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NEXUS
Issue #177
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003
Nexus: n.pl. 1. A means of connection 2. A connected series 3. Galaxy Bookshop’s newsletter listing the latest Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and related Media Books
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NEWS
Robert Heinlein’s widow, Virginia Heinlein, has passed away.
After his death in 1988, she oversaw publication of several
posthumous works, including Grumbles from the Grave and
the uncut edition of Stranger in a Strange Land.
Virginia Kidd, agent, anthologist and writer, has died after a
long illness.
Ursula K Le Guin has been named Grand Master by the Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
J K Rowling’s long-awaited Harry Potter
and the Order of the Phoenix will be
published on 21 June simultaneously
in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. It
will be more than a third longer than the
previous book.
Bad news for fans looking forward to
seeing Neil Gaiman and Terry
Pratchett’s comedic novel Good Omens
on screen. According to Terry Gilliam,
the project has been indefinitey
postponed due to lack of finance. Also on indefinite hold (for
lack of a director) is the proposed big-screen adaptation of
Douglas Adams’ classic novel, The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the
Galaxy.
No news yet as to whether Buffy the
Vampire Slayer will be renewed for the
next season. Its future apparently rests
largely on whether Sara Michelle Gellar
decides to come back. There has been
talk of spin-offs. Also in the Buffy/Angel
camp, Alexis Denisof (Wesley) got
engaged to Alyson Hannigan (Willow)
over the Christmas break.
Christopher Reeve is set to guest-star
in the new season of Smallville and
apparently there is some possibility of
a recurring role.
Philip Reeves’ excellent young adult
novel, Mortal Engines, has won the prestigious Nestle Smarties
Gold Award in the 9-11 age group.
PHILIP K DICK AWARD
These awards are presented annually
for distinguished science fiction
published in paperback original form in
the United States. Nominees are:
Empire of Bones by Liz Williams
Leviathan Three
by Jeff VanderMeer
& Forrest Aguirre (eds)
Maximum Ice by Kay Kenyon
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller
Report to the Men’s Club
by Carol Emshwiller
The Scar by China Miéville
Warchild by Karin Lowachee
ARTHUR C CLARKE
AWARD 2003
These are presented for best SF novel
published in Britain during 2002.
Nominees are:
Kil’n People by David Brin
Light by M John Harrison
The Scar by China Miéville
The Separation Christopher Priest
Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Nexus #177
SCIENCE
FICTION
AND
FANTASY
LYNNE ABBEY
TURNING POINTS
A Thieves World novel. A new pantheon
of personalities have moved into Sanctuary
and are making their mark on this dark and
dangerous city. Meet Halott the
Necromancer, Latilla - daughter of the
legendary artist Lalo the Limmer, Dysan the
short and scrappy thief Jake the rat, and a
host of others. Return to Sanctuary and let
the games begin! Hb $69.95 317pp
KEVIN ANDERSON
CAPTAIN NEMO
The free-spirited and inventive son of a
French shipbuilder, Nemo goes to sea as a
cabin boy where he faces marauding pirates
and bloodthirsty sharks, is marooned for
years on a mysterious island, battles
prehistoric monsters long believed extinct,
journeys to the centre of the Earth, discovers
the fabled city of Timbuktu, survives the
Charge of the Light Brigade, tends to the
wounded with Florence Nightingale, is
pressed into service by the ruthless Robert
the Conqueror, and, ultimately, wages war
on War itself as the captain of the legendary
underwater vessel known as the Nautilus. Pb
$22.95 514pp
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Romance
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Award Nominee
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POUL ANDERSON
MOTHER OF KINGS
In the 10th century, during the violent
end of the Age of the Vikings, Gunhild, the
daughter of a Norse Chieftan, is sent away
to learn the magic of a pair of shamans. She
learns her lessons well and uses her power
to summon her heart’s desire: Eirik BloodAx. Gunhild’s magic is a powerful
complement to Eirik’s strength, but is not
enough to save him from death at the hands
of his vicious rivals. Still, the sons they
conceived will each become kings and
Gunhild’s own struggles are far from over.
Pb $21.95 619pp
ROBERT ASPRIN & LINDA EVANS
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
A Time Scout novel. What SAS Captain
Trevor Stirling doesn’t know may kill him along with every man, woman and child
alive. Stirling thinks his mission is simple:
follow a terrorist into the year AD 500 to
stop a Northern Irish fanatic bent on murder.
If the terrorist succeeds in killing Artorius,
the Briton Lord of Battle and the most
revered icon of British history, before his
greatest military victory, the time-space
continuum will fracture, destroying the
British nation - and the rest of the world. Hb
$64.95 442pp
JAMES AXLER
FAR EMPIRE
Outlanders #22. A beautiful hybrid
carries an unborn child - a blueprint for hope
in a dark world. She seeks Kane’s help,
unwittingly leading them into a trap from
which there may be no escape... Pb $19.50
347pp
KAGE BAKER
BLACK PROJECTS, WHITE
KNIGHTS
The
Company
Dossiers.
This
collection brings
together the early
Company stories in
one volume for the
first time. Also
included are new
stories,
three
p r e v i o u s l y
unpublished and
one, The Queen in
Yellow,
written
exclusively for this book. Hb $66.95 288pp
STEVE BARLOW & STEVE SKIDMORE
ODYSSEY
Outernet #3. As Jack, Merle, and Load
have discovered, there is life on other planets
- and lots of it. In fact, they’re planet-hopping
as they try to keep the Server safe from the
FOEs. And they keep meeting all sorts of
Alien Life Forces, including creepy spider
things on Planet Arachnus. The kids’
mission? To find the “genius” who created
the Outernet, but with the bad guys hot on
their cosmic trail, the mission gets
sidetracked. Pb $9.95 185pp
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January/February 2003
JOHN BARNES
PRINCESS OF THE AERIE
Jinnaka #2. When Jak gets a message
that his ex-girlfriend, Princess Shyf of
Greenworld, is in danger, Jak and his panth
buddy Dujuv join the Royal Palace Guard
and race across the solar system to save her.
But upon arrival they quickly discover that
they’re the ones who need to be rescued…
from Shyf! For it seems the once-reluctant
Highness has decided that she likes absolute
power - and that when they say the royal
guards serve at the pleasure of the princess,
it’s more literal than Jak and Dujuv ever
imagined. Now their only way out of the
palatial harem is to accept a secret Royal
Guard mission that will take them out of the
frying pan and into the fire-or, rather, into
the middle of an all-out revolution to take
over the hellish, lethal mines of Mercury...
Pb $19.95 319pp
HENRY BEARD & DOUGLAS KENNY
BORED OF THE RINGS
For everyone who has delighted in J R R
Tolkien’s fantasy masterwork - or anyone
who’s just looking for a good laugh - this is
the million-copy selling comic extravaganza
that will convince lovers (and haters) of
fantasy that they’ve finally experienced it all
and that they’ll never need to read another
fantasy parody again. Pb $22.00 149pp
STEPHEN BOWKETT
THAW
Wintering #3. As Kell comes of age the
world of the Beyond opens up to him, a
world of ancient secrets that predate the
coming of the Ice, a world of machines with
magical powers, a world of dangers. $14.95
Pb 230pp
STEVEN BRUST
ISSOLA
Vlad Taltos #9. On the run from House
Jhereg, which he double-crossed, Vlad Taltos
is found by, of all improbable people, Lady
Teldra, the courtly, preternaturally charming
servant of his old friend, the Dragonlord
Morrolan. Teldra has come to ask for Vlad’s
help, because Morrolan and Aliera have
disappeared and it looks as if they may be
literally gone from the world. Consulting the
ever-interesting and fabulously powerful
Sethra Lavode, Vlad and Teldra find that
Morrolan and Aliera are being held captive
by the Jenoine. Who have hitherto been a
mystery - perhaps not to a lord like Morrolan,
but certainly to Vlad. Indications are that the
Jenoine may have made Dragaera and may
have once been the masters of the gods
themselves. Not the kind of guys you want
to go up against. Cynical, Vlad may be. And
he certainly claims to be devoted to looking
out for Number One. But Morrolan and
Aliera are his friends, and he can’t bring
himself to abandon then - even if it means
doing battle at the Sea of Amorphia itself. Pb
.$19.95 255pp
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D AN S IMMONS
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Simmons is still linking characters between books. Forty-odd years
after the events of Summer of Night (Pb $22.95 - brilliant book),
Dale Stewart is heading back to Elm Haven, Illinois. Dale’s younger
brother Lawrence (Larry) has recently resurfaced in Darwin’s Blade
(Pb $21.95 – non-genre but unreal!). After the dark events of the
summer in 1960, Dale and his family moved away. True to the
promise to the memory of his murdered friend Duane, Dale became
a professor in literature and a writer (of a popular Western series).
Life hasn’t been a bed of roses of late though. Dale had an affair
with a brilliant grad student, Clare, who is about 25 years his junior.
It causes minor problems for him within the university he teaches
at, but the big cost is that his wife leaves him and his relationship
with his daughters is strained. Clare (a character you never really
warm to, but I don’t think you’re supposed to) then leaves him.
Dale falls apart and makes a failed attempt at suicide. He decides to
leave Montana for a year’s sabbatical writing and not only chooses
to return to Elm Haven to do this, but rents the farmhouse where
Duane grew up. One could argue that this is just asking for trouble,
and it doesn’t take long for it to start.
Elm Haven is run-down. It has gone from an idyllic small town to
disrepair and a number of his boyhood friends have died. When
unpacking, he finds the shotgun he tried to kill himself with, including
the shell that didn’t fire, which he knows he threw into a field in
Montana. Dale has a number of these memories/half memories
during the novel, some of which were a bit of a concern at the end.
Life here isn’t much smoother. The bully that gave Dale and his
friends so much grief as children is now the town Sheriff, he is hassled
by a group of redneck Neo Nazi’s, he keeps seeing lights in the
second story of the farmhouse - which has been sealed off for about
50 years - and there are black dogs roaming the property that noone seems to know anything about. Weird messages have been
appearing on his laptop, mostly in German and Old English, when
it’s been turned off and unplugged. He has one friend, Michelle,
with whom all the boys flirted when they were 12. She is renovating
her deceased parent’s home so she can sell it. One night as she is
leaving Dale’s place after dinner, she is attacked by the now HUGE
black dogs. When Dale gets the police involved, they not only can’t
find any trace of her body or dog prints in the snow, but they (as the
reader has been doing for some time) begin to question Dale’s
sanity.
I love the way Simmons juggles ‘real’ horror – phantom computer
messages, visitations from the dead, gods from mythology and the
real horror of losing your mind. Dale has a history of blocking
memories – from the events of the summer of 1960 to what happened
after he and Clare broke up. It’s not until the very end that the
reader gets some answers as to what did and didn’t happen, and
until that point, I had a growing sense of dread for him. Living
through the supernatural factors of the story would be bad enough,
but how much of the possible psychosis he was living with seemed
much worse. Some of the story is narrated by Duane, whose only
experiences, after dying aged 12, have been lived through Dale.
This just adds to the question of what is supernatural and what is
Dale’s psychosis.
It’s not essential to have read Summer of Night to read this, but it
might be nice background. I love it when I find a book that supercedes
all desire to clean, shop, cook, etc and results in an indulgent two
days lounging around reading at home. - Steph. 8/10
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C AROL B ERG
P B $19.95 506 PP
Ignoring the first few paragraphs,
Transformation is one of those ‘wow’ books
that you can’t put down once you’ve started.
Narrated in first-person from the point-ofview of Seyonne, the primary character, this
is an intelligent, powerful, poignant, comingof-age tale which, while set against an
interesting enough background, is completely
dominated by the character development of
the two main characters.
Seyonne was once a Warden, a sorcerer of a
race of people who used their power to defeat
demons. Now enslaved by the Derzhi and
robbed of his powers, he is dead to his people,
unclean by their standards, but still bound by the oaths he swore in
his past life.
The novel begins with Seyonne’s purchase by none other than the
heir to the Derzhi Empire, Prince Aleksander - arrogant, clever, selfcentred, spoilt and heedlessly cruel.
Seyonne does his best to keep his head down and stay out of trouble,
but fate conspires against him. Through the vengeful plans of a
young noble, he is branded on the face immediately upon his arrival
at the Prince’s residence. The Prince’s response to this damage of his
‘property’ is immediate and violent, and threatens the stability of
the realm. Through no real fault of his own, Seyonne is abruptly the
centre of too much attention.
Seyonne is first called on to read and write for the Prince and then
serve at his tables, (a privilege he’d be happy to live without), where
he discovers first that one of the Prince’s companions is possessed by
a demon, then that the Prince himself is being ‘prepared’ for such a
possession. And if that’s not bad enough, it gets worse – for when
deciding to ‘take the prince’s measure’, meeting his eyes, Seyonne
sees within Aleksander something that only one such as himself
could recognise – feadnach - the mark that reveals a soul of destiny,
of greatness, the type of soul that Seyonne has sworn an oath to
protect at the cost of his own life. Suddenly, Seyonne is irrevocably
bound to the man who represents all that he detests about the world.
From here on in, Seyonne has to walk the fine line between slave
and mentor, somehow finding a way to guide the prince without
goading the man into killing him for his insolence.
The use of first person engages the reader in an intensely personal
way. Seyonne’s bitterness, his fear, his despair and ultimately the
good stuff that comes as the narrative unfolds, is all-too vivid.
Through Seyonne’s eyes, we see both the Prince and Seyonne mature
and change, a friendship ultimately burgeoning under the most
unlikeliest of circumstances. And it is these transformations of soul
and beautifully constructed character development that make this
novel so memorable. The author’s skill is undeniable, the flaws are
few (considering this was her debut novel) and the world she has
constructed, with its race of demon-fighters and subtle dangerous
magics, is both believable and fantastic.
While this novel is actually followed by two more novels, Restoration
($18.95) and Revelation ($19.95), it can be read as a single novel, and
is worthy of a place on any fantasy reader’s shelf. - Jo
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Nexus #177
STEVEN BRUST
THE PATHS OF THE DEAD
Viscount
of
Adrilankha #1. 200 years
after Adron’s Disaster,
the descendants and
successors of the great
adventurers Khaavren,
Pel,
Aerich,
and
Tazendra are growing
up in this seemingly
diminished
world,
convinced, like their
elders, that the age of adventures is over
and nothing interesting will ever happen
to them. They are, of course, wrong... For
even deprived of magic, Dragaerans fight,
plot and conspire as they breathe, and so do
their still-powerful gods. The enemies of
the Empire prowl at its edges, inscrutable
doings are up at Dzur Mountain... and,
unexpectedly, a surviving Phoenix Heir,
young Zerika, is discovered-setting off a
chain of swashbuckling events that will
remake the world yet again. Hb $69.95 399pp
ORSON SCOTT CARD & KEITH OLEXA (EDS)
EMPIRE OF DREAMS AND
MIRACLES
Phobos Books, a new imprint devoted to
quality science fiction, launches its publishing
program with this collection of 12 short
stories. These stories were selected by a jury
of SF luminaries including Orson Scott Card,
internationally renowned physicist Lawrence
Krauss, Star Wars: Episode I-II design director
Doug Chiang, The Matrix Executive
Producer Andrew Mason, Sci Fi Channel
Senior VP Thomas Vitale and former Marvel
Comics Editor Jim Shooter. Tp $42.00 262pp
MARK CHADBOURN
THE DEVIL IN GREEN
The Dark Age
#1. Humanity has
emerged, blinking,
from the Age of
Misrule into a
world substantially
changed: cities lie
devastated,
communications
are limited and
anarchy
rages
across the land.
The Tuatha De
Danaan roam the
land once more, their terrible powers
dwarfing anything mortals have to offer and
in their wake come all the creatures of myth
and legend, no longer confined to the
shadows. Fighting to find their place in this
new world, the last remnants of the Christian
Church call for a group of heroes: a new
Knights Templar to guard the priesthood as
they set out on their quest for souls. But as
everything begin to fall apart, the Knights
begin to realise their only hope is to call on
the pagan gods of Celtic myth for help… Tp
$29.95 358pp
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JACK CHALKER
MELCHIOR’S FIRE
Tales of Three Kings #2. For centuries,
interstellar prospectors had searched for the
fabled worlds of the Three Kings, but none
had succeeded. Only the mad cyborg prophet,
Ishmael Hand, had ever seen the mysterious
system, and he had refused to reveal its
location before vanishing forever into
history. Then Doctor Karl Woodward, a
starfaring evangelist, found it, only to
disappear in turn. Now a new group of
explorers must follow the trail that
Woodward blazed. A salvage team,
desperately in debt after a violent alien
menace ruins a lucrative assignment and
decimates the group, is hired to follow the
clues Woodward left behind, but the team’s
shady creditors won’t want to wait... and they
won’t much care how they get their
investments back. Pb $21.95 295pp
MARTIN CHATTERTON
BAD DOG AND THOSE CRAZEE
MARTIANS!
He’s the baddest dog in town. A 100%, highsteppin’, bone-crunchin’, cat-chasin’ pooch
with plenty to look forward to. One small
problemo: after escaping from the City
Pound for Unwanted Canines and then
getting slung right back, he’s in deep, deep
doo-doo with a spot on Death Row staring
him in the face. Unless a Big Cheese from the
Outer Space Exploration Agency just happens
to need a supersonic spacehound to become
the very first mutt on Mars! If Bad Dog can
scrape through basic training, master space
walkies and prove he’s got what it takes to
be the best weightless woofer in the
cosmiverse, he might just be in with a chance!
Pb $9.95 186pp
DEBORAH CHESTER
THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT
The throne was her destiny - until
Princess Pheresa lost her groom, Mandria’s
heir, to the dark magic. Now her fate is
uncertain, her enemies are strong and her
only ally is the last man she would ever
choose- and the one man she should never
love. Pb $22.95 460pp
JAMES CLEMENS
WIT’CH STAR
Banned and the Banished #5. The three
deadly Weirgates have been destroyed, but
the threat of the Dark Lord remains and so
Elena and her companions have gone their
separate ways to prepare for what is yet to
come. Elena herself has journeyed to the
beautiful city of A’loa Glen, there to recover
her strength and spirit. Enter Harlequin Quail,
fresh from the foul fortress of Blackhall itself,
where the Dark Lord dwells. There he
uncovered things that spell certain doom –
for a final Weirgate remains, the most potent
one of all. And with it, in just one moon’s
time, the Dark Lord will avenge his earlier
defeat, destroying the heart of the land and
ushering in a reign of evil without end. Hb
$66.95 526pp
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STEPHEN COONTS
SAUCER
When Rip Cantrell, a seismic survey
worker in the Sahara, spots a glint of
reflected light in the distance, he investigates
- and finds a piece of metal apparently
entombed in the sandstone. Before long, Rip
and his colleagues uncover a flying saucer
that has been resting there for 140,000 years.
Their discovery doesn’t remain a secret for
long. The US Air Force sends a UFO
investigation team, which arrives just
minutes before a team sent by an Australian
billionaire to steal the saucer’s secrets. Before
either side can outwit the other, the Libyan
military arrives. Meanwhile, Rip has been
checking out the saucer. With the help of exAir Force test pilot Charley Pine, Rip flies the
saucer away, embarking on a fantastic
journey into space and around the world,
keeping just ahead of those who want the
saucer for themselves. Pb $18.95 340pp
GAIL CREASE
POSEIDON’S KISS
Chelsea Porter never believed the
old family legend about her great-greatgrandmother’s miraculous escape from
drowning. Then she met the gorgeous and
mysterious Nicolas Demitry - a man haunted
by a promise made long ago... and the love
he feels for a mortal woman. Pb $17.95 293pp
MICHAEL CRICHTON
PREY
Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos
Corporation has built a state-of-the-art
fabrication plant, surrounded by nothing but
cactus and coyotes for miles and miles. Inside,
eight people are trapped - because outside,
waiting for them, looking for them, is a
predatory swarm of micro-particles that they
themselves created. The swarm is getting
bigger and more powerful by the hour and
they must find a way to stop it before it gets
inside - unless it’s already too late. Tp $29.95
368pp
JACK DANN & GARDINER DOZOIS (EDS)
BEYOND FLESH
These cutting-edge techno-tales by
Poul Anderson, Greg Egan, Michael
Swanwick and other masters explore the
infinite ways that new technology will free
humankind from the boundaries of the flesh.
Pb $19.50 260pp
CHARLES DE LINT
TAPPING THE DREAM TREE
The city of Newford could be any
contemporary North American city... except
that magic lurks in its music, in its art, in the
shadows of its grittiest streets, where mythic
beings walk disguised. In this latest volume,
we meet a bluesman hiding from the devil, a
Buffalo Man at the edge of death, a
murderous ghost looking for revenge, a
wolf man on his first blind date and many
more. We’re reunited with Jilly, Geordie,
Sophie, the Crow Girls and other characters
whose lives have become part of the great
Newford myth. Hb $69.95 541pp
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CECILIA DART-THORNTON
THE ILL-MADE MUTE
Bitterbynde #1. In a world where creatures of legend haunt the lands
of men and to be caught outside after dark means almost certain
death, the inhabitants of Isse Tower are amazed when a mute, starving
youth is discovered outside their gates. With no recollection of either
name or past, the foundling eventually discovers that the only hope
of happiness lies with a wise woman who dwells near distant
Caermelor. To get there, the youth – who has been given the name
“Imrhien” - must survive a wilderness of endless danger. Lost and
pursued by unhuman wights, Imrhien is saved by Thorn, a warriorranger of the elite Dainnan brotherhood. They journey on, but for
reasons unknown, a dark force is summoning the Unseelie and
malignant hordes to amass in the night. Pb $18.95 623pp Loads of
unexpected twists and turns, plenty of suspense and an unforgettable heroine make this a mustread for fans of celtic myth and romance. - Jo
JUDE DEVERAUX
FOREVER…
Darci Monroe overcame a
childhood of neglect with an ebullient spirit,
a positive attitude and extraordinary
determination. Now the resourceful young
woman, hired as Adam Montgomery’s
personal assistant, devotes more than just
professional attention to this devastatingly
handsome millionaire. But one thing bars
Adam from accepting Darci’s love - he is
intent on discovering the secret of his
parents’ disappearance, for she possesses the
otherworldly abilities needed to help him
fight a terrifying mistress of the dark arts.
What Darci ends up offering is a gift greater
than Adam ever hoped for, for Darci loves
with all her heart and all her soul, forever...
Pb $16.95 356pp
CAMERON DOKEY
THE STORYTELLER’S DAUGHTER
A cursed king resolves to take a bride
for one night only. In the morning she will
face a horrible fate. Then he will choose
another. Nothing can change his course, until
one brave woman steps forwward.
Shahrazad, the Storyteller’s Daughter.
Steeped in the ancient art of her mother’s
people, Shahrazad embarks upon a perilous
course. With words alone, she will seek to
restore the king’s heart. As she tells her tales
a bond forms between them that neither can
deny. But will it be strong enough to hold
them together when unexpected danger
erupts? Pb $12.95 221pp
DAVID DRAKE & KARL EDWARD WAGNER
KILLER
Lycon was the greatest of the beast
hunters who fed the bloody maw of Rome’s
Coliseum. How was he to know that the beast
he hunted this time came from a star whose
light had not yet reached Earth? The beast’s
ferocity had been obvious from the first, but
when it escaped and Lycon followed its track
of slaughter from the grimiest tenements of
Rome to the heights of Imperial splendour,
he realised two things more: the creature
wanted his life as badly as he wanted its; and
the creature was just as intelligent as he was.
Pb $19.95 270pp
SARA DOUGLASS
HADES’ DAUGHTER
The Troy Game #1. After the Trojan wars,
Brutus and his people wandered homeless
for many years. So when the Goddess
Artemis offers him a future, he does not
hesitate to take it. Brutus is the last of the
Kingmen, one of the few who, with the
Mistress of the Labyrinth, can play the Troy
Game. His arrival with his fellow Trojans in
Llangarlia (south-east Britain) is part of a
larger plan he can barely sense. Genvissa,
Llangarlian High Priestess, and Asterion the
Minotaur are manipulating events and each
has their own agenda. As a new city is
founded, The Troy Game comes into its own.
Once the Game is joined, the future will be a
battleground born of legend and myth and
the dark heart of the labyrinth may be more
than anyone, even Brutus, has bargained for.
Hb $45.00 621pp
NANCY ETCHMENDY
POWER OF UN
Until a week ago, Gib Finney was just a
regular guy, but when he finds a mysterious
device called the Unner, everything changes.
The Unner has the power to erase any and all
mistakes. Gib thinks this is better than winning
the lottery, but after a terrible accident, Gib
must decide which events of the previous day
he must undo to stop the disaster from
happening the second and third time around.
He soon learns that some things are more
worthy of unning than others and some things
can’t be changed at all. Pb $9.95 148pp
JEAN FERRIS
ONCE UPON A MARIGOLD
Who knew love could be so amazing and stupefying? Not Christian. He was clueless
when he started spying on the royal family
through his telescope. He lives in a cave with a
troll for a dad, after all. If his dad had only
warned him about all that mind-boggling love
stuff, maybe things wouldn’t be such a mess.
But then, maybe, Princess Marigold would be
dead. But Christian wasn’t warned. And now
that he’s fallen for the princess, it’s up to him
to untwist an odd love triangle - er, rectangle –
and foil a scheming queen who wants to take
over the kingdom, even if it means bumping
off her own daughter. Hb $45.00 266pp
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SANDRA FORRESTER
EVERYDAY WITCH
Beatrice Bailey is tall, skinny, and about
to turn 12-years-old, at which time she will
get her official classification as a witch. But
will she be named an ordinary Everyday
Witch or a specially empowered Classical
Witch? When the big day arrives, the Witches
Executive Committee can’t decide how to
classify her. At last, they agree that her
Maximum Magic Level must be tested, and to
pass the test she must break a spell that has
been cast by the evil sorcerer, Dally Rumpe.
Pb $12.95 185pp
ALAN DEAN FOSTER
THE HAND OF DINOTOPIA
Dinotopia 2. Will is a skybax rider, one
of the elite couriers of Dinotopia. Protected
for centuries by raging currents that wreck
any ship that comes too close to its shores,
this strange land is cut off from the outside
world. When headstrong Sylvia disappears
in search of the legendary Hand of
Dinotopia, a landmark that points toward
clear sea passage to and from the island, Will
follows her, accompanied by his four-footed
Protoceratops companion, Chaz. Their quest
for the Hand takes them to a startling
destination where they’re met with a choice
as unexpected as the journey. Pb $22.95
409pp
NEIL GAIMAN
TWO PLAYS FOR VOICES
Produced by the Sci-Fi Channel and
Seeing Ear Theatre - these two plays are
adapted for voice by Neil Gaiman from two
of his short stories (both stories can be found
in Smoke and Mirrors). Snow Glass Apples:
Once upon a time there lived a young
princess with skin as white as snow, with
hair as black as coal, with lips redder than
blood. Most people think they know what
happens to this young unfortunate girl. Most
people are wrong. Murder Mysteries: In this
mystery noir set in heaven’s City of Angels
before the fall, the first crime has been
committed. It is an awful one. While the
angelic hosts labour to create the world and
its workings, one of their number is
mysteriously slain by one of their own.
Raguel, Angel of Vengeance, is mandated
by Lucifer to discover both motive and
murderer in this holy dominion that had so
recently known no sin. $24.95 AC
LEO FRANKOWSKI
CONRAD’S TIME MACHINE
A prequel to the Adventures of Conrad
Stargard. Three ex-college roommates find a
strange perfectly hemispherical hole in the
ground where a house used to be, with
everything that had been in the sphere of
influence slowly materialising in bits and
pieces in the surrounding area. When they
find the plans for the machine that did this.,
they are sure they can duplicate it and get
rich. Before long they wish they had kept on
being the three musketeers on bikes, instead
of the three stooges of time travel... Hb
$64.95 343pp
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IAN GRAHAM
MONUMENT
Ballas is a drunk and a vagrant. In his
eyes there is only greed and in his heart only
bitterness. Such a man is not suited to legend.
He is fit only for an unmarked grave. And
there are people who seek to hasten his
journey there. When a young priest saves
him from a beating in the street, Ballas does
not know how to react to such an act of
kindness. But he soon finds a way to pay
him back - he steals from him. What Ballas
chooses to take can easily be hidden under a
cloak, but it is no trinket to be sold in the
market for a bowl of soup. It is known as the
monument and the power it contains will
bring a god of chaos and destruction into
the world. Now Ballas has that power. Hb
$29.95 373pp
SIMON GREEN
DEATHSTALKER LEGACY
A Deathstalker novel. It has been 200
years since Owen Deathstalker fell, dying to
save the Empire and all Humanity. Now it is
a Golden Age for all: for men, for aliens and
for the AIs of Shub. But one evil man is
determined to bring it all crashing down and
now the Terror has finally arrived,
threatening them all with extinction. It’s time
for the latest Deathstalker, Lewis, to do his
bit. Unfortunately, he and his companions, a
diva, a conman, a homicidal psychopath and
a reptiloid called Saturday, have all been
outlawed and declared traitors. Unless Lewis
can get to the Madness Maze and tread the
same dangerous path to glory that his
ancestor did, the Golden Age is about to be
wiped out forever. Together with
Humanity... Hb $49.95 409pp
MARTIN GREENBERG &
BRITTANY KOREN (EDS)
PHARAOH FANTASTIC
From the biblical Ten Commandments
to the latest Stargate and Mummy films, the
world of Ancient Egypt continues to mystify,
enthrall and fire the imagination. These
original new stories cross the shifting sands
of time to dig up the truth about Moses’
visions, the magic of mummification and the
power of animal-gods that still prowl the
desert of our dreams. Pb $19.95 320pp
MARTIN GREENBERG & MARK TIER (EDS)
GIVE ME LIBERTY
Liberty is a recurring theme in science
fiction. Here’s a volume of explorations of
this theme, some even arguing that freedom
can be best served by doing away with
government entirely. A variety of science
fiction writers consider how a governmentfree society could operate, how the Soviet
Union might have fallen apart even earlier
because of an apparently harmless device,
how a low-tech society might throw off the
influence of more advanced intruders and
more. Contributors include Lloyd Biggle,
Christopher Anvil, Vernor Vinge, Murray
Leinster, A E van Vogt, Frank Herbert and
Eric Frank Russell. Pb $22.95 386pp
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AXEL HACKE
LITTLE KING DECEMBER
Little
King
December comes from
a place where, the day
you are born, you
wake up fully-grown
and clothed. But every
day you get a bit
smaller and you forget
a bit more, so at the end
you are tiny and spend
your days forgetting things, eating jelly bears
and chasing shadows in the garden. Hb
$24.95 58pp
JOE HALDEMAN
GUARDIAN
Rosa Coleman has not had an easy life.
Uprooted from her Southern home during
the Civil War, she settled in Philadelphia and
eventually she married a man of leisure,
whose compassion quickly turned to cruelty.
When that cruelty was inflicted upon their
son Daniel, she picked up and fled with the
boy across the uncivilised Western frontier—
and into Alaska to start anew among the
region’s gold fields. But even the harsh
journey across America has not prepared
Rosa for the infinite possibilities that await
her. Something not of this world has
approached her. It has revealed the
universe’s secrets to her. And it will take her
on an extraordinary odyssey as she discovers
that she has a role to play in bringing peace
to Earth… Hb $61.95 231pp
PETER HAMILTON
MISSPENT YOUTH
It is 40 years into the future and,
following decades of research and trillions
of Euros spent on genetics, Europe is finally
in a position to rejuvenate a human being.
The first subject for treatment is chosen -Jeff
Baker, the father of the datasphere (which
replaced the internet) and philanthropist
extraordinaire. After 18 months in a German
medical facility, the 78-year-old patient
returns home looking like a healthy 20-yearold. This novel follows the effect Jeff’s
reappearance has on his family and friends,
his young ex-model wife Sue, his teenage
son Tim and also on his long-term pals who
are now themselves all pensioners and
starting to resent what Jeff has become. Tp
$30.00 358pp
M JOHN HARRISON
LIGHT
Beneath the unbearable light of the
Kefahuchi Tract - a huge, fulminating ocean
of radiant energy deep in the galaxy - three
objects lie on the barren surface of an
asteroid: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of
what look like bone dice and a human
skeleton. What are they, and what do they
mean? Tp $29.95 320pp
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January/February 2003
SIMON HAWKE
THE SLAYING OF THE SHREW
Will Shakespeare, Symington ‘Tuck’
Smythe, and their band of thespians are
contracted to provide entertainment at a rural
estate as part of a large wedding pageant.
When the headstrong bride turns up dead
and overheard conversations contain
conspiratorial plots against the families
involved, Will and Tuck must once again pull
double duty as thespians and sleuths to solve
the case of The Slaying of the Shrew. Pb $15.95
251pp
ELIZABETH HAYDON
DESTINY
Child of Earth
#3. Rhapsody and
Achmed seek out
the offspring of the
F’dor, hoping to use
them to hunt it
down,
while
Grunthor prepares
the Bolglands for
war. But as they
near the completion
of their quest, their
world crosses the
threshold
of
disaster and faces utter oblivion. Pb $17.95
558pp
REQUIEM FOR THE SUN
Child of Earth #4. It has been three years
since their devastating battle and peace has
settled across their land, but to the south an
empire lies ready to crumble. When the
Dowager Empress dies, along with her
successor, the dark clouds of war loom on
the horizon. And an old nemesis of
Rhapsody’s, presumed dead for centuries,
resurfaces, forcing her to choose between
facing his depravity or sacrificing her own
life... and that of her unborn child. Tp $29.95
436pp
SANDRA HILL
DESPERADO
Major Helen Prescott has always
played by the rules. At the military academy
years before, Rafe Santiagos teasing had
made her miserable, and, with his irresistible
good looks, he is the man responsible for her
one momentary lapse of self-control. So
when a stint in the National Guard brings
him under her command, Helen lays down
the law. But then a routine skydive goes awry
and they parachute straight into the 1850
California Gold Rush, where they are
mistaken for a notorious bandit and his
infamously sensuous mistress. Pb $16.95
391pp
CHARLES INGRID
MARKED MAN OMNIBUS
This two-book series tells the story
of an Earth divided by genetics. Some are
determined to return the human race to its
original form, but others believe the world
belongs to those who have been genetically
engineered. Pb $19.95 542pp
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GRAHAM JOYCE
KEN MACLEOD
THE FACTS OF LIFE
THE ALIEN FACTOR
DARK LIGHT
Presided over by an indomitable
The year is 1942. The German war
Engines of Light #2. The Second Sphere
matriarch, seven sisters live out a tangled
machine rolls across Europe, crushing
is thousands of light years away from Earth
and fraught life that takes them through the
everything in its path. Realising what might
- if Earth still exists. For Matt Cairns and the
blitz, war work, into the hopeful postwar
happen should the Nazis master newlycosmonauts of the Bright Star, this distant
years and a bizarre interlude for one of them
discovered alien technology, the Allies send
corner of the galaxy is their new home, but
in a commune. And through it all wanders
in a suicide squad - a group snidely referred
the Second Sphere is also home to other
the young son of one of the sisters, passed
to as “Logan’s Losers” - to rescue the aliens
civilisations, lifted from their worlds by a race
from sister to sister, the innocent witness to
and their secrets... or destroy them. The
of god-like aliens. On Croatan, two of these
a life that edges over into the magical and
mission is further complicated when Russia
civilisations live a precarious co-existence,
the world of the fey. Hb $39.95 263pp
learns of the aliens and sends its own agent
separated by eons of technological advance.
into the heart of Germany. Pb $14.95 284pp
The arrival of the Bright Star is an event that
NAOMI KRITZER
may trigger disaster, for this is the first
TURNING THE STORM
ANNE MCCAFFREY &
human-crewed starship to arrive at the
ELIZABETH SCARBOROUGH
Eliana #2. After months of leading an
ancient colony. Pb $19.95 368pp
uprising against the treacherous religious
ACORNA’S SEARCH
order of the Fedeli and the ruling Circle of
Mages, young Eliana is known throughout
the land. Striking from the blighted
wastelands, her army of reformers has
grown in number - adding liberated slaves
to its ranks. Driven by their beliefs in the Old
Way, Eliana and the soldiers of the Lupi stand
on faith alone. But faith won’t save the Lupi
from traitors in their midst or from the
magical fires of the mages. Seeing her
soldiers reduced to ashes around her, Eliana
takes a desperate gamble - she steps down
from command. Then, armed with stolen
orders to attend one of the musical
ensembles within the Imperial enclave, she
disguises herself as a boy, takes up her violin
and heads straight into enemy territory. Pb
$19.95 369pp
KATHERINE KURTZ (ED)
CRUSADE OF FIRE: MYSTICAL TALES
OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
From the days of Saladin to Richard the
Lionhearted, Ivanhoe to Robert the Bruce,
WWI’s Lord Kitchener to the star-faring
Kelts, the Knights Templar continue their
heroic, never-ending crusade to defend
humanity from the Darkness. Pb $17.95
286pp
MERCEDES LACKEY, JOHN HELFERS &
DENISE LITTLE
THE VALDEMAR COMPANION
This authorised guide to everything
Valdemar includes a new novella and an essay
by Lackey herself, plus an interview with
the author. Also includes detailed summaries
of all the novels, a complete overview of
Valdemar’s history, the various races,
kingdoms and characters of Valdemar, the
importance of magic in Valdemar, the roles
of Heralds and Companions, the songs of
Valdemar, Valdemar maps and artwork,
and Valdemar fan clubs. Tp $39.95 497pp
URSULA LE GUIN
TALES FROM EARTHSEA
These five stories range from a few
hundred years before A Wizard Of Earthsea
to just before The Other Wind, and feature
some of the author’s most popular
characters, including the Wizard Ged himself.
The stories are rounded off with an essay
about Earthsea’s history and people. Hb
$29.95 296pp
Acorna #5. Acorna’s people, the Linyaari,
have survived an attack from a mortal enemy,
but their planet, naarhi-Vhiliinyar and their
original homeworld, Vhiliinyar, have been
ravaged. Now, they are determined to
restore both. But as their work begins,
Linyaari begin disappearing, including
Acorna’s lifemate, Aari. Searching for him,
Acorna discovers the remains of a
subterranean world that belonged to the
Friends, an advanced society that populated
Vhiliinyar long ago. What happened to the
Friends? Acorna knows that to save Aari, she
must find the answers - a quest that will take
her back into deep space to uncover the
origins of her people. Pb $21.95 324pp
SEAN MCMULLEN
SOULS IN THE GREAT
MACHINE
Great Winter #1. In a glittering, dynamic and
exotic world two millennia from now, there
is no more electricity, wind engines are
leading-edge technology, librarians fight
duels to settle disputes, steam power is
banned by every major religion and a
mysterious siren “call” lures people to their
death. Nevertheless, the brilliant and ruthless
Zarvora intends to start a war in space against
inconceivably ancient nuclear battle stations.
Unbeknownst to Zarvora, however, the
greatest threat to humanity is neither a
machine nor a force, but her demented and
implacable enemy Lemorel, who has
resurrected an obscene and evil concept from
the distant past: Total War. Pb $22.95 597pp
VOYAGE OF THE SHADOWMOON
The Shadowmoon is a small, unobtrusive
wooden schooner whose passengers and crew
are much more than they seem: Ferran, the
Shadowmoon’s captain who dreams of power;
Roval, the warrior-sorcerer; Velander and Terikel,
priestesses of a nearly extinct sect; and the
chivalrous vampire Laron, who has been trapped
in a 14-year-old body for 700 years. They sail the
coast, gathering useful information, passing as
simple traders. When they witness the awful
power of Silverdeath, a doomsday weapon of
awesome destructiveness, they realise they must
act. But every single king, emperor and despot
covets Silverdeath’s power. It will take all of their
wits and more than a little luck if they hope to
prevent one of these power-hungry fools from
destroying the world. Hb $70.00 496pp
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LOUISE MARLEY
MAQUISARDE
In the final few years of the 21st
century, life in Paris is quiet for Ebriel Serique
and her family. They live protected by the
glass walls of their skyscraper apartment,
safe from the poverty-stricken countries just
over the Line of Partition, until one day, her
husband and daughter are murdered by
terrorists who claim their yacht had crossed
the Line. Driven by grief and justice, Ebriel
ventures beyond the confines of her
charmed life to confront the truth about the
way the world is run. And while she never
would have suspected it, Ebriel discovers that
she has the courage for anything- even
violence. Hb $65.00 386pp
ELIZABETH MOON
HERIS SERRANO OMNIBUS
Includes Hunting Party, Sporting
Chance and Winning Colours. Heris Serrano
was an officer from a family with a long
tradition of distinguished service in the Fleet.
So when a treacherous superior set her up
and forced her to resign her commission, she
thought life had lost all meaning. But she still
needed to pay the bills, which is how she
becomes Captain of a rich old lady’s
interstellar luxury yacht. When the pair run
into a secret society whose idea of fun was
hunting and killing people, they quickly put a
stop to that. But that was only the beginning.
The heir to the throne himself was involved
with the society and Heris soon uncovers a
plot against the royal family and a conspiracy
within the Fleet itself. Tp $49.95 1041pp
PAT MURPHY
ADVENTURES IN TIME AND
SPACE WITH MAX MERRIWELL
Each year, Max Merriwell writes three novels:
a science fiction novel under his own name, a
fantasy novel under the pseudonym Mary
Maxwell and a mystery novel under the
pseudonym Weldon Merrimax. The trouble
begins when Max receives a threatening note
that appears to come from Weldon Merrimax,
Max’s own pseudonym. Wolves are heard
howling in the night, the ship’s passengers
are seized with a dancing mania and monsters
lurk in the ship’s corridors. An eyewitness
reports a murder - but the victim of the crime
is not on the passenger list and the body is
nowhere to be found. Pb $22.95 295pp
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Nexus #177
RECOMMENDED
READING
RICHARD MORGAN
ALTERED CARBON
When ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness
and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug
and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn’t be surprised.
Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body,
Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across
known space to the very top of society. Pb $17.95 534pp. This is an
excellent debut cyberpunk/crime novel loaded with sex, violence, plenty of
cool tech and enough nifty ideas to fill several novels. - Jo
REBECCA NEASON
THE TRUEST POWER
While Baron Giraldus and his lady, the
sorceress Aurya, are held safely in the Realm
of the Cryf where her magic is rendered
harmless, Lysandra and her companions
along with Selia, the next true ruler of
Aghamore have returned Ballinrigh. Having
found Selia, they now must discover the
means to put her on the throne. The
gathering forces of the baron each want the
crown for themselves and one baron has
entered into a conspiracy with Aghamore’s
ancient enemy. With the armies of the
provinces closing in and an invasion force
descending from the north, finding the final
secret of the scroll has become even more
vital. It is only by discovering the truest
power that Selia will be crowned before all
of Aghamore is destroyed. Pb $19.95 462pp
DOUGLAS NILES
WORLD FALL
Seven Circles #2. In the realm of Seven
Circles, all creatures have lived in harmony
within their own spheres - until the face of
evil forces a druid princess to defend the
peace... with an army. Pb $21.95 359pp
ANDRE NORTON
JANUS OMNIBUS
Includes Judgement on Janus and
Victory on Janus. Impoverished and without
hope, Naill Renfro sells himself into
indentured servitude and is transported
across the galaxy to the far-off jungle world
of Janus., where he hopes to work off his
debt and begin his life again. But the harsh
masters of Janus are destroying the priceless
treasures of the planet’s ancient culture - and
when Naill, entranced by the beauty of an
alien artifact, is caught trying to hide it, he is
exiled and left to die in the jungle. But Naill
inexplicably begins to remember another life,
in another time - a time when he was not
human, but something else-, a native of this
world, in the days before its civilisation fell.
And he is not the only one. Embarking on a
quest to find his alien heritage, Naill will
discover the mysterious source of his strange
new memory and the fate of the others of
his kind. And when he does, he will defend
his newfound people against the human and
alien invaders despoiling their world. Tp
$42.00 387pp
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STOBIE PIEL
LORD OF THE DARK SUN
Ariana awakens a captive. Her ship has
been disabled, her are friends hurt and she is
to blame. She cajoled them into braving the
outskirts of space and now they are to be
transported to a non-Intersystem planet
where they will be slaves. The world is bleak
and shadowy, as are its inhabitants and
though these men are slaves as well, that
hardly makes them less dangerous. Yet one
rises above the others and Ariana sees in him
nobility. This is a prince in a barbarian’s body,
one who can teach her how to be wild. On
this planet with its dark sun, Ariana knows
he will help her survive and she will show
him a love that will last through whatever
follows. Pb $16.95 358pp
TAMORA PIERCE
LADY KNIGHT
Protector of the Small #4. Kel has finally
passed all the tests to become a knight - but
once again feels she is being denied her right
as a warrior. But Kel’s courage and ability
are not to be wasted - for the invaders are
coming. Pb $14.95 406pp
KIMBERLY RAYE
A STRANGER’S DESIRE
Slain long before in a moment of
despair, Cain was collected by the Evil One
and forced into servitude. He became a
demon with one purpose: to stalk the night,
stripping away women’s fears and tasting
their desire. In their moment of ecstasy, he
takes their souls. He’s done so a thousand
times and felt nothing. But when he slips into
Sophie Alexander’s dreams, she evades his
pursuit. In her kiss, there is sweet redemption.
Love is no longer the trap he’d believed it to
be and his lust is no longer a weapon but a
tool. With it he will break his bonds, and
together he and Sophie will overcome the
evil that imprisons them and create a whole
new world. Pb $16.95 311pp
KATHERINE ROBERTS
THE CRYSTAL MASK
Echorium #2. In a world where the
slightest whisper can bring down an
avalanche, black crystal is destroying the
Second Singer’s power. It’s a race against time
and their own fears, if Renn, the novice
Singer and Shaiala with her raw physical
strength are to conquer the evil power that
has enslaved Half Creatures and Two-Hoof
children - a power that can bend minds and
steal memory. Pb $15.95 255pp
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January/February 2003
R GARCIA Y ROBERTSON
KNIGHT ERRANT
Travelling and hiking in England
near the Welsh border, Robyn Stafford
encounters a young man on horseback,
wearing a sword, chain mail and a surcoat,
who identifies himself as Edward
Plantagenet, Earl of March. He is amazed by
her working cell phone and invites her to
ride along. Then his pursuers show up, and
Edward and Robyn ride madly across the
hills until he drops her off and gallops back
to face his enemies. After he fights them off,
he returns and invites her to come with him
and be his lady. Then he rides away, into the
distant past, to the age of the War of the
Roses. And so Robyn Stafford must find a
way to leave the world of today for the
fifteenth century, where she will fall in love
with a young knight, a prince who will be
king. Pb $21.95 539pp
JUSTINA ROBSON
MAPPA MUNDI
In the near future, when medical
nanotechnology has made it possible to map
a model of the living human brain, radical
psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her
work suddenly become crucial to a cuttingedge military project for creating
comprehensive mind-control. Meanwhile, on
the other side of the Atlantic, Jude
Westhorpe, FBI specialist, is tracking a cold
war defector long involved in everything
from gene sequencing to mind-mapping. But
his investigation has begun to affect matters
of national security - throwing Jude and
Natalie together as partners in trouble. Deep
trouble from every direction. Pb $18.95
628pp
CHRISTOPHER ROWLEY
DOOM’S BREAK
Arna #3. As the battle continues, Thru
Gillo has ever-harder work cut out for him.
For one, the land wars have moved to sea.
For another, the hero will have to choose
from the three females who lay claim to his
heart. But first he’ll have to survive the ironfisted clutch of Man the Cruel... Pb $21.95
441pp
FRED SABERHAGEN
GOD OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE
Book of the Gods #4. When Proteus crawls
from the sea, all he can put together from his
shattered memory is that he was sent to aid
Jason and the Argonauts on their perilous
mission. As he joins them on their quest,
Proteus soon discovers that he is not like the
other members of the crew. And there seems
to be a dark side to his past that he can’t
remember - for a number of enemies sent
by Jason’s archnemesis, King Pelias, seem to
recognise Proteus as being one of them. As
Proteus struggles to discover the truth about
his past, he and the Argonauts embark on a
series of phenomenal adventures. Pb $18.95
363pp
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SEAN RUSSELL
THE ISLE OF BATTLE
The Swan’s War #2. In The One Kingdom, a group of young traders
embarked on a quest to make their fortune. Journeying along the
River Wynnd with a cargo of ancient artefacts, they soon
discovered the world to be a far more complex place than they
could ever have imagined. Now the companions find themselves
at the centre of an ancient and bitter feud, fighting for their lives...
Alaan is trapped in the Stillwater - an eerie, fog-bound place hidden
from the sun and shrouded in mystery. Tam and his friends must
find him before it is too late, as he is wounded and close to death,
and his enemies, if they reach him first, will show no mercy. Hb
$35.00 464pp While the narrative jumps from character to character
with pretty much each chapter, and there are soooo many threads, the
pace doesn’t slacken for a moment. All in all, an excellent instalment in
what is shaping up to be one of the best fantasy series around at the
moment. - Jo
AL SARRANTONIO
REDSHIFT: EXTREME VISIONS
OF SPECULATIVE FICTION
This anthology presents 30 stories from some
of the masters of speculative fiction heralding
the future of the genre. All-new, original
stories by Ursula Le Guin, Gregory Benford,
Joe Haldeman, Joyce Carol Oates and many
others. Pb $22.95 665pp
RICK SHELLEY
SUCKER PUNCH
Special Ops Squad #3. Still reeling from
their last mission, Sergeant Bart “Dragon”
Drak and his regiment must establish a
military outpost on the planet Unity before
a suspected Federation invasion. Pb $19.95
268pp
DAVID SHERMAN
KINGDOM’S FURY
Starfist #8. The truth is out. No longer
are the Skinks just a horrible secret haunting
the Marines of Company L. Now the aliens
are all-too-real invaders whose savage
attacks have devastated planet Kingdom,
where the men of the 34th FIST confront a
desperate situation. Cities that haven’t
already been reduced to rubble are under
siege, while starving refugees roam the land.
It’s painfully evident that they are no match
for these near-invincible killers, which is why
they’ve been ordered to whip the citizens of
Kingdom into fighting shape. With time
running out, there’s only one way the
Marines can turn these men into warriors:
Take the battle to the enemy. It’s a brilliant
strategy, sure to succeed - if it doesn’t get
them killed first... Pb $19.95 338pp
STEVEN SILVER & MARTIN GREENBERG (ED)
WONDEROUS BEGINNINGS
Every great writer has to begin
somewhere. Here in one volume, are the
debut stories from some of science fiction’s
best and brightest - with insightful new
introductions by the authors themselves.
These are stories that launched the careers
of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke, Anne
McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, L Sprague de
Camp, George R R Martin, Murray Leinster,
Hal Clement and more. Pb $18.95 316pp
DAN SIMMONS
WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME
Here are five masterworks of
speculative fiction, including Orphans of the
Helix, his award-winning return to the
Hyperion Universe. Human colonists
seeking something other than godhood
encounter their long-lost cousins... and an
ancient scourge. A devastated man in
suicide’s embrace is caught up in a bizarre
cat-and-mouse game with a young woman
possessing a world-ending power. The
distant descendants of a once-oppressed
people learn a chilling lesson about the
persistence of the past. A terrifying ascent
up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2
shatters preconceptions and reveals the true
natures of four climbers, one of whom is not
human. At the intersection of a grand past
and a threadbare present, an aging American
in Russia confronts his own mortality as he
glimpses a wondrous future. Tp $42.00 262pp
BRIAN STABLEFORD
THE OMEGA EXPEDITION
Emortality #6.
This is the life
history of Adam
Zimmerman,
developer of the
technology
of
emortality. The
main part of the
narrative describes
his long-delayed
awakening into the
35th century, a time
of true immortals.
His exotic hosts inhabitants of a microworld in the outer solar
system - have recruited various interested
parties to help with the resurrection project,
one of whom (inevitably) is the famous
historian of death, the immortal Mortimer
Gray, who is exceedingly anxious to gain
what insight he can into the vagaries of the
mortal mind. Hb $60.00 544pp
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MICHAEL STACKPOLE
WHEN DRAGONS RAGE
Dragon Crown War Cycle #2. As her
merciless armies sweep from the north, the
tyrant Chytrine pursues her quest to become
empress of the world in a brutal campaign
of unspeakable bloodshed and unholy
sorcery. While cities and kingdoms topple,
her agents, both living and dead, search for
fragments of the shattered Dragon Crown which, when reassembled, will make her
unstoppable. Opposing Chytrine is Alexia,
Princess of Okrannel. As she struggles to save
the life of Kedyn’s Crow, a mysterious
human warrior accused of treachery, she
gathers around her an alliance of unlikely
heroes, including Resolute, an exiled
Vorquelf, Kerrigan Reese, a mage and last
but not least, young Will, an orphan thief,
who may be the fulfilment of an ancient
prophecy - or its innocent victim. Tp $42.00
465pp
IAN STEWART & JACK COHEN
WHEELERS
23rd-century civilisation is recovering
from a decades-long anti-technology freeze
that has left the world underpopulated, the
Moon and asteroids controlled by a Tibetan
Zen Buddhist sect from a deep-space habitat
and interplanetary exploration in the hands
of a few eccentric outcasts. One such loner,
Prudence Odingo — returns to Earth to report
that she has recovered 100,00-year-old
wheeled artifacts, from under the ice of
Callisto, a moon of Jupiter. She is arrested,
and about to be convicted of criminal fraud
when the ‘wheelers’ abruptly come to life and several of Jupiter’s moons change their
orbits, ready to propel a vast planetdestroying comet towards Earth. Pb $17.95
498pp
S M STIRLING
THE PESHAWAR LANCERS
In the mid1870s, a violent spray
of comets hits Earth,
decimating cities,
erasing shorelines
and changing the
world’s
climate
forever. And just as
Earth’s temperature
dropped, so was
civilisation frozen in
time. Instead of
a d v a n c i n g
technologically,
humanity had to piece itself back together…
In the 21st century, boats still run on steam,
messages arrive by telegraph and the British
Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls
much of the world. The other major world
leader is the Czar of All the Russias.
Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly
showdown, but no one can predict the role
that one man, Captain Athelstane King,
reluctant spy and hero, will play… Pb $18.95
482pp
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Nexus #177
January/February 2003
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SUSAN ANG
THE MASTER OF THE RINGS: INSIDE
THE WORLD OF J R R TOLKIEN
The author takes a look at Tolkien himself,
where he came from, what influenced his
writing and what themes unite his major
works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the
Rings. There is also a detailed guide to
who’s who, what’s what and where’s where
of Middle-earth, and a unique look at the
historical background to these classic books.
Pb $16.95 176pp
IAN BRODIE
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
LOCATION GUIDEBOOK
This guidebook is for the army of fans who
are interested in seeing for themselves
where the movies were filmed. While all
the traditional guidebook elements are
included — maps, road directions,
accommodation and dining suggestions,
other local sights — the book also weaves
in strands of local history and Maori
mythology, with Elvish names, story
references and behind-the-scenes glimpses
from cast and crew. Pb $19.95 96pp
MICHAEL COREN
J R R TOLKIEN: THE MAN WHO
CREATED THE LORD OF THE RINGS
The author paints a warm view of Tolkien’s
unusual life story, describing his early
childhood in South Africa and the sad loss
of his parents. After arriving in England,
where he was conscripted in the First World
War, Tolkien became a notorious figure in
Oxford where he excelled in academia and
created the extraordinary works of fantasy
for which he is now world-famous. Aimed
at younger readers. Pb $22.00 136pp
DAVID DAY
THE HOBBIT COMPANION
This pocket-sized
companion delves
into the Hobbit
world, looking indepth at the tales’
main
individual
characters, such as
Bilbo and Frodo
Baggins and Gandalf
the Wizard, and
other folk who share
their lands, from Goblins and Dwarves, to
Trolls and Giants and the lands themselves,
including Tookland, Buckland, the town of
Hobbiton and the Shire. Hb $19.95 92pp
DANIEL GROTTA
J R R TOLKIEN:
ARCHITECT OF MIDDLE-EARTH
This account of the life and work of the
Oxford scholar and fantasist relates his
personal experiences to the events,
creatures and themes of his books. Tp $27.95
197pp
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PAUL KOCHER
MASTER OF MIDDLE-EARTH: THE
ACHIEVEMENT OF J R R TOLKIEN
In its blend of epic and fairy-tale, uncanny
atmosphere and moral force, The Lord of the
Rings trilogy is unique in modern English
literature. In this reference, the author
focuses on the series, but also considers
Tolkien’s fiction as a whole, showing the
relationship of the short prose and verse
narratives to the major work. In chapters
such as Sauron and the Nature of Evil, The
Free Peoples and Aragorn, he traces Tolkien’s
principal themes and preoccupations and
casts a brilliant light on the geography and
inhabitants of Middle-Earth. Tp $28.00 247pp
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
J R R Tolkien produced a vast amount of
material that expanded upon the mythology
and stories of Middle-Earth and which
gives added life to the 1,000-year war
between the Elves, the evil spirit Morgoth
and his terrifying lieutenant, Sauron. It was
to this task of literary construction that
Tolkien’s youngest son Christopher
applied himself to produce the series of 12
books, The Complete History of Middle-Earth.
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF
MIDDLE-EARTH: PART 1
This brings together the first five volumes
of The Complete History of Middle-Earth, The
Book of Lost Tales Parts 1 and 2, The Lays
of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-Earth
and The Lost Road. It features dozens of
rare maps and illustrations drawn by J R R
Tolkien. Hb $135.00 455pp
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF
MIDDLE-EARTH: PART 2
This edition brings together volumes six to
nine of The Complete History of Middle-Earth:
The Return of the Shadow, The Treason of
Isengard, The War of the Ring and Sauron
Defeated. Together these books give a
complete account of the writing of The Lord
of the Rings and provide the reader with
additional scenes, together with rare maps
and illustrations, which never made it into
the final book, including the epilogue in its
entirety. Hb $135.00 482pp
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF
MIDDLE-EARTH: PART 3
This edition brings together the final three
volumes of The Complete History of MiddleEarth: Morgoth’s Ring, The War of the
Jewels and The Peoples of Middle-Earth.
It features dozens of rare maps and
illustrations drawn by J R R Tolkien. Hb
$135.00 482pp
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF
MIDDLE-EARTH: BOXED SET
This very special collector’s edition brings
together all 12 books into three hardback
volumes – over 5,000 pages of fascinating
Tolkien material – and places them in one
matching box. Hb $399.95 1419pp
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J R R TOLKIEN
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
The Lord of the Rings #1. (16 discs) Read by
Rob Inglis. Unabridged. $120.00 CD
THE TWO TOWERS
The Lord of the Rings #2. (14 discs) Read by
Rob Inglis. Unabridged. $120.00 CD
THE RETURN OF THE KING
The Lord of the Rings #3. (16 discs) Read by
Rob Inglis. Unabridged. $120.00 CD
MICHAEL WHITE
TOLKIEN: A BIOGRAPHY
This biography recounts Tolkien’s early
childhood in South Africa, followed by his
family’s return to England after his banker
father’s death. The Tolkiens settled in the
highly industrialised city of Birmingham in
the 1890s, which was still surrounded by
breathtaking countryside. Thus the
industrialised heart of the Empire and the
sylvan idyll of the woods and hills became
important extremes for much of Tolkien’s
thinking and writing, leading up to that most
inspired moment when, as an Oxford don,
Tolkien was marking exam papers and
noticed his student had left a blank page in
the answer book. Suddenly he wrote: “In a
hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit”. In
typical Tolkien fashion, he was intrigued by
this and decided to find out more about
hobbits. The rest is history. Pb $22.95 292pp
MISCELLANY
THE BROTHERS HILDEBRANDT’S
LORD OF THE RINGS:
A POCKET COMPANION
An absolute must for Tolkien fans, this mini
contains 60 short profiles of characters and
places in the classic Lord of the Rings trilogy - a
virtual who’s who of Middle-earth. Profiles
are brought to life with images created by
Tim and Greg Hildebrandt, internationally
known artists who became famous for their
Tolkien illustrations in the 1970s. Hb $8.95
126pp
A HOBBIT’S TRAVELS:
TRAVEL SKETCHES OF SAM GAMGEE
A
parchment
journal featuring
Tolkien’s classic
tales illustrated
with
the
unpublished travel
sketches of Sam
Gamgee, with twocolour illustrations
throughout and
ample space to
record personal
thoughts
and
reflections
or
reading notes on the classic works of Tolkien.
Printed on deluxe recycled parchment paper.
Tp $11.95
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A HOBBIT’S JOURNAL
With magical two-colour illustrations
throughout (drawings made by Frodo
Baggins’s devoted companion, Sam Gamgee,
on their travels throughout Middle-earth), it
provides ample space for recording personal
thoughts, reflections on Tolkien’s
masterpiece, or fantasies of your own
creation. Hb $27.95
THE LORD OF
THE RINGS:
THE TWO
TOWERS
TELEPHONE &
ADDRESS
BOOK
Hb $17.95
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO
TOWERS LARGE JIGSAW BOOK
Full-colour photos from the movies in jigsaw
book form. $24.95
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO
TOWERS SMALL JIGSAW BOOK
Full-colour photos from the movies in jigsaw
book form. $10.95
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO
TOWERS STICKER BOX AND ALBUM
$19.95
A TOLKIEN TREASURY
POCKET-SIZE EDITION
With poems, stories, songs and much more,
this mini edition is a beautifully illustrated
celebration of one of the greatest writers of
all time and his epic creations. Hb $8.95 94pp
RECOMMENDED
THE LORD OF THE RINGS RISK: THE
MIDDLE EARTH CONQUEST GAME
The classic strategy game of Risk with some
variations based on The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring. $75.00 This
adaptation contains a map board of the territories
contained within the first two movies (with
expansions to come). For fans both of the classic
Risk game and the books/movies, this can be a
load of fun, with the variations genuinely adding
another dimension to game play. - Jo
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S D TOWER
THE ASSASSINS OF TAMURIN
Many years ago Makina Seval’s entire
family was brutally slain through the plots
of a devious chancellor, who then raised up
a young usurper to be the Sun Lord. Now it
is Lale’s duty to insinuate her way into the
court and the bed of that same usurper,
Terem Rathai and, after she has earned
Terem’s trust, she is to kill him. Bound by
the blackest sorcery to remain loyal to her
beloved Mother, Lale will suffer nightmarish
torment if she fails. But the young assassin
begins to doubt the righteousness of her
sworn mission. For not only will the
Despotana’s grand design bring doom upon
the world itself, there hangs over Lale yet
another appalling catastrophe — one that
threatens all that she is, all she has ever
believed. Lale has fallen in love with the man
she must destroy... Hb $70.00 454pp
HARRY TURTLEDOVE
ADVANCE AND RETREAT
When Avram became King of Detina,
he declared he intended to liberate the serfs
from their ties to the land. This immediately
plunged the kingdom into a civil war that
would prove long and bloody, and set
brother against brother. The northern
provinces, dependent on their serf’s labour,
seceded, choosing Avram’s cousin, Grand
Duke Geoffrey, as their king. Though King
Avram held more land and wealth than
Geoffrey, Geoffrey’s men were better
soldiers and the North had better and more
powerful wizards. Still, as the war raged on,
greater population and superior organization
began to tell and the tide turned against the
North. Even so, the war is far from over.
Though victory seems in sight for the South,
its armies must now battle the North on its
own ground, ground which will prove
treacherous and deadly... .Hb $69.95 394pp
THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD
American
Empire #2. It is 1924:
a time of rebuilding
both in America and
in the devastated
cities of Europe and
Canada. In the
United States, the
Socialist
Party
battles
Calvin
Coolidge to hold on
to power and it
seems as if the
Socialists can do no
wrong as the stock market soars and
America enjoys prosperity unknown for half
a century. The Confederate States, tasting
defeat in the Great War, suffer poverty and
natural disaster. The Freedom Party
promises new strength and pride - and may
prove a dangerous enemy for the hated USA.
Yet the United States take little note, basking
in their shared world domination with
Germany, but the ultimate shock is yet to
come. Hb $59.95 503pp
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HARRY TURTLEDOVE (ED)
ALTERNATE GENERALS
#2. What if history was given a twist or
two and great commanders on land and sea
had more (or fewer) forces, better (or worse)
weather, quicker (or slower) communications,
better supplies (or none at all)? This new
volume has more fascinating speculations in
alternate history science fiction, turning history
upside down and inside out as leaders who
have made their mark on our history make
different marks in a very different world. Hb
$64.95 339pp
JO WALTON
THE PRIZE IN THE GAME
Tir Isanagiri Universe. Four friends
destined for kingship - Conal, Emer, Darag
and Ferdia - are forced into conflict as their
countries build towards war. Matters are
complicated when Emer and Conal fall in
love and dream of escaping together from
the machinations of their respective families.
But Conal and Ferdia are rivals for the High
Kingship of the island and Conal cannot
simply leave. And when war finally comes,
Emer has two choices - perform her duty to
the homeland to which she owes everything,
or protect the one she loves and be branded
a traitor forever. The path she takes will
become the stuff of legend and forever alter
the destiny of Tir Isarnagiri. Hb $55.00 253pp
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS
I’THANALINS RESTORATION
Ethshar #8. Kilisha of Eastgate, a
promising young student of wizardry in the
city of Ethshar of the Rocks, still has much
to learn before she can assume the robes of
a journeyman enchanter. But when her
teacher, the venerable Ithanalin the Wise, is
overcome by a peculiar spell that scatters his
soul amongst a collection of runaway
household furnishings, it is up to Kilisha to
find the cause and restore him to his former
self. Hb $66.95 272pp
DAVID WEBER
THE EXCALIBUR ALTERNATIVE
Excalibur #1. The races which ruled the
Galactic Federation knew they were vastly
superior to the inferior species restricted to
the narrow confines of their own star systems
by the crudity of their technology... and they
had every intention of keeping things that
way, but eventually the Galactics made a
mistake. It didn’t seem all that terrible at first,
only a single merchant guild which bought
itself a Roman legion to use as enslaved sepoys
on the primitive worlds where they weren’t
permitted to use their own weapons to force
trading concessions. But the Romans were too
good at what they did and a desperate
competing guild decided it needed Romans of
its own. Unfortunately, Roman legions were
no longer available, so they had to settle for
something else: English longbowmen. Roman
legions make dangerous pets... but English
longbowmen are even worse. It may take a
century or so, but the Galactics are about to
discover what happens when the sword finally
comes out of the stone. Pb $22.95 346pp
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Nexus #177
LIZ WILLIAMS
THE POISON MASTER
On the planet of
Latent Emanation,
humans are at the
mercy
of
their
mysterious alien
rulers, the Lords of
Night. But Alivet Dee,
an alchemist, can’t
help but question the
Lords’ rule ever since
her twin sister was
taken to serve in their
palace. She saves
every penny to pay
her sister’s unbonding fee, but her plan is
destroyed when one of her potions kills a
wealthy client - and Alivet finds herself
wanted for murder. Her only hope is the
darkly attractive man who may have
engineered her downfall but who still offers
her a last chance of salvation. A Poison Master
from the planet Hathes, Arieth Mahedi
Ghairen needs an alchemist of Alivet’s
expertise to find the one drug that can take
down the Lords - and free the universe from
their rule. Pb $17.95 370pp
SEAN WILLIAMS
THE SKY WARDEN AND THE SUN
The Change #2. Sal’s life has been thrown
into turmoil. Homeless and haunted by a past
he never suspected he had, he is unsure
where he is running to - but Shilly is very
clear on what she wants. She wants to find
Lodo’s old teacher and learn from him. To
search for the Mage Van Haasteren they
must head north to the Interior, where Sal’s
mother was born, but even if they reach the
Interior there is no guarantee that the Stone
Mages will help them. The journey over
rugged mountainous country on the Old Line
is dangerous and the Sky Warden, Shom
Behenna, is in hot pursuit. It will take all their
ingenuity and courage to reach the Divide
and get across to the other side . . . Pb $18.95
526pp
JANNY WURTS
TO RIDE HELL’S CHASM
When Princess Anja fails to appear at
her betrothal banquet, the tiny, peaceful
kingdom of Sessalie is plunged into intrigue.
Two warriors are charged with recovering
the distraught king’s beloved daughter.
Taskin, Commander of the Royal Guard,
whose icy competence and impressive lifeterm as the Crown’s right-hand man
command the kingdom’s deep-seated
respect; and Mykkael, the rough-hewn
newcomer who has won the post of Captain
of the Garrison - a scarred veteran with a
deadly record of field warfare, whose
‘interesting’ background and foreign
breeding are held in contempt by court
society. Will Commander Taskin’s famous
fair-mindedness be enough to unravel the
truth behind the garrison captain’s dramatic
theory: that the resourceful, high-spirited
princess was not taken by force, but fled the
palace to escape a demonic evil? Tp $29.95
483pp
HORROR
HUGH CAVE
THE RESTLESS DEAD
A curse lingers over the Everol mansion - a
voodoo curse, born of evil, steeped in blood.
The tormented family who lives in this house
of horrors is beset by insanity, visions and
death. They have shut themselves off from
the world, allowing no one to trespass on
their blighted property. No one except Jeff
Gordon, a university professor with a special
knowledge of voodoo and the occult.
Reluctantly, in desperation, the Everol family
has permitted him to enter the mansion. But
all Gordon’s experience could never prepare
him for the unearthly creatures that await
him there or the ultimate terror of the
mysterious caves beneath the house. Pb
$16.95 339pp
RECOMMENDED
READING
WALTER JON WILLIAMS
THE PRAXIS
Dread Empire’s Fall #1. The empire of the Shaa had lasted 10
millennia. 10,000 years of terror, infinite violence and oppressive,
brutal order, legitimised by The Praxis, reinforced the harsh code
of ethics that they imposed on the races they conquered. But the
Shaa began to commit ritual suicide when it became clear that
their minds, profoundly intelligent but limited, would accept no
further information. Now the Shaa are no more, but the terror
and violence are only beginning. The death of the last of the Shaa
leaves the galaxy-wide empire leaderless, and into this power
vacuum flow the pretenders to the throne: the Naxids, oldest
client race of the Shaa, who believed themselves inheritors of the
empire - and a frail alliance of the remaining races, including
humanity. Tp $27.95 418pp This one is a blast! Big space opera
reminiscent of Peter F Hamilton’s Nights Dawn Trilogy, with some
interesting dynamics between humans and other alien races as part of the same galactic empire. The
two main human protagonists are fully realised and you are always eager to find out what happens
next. Adam
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January/February 2003
DON D’AMMASSA
SERVANTS OF CHAOS
Inhabitants of the isolated little fishing village
of Crayport, Massachusetts are unusually
hostile toward strangers and some of them
share an odd physical trait. If you look very
closely, you might discover the hideous
secrets of the mysterious island off the coast.
And if you aren’t careful, you’ll meet the
powerful group that dominates the town,
the ones known only as the Servants. Just
pray you never catch a glimpse of the
Servants’ unimaginable masters. Pb $17.95
338pp
ROBERT DODDS
NIGHTLAND
13 year old Claire Swift is intrigued by Aidan,
an Irish boy who is new to her school. He
has a secret, which he eventually shares with
her - at night, he cycles into another world,
one which lies unsuspected on the fringe of
their own - the Nightland. The Nightland is a
beguiling, magical place but for those who
linger in it too long, it holds deadly danger.
One night, Aidan fails to return from the
Nightland. Now Claire, like Orpheus
descending to the underworld to regain
Eurydice, must try to get him back. Pb $14.95
132pp
P N ELROD
COLD STREETS
Vampire Files #10. It’s 1938 and everyone is
braving Chicago’s cold streets to catch the
talent at Lady Crymsyn, Jack Fleming’s
swank new nightclub, that’s pulling in the
rich and powerful - like Gordy Weems, the
mob boss who’s declared Lady Crymsyn
neutral ground. Unfortunately, the club also
attracts society swells like Hurley Dugan, the
brains behind a kidnapping that Jack foiled.
Lady Crymsyn is also the perfect nightspot
for a cheap hood out of New York who
wants to muscle in on prime mob territory which means taking out Gordy, Jack, and
anyone else who gets in his way. Jack would
prefer to stay out of danger, but when the
bullets fly and the blood flows, it’ll become
clear that the simple life of a club owner is
not in the cards for a vampire with a thirst
for justice… Hb $59.95 380pp
GREGORY FROST
FITCHER’S BRIDES
Amy and Katherine Charter are the three
young townswomen whose father falls
under the Reverend Fitcher’s hypnotic sway.
In their old house, where ghostly voices
whisper from the walls, the girls are ruled
by their stepmother, who is ruled in turn by
the fiery preacher. Determined to spend
Eternity as a married man, Fitcher casts his
eye on Vernelia, and before long the two are
wed. But living on the man’s estate, Vern
soon learns the extent of her husband’s dark
side. It’s rumoured that he’s been married
before, though what became of those wives
she does not know. Perhaps the secret lies in
the locked room at the very top of the house
- the single room that the Reverend Fitcher
has forbidden her to enter. Hb $69.95 398pp
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STEPHEN JONES & DAVID SUTTON (EDS)
HAUNTED GROUND
DARK TERRORS
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O’Dell. I grew up on a
series of original horror and dark fantasy
farm in Saddle Rock,
returns with a bumper collection of new short
Kansas and I’d like to
stories and novellas from the hottest names
tell you about the
and most talented newcomers including
summer of ’55. A
Stephen Baxter, Ramsey Campbell, Les
child of the devil… is
Daniels, Christopher Fowler, Caitlin Kiernan,
what my mother
Tanith Lee, Graham Masterton, Richard
called my cousin
Christian Matheson, Kim Newman, Geoff
Ilona, who had been
Nicholson, Michael Marshall Smith and many
crippled
in
a
more. Tp $29.95 499pp
mysterious accident
DEAN KOONTZ
when she came to
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
spend the summer
When artist Dylan O’Connor pulls into a motel
with us. She was immediately drawn to the
off the Arizona interstate highway, all he
Trogler house as if she was already familiar
wants to do is relax with his autistic brother
with its violent past and whispered to me:
Shepherd and get a good night’s sleep. Yet
“Do you believe in ghosts?” She could sense
within the hour he finds himself bound,
the evil that still lingered there - an evil that
gagged and injected with some mysterious
should have remained buried in the orchard
fluid by a lunatic ‘doctor’ who claims that
behind the Trogler home. But Ilona’s
Dylan will be the carrier for ‘his life’s work’.
presence had a way of stirring up echoes that
Jillian Jackson, a comedian, is midway
should have faded long ago… “Sometimes I
through her tour of seedy cocktail lounges
wake up the dead…” Pb $17.95 350pp
and second-rate comedy clubs, accompanied
only by her pet pot plant Fred. Her plans for
DONALD HARSTAD
stardom are dramatically altered, however,
CODE 61
when she too falls victim to the same eccentric
Investigating the apparent suicide of a
scientist, who makes off with her beloved
colleague’s niece, Iowa Deputy Sheriff Carl
Cadillac. The doctor warns his victims that
Houseman is startled to uncover a group that
he is being pursued and that they too are
ritualistically drink small amounts of one
now targets. If they are caught, they will be
another’s blood. As Carl is drawn deeper into
killed. Both are sceptical, but when three
this unnerving world, it becomes clear that
black Chevrolet Suburbans come screaming
the dead woman may have been the victim
into the motel carpark and Jillian’s stolen car
of a 21st century Dracula. The prime suspect,
is found in flames, they begin to wonder if
Dan Peale, is a sinister presence within the
the lunatic doctor wasn’t so mad after all...
group - a man some say drinks blood and
Tp $29.95 373pp
never, ever dies. It’s an outlandish, heinous
theory, but then suspicions are bolstered by
H P LOVECRAFT
rumours of a card-carrying vampire hunter
WAKING UP SCREAMING:
who is also pursuing Peale. All too soon,
HAUNTING TALES OF TERROR
Houseman finds himself scrambling to track
Welcome to the world
a vampire - before he kills again. Pb $19.95
of the undisputed
451pp
master of terror. His
GERARD HOUARNER
ROAD TO HELL
This novel continues the story of Max the
Assassin which began in the author’s
collection Painfreak (unavailable), and
continued further in the anthology, Inside
the Works (unavailable). It follows Max’s
son, Angel, as he grows from infant to man
in only a few days. As Angel is led through
fantastic worlds of both the living and the
dead, he encounters obstacles at every turn
as he tries to find his way back to his father
and beautiful but deadly aunts. The ghosts
of Max’s victims work to forever trap Angel
in their world and attempt to show him the
atrocities of his father. While Angel battles
his father’s demons, Max and the twins
frantically try to escape from various
governments and agents intent on capturing
Max... dead or alive. Pb $16.95 342pp
work has inspired
countless nightmares,
and this collection of
some of his most
chilling stories is likely
to inspire even more.
Cool Air - an icy
apartment hides secrets
no man dares unlock.
The Case of Charles
Dexter Ward – Ward delves into the black arts
and resurrects the darkest evil from beyond
the grave. The Terrible Old Man - the intruders
seek a fortune but find only death. Herbert
West–Reanimator - mad experiments yield
hideous results in this bloodcurdling tale, the
inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator. The
Shadow Over Innsmouth – a small fishing
town’s population is obscenely corrupted by
a race of fiendish undersea creatures. The
Lurking Fear - an upstate New York clan
degenerates into thunder-crazed mole-like
creatures with a taste for human flesh. plus
ten other spine-tingling tales. Pb $19.95 370pp
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GREGORY MAGUIRE
LOST
Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling
to get beyond the runaway success of her
mass-market astrology book, travels to
London to jump-start her new novel about a
woman who is being haunted by the ghost
of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds
that her step-cousin and old friend John
Comestor has disappeared and a ghostly
presence seems to have taken over his
apartment in the 19th-century row house
once owned by Winnie’s great-greatgrandfather. Is it the spirit of this ancestor,
who, family legend claims, was Charles
Dickens’ childhood inspiration for Ebenezer
Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of
Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from
a more arcane and insidious origin? Tp
$29.95 340pp
RICHARD MATHESON
DUEL: TERROR STORIES
Remember that murderous semi chasing
Dennis Weaver down a lonely stretch of
desert highway? Duel, Steven Spielberg’s
acclaimed first film, was adapted by Richard
Matheson from his unforgettable story of
the same name. But Duel is only one of the
classic suspense tales in this outstanding
collection of stories by the Grand Master of
Horror, which also contains Matheson’s
legendary first story, Born of Man and Woman,
as well as several stunning shockers that
inspired memorable episodes of The Twilight
Zone, including Little Girl Lost, Steel, and Third
from the Sun. Tp $45.00 394pp
SUSIE MOLONEY
362 BELISLE STREET
At first glance, it looks like a nice house at a
knockdown price, but for Glenn Darnley of
Shelter Realty, selling 362 Belisle Street
proves almost impossible. First a young
couple move in - but the house won’t let them
stay long. A divorcee with an unhappy young
son has it for a while. Then a drunken writer.
But not one of them are welcome. Dreadful
things happen at 362 Belisle Street. It’ll take a
very special owner to turn this house into a
home. Tp $29.95 421pp
DMITRY RADYSHEVSKY
THE MANTRA
His music is intoxicating. An incantation
pumping every drumbeat into the blood.
Every rhythm, every word, enslaving listeners
into a blissful paralysis of the will. No wonder
TuneRa has become the most popular
performer in the world. Lane Patton, a
student of religion, is familiar with the
seductive message. He’s heard it on the lips of
strangers - before they die. He knows what it
is - a mantra implanted into the minds of
America’s young. But what does it really mean
and where is it leading them? To discover the
answer he must follow the voices himself- into
a nightmare over which there is no control
and no reason. No aversion to pain, to violence
or to death and where there is no will to escape
the divinely terrifying powers of... the Mantra.
Pb $21.95 473pp
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Nexus #177
ROBERT RANDISI
CURTAINS OF BLOOD: A NOVEL OF
JACK THE RIPPER
London, 1888. A knife flashes in the fog. A
madman has begun the most shocking series
of murders in history. With each new
discovery of a woman’s mutilated body, the
citywide panic grows. The police seem unable
to stop the killer, even when he taunts them
with letters signed Jack the Ripper. The terror
has touched a young writer and theatre
manager named Bram Stoker. The police
have closed his production and suspect its
star of being Jack the Ripper. Stoker sets out
to find the real killer. But Jack wants just as
badly to find Stoker. When they meet face to
face, a new chapter will be written in the
annals of horror. Pb $17.95 351pp
DAN SIMMONS
A WINTER HAUNTING
Dale Stewart #2. A once-respected college
professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has
sabotaged his career and his marriage and
now darkness is closing in on him. In the last
hours of Halloween he has returned to the
dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood
home, where he hopes to find peace in
isolation. But moving into a long-deserted
farmhouse on the far outskirts of town is
only the latest in his long succession of recent
mistakes, because Dale is not alone here. He
has been followed to this house of shadows
by private demons who are now twisting
his reality into horrifying new forms. Pb
$21.00 371pp
MICHAEL SLADE
DEATH’S DOOR
A mummy has been
stolen in London.
Authorities believe
the motive is the
treasure hidden in its
fetid
wrappings.
They’re
wrong.
Mutilated bodies of
young runaways are
discovered washed
ashore on Vancouver
beaches. Authorities
think they’re victims
of a random serial
killer. They’re wrong. When Chief
Superintendent Robert DeClercq and his
team follow a clue to an underground snuff
film operation, they believe they’ve
encountered man’s sickest desires. They’re
wrong. Something even more cunning, even
more depraved is waiting for them - if they
have the guts to follow the clues through
Death’s Door... Pb $18.95 368pp
PETER STRAUB
MAGIC TERROR
A collection of short stories from the
acclaimed “master of horror”. The author
leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche
in these seven tales of living, dying and the
terror that lies in between. Pb $18.95 401pp
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January/February 2003
WHITLEY STRIEBER
THE LAST VAMPIRE
The Hunger #2. Vampires. Interpol agent Paul
Ward knows of them - he has battled and
cleansed continents of their exquisite poison.
He orchestrated the extermination of an
ancient lair in Bangkok, obtained their sacred
Book of Names and knows where they hide
and when they feast. He knows their
weaknesses and what’s more, he knows his
own... it’s Miriam Blaylock. Elusive and toxic,
she has escaped his complex network of
hunters for years. Seductive and cunning, she
has become his obsession. And now each has
set a trap for the other. Now, predator is
about to become prey. Killer to become lover.
Good and evil will become inexorably
entwined. The endgame begins for the last
vampire. Pb $14.95 384pp
LILITH’S DREAM
The Hunger #3. Lilith, the ages-old mother of
the dying race of vampires, has been forced
to come out of her cave deep in the Egyptian
desert in search of food - human blood. But
she knows nothing about the modern world.
She struggles to New York, penniless,
vulnerable and starving, protected only by
her beauty and her power to capture men
with desire...especially certain very special
men. The instant she sees young Ian Ward,
she knows that he is part vampire himself.
She knows that if he ever tastes human blood,
he will belong to her forever. And she needs
him desperately, to help her survive. Ian’s
father, Paul Ward, part vampire turned
expert and obsessive hunter of vampires,
knows that if the blood transforms Ian, he
will have to kill his own son. Hb $49.95 324pp
THOMAS SULLIVAN
BORN BURNING
It has been passed
down
from
generation
to
generation.
An
antique chair carved
from a 2000-year-old
tree. Steeped in
history, this priceless
heirloom has become
part of a timehonored tradition in
the Whitehall family.
On the seventh
birthday of every
firstborn son, the chair is bequeathed to the
next in line. Now it’s Joey’s turn. But for some
reason the boy doesn’t want to inherit the
chair. In fact, he’s frightened of its grotesque
carvings teeming with spires, gargoyles and
tormented figures. He has dared sit in it only
once - but never again. And yet it seems so
important to Joey’s father, who flies into a
rage when Joey refuses to accept his
birthright and to Joey’s uncle, who seems to
be watching his every move. But the chair is
only part of a darker family tradition. A
tradition in which Joey must take his place no matter how terrifying it seems. Pb $19.95
358pp
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M E D I A
ALIAS
LAURA PEYTON ROBERTS
A SECRET LIFE
#1. It’s Sydney Bristow’s first mission
in Paris. Her first alias. Her first real
enemy. Her first real crush and her first big
mistake. There are a lot of firsts for Sydney.
But no second chances. Pb $16.95 202pp
ANGEL
NANCY HOLDER & JEFF MARIOTTE
ENDANGERED SPECIES
#15. Cordelia Chase is disturbed by a
vision of someone she knows - Faith
- whose recent incarceration, it would seem,
is the least of her problems. Angel wastes no
time in heading off to jail to check on the
once-rogue warrior, who admits to having
noticed various creepies - of the supernatural,
rather than criminal, variety - going bump
in the night. Hb $24.95 376pp
VARIOUS AUTHORS
THE LONGEST NIGHT
#16 Volume #1. Now, in the first-ever
Angel short story collection, follow our
gang hour-by-hour, evil by evil. From
twilight to daylight, Angel, Cordelia, Wesley,
Gunn and Fred have to keep the forces of
darkness at bay - even when black magick
has a head start... Pb $17.95 412pp
BABYLON 5
JEANNE CAVELOS
BABYLON 5: THE SHADOW
WITHIN
Passing of the Techno-Mage prequel. The
dedication of the new Babylon 5 Station is
fast approaching, and desperate enemies
intend to see it end in catastrophe. The fate
of the fledgling space alliance lies in the
hands of John Sheridan, newly appointed
captain of the spaceship Agamemnon. His
orders are to stop the attack, but unless he
first gets to the bottom of the near-mutinous
behaviour of the Agamemnon’s unruly crew,
Sheridan and his spaceship will share Babylon
5’s doom. Pb $19.95 259pp
N OVELISATION
(Written version of Film,
TV, Radio Drama
Production, Comic or Game)
B ASED
ON
( CONCEPT )
FILM
TV SHOW
COMPUTER GAME
ROLE-PLAYING GAME
COMIC
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE
S L AY E R
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
THE LOST SLAYER OMNIBUS
A single moment of bad judgment
catapults Buffy into an alternate future
dimension where vampires reign supreme.
Imprisoned in the body of her 24-year-oldself and confronting friends and foes the likes
of which she’d never imagined she must
uncover her past misstep and correct it, or
risk facing a terrifying monster that she has
created... Pb $18.95 573pp
NANCY KRULIK
THE CORDELIA COLLECTION
Volume #1. Cordelia Chase is known
throughout Sunnydale High for her
irrepressible blend of tactless maxims as
much as she is renowned for her beauty.
Popularity proves a tough cross to bear,
though. First, she is stalked by an invisible
being fueled by envy and later she is deemed
an ideal mate for a onetime (dead) Sunnydale
football star, but her most dangerous
challenge is the race for Homecoming
Queen. Forget the dance - Queen C will be
lucky to escape with her life! Pb $17.95 177pp
VARIOUS
TALES OF THE SLAYER
#2. Catch up on other Slayers past and
present, in this short-story collection,
with contributions from Scott Allie,
Laura Burns and Melinda Metz, Max Allan
Collins and Matthew V Clemens, Greg Cox,
Kara Dalkey, Jane Espenson, Rebecca Rand
Kirshner, Todd McIntosh, Michael Reaves
and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Pb $28.95 355pp
CHARMED
CARLA JABLONSKI
SHADOW OF THE SPHINX
Charmed #14. Paige considers it a stroke
of luck when, one day, her experiments
with magic turn her into a cat. One
problem: She can’t shift herself back. Pb
$17.95 183pp
DRAGONLANCE
STAN BROWN, MARY HERBERT
& DON PERRIN
BERTRAM’S GUIDE TO THE WAR
OF SOULS
#2. The Bertram’s Guides give readers insight
into the everyday lives of people in the
Dragonlance universe using correspondence,
reports and essays. Pb $16.95 305pp
STEPHEN SULLIVAN
DRAGON ISLES
Crossroads #4. This novel takes place
exclusively in an area of the Dragonlance
world that has never before been explored
in any novel or short story. Pb $16.95 310pp
DUNGEONS AND
DRAGONS
T H LAIN
CITY OF FIRE
#4. All new-adventures based in the
world of the classic RPG. Pb $14.95 183pp
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FORGOTTEN REALMS
VORONICA WHITNEY-ROBINSON
SANDS OF THE SOUL
Sembia #6. Pb $16.95 309pp
TROY DENNING
THE SORCERER
Return of the Archwizards #3. Pb $16.95
343pp
MAGIC THE GATHERING
SCOTT MCGOUGH
ASSASSIN’S BLADE
Magic Legends #1. This title launches an
all-new trilogy based on key characters and
events from the top-selling trading card
game. Pb $16.95 308pp
MECHWARRIOR
MICHAEL STACKPOLE
GHOST WAR
Dark Age #1. Sam Donelly is the best
LumberMech jockey on the planet, wielding
his 15-ft chainsaw with the skill of a surgeon.
But if Sam’s true identity is discovered, he
won’t be just another rebel recruit - he’ll be
an all-out Republic-wrecker. Pb $19.95 295pp
ROSWELL
PAUL RUDITIS
DREAMWALK
#05. Night after night Kyle is haunted
by nightmares of Alex’s death. He begs
Isabel to help by dreamwalking him and
removing the images from his mind. Isabel
knows that’s not how her powers work, but
Kyle is relentless and she finally agrees. When
she tries to exit his mind, she finds herself
trapped in a maze of guilt - while back in the
conscious world, Kyle is unable to wake her.
Pb $17.95 217pp
STAR TREK
WILLIAM SHATNER
CAPTAIN’S PERIL
Classic. James Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard
find themselves isolated among the
ruins of an ancient sunken city and stalked
by a murderer. Hb $45.00 335pp
KEITH DECANDIDO
THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD
An all-new adventure spanning three
generations! The Malkus Artifacts are
four deadly machines, wielded as weapons
of absolute power by an interstellar tyrant
thousands of years ago. After their existence
was discovered in 2151 by Captain Jonathan
Archer of the Starship Enterprise, all Starfleet
vessels were warned to keep an eye out for
these
most
dangerous
devices...
#1. Pb $19.95 266pp
#2. Pb $19.95 300pp
VARIOUS AUTHORS
STAR TREK DOUBLE HELIX
OMNIBUS
A deadly conspiracy winds its way
through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it
stretches across several years of Starfleet
history. This special omnibus volume
contains the entire bestselling saga by some
of Star Trek’s most popular authors: Tp
$29.95 1112pp
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STAR WARS
MARK COTTA VAZ
THE ART OF STAR WARS:
ATTACK OF THE CLONES
Filled with never-before-seen movie
artwork, this takes us through an incredible
gallery of astonishing images. As an added
bonus, this volume features the exclusive
illustrated screenplay, as well as more than
500 illustrations, an in-depth look at the
creatures introduced in Episode II, behindthe-scenes accounts and anecdotes related by
the artists themselves, visuals of exotic new
planets, exciting new spacecraft and new
characters such as Jango Fett, Count Dooku
and Jedi Luminara Unduli. Also contains
movie poster art created especially for the
movie. Tp $55.00 224pp
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MARINA BENJAMIN
ROCKET DREAMS:
HOW THE SPACE AGE SHAPED OUR VISION OF A WORLD BEYOND…
This fact-filled study shows how all the dreams that went into moon flight in the
sixties have found new homes and mutated into new fascinations with space. Hb
$45.00 277pp
ANDREW BLAKE
THE IRRESISTABLE RISE OF HARRY POTTER
Harry Potter is English, a suburban child and an orphan, who retreats into a fantasy
world where the author rescues him through the reinvention of that apex of class
privilege - the English public school. This is a literary conceit that questions Harry
Potter’s status as a role model and raises important social questions about the state of
education in Blair’s Britain. The author’s examination of the Harry Potter phenomenon
also raises questions about the condition of the publishing industry, the state of
bookselling and filmmaking and the ways in which the Potter consumer campaign
has changed our ideas about literature and reading. The author reflects on the ways
in which these connections, while drawn up in Britain, act as a template for Harry
Potter’s international success. Hb $39.95 118pp
DAVID DARLING
LIFE EVERYWHERE: THE MAVERICK SCIENCE OF ASTROBIOLOGY
This book explains the science of astrobiology. It asks the questions that researchers
in astrobiology are asking themselves: what is life? How does it originate? How often
does life survive once it arises? How does evolution work? And what determines
whether complex or intelligent life will emerge from more primitive forms? Informed
by interviews with most of the top people in this nascent field, this book introduces
readers to one of the most important scientific developments of the next century. Tp
$31.00 206pp
BOB EGGLETON & JOHN GRANT
DRAGONHENGE
This unique collaboration by two multiple award-winning creators results in a feast
of visual and lyrical splendour. Millions of years before the emergence of humankind,
the great dragon civilisation dominated this world. It left few traces behind save
legends and one mighty structure: Dragonhenge. The dragons were profound
storytellers and collected here are tales from their oral mythology - from tales that
explain the origin of all things to legends of battle and conquest. Hb $59.95 128pp
DICK JUDE
FANTASY ART MASTERS: THE BEST IN FANTASY AND SF WORLDWIDE
Following the success and critical acclaim the author’s first book, Fantasy Art of the
New Millenium, this sequel features ten more master practitioners of fantasy and SF
art. The author brings together the work of some of the very best fantasy artists
who, through candid and revealing interviews, provide a fascinating insight into
their creative processes and working methods. The variety of styles featured within
this collection is far greater than that of the first book and the range of work is
testimony to the skill, imagination and individuality to be found in this thriving genre
of art. Hb $45.00 144pp
KATHERINE RAMSLAND, PH.D
THE SCIENCE OF VAMPIRES
The concept of the vampire has evolved from Bram Stoker’s supernatural creature of
the night to the pop culture anti-hero of today’s TV shows, hit movies and bestselling
novels. Where were these legends born? In what ways have they evolved? How
much is actually true? This book answers these questions and more: Are any vampire
myths based on fact? What is Vampire Personality Disorder? What is the polysexual
world of the vampire? Could a vampire hide in today’s advanced world of forensic
science? Based on fascinating interviews with forensic experts, creative artists and
real-life bloodsuckers, this is a vampire book like no other. Tp $36.00 276pp
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