January #248 - Galaxy Bookshop

ISSUE #248
FANTASTIC TV:
50 YEARS OF CULT FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
STEVEN SAVILE
This is an illustrated celebration of five
decades of sci-fi and fantasy series.
Featuring interviews with writers and
creators of each of the classic shows
covered, offering a unique insight into
the impact of genre TV from the men
and women who brought their visions to
life on the small screen. Interviewees’
reminiscences and the author’s loving
tributes describe the importance and/or
uniqueness of all these different shows,
how they relate to the world of genre
fiction, how video truly did kill off its radio star predecessor and
how these shows continue to influence the writers and artists of
today. Pb $45.00 256pp Due Jan
THE ART OF PIXAR SHORT FILMS
AMID AMIDI & JOHN LASSETTER
In this book, animation expert
and short film devotee Amid
Amidi shines a spotlight on
many memorable vignettes form
the Pixar archive. Essays and
interviews illuminate more than
250 full-colour pastels, pencil
sketches, storyboards and final
rendered frames that were the
foundation of Pixar's creative
process. Hb $89.95 160pp Due Jan
DOCTOR WHO: THE STORY OF MARTHA
DAN ABNETT
For a year, while the Master ruled over
Earth, Martha Jones travelled the world
telling people stories about the Doctor how he has saved them before and how he
will save them again. This is that story. It
tells of Martha's travels - from her arrival on
Earth as the Toclafane attacked and
decimated the population through to her
return to Britain to face the Master. It's also
a collection of the stories she tells - the
stories of adventures she had with the
Doctor that we haven't heard about before. The stories that
inspired and saved the world! Hb $21.95 256pp Due Jan
DOCTOR WHO: BEAUTIFUL CHAOS
GARY RUSSELL
Donna Noble is back home in London, catching up with her
family. Her grandfather is especially overjoyed - he's discovered
a new star and had it named after him. He takes the Doctor, as
his special guest, to the naming ceremony. But the Doctor is
suspicious about some of the other changes he can see in
Earth's heavens. Something is coming to Earth, an ancient
force from the Dark Times. Something powerful, angry and allconsuming! Hb $21.95 256pp
JAN 2009
THE VORKOSIGAN COMPANION
LILLIAN STEWART CARL
Lois McMaster Bujold’s best-selling
Vorkosigan series is a publishing
phenomenon, winning record-breaking
sales, critical praise, four Hugo
Awards and a Nebula Award. Now, the
thousands of devotees of the series
have a book that will be a goldmine of
information, background details and
little-known facts about the Vorkosigan
saga. Includes an all-new interview
with Bujold as well as her essays on
crafting the Vorkosigan universe,
articles on the biology, technology and
sociology of the planet Barrayar,
appreciations of the individual novels by experts, maps, a
complete timeline of the series and more. Pb $37.00 480pp
TWILIGHT:
THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED
MOVIE COMPANION
MARK COTTA VAZ
Designed as a celebration of the film,
this lavishly illustrated title is an
exclusive behind-the-scenes guide
featuring full-colour photos of the
cast, locations and sets, as well as
storyboards, interviews, details of the
special effects and much more. Tp
$24.99 144pp
THE SPIRIT: THE MOVIE VISUAL COMPANION
MARK COTTA VAZ
Will Eisner’s classic comics
character makes the leap to
the screen in this spectacular
new live-action movie written
and directed by Frank Miller
(Sin City, 300) and starring
Gabriel Macht as The Spirit,
Samuel L Jackson as his
psychotic arch-nemesis The
Octopus and Eva Mendes and
Scarlett Johansson as alluring femmes fatales. In Central City,
one man fights crime using nothing but his wits and his fists. He
wears a mask, a suit and a fedora and he is known only as The
Spirit... This volume includes director’s commentary, interviews
with cast and the crew, colour photos, production art and scores
of Frank Miller sketches, plus excerpts from the screenplay. Hb
$68.00 192pp
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DAVID FALKAYN: STAR
TRADER
Technic Civilisation #2. The Polesotechnic
League of star traders was prospering
and Nicholas Van Rijn, its most
flamboyant member, was prospering
most of all as commerce flowed between
the stars. But not all League members
play fair when trading, nor do some of
the non-human races of the galaxy object
to dirty tricks. Van Rijn could not be
everywhere
and
relies
on
his
representatives, foremost among them
his young protégé, David Falkayn and
the members of David’s trader team:
Adzel, a large dragon-like being who
practiced Buddhism and Chee-Lan, a
brilliant but hot-tempered felinesque
extraterrestrial. Hb $49.95 592pp Due Jan
ALEX ARCHER
SWORDSMAN’S LEGACY
Rogue Angel #15. In need of a break
from work and some recent near-death
adventures, archaeologist Annja Creed
visits France to indulge one of her
greatest fantasies: finding D’Artagnan’s
lost sword, which has been missing since
the 17th century. Ascher Vallois, one of
Annja’s treasure-hunting friends, believes
he has located the site of the relic, but
when Annja meets with Vallois, she
learns that he’s made a huge sacrifice to
protect the sword and its secret from a
relic hunter. The artefact holds the key to
a fortune and the man won’t stop until he
gets everything he wants - including
Annja. Pb $16.95 320pp
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POLAR QUEST
Rogue Angel #16. While helping an
old colleague on a dig in Antarctica,
archaeologist Annja Creed gets more than
she bargained for when the discovery of
an ancient necklace made of an unknown
metal garners the attention of some very
bad men. Pb $16.95 320pp Due Jan
SARAH ASH
TRACING THE SHADOW
The
Alchymist’s
Legacy #0. The kingdom
of Francia has purged
its magi, but when a
young Guerrier rescues
an orphaned street waif,
little does he know that
she is the daughter of a
magus who met his end
on their pyres, or that
she is guarded by an
aethyric spirit and driven by the name of
the traitor who condemned her father to
flames. With the gift of song infused
within her, her voice will bring her before
the most powerful heads of state and she
will craft herself into a weapon aimed at
the heart of the man she despises. Pb
$17.95 576pp Due Jan
SARAH ASH
FLIGHT INTO DARKNESS
The Alchymist’s Legacy #2. As an
impulsive young man, Rieuk Mordiern
accidentally freed Azilis - a guardian
spirit charged with keeping the balance
between the kingdoms of the living and
the dead. Now his sole purpose is to bring
her back and restore the balance that he
so carelessly upset. Only Azilis does not
want to return. Instead she has attached
herself to a very talented mortal - the
renowned singer Celestine - becoming, as
Celestine believes, her personal guardian.
And Celestine has never needed a
guardian more. Her desire for revenge
against the people who consigned her
magician father to the flames is leading
her down a dangerous path as she learns
to use the powers he deeded her at his
death. The boundaries between life and
death are slowly eroding and to prevent
the end of all things, both Rieuk and
Celestine must discover what it means to
truly be a hero. Hb $59.95 432pp Due Jan
JAN ASHBLESS
ENCHANTED:
EROTIC FAIRY TALES
Fairy tales for grown-ups... Bear Skin Hazel is whisked away from her tedious
life by the mysterious Arailt, who will
push her to her limits. The Three Riddles the queen longs for her lost love, but can
she risk the fate of her country on a
whim? The People in the Garden - Count
and Countess Malinovsky embroil their
maid Katya in their erotic games, but
could she be a girl who disappeared
almost 100 years ago? Pb $24.95 288pp
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NEAL ASHER
SHADOW OF THE SCORPION
A Polity novel. Raised to adulthood
during the end of the war between the
human Polity and a vicious alien race, the
Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by
childhood memories of a sinister
scorpion-shaped war drone and the
burden of losses he doesn’t remember.
Cormac signs up with Earth Central
Security and is sent out to help restore
and maintain order on worlds devastated
by the war. There he discovers that
though the Prador remain as murderous
as ever, they are not anywhere near as
treacherous or dangerous as some of his
fellow humans. Amidst the ruins left by
wartime genocides, Cormac will discover
in himself a cold capacity for violence and
learn some horrible truths about his own
past, while trying to stay alive on his
course of vengeance. Pb $34.00 248pp
JAMES AXLER
DEATH CRY
Outlander #47. Kane and the
team learn of a secret doomsday weapon
rumoured to be hidden in Russia, but
where would the paranoid scientists of
communist rule hide a battleship-sized
device from aliens of supreme
intelligence and mind-reading abilities?
Where few can find it - on another astral
plane, complete with whitecoats still
unaware of the nukecaust. Pb $16.95
320pp
R SCOTT BAKKER
THE JUDGING EYE
Aspect-Emperor #1. Anasurimbor
Kellhus rules all the Three Seas, the first
true Aspect-Emperor in 1,000 years. The
masses worship him as a living god,
though a few dare claim he’s a walking
demon. With Proyas and Saubon as his
Exalt-Generals, he leads a holy war deep
into the wastes of the Ancient North,
intent on destroying Golgotterath and
preventing the Second Apocalypse. His
wife and consort, Esmenet, meanwhile,
remains in Momemn, where she struggles
to rule not only his vast empire, but their
murderous children as well. And
Achamian, who lives in exile, undertakes a
mad quest to uncover the origins of the
Dunyain. But Achamian, of all people,
should know that one must be very careful
what one seeks. Tp $32.99 560pp Due Jan
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CONFESSOR
CORDELIA’S HONOR
Sword of Truth #11
Terry Goodkind
Vor #1 - #2
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
PB $18.95
PB $20.99
During high school, I had plenty of free
time on my hands. One day I was so bored
that I grabbed my brother’s neglected copy
of Terry Goodkind's Wizards First Rule
(Pb $19.99) and stumbled headlong into a
fantasy epic, the likes of which I had not
seen since Raymond E Feist's Magician
(Pb $24.99).
Absorbed by the humanity of the
characters, the vast scope of the world, the
visceral intimacy of the scenes of battle, I
tore through the series as might one of
Goodkind's own underworld beasties - and I have the worse-forwear paperbacks to prove it. But then I hit a roadblock. At my
local bookshop, I was informed that book five was yet to be
published! And so began the long wait, slowly absorbing each
book as it was released, re-reading the series multiple times
over, until...
It has been 14 years since we started our journey with Richard
Cypher and Kahlan Amnell, but now that journey has finished.
Confessor, the third book of the Chainfire Trilogy and the
eleventh and final book of the Sword of Truth is the long awaited
climactic ending of this epic series.
Terry Goodkind does the seemingly impossible. The
complexities and loose ends of the ten preceding novels are all
neatly tied up and, although Confessor leaves room for
expansion in the future, the story is by no means incomplete...
(I'm looking at you, Lord of the Rings!)
Trying to summarise, without spoilers, this final book in the
series is quite difficult, so if you absolutely do not want to know
what awaits you, I recommend you stop reading now.
Whilst the evil Emperor Jagang's forces continue to bear down
inexorably on the last remaining obstacle in their path to
complete the conquest of the known world, our heroes are
caught within their midst. Richard's allies do their best to deal
with their converging problems without his leadership, but all
relies on Richard finding a way to counteract an evil magic set
into motion in the novel Chainfire (Pb $21.99).
Confessor is rife with references to the previous novels. In
particular, many events tie directly to Wizards First Rule, giving
a fantastic sense of 'coming full circle'. Some may feel that this
novel flies by far too quickly, but I am sure this is an effect of the
excitement inherent in seeing such a well constructed piece of
art nearing completion.
If you have been following the series, you will no doubt enjoy
this last instalment. If you are new to the Sword of Truth, or are
thinking about picking it up, then what are you waiting for? - Matt
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This is an omnibus of the first two Vor books (Shards of Honor
and Barrayar) in chronological order. With the release of a
reference book on the series and the author working on a new
novel, I got all nostalgic and, even though I really don’t have the
luxury of re-reading stuff, I had to start the series again.
Set in the far future, Captain Cordelia Naismith is the commander
of a survey team for the Betan Expeditionary Force. She comes
from an extremely liberal planet. On an expedition, she and one
other crew member are the sole survivors of an attack by a group
of Barrayarans, an extremely conservative, militaristic, patriarchal
society that has only just come out of a long period of isolation.
The Barrayaran captain, Aral Vorkosigan (Vor is the prefix given to
the elite ruling class), also universally known as the ‘Butcher of
Komarr’, has been left behind on the planet, a victim of mutiny.
Cordelia is captured by Aral, but the two make a deal that they will
work together to get themselves off the planet and, in the process
they fall in love. They succeed, but even bigger problems await
them as they get to Aral’s ship and Cordelia makes it back to Beta
Colony. She is later forced to leave Beta and escapes to Barrayar,
where she and Aral, now retired, marry. Their quiet life doesn’t last
long, as the Emperor is dying and names Aral the Regent for the
six-year-old Prince. Attempts on their lives begin, one of which
results in Cordelia, now pregnant, being exposed to a gas attack,
the cure for which has a negative effect on her growing foetus. In
the midst of dealing with their baby being gestated in a uterine
replicator and undergoing experimental treatments to reverse the
damage done, the couple have to deal with a plot to overthrow the
Regent and Prince.
The Vor series, and this book in particular, is an obvious starting
point in one of the best space operas around. The author excels at
developing and fleshing out her characters. Even the supporting
characters have depth. Whilst I never forget how much I love the
character of Miles, I’d forgotten how cool and tough Cordelia is.
She would have to be my favourite science fiction heroine.
The author’s plotting, while slowing down a fraction at some
points, is generally set at a cracking pace and full of twists. There’s
not a lot of science, but she has some great ideas as far as her
technology goes and the way she sets the up cultures against
each other is really interesting. (I wish I’d had the brains to talk
more politics and social stuff with her when the Galaxy staff took
her out for dinner). The rest of the series primarily focuses on
Cordelia and Aral’s son Miles, who is a one of a kind, immediately
likeable, forward-momentum character. Cordelia’s Honor is a
little different from most of the series in that the crux of it is a love
story. While you might be able to get away without reading this if
romance isn’t your cup of tea, I recommend that you do, because
it is a good foundation for the rest of the series and explains why
Miles is the way he is. These books are such fun to read and stand
up to re-reading. The author is a multiple Hugo Award-winner
(three of them for Vor books) and there’s a damn good reason
why… - Steph
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JAMES BARCLAY
RAVENSOUL
Legends of the Raven #4. The
unknown warrior thought his days with
the Raven were long behind him, until
Hirad Coldheart, dead for ten years
knocks on his door... The dead are not at
rest. Something has travelled from far
beyond the dimension which has Balaia
and Calaius at its heart. It feeds off
Manna and without Manna all of Balaia
and the spirit realms that surround it will
collapse into nothing, taking the living
and the spirits of the dead with it into the
void. Balaia, barely recovered from the
demon onslaught, is thrown into chaos as
the dead walk the streets and hope fails. It
is left to the Raven, both dead and alive to
take their courage and their faith in each
other into the spirit realms for one last
fight. Hb $55.00 Tp $35.00 432pp Due Jan
WAYNE BARLOWE
GOD’S DEMON
Lucifer’s
War,
which damned legions
of angels to Hell, is an
ancient and bitter
memory shrouded in
the smoke and ash of
the Inferno. The Fallen,
those banished demons
who escaped the full
wrath of Heaven, have
established a limitless
and oppressive kingdom within the fiery
confines of Hell. The Demons Major,
Heaven’s former warriors, have become
the ruling class. They are the equivalent to
landed lords, each owing allegiance to the
de facto ruler of Hell. One Demon Major,
however, has not forgotten his former life
in Heaven. Lord Sargatanas is restless. He
has never forgotten what he lost in the Fall
- proximity to God. He is sickened by what
he has become and makes a decision that
will reverberate through every being in
Hell. Sargatanas decides to attempt the
impossible, to rebel, to endeavour to go
Home and bring with him anyone who
chooses to follow... be they demon or soul.
Pb $18.95 432pp Due Jan
ELIZABETH BEAR
WHISKEY & WATER
A novel of the Promethean Age. Several
years ago, Matthew the Magician ended
an age-old war. It only cost him everything
- and everyone - he knew and loved.
Turning against his mentor, Jane
Andraste, in the realm of Faerie left him
physically crippled and his power
shattered. Nevertheless, Matthew remains
the protector of New York City and when
he finds a young woman brutally
murdered by a Fae creature, he must bring
her killer to justice, before Jane uses the
crime to justify more war - and before he
confronts an even larger threat in the
greatest Adversary of all... Pb $18.95 464pp
Due Jan
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CHRIS BECKETT
MARCHER
Charles Bowen is an immigration
officer with a difference: the migrants he
deals with don’t come from other
countries, but from other universes.
Known as shifters, they materialise from
parallel timelines, bringing with them a
mysterious drug called slip, which breaks
down the boundary between what is and
what might have been, offers the
desperate
and
dispossessed
the
possibility of escape. When a shifter-led
gang commits murder and then uses slip
to escape justice, Charles and his
girlfriend Jaz decide to cross to another
universe to confront the problem at
source and prevent their own society
from degenerating into tyranny, but is
that Charles’ real motive, or does he have
reasons which even he can’t clearly see?
Pb $16.95 352pp Due Jan
CAROL BERG
BREATH AND BONE
Lighthouse #2. Addicted to an
enchantment that turns pain into pleasure
- and bound by oaths he refuses to
abandon - Valen risks body and soul to
rescue one child, seek justice for another
and bring the dying land of Navronne its
rightful king. Pb $18.95 528pp Due Jan
TOBY BISHOP
AIRS OF NIGHT AND SEA
Horsemistress #3. Driven by insane
jealousy, Duke William is determined to
found his own flying school, where the
valuable flying horses of Oc will learn to
bond with well-born young men - instead
of arrogant women. Now, Larkyn
Hamley and her beloved Black Seraph
must gather all of their allies - from the air
to the ground - for if they do not soar
now, none will ever see the skies again.
Pb $18.95 368pp
KIRSTEN BRITAIN
THE HIGH KING’S TOMB
Green Rider #3. 1,000 years ago, the
armies of the Arcosian Empire, led by
Mornhavon the Black, crossed the great
sea and tried to conquer the land of
Sacoridia - and during Karigan
G’ladheon’s early years as a Green Rider,
Mornhavon’s spirit, sensing weakness in
his prison walls and seeking vengeance,
began to wake. With the ghostly help of
the First Rider, Karigan had managed to
drive off the spirit of Mornhavon - but for
how long, no one could know. And now,
the descendants of those Arcosians are
ready to strike, reaching out to claim the
land their forebears had tried to conquer.
Worse, these vengeful enemies had spent
generations honing their powers of dark
magic - a force against which the
Sacoridians have no defence. Tp $36.00
668pp
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
PASSAGE
The Sharing Knife #3. Young Fawn
Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag
Redwing Hickory have survived magical
dangers and found, in each other, love and
loyalty. But even their strength and
passion cannot overcome the bigotry of
their own kin, and so, leaving behind all
they have known, the couple sets off to
find fresh solutions to the perilous split
between their peoples. As they journey
Fawn and Dag will discover surprising
new abilities, both Lakewalker and farmer,
a growing understanding of the bonds
between themselves and their kinfolk and
a new world of hazards both human and
uncanny. Pb $18.95 432pp Due Jan
EMMA BULL
TERRITORY
Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the
site of one of the richest mineral strikes in
American history, where veins of silver
run like ley-lines under the earth, a
network of power that belongs to anyone
who knows how to claim and defend it.
Jesse Fox left college to travel West, where
he’s made some decidedly odd friends,
like the physician Chow Lung, who insists
that Jesse has a talent for magic. In
Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc
Holliday, whose inner magic is as
suppressed as his own, but whose power
is enough to attract the sorcerous attention
of Wyatt Earp. When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone
explodes with speculation about who
attempted the robbery. The truth could
destroy Earp’s plans for wealth and glory
and he’ll do anything to bury it.
Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo
wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts
Jesse as an ally and tries to isolate him by
endangering his friends, as they struggle
for magical dominance of the territory. Pb
$18.95 432pp Due Jan
S C BUTLER
QUEEN FERRIS
The Stoneways Trilogy #2. Reiffen,
true heir to the kingdoms of Banking and
Wayland, lived his entire life quietly with
his mother and best friends, Ferris and
Avender. All that changes when the three
Wizards snatch Reiffen away to their
fortress in the north. There, they offer
Reiffen the twin gifts of power and
immortality, if he helps them wrest control
of Banking and Wayland away from his
uncle, the usurper. Although Reiffen’s
friends rescue him at great peril, Reiffen
decides to return to the Wizards, intending
to fool the Wizards - gain their knowledge,
find their weaknesses, defeat them with
their own weapons and regain the throne
that is rightfully his. But Reiffen must do
terrible things to gain the Wizards’ trust.
Has he become as greedy, ambitious and
avaricious as the three Wizard brothers?
Pb $18.95 496pp Due Jan
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THE STONE KEY
Obernewtyn Chronicles #5.
When Farseeker Guildmistress, Elspeth
Gordie, sets out from Obernewtyn to
travel to Sutrium at the end of
Wintertime, she quickly learns that not
everyone welcomes the changes brought
about by the rebellion. Capture by an old
and vicious enemy, she is drawn into the
heart of the Herder Faction, where she
learns of a terrible plot to destroy the west
coast. To stop it, Elspeth must risk
everything, knowing that if she dies, she
will never complete her quest to find the
weaponmachines that destroyed the
Beforetime. Pb $22.95 1008pp Due Jan
GILES CARWYN
& TODD FAHNESTOCK
QUEEN OF OBLIVION
Heartstone Trilogy #3. With his dying
words, the Opal Emperor leaves Brophy,
the Heir of Autumn, with an impossible
choice: betray his heart by seducing the
enchantress Arefaine Morgeon, or watch
her ruthless ambitions destroy the world.
As Brophy fights to stop Arefaine from
unleashing the ancient menace trapped
within the silver towers of Efften, the
sorceress-concubine Shara returns to her
beloved city of Ohndarien to find its
people enslaved by the same sinister
voice leading Arefaine to her doom. Shara
and Brophy rush to bring the truth to
Arefaine before the horrors of Efften are
reborn, but the darkness within their own
hearts may prove the greatest threat. Hb
$58.00 432pp
C J CHERRYH
REGENESIS
Sequel to Cyteen. Continues the story
of Ariane Emory PR, the genetic clone of
one of the greatest scientists humanity
has ever produced, and of her search for
the murderer of her progenitor - the
original Ariane Emory. Murder, politics,
deception and genetic and psychological
manipulation
combine
against
a
backdrop of interstellar human societies
at odds. Who did kill the original Ariane
Emory? And can her personal replicate
avoid the same fate? Hb $58.00 496pp Due
Jan
ARTHUR C CLARKE & STEPHEN BAXTER
FIRSTBORN
Time Odyssey #3. The Firstborn are
back. This time, they are pulling no
punches: They have sent a quantum bomb.
Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that
human scientists can barely comprehend.
It cannot be stopped or destroyed. Bisesa’s
desperate quest for answers sends her first
to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself
threatened with extinction. The end seems
inevitable, but as shocking new insights
emerge into the nature of the Firstborn and
their chilling plans for mankind, an
unexpected ally appears from light-years
away. Pb $18.95 416pp
143 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000
DAVID B COE
THE HORSEMEN’S GAMBIT
Blood of the Southlands #2. Divided by
clan rivalries and ancient feuds, suspicious
of magics wielded by long-time enemies,
the folk of the South have lived in a state of
truce for generations. However, the peace
is shattered when a woman looses a
deadly plague on the magical Qirsi people.
While some seek to prevent the spread of
the plague, others see in this disaster a
unique opportunity. With the magical folk
weakened by the plague, their enemies
might be able to defeat them and take back
lands lost in an ancient war. Haunted by
the spectre of what would be a tragic and
devastating new war, the Southlands are
aflame with rumours of violence and
treachery. Hb $59.95 368pp Due Jan
STONEY COMPTON
RUSSIAN AMERIKA
Alaska, 1989. In a world where
Alaska is still a Russian possession,
charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett has a
stained past – as a major in the Czar’s
Troika Guard he was cashiered for
disobeying a direct order. Now, 10 years
later, Grig charters out to a Cossack and
discovers his past has not only caught up
with him, but is about to violently change
his future and the future of all nine of the
nations of North America as well. Pb
$18.95 576pp Due Jan
PETER CROWTHER (ED)
WE THINK, THEREFORE WE
ARE
Here are 15 original stories about our fear
of and fascination with artificial
intelligence. Artificial intelligence has
captured the imaginations of writers,
readers and scientists alike, from Karl
Capek to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C
Clarke. Now some of the most innovative
thinkers in science fiction offer a variety
of tales featuring the many forms of AI,
from frightening to funny. These authors
confront one of contemporary mankind’s
deepest concerns - what do we do when
the machines we created evolve beyond
us? Pb $18.95 320pp Due Jan
SHIRLEY DAAMSGARD
THE WITCH’S GRAVE
An Ophelia & Abby Mystery #6.
Cupid has cast his spell on good witch
Ophelia Jensen. The practical, pragmatic,
law-abiding librarian has just begun
letting down her hair with Stephen
Larsen, the author of some of the most
scandalous crime exposés ever written.
It’s a match made in the stacks - until the
would-be lovers take a quiet countryside
stroll and shots ring out. A murderer, not
magick, made Stephen disappear - and
Ophelia might be next. The sheriff warns
her and her grandmother Abby not to
meddle, but after another shooting leaves
them shaken the women can’t help but
get involved. Pb $16.95 272pp Due Jan
5
MARIANNE DE PIERRE
CHAOS SPACE
Sentients of Orion #2. Having
fled the invasion on Araldis, Mira Fedor
travels to the nearest Orion League planet
seeking aid for her devastated world, but
the authorities seem more interested in
stealing her bio-ship, Insignia, than in
rendering help. While Mira flees from
world to world, Araldis burns. The more
Mira uncovers, the more mysteries she
finds: why is the initiate Tekton taking
such extreme measures just to acquire a
mineral alloy? Why do so many of the
protagonists in this galaxy-wide drama
have links to the Stain Wars? And what
part does the Sole Entity - literally, God have to play...? Pb $19.95 432pp
IAN DOUGLAS
GALACTIC CORPS
Inheritance Trilogy #2. The people on
Earth no longer remember how the human
race was nearly obliterated centuries
earlier during the terror visited upon them
by the merciless Xul, but the Star Marines,
30,000 light years from home, know all too
well the horror that still lives. In the year
2886, in the midst of the intergalactic war
that has been raging non-stop for nearly a
decade, the unthinkable has occurred.
Intelligence has located the gargantuan
hidden home-world of humankind’s
dedicated foe. The time has come for the
courageous men and women of the 1st
Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Force to
strike the killing blow, but misguided
politics on an Earth that no longer
supports their mission could prove the
Marine’s greatest enemy, as they plunge
bravely into the maelstrom of conflict and
into the heart of a million-year-old
mystery. Pb $18.95 416pp
KIM FALCONER
THE SPELL OF ROSETTE
Quantum
Enchantment #1. Rosette
is a child of two worlds:
Gaela‚ steeped in magic‚
and an Earth choked
with failing technology.
The key to their survival
is literally in her blood‚
a spell passed down
through her family line
to preserve the one
they’re sworn to protect. Unaware of her
lineage‚ Rosette runs scared when her
family is murdered. She takes refuge with
Nell‚ a shape-shifting high-priestess of the
ancient blood‚ who teaches her the arts of
witchcraft‚ stars and sword. Shadowed by
the fabled Kreshkali‚ queen of the
underworld and mistress of the wolf-like
Lupins‚ Rosette and the temple cat‚
Drayco‚ find themselves little more than a
step ahead of those who will do anything
to control the portal that links the manyworlds. Pb $20.99 558pp Due Jan
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NANCY YI FAN
SWORD QUEST
This prequel to Sword Bird follows
the life of Wind-Voice, the heroic dove of
peace, and how he wins his magical
sword. Wind-Voice and his companions,
a woodpecker and a mynah bird, join the
rebel bird forces to fight against their
oppressors, the archaeopteryxes. Pb
$14.99 240pp
DANIEL FOX
DRAGON IN CHAINS
Escaping to the island of Taishu after
being deposed by a usurper, young Chien,
the rightful emperor, finds a magical piece
of jade that imbues him with superhuman
abilities. Meanwhile, a
ruthless
pirate
slaughters
a
community of monks
and a boy slave must
keep a great dragon
imprisoned beneath
the
waters
that
separate Taishu from
the mainland. Pb
$34.00 352pp Due Jan
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
THE LOST ONES
The Veil #3. Even
legends have legends
and on the other side of
the
Veil,
where
humanity’s
legends
have hidden away for
centuries,
Oliver
Bascombe has learned
of a prophecy that
many believe he and
his sister, Collette,
have come to the Two Kingdoms to fulfil.
However, first they must escape the
dungeon where they are imprisoned to
stop an apocalyptic war, unravel a
conspiracy and prevent a powerful
sorcerer from severing the human world
and legendary realm forever. As old
heroes and friends ally themselves for
one last battle, even older enemies stand
arrayed against them. Is humanity ready
to face its legends head-on? For Oliver
Bascombe, it may cost him more than he
could ever imagine. Pb $16.95 400pp Due
Jan
CHRISTOPER GOLDEN & TIM LEBBON
THE MAP OF MOMENTS
A novel of Hidden Cities. What if you
were given a map to a magic that could
change the worst moment of your life...
for a price? Barely six months after
leaving New Orleans, history professor
Max Corbett is returning to a place he
hardly recognises. The girl he’d loved and lost - is dead, and the once-enchanted
city has been devastated by Hurricane
Katrina. Max has not thought much
beyond Gabrielle’s funeral - until a
strange old man offers him a map and an
insane proposition. It looks like an
ordinary tourist map, but the old man
claims that it is marked with a trail of
magical moments from New Orleans’s
history that just might open a door to the
past, but it is a journey fraught with peril,
as Max begins to uncover dark secrets
about both his dead love and the city he
never really got to know. How is
Gabrielle linked to an evil group from the
city’s past? And can Max evade them
long enough to turn back the clock and
give Gabrielle one last chance at life? Pb
$27.95 464pp Due Jan
BARB HENDEE & J C HENDEE
IN SHADE AND SHADOW
Noble Dead #7. After her adventures
with Magiere and Leesil, Wynn Hygeorht
has returned to the Guild of Sagecraft,
bearing texts supposedly penned by
vampires from the time of the Forgotten
History and the Great War. Seized by the
Guild’s scholars and sent out for copying
without Wynn’s consent, several pages
disappear - and the two sages charged
with conveying these pages are
murdered. Suspicious of the Guild,
separated from the only friends she fully
trusts and convinced the Noble Dead are
responsible for the killings, Wynn
embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets
of the texts. Hb $55.00 400pp Due Jan
M JOHN HARRISON
NOVA SWING
Light #2. It is some time after Ed
Chianese’s trip into the Kefahuchi Tract.
A major industry of the Halo is now
tourism. The Tract has begun to expand
and change, but, more problematically,
parts of it have also begun to fall to earth,
piecemeal, on the Beach planets. We are
in a city called Raintown, perhaps on
New Venusport or Motel Splendido: next
to the city is the event site, the zone, from
out of which pour new, inexplicable
artefacts, organisms and escapes of living
algorithm - the wrong physics loose in the
universe. They can cause plague and
change. An entire department of the local
police, Site Crime, exists to stop them
being imported into the city by
adventurers, entradistas and the men
known as ‘travel agents’, profiteers who
can manage - or think they can manage the bad physics, skewed geographies and
psychic onslaughts of the event site. And
now, a new class of semi-biological
artefact is finding its way out of the site
and may be more than anyone can
handle. Pb $16.99 272pp
P C HODGELL
THE GOD STALKER
CHRONICLES
Omnibus edition containg of God Stalk and
Dark of the Moon. Jame is a Kencyrath, the
chosen people of the Three-Faced God,
who fight the demonic being called
Perimal Darkling. At the same time, she
fights an internal battle for their honour,
because 3,000 years ago, the leader of the
Kencyrath betrayed his people to the
Darkness for his own immortality. She
also must find her 10-year older brother
Tori and return to him the sword and ring
of their father. And she has to stand
before the rathorns, wear the cloak of
living snakes, kill one god and resurrect
another. All in a day’s work for Jame. Hb
$55.00 688pp Due Jan
BARB HENDEE & J C HENDEE
CHILD OF A DEAD GOD
Noble Dead #6. For years, Magiere
and Leesil have sought a long-forgotten
artefact, even though its purpose has
been shrouded in mystery. All Magiere
knows is that she must keep the orb from
falling into the hands of a murdering
Noble Dead, her half- brother Welstiel.
And now, dreams of a castle locked in ice
lead her south, on a journey that has
become nothing less than an obsession…
Pb $18.95 464pp Due Jan
GALAXY BOOKSHOP
6
JIM HINES
THE STEPSISTER SCHEME
What would happen if an author
went back to the darker themes of the
original fairy tales for his plots and then
crossed the Disney princesses with
Charlie’s Angels? What’s delivered is a
whole new take on what happened to
Cinderella and her prince after the
wedding. Pb $18.95 352pp Due Jan
HANNAH HOWELL
HIGHLAND SINNER
Sir Tormand Murray is
certainly a rogue, but a callous killer?
Never. Yet he cannot explain how he
came to wake up next to the butchered
body of one of his former lovers.
Someone is prepared to kill again and
again until Tormand is found guilty and
hanged. His only hope of discovering the
culprit lies with Morainn Ross, a reclusive
beauty gifted with second sight. Branded
a witch, Morainn has never met a man
who accepted her strange talent. There’s
no
resisting
Tormand’s
rugged
masculinity - and no escaping the enemy
who grows more twisted every day. And
though a lasting union seems impossible,
Morainn knows her destiny is bound
forever with the knight who has claimed
her, body and soul... Pb $16.95 384pp
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MATTHEW HUGHES
THE SPIRAL LABYRINTH
A Tale Of Henghis Hapthorn. It
was bad enough when Henghis Hapthorn,
Old Earth’s foremost discriminator and
die-hard empiricist, had to accept that the
cosmos was shortly to rewrite its basic
operating system, replacing rational causeand-effect with detestable magic. Now he
finds himself cast forward several
centuries, stranded in a primitive world of
contending wizards and hungry dragons
and without his magic-savvy alter ego.
Worse, some entity with a will powerful
enough to bend space and time is
searching for him through the Nine
Planes, bellowing “Bring me Apthorn!” in
a voice loud enough to frighten demons.
Pb $34.00 256pp
STEPHEN HUNT
THE KINGDOM BEYOND THE
WAVES
Professor Amelia
Harsh is obsessed
with finding the lost
civilisation
of
Camlantis‚
a
legendary city from
pre-history that is
said to have created
the perfect pacifist
society. She returns
home from her
latest archaeological
misadventure to discover that the
university council has stripped her of her
position in retaliation for her heretical
research. Without official funding‚
Amelia has to accept the offer of
patronage from the man she blames for
her father’s bankruptcy and suicide‚
Abraham Quest. With an untrustworthy
crew of freed convicts‚ Quest’s force of
female mercenaries on board and a
lunatic safari hunter acting as their guide‚
Amelia’s luck can hardly get any worse,
but she’s as yet unaware that her quest for
the perfect society is about to bring her
own world to the brink of destruction...
Pb $22.99 592pp Due Jan
FAITH HUNTER
HOST
Thorn St Croix #3. In a postapocalyptic ice age, neomage Thorn St.
Croix was nearly driven insane by her
powers. She lived as a fugitive, disguised
as a human and married to a human man,
channelling her gifts for war into stonemagery. When she was discovered, her
friends and neighbours accepted her, but
warily. Not so the mage who arrives from
the Council of Seraphs, who could be her
greatest ally - or her most dangerous foe.
When it’s revealed that her long-gone
sister, Rose, is still alive, Thorn must
make a choice - and risk her own life in
the process. Pb $16.95 326pp Due Jan
143 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000
J V JONES
A SWORD FROM RED ICE
Sword of Shadows #3. The Long Night
has begun. The Endlords and their dark
army of Unmade prepare to unleash
untold destruction upon the world. Every
Sull warrior must step forward and fight,
or risk the North falling into eternal
darkness. Key to mankind’s survival is the
sacred warrior, Ash March. But for Ash to
realise her true potential as a Reach and
become the Sull’s greatest weapon, she
must keep herself safe as the perils that
surround her multiply. Raif Sevrance has
an equally perilous task - he must recover
the legendary sword named Loss.
However, fulfilment of these goals may
come too late. The Endlords’ minions have
made a cataclysmic discovery: a crack in
the Blindwall, an ancient and unguarded
passage leading directly into the realms of
men. Pb $22.99 720pp Due Jan
TOM KRATMAN
A DESERT CALLED PEACE
500 years from now, humankind has
found a link to a remarkably Earth-like
planet and settled there, dividing into
dozens of nation-states. The Federated
States of Columbia has consolidated
power and risen against the oppression of
Earth’s corrupt Caliphate. When Salafi
madmen, bent on a new jihad, kill FSC
Captain Patrick Hennessey’s family in a
cowardly attack, they create an enemy that
will show even less mercy than they do. A
legendary warrior is born: Carrera, the
scourge of Salafism. He will find those
who killed his family. He will destroy
them utterly and he will try like hell to not
become exactly like the enemy he is
fighting. Only when he is finished will
there be peace... the peace of an empty
wind as it blows across a desert strewn
with the bones of Carrera’s enemies. Pb
$18.95 768pp Due Jan
LYNN KURLAND
PRINCESS OF THE SWORD
Nine Kingdoms #3. It is the fiercest
battle yet, as the fate of a kingdom lies
with a man and woman bound by love,
magic and a legendary - and perilous sword Pb $34.00 384pp Due Jan
JOHN LAMBSHEAD
LUCY’S BLADE
Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen
Elizabeth’s Secretary of State, was the
greatest spymaster the world had ever
seen, but when he asked Dr Dee to
summon a demon, the result was
unexpected, especially for his orphaned
niece Lucy. Sir Francis’ duty as her
guardian was to find Lucy a suitably
aristocratic husband, not to let her fight
demons and witchcraft for the Queen’s
Secret Service. But his - and Lucy’s - duty
to protect Queen and country from
enemies both natural and supernatural
kept getting in the way. And so did all
those demons... Pb $18.95 480pp Due Jan
7
DAVID MARUSEK
MIND OVER SHIP
The year is 2135 and the
international program to seed the galaxy
with human colonies has stalled as
greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their
starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to
convert them into space condos. Ellen
Starke’s head, rescued from the fiery
crash that killed her mother, struggles to
regrow a new body in time to restore her
dead mother’s financial empire. And PreSingularity AIs conspire to join the
human race just as human clones, such as
Mary Skarland and her sisters, want
nothing more than to leave it. Hb $55.00
448pp Due Jan
ROBERT NEWCOMB
RISE OF THE BLOOD ROYAL
The Destinies of Blood and Stone #3. A
turning point has come in the endless
war between Rustannica and Shashida
Vespasian, emperor of Rustannica, is
desperate. The relentless battle has left his
country battered and the treasury all but
empty. Unless he can achieve a
breakthrough his armies will crumble
and the cause of the Vagaries will go
down in abject defeat. But if he gathers all
his strength in one daring throw of the
dice, Vespasian may yet prevail.
Meanwhile, in Eutracia, the wizards
Faegan and Wigg make a startling
discovery – a new form of magic that
grants its users amazing powers. Among
them may be an unforeseen method of
crossing the Tolenka Mountains and
entering directly into the War of Attrition,
tilting the balance in favor of the Vigors...
and bringing Tristan into full possession
of the mystic endowments in his blood.
Pb $18.95 544pp Due Jan
ROBIN D OWENS
ECHOES IN THE DARK
Summoning #5. An alien called Dark
drains the planet of life, a disillusioned
young singer, unaware of her
extraordinary magical talent, is called
through a dangerous portal of prophecy
where she must join forces with five other
women, who together will wage the
ultimate battle against the forces of Dark.
Pb $34.00 560pp Due Jan
JOSHUA PALMATIER
THE VACANT THRONE
Throne of Amenkor #3. Ruled by the
Mistress of the Skewed Throne, the city of
Amenkor has just survived a devastating
invasion by the mysterious Chorl, paying
a terrible price both in the loss of lives and
destruction in the city itself. Yet perhaps
the most crucial loss is the throne of
Amenkor - the true seat of power in every
sense - now totally drained of the magic,
knowledge, life force and memories of
previous rulers. The city’s only hope lies
with its ally, the city of Venitte, home to
the only throne that is twin in power to
Amenkor’s. Pb $18.95 480pp Due Jan
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TERRY PRATCHETT
THE COLOUR OF MAGIC:
ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY
The Discworld is flat,
and rides through
space on the backs of
Berilia, Tubul, Great
P’Thon and Jerakeen,
the four elephants
who stand in turn on
the back of Great
A’Tuin, the giant
turtle. And this is where it all starts, with
the naive tourist Twoflower and his
incompetent guide, the wizard Rincewind,
forced to flee from the proud and pestilent
twin city of Ankh-Morpork. When they
meet thieves Bravd and Weasel, things
that are already bad turn inevitably to the
worst... This is the second of Terry
Pratchett’s Discworld movies with an
ensemble cast including Sir David Jason as
Rincewind. Hb $55.00 256pp Due Jan
JOHN RINGO & JULIE COCHRANE
HONOR OF THE CLAN
Legacy of Aldenata #9. Duty. Honour.
Country. Three words that resound in the
heart of the warrior, but what is duty
when country is gone? Where does
honour lie when allies are revealed as
enemies, when friends are not who they
seem and when enemies are the ones we
love? For Cally O’Neal and the O’Neal
Bane Sidhe, underground fighters against
the tyranny of Earth’s Darhel allies, duty
lies in the overthrow of the established
order. For Major General Michael O’Neal,
her father, duty lies in maintaining that
order to prevent a reinvasion by the
dreaded Posleen. When diamond meets
diamond, when O’Neal battles O’Neal, the
only sure outcome is fireworks. Hb $58.00
448pp Due Jan
JUSTINA ROBSON
GOING UNDER
Quantum
Gravity #3. Lila Black
is back from her
adventures
in
Demonia
and
struggling to cope
with the even stranger
world of Faerie. And
these Faeries couldn’t
be less like Tinkerbell.
These Faeries are
capricious, unknowable and dangerous.
And they will be Lila’s toughest test yet.
Lila may have reached some sort of peace
over the fate of her parents, she may have
built some bridges with her sister, but
when you’re half cyborg, when you
contain enough high-tech weaponry to
win a small war, when you don’t know
your heart, still love an elf and don’t trust
your bosses, you can be capricious,
unknowable and quite dangerous enough
yourself. Hb $55.00 Tp $32.99 288pp Due
Jan
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KARL SCHROEDER
QUEEN OF CANDESCE
Virga #2. Venera Fanning was last
seen falling into nothingness.Now,
Venera finds herself plunging through
the air among the artificial worlds of
Virga, far from home and her husband,
who may or may not be alive. Landing in
the ancient nation of Spyre, Venera
encounters new enemies and new friends
(or at least convenient allies). She must
quickly learn who she can trust and who
she can manipulate in order to survive.
Survival isn’t her only goal; with the
powerful Key of Candesce in her hands,
she can control the fate of the entire
world of Virga, yet something even more
pressing is driving her - the all
consuming need for revenge. Pb $18.95
336pp Due Jan
CHARLES STROSS
HALTING STATE
It was called in as a robbery at
Hayek Associates, an online game
company. So you can imagine Sergeant
Sue Smith’s mood as she watches the
video footage of the heist being carried
out by a band of orcs and a dragon and
realises that the robbery from an online
game company is actually a robbery from
an online game. Just wonderful. Like she
has nothing better to do. But online
entertainment is big business and when
the bodies of real people start to show up,
it’s clear that this is anything but a game.
There is something very dangerous and
very real going on at Hayek Associates
and those involved are playing for keeps.
No cheats, no back doors, no extra lives make a wrong call on this one and it’s
game over. Pb $19.99 416pp
DANIEL SUAREZ
DAEMON
Thousands of autonomous computer
programs, or daemons, make our
networked world possible, running
constantly in the background of our lives,
trafficking e-mail, transferring money and
monitoring power grids. For the most
part, daemons are benign, but the same
can’t always be said for the people who
design them. Matthew Sobol was a
legendary computer game designer and
his premature death depressed both
gamers and his company’s stock price.
When his obituary is posted online, a
previously dormant daemon activates,
initiating a chain of events intended to
unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient,
interconnected world. With Sobol’s secrets
buried along with him and as new layers
of his daemon are unleashed at every turn,
it’s up to an unlikely alliance to decipher
his intricate plans and wrest the world
from the grasp of a nameless, faceless
enemy, or learn to live in a society in
which we are no longer in control... Hb
$59.95 368pp Due Jan
8
STEPH SWAINSTON
THE MODERN WORLD
Fourlands #3. The third of the castle
novels will take the reader ever deeper
into a world of beauty and terror. A
world led by an immortal emperor and
the circle; his 50 immortal helpers. It is a
world with an absentee god, a world that
has been fighting a war against giant
insects. A world like no other. There will
be more insights into Jant, the emperors
vain winged messenger, and the shift, the
surreal other life Jant enters when he
overdoses on his drug of choice and
where he meets the dead in a land that
defies logic. Pb $19.99 356pp Due Jan
DOM TESTA
THE COMET’S CURSE
Galahad #1. When the tail of the
comet Bhaktul flicks through the Earth’s
atmosphere, deadly particles are left in its
wake. Suddenly, mankind is confronted
with a virus that devastates the adult
population. Only those under the age of 18
seem to be immune. Desperate to save
humanity, a renowned scientist proposes a
bold plan: to create a ship that will carry a
crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a
distant solar system. Two years later, the
Galahad and its crew - none over the age of
16 - is launched. Soon after departing
Earth, they discover that a saboteur is
hiding aboard. Faced with escalating acts
of vandalism and terrorised by
threatening messages, 16-year-old Triana
Martell and her council soon realise that
the stowaway will do anything to ensure
that they never reach their destination.
The teens must find a way to neutralise
their enemy - for if their mission fails, it
will mean the end of the human race… Hb
$38.00 240pp Due Jan
PETER WATTS
MAELSTROM
R i f t e r s
Trilogy #2. This is the
way the world ends: A
nuclear strike on a deep
sea vent. The resulting
tsunami killed millions.
Now North America’s
west coast lies in ruins.
Millions of refugees
rally around a mythical
figure
mysteriously
risen from the deep sea. A world already
wobbling towards collapse barely notices
the spread of one more blight along its
shores. And buried in the seething fastforward jungle that use to be called
Internet, something vast and inhuman
reaches out to a woman with empty
white eyes and machinery in her chest. A
woman driven by rage and incubating
Armageddon. Her name is Lenie Clarke.
She’s a rifter. She’s not nearly as dead as
everyone thinks and the whole world is
collateral damage, as far as she’s
concerned. Pb $34.00 448pp Due Jan
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MARGARET WEIS & TRACY HICKMAN
BONES OF THE DRAGON
Dragonships #1. Skylan Ivorson is a
sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually
becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras
clans, an honour he truly feels he
deserves, as one who has been blessed by
Skoval, the god of war. But sometimes a
blessing is a curse in disguise. Skoval and
the other ancient gods are under siege
from a new generation of gods who are
challenging them for the powers of
creation… and the only way to stop these
brash interlopers lies within the
mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the
Vektan Dragons. It will be up to the
Vindras people, as the dragon-goddess’s
champions, to undertake the quest to
recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods
and the Vindras rests on their recovery for this is not only a quest to save the
world - it is also a quest for redemption.
Hb $55.00 400pp Due Jan
GARY K WOLFE & JOHN J MYERS
SPACE VULTURE
After a lifetime of friendship, two
small-town boys who grew to have very
different lives and careers have teamed up
to travel back in time and conquer the
universe. Determined to recapture the
science fiction of their youth - not as it was,
but as it should have been - Gary K Wolf,
the creator of Roger Rabbit, and his best
friend, John J Myers, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, now
transport readers to the far reaches of the
galaxy. There, the mere mention of the
pirate known as Space Vulture strikes fear
into every heart. A hardworking colonist’s
only hope is that lawman, Marshal Victor
Corsaire, will rocket to the rescue. Come
along for the ride and discover all the
adventure, suspense, wonder and fun that
the authors first found in science fiction 50
years ago and now share with everyone in
this rollicking tale of the spaceways. Pb
$18.95 336pp Due Jan
CHRIS WOODING
THE FADE
A subterranean world of vast
caverns, underground seas, crystalline
forests. A civilisation born of darkness, in
darkness, protected by shadows. A city of
merchants, whose eyes have turned
upward to the surface, where the lethal
light of day beats down on their world. A
conspiracy so vast that it will swallow
them all... Pb $22.99 400pp Due Jan
143 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000
PARANORMAL
ROMANCE
VIVI ANA, ET AL
HOT HOLIDAY
NIGHTS
Alluring Tales #2. The holidays are heating
up, with seven wickedly sensual stories
that should spice up those chilly winter
nights! A psychology student goes online
hoping to live out her steamiest fantasy
and ends up on a hot mystery date with a
wickedly imaginative stud who brings out
her inner pole-dancer... A determined lady
comes home, burning for her girlhood
crush - a sexy lawman who totes a big
gun… A tall, dark, handsome warlock
finds himself obsessed with his ‘familiar’ a sexy cat-woman who turns out to be the
purr-fect lover. Pb $32.00 320pp Due Jan
JESSICA ANDERSON
DAWNKEEPERS
A Novel of the Final Prophecy. Though a
Nightkeeper, Nate Blackhawk refuses to
allow others to control his fate. The gods
have even tried to influence his love life,
sending him visions of Alexis Gray, a sleek
blonde who is everything he’s ever
wanted in a woman. The two warriors
can’t deny their attraction, but a
frightening vision leads Nate to distance
himself in spite of the intense passion he
feels. Thrown together once more, they
must reassemble seven Mayan artefacts
that hold the key to preventing the end of
the world… Pb $18.95 480pp Due Jan
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
MEN OF THE OTHERWORLD
An Otherworld novel.
As a curious 6-yearold, Clayton didn’t
resist the bite - he
asked for it. But
surviving as a lone
child-werewolf was
more than he could
manage, until Jeremy
came along and taught
him how to straddle
the human-werewolf worlds, gave him a
home and introduced him to the Pack. So
begins this tale featuring three of the most
intriguing members of the American Pack
- a hierarchical founding family where
bloodlines mean everything and each day
presents a new, thrilling and often deadly
challenge. Hb $49.95 496pp Due Jan
GERRY BARTLETT
REAL VAMPIRES DON’T DIET
Glory Sinclair #4. Left alone to spend New
Year’s Eve by herself when her undead
boyfriend, Jeremy Blade, heads out to
rescue his supposed daughter from the
clutches of dangerous radicals, full-figured
vampire Gloriana St Claire finds her
solitary evening interrupted by a call from
the bodyguard to a drunken, newly
undead, rock star. Pb $32.00 368pp Due Jan
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ANYA BAST
WITCH HEART
Elemental Witches #3. Claire, a demon’s
handmaiden,
is
rescued
from
enslavement by a handsome playboy.
Now they’re both in danger of being
captured by warlocks who are
determined to harness Claire’s powers for
evil. Pb $18.95 320pp Due Jan
JACI BURTON
THE DARKEST TOUCH
Demon Hunters #3. Ryder. The man was
just as sexy as she remembered him: tall,
lean and dangerous, a demon hunter with
the body of a god. But archaeologist
Angelique Deveraux has little time for
lust. She’s been hiding a gleaming black
diamond, a prize everyone wants including Ryder - and now she’s running
for her life. Hot on her trail, Ryder is a
legendary demon hunter, a man with an
insatiable need for danger and a few dark
secrets of his own. As sparks ignite
between the rogue hunter and his latest
prey, Angie’s world is rocked again when
her twin sister vanishes, stolen away by
the same dark forces stalking Angie and
the black diamond. Pb $16.95 364pp
P C CAST
GODDESS OF THE ROSE
Goddess Summoning #4.
When
modern-day
Mikki ends up in the
strange Realm of the
Rose, Hecate has been
waiting for her. So, too,
has her gorgeous
guardian beast, who
soon
has
Mikki
swooning, but to save
the realm, Mikki will
have to sacrifice her life-giving blood. Pb
$34.00 368pp Due Jan
MAUREEN CHILD
BEDEVILED
Maggie Donovan isn’t interested in
overthrowing a Faerie queen. She barely
had time to kill the demon that devoured
her fiancé. Then she comes home to find a
scrumptious hunk in her living room who
informs her that saving the Otherworld
just happens to be her destiny and
Maggie realises she may not have a
choice… Pb $16.95 320pp Due Jan
KATE DOUGLAS
WOLF TALES VII
Powerfully sensual and potently
erotic, the Chanku are an exotic race of
shape shifters. Their intent is never to
harm, only to delight in one another’s
sexual passion and pleasure. But
someone, or something, is out to hurt
them and after attacks against all three
packs across the country, all targeted at
women and children, Anton Cheval calls
the Chanku home to find out who is
orchestrating these assaults - and to stop
them. Pb $29.95 256pp Due Jan
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CHRISTINE FEEHAN
MURDER GAME
Ghostwalkers #7. As bodies pile up, a
violent new cross-country game is
blamed on the GhostWalkers. To clear
their name, they infiltrate the dangerous
sport and to survive it, they must ignore
the rules. Pb $19.99 416pp Due Jan
JEANIENE FROST
AT GRAVE’S END
Night Huntress #3. It should be the best
time of half-vampire Cat Crawfield’s life.
With her undead lover Bones at her side,
she’s successfully protected mortals from
the rogue undead, but though Cat’s worn
disguise after disguise to keep her true
identity a secret from the brazen
bloodsuckers, her cover’s finally been
blown, placing her in terrible danger. As
if that wasn’t enough, a woman from
Bones’ past is determined to bury him
once and for all. Pb $18.95 384pp Due Jan
YASMINE GALENORN
NIGHT HUNTRESS
Sisters of the Moon #5. The D’Artigo sisters
are half-human, half-Fae operatives for
the Otherworld Intelligence Agency.
Delilah, a werecat who’s one of the
Autumn Lord’s Death Maidens, has to
fight off the demon general who stole the
third Spirit Seal and is now out for blood.
Pb $18.95 320pp Due Jan
JOEY HILL
A WITCH’S BEAUTY
Mina is the daughter of an unholy union a mermaid taken by one of the malevolent
Dark Ones. While helping to rescue Prime
Legion Commander Jonah, she exposed
herself as a potentially dangerous weapon,
susceptible to the darkness in her own
blood. Now, for the general good, Jonah
has angels watching over her… Though
Mina is resistant to being protected, her
attitude begins to change when David, the
human-born angel, is awarded the duty.
As their passion threatens to take over,
will it lead them to Heaven or Hell? Pb
$34.00 416pp Due Jan
ALLYSON JAMES
MORTAL TEMPTATIONS
Patricia
was
startled when she
found a handsome
and wounded man in
her antique store, but
her interest was truly
aroused when she
saw his well-muscled
back sporting two
wings. He was Nico,
son of a powerful
deity, breaker of hearts and cursed by the
goddess, Hera, to spend eternity as a
slave to female desire - drained, used and
cast aside time and again as a sex god.
With Patricia, for the first time in 3,000
years, he’s looking forward to paying his
dues. Now, if she could only free him...
Pb $34.00 304pp Due Jan
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CHEYENNE MCCRAY
DARK MAGIC
D’Anu Coven Book #05. As San Francisco’s
leader of the Paranormal Special Forces
unit, Jake Macgregor and his team are
facing a powerful enemy that threatens to
bring down the city. The last thing Jake
has time for is romance. So why, after a
long, hard day’s fight against evil, are his
nights filled with dreams of Cassia?
Cassia is a D’Anu witch who is forbidden
the love of a mortal. When she intervenes
in a skirmish to save Jake’s life, the
consequences are inescapable, even
though the magic they make together is
too luscious and potent to resist… Pb
$16.95 464pp
SHERRILL QUINN
DARING THE MOON
Taite Gibson, an investigator with the
Pima County Attorney’s Office, is being
stalked by an enormous werewolf. These
terrifying attacks convince Taite to seek
out Ryder Merrick, a reclusive British
horror writer reputed to know everything
about werewolves, including how to kill
them. On his remote private island, Ryder
can live safely with the beast inside him,
unable to harm others or himself. Then
Taite arrives, tempting him to give in to
every wicked hunger... The only way to
keep Taite safe from the evil that’s
followed her is to convince her to trust in a
deeply dangerous attraction. Pb $32.00
320pp Due Jan
GENA SHOWALTER
HEART OF THE DRAGON
Deep in the jungle, on the trail of her
missing brother, Grace never expected to
find a secret world populated by
mythological monsters - nor guarded by
a sword-wielding being whose beauty
put mortal men to shame. Darius en
Kragin belongs to a race of shape-shifting
warriors sworn to guard Atlantis and kill
all travellers who stray within its
boundaries. Yet when Grace stumbles
into his realm, he finds himself tempted
to betray his centuries-old vow. Pb $16.95
384pp Due Jan
KERRELYN SPARKS
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A
VAMPIRE
Love at Stake #5. This Christmas isn’t so
merry for Toni. Her best friend’s been
locked up in a mental hospital ever since
she told the police she was attacked by
vampires and the only way for Toni to get
her out is to prove that bloodsuckers
really do exist. So she’s taken a job as a
bodyguard for the Undead, but she gets
more than she bargained for, especially
when she meets Ian MacPhie, a Scottish
rascal looking for Ms Right. How can a
dead man be so damn sexy? Could Mr
Wrong be Mr Right? One forbidden kiss
could lead to an eternity of passion - and
all it takes is one moment under the
mistletoe. Pb $16.95 384pp
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JORDAN SUMMERS
RED
Gina
Santiago
devotes her life to
apprehending
heinous
criminals
that prey on society and now she’s after
the worst one yet. On
her own, the trail
takes her to a town
on the fringes of
society,
where
everyone’s a suspect.
Even the sexy sheriff, Morgan Hunter,
isn’t telling her everything. Gina knows
he’s trouble, but she’s inexorably drawn
to him. The closer Gina comes to finding
out the secret of the town and its big bad
sheriff; the closer she comes to catching
the predator, the more scared she gets because she’s beginning to realise that she
has a secret too - a secret that will change
Gina’s life and make her the killer’s prey.
Pb $16.95 368pp
SUNNY
MONA LISA BLOSSOMING
Monere #2. As Mona Lisa learns the erotic
and savage customs of the Monère elite,
some of her new subjects chafe at being
ruled by one whose lineage is diluted
with human blood. Pb $16.95 272pp
TRISHA TELEP (ED)
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF
VAMPIRE ROMANCE
Some of the biggest
names in paranormal
romance
have
created an array of 30
short stories of hot
blood and inhuman
passions. Authors
include Sherri Erwin,
Caitlin
Kiernan,
Jenna Black, Delilah
Devlin, Keri Arthur,
Kimberly Raye, Lilith
Saintcrow, C T Adams, Susan Sizemore,
Dina James, Colleen Gleason, Barbara
Emrys, Savannah Russe, Shiloh Walker,
Vicki Pettersson, Rebecca York, Rachel
Vincent, Amanda Ashley, Karen Chance
and Nancy Holder. These ain’t your
mother’s vampires! Pb $32.00 512pp
LYNN VIEHL
STAY THE NIGHT
Darkyn #7. Outlaw, immortal vampire
and art thief, Darkyn Lord Robin of
Locksley has evaded authorities for the
last 700 years. At the moment, he’s falling
for undercover federal agent Christina
Renshaw, who has no time for an affair.
She hopes to snag an elusive art thief, but
soon has no choice other than to join
forces with Robin. When the chase
becomes dangerous, both will have to
choose between losing each other and
losing everything they value... Pb $18.95
336pp Due Jan
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MARGARET WEIS & LIZZ WEIS
FALLEN ANGEL
Fallen Angel #2. Matthew Gallow is a
fallen angel, cast out of heaven for daring
to disbelieve. Furious, he roams the earth,
pretending to cast out demons and
preserve souls. He doesn’t have faith in
anything, or anyone - until the night he
nearly dies fighting a true fiend. His whole
world is shaken and when he meets
Natalia, he isn’t sure if he can trust her... or
the attraction he feels for her. Natalia
works for Cain, a rocker living on the edge
and she invites Matthew to be a part of his
wild stage show. It’s perfect - an exorcism
for a man who says he’s sold his soul to the
devil. Only Cain really is in league with
Lucifer and all mankind is at risk. Pb
$16.95 384pp
HORROR
MARIO ACEDOVO
THE UNDEAD KAMA SUTRA
Felix Gomez #3. Ex-infantryman and
undead PI Felix Gomez has managed to
survive
lustful
extraterrestrials,
nymphomaniacs
and
x-rated
bloodsuckers, while satisfying his own
unorthodox hungers with blood-laced
Mexican food. Now the dying words of an
alien interloper are thrusting the immortal
PI and a bodacious, undead sexpert,
Carmen Arellano, into a seamy mess of
otherworldly abductions, shady military
irregularities and unexplained murder. Pb
$18.95 320pp
L A BANKS
THE DARKNESS
Vampire Huntress #10. After the battle at
Masada, the Neteru team returns to San
Diego believing 40,000 demons have been
eradicated and that Lilith’s spawn have
been killed. But somehow the treacherous
little creature got away. Just as had been
prophesised at the dawn of the
Armageddon, the anti-Christ has been
born and will soon rise to power... Pb
$18.95 352pp Due Jan
JIM BUTCHER, ET AL
MEAN STREETS
The best paranormal private investigators
have been brought together in a single
volume - and cases don’t come any
harder than this. Jim Butcher, delivers a
hard-boiled tale in which Harry
Dresden’s latest case may be his last.
Nightside dweller John Taylor is hired by
a woman to find something she lost - her
memory - in a tale from Simon Green. Kat
Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in
too deep when a simple job goes bad and
Harper Blaine is enmeshed in a tangle of
dark secrets and revenge from beyond the
grave. Pb $34.00 368pp Due Jan
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RACHEL CAINE
LORD OF MISRULE
The Morganville Vampires #5. In the college
town of Morganville, vampires and
humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless
harmony. Then comes Bishop, the master
vampire who threatens to abolish all
order, revive the forces of the evil dead
and let chaos rule - but Bishop isn’t the
only threat. Violent black cyclone clouds
hover, promising a storm of devastating
proportions, as student Claire Danvers
and her friends prepare to defend
Morganville against elements both natural
and unnatural. Pb $16.95 336pp Due Jan
ELLEN DATLOW (ED)
POE: NEW TALES INSPIRED BY
EDGAR ALLAN POE
This collection commemorates the second
centenary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth. It
features Poe-inspired tales by some of the
finest talents in the field, including Kim
Newman, Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McCrumb,
Lucius Shepard, Suzy McKee Charnas and
others. Pb $34.00 352pp Due Jan
ERIC ENCK
GHOST OF A CHANCE
All Ryan Crawford’s wife Zori wanted
was a child and when Zori is given the
gift of childbirth for confronting a
horrifying evil and then kills herself, he is
left with a son who has something about
him that is mysterious... and frightening.
Pb $34.00 192pp
SIMON R GREEN
JUST ANOTHER JUDGEMENT DAY
Nightside #9. There’s a new sheriff in
town and he has the Nightside’s rich and
powerful quaking in their boots. He’s The
Walking Man, and it’s his mission to
exorcise sinners - with extreme prejudice.
Problem is, the Nightside was built on sin
and corruption and The Walking Man
makes no distinction between evildoers
and those simply indulging themselves.
He’ll leave the place a wasteland unless
someone stops him and PI John Taylor
has been handed the job. Hb $55.00 272pp
Due Jan
SIMON R GREEN
THE UNNATURAL INQUIRER
Nightside #8. John
Taylor is a PI with the
special ability to locate
anyone or anything.
The Unnatural Inquirer,
the Nightside’s most
notorious gossip rag,
has offered John a
million pounds to find
a DVD purported to
contain an actual
recording of the afterlife. John doesn’t
know if it’s true, but someone - or
something - thinks so and will stop at
nothing to possess the disc. Pb $18.95
256pp Due Jan
11
MARTIN GREENBERG & SIMON HOYT
BETTER OFF UNDEAD
18 original stories
about the ‘lives’ of the
undead.
From
vampires to mummy
con-artists,
this
collection explores the
many
forms
the
undead can take in
stories that range from
the chilling to the
hysterical. For anyone
who’s ever wondered if the grass is
greener on the other side of this mortal
coil, this collection will provide a wide
range of intriguing answers from those
who are undead... and loving it! Pb $18.95
320pp
JUSTIN GUSTAINIS
EVIL WAYS
Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigations
#2. Supernatural investigator Quincy
Morris and his colleague, white witch
Libby Chastain are drawn into a
confrontation with eccentric billionaire
Walter Grobius, who is using an old evil to
bring about white supremacy across the
US. Pb $34.00 336pp Due Jan
JUSTIN GUSTAINIS
BLACK MAGIC WOMAN
Quincy Morris Supernatural Investigation #1.
Occult investigator Quincey Morris and
his “consultant”, white witch Libby
Chastain, are hired to free a family from a
deadly curse that appears to date back to
the Salem witch trials. Fraught with
danger, the trail finds them stalking the
mysterious occult underworlds of Boston,
San Francisco, New Orleans and New
York, searching out the root of the curse.
Pb $18.95 336pp
STEPHEN KING
JUST AFTER SUNSET
What would you do if
your everyday world
were turned upside
down in an instant?
Here are 12 stories
about relationships with
unexpected
twists.
There are tales of
obsession and fights for
power: Then there are
the unexpected outside events which turn
people’s worlds upside down or the right
way up. Hb $60.00 368pp
RUDYARD KIPLING
TALES OF FANTASY AND HORROR
From ghost stories to psychological
suspense, the complete horror and dark
fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling.
Kipling, used the full power and intensity
of his imagination and his writing ability
in his excursions into fantasy. This collects,
for the first time, all of Kipling’s fantastic
fiction, ranging from traditional ghostly
tales to psychological horror. Pb $45.00
800pp
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What We’ve Been Reading...
Pete and Pickles by Berkley Breathed (Hb $32.00). This author/artist
is just so amazingly talented, I could spend ages taking in each page –
there’s just so much to look at! And once again he’s written a beautiful
story about love, loss and living (as opposed to existing) that had us
flicking back to the beginning to start again. Wyatt is nearing five and
didn’t get the death references, but he loved Pickles’ imagination. If
you loved Mars Needs Moms (Hb $26.00), you’ll love this! - Steph
One Silent Night (Dark-Hunter #12) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Pb
$19.99). For those familiar with the series, the arch-nemesis
throughout is the Daimon son of Apollo, Stryker. He really is a
bastard, which is why I had reservations about reading a book on him.
It is reportedly a bit of a ‘filler’ book, and it does feel a little like it...
but damn it if Kenyon didn’t have me rooting for Stryker! It wasn’t the
romantic element that did it, but by showing that he does have a
softer side. Mind you – everyone is sworn enemies again at the end, so
all will be well for the next instalment. -Steph
Servant of the Empire (Empire #2) by Raymond E Feist & Janny
Wurts (Pb $21.99). I love this book and re-read it at least once a year.
It's a beautiful fantasy version of Shogun, where a captured
Midkemian slave, Kevin of Zun, teaches Mara of the Acoma how to look
beyond her cultural preconceptions and save her threatened family
from destruction in the Great Game of counsel on Kelewan. Love
story... Adventure... Intrigue... All the good stuff... CM
Kenny and the Dragon by Tony Diterlizzi (Hb $19.95). That one
person writes such a beautiful story and does the most amazing pencil
illustrations is almost unfair. Kenny is a rabbit living on a farm with his
parents. He’s a bookish lad with a keen mind and always feels a little
different from the other kids at school. His only real friend is a
badger that runs the local bookstore. Kenny befriends a dragon that
is discovered living on their farm and learns that you shouldn’t judge
a book by its cover... -Steph
Dead After Dark by Sherrilyn Kenyon, et al (Pb $18.95). OK – I only
read the Dark-Hunter short story in this collection, which is based on
Fury, one of the Katagaria wolves that readers have encountered before
in Kenyon’s Dark-Hunter series. I’m not a fan of short stories and this
is why: I was finished before I knew it and wanted more… -Steph
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