dungannon's seemingly endless sword-and-sorcery series wonder how they'll go on and hucksters wonder how much they can get for the dead man's autograph, a hapless cop wonders, Who would want to kill Appin Dungannon? But the real question, as the harried convention organizers know, is Who wouldn't ?

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ISBN: 0812564758

ListPrice: $6.99

Edition: 1st Mass

Summary: Sean McMullen, frequent winner of Australia's top science fiction award, the Ditmar, has created a fascinating adventure through time in "The Centurion's Empire". From A.D. 71 to 2029, the Roman centurion Vitellan hibernates through the centuries via an elixir made from snow-dwelling insects. Unfortunately, he doesn't possess the antidote for the corrosive substance, so every time he is awakened, his body is more ravaged. His frigidarium is secreted beneath an English village, and as the Danes invade during the Dark Ages, the villagers, in fear for their lives, awaken him. He teaches them Roman martial discipline and they fight off the Danish rabble, but he's so weak that he must return to his cold sleep and await better medicine in the future. He is awakened in 1358 to battle again, this time in France, but it's his next awakening--in 2028--that propels the latter half of the novel into a thrill ride of nanotech-embellished skullduggery, as Illuminati-like factions vie for control of the resurrected hero. The centurion's viewpoint offers both a window into history and a ledge to stand on while peering into the future. Readers who enjoy the juxtaposition of historical novel with science-fiction adventure, as in Ian McDonald's "King of Morning, Queen of Day", will appreciate McMullen's expertise in "The Centurion's Empire". "--Blaise Selby"

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ISBN: 1592220126

ListPrice: $30.00

Summary: Ever wonder what really happens on the lower decks of the space ship or in the castle kitchen? This unique collection of original science fiction and fantasy short stories focuses on characters that are normally in the background and brings them to the forefront of the adventure! Low Port features stories by Mark Tiedemann, Laura J. Underwood, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Nathan Archer, Jody Lynn Nye and many others, including a new urban fantasy by Sharon Lee! So come along and meet an orphan with a dream, a dockworker who believes in freedom, a maintenance worker with feelings and visit a soup kitchen with a secret.

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