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Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE TABLE public.book_series_link ( + book_id integer NOT NULL, + book_num integer, + series_id integer NOT NULL, + CONSTRAINT book_series_link_book_num CHECK ((book_num > 0)) +); + + +ALTER TABLE public.book_series_link OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: book_sub_book_link; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE TABLE public.book_sub_book_link ( + book_id integer NOT NULL, + sub_book_id integer NOT NULL, + sub_book_num integer NOT NULL +); + + +ALTER TABLE public.book_sub_book_link OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: book_user; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE TABLE public.book_user ( + id integer NOT NULL, + dn character varying +); + + +ALTER TABLE public.book_user OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: book_user_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE SEQUENCE public.book_user_id_seq + START WITH 1 + INCREMENT BY 1 + NO MINVALUE + NO MAXVALUE + CACHE 1; + + +ALTER TABLE public.book_user_id_seq OWNER TO ddp; 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+ + +ALTER TABLE public.owned OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: owned_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE SEQUENCE public.owned_id_seq + START WITH 1 + INCREMENT BY 1 + NO MINVALUE + NO MAXVALUE + CACHE 1; + + +ALTER TABLE public.owned_id_seq OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: publisher; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE TABLE public.publisher ( + id integer NOT NULL, + name character varying(50) +); + + +ALTER TABLE public.publisher OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: publisher_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE SEQUENCE public.publisher_id_seq + START WITH 1 + INCREMENT BY 1 + NO MINVALUE + NO MAXVALUE + CACHE 1; + + +ALTER TABLE public.publisher_id_seq OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: rating; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE TABLE public.rating ( + id integer NOT NULL, + name character varying(20) NOT NULL +); + + +ALTER TABLE public.rating OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: rating_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE SEQUENCE public.rating_id_seq + START WITH 1 + INCREMENT BY 1 + NO MINVALUE + NO MAXVALUE + CACHE 1; + + +ALTER TABLE public.rating_id_seq OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: series; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE TABLE public.series ( + id integer NOT NULL, + title character varying(100) NOT NULL, + num_books integer, + calcd_rating character varying(10), + note text, + CONSTRAINT series_num_books CHECK ((num_books > 0)) +); + + +ALTER TABLE public.series OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Name: series_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE SEQUENCE public.series_id_seq + START WITH 1 + INCREMENT BY 1 + NO MINVALUE + NO MAXVALUE + CACHE 1; + + +ALTER TABLE public.series_id_seq OWNER TO ddp; + +-- +-- Data for Name: author; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +COPY public.author (id, firstnames, surname) FROM stdin; +0 Douglas Adams +1 Piers Anthony +2 Poul Anderson +3 Isaac Asimov +4 Arthur C. Clarke +5 Frederik Pohl +6 William Rostler +7 Joanna Russ +8 Harlan Ellison +9 Gene Wolf +10 Robert Silverberg +11 Martin H. Greenberg +12 Pamela Sargent +13 Connie Willis +14 Edward Wellen +15 Harry Turtledove +16 Mike Resnick +17 George Alec Effinger +18 Barry N. Malzberg +19 Sheila Finch +20 George Zebrowski +21 Robert Sheckley +22 Edward D. Hoch +23 Hal Clement +24 Harry Harrison +25 Orson Scott Card +26 Simon Singh +27 Frank Herbert +28 Gregory Benford +29 Greg Bear +30 David Brin +31 Anne Mc Caffrey +32 Philip Jose Farmer +33 Fritz Leiber +34 Samuel r. Delaney +35 Charles G. Waugh +36 Jack Vance +37 Ron Goulart +38 Larry Niven +39 L. Sprague de Camp +40 Ursula K. Le Guin +41 John Jakes +42 Manly Wade Wellman +43 Theodore Cogswell +44 Robert E. Howard +45 Stanley G. Weinbaum +46 Don A. Stuart +47 Lester del Rey +48 Milton A. Rothman +49 Robert A. Heinlein +50 James A. Deutsch +51 William Morrison +52 James Blish +53 Jerome Bixby +54 James E. Gunn +55 H. Beam Piper +56 Walter S. Tevis +57 A. A. Attanasio +58 Clive Barker +59 Elizabeth H. Boyer +60 Marion Zimmer Bradley +61 Vera Nazarian +62 Joan Marie Verba +63 Kay Morgan Douglas +64 Roxana Pierson +65 Patricia B. Cirone +66 Meg Mac Donald +67 Sandra C. Morrese +68 Margaret L. Carter +69 Elizabeth Waters +70 G. R. Sixbury +71 Dorothy J. Heydt +72 Rachel Walker +73 Audrey J. Fulton +74 Deborah Wheeler +75 Millea Kenin +76 Ben Bova +77 Stephen Donaldson +78 Sarah Douglas +79 Terry Pratchett +80 Neil Gaiman +81 Raymond E. Feist +82 William Forstchen +83 Barbara Hambly +84 Brian Herbert +85 Kevin J. Anderson +86 Joe Haldeman +87 Guy Gavriel Kay +88 Katherine Kerr +89 Damon Knight +90 Roger Zelazny +91 James A. Schmitz +92 Gordon R. Dickson +93 Brian Aldiss +94 Stephen Lawhead +95 Julian May +96 Sherri S. Tepper +97 Michael Moorcock +98 Juliet Marillier +99 A. Bertram Chandler +100 C. M. Kornbluth +101 Charles V. DeVet +102 Katherine MacLean +103 Wyman Guin +104 Nancy Kress +105 Dan Simmons +106 Ian Stafford +107 Theodore Sturgeon +108 Janny Wurts +109 Margaret Weis +110 Tracy Hickman +111 Nancy Varian Berberick +112 Morris Simon +113 Barbara Siegel +114 Scott Siegel +115 Danny Peary +116 Harold Bakst +117 Richard A. Knaak +118 Michael Williams +119 Nick O'Donohoe +120 James White +121 A. E. Van Vogt +122 David Eddings +123 Leigh Eddings +124 Greg Egan +125 Gardner Dozois +126 James Patrick Kelly +127 Charles Sheffield +128 Bruce Sterling +129 Kate Wilhelm +130 Ian R. MacLeod +131 Terry Bisson +132 Lucius Shepard +133 Molly Gloss +134 John Kessel +136 Ted Chiang +137 Alexander Jablokov +138 John Brunner +139 Jonathan Lethem +140 Ian McDonald +141 Lewis Shiner +142 Pat Murphy +143 J.R.R. Tolkein +144 Neal Stephenson +145 James A. Michener +146 Richard Morgan +147 Kim Stanley Robinson +148 Cecilia Dart-Thonton +149 James (Frederick Pohl) Mac Reigh +150 Jay A. Parry +151 Edgar Rice Burroughs +152 Jack L. Chalker +153 C. J. Cherryh +154 John Christopher +155 Hugh Cook +156 Alan Dean Foster +157 Randall Garrett +158 Vicki Ann Heydron +159 William Gibson +160 Gary Gygax +161 Lyndon Hardy +162 L. Ron Hubbard +163 Katherine Kurtz +164 C. S. Lewis +165 Peter Morwood +166 Clifford D. Simak +167 Dennis Overbye +168 Jerry Pournelle +169 Pierre Oullette +170 Carl Sagan +171 Lewis Padgett +172 Murray Leinster +173 Judith Merril +174 Cordwainer Smith +175 Ray Bradbury +176 Richard Matheson +177 Anthony Boucher +178 Tom Goodwin +179 Alfred Bester +180 Patrick Tilley +181 John Varley +182 Joan D. Vinge +183 Michael White +184 Lawrence Watt-Evans +185 David Zindell +186 Daniel Kate +187 Daniel Keyes +188 Diana L. Paxson +189 Leonard Bickel +190 Jody Lynn Nye +191 Ian Irvine +193 mark kreighbaum +194 Robin Hobb +195 Al Gore +196 H G Wells +197 John Safran +198 Stephen Abrams +199 J. K. Rowling +200 Brian Daley +135 Dafydd ab Hugh +\. + + +-- +-- Data for Name: bdb_user; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +COPY public.bdb_user (id, dn) FROM stdin; +1 uid=ddp,ou=users,dc=depaoli,dc=id,dc=au +\. + + +-- +-- Data for Name: book; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +COPY public.book (id, title, year_published, notes, blurb, created, modified, condition, covertype, owned, rating, publisher) FROM stdin; +1107 The Chronicles of Count Brass 1986 In the Wild Marshlands of the Kamarg...\r\n\r\nFive years after the Battle of Londra and the destruction of the Dark Empire, Castle Brass is rebuilt, and there Dorian Hawkmoon lives with his beautiful wife Yisselda, Count Brass's daughter, and their two children.\r\n\r\nSuddenly their peaceful life is interrupted as ghosts from Hawkmoon's past - his old friends D'Averc, Bowgentle and Oladahn, his old enemies Baron Kalan of Vitall and Taragorm, Master of the Palace of Time - even Count Brass himself - appear to sweep Hawkmoon back in time to do battle once more against the forces of evil... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +1108 Count Brass 1973 In the Wild Marshlands of the Kamarg...\r\n\r\nFive years after the Battle of Londra and the destruction of the Dark Empire, Castle Brass is rebuilt, and there Dorian Hawkmoon lives with his beautiful wife Yisselda, Count Brass's daughter, and their two children.\r\n\r\nSuddenly their peaceful life is interrupted as ghosts from Hawkmoon's past - his old friends D'Averc, Bowgentle and Oladahn, his old enemies Baron Kalan of Vitall and Taragorm, Master of the Palace of Time - even Count Brass himself - appear to sweep Hawkmoon back in time to do battle once more against the forces of evil... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +1109 The Champion of Garathorm 1973 In the Wild Marshlands of the Kamarg...\r\n\r\nFive years after the Battle of Londra and the destruction of the Dark Empire, Castle Brass is rebuilt, and there Dorian Hawkmoon lives with his beautiful wife Yisselda, Count Brass's daughter, and their two children.\r\n\r\nSuddenly their peaceful life is interrupted as ghosts from Hawkmoon's past - his old friends D'Averc, Bowgentle and Oladahn, his old enemies Baron Kalan of Vitall and Taragorm, Master of the Palace of Time - even Count Brass himself - appear to sweep Hawkmoon back in time to do battle once more against the forces of evil... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +1110 The Quest for Tanelorn 1975 In the Wild Marshlands of the Kamarg...\r\n\r\nFive years after the Battle of Londra and the destruction of the Dark Empire, Castle Brass is rebuilt, and there Dorian Hawkmoon lives with his beautiful wife Yisselda, Count Brass's daughter, and their two children.\r\n\r\nSuddenly their peaceful life is interrupted as ghosts from Hawkmoon's past - his old friends D'Averc, Bowgentle and Oladahn, his old enemies Baron Kalan of Vitall and Taragorm, Master of the Palace of Time - even Count Brass himself - appear to sweep Hawkmoon back in time to do battle once more against the forces of evil... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +493 Mistress of the Empire 1992 Daughter of the Empire began the epic saga of Mara of the Acoma, illustrating her meteoric rise to power in the Machiavellian intrigues of the Tsurani court. Servant of the Empire continued that tale as Mara, Ruling Lady of her house, established herself as a skillful player of the Game of the Council.\r\n\r\nNow Mara faces not only the brotherhood of assassins, and the cunning spies of the rival ruling houses, but the awesome Assembly of Magicians, who see her as the ultimate threat to their ancient power. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +505 Dark Hand of Magic 1991 After his trials and tribulations with the Ladies of Mandrigyn and the Witches of Wenshar, Sun Wolf felt like a rest. But he wasn't expecting to be taking that rest pegged out over a large and lethal ant-hill...\r\n\r\nMeanwhile his mercenaries are in deep trouble, too. Having been hired by the King-Council of Kwest Malre to besiege the city of Vorsinge, they haven't had much luck. In fact, they've had a lot of bad luck. Too much for it to be coincidence. Someone has put a curse on them. They need Sun Wolf's help.\r\n\r\nSun Wolf had had enough of dealing with wizards and witches to last him a lifetime. But if it came to a choice between being eaten alive by ants and a battle of magic. Well... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 6 +292 Rediscovery \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +337 Sword Of Chaos \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +931 City of Hawks \N 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-31 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +965 Sky Lift 1953 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 6 20 +141 It's such a Beautiful Day 1954 First published in Star Science Fiction Stories Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 9 +301 Traitor's Sun \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +300 The Shadow Matrix \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +603 Beggars Ride \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +604 Gateway \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +507 The Witches of Wenshar \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +606 Heechee Rendezvous \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +142 Strikebreaker 1973 First Appeared as 'Male Strikebreaker', The Original Science Fiction Stories, 1957 Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +1057 The Master Harper of Pern \N 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +581 Beyond Bedlam 1951 ... A baker's half-dozen of outstanding science fiction writers from the flowering fifties to the pregnant present - proof, if any were needed, that s.f. is indeed a generative form... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 36 +143 Insert Knob A into Hole B 1957 First published in F & SF Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 9 +1097 The Horse Lord 1983 asdfasdfasdf 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 51 +144 The Up-to-date Sorcerer 1958 First published in F & SF Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 7 9 +146 What Is This Thing Called Love? 1961 First appeared as 'Playboy and the Slime God', in Amazing Stories Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +582 The Graveyard Heart 1964 ... A baker's half-dozen of outstanding science fiction writers from the flowering fifties to the pregnant present - proof, if any were needed, that s.f. is indeed a generative form... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 36 +340 Red Sun of Darkover \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +911 Chorus Skating \N 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1244 Sailing to Sarantium 1998 In a long-awaited new work that evokes - and vividly recaptures - the glamour of and decadence of the early Byzantine Empire, Guy Gavriel Kay continues to blaze the trail of his fictional accomplishments, marrying history with high fantasy, the imagined with the known, to produce his most ambitious work yet.\n\nIn a world of intrigue and danger and the threat of war, Valerius II of Sarantium and his brilliant Empress find themselves contending with pagan Bassanids to the east, barbarian tribes to the west and north, and the plots of their own bejewelled court. The Emperor, subtle and ambitious, seeks to expand his Empire, recapturing lost homelands to the west. He also intends to build the largest, most sumptuous holy Sanctuary the world has ever known, a monument to his reign and to the glory of the one God - although his soldiers would rather he paid them. Meanwhile, in scarcely subdued provinces of the Empire, policed by these same restive soldiers, savage pagan rites - illegal and heretical - continue to be practised in the dark forests.\n\nOnto this stage steps Caius Crispus, known as Crispin, a master mosaicist from the west, making the long, perilous journey through windswept wilderness to the vast triple walls of Sarantium, city of cities. It is an open question in his own mind where the greater dangers lie. Among other things, he carries a secret message, and travels under a false name - having undertaken the journey instead of his summoned older partner in response to an imperial search for artisans. Men have died for less than either of these things. And before Crispin can veer reach Sarantium he will have to deal with being in the heartland of pagan rituals one bleak morning on the Day of the Dead.\n\nSailing to Sarantium weaves an utterly compelling story of colour and narrative verve and magic, of people from all walks of life, as real as any historical figure, and of the magnificent city that serves as a magnet for so many lives. The first volume of the two that make up THE SARANTINE MOSAIC marks a new level, both in fantasy literature and in story-telling. 2003-06-28 00:00:00 2003-10-31 00:00:00 1 3 1 3 58 +944 Knight of the Demon Queen \N 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +147 The Machine That Won the War 1961 First published in F & SF Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +1 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1979 Charting the whole of Arthur Dent's Odyssey through space are:\n\nThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\nOne Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for\na new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house\ndemolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.\nSadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very\nvery large and startling place.\n\nThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe.\nWhen all questions of space, time, and matter and the nature of being have been\nresolved, only one question remains - 'Where shall we have dinner?' The\nrestaurant at the end of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic\nexperience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.\n\nLife, the Universe and Everything.\nIn consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised\nto find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric earth.\nHowever, just as he thinks that things cannot possible get any worse, they\nsuddenly do. he discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and\nbewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly\nunfair.\n\nSo Long and Thanks for All the Fish.\nJust as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly\nfinds the girl of this dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe\nin which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people\nwill find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His\nCreation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-04-04 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 1 +1408 Trumps of Doom \N 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1410 Blood of Amber \N 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +148 My Son, the Physicist! 1962 First published in Scientific American Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +149 Eyes Do More than See 1965 First published in F & SF Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 9 +150 Segregationist 1968 First published in Abbottempo (European medical journal free to doctors) Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 9 +101 PAPPI 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 16 +955 Let There Be Light 1940 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON is a key work in Heinlein's majestic plan of the years ahead. The stories are masterpieces in their own right but at the same time form an integral part in an overall scheme and certainly add to our appreciation of his other novels. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 28 +1385 Fortress of Dragons \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +103 Plato's Cave 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 16 +104 Foundation's conscience 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 6 16 +105 Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 16 +667 Enchanters' End Game 1988 The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of Garion, there was a descendant of Riva Iron-grip to rule as Overlord of the West.\n\nBut the Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the east, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion had to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of that dread duel rested the destiny of the world. Now, accompanied by his grandfather, the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, Garion headed towards the City of Endless Night, where Torak awaited him.\n\nTo the south, his fiance, the Princess Ce'Nedra, led the armies of the West in a desperate effort to divert the forces of Torak's followers from the man she loved.\n\nThe Prophecy drove Garion on. But it gave no answer to the question that haunted him: How does a man kill an Immortal God? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1377 Rocannon's World \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +644 Into the Heart of the Story 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 10 40 +668 Belgarath the Sorcerer 1995 Eagerly awaited for a decade, here at last is the full epic story of Belgarath, the great Sorcerer learned in the Will and the Word on whom the fate of the world depends. Only Belgarath can tell of those near forgotten times when Gods still walked the land: he is the Ancient One, the Old Wolf, his God Aldur's first and most-favoured disciple. Using Powers learned over the centuries Belgarath himself records the story of conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies that split the world asunder.\n\nA hugely entertaining work of great daring, wit, grandeur and excitement that confirms the role of Belgarath the Sorcerers as one of the mightiest fantasy creations of the century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 25 +1411 Sign of Chaos \N 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +708 The Fellowship of the Ring 1954 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 43 +1508 A Crown Imperilled \N 2014-02-02 00:00:00 2014-02-02 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +106 The Overheard Conversation 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 16 +1468 Earthborn \N 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +956 The Roads Must Roll 1940 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON is a key work in Heinlein's majestic plan of the years ahead. The stories are masterpieces in their own right but at the same time form an integral part in an overall scheme and certainly add to our appreciation of his other novels. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 28 +107 Blot 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 8 16 +957 Blowups Happen 1940 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON is a key work in Heinlein's majestic plan of the years ahead. The stories are masterpieces in their own right but at the same time form an integral part in an overall scheme and certainly add to our appreciation of his other novels. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 28 +952 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 1988 On Luna - an open penal colony of the twenty-first century - a revolution is being plotted. The conspirators are a strange assortment: an engaging jack-of-all-trades, his luscious blonde girlfriend, and a lonely talking computer. Their aim - the overthrow of the hated Authority. Everything goes well until.. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 28 +298 The Planet Savers \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +926 Neuromancer 1984 Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in earth's computer matrix. Then he doublecrossed the wrong people... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 3 +1182 A Rose for Ecclesiastes 1963 nv F&SF Nov '63 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 57 +109 The Originist 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 16 +116 I, Robot 1979 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +707 The Lord of the Rings 1974 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 43 +115 Foundation's Triumph \N N/A 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +948 Dog Wizard \N 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +117 Robbie 1940 First published as 'Strage Playfellow' I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +1274 Flowers for Algernon 1959 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1251 The Heart of Darkness 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 3 +108 The Fourth Law of Robotics 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 16 +1374 The Other Wind \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +118 Reason 1941 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +1056 Nerilka's Story and The Coelura 1987 It was in Moreta's time - a time of legend, of heroic valour, of terrible Threadfall, and the Great Plague that devastated both Holders and Dragonfolk. For Lady Nerilka of Fort Hold, the tragedy was twofold for, with the death of her mother and sister, her father's mistress took possession of the Hold. Angry and betrayed, Nerilka decided to escape and, as Pern seethed in turmoil, she began her perilous journey to Ruatha, Lord Alessan, and an unknown destiny. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-06-23 00:00:00 2 1 3 7 20 +1164 The Weapon Shop 1942 nv Astounding Dec '42 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-02-25 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 57 +1168 First Contact 1945 nv Astounding May '45 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1449 Wrath of a Mad god 2009 The Darkwar has fallen upon the worlds of Kelewan and Midkemia; it is a time of heroes, trials and destruction.\n\nFollowing their dangerous mission to the home-world of the enigmatic Dasati people, Magnus, Pug and the other members of the Conclave must now find a way to use what they have discovered to help save their own people from the machinations of the evil magician Leso Varen, and the wrath of the mad god he has woken... 2008-02-03 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 0 +26 The Early Asimov: Volume 1 1973 In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +1165 Mimsy Were the Borogoves 1943 nv Astounding Feb '43 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-02-25 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1166 Huddling Place 1944 ss Astounding Jul '44 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-02-25 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1169 That Only a Mother 1948 ss Astounding Jun '48 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 57 +3 Life, the Universe and Everything 1982 Charting the whole of Arthur Dent's Odyssey through space are:\n\nThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\nOne Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for\na new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house\ndemolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.\nSadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very\nvery large and startling place.\n\nThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe.\nWhen all questions of space, time, and matter and the nature of being have been\nresolved, only one question remains - 'Where shall we have dinner?' The\nrestaurant at the end of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic\nexperience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.\n\nLife, the Universe and Everything.\nIn consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised\nto find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric earth.\nHowever, just as he thinks that things cannot possible get any worse, they\nsuddenly do. he discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and\nbewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly\nunfair.\n\nSo Long and Thanks for All the Fish.\nJust as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly\nfinds the girl of this dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe\nin which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people\nwill find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His\nCreation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 1 +166 Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Wizards 1983 aaaa 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 12 +0 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts 1986 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 1 +131 Satisfaction Guaranteed 1950 First appeared in Super Science Stories in 1951 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +132 Risk 1955 First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1955 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 6 9 +133 Lenny 1957 First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction, 1958 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 9 +134 Galley Slave 1957 First appeared in Galaxy in 1957 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +1465 Today and Tomorrow and ... \N 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1466 Earthfall \N 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +25 Wielding a Red Sword 1986 Mym was a dutiful son, but his father the Rajah interfered in his love life\nonce too often. Rather than wed without love, he took up the Red Sword, symbol\nof office of the Incarnation of War.\n\nAt first he thought his efforts could ameliorate some of the suffering caused\nby Earth's constant petty wars. But he found that behind all his involvement\nwere the clever traps of Satan.\n\nWhen seeming mischance placed him in Hell, Mym organized a great rebellion\namong the Damned. And Satan seemed to capitulate. But free again, Mym learned\nthat Satan had been busy stirring up riots and war. Now it seemed things had\ngone too far and Satan must surely win. There was only one desperate chance... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-10 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 8 +44 Nine Tomorrows 1979 Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +27 The Early Asimov: Volume 2 1974 In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +84 The Robots of Dawn 1988 On the Planet of Dawn Robots and Humans coexist peacefully... Until a humaniform robot - one of the most sophisticated manifestations of artificial intelligence ever created - is 'murdered'. Only one man of the Planet Aurora had the means, the motive and the opportunity to commit the crime: he hires interplanetary detective Elijah Baley to prove that he did not do it. Armed only with his instincts, his sometimes quirky logic and the immutable Three Laws of Robotics, Baley sets out to solve the case... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +1160 Helen O'Loy 1938 ss Astounding Dec '38 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-02-25 00:00:00 2 3 1 5 57 +933 Dance of Demons \N 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-31 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1419 Royal Assassin 1997 Regal's treasonous attempt to usurp the Six Duchies throne from his half-brother Verity has been foiled. Now, as fitz recovers slowly from the foul poison administered to him, the King's Fool prophesies: 2006-09-19 00:00:00 2006-09-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +145 Unto the Fourth Generation 1959 First published in F & SF Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 7 9 +1420 Assassin's Quest 1998 We are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the world...\n\nIn this gripping finale to the Farseer trilogy, Fitz must finally make sense of the Fool;s cryptic prophecies. 2006-09-19 00:00:00 2006-09-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +226 Prediction as a Side-Effect 1972 First published in Boston Review of Arts A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 4 +263 Cities in Flight 1981 James Blish's epic history of the future - of the cities that left the Earth to roam interstellar space - makes up one of the landmark works of science fiction. Now, for the first time, the four class 'Okie' books are available in one volume. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 21 +282 Stormqueen! 1981 The great epic of Darkover, the world beneath the Bloody Sun, began long before the coming of the Terrans, It began in the dark, dangerous time of the Ages of Chaos, when the power matrix was first learned - and misused in bloody, treacherous feuding. This is the story of the dawn of Darkover, and of Dorilys, queen of Storms, tormentor of all she sought to love. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 21 +338 Free Amazons of Darkover \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +339 The Other Side of the Mirror \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +912 Spellsinger \N 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +474 Daughter of Regals 1984 Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 13 +538 The Search for Fierra \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +476 Daughter of Regals 1978 date is a guess Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 13 +575 Hawksbill Station 1970 First published in the UK as "The Anvil of Time" 1984 had come and gone, but still there were revolutionaries, dedicated to the overthrow of the Syndacist Government. And like all totalitarian governments, that of 2006 needed a secure prison for its really dangerous opponents.\n\nThey found it, not in a remote area of the world, known or unknown, not in a distant galaxy a space-ship's voyage away, but beyond all limits known to man, a billion years in the past. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 35 +580 Second Game 1958 ... A baker's half-dozen of outstanding science fiction writers from the flowering fifties to the pregnant present - proof, if any were needed, that s.f. is indeed a generative form... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 36 +577 Giant Killer 1945 ... A baker's half-dozen of outstanding science fiction writers from the flowering fifties to the pregnant present - proof, if any were needed, that s.f. is indeed a generative form... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 36 +1001 A Time of Exile 1992 It is many years since Lord Rhodry took the throne of Aberwyn, yet his half-elven blood keeps him so young that his people suspect magic. Elven magic. And they aren't sure they like it.\n\nThen his lost lover Jill, now a powerful sorceress, returns. She tells him it is time to accept his elven heritage. Rhodry is persuaded to take drastic action and stages his own death. It's an act that will lead him to the mysterious Westlands. And force him to confront his destiny. Whether he likes it or not. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2009-09-27 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 6 +28 The Early Asimov: Volume 3 1974 In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +601 Beggers in Spain \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +602 Beggers and Choosers \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +30 Nebula Award Stories 8 1975 "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +943 Dragonshadow \N 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +656 The Weapon Shops of Isher 1969 In the year 4784, the Universe is contained within the empire of Isher\nruled by the Empress Innelda.\n\nDedicated to pleasure, Innelda's dictatorship has driven Isher to the\nbrink of cosmic disaster. For against her stand the impregnable\nWeapon Shops, their immortal leader Robert Hedrock and a man\nfrom the 20th century with terrifying power. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 28 +945 Dragonstar \N 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +966 Goldfish Bowl 1942 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 6 20 +31 A Meeting With Medusa 1971 Subsequently included in The Wind from the Sun. "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +735 The Dying Night 1956 First published in F & SF Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 2 +32 Shaffrey Among the Immortals 1972 First published in The magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +1167 Arena 1944 nv Astounding Jun '44 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 57 +1405 Black Horses for the King 1997 Lord Artos is on a historic quests - to search out the finest black horses ever known to man. He has vowed to drive the invading Saxons out of Britain, and he needs big, strong, powerful horses to carry his army into battle. Galwyn - a young Roman-Celt - leaps at the chance to accompany the group, little guessing the adventure ahead of him - or the price he will have to pay for his loyalty... 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 1 1 3 7 20 +120 Runaround 1942 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +33 Patron of the Arts 1972 First published in Universe 2 "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +34 When it Changed 1972 First published in Again, Dangersous Visions "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +953 The Man Who Sold The Moon 1971 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON is a key work in Heinlein's majestic plan of the years ahead. The stories are masterpieces in their own right but at the same time form an integral part in an overall scheme and certainly add to our appreciation of his other novels. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 28 +35 On the Downhill Side 1972 First published in Univers 2 "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 7 9 +1212 The Voyage of the Space Beagle 1950 * copyright date above -- required page ripped out of novel Into the awesome depths of intergalactic space hurtled the Space Beagle, travelling on Man;s most ambitious expedition to the far reaches of the universe. From galaxy to galaxy the crew explored the remains of past races and civilizations on desolate planets and found weird life-forms floating in space itself.\n\nBut the explorers not only had to contend with danger from the outside: within their own ship they carried one of the deadliest menaces in all creation... 2003-06-11 00:00:00 2003-06-11 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +1287 Out of Phaze 1988 Welcome to the astonishing parallel worlds of Phaze and Proton. Where the magic and science maintain an uneasy truce. Where an accidental mind-switch plunges an apprentice wizard from Phaze into the mind-boggling technology of Proton. And where a robot named Mach is, in turn, swept away to a world of bizarre and terrifying wonders: the dazzling world of Phaze... 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 2 1 3 6 3 +135 Nightfall Two 1973 Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +36 The Fifth Head of Cerberus 1972 First published in Orbit 10 "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +37 When We Went to See the End of the World 1972 First published in Universe 2 "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +737 The Gentle Vultures 1957 First published in Super Science Fiction Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +38 Goat Song 1972 First published in the Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy "It's a mass of bubbles - some kind of foam. Hydrocarbon froth. Get the\nchemists working on... Just a minute! ... Tell Dr Brenner that there is life on\nJupiter. And it's big..."\nA MEETING WITH MEDUSA Arthur C. Clarke\n\nPanther Books proudly presents the eighth collection of stupendous science\nfiction stories which won Nebula Awards, such as ARTHUR C. CLARKE's fascinating\ntale of Jovian exploration, or were runners-up for the much-coveted prize.\nIntroduced by the master himself, ISAAC ASIMOV, this collection also contains\neight short stories by POUL ANDERSON, ROBERT SILVERBERG, FREDERIK POHL, HARLAN\nELLISON and others, each one an example of the best SF written today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +40 The Naked Sun 1985 On the remote planet Solaria the first murder for two hundred years has been committed. The Solarians are Spacers with a civilization based on robots instead of slaves - and some pretty weird taboos and phobias. Into this strange set-up comes Terran detective Elijah Baley, investigating the murder for his government. But Baley finds aspects of life on Solaria difficult, even terrifying to cope with - as an Earthman, he is used to living underground. From the moment of his arrival on Solaria, Baley's investigation becomes an ordeal of nerves under the pitiless glare of the naked sun... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +42 The End of Eternity 1978 His name was Andrew Harlan. He was an Eternal: a member of a highly exclusive organisation. He was a technician, and his job was to range through past and present centuries, monitoring and even altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships...\n\nBut when he met Noys he fell victim to a phenomenon older that Time itself - love. It was then that he realized he must use the awesome technique of the Eternals to twist Time so that they might survive - together. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +96 Trantor Falls 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 16 +46 The Prime of Life 1966 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 9 10 +1423 Conqueror's Moon \N 2006-10-23 00:00:00 2006-10-23 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1426 Sorceror's Moon \N 2006-10-23 00:00:00 2006-10-23 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1431 zodiac \N 2006-11-17 00:00:00 2006-11-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1458 In the King's Service \N 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +47 Feminine Intuition 1969 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +48 Waterclap 1970 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +49 That Thou Art Mindful of Him 1974 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +50 Stranger in Paradise 1974 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +95 Murder in the Urth Degree 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 6 16 +51 The Life and Times of Multivac 1975 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 10 +52 The Winnowing 1976 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +157 The Sharing of Flesh 1968 The date is a guess The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 5 +53 The Bicentennial Man 1976 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +54 Marching In 1976 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +55 The Tercentenary Incident 1976 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +8 Orion Shall rise 1983 Battle for the Future.\n\nCenturies after a worldwide nuclear war has decimated Earth's population and\ndevastated the land, four opposing pockets of civilisation vie for control of\nthe planet - and of the precious resources that survived the destruction.\n\nNothing less than the future of Mankind is at stake...\n\nA novel of politics and people, adventure and passion, of worlds real and\nimagined, ORION SHALL RISE is a powerful and utterly enthralling speculation\non our global destiny - and a gripping story as only Poul Anderson could write\nit. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2 1 3 7 5 +56 Birth of a Notion 1976 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +97 Dilemma 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 16 +57 Buy Jupiter 1985 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +58 Darwinian Pool Room 1950 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +59 Day of the Hunters 1950 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +60 Shah Guido G. 1951 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 7 10 +61 Button, Button 1952 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 10 +738 All the Troubles of the World 1958 First published in Super Science Fiction Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 2 +62 The Monkey's Finger 1952 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +63 Everest 1953 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 10 +64 The Pause 1954 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 10 +65 Let's Not 1954 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 10 +98 Maureen Birnbaum After Dark 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 9 16 +66 Each an Explorer 1956 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +119 Liar! 1941 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +67 Blank! 1957 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 10 +930 Night Arrant 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-31 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +68 Does a Bee Care? 1957 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +69 Silly Asses 1957 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 10 +70 Buy Jupiter 1958 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +71 A Statue for Father 1958 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 10 +137 What If - 1952 First published in Fantastic.\ninterestingly similar to film 'sliders'? with Gwyneth Paltrow Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 9 +72 Rain, Rain, Go Away 1959 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 10 +73 Founding Father 1965 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +74 Exile to Hell 1968 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +99 Balance 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 16 +75 Key Item 1968 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +151 The Hugo Winners: 1968-1970 1971 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 5 +76 The Proper Study 1968 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +77 2430 AD 1970 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +78 Greatest Asset 1971 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 10 +79 Take a match 1972 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +80 Thiotimoline to the Stars 1973 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 10 +138 Sally 1953 First published in Fantastic Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +9 The Worlds of Poul Anderson 1974 Poul Anderson, one of the most respected and widely-read science fiction\nauthors, has made a highly successful career of thrilling his readers with a\nspecial blend of adventure, humor and science.\n\nThis new collection brings together three novels that exhibit all of the\ninimitable Anderson ingredients. In PLANET OF NO RETURN, an overpopulated\nEarth finally finds a habitable world to colonize ... and discovers hidden\nenemies. THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS chronicles the aftermath of an Earth-Mars war\nand its universal consequences. And WORLD WITHOUT STARS is an engrossing story\nof humans shipwrecked on a planet whose sky is dominated by the glow of an\nentire galaxy, and whose surface is split by war.\n\nThese are stories with excitement and style, qualities that have always been\nthe trademark of Poul Anderson. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 3 +81 Light Verse 1973 The biggest advertising sign in the Solar System... dinosaurs of the Mesozic Era - armed with guns ... the fall of a future Atlantis - these and many more mind-spinning delights await the reader within this latest collection of Isaac Asimov's shorter science fiction.\n\nNever before collected into book form, the stories in Buy Jupiter span twenty-three years of Dr Asimov's writing career. Each brilliant tale comes complete with fascinating details of the circumstances in which the author wrote it. The result is an unsurpassed combination of first-rate entertainment and an intriguing look at the development of the twentieth century's master of science fiction. Buy Jupiter is a vital addition to any SF collection. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 10 +82 Robots and Empire 1986 Daneel has the finest mind in history.\n\nGiskard can adjust human emotions.\n\nCan two conscience-stricken robots save the galaxy?\n\nMadam Gladia Solaria glanced disdainfully at the barbarous settler from Baley world who had disturbed her long middle-age on Aurora.\n\nYet something about him intrigued her. Perhaps because both he and his planet were named after Elijah Baley, the short-lived Earthman who'd been her lover two centuries before.\n\nThose memories plagued her. She knew she must return with the Settler to the deserted planet of her birth, Solaria.\n\nBut the robots Daneel and Giskard knew more. They too remembered Elijah Baley. Now they must prevent his old enemies from plunging the galaxy into war - if the First Law of Robotics would let them... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +100 The Present Eternal 1989 this might have something to do with the 'eternal' book/series but it just made no sense as is No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 6 16 +102 The Reunion at the Mile-High 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 16 +85 Prelude to Foundation 1988 It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.\n\nHari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory (psychosociology, p.76), his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire ... the man who holds the key to the future -- an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 11 +86 Foundation 1976 The time is a future century, in the days of the Galactic Empire - a society of a million worlds throughout the Milky Way. The Old Empire is crumbling into barbarism and Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists see before them only the despair of thousands of years of anarchy, unless they can create a new force - the Foundation - dedicated to art, science and technology - the nucleus of a new empire... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 9 +87 Foundation and Empire 1971 This story takes us into the holocaust of galactic conflict where, among a million worlds, two mighty movements clash over the destiny of the Universe... grappling for control amid the chaos of the stars - and only one can survive... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +1418 Assassin's Apprentice 1996 Fitz, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world with only his magical link with animals for solace and companionship.\n\nBut when Fitz is adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and learn a new life: weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly. Meanwhile, raiders ravage the coasts, leaving the people Forged and soulless. As Fitz grows towards manhood, he will have to face his first terrifying mission, a task that poses as much risk to himself as it does to his target: for Fitz is a threat to the throne … but he may also be the key to the future of the kingdom. 2006-09-19 00:00:00 2006-09-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +158 The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World 1968 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 8 5 +89 Foundation's Edge 1983 As the blurb lacks content, here is an alterative back cover:\n\nAt last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all -- and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation -- a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian -- set out in search of the mythical planet Earth ... and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.\n\nMeanwhile someone -- or something -- outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe! In Foundation's Edge, one of SF's legendary greats has produced a masterwork: the continuation of the mighty Foundation series, the most honoured epic in science fiction history. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +90 Foundation and Earth 1987 Exiled Councilman, Trevize, having found Gaia, a world inhabited by telepathic beings, journeys onwards with his companions in their quest for new knowledge of the mysterious planet Earth. As they near their destination, Bliss the Gaian begins to pick up the thought waves of intelligent beings - but are they human? What new mysteries - and dangers - await the intrepid voyagers on the ancient ancestral planet? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +139 Files 1953 First published in F & SF Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 6 9 +140 Nobody Here But 1953 First published in Star Science Fiction Stories Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +91 Forward the Foundation 1994 For more than forty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his bestselling Foundation series, a spellbinding tale of the future that spans thousands of years and dozens of worlds. Completed just weeks before his death in April 1992, Forward the Foundation is the seventh and concluding volume of this masterwork.\n\nIn the earlier Foundation novels, Hari Seldon, the guiding genius of the Foundation, was a figure of history. By going back to the great mathematician's life, in Forward the Foundation, Asimov fills in the remaining gaps in his epic story. Asimov acknowledged that he always regarded Seldon as his alter ego, and this novel is all the more poignant for the fact that he himself died only weeks after writing about Seldon's death.\n\nA resounding tour de force, Forward the Foundation offers the dramatic climax to the Foundation series, and perhaps the greatest moment in science fiction to date. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 11 +92 Foundation's Friends 1989 Edited by Martin H. Greenberg\nPreface by Ray Bradbury\nSecond Preface by Ben Bova\nAfterwords by Janet Aasimov and Isaac Asmiov No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 16 +93 Strip-Runner 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 16 +94 The Asenion Solution 1989 No work of science fiction in this century has captured the imagination of so many readers as the epic future history put forth, over the last fifty years, in the stories of Isaac Asimov.\nNow, for the first time, a select group of the Good Doctor's fellow writers have been allowed to explore his astonishing creation from their own unique perspectives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 16 +152 Weyr Search 1967 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 5 +153 Riders of the Purple Wage 1967 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 10 5 +154 Gonna Roll the Bones 1967 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 5 +155 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream 1967 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 5 +156 Nightwings 1968 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 5 +159 Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones 1969 The Hugo Award is to Science Fiction what the Oscar is to Hollywood and each year at the World Science Fiction Convention the coveted statuette - modelled after a space ship - is presented to the author of the best short story that year.\n\nIn this anthology Isaac Asimov has compiled the prize-winning stories from the 26th to the 28th Conventions. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 8 5 +850 Belief 1953 Astounding, October, 1953 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 6 +167 Mazirian the Magician 1950 From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 12 +168 Please Stand By 1961 From the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 12 +268 They Shall Have Stars 1957 James Blish's epic history of the future - of the cities that left the Earth to roam interstellar space - makes up one of the landmark works of science fiction. Now, for the first time, the four class 'Okie' books are available in one volume. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 21 +169 What Good Is a Glass Dagger? 1972 From the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 12 +170 The Eye of Tandala 1951 From Fantastic Adventures From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 12 +171 The White Horse 1979 From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 12 +172 Semley's Necklace 1964 From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 12 +173 And the Monsters Walk 1952 From Fantastic Adventures From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 12 +174 The Seeker in the Fortress 1979 From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 12 +1116 The Queen of Swords 1980 The Queen of Swords\n\nThe second of the BOOKS OF CORUM which concerns the quests and adventures of Corum Jhaelen Irsei of the Vadhagh Folk, who is also called the Prince in the Scarlet Robe. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 10 +709 The Two Towers 1954 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 43 +175 The Wall Around the World 1953 From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 12 +176 The People of the Black Circle 1934 From Atlantis to California, from the Orient to far-distant worlds, come classic tales of wizardry used for evil and good. From a sorcerous battle where a warlock's only ally is his werewolf, to demons thirsting for the souls of victims and masters alike, to Conan the Barbarian in a danger-filled contest with the force of darkness, these are spellbinding journeys into Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 12 +177 Asimov's Mysteries 1973 A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +178 The Singing Bell 1955 First published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +179 The Talking Stone 1955 First published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +180 What's in a name? 1956 First published as 'Death of a Honey-Blonde' in the Saint Detective Magazine A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +181 The Dying Night 1956 First published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +182 Pate de Foie Gras 1956 First published in Astounding Science Fiction A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +183 The Dust of Death 1957 First published in Venture Science Fiction A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +184 A Loint of Paw 1957 First published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 9 9 +710 The Return of the King 1955 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 43 +185 I'm in Marsport without Hilda 1957 First published in Venture Science Fiction A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +186 Marooned of Vesta 1939 First published in Amazing Stories A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +187 Anniversary 1959 First published in Amazing Stories A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +225 The Perfect Machine 1968 First published in october 1968 issue of Science Journal A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 4 +188 Obituary 1959 First published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 9 +216 Afeter Apollo, What? 1967 First published as "After Apollo, a Colony on the Moon" A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 4 +189 Star Light 1962 First published in Scientific American (as part of an advertisement) A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +190 The Key 1966 First published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 9 +191 The Billiard Ball 1967 First published in If A Devil's Dozen of Fiendish Mysteries\n\nIsaac Asimov is renowned the world over as creator of the magnificent Foundation trilogy, a galaxy spanning saga of warfare and political intrigue. He has also virtually pioneered the mystery story as a distinct branch of science fiction with such novels as The Naked Sun and The Caves of Steel. Now Panther are pleased to present these thirteen fiendishly ingenious stories of crime, murder, puzzlement and detection in the far reaches of space and centuries in the future by perhaps the most famous and consistently entertaining science fiction author of today. This book is a superb showcase of Dr. Asimov's brilliant storytelling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +217 No Space for Women? 1971 First published in The Ladies' Home Journal A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 4 +211 The Stars in their Courses 1975 Contents:\n\nA Astronomy\n1 The Stars in their Courses\n2 The Lop-sided Sun\n3 The Lunar Honor-roll\n4 Worlds in Confusion\n\nB Physics\n5 Two at a Time\n6 On Throwing a Ball\n7 The Man Who Massed the Earth\n8 The Luxon Wall\n9 Playing the Game\n10 The Distance of Far \n\nC Chemistry\n11 The Multiplying Elements\n12 Bridging the Gaps\n13 The Nobel Prize That Wasn't\n\nD Sociology\n14 The Fateful Lightning\n15 The Sin of the Scientist\n16 The Power of Progression\n17 My Planet, 'tis of Thee - In seventeen essays, written in his uniquely informative and entertaining style, Isaac Asimov deals with such intriguing questions as:\n\n* Where did astrology come from, what validity does it have, and what makes it so popular today?\n* Why do some stars appear redder than most? Is this what is meant by 'red-shift'?\n* What, chemically speaking, is 'earth', and what are 'rare earths'?\n* How much longer can man continue his current rate of population growth?\n* What can we do to guarantee the quality of life in the future? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +212 The Left Hand of the Electron 1976 Contents:\n\nA - The Problem of Left and Right\n1 - Odds and Evens\n2 - The Left Hand of the Electron\n3 - Seeing Double\n4 - The 3-D Molecule\n5 - The Asymmetry of Life\n\nB - The Problem of Oceans\n6 - The Thalassogens\n7 - Hot Water\n8 - Cold Water\n\nC - the Problems of Numbers and Lines\n9 - Prime Quality\n10 - Euclid's Fifth\n11 - The Plane Truth\n\nD - The Problems of the Platypus\n12 - Holes in the Head\n\nE - The Problem of History\n13 - The Eureka Phenomenon\n14 - Pompey and Circumstance\n15 - Bill and I\n\nF - The Problem of Population\n16 - Stop!\n17 - ... But How? As the pace of scientific and technological progress speeds ahead, it becomes increasingly difficult for man to comprehend the world around him.\n\nBut here, in this superb collection of seventeen essays, Dr Asimov offers everyone the chance of improving his understanding of the basic laws which govern our daily existence. In a clear an accessible style, he discusses topics ranging from the sub-microscopic complexities of the atom, to the problems of overpopulation and the challenge to human survival.\n\nWitty, literate, informed and provocative, these essays show America's best professional explainer at the top of his form. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +227 The Serious Side of Science Fiction 1974 Just guessing on the date A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 4 +739 Spell my Name with an S 1958 First published in Star Science Fiction, titled as 'S, as in Zebatinsky' Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +213 The Tragedy of the Moon 1972 Contents:\n\nA - About the Moon\n1 - The Tragedy of the Moon\n2 - The Triumph of the Moon\n3 - Moon Over Babylon\n4 - The Week Excuse\n\nB - About Other Small Worlds\n5 - The World Ceres\n6 - The Clock in the Sky\n\nC - About Carbon\n7 - The One and Only\n8 - The Unlikely Twins\n\nD - About Micro-organisms\n9 - Through the Microglass\n10 - Down From the Amoeba\n11 - The Cinderella Compound\n\nE - About the Thyroid Gland\n12 - Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat\n\nF - About Society\n13 - Lost in Non-Translation\n14 - The Ancient and the Ultimate\n15 - By the Numbers\n\nG - And (You Guessed It!) About Me\n16 - The Cruise and I\n17 - Academe and I In this fascinating volume one of the greatest imaginative minds in the world of science fiction turns his attention to science fact. Far from the drabness of scientific textbooks, here is a mind-bending trip into the world as it is - and as it might have been.\n\nWhat would life on Earth be like if we didn't have the Moon?\n\nWhy don't we follow the clear logic of a seasonal calendar?\n\nMust we computerize the world because we have grown too lazy to run it in any other way?\n\nScientist of non-scientist, layman or specialist, Asimov invites you to join him on a trip back into the past - and forward into the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 4 +214 Towards Tomorrow 1977 A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 4 +215 The Lunar Landing 1969 First published as "The Moon Could Answer the Riddle of Life" A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 4 +218 Future Fun 1967 First published in Lithopinion No.6 The Graphic Arts and Public Affairs Journal of Local One, Amalgamated Lithographers of America (New York) A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 4 +219 Personal Flight 1971 First published as "Personal Flight 2000 A.D." in May 1971 Issue of Private Pilot. A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 4 +220 Freedom at Last 1970 First published as "You've Come a Long Way, Baby...," in March 14 1970 issue of Newsday. A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 4 +221 The Age of the Computer 1968 First published as "Who's Afraid of Computers?" in January 20, 1968 issue of Newsday. A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 4 +222 The End 1971 First published in Penthouse Magazine A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 4 +223 The End, Unless... 1971 First published as "Can Man Survive the Year 2000?" in January 1971 issue of True A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 4 +224 The Fourth Revolution 1970 First published in October 24 issue of Saturday Review A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 4 +636 Snowsong 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 40 +228 A Literature of Ideas 1974 Just guessing on date A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 4 +229 The Scientist's Responsibility 1971 First published in Chemcial and Engineering News, Vol 49, April 1971 A great science fiction writer takes an amazing trip towards the ultimate limits of science speculation - to a future where Man may travel through space faster than the speed of light. Where he may breed himself into starvation or set fire to the world with the atomic bomb. Where space-walking and lunar skiing will be normal recreational sports. Where Supercomputers will possess greater intelligence than Man. And where present-day concepts of religion, sex and politics must change drastically if he is not to destroy himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 4 +275 Tomb Tapper 1956 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 21 +1421 Exile's Return 2005 Abandoned in the wilds of a nation on the other side of the world and left with nothing but his wits and determination, Kaspar, former Duke of Olasko, must fight merely to survive the next day. Armed with guile and cunning, strength of purpose and an iron will, he starts his odyssey with a single goal: to return to his home and revenge himself on the man who cast him down, Talwin Hawkins.\n\nBut far more is at stake than Kaspar realises. He is but a single player in a deadly game, for pitted against the Conclave of Shadows are the agents of the Dark Empire, a looming menace that threatens not only Kaspar's homeland of Olasko, but the entire world of Midkemia in a struggle that would make the Riftwar and the Serpentwar seem trivial. 2006-10-23 00:00:00 2008-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 25 +244 Dust Rag 1956 First published in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 18 +230 Life and Energy 1962 An exploration of the physical and chemical basis of modern biology.\n\nContents:\nPart I: ENERGY\n1 The Effort We Make\n2 The Consequence of Fire\n3 The Measurement of Motion\n4 The Measurement of Heat\n5 The Flow of Heat\n6 The Moving Particles\n7 the Particles Hold Together\n8 The Heat of Reaction\n9 The Direction of Reaction\n10 The Electrical Route\n11 The Encouragement of Reaction\n12 Encouragement without Energy\n\nPart II: THE BODY\n13 Life and Non-Life Again\n14 The Idling Speed\n15 The Catalysts of Life\n16 The Detail of Protein\n17 The Weak Attraction\n18 The Workings of Enzymes\n19 The Outer Edges\n20 Life without Air\n21 The Importance of Phosphate\n22 The Transfer of Electrons\n23 Life with Air\n24 The Joining of the Routes\n25 The Ultimate Source A brilliant introduction to the chemistry of life.\n\nIn this distinguished as well as highly lucid guide to the dynamics of modern biology, Isaac Asimov deftly explores the most recent discoveries in this constantly surprising field of inquiry.\n\nIn the first part, he explains the mechanics of the inanimate world, the significance of energy, work, motion, heat and chemical reaction. He then uses these concepts in the second half to analyze and explain the latest advances in the study of enzymes, amino acids, proteins and the very processes which constitute life itself. In short, Dr. Asimov's keen examination of biology's current desire to isolate and control the very basis of life - the significance of which promises to revolutionize life itself - becomes a fascinating as well as informative excursion.\n\nIllustrated with drawings, charts and diagrams. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 17 +231 Where Do We Go From Here? 1973 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 18 +232 A Martian Odyssey 1934 First published in Wonder Stories 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 18 +233 Night 1935 First published in Astounding Stories. John W. Campbell used Don A. Stuart as a pseudonym. 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 4 18 +251 The Forge of God 1987 1996.\n\nEuropa, one of Jupiter's moons, suddenly disappears; it is as though it never existed.\n\nShortly after, a mysterious mound, evidently a disguised spaceship, is found in the Californian desert. Beside it lies a dying alien creature, which when approached says very clearly, 'I am sorry, but there is bad news.'\n\nBut Australia doesn't think so, for another spaceship has landed there, carrying friendly robots who promise a new era of peace and plenty.\n\nIs all this linked? Who is telling the truth? And what does it really mean for the future of the world?\n\nAlan Gordon, recently science advisor to the President, cannot escape the felling that something very terrible indeed is about to happen... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 7 +234 The Day Is Done 1939 First published in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 18 +235 Heavy Planet 1939 First published under the name of Lee Gregor in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 18 +272 Testament to Andros 1953 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 21 +236 '- And He Built a Crooked House -' 1941 First published in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 18 +237 Proof 1942 First published in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 18 +260 Black Easter 1968 Is the desire for knowledge, let alone the use of it, a misuse of the mind? Perhaps even actively evil?\n\nFrom the tormented visions of a 13th Century prophet damned by the world ... to the apocalyptic night when God is vanquished and all the devils are unleashed...\n\nAFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE is James Blish's groundbreaking thematic trilogy, long-regarded as his finest work, comprising DR. MIRABLIS, BLACK EASTER, THE DAY AFTER JUDGEMENT and A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 7 +238 A Subway Named Mobius 1950 First published in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 18 +239 Surface Tension 1957 First published in Galaxy Magazine 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 18 +240 Country Doctor 1953 First published in Stars Science Fiction no. 1 edited by frederik Pohl 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 18 +241 The Holes Around Mars 1954 First published in Galaxy Magazine 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 2 3 1 4 18 +242 The Deep Range 1954 First published in Stars Science Fiction no. 3 edited by frederik Pohl 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 18 +273 Common Time 1953 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 21 +243 The Cave of Night 1955 First published in Galaxy Magazine 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 18 +274 A Work of Art 1956 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 21 +245 Pate de Foie Gras 1956 First published in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 18 +246 Omnilingual 1957 First published in Astounding Science Fiction 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 18 +247 The Big Bounce 1958 First published in Galaxy Magazine 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 4 18 +248 Neutron Star 1966 First published in Worlds of IF 'I have long maintained that science fiction has potential as an inspiring and useful teaching device' writes Isaac Asimov, and in this anthology of the work of some of the foremost authors in the field, Dr Asimov has included seventeen outstanding stories that will not only delight the science fiction reader, but intrigue and stimulate the science student as well.\n\nEach selection was chosen for its scientific content as well as for its merit as a story, and each is followed by a brief discussion by Dr Asimov in which he considers the scientific problems it presents and the fascinating questions it raises. An additional listing of sources for further study makes this a truly engrossing collection of classic science fiction tales as well as an excellent supplement for standard science texts. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 18 +250 The Thief of Always 1993 Mr Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied.\n\nThere is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr Hood's wonders does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the House shows its darker face - when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadow - that he comes to doubt Mr Hood's philanthropy.\n\nThe House and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle, however. Mr Hood has ambitions for his new guest, for Harvey's soul burns brighter than any soul he has encountered in a thousand years... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2 1 3 5 13 +253 Eon 1985 EON\n\nAbove our planet hangs a hollow Stone, vast as the imagination of Man. The inner dimensions are at odds with the outer: there are different chambers to be breached, some containing deserted cities; the furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the Stone's scientists...\n\nBut the Stone is not an alien structure. It comes from the future of humanity. Tombstone or milestone, the war that breaks out on earth beneath its presence seems to bear witness to its prowess as an oracle... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 7 +1422 Flight of the Nighthawks 2006 The Conclave of Shadows faces two challenges, finding and destroying the evil magician Leso Varen, and neutralizing an army of ten thousand magical warriors hidden in a cave on the other side of the world. On the world of Kelewan, Pug's son, Magnus, and the master magicians of Kelewan study one of the warriors, called a Talnoy, and discover that it's acting as a beacon for a vast army of alien invaders, one so formidable that even the might of the Tsurani Empire could fall before its fury.\n\nMeanwhile, three other agents of the Conclave Kaspar, Talwin, and Caleb - are sent deep into the heart of the Empire of Great Kesh charged with uncovering a new nest of Night Hawks who are plotting to overthrow the imperial government; a scheme so dark and twisted it implicates even the highest ranking nobles of the Empire and members of the royal family itself. 2006-10-23 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 25 +851 Death of a Foy 1980 F & SF, #353, October, 1980. The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 10 6 +254 Eternity 1989 Journey into Eternity\n\nAcross decades of flight I became many people. I was no longer Pavel Mirksy, but a citizen of a new world, adapting to its unlikely environment.\n\nI watched the humans who came with me evolve, as I did, or fade away. The journey lasted, from our point of view, centuries. Time is a variable thing; flexible, but ever-present, warped and twisted into some barely recognizable form or another.\n\nIf all my time were stretched out in a straight line, I might have lived ten thousand years, by your scale..\n\nWe had long since passed beyond the point in the Way where the last moments of this universe might have been accessed. Had we opened a gate there, we might have witnessed the death of all we had ever known. And still we fled. I had defected from my own universe.\n\nThe Way grew broader around us. We studied this increase and foresaw what awaited us. A vast blister of space-time, capping but not ending the Way, finite buy unbounded.\n\nWe had entered the egg of a new universe. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 19 +257 Moving Mars 1993 Greg Bear's latest scientific epic is set on Mars two hundred years in the future. Moving Mars introduces Casseia Majumdar, one of a group of students fighting the State government which wants to impose unity upon the Binding Multiples - extended families covering the surface of the planet. As Earth also starts to interfere with Martian politics and economy, Casseia is sent to the home planet here she is part of a team attempting unsuccessfully to reach a compromise. Returning to Mars she finds that Charles Franklin, a fellow student to whom Casseia is reluctantly attracted, has uncovered a new form of physics which could change Man and the universe irrevocably and, unwillingly, Casseia is forced to become one of those who lead Mankind into a new era. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 7 +258 After Such Knowledge 1991 Is the desire for knowledge, let alone the use of it, a misuse of the mind? Perhaps even actively evil?\n\nFrom the tormented visions of a 13th Century prophet damned by the world ... to the apocalyptic night when God is vanquished and all the devils are unleashed...\n\nAFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE is James Blish's groundbreaking thematic trilogy, long-regarded as his finest work, comprising DR. MIRABLIS, BLACK EASTER, THE DAY AFTER JUDGEMENT and A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 7 +259 Doctor Mirablis 1964 Is the desire for knowledge, let alone the use of it, a misuse of the mind? Perhaps even actively evil?\n\nFrom the tormented visions of a 13th Century prophet damned by the world ... to the apocalyptic night when God is vanquished and all the devils are unleashed...\n\nAFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE is James Blish's groundbreaking thematic trilogy, long-regarded as his finest work, comprising DR. MIRABLIS, BLACK EASTER, THE DAY AFTER JUDGEMENT and A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 7 +261 The Day After Judgement 1972 Is the desire for knowledge, let alone the use of it, a misuse of the mind? Perhaps even actively evil?\n\nFrom the tormented visions of a 13th Century prophet damned by the world ... to the apocalyptic night when God is vanquished and all the devils are unleashed...\n\nAFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE is James Blish's groundbreaking thematic trilogy, long-regarded as his finest work, comprising DR. MIRABLIS, BLACK EASTER, THE DAY AFTER JUDGEMENT and A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 7 +262 A Case of Conscience 1958 Is the desire for knowledge, let alone the use of it, a misuse of the mind? Perhaps even actively evil?\n\nFrom the tormented visions of a 13th Century prophet damned by the world ... to the apocalyptic night when God is vanquished and all the devils are unleashed...\n\nAFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE is James Blish's groundbreaking thematic trilogy, long-regarded as his finest work, comprising DR. MIRABLIS, BLACK EASTER, THE DAY AFTER JUDGEMENT and A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 7 +264 A Life for the Stars 1957 James Blish's epic history of the future - of the cities that left the Earth to roam interstellar space - makes up one of the landmark works of science fiction. Now, for the first time, the four class 'Okie' books are available in one volume. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 21 +265 Earthman, Come Home 1955 James Blish's epic history of the future - of the cities that left the Earth to roam interstellar space - makes up one of the landmark works of science fiction. Now, for the first time, the four class 'Okie' books are available in one volume. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 21 +266 The Triumph of Time 1958 James Blish's epic history of the future - of the cities that left the Earth to roam interstellar space - makes up one of the landmark works of science fiction. Now, for the first time, the four class 'Okie' books are available in one volume. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 21 +269 Spock Must Die! 1984 During a routine mission in an uncharted area of space, Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise received a report that the Klingon Empire had mounted a major attack on the Federation...\n\nSuch an attack should have been immediately suppressed by the peace-loving Organians - but the Organians and their planet had completely disappeared - possibly destroyed by the warlike Klingons...\n\nFirst Officer Spock entered the transporter chamber. He intended to discover the fate of the missing planet. But as the whine of the machine died down, out from the chamber stepped two Mr Spocks... identical ... alike in every way and both claiming to be the original. For the sake of the Enterprise one of them had to be destroyed... but which one? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 3 1 3 3 20 +637 The Wizards Spectacles 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 40 +270 The Testament of Andros 1977 First published 1973 as Best Science Fiction Stories of James Blish A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 21 +271 Surface Tension 1952 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 21 +276 The Oath 1960 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 21 +277 How Beautiful with Banners 1966 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 21 +278 We All Die Naked 1970 A disaster-investigator of the future - whose craft is the reading of dead men's minds...\n\nA polluted, dying Earth where power is in the hands of the almighty International Brotherhood of Sanitary Engineers...\n\nMinute aquatic human colonists, genetically bred to settle an underwater world...\n\nA woman space pioneer who unwittingly brings heterosexuality to the primeval life of titan...\n\nAll this - and more: the best of the best from one of the true giants of modern SF. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 21 +325 Bird of Prey 1985 In the Dry Towns waited humanity's greatest danger and future destin\ny, a madman's key to the universe which only the mind of a child might hope to master. An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 23 +279 The Wizard and the Warlord 1987 Fairly obvious story line, might be a 5/10, but I don't want the other 3 in the series... Sigurd grew up with his grandmother, bothered only by the trolls that seemed bent on destroying their settlement. Then she died, leaving him a mysterious warning against some dread warlord or wizard - he couldn't be sure of which from her final ravings. Then the grim warlord Halfdane came to abduct him by force into the Realm of the Alfar.\n\nNow he was a virtual prisoner in the hill fort of halfdane, caught in a bitter war between light and dark elves. And he seemed trapped on the losing side. His only hope was to escape and somehow learn what powerful magic was contained in the box and which everyone seemed bent on stealing from him.\n\nOf course, there were a few walking dead, a cursed sword, and a multitude of savage trolls to be faced. But the strange wizard Jotull was willing - oh, very willing - to help him! 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-20 00:00:00 3 1 3 7 20 +287 The Bloody Son 1978 Darkover had once been home to Jeff Kerwin - a home he'd left and then yearned after for many years. But when, finally, he returned it was to mystery and fear.\n\nFor there was no record of his birth there, nor of his childhood. And when he joined the freedom fighters who struggled to overthrow Earth's control of the planet, the Darkovans accused him of being a spy.\n\nHad Jeff been conditioned, on Earth, to betray Darkover? He, himself, was no longer sure of who - or what - he rally was! 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 21 +288 The Heritage of Hastur 1979 Darkover had been a useful planet for the Terran Empire to colonise, conveniently situated out on the Milky Way.\n\nBut the inhabitants were hostile, alien creatures with extraordinary telepathic powers, who worshipped the magic 'matrix'.\n\nThe Heritage of Hastur witnesses another epoch in the history of this dark and mysterious world of Darkover - a titanic struggle between those who champion the wonders of new galactic sciences and those who want to preserve the old belief in the psychic power of the 'matrix'.\n\nIs this the end of the uneasy co-existence between the Terran world and the forgotten Darkovans... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 21 +289 Sharra's Exile 1983 This book is a 'rewrite' of The Sword of Aldones The Age of Chaos had almost destroyed the civilization on the planet of the Bloody Sun. Even the most dangerous Matrix on all Darkover, the legendary Sharra, had been exiled to the far-off Terran Empire. But now the Sharra was back, embodied in the image of a chained woman wreathed in flames - an image that could change the history of Darkover forever. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-11-28 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 21 +293 The Shattered Chain 1978 When the Terran Empire first colonised the Planet Darkover, they were grateful to find some human life, mixed as it was with strange alien creatures. Yet to the highly sophisticated technocrats from Earth, the ancient Darkovan civilisation presents an impenetrable barrier of medieval warring clans - many of them possessing highly developed psychic powers.\n\nStrangest of all is an enigmatic band of women known as the Free Amazons. A law unto themselves, they hold the key to the mystery of the planet... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 21 +645 Dagger-Flight 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 40 +320 The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley 1990 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 23 +321 Centaurus Changeling 1985 How could humans ever make Theta Centaurus IV their home, when the very act of creation was a death sentence for mother and child alike? An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 23 +322 The Climbing Wave 1985 Generations after their ancestors had fled to distant stars, they returned to Earth to find a world and people beyond their wildest dreams. An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 23 +323 Exiles of Tomorrow 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 23 +324 Death Between the Stars 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 23 +326 The Wind People 1985 Abandoned on a world devoid of all human life, would they fall prey to their own imaginings ... and the ever-preset calling of the wind? An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 23 +327 The Wild One 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 23 +328 Treason of the Blood 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 23 +329 The Day of the Butterflies 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 7 23 +330 Hero's Moon 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 23 +331 The Engine 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 23 +332 The Secret of the Blue Star 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 23 +333 To Keep the Oath 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 23 +334 Elbow Room 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 23 +335 Blood Will tell 1985 An unforgettable journey through time and space to a unique universe...\n\nFifteen unearthly tales, rich with details of magical distant lands and strange alien cultures, spanning the whole universe of the imagination.\n\nFrom an alien invasion where death is the key to success... to eternal guardians of time, bent on preserving Earth's timeline as they see it ... to a Darkovan Renunciate who must choose between the laws of her Guild and the life of a brave warrior ... these spell-binding visions are some of the finest adventures ever created. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 23 +346 The Exiles Trilogy 1984 They were Earth's finest minds: the most brilliant of the young generation of scientists who alone could save the overburdened planet.\n\nBut the tyrannical World Government feared their breakthrough in genetic engineering, and they were rewarded for their success by the cruellest punishment ever devised.\n\nBanned from Earth forever, their exile became the greatest challenge of mankind\n. They left behind a million years of evolution to face the unknown on a one-way voyage across the Universe. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 26 +347 Exiled From Earth 1971 They were Earth's finest minds: the most brilliant of the young generation of scientists who alone could save the overburdened planet.\n\nBut the tyrannical World Government feared their breakthrough in genetic engineering, and they were rewarded for their success by the cruellest punishment ever devised.\n\nBanned from Earth forever, their exile became the greatest challenge of mankind\n. They left behind a million years of evolution to face the unknown on a one-way voyage across the Universe. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 26 +348 Flight of Exiles 1972 They were Earth's finest minds: the most brilliant of the young generation of scientists who alone could save the overburdened planet.\n\nBut the tyrannical World Government feared their breakthrough in genetic engineering, and they were rewarded for their success by the cruellest punishment ever devised.\n\nBanned from Earth forever, their exile became the greatest challenge of mankind\n. They left behind a million years of evolution to face the unknown on a one-way voyage across the Universe. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 26 +349 End of Exile 1975 They were Earth's finest minds: the most brilliant of the young generation of scientists who alone could save the overburdened planet.\n\nBut the tyrannical World Government feared their breakthrough in genetic engineering, and they were rewarded for their success by the cruellest punishment ever devised.\n\nBanned from Earth forever, their exile became the greatest challenge of mankind\n. They left behind a million years of evolution to face the unknown on a one-way voyage across the Universe. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 26 +597 The Uplift War 1987 As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various Uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. Sweeping, brilliantly crafted, inventive and dramatic, The Uplift War is an unforgettable story of adventure and wonder from the pen of one of today's science fiction greats. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 11 +477 Mythological Beast 1978 First published in F & SF Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 13 +478 The Lady in White 1978 First published in F & SF Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 13 +479 Animal Lover 1978 First published in Stelllar No. 4 Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 13 +480 Unworthy if the Angel 1983 First published in Nine Visions Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 13 +481 The Conqueror Worm 1983 First published in The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 13 +482 Ser Visal's Tale 1984 date is a guess Daughter of Regals and other stories\n\nA superb collection of stories from the master of the genre which will delight every lover of fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 13 +736 I'm in Marsport Without Hilda 1957 First published in Venture Science Fiction Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +535 The Saliva Tree 1965 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 28 +536 The Drowned Giant 1964 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 7 28 +530 Balanced Ecology 1965 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 28 +531 "Repent Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman 1965 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 28 +532 He Who Shapes 1965 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 28 +533 Computers Don't Argue 1965 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 28 +462 The Fall of the Towers 1977 It was hard to start this book, and the story was lame anyway The Empire of Toromon was the last hope and refuge of mankind. Sealed off from the charred radioactive wastelands by the radiation barrier, the Empire survived to face new adversaries deadlier even that the Great Fire. The Lord of the Flames. A force of evil devoid of physical substance. The berserk computer which guided the Empire's military complex. And an alien intelligence which crossed the abyss of space in search of new worlds to conquer. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2 1 3 9 5 +463 Babel-17 1966 The commander of the Earthpeople's Alliance journeyed into the bizarre depths of Transport Town to seek Rydra Wong, the cosmic poetess whose words reached across space and whose mind could perceive the meaning of all the worlds' tongues. And his request placed her into the heart of the vile interstellar war between the Alliance and the Invaders.\n\nThe new weapon of the Invaders was Babel-17, a menacing hum clogging up Alliance space communications. Rydra had to decipher the communications power of Babel-17 before it could lead to intergalactic defeat. And to do that, she would have to be the target of the next outer-space attack.\n\nA brilliant new novel by a rapidly rising star of the science-fiction cosmos. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 3 +576 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction 1970 ... A baker's half-dozen of outstanding science fiction writers from the flowering fifties to the pregnant present - proof, if any were needed, that s.f. is indeed a generative form... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 36 +490 A Darkness at Sethanon 1986 As Prince Arutha and his companions rally their forces for the final battle with an ancient and mysterious evil, the dread necromancer Macros the Black has once again unleashed his dark sorcery.\n\nNow the fate of two worlds will be decided in a titanic struggle beneath the walls of Sethanon, as the link between Kelewan and Midkemia is revived. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 6 +491 Daughter of the Empire 1988 The mysterious world of Kelewan is encircled by magic, mystery and murder. Here at the heart of the Tsurani empire, Mara, Ruling Lady of the Acoma, leads her people through terror and peril on a truly epic scale. She must contend with powerful rival houses, strike deals with sinister rebel warriors, and forge a treaty with the enigmatic Cho-ja - a race of alien insectoids. But in order to restore the honour of her house, Mara must marry the son of a deadly enemy - and carry the struggle of her people into the heart of his stronghold... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +544 Decision at Doona 1980 Doona was a jewel of a planet - a pastoral paradise with rivers and lakes and mountains and seas.\n\nThe Hrrubans needed it to revitalise their decadent race, to give them back something of the old pioneering spirit...\n\nThe Terrans needed it as an overspill from the hysterical crowding of earth, a place to breathe and move without restrictions...\n\nSo they both sent a colonising party - and they both began to think of Doona as Home. And then one day the smooth-skinned two-legged mammal known as MAN, came face to face with the fryy, four-pawed mammal known as HRRUBAN... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 20 +492 Servant of the Empire 1991 PLAY THE GAME\nMara of Acoma, Ruling Lady of her house, is a force to be reckoned with when playing the bloody politics of the Game of the Council.\n\nShe's made great gains for her followers within the Empire, including valuable new lands. But they need cultivating, and slaves are in short supply due to the incessant war effort against Midkemia.\n\nPLAY TO WIN\nMara knows you don't get far without taking a gamble, so against advice she buys a group of Midekemian prisoners-of-war, only to discover that one of them is a noble: Kevin, third son of the Baron of Zun. When she interviews him, it becomes apparent that he may be of great use in the Game of the Council...\n\nEnter the mysterious world of Kelewan, where murder is as rife as false diplomacy. Enter a world of sweeping imagination and magical intrigue from two of the greatest writers of modern fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +578 Two Dooms 1958 ... A baker's half-dozen of outstanding science fiction writers from the flowering fifties to the pregnant present - proof, if any were needed, that s.f. is indeed a generative form... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 36 +534 Becalmed in Hell 1965 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 28 +514 Nightfall One 1981 NIGHTFALL ONE is the first half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short fiction yet to appear.\nNIGHTFALL TWO the second volume, is also available in Panther Books. Each story in the two volumes has been selected by the author from his massive output of SF stories over the years and each has a preface specially written for this collection by Dr Asimov himself. Together the two volumes will form an unsurpassed showcase of Isaac Asimov's story-telling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 9 +852 Fair Exchange? 1978 Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, Fall, 1978 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +515 Nightfall 1941 First published in Astounding Science Fiction NIGHTFALL ONE is the first half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short fiction yet to appear.\nNIGHTFALL TWO the second volume, is also available in Panther Books. Each story in the two volumes has been selected by the author from his massive output of SF stories over the years and each has a preface specially written for this collection by Dr Asimov himself. Together the two volumes will form an unsurpassed showcase of Isaac Asimov's story-telling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 9 +516 Green Patches 1950 First published in Galaxy Science Fiction NIGHTFALL ONE is the first half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short fiction yet to appear.\nNIGHTFALL TWO the second volume, is also available in Panther Books. Each story in the two volumes has been selected by the author from his massive output of SF stories over the years and each has a preface specially written for this collection by Dr Asimov himself. Together the two volumes will form an unsurpassed showcase of Isaac Asimov's story-telling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 9 +517 Hostess 1951 First published in Galaxy Science Fiction NIGHTFALL ONE is the first half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short fiction yet to appear.\nNIGHTFALL TWO the second volume, is also available in Panther Books. Each story in the two volumes has been selected by the author from his massive output of SF stories over the years and each has a preface specially written for this collection by Dr Asimov himself. Together the two volumes will form an unsurpassed showcase of Isaac Asimov's story-telling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +518 Breeds There a Man? 1951 First published in Astounding Science Fiction NIGHTFALL ONE is the first half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short fiction yet to appear.\nNIGHTFALL TWO the second volume, is also available in Panther Books. Each story in the two volumes has been selected by the author from his massive output of SF stories over the years and each has a preface specially written for this collection by Dr Asimov himself. Together the two volumes will form an unsurpassed showcase of Isaac Asimov's story-telling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 9 +519 C-Chute 1951 First published in Galaxy Science Fiction NIGHTFALL ONE is the first half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short fiction yet to appear.\nNIGHTFALL TWO the second volume, is also available in Panther Books. Each story in the two volumes has been selected by the author from his massive output of SF stories over the years and each has a preface specially written for this collection by Dr Asimov himself. Together the two volumes will form an unsurpassed showcase of Isaac Asimov's story-telling talent. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +528 Nebula Award Stories 1 1969 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 28 +529 The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth 1965 Brian Aldiss...J. G. Ballard...Roger Zelazny...Harlan Ellison and Larry Niven - these are just some of the most distinguished authors in the science fiction field whose stories are included in this inspired anthology.\n\nTravel with them - into timelessness, from here to the most distant galaxy. The whole spectrum of reality, fantasy, hallucination, horrific experimentation, and the sinister possibilities of the machine, is exposed for your delectation.\n\nInstituted by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Nebula Awards are the most demanding and highly prized symbols of recognition. These brilliant stories are among the very best in modern science fiction writing. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 28 +635 Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 40 +569 Protector 1973 A shorter version of this novel appeared under the title, 'The Adults', Galaxy magazine, June 1967 Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some two and a half million years before...\n\nBrennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days -- Brennan figured to meet that ship first...\n\nHe was never seen again -- at least not by those alive at the time. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 5 +571 Lord Valentine's Castle 1980 There are countless sights in the Coronal's vast empire of Majipoor. Four-armed Skandars, scaly Ghayrogs, tiny Vroons, leathery Hjorts, rootless trees, flesh-eating flowers...\n\nAnd, walking alone through the crowded streets and deserted plains, a stranger pursuing a dream.\n\nThe juggler Valentine.\n\nHis dream was long and terrifying - and spoke of a fabulous inheritance. And now the time has come for the guardians of the dream to rise up and lay claim to their kingdom. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-03-07 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 2 +639 A Shaggy Dog's Tail 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 7 40 +599 Infinity's Shore 1996 For two thousand years, Jijo's size exiled races have live together. Their greatest wish: to be left alone. Their greatest fear: an inevitable Judgement Day, when godlike Galactic authorities will punish their illegal colony.\n\nNow they have been found. As starships fill the skies, the inhabitants of Jijo realise that they have become prey to criminals and fanatics free to plunder the isolated world or carry out ancient grudges, including genocide for one of the six races - and possibly all. With the galaxies in turmoil, it is a time when human settlers and their neighbours must make heroic - and terrifying - choices. And for the fugitive dolphin crew of an Earth Survey Ship, it is a time when the discovery of long hidden secrets may unlock the destiny not only of Earthclan, but of all Five Galaxies.\n\nInfinity's Shore is a spectacular addition to the epic Uplift series, from one of the most imaginative, skilful and challenging storytellers in science fiction today. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 2 3 1 4 23 +607 The Annals of the Heechee \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +608 The Gateway Trip \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +609 In the Ocean of Night \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +610 Across the Sea of Suns \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +612 Tides of Light \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +613 Furious Gulf \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +614 Sailing Bright Eternity \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +615 Hyperion 1990 It is the twenty-ninth century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike rebel Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos even closer.\n\nOn the eve of disaster, seven citizens of the Hegemony set out on a pilgrimage to the planet Hyperion, where the fabled Time Tombs seem poised to reveal their secrets. But Hyperion is home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits of space and time. The seven have been chosen by the Church of the Shrike to travel on what may be the last pilgrimage. And as they travel to their destination, where huge artifacts which have travelled back in time a million years are on the verge of opening, these travellers, like another fabled group of pilgrims, share their own stories... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 2 1 1 37 +616 The Fall of Hyperion 1991 On the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike - a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind.\n\n The Hegemony of Man - a thousand thousand worlds linked by a network of farcaster portals and high-tech gateways - is under siege by Ousters, strange, half-human tribes mutated almost beyond recognition.\n\nThe AIs - Artificial Intelligences whose synthetic wisdom created and maintains the nets that bind the Hegemony - have become a threat; it seems they have turned against the Hegemony and all mankind. And there is evidence that they have begun a project to create the Ultimate Intelligence - to build, in short, God. God of Machines: the ultimate deus ex machina. His genesis may well mean annihilation.\n\nSomething is drawing the Hegemony, the AIs, the Ousters, and indeed the entire universe, towards the Shrike and the Time Tombs from which it has arisen. In a moment the paths of man, machine and god will intersect. Nothing will ever be the same. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 37 +626 The Dreaming Jewels 1971 Horty Bluett is eight when he ran away from home. Armand-Bluett had mutilated his hand, and smashed 'Junky' - and 'Junky' was the most important thing in Horty's life. For from the eyes of the old jack-in-the-box gleamed two iridescent jewels...and Horty was never sure if he owned the jewels - or if the jewels owned him....\n\nHe took refuge in the bizarre world of the carnival...and there, among the freaks and oddities and weird ones, he began to learn about the jewels - and about the people who were 'jewel people'.... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 20 +628 Dragons of Autumn Twilight 1986 The Queen of Darkness and her dragons of destruction, war and oblivion threaten the world of Krynn. Eight heroes are given the power to save the world.\n\nVolume 1. Dragons of Autumn Twilight\n\nKnight and barbarian, warrior and half-elf, dwarf and kender and dark-souled mage - the friends begin their perilous quest. They have hope (a blue crystal staff in the hands of a beautiful woman). And they have courage. But the forces of evil are strong. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 24 +629 Dragons of Winter Night 1986 War and Oblivion threaten the world of Krynn. Eight heroes are given the power to save the world. Led by half-elf Tanis, they set off on the most perilous mission of all time.\n\nVolume 2. Dragons of Winter Night\n\nThe darkness depends. The danger increases. Haunted by ominous dreams, fearing every minute for their lives, the eight heroes separate. They must find the Dragon Orb of the legendary Dragonlance Otherwise... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 24 +634 Time of the Twins 1986 The War of the Lance has ended. The darkness has passed.\n\nOr has it?\n\nOne man, the powerful archmage, Raistlin, intends that the darkness return.\n\nTwo people alone can stop him. One is Crysania, a beautiful cleric of good, who is drawn to Raistlin as a moth is drawn to flame. The other is his twin, Caramon, who must come to an understanding of himself before he can redeem his brother.\n\nTogether with the irrepressible kender, Tasslehoff, these three take a perilous journey back in time to the days just before the Cataclysm.\n\nIn the doomed city of Istar, poised on the brink of disaster, dark magic and darker ambition battle love and self-sacrifice in a quest to save not only the world but more importantly - a soul. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-04 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 24 +638 The Storyteller 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 40 +640 Lord Toede's Disastrous Hunt 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 40 +641 Definitions of Honour 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 40 +642 Hearth Cat and Winter Wren 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 40 +643 Wanna Bet? 1987 "Wanna bet?"\n\nThe three adventure-seeking sons of Caramon Majere lose a bet to a flamboyant, magnificently bearded dwarf, and wake up, Shanghaied, on an incredible gnomish sailing vessel questing after the legendary Graygem.\n\nWho is the mysterious Dougan Redhammer, and what perils are in store for Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, the young mage haunted by the legacy of Raistlin? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 40 +10 Planet of No Return 1954 A magazine version of Planet of No Return was published serially in Astounding\nScience-Fiction. Poul Anderson, one of the most respected and widely-read science fiction\nauthors, has made a highly successful career of thrilling his readers with a\nspecial blend of adventure, humor and science.\n\nThis new collection brings together three novels that exhibit all of the\ninimitable Anderson ingredients. In PLANET OF NO RETURN, an overpopulated\nEarth finally finds a habitable world to colonize ... and discovers hidden\nenemies. THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS chronicles the aftermath of an Earth-Mars war\nand its universal consequences. And WORLD WITHOUT STARS is an engrossing story\nof humans shipwrecked on a planet whose sky is dominated by the glow of an\nentire galaxy, and whose surface is split by war.\n\nThese are stories with excitement and style, qualities that have always been\nthe trademark of Poul Anderson. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 3 +653 Tomorrow is Too Far 1971 The project was so secret that it had no name and no records, yet - without even knowing it - the entire personnel of Hart-Ewing were busy building something weird and incomprehensible... something involving a new method of conquering space... something so brilliant that it reduced the astronauts to a condition of imbecility.\n\nAnd Carson, the hated and seemingly inefficient security officer of the aerospace work-shop, was the man who stumbled on the secret - the man who had to buy his survival at a steep price... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 20 +655 The Battle of Forever 1973 Humanity, true humanity, had reached its Utopian ideal in the select colony of the perfect thousand - isolated from the crude world around them which they had populated with pseudo-men created biologically from the various beast species. The thousand men and women were free to dream, to philosophize, to enjoy the flowers of the mind - but not the body.\n\nThen Modyun, the restless one, decided to visit the outer world and thereby precipitated The Battle of Forever. For what he found were worlds within worlds, wheels within wheels, and a deus ex machina which hinted of outer-space origins. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-03-18 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 3 +657 Moonbeast 1969 Moonbeast was originaly titled "The Beast" In the secret caves of the moon, a strange society flourished. Blue-skinned flat-nosed men, lithe uniformed German girls, tough frontier desperadoes from the Old West - all lived together in an uneasy state of tension, ruled by a brutal Neanderthal man a million years old. All were immortal, all had been caught in the vortex of a weird time machine which snatched its Earthly victims from their own eras and transported them to the lunar caverns of eternal life. Into this bizarre and frightening set-up stumbled Pendrake, an Earthman in the process of becoming superhuman. Kidnapped from his home planet, hunted by criminals and government alike, he found a temporary refuge in this insane limbo. But not for long... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +658 Guardians of the West 1987 Eleven years have passed since Garion's killing of the evil God Torak and his marriage to Ce'Nedra. He is now Overlord of the West, slowly learning how to cope with the duties of a king and to overcome the difficulties within his marriage.\n\nWhen the Orb of Aldur warns Garion to 'Beware Zandramas!' the Voice of Prophecy reveals that somewhere in the unknown land of the East the Dark Prophecy still exists and that great new dangers threaten.\n\nWhile Belgarath and Garion seek to uncover the nature of his threat, Garion's baby son is kidnapped. All evidence points to the loathsome Bear-cult, which has gained power once more, and Garion leads an army bent on its destruction But there are even more sinister forces at work, and Garion and his followers must look towards the malign and mysterious evil of Zandramas. Their quest must begin again. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 20 +659 King of the Murgos 1989 Garion knows that it is the mysterious figure Zandramas who is responsible for the abduction of his infant son, and he and his companions journey many miles and encounter many strange beings in their search for him.\n\nTheir way leads through the foul swamps of Nyissa, ruled over by the Snake-Queen, and on into the dark kingdom of the Murgos, where human sacrifices are still made to the dead God Torak. Further on, however, even beyond those forbidding lands, they must face the ultimate danger - not only to themselves, but to all mankind... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 20 +660 Demon Lord of Karanda 1989 The company now know that Garion's baby son has been kidnapped by Zandramas and is to be used in a terrible ritual which will make the Dark Destiny supreme. The group, however, has been detained by Zakath, Emperor of all Mallorea, and taken to Mal Zeth, the largest city in the world.\n\nWhen a dire plague strikes, they manage to escape and, as prophesied by the seeress of Kell, travel on to Ashaba - but, although they find Urvon, mad disciple of the evil God Torak, and the Demon Lord Nahaz, Zandramas is gone. In a desperate race against time, the company turns east once more to follow her spoor... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 20 +662 Seeress of Kell 1992 So, as proclaimed in Guardians of the West, Belgarion the Godslayer sets out with those who must join him: The Eternal Man, the Guide, the Man with Two Lives, the Bearer of the Orb and the Silent man and the rest of his companions to the Place Which Is No More to make the final choice - darkness or light.\n\nBut Zandramas the Sorceress will not be outdone. Though she may not enter Kell she still has young Geran and should she reach the final meeting place with him, then Garion must slay his son or their world will be no more. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 20 +671 The Elenium 1993 This compelling story of conflict between good and evil introduces the great Pandion Knight Sir Sparhawk, invincible warrior and master strategist, steadfast champion of Queen Ehlana. To save the life of his lovely young Queen, Sparhawk and his companions journey to the most dangerous regions of Eosia in a quest for the sacred jewel of the Troll-Gods, the Sapphire Rose.\n\nWith the help of the ageless Styric magician Sephrenia and the child goddess Aphrael, Sparhawk confronts the unholy triple alliance ranged against his Queen: Otha, degenerate sorcerer-king of the Zemochs; the renegade Pandion Knight Martel; and Annias, traitorous Primate of Cimmura and lover of Ehlana's wicked aunt Arissa.\n\nBut to defeat them, Sparhawk may have to unleash the full power of the sacred jewel- and no one can predict whether the world itself will survive. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +1443 In the Days of the Comet 1906 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2008-06-05 00:00:00 1 3 1 9 42 +672 The Diamond Throne 1989 This compelling story of conflict between good and evil introduces the great Pandion Knight Sir Sparhawk, invincible warrior and master strategist, steadfast champion of Queen Ehlana. To save the life of his lovely young Queen, Sparhawk and his companions journey to the most dangerous regions of Eosia in a quest for the sacred jewel of the Troll-Gods, the Sapphire Rose.\n\nWith the help of the ageless Styric magician Sephrenia and the child goddess Aphrael, Sparhawk confronts the unholy triple alliance ranged against his Queen: Otha, degenerate sorcerer-king of the Zemochs; the renegade Pandion Knight Martel; and Annias, traitorous Primate of Cimmura and lover of Ehlana's wicked aunt Arissa.\n\nBut to defeat them, Sparhawk may have to unleash the full power of the sacred jewel- and no one can predict whether the world itself will survive. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +673 The Ruby Knight 1990 This compelling story of conflict between good and evil introduces the great Pandion Knight Sir Sparhawk, invincible warrior and master strategist, steadfast champion of Queen Ehlana. To save the life of his lovely young Queen, Sparhawk and his companions journey to the most dangerous regions of Eosia in a quest for the sacred jewel of the Troll-Gods, the Sapphire Rose.\n\nWith the help of the ageless Styric magician Sephrenia and the child goddess Aphrael, Sparhawk confronts the unholy triple alliance ranged against his Queen: Otha, degenerate sorcerer-king of the Zemochs; the renegade Pandion Knight Martel; and Annias, traitorous Primate of Cimmura and lover of Ehlana's wicked aunt Arissa.\n\nBut to defeat them, Sparhawk may have to unleash the full power of the sacred jewel- and no one can predict whether the world itself will survive. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +551 The Singing Citadel 1967 Elric: hero of song, story, rock show, disc graphic novel, PC and role-playing games, not fighting sorcery, but using it to spectacular effect. Yet, tormented always by his human failings, his longing for peace, his is a world of dragons, spectral armies, nature in upheaval on every side... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +674 The Sapphire Rose 1991 This compelling story of conflict between good and evil introduces the great Pandion Knight Sir Sparhawk, invincible warrior and master strategist, steadfast champion of Queen Ehlana. To save the life of his lovely young Queen, Sparhawk and his companions journey to the most dangerous regions of Eosia in a quest for the sacred jewel of the Troll-Gods, the Sapphire Rose.\n\nWith the help of the ageless Styric magician Sephrenia and the child goddess Aphrael, Sparhawk confronts the unholy triple alliance ranged against his Queen: Otha, degenerate sorcerer-king of the Zemochs; the renegade Pandion Knight Martel; and Annias, traitorous Primate of Cimmura and lover of Ehlana's wicked aunt Arissa.\n\nBut to defeat them, Sparhawk may have to unleash the full power of the sacred jewel- and no one can predict whether the world itself will survive. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +675 Domes of Fire 1993 Queen Ehlana and the Pandion Knight Sir Sparhawk are married, their kingdom peaceful at last, their union blessed with a very special daughter named Danae. But soon trouble sweeps westward from the Tamul Empire to disrupt not only the living of Eosia but the dead: horrific armies are being raised from the dust of the long-past Age of Heroes, threatening the peace won at such cost in Zemoch.\n\nPrince Sparhawk is called upon to help the Tamuli nations defeat these ancient horrors. Perhaps the Troll-Gods are once more loose in the world! With Ehlana and a retinue of Pandion Knights, Sparhawk will make the hazardous journey to the Tamul Empire, aided by Aphrael the child Goddess ... only to discover in fire-domed Matherion, the incandescent Tamul capital, that the enemy is already within its gates.\n\nDomes of Fire begins a spectacular new David Eddings trilogy, The Tamuli. Full of marvels and humour, full of romance and shrewdness, above all full of magic, the resources of the epic form are mined deep by the greatest of modern fantasy writers. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 6 +680 Best New SF 5 1991 The best of the newest Science Fiction Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 2 34 +681 Mr. Boy 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 34 +682 The Shobie's Story 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 34 +683 The Caress 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 34 +853 For the Birds 1980 Asimov's, May, 1980 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 6 +684 A Braver Thing 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 2 34 +685 We See Things Differently 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 34 +687 Past Magic 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 4 34 +688 Bears Discover Fire 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 6 34 +689 The All-Consuming 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 4 34 +690 Personal Silence 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 4 34 +939 Mother of Winter \N 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +691 Invaders 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 34 +692 The Cairene Purse 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 7 34 +693 The Coon Rolled Down and Ruptured His Larinks, A Squeezed Novel by Mr. Skunk 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 34 +694 Tower of Babylon 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 34 +695 The Death Artist 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 34 +696 The First Since Ancient Persia 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 34 +697 Inertia 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 2 34 +579 Telek 1951 ... A baker's half-dozen of outstanding science fiction writers from the flowering fifties to the pregnant present - proof, if any were needed, that s.f. is indeed a generative form... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 36 +1445 The War of the Worlds 1898 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2008-06-05 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 42 +704 Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 4 34 +698 Learning to Be Me 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 2 34 +699 Cibola 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 34 +700 Walking the Moons 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 34 +701 Rainmaker Cometh 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 34 +702 Hot Sky 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 34 +703 White City 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 6 34 +705 The Hemmingway Hoax 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 34 +713 The Diamond Age 1996 Far above the diamonoid bedrock of New Chusan, a powerful class of\nneo-Victorians is ruling twenty-first-century Atlantis/Shanghai. John\nPercival Hackworth, a brilliant nanotechnologist, has created an\nillicit, magical book for the education of a young lady: an interactive\ndevice crammed with folklore, science and the martial arts that teaches\nyoung women how to think for themselves.\n\n"What will happen to society if it should fall into the hands of someone\nlike little Nell, a poor orphan girl with so much to learn? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2007-11-11 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 63 +740 The Last Question 1956 First published in Science Fiction Quarterly Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +741 The Ugly Little Boy 1958 First published in Galaxy Magazine, entitled 'Lastborn' Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 2 +733 Profession 1957 First published in Astounding Science Fiction Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +734 The Feeling of Power 1958 First published in Worlds of SF Nine glimpses into the not-too-distant future of earth people. Whatever their mood - wry humour or grim realism - all nine stories reflect Asimov's masterly ability to combine scientific fact with mankind's 'unscientific' unpredictability. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 2 +742 The Callistan Menace 1940 First published in Astonishing Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +743 Ring Around the Sun 1940 First published in Future Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +744 The Magnificent Possession 1940 First published in Future Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 9 +745 Trends 1939 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 7 9 +746 The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use 1939 First published in Amazing Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +747 Black Friar of the Flame 1942 First published in Planet Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +748 Half-Breed 1940 First published in Astonishing Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +854 Found! 1978 Omni, October, 1978 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 6 +780 Metastasis 1988 First Appeared in Night Visions 5 from Dark Harvest 1988 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 37 +960 The Menace From Earth 1980 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 20 +749 The Secret Sense 1941 First published in Cosmic Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 9 +686 And the Angels Sing 1990 Gardner Dozois' stunning annual collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting and intelligent science fiction of the previous year. This year he has chosen superb work by such famous names as Michael Moorcock, John Brunner, Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin and Bruce Sterling among many others. Best New SF has won the Locus Award for the best anthology in the field, and its editor won last year's Hugo Award for the best science fiction editor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 34 +750 Homo Sol 1940 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +958 The Man Who Sold the Moon 1940 date is a guess based on web pages THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON is a key work in Heinlein's majestic plan of the years ahead. The stories are masterpieces in their own right but at the same time form an integral part in an overall scheme and certainly add to our appreciation of his other novels. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 28 +751 Half-Breeds on Venus 1940 First published in Astonishing Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +752 The Imaginary 1942 First published in Super Science Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +753 Heredity 1941 First published in Astonishing Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 9 +11 The War of Two Worlds 1974 There is no indication of a publication date for this novel. Therefore\nI am assuming the same date as for the book it is contained within. Poul Anderson, one of the most respected and widely-read science fiction\nauthors, has made a highly successful career of thrilling his readers with a\nspecial blend of adventure, humor and science.\n\nThis new collection brings together three novels that exhibit all of the\ninimitable Anderson ingredients. In PLANET OF NO RETURN, an overpopulated\nEarth finally finds a habitable world to colonize ... and discovers hidden\nenemies. THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS chronicles the aftermath of an Earth-Mars war\nand its universal consequences. And WORLD WITHOUT STARS is an engrossing story\nof humans shipwrecked on a planet whose sky is dominated by the glow of an\nentire galaxy, and whose surface is split by war.\n\nThese are stories with excitement and style, qualities that have always been\nthe trademark of Poul Anderson. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 4 3 +754 History 1941 First published in Super Science Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +755 Christmas on Ganymede 1942 First published in Startling Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +959 Requiem 1940 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON is a key work in Heinlein's majestic plan of the years ahead. The stories are masterpieces in their own right but at the same time form an integral part in an overall scheme and certainly add to our appreciation of his other novels. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 28 +756 The Little Man on the Subway 1950 First published in Fantasy Book In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 9 +757 The Hazing 1942 First published in Thrilling Wonder Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +758 Super-Neutron 1941 First published in Astonishing Stories In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +759 Not Final! 1941 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +783 Iverson's Pits 1988 First Appeared in Night Visions 5 from Dark Harvest 1988 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 6 37 +760 Legal Rites 1950 In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +761 Time Pussy 1942 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 9 +762 Author! Author! 1964 First published in The Unknown 5 In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +961 The Year of the Jackpot 1952 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 20 +763 Death Sentence 1943 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +764 Blind Alley 1945 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +765 No Connection 1948 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +777 Vanni Fuci is Alive and Well Living in Hell 1988 First Appeared in Night Visions 5 from Dark Harvest 1988 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 37 +766 The Endochronic Principles of Resublimated Thiotimoline 1948 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +767 The Red Queen's Race 1949 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 9 +768 Mother Earth 1949 First published in Astounding Science Fiction In the late 1930s a new young talent began to make his mark on the science\nfiction scene with a succession of outstanding stories in the various SF\nmagazines of the time. His name: Isaac Asimov. He was later to become world-\nrenowned as the author of such classics of modern science fiction as the epic\nFOUNDATION trilogy and the robot stories in which he formulated the now famous\nThree Laws of Robotics.\n\nTHE EARLY ASIMOV (published in three volumes in Panther Science Fiction) is an\nunsurpassed showcase of the story-telling brilliance of the young Asimov. Each\nstory is prefaced by Dr. Asimov with fascinating biographical details of how\nand when he came to write it as well as his own critical evaluation of it. The\nresult is a doubly rich science fiction treat: a collection of tales that makes\nengrossing entertainment in its own right and, in addition, gives the reader a\nfirst-hand look at the development of the twentieth century's undisputed Grand\nMaster of science fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 9 +769 The Planet That Wasn't 1977 This book contains:\nThe Planet That Wasn't\nThe Olympian Snows\nTitanic Surprise\nThe Wrong Turning\nThe Bridge of the Gods\nThe Third Liquid\nAll Gall\nThe Smell of Electricity\nSilent Victory\nChange of Air\nThe Wicked With is Dead\nThe Nightfall Effect\nThe Rocketing Dutchmen\nBest Foot Backward\nThinking About Thinking\nStar in the East\nThe Judo Argument From the pen of one greatest Science Fiction writers this century has produced comes a collection of essays in Science Fact - on subjects as intriguing and challenging as they are varied.\n\nFrom rainbows to UFOs, from the possibility of life on a satellite of Saturn to the mystery of Vulcan-the planet that wasn't - Asimov has put his wit and wisdom to work. And the result is a thought provoking spectrum of comment, opinion, information and speculation that is Isaac Asimov at his entertaining best. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 5 +962 By His Bootstraps 1941 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 20 +773 Daughter of the Forest 1999 Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with seven children but it is Sorcha, the youngest child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons. For her father has been bewitched by Lady Oonagh and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift.\n\nExiled from Sevenwaters and cast out into the forest and beyond, Sorcha falls into the hands of the enemy. Now she is torn between a life she has always known and a love that only comes once. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 16 +774 Prayers to Broken Stones 1990 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 4 37 +775 The River Styx Runs Upstream 1982 First Appeared in Rod Sterling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, April, 1982 - Tied for first place in a contest for unpublished writers. Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 37 +776 Eyes I Dare Not Meet In Dreams 1982 First appeared in Omni Magazine, September, 1982 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 37 +121 Catch that Rabbit 1944 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 10 +778 Vexed To Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle 1985 First appeared in Mile High Futures, November, 1985 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 7 37 +779 Remembering Siri 1983 First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December, 1983 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 37 +781 The Offering 1989 The Offering (teleplay) Copyright Laurel EFX 1989. First appeared on the syndicated television show Monsters 1990. Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 37 +782 E-Ticket to 'Namland 1987 First Appeared in OMNI magazine, November 1987 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 37 +963 Columbus Was A Dope 1947 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 20 +964 The Menace from Earth 1957 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-09 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 20 +784 Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites 1989 First appeared in Masques III, edited by J. N. Williamson, 1989 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 5 37 +785 The Death of the Centaur 1990 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 8 37 +888 Chanur's Venture 1986 Pyanfar Chanur thought she had seen the last of Tully, the lone human who had so disrupted the peace of Meetpoint Station and gained the Chanur clan the enmity of half a dozen races as well as their own. But in this striking sequel to the Hugo-nominated PRIDE OF CHANUR, Tully is back, bringing with him a priceless trade contract with human space. A contract which would mean vast power, riches and a new hornet's rest for Pyanfar and The Pride! 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2005-01-19 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 26 +932 Come Endless Darkness \N 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-31 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +786 Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds 1988 First appeared in OMNI magazine, April, 1988 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 10 37 +787 Carrion Comfort 1983 First appeared in OMNI magazine, September-October, 1983 Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much misery and death in our world...?\n\nRanging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-22 00:00:00 2 2 1 3 37 +934 Saga of Old City 1985 Greyhawk... \n\na beautiful city.\n\na cruel city\n\na harsh, pitiless city for a young orphan boy with no money and no friends - but plenty of enemies\n\nenter the old City of Greyhawk. that marvelous place where dreams - and nightmares - come true, Travel through the world of Oerth along with Gord, the boy who becomes a man as he fights for his survival in a world of mysterious wizards, fearsome monsters, dour dwarves, and beautiful women. For Oerth is a world where a man's eyes always watch the shadows ... and a man's hand is always on the hilt of his dagger.\n\nHere, at lasts is adventure enough to last a lifetime - perhaps a very short lifetime ! 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-31 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 40 +841 Lord Foul's Bane 1988 Cursed by a terrible disease, Thomas Covenant is an outcast in our world: shunned by his neighbours, pushed by loneliness to the edges of madness. Suddenly he is transported to a mysterious and beautiful new world - The Land - where gentle people work magic with wood and stone, and the very earth and air bring healing. Covenant is welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour: his maimed hand and white-gold wedding ring mark him as a figure of power and sorcery, with a magic powerful against evil.\n But Covenant does not believe that the Land is real and thus, he becomes the unwilling tool of the enemy who seeks to destroy it: Lord Foul the Despiser.\n Three times, in their hour of greatest need, the peoples of the Land will summon him to their aid. Three times, as their reluctant leader, he will fail them.\n Only at the end, as a victorious Lord Foul prepares to devastate the Land and enslave its people forever, will Thomas Covenant call on the wild magic he alone can wield - for at last, epic battle with the forces of evil. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 13 +870 The Mirror of Her Dreams 1987 King Joyse and the kingdom of Mordant are in dire need; threatened by the arch-Imager Vagel and the hordes of Cadwal from without, betrayed by unknown enemies within. Terisa Morgan is Mordant's unlikely champion, plucked from a life of wealthy dreariness in New York by the accidental magic of the apprentice Imager Geraden. The kingdom is directed by the power of images, of visions and of mirrors and Terisa and Geraden must master this power if Mordant is to survive. But the traps laid for them are many and treacherous... 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 13 +872 Forbidden Knowledge 1992 Morn Hyland had survived a terrible ordeal at the hands of one space pirate, only to find herself trapped in the ship of another, surrounded by hostile, unfriendly faces.\n\nNick Succorso had rescued her, but for what purpose? He and his crew were all illegals, and she was a cop. A cop with gap-sickness. Just having her on board would put all their lives at risk. But Nick knew that Morn possessed something that could be of value to them all, and he had every intention of exploiting it\n\nAs she struggled to recover from her shattering experiences, Morn would hear increasingly shocking tales of corruption in the UMCP, and even more alarming rumours of a shadowy alien life force, the Amnion, with their all-consuming mutagens. All too soon, on the long and hazardous voyage to forbidden space, the bizarre stories would become horrifying reality... 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 13 +875 The Shockwave Rider 1975 Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the highpowered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his indentity code-then he escaped.\n\nNow he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster.\n\nHe didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education! 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-19 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 8 +878 Xenocide 1991 Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister of genius. Their lives have shaped history. Valentine is "Demosthenes", whose subversive writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, the masters of the Hundred Worlds. And Ender... As a child, Ender brilliantly commanded the human warfleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life is his perpetual fight to stop it happening again.\n\nIt may be his tragedy that he cannot. For Congress has sent a warfleet to Lusitania, home to Ender and his family, two alien species - and the deadliest virus ever known. The warfleet Carries an order to destroy the planet. To commit xenocide.\n\nOrson Scott Card combines the vast mysteries of space with very real portraits of men and women caught in epoch-making events. Rich, long, brilliant, Xenocide is a towering novel, classic SF of the highest order. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 2 1 1 21 +899 The Songs of Distant Earth 1987 The voyagers awoke in paradise.\n\nWhen Earth's sun went nova, the MAGELLAN barely escaped in time, with its previous cargo of one million sleepers and gene banks of plants and animals.\n\nFive hundred years into the voyage they stopped for repairs on the idyllic planet of Thalassa.\n\nBut whilst the awakened Earth people envied them their stable, harmonious world, the hospitable Thalassans were drawn by the long quest of the interstellar voyagers.\n\nAnd when Lieutenant Commander Loren Lorenson met beautiful Thalassan Mirissa, their alien destinies became inextricably - and tragically - entwined. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-27 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 2 +901 The Incompleat Enchanter 1979 The Mathematics of magic - it was the greatest discovery ever. Or so thought Professor Harold Shea. With the proper equations he could instantly transport himself and his friend Reed Chalmers back - or sideways - in tie to all the wondrous lands of ancient myth and legend.\n\nBut slips in time were a hazard. And Shea's magic didn't always work quite as he expected. A dragon spell might yield a hundred dragons - or, even worse, one-tenth of a dragon. And the various imaginary lands he travelled to held countless dangers that even Shea's equations couldn't predict. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-24 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 5 +904 Moon of Mutiny 1961 date above is copyright date (page missing from mine, so cannot find date) Were they only a myth, a dream - or were they really there, beyond the desolate, unexplored lunar ranges?\n\nFred Halpern had to know. Only the discovery of life - however primitive - could save man's struggling colony on the moon. And only by daring to cross the high ranges, where no man had gone before, could Halpern prove his own worth.\n\nThis splendid novel of adventure and suspense on today's frontier will delight discriminating SF fans of all ages. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-28 00:00:00 3 1 3 7 12 +905 Han Solo At Stars' End 1979 date above is copyright date (page missing from my copy so cannot find date) When spaceways mercenary Han Solo and Chewbacca, his Wookiee comrade-in-crime, took their starship, the Millennium Falcon, to a remote planet for some - er - 'modifications', they dropped into more trouble than they'd ever expected. A desperate space battle against heavy odds was just the start of a trail of violence and pursuit that would blaze across the depths of space to an explosive confrontation with the tyrannical Authority on an airless chunk of cosmic desolation known as Stars' End... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 3 1 3 12 5 +906 The Hour of the Gate 1984 John Meriweather, plucked from his own world to a place where animals walk, talk and cast spells, is pitted once more against a deadly foe. Now he and his strange fellowship must embark on a journey from which none have returned.\n\nHis way lies down the treacherous river that winds through the subterranean lair of Massaurath, Mother of Nightmares, across Helldrink through a tunnel of cold flame to the centre of the earth... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 46 +915 Star Trek Log One 1974 Hurtling through the galaxy on its way to the Time Planet, the Enterprise is trapped in the gravity-well of a dead start, and Captain Kirk has to pit his wits against a malevolent being more than three years old: First Officer Spock makes a return journey into his own past: and a gigantic cloud of energy threatens to annihilate a planet after digesting the Enterprise and her crew... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-03 00:00:00 3 1 3 12 20 +935 Artifact of Evil 1986 Oerth. . . to some, a cherished homeland. To others, a target of domination.\n\nWhen the Artifact of Evil is unearthed from its ancient hiding place, it becomes the object of a battle between the forces of good and evil. At stake is the fate of the entire world of Oerth--and the lives of those who would preserve and protect the forces of Good.\n\nDuring a quest that spans the breadth of a continent, the young thief Gord and his comrades must confront and conquer the warriors and wizards who stand in their way, in an attempt to keep the Artifact from falling into the hands of those who would use it to gain world domination. Gord is forced to use all of his skills and powers--and even as considerable as they are, will they be enough to keep the unthinkable from occurring? 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-31 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 40 +1446 The Food of the Gods 1904 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2008-06-05 00:00:00 1 3 1 8 42 +968 Water Is for Washing 1947 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 7 20 +557 Von Bek 1995 Von Bek - the soldier of fortune , a survivor who yet finds himself damned... The man whose quest, down through the centuries, is to protect the Grail and do the devil's work - in Hell, upon Earth, to the edge of Heaven - and to the City in the Autumn Stars where all the worlds meet. Dumas, plus metaphysics, plus sorcery - Von Bek is a brilliant, utterly compelling fantasy epic. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 34 +942 Dragonsbane 1986 It was said to be impossible to slay a dragon. But Lord John Aversin earned himself the name of Dragonsbane once in his life and had become the subject of ballad and legend. Fired by the romance of his tale, young Gareth travelled far and wide across the Winterlands from the King's court to persuade the hero to rid the Deep of Ylferdun of the great Black Dragon, Morkeleb.\n\nWith them on their quest went Jenny Waynest, half-taught mage and mother of Aversin's sons.\n\nMorkeleb was the oldest and mightiest of the dragon race - the most fearsome opponent that the Dragsonbane had ever had to face. But Morkeleb was not the greatest danger that awaited John Aversin and his witch-woman. The once-ordered court had fallen into decadence and dissolution, and the beautiful sorceress Zyerne held the King in her sway. Just as Morkeleb posed the hardest test of skill and courage for the Dragonsbane, so Jenny Waynest would find her powers pitted against an adversary as deadly as the Black Dragon, and infinitely more evil. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2 1 1 12 49 +954 Life-Line 1939 THE MAN WHO SOLD THE MOON is a key work in Heinlein's majestic plan of the years ahead. The stories are masterpieces in their own right but at the same time form an integral part in an overall scheme and certainly add to our appreciation of his other novels. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-14 00:00:00 3 1 1 5 28 +980 The Word for World is Forest 1983 Read "these" books in this order?\n * The Dispossessed\n * The Word for World is Forest\n * Rocannon's World\n * Planet of Exile\n * City of Illusions\n * The Left Hand of Darkness\n * Four Ways to Forgiveness\n * The Telling In this beloved, award winning masterpiece, today's most honored fantasy writer tells of the gentle people of a peaceful world, and how they are invaded by the bloodthirsty yumens. And how they fight back. And how they win.\n\nWINNER OF BOTH THE HUGO AND NEBULA AWARDS. 2003-03-18 00:00:00 2004-11-27 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 60 +981 Beyond This Horizon 1974 Their problems were solved: the poor they no longer had with them; the sick, the lame, the halt, and the blind were historic memories; the ancient causes of war no longer obtained; they had more freedom than Man has ever enjoyed. All of them should have been happy.\n\nThe time is three centuries past tomorrow. The place is Earth, an Earth just beyond the horizon when science and technology have solved all problems - except the 'why' of life... 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-10 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 9 +998 Darkspell 1989 JOURNEY THROUGH A WORLD OF WARRIORS AND ELVEN MAGIC WHERE PASSION CONQUERS DEATH ITSELF\n\nInextricably bound to the fate of the land, Nevyn, Rhodry, and Jill struggle to unite the humans of Deverry with the mysterious and once-hostile race of Elves. But the sinister and powerful sorcerers of Annwn know that any alliance between the two races will threaten their own evil dominion--and so they strike out against the union in an uneasy alliance of dark forces. Now the ancient and cunning wizard, Nevyn, must rescue his comrades and the destiny of Deverry--and save himself from Annwn's deadly magic... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +999 Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood 1990 Over a thousand years ago the People of Deverry were driven from their splendid kingdom by their enemy, the Hordes, and forced to find sanctuary in the remote forests in the east of their lands where they eventually settled. Succeeding generations remembered these terrible events as the Burning - and they never forgot the cities, towns and marvels of the far, far west. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 6 +1003 A Time of War: Days Of Blood And Fire 1994 In the peaceful land of the Rhiddaer, Jahdo the ratcatcher's son stumbles unwittingly upon a clandestine meeting - between an ambitious councilman and a dangerous, mysterious woman . . .\n\nSo begins a sequence of events that tangles Jahdo in a web of intrigue and black magic which will drag him far from his beloved home. In the company of Meer, an eyeless bard of the Horsekin, Jahdo must journey to Deverry to unravel the evil that binds him.\n\nSoon he is caught up in dangers greater than any of his kind could ever of conceived. Two powerful sorcerers are battling to save a country from a goddess gone mad. If they don't succeed, the consequences would be unthinkable . . . 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-08-14 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 14 +558 The Warhound and the World's Pain 1981 Von Bek - the soldier of fortune , a survivor who yet finds himself damned... The man whose quest, down through the centuries, is to protect the Grail and do the devil's work - in Hell, upon Earth, to the edge of Heaven - and to the City in the Autumn Stars where all the worlds meet. Dumas, plus metaphysics, plus sorcery - Von Bek is a brilliant, utterly compelling fantasy epic. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 34 +1027 The Quest for Saint Camber 1987 King Kelson and Dhugal were gone, fallen over the edge of the cliff into the raging waters below, betrayed by the sudden storm that had caught the expedition. Now, huddled under a borrowed cloak beside a small fire in the miserable campsite, Conall realized that they would never find Kelson alive... And that made Conall's father, Nigel, king - and Conall himself heir to the throne!\n\nNo need to suffer any pangs of guilt. He could forget that, but for accident, Dhugal and Kelson might have drunk from the flask Conall had drugged. For now Conall was only one small step from the throne - and from Rothana, Kelson's intended bride. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 7 +1031 Saint Camber 1985 Even with the crowning of Cinhil Haldane as King of Gwynedd, there is no rest for the great Deryni Lord who made it possible - Camber of Culdi. Ariella, sister of the dead and ousted King Imre, and mother of his child, plots a war of revenge. And only Camber can guide the inexperienced Cinhil towards uniting human and Deryni forces. But after six months of kingship, Cinhil is hostile and unapproachable. Fearing the king;s attitude will signal a general backlash against the Deryni, Camber conceives a brilliant but daring solution : his own heroic death, at the hands of Ariella's Army, which will lead to a new cult of Saint Camber. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 51 +1036 The Wanderer 1986 Mankind is faced with its greatest challenge when the Wanderer, a sphere as large as the Earth itself, mysteriously appears in our solar system. Its arrival destroys the moon, and creates a chain reaction of earthquakes, fires and monstrous tidal waves. Entire cities are devastated and the survivors are caught in a net of blind and all-consuming terror. No one will be left untouched by this alien presence - for some it is a rite of passage, for others a revelation of a world and a time gone mad.\n\nAnd for one man, the Wanderer holds both a promise and a doom as he sets forth on a journey that will change man's role in the universe forever. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-12-02 00:00:00 2 1 3 7 16 +1037 Taliesin 1988 'I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves. The voices of the departed speak: Tell our story, they say. It is worthy to be told. And so I take my pen and write...'\n\nSo begins the tragedy of lost Atlantis, extinguished for ever in a hideous paroxysm of earth and sea. Out of the holocaust, three crippled ships emerge to bear King Avallach and his daughter to the cloud-bound isle of Ynys Prydein.\n\nHere is another world, where Celtic Chieftans struggle for survival in the twilight of Rome's power. One heroic figure towers over all, the Prince Taliesin, in whom is the sum of human greatness - grandeur and grace, meekness and majesty, beauty and truth.\n\nThis is a tale that spans two worlds, a vision that sings in the heart, and a love that creates the miracle of Merlin...Arthur... and a destiny that is more than a kingdom. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2010-12-31 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 32 +1038 Merlin 1988 'Was there ever such a time as this? Never! And that is both the glory and the terror of it. If men knew what it was that loomed before them ... they would stop their mouths with their cloaks for screaming. It is their blessing and their curse that they do not know. But I know; I, Merlin have always known ... '\n\nThis is Merlin's story, the story of the Island of the Mighty - of warring battlechiefs and bloody Saecsen invaders, of the hidden Hill Folk and the waning power of Rome.\n\nIt is Merlin's story as none but he could tell it - a tale of love and savagery and madness. An all-consuming vision - of the glorious Kingdom of Summer ... of treachery and death ... of the saving of a babe new-born and a sword in a stone ... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2010-12-31 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 32 +1046 The Golden Torc 1982 Exiled beyond the time-portal into a world of six millions years before, the misfits of the 22nd century are enmeshed in the age-old war of two alien races. In this strange world, each year brings the ritual Grand Combat between the Firvulag and the Tanu, possessors of the invincible mind-armouring necklet... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +1049 Intervention 1988 For 60,000 years the five races of the Galactic Milieu have watched and waited for the time when human mental development on Earth is ready for the Intervention...\nAs the twentieth century draws to its end, phenomenal mental powers are displayed by 'operants' all across our planet...The can 'farspeak' one another telepathically. The can build mental shield and they are capable of coercion by power of mind.\n"One of these is Rogatien Remillard, a dealer in secondhand books, whose memories - written a century on - form the core of this chronicle. They tell of a world where the mind has become a weapon; and of two brothers, each possessed of extraordinary powers - one a peace-bringer, the other an advocate of evil... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +1050 Jack the Bodiless 1992 2051:Earth stands on the brink of acceptance as a full member of the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of worlds spread across the galaxy.\nLeading humanity is the powerful Remillard family, but somebody - something - knows only as Fury, wants them out of the way. Only Rogi Remillard, favoured agent of the most powerful alien being in the Milieu, and Rogi's nephew Marc, the greatest metapsychic yet born on Earth, know about Fury. But even they are powerless to stop it when it begins to kill off Remillards and other metapsychic operants - and all of the suspects are Remillards themselves...\nFrom the threshold of a new galactic civilisation comes a stunning new odyssey of ambition and superhuman powers... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 2 +1051 Diamond Mask 1994 As the 21st century draws to a close a growing group of rebels plot to declare the human planets independent from the Milieu and end a thirty-year association. They are helped by the insane Fury who seeks to rule the galaxy itself.\n\nA key figure in Fury's scheme is Dorothea MacDonald. Possessed of extraordinary metapsychic powers she wants only a quiet life and hides away on the planet Caledonia, She rejects Fury's overtures and the monster vows to destroy her.\n\nWhen the Milieu, too, discovers her powers she is forced to leave her family and use her powers for the benefit of all. At the Metapsychic Institute she discovers that one day she will rule Caladonia and meets Jack the Bodiless realizing that his mind is the only one that approaches hers in its power. Together they offer the only hope of defeating the rebels.\n\nAnd all the while Fury plots to kill them both and seize the Milieu for itself... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 2 +1060 Dragonquest 1982 Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more\nand their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground.\nBut F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern, and he had to find it before the rebellious\nOldtimers could breed any more dissent, before his brother F'nor would be foolhardy enough to launch another suicide mission. . . and before those dratted fire-lizards could stir up any more trouble! 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 20 +940 Icefalcon's Quest\n\nSun-Wolf and Starhawk \N 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1245 Chanur's Legacy \N 2003-06-28 00:00:00 2003-06-28 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1067 All the Weyrs of Pern 1992 When AIVAS - the Artificial Intelligence Voice Address System - was first discovered at Landing, the entire planet of Pern was awed at the knowledge it divulged. All the history of the people of Pern was there.\n\nDragonriders, Lord Holders, and Craftmasters crowded into the tiny inner room to learn the secrets of their beginnings. And AIVAS had other gifts to offer - stored information of old crafts that had been forgotten, of medicine, music and technology.\n\nBut the greatest promise AIVAS offered was the chance to rid Pern of Thread forever. Jaxom, F'lar, Lessa, Piemur, and all the great ones of Pern began the long and arduous task of learning just how to operate the incredible plan - a plan of such daring and epic proportions that both dragons and riders would be put at risk. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 20 +1080 Crystal Line 1993 Killashandra was the most gifted Crystal Singer on Ballybran. With her partner, Lars Dahl, she held the record for cutting the terrible, fascinating and infinitely rare black crystals - crystals that could destroy the brain of a Singer if they were not properly controlled. Killashandra and Lars Dahl together were an invincible pair.\n\nSo when, on the distant planet of Opal, a new, beautiful, unfathomable, manifestation was discovered, Lars and Killashandra were the team asked to explore the 'Jewel Junk'. All those who had previously encountered it had died. Only the Crystal Singers, with the immune system of Ballybran in their blood, were thought to stand a chance of survival. The 'Jewel Junk' was brilliant and mysterious, and became even more so when fed with some of Ballybran's precious crystals. But it was to be twenty five years before the planet opal released one of its secrets - a secret that was to prove the salvation of Ballybran and the Crystal Singers. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-11-24 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 20 +1123 The Time Dweller \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 3 8 53 +1124 The Time Dweller \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-03 00:00:00 3 1 3 5 53 +1125 Escape from Evening \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-05 00:00:00 3 1 3 7 53 +866 The Smile That Loses 1982 F & SF, November, 1982\n(also in Azazel) The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 6 +1126 The Deep Fix \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-05 00:00:00 3 1 3 4 53 +1127 The Golden Barge \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-05 00:00:00 3 1 3 9 53 +1128 Wolf \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-04 00:00:00 3 1 3 8 53 +1129 Consuming Passion \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-04 00:00:00 3 1 3 5 53 +1130 The Ruins \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-04 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 53 +1131 The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarius \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-05 00:00:00 3 1 3 4 53 +1132 The Mountain \N From the mercurial mind of Michael Moorcock...\n\nTales of other worlds, other dimensions - strangely beautiful with rich surrealistic landscapes. Tales of doom, despair, horror, of dazzling invention and inspired genius. Including:\n\nEscape from Evening: one man finds that there is only one ironical escape in a sad, dying world.\n\nThe Mountain: the two last men on earth search for the last woman.\n\nThe Golden Barge: what did a single murder matter when the golden barge sailed slowly onwards.\n\nConsuming Passion: a tale of a pyromaniac with a chilling difference.\n\nThe Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagitarrius: what was a Roman doing in Berlin; found strangled in a garden of strange, living plants? 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2004-01-05 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 53 +1133 Chernobyl 1988 This book is non-factual, but is based on many interviews, etc. from people who were there - names, etc. changed, but the technical details are sound. For Simyon Smin, Deputy Director, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was a source of great pride. For Leonid Sheranchuk, engineer, it was a place where he could put his vast skills to the best use. For Tamara Sheranchuk, doctor, it was a place where she longed to work in order to be closer to her husband. But on April 26, 1986, Chernobyl forever became some place very different for these three and for everyone around the world. 2003-05-09 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 11 +1139 The Mote in God's Eye 1975 The best novel about human beings making first contact with intelligent but utterly nonhuman aliens I have ever seen, and possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read. ROBERT HEINLEIN\n\nLarry Niven, four-time winner of the top science fiction awards, and Jerry Pournelle, an engineer involved in the Mercury and Apollo programmes, have combined to produce the most highly acclaimed science fiction novel of the last ten years: a masterpiece to rank with DUNE and STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-12-30 00:00:00 3 1 1 2 23 +1140 The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye 1993 THE GRIPPING HAND\n\nHis Excellency Horace Hussein Al-Shamlan Bury, trader and magnate, had hoped never again to hear mention of the gripping hand. Moties, the only aliens mankind has ever encountered, have two delicate right arms with small, wonderfully dextrous hands - and one powerful left arm, which wields the gripping hands...\n\nRETURN TO MOTE PRIME\n\nWhile Berry is investigating an excess of cash on the Imperial planet Maxroy's Purchase, his long-time friend and pilot Kevin Renner first sounds the alarm: the dreaded Motie's have escaped quarantine. And so begins for Berry and Renner an adventure unsuited to men of their age, which returns them to Mote Prime, launches them into battle in space... and reveals, once more, their unorthodox appreciation of Motie intelligence and ingenuity. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-12-30 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 14 +488 Magician 2013 At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master magician. But the peace of the Kingdom is about to be destroyed as mysterious invaders plague the land. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2014-02-02 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 25 +1141 N-SPACE 1992 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-13 00:00:00 3 1 3 7 23 +1144 Oath of Fealty 1982 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have combined once again to produce an exciting, realistic and adventurous speculation in the spirit of their bestselling novels LUCIFER's HAMMER and THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE.\n\nIn OATH OF FEALTY they write with dazzling imagination of an extraordinary society - a self-contained, self-governing community of a quarter of a million people that towers above the slums of Los Angeles: Todos Santos. And it is this ;modern castle ; that forms the setting and inspiration for a stirring adventure story of the future. 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2004-07-23 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 23 +1145 The Deus Machine 1993 The year is 2005 and a paralysing depression threatens to collapse the United States government.\n\nIn desperation, a secret military cabal sets DEUS - a supercomputer with the potential for true intelligence - on a fateful course: perpetually reinventing itself and, ultimately, creating a powerful new virus weapon. As DEUS begins to create bizarre and deadly new life-forms in an attempt to self-destruct, a troubled computer genius and a fatherless boy join force to try to save the world from a terrifying biological catastrophe. 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2004-08-02 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 5 +1198 King's Blood Four 1983 The neophyte necromancer Peter embarks on a long and hazardous quest, to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of prominent Gamesmen from the lands of the True Game. As the Wizard's Eleven sleep, trapped in their dreams, a giant stalks the mountains, the Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon, and the Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead.\n\nAs the truth unfolds, Peter, son of Mavin Manyshaped, must realise his true identity, and become the wild card that threatens the True Game itself.\n\nPlayers, take your places. The Game begins... 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-03-16 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 20 +1147 Red Mars 1993 Mars. The red planet.\nClosest to Earth in our solar system, surely life must exist on it? We dreamt about the builders of the canals we could see by telescope, about ruined cities, lost Martian civilisations, the possibilities of alien contact. Then the Viking and Mariner probes went up, and sent back nothing. Mars was a barren planet: lifeless, sterile, uninhabited.\n\nIn 2019 the first man set foot on the surface of Mars: John Boone, American hero. In 2027 one hundred of Earth's finest engineers and scientists made the first mass-landing. Their mission? To create a New World.\n\nTo terraform a planet with no atmosphere, and intensely cold climate and no magnetosphere into an Eden full of people, plants and animals.\n\nIt is the greatest challenge mankind has ever faced: the ultimate use of intelligence and ability: our finest dream. 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2003-07-27 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 6 +1150 Contact 1986 Through the infinite loneliness of space there comes a message...\n\nFor thousands of years mankind had scanned the heaves in search of clues. In more recent times scientists studied the galaxies through radio telescopes, seeking some sign of intelligent life there.\n\nThen, one afternoon, the course of human history is changed, abruptly and forever. The Message, so long awaited, has arrived.\n\nFor something beyond Earth, 26 light-years away, is calling - beaming across space to say that we are no longer alone...\nCONTACT\n\nAt the centre of this engrossing and richly-charactered novel is Eleanor Arroway - young, beautiful, dedicated. It is she who helps decode the Message and persuades world leaders not to treat is as an alien threat.\nAnd it is she who finally journeys out to experience the most fateful encounter of all... 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 21 +1151 Catface \N Asa Steele's backyard had always been a very ordinary, standard sort of place - til his dog Bowser began to find dinosaur bones out there somewhere. And down in the orchard they found some strange metals, unseen on Earth before.\n\nWith the help of Bowser and the local simpleton, Hiram, Asa makes contact with an enigmatic, catfaced alien dwelling in his orchard. It is Catface who holds the key to the mystery - a break in the fabric of time itself where travel was possible back to the primeval beggingings of Earth... 2003-05-29 00:00:00 2004-03-18 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 55 +1156 Shadrach in the Furnace 1979 The year is 2012. The world lies ravaged by biological warfare, its population decimated by a ferocious genetically-transmitted disease known as the organ rot. And presiding over the ruins is a ninety-three-year-old tyrant, preserved in a state of youth by a series of organ transplants: the self-styled Genghis Mao.\n\nShadrach Mordecai, Genghis Mao's trusted personal physician, was a vital cog in the great machine devoted to keeping the ruler alive: linked to him by a network of electronic implants, Shadrach was able to detect and diagnose the first signs of malfunction n his lord and master. But close as he was to the aging dictator, Shadrach could not have known that events would soon plunge him into a desperate struggle - a struggle in which a paragon of idealism faced the very incarnation of evil. 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-04-05 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 4 +1158 A Martian Odyssey 1934 Wonder Stories July '34 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 57 +1159 Twilight 1934 ss Astounding Nov '34 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-02-25 00:00:00 2 3 1 5 57 +1161 The Roads Must Roll 1940 nv Astounding Jun '40 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1162 Microcosmic God 1941 nv Astounding Apr '41 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1163 Nightfall 1941 nv Astounding Sep '41 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1170 Scanners Live in Vain 1950 nv Fantasy Book #6 '50 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 57 +1171 Mars Is Heaven! 1948 ss Planet Stories Fll '48 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 5 57 +1172 The Little Black Bag 1950 nv Astounding Jul '50 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1173 Born of Man and Woman 1950 vi F&SF Sum '50 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 10 57 +1174 Coming Attraction 1950 ss Galaxy Nov '50 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 4 57 +1175 The Quest for Saint Aquin 1959 ss New Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healy, Holt, 1951; F&SF Jan '59 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1176 Surface Tension 1952 nv Galaxy Aug '52 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2 3 1 1 57 +1177 The Nine Billion Names of God 1953 ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 57 +1247 Grail 1997 'Only that which endures beyond time is worth having. Well I know it. I, who have given all for the mastery of time and the elements, know the value of life ... Not for nothing am I called the Queen of Air and Darkness.'\n\nAn old enemy arises and Arthur's dreams of establishing his Summer Realm face ruin when the sacred relic, the Holy Grail, vanishes as a result of a hideous betrayal. 2003-06-28 00:00:00 2010-12-31 00:00:00 2 1 1 8 32 +1178 It's a Good Life 1953 ss Star Science Fiction Stories #2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 4 57 +1179 The Cold Equations 1954 nv Astounding Aug '54 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 6 57 +1180 Fondly Fahrenheit 1954 nv F&SF Aug '54 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 4 57 +1181 The Country of the Kind 1956 ss F&SF Feb '56 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 3 57 +1183 Phases of Gravity 1990 Richard Baedecker once walked on the moon, but everything the ex-astronaut has ever done seems only a simulation, a preparation for something bigger. \n\nHis quest for higher meaning begins when he meets a mysterious young woman who leads him on a journey to the 'places of power' in his own past. Moving from his half-forgotten boyhood in Illinois to the slums of India, from a ghost town in Oregon to the death flight of the Challenger, Baedecker confronts his trouble son, the woman he loves and two ex-crewmates from his Apollo days: one who claims he's found the ultimate truth; the other who's found a mysterious death. 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-08-07 00:00:00 2 1 3 8 37 +1197 The True Game 1988 The neophyte necromancer Peter embarks on a long and hazardous quest, to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of prominent Gamesmen from the lands of the True Game. As the Wizard's Eleven sleep, trapped in their dreams, a giant stalks the mountains, the Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon, and the Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead.\n\nAs the truth unfolds, Peter, son of Mavin Manyshaped, must realise his true identity, and become the wild card that threatens the True Game itself.\n\nPlayers, take your places. The Game begins... 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-03-16 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 20 +559 The City in the Autumn Stars 1986 Von Bek - the soldier of fortune , a survivor who yet finds himself damned... The man whose quest, down through the centuries, is to protect the Grail and do the devil's work - in Hell, upon Earth, to the edge of Heaven - and to the City in the Autumn Stars where all the worlds meet. Dumas, plus metaphysics, plus sorcery - Von Bek is a brilliant, utterly compelling fantasy epic. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 34 +795 Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory 1979 Chrysalis 4, ed. Roy Torgeson (Zebra, 1979) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +1199 Necromancer Nine 1983 The neophyte necromancer Peter embarks on a long and hazardous quest, to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of prominent Gamesmen from the lands of the True Game. As the Wizard's Eleven sleep, trapped in their dreams, a giant stalks the mountains, the Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon, and the Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead.\n\nAs the truth unfolds, Peter, son of Mavin Manyshaped, must realise his true identity, and become the wild card that threatens the True Game itself.\n\nPlayers, take your places. The Game begins... 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-03-16 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 20 +1200 Wizard's Eleven 1984 The neophyte necromancer Peter embarks on a long and hazardous quest, to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of prominent Gamesmen from the lands of the True Game. As the Wizard's Eleven sleep, trapped in their dreams, a giant stalks the mountains, the Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon, and the Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead.\n\nAs the truth unfolds, Peter, son of Mavin Manyshaped, must realise his true identity, and become the wild card that threatens the True Game itself.\n\nPlayers, take your places. The Game begins... 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-03-16 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 20 +1204 Iron Master 1987 The year: 2990 AD. The centuries-old conflict between the hi-tech underground world of the Trackers and the primitive, surface-dwelling Mutes continues with unabated ferocity. Steve Brickman, a Tracker wingman whose heart and mind is torn between the two cultures, embarks upon his most dangerous mission yet: the rescue of Cadillac and Clearwater, two gifted Plainfolk Mutes held captive by the mysterious Iron Masters. It is a nightmare journey into the unknown but, once again, a shadowy presence guides Steve's footsteps and endows him with superhuman speed and strength in moments of mortal danger... 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-01-27 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 5 +1205 Blood River 1990 The epic narrative that began with CLOUD WARRIOR continues to unfold. On the snow-swept overground, Steve, Cadillac and Clearwater meet with triumph and disaster as they try to evade the clutches of both the Iron Masters and the First Family. The samurai of Ne-Issan prove to be tenacious adversaries and the rulers of the Federation have no intention of loosening their grip on Steve Brickman. For he and his friends are valuable pawns in a game which, if lost, could spell the end of the First Family's dream of reconquering the blue-sky world. 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-02-01 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 5 +1209 Earth Factor X 1976 Really twisted...slightly. Earth shivered in a momentary absence of vibration. For a split second the solar system wasn't. And then was again. Less than a billionth of a second...but a time shift occurred for connected persons.\n\nAs the shadow ship started to emerge from the time jump, men and aliens were locked in a secret, undeclared war to rule Earth. The aliens, genetically changed, looked exactly like humans. They were everywhere - in government, in business, in finance. Opposed to them were two women and one isolated brain in a mechanical body. But between them they possessed the one secret that the aliens had never discerned about the people of Earth... 2003-06-11 00:00:00 2004-03-22 00:00:00 3 1 3 9 22 +1211 The Mind Cage 1968 David Marin shocks his associates by risking his honoured position: he pleads for the life of Wade Trask, a brilliant scientist condemned to die for sedition.\n\nMarin visits the condemned man and learns by grim experience the fantastic truth behind Trask's experiments. For he finds himself encased in the scientist's body - with the day of execution drawing near.\n\nFrom then on Marin is involved in a web of intrigue and despair: how can he unlock the mind cage and free himself from a scientific death that is creeping closer second by second? 2003-06-11 00:00:00 2004-07-19 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 9 +1213 Millenium 1985 great premise, poor finish JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK INTO THE FUTURE.\n\nAn appalling mid-air collision between a DC10 and a 747 started it all. Hundreds of smashed and shattered bodies were scattered among the debris and Bill Smith and his team began the gruesome job of investigation.\n\nAt first it was just little things that didn't add up - like all the watches in the crash having stopped one hour before it happened. And the odd sensation of being followed and watched by people who were not there. But then Bill started to discover things that really had no right being where they were and found himself right in the middle of the most extraordinary conspiracy.\n\nA conspiracy that seemed to have its origins somewhere in the far distant future. 2003-06-11 00:00:00 2004-04-14 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 5 +1214 The Summer Queen 1992 The Winter Colonists have ruled Tiamit for one hundred and fifty years, slaughtering the gentle sea mers in exchange for off-world wealth. But soon the gate to the galactic Hegemony will close, Tiamit will be isolated and the new reign of the Summer primitives will begin...\n\nTiamit can be saved only if destiny can be controlled. And now the task falls to the young mystic Moon Dawntreader Summer - an inexperienced 17-year-old girl who must take up the reins of power and become...the Summer Queen.\n\nThe Summer Queen is Moon Summer's story, and the story of Tiamit. A tale of history and civilization to challenge the limits of galactic space. A tale of betrayal that will devastate the tapestries of time... 2003-06-11 00:00:00 2004-12-28 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 2 +1238 The Cyborg and the Sorcerers 1982 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE\n\nSlant the Cyborg Warrior had been ordered to kill the enemies of Earth and return with their weapons technology. His robot spacecraft was to see that the did - and kill his if he didn't.\n\nProblem was - Earth had perished three hundred years before, but no one had told the ship.\n\nSlant's dilemma seemingly had no solution... then they landed on a strange world where the computer detected "gravitational anomalies." 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-05-23 00:00:00 2 1 3 6 8 +1242 Nerilka's Story 1987 It was in Moreta's time - a time of legend, of heroic valour, of terrible Threadfall, and the Great Plague that devastated both Holders and Dragonfolk. For Lady Nerilka of Fort Hold, the tragedy was twofold for, with the death of her mother and sister, her father's mistress took possession of the Hold. Angry and betrayed, Nerilka decided to escape and, as Pern seethed in turmoil, she began her perilous journey to Ruatha, Lord Alessan, and an unknown destiny. 2003-06-23 00:00:00 2003-06-23 00:00:00 2 1 3 6 20 +1243 The Coelura 1987 It was in Moreta's time - a time of legend, of heroic valour, of terrible Threadfall, and the Great Plague that devastated both Holders and Dragonfolk. For Lady Nerilka of Fort Hold, the tragedy was twofold for, with the death of her mother and sister, her father's mistress took possession of the Hold. Angry and betrayed, Nerilka decided to escape and, as Pern seethed in turmoil, she began her perilous journey to Ruatha, Lord Alessan, and an unknown destiny. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-06-23 00:00:00 2 1 3 7 20 +165 Island of the Gods 1992 Five premier practitioners of the art of Science Fiction embark on an astonishing flight of the imagination inspired by the innovative genius of Isaac Asimov. The Grand Master of the genre has created a totally new universe for the writers to bring to life - a cosmos completely formed, intricately detailed and utterly compelling.\n\nIn the Milky Way galaxy of 1000 years hence, six vastly different starfaring races co-exist under a precarious truce. It is a volatile peace, threatened by the presence of the most recent addition to the galactic community - the species called Man... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 6 +1267 Exile's Gate 1988 Here, after ten years, is the long-awaited new novel about one of C.J. Cherryh's most famous and popular heroines, Morgaine, closer of the world Gates! Morgaine, who with her magical sword Changeling and her loyal liegeman Vane, travels form world to world, seeking out the Gates, deadly heritage of a long-vanished race, which could forever warp past, present, and future unless they are shut down.\n\nNow, on a world torn by rebellion and war, Morgaine must meet her greatest challenge. For here she will face Fault, who is both human and alien and who seeks control of the world and its Gate. And here too Morgaine will face the true Gatemaster, a mysterious lord with a power as great - or perhaps greater than Morgaine's own. 2003-11-28 00:00:00 2003-12-16 00:00:00 2 1 3 5 22 +286 Thendara House 1987 It was a place on Darkover where the Order of the Renunciates dwelled - women known as Free Amazons, who had renounced all subservience to men ... And who sought for total equality in all spheres of society.\n\nTo Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave.\n\nThe cross-currents of these two cultures - one male-dominated, one egalitarian, brings into focus all the deepest questions of love and marriage ... of male and female ... of justice and injustice. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 7 +1276 The Song of Mavin Manyshaped 1986 For Mavin, coming of age as a shapeshifter is both exhilarating and terrifying. Recklessly headstrong, she is to become notorious in the lands of the True Game. With her brother, she leaves their home - a place of slavery and fear - only to have the boy's powers of beguilemnet lead them into danger. Rescued by the Wizard Himaggery, the shape-shifter and man of magic make a vow. When twenty years have come and gone, they will meet again.\n\nBut Himaggery has vanished, leaving only a letter of love behind for Mavin to find. If he were dead, she would know it; sorcerers could trace the scent of his trail, necromancers raise his bones form the dust. But he has disappeared - beyond the power of wizardy. And so the search of Mavin Manyshaped begins... 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-08-18 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 20 +1277 The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped 1986 For Mavin, coming of age as a shapeshifter is both exhilarating and terrifying. Recklessly headstrong, she is to become notorious in the lands of the True Game. With her brother, she leaves their home - a place of slavery and fear - only to have the boy's powers of beguilemnet lead them into danger. Rescued by the Wizard Himaggery, the shape-shifter and man of magic make a vow. When twenty years have come and gone, they will meet again.\n\nBut Himaggery has vanished, leaving only a letter of love behind for Mavin to find. If he were dead, she would know it; sorcerers could trace the scent of his trail, necromancers raise his bones form the dust. But he has disappeared - beyond the power of wizardy. And so the search of Mavin Manyshaped begins... 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-08-18 00:00:00 2 1 1 9 20 +1278 The Search for Mavin Manyshaped 1986 For Mavin, coming of age as a shapeshifter is both exhilarating and terrifying. Recklessly headstrong, she is to become notorious in the lands of the True Game. With her brother, she leaves their home - a place of slavery and fear - only to have the boy's powers of beguilemnet lead them into danger. Rescued by the Wizard Himaggery, the shape-shifter and man of magic make a vow. When twenty years have come and gone, they will meet again.\n\nBut Himaggery has vanished, leaving only a letter of love behind for Mavin to find. If he were dead, she would know it; sorcerers could trace the scent of his trail, necromancers raise his bones form the dust. But he has disappeared - beyond the power of wizardy. And so the search of Mavin Manyshaped begins... 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-08-18 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 20 +1282 The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped 1986 For Mavin, coming of age as a shapeshifter is both exhilarating and terrifying. Recklessly headstrong, she is to become notorious in the lands of the True Game. With her brother, she leaves their home - a place of slavery and fear - only to have the boy's powers of beguilemnet lead them into danger. Rescued by the Wizard Himaggery, the shape-shifter and man of magic make a vow. When twenty years have come and gone, they will meet again.\n\nBut Himaggery has vanished, leaving only a letter of love behind for Mavin to find. If he were dead, she would know it; sorcerers could trace the scent of his trail, necromancers raise his bones form the dust. But he has disappeared - beyond the power of wizardy. And so the search of Mavin Manyshaped begins... 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-08-18 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 20 +1286 Juxtaposition 1982 OUT OF PHAZE\n\nStile had problems - two whole worlds of problems in fact.\n\nOn Proton, a world of future science, his murder was averted only by the help of a lovely robot, who sent him through an invisible "curtain" to Phaze, an alternate world ruled by magic. There he found he was the double of the sorcerer, the Blue Adept, who had been mysteriously murdered. And the assassin was after Stile!\n\nTo survive, Stile had to master magic, fight a dragon, win the friendship of a lady unicorn, l\nocate his enemy among the paranoid Adepts, and return out of Phaze to win the Great Games on Proton. After that, he was ready to face the real problems!\n\nThe infallible Oracle was suddenly involved in the conspiracy against him. The two worlds were out of balance and heading for disaster. Stile was somehow supposed to take over the job of saving them or go down to total destruction with all he loved. He had to act and act quickly - with no idea of what he was supposed to do. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 5 8 +1397 Nine Princes in Amber 1970 Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin Crown Prince of Amber [of] his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 2 34 +1325 Bordered in Black 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-06-22 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 23 +1157 Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time 1970 Volume 1 No blurb due to missing cover 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 2 3 1 2 57 +1326 Convergent Series 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 3 23 +1398 The Guns of Avalon 1972 Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin Crown Prince of Amber [of] his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 34 +290 The World Wreckers 1987 Darkover is a small planet isolated at the edge of a galaxy - primitive, still in the early stages of development, and wide open to attack and domination.\n\nWorld Wreckers Inc. is an underground organization that will do anything for money. Their ruler is the ruthless Andrea Closson - a woman who had never failed in war - and she will mastermind the assault on the beautiful and vulnerable planet.\n\nSalvation lies in the hands of the chieri, the legendary alien natives of Darkover. But can these gentle creatures overcome the savage power of a menace which threatens the very heart of their world? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 21 +1327 All the Myriad Ways 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 5 23 +1330 From A GIFT FROM EARTH 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 23 +1331 From WORLD OF PTAVVS 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 23 +1332 For a Foggy Night 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 1 23 +1333 The Meddler 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 4 23 +1334 Passerby 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 4 23 +1078 The Crystal Singer 1982 She was in a state of shock... heart-wrenching disappointment when she met the stranger from off-world...\n\nHe said he was a Crystal Singer - one of the unique ones of the Galaxy - although she didn't quite know what a Crystal Singer was...\n\nAnd when she tried to find out the answers were veiled... shrouded in mystery, and danger, and beauty, and something altogether incomprehensible...\n\nThen she too must try and become a Crystal Singer... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-11-24 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 20 +22 Flight To Forever 1950 'Flight To Forever', Super Science Stories 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 5 +1335 Down in Flames 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 23 +1336 From RINGWORLD 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 23 +1337 The Fourth Profession 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 3 23 +560 The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius 1965 Von Bek - the soldier of fortune , a survivor who yet finds himself damned... The man whose quest, down through the centuries, is to protect the Grail and do the devil's work - in Hell, upon Earth, to the edge of Heaven - and to the City in the Autumn Stars where all the worlds meet. Dumas, plus metaphysics, plus sorcery - Von Bek is a brilliant, utterly compelling fantasy epic. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 34 +1338 "Shall We Indulge in Rishathra?" 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 23 +1339 Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 4 23 +1340 Inconstant Moon 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 1 23 +1349 Building the Mote in God's Eye 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-12 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 23 +1341 What Can You Say about Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers? 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 3 23 +1342 Cloak of Anarchy 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 4 23 +1343 From PROTECTOR 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 23 +1344 The Hole Man 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-09 00:00:00 3 1 3 5 23 +1345 Night on Mispec Moor 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-10 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 23 +1346 Flare Time 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-10 00:00:00 3 1 3 7 23 +1347 The Locusts 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-10 00:00:00 3 1 3 4 23 +1348 From THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-10 00:00:00 3 1 3 10 23 +1350 Brenda 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-12 00:00:00 3 1 3 8 23 +1351 The Return of William Proxmire 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-10 00:00:00 3 1 3 8 23 +1352 The Tale of the Jinni and the Sisters 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-12 00:00:00 3 1 3 8 23 +1353 Madness Has Its Place 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-13 00:00:00 3 1 3 7 23 +1354 Niven's Laws 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-13 00:00:00 3 1 3 8 23 +1355 The Kiteman 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-13 00:00:00 3 1 3 9 23 +1356 The Alien in Our Minds 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-13 00:00:00 3 1 3 8 23 +1357 Space 1990 Now Larry Niven has assembled a retrospective collection from all phases of his career. N-SPACE ranges from classic tales like "Inconstant Moon" and "All the Myriad Ways" to sections from Niven's most famous novels, all underlined by the author's comments and afterthoughts; from essays on SF writing and the way of the world to memories of Larry Niven and his writing by a science fiction Hall of Fame which includes David Brin, Gregory Benford, Frederik Pohl and Steven Barnes, Niven's collaborator on DREAM PARK and THE BARSOOM PROJECT.\n\nRich with gossip, storytelling vigour, and sheer science-fictional fun, this is a compelling distillation of SF's sense of wonder in its purest form. 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-07-13 00:00:00 3 1 3 6 23 +1360 Two Crowns For America 1997 No actual battle details, more just people and freemasonry - not what I expected. If you knew American history well, then this might be more interesting... Bestselling fantasist Katherine Kurtz combines magic, Freemasonry, and revelation in this spellbinding tale of the American Revolution as it might have been...\n\n\nTWO CROWNS FOR AMERICA\n\nThe year is 1775. In Europe, an unseen Master peers into a darkened mirror for the image of the man whose destiny it is to wear the victor's crown. Across the sea, a tall, commanding colonel named George Washington is thrown from his horse and has a dream that will haunt him for the rest of his life. As rebellion grows imminent and colonists flock to take up arms for liberty, they hardly suspect they are part of a greater plan. Who is the invisible Master whose legendary abilities stretch across the fabric of time and history? More important, what can Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and the other Founding Fathers do to preserver the original goal of their revolution. 2004-09-18 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2 1 3 8 11 +1379 Merchanter's Luck \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1380 Rimrunners \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1381 Heavy Time \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1382 Hellburner \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1383 Fortress of Eagles \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +12 World Without Stars 1966 World Without Stars was serialized in Analog, 1966 under the title The Ancient\nGods. Poul Anderson, one of the most respected and widely-read science fiction\nauthors, has made a highly successful career of thrilling his readers with a\nspecial blend of adventure, humor and science.\n\nThis new collection brings together three novels that exhibit all of the\ninimitable Anderson ingredients. In PLANET OF NO RETURN, an overpopulated\nEarth finally finds a habitable world to colonize ... and discovers hidden\nenemies. THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS chronicles the aftermath of an Earth-Mars war\nand its universal consequences. And WORLD WITHOUT STARS is an engrossing story\nof humans shipwrecked on a planet whose sky is dominated by the glow of an\nentire galaxy, and whose surface is split by war.\n\nThese are stories with excitement and style, qualities that have always been\nthe trademark of Poul Anderson. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 3 +13 Tau Zero 1973 Voyage into the Unknown\n\nThe time: the twenty-third century. The people: fifty carefully-selected men\nand women, highly skilled in the mechanics of space travel. Their space ship:\nthe amazing Leonara Christine. And their mission? - to voyage across\ninterstellar space to a distant planet.\n\nIf all went well they would reach their destination and establish a new Earth\ncolony. But two years out they collided with a cloud of space debris and were\nthrown irretrievable off course, heading into the next galaxy on a collision\ncourse with the unknown... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-04-24 00:00:00 2 1 1 5 4 +24 On a Pale Horse 1985 Zane's world interweaves science and magic. Cars compete with flying carpets.\nSatan runs massive advertising campaigns, splashing seductive slogans across\ncountless hoardings. And the Incarnations of Time, War, Nature, Fate and Death\nare living beings who take part in the great battle between God and the Devil.\n\nJust as his life seems to be turning into total failure, Zane is given the role\nof Death. His job is not easy - it involves taking souls, judging them and\nsending them to their just deserts. It involves ending suffering - by ending\nlife.\n\nAnd it leads Zane into a colossal conflict with the mighty powers of Satan -\na struggle for which he feels totally unprepared... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 10 +45 The Bicentennial Man 1980 Andrew was one of Earth's first house robots - clean, smoothly designed and functional. but when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time passed, Andrew acquired knowledge, feelings and ambitions way beyond anything ever experienced by other mechanical men. And he found himself launched on to a career which would bring him fame, fortune - and danger.\n\nFor a robot who wants to be human must also be prepared to die... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +252 Anvil of Stars 1992 82 young people travel the enormity of space on a quest for war and vengeance against The Planet Eaters: aliens who turned the earth - and all but a fragment of humanity - into a smouldering cinder. But how do you conduct war against aliens whose psychology is unknowable, whose technological brilliance means they can disguise whole planetary systems?\n\nANVIL OF STARS has astonishing power. Its epic voyage is shot through with love, self conflict, the terror or war and the infinite possibilities of the universe. Driven by a godly sense of wonder and using quantum mechanics and particle physics to dazzling effect, this book is quite simply everything you ever wanted SF to be. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 7 +605 Beyond the Blue Event Horizon \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +967 Project Nightmare 1953 Tales of space and time...\nof moon and stars and sunouts...\nof seas that move and\nchildren who fly...\nand of a bathysphere climbing a\ngigantic waterspout... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-19 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 20 +1417 Mother and Child 1978 Originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact Magazine. FIRESHIP\n\nEthan Ring was on the run with a half-million dollar price on his head - for Ethan was the amazing fusion of an ordinary man and the most incredible computer ever devised - and the man had decided to run with his other half to Khorram Kabir's fantastic casino on Mars. But unscrupulous people knew he was there and he was blackmailed in order to penetrate Kabir's planet-wide computer network, or die...\n\nMOTHER AND CHILD\n\nA child was born in a brutally forced marriage. But the King who had stolen the beautiful priestess Etaa from her rightful marriage-bed was not the father of the boy. And the boy was fated to be the plaything in an incomprehensible game spanning the stars that would change the face of their world and its people forever. 2005-12-29 00:00:00 2005-12-29 00:00:00 2 1 3 6 55 +1454 Hunters of Dune 2006 Fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres - dark counterparts of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood - Duncan Idaho, the military genius Bashar Miles Teg, a woman named Sheeana who can talk to sandworms, and a group of desperate refugees explore the boundaries of the universe.\n\nAboard their sophisticated no-ship, they have used long-stored cells to resurrect heroes and villains from the past, including Paul Muad'dib and his love Chani, Duke Leto Atreides and his Lady Jessica, even the traitor Doctor Yueh, all in preparation for a final confrontation with a mysterious outside Enemy so great it can destroy even the terrible Honored Matres.\n\nAnd, deep in the hold of their giant ship, the refugees carry the last surviving sandworms from devastated Arrakis, as they search the universe for a new Dune. 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2011-05-09 00:00:00 2 2 1 4 30 +1474 A War of Gifts: An Ender Story \N 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +859 It Is Coming 1979 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +23 Total Recall 1990 'Its like a movie, and you are the star. By the time it's over, you'll have\ngot the girl, killed the bad guys and saved the planet'\n\nObsessed by dreams of Mars that he can't afford to realise, Doug Quaid, a\nconstruction worker, settles for the Rekall Incorporated Ego Trip mind-travel\npackage.\n\nBut when the treatment dislodges some true memories, Quaid suddenly finds he is\nplaying the fantasy for real...\n\nFast-moving, all action, this is totally compulsive entertainment which you\nwon't forget.\n\nTotal Recall, is a major new film from Columbia/Tristar, directed by Paul\nVerhowven and starring Arnold Schwarznegger. Based on an original short story\nby Phillip K. Dick. Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 7 +2 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 1980 Charting the whole of Arthur Dent's Odyssey through space are:\n\nThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\nOne Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for\na new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house\ndemolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.\nSadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very\nvery large and startling place.\n\nThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe.\nWhen all questions of space, time, and matter and the nature of being have been\nresolved, only one question remains - 'Where shall we have dinner?' The\nrestaurant at the end of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic\nexperience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.\n\nLife, the Universe and Everything.\nIn consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised\nto find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric earth.\nHowever, just as he thinks that things cannot possible get any worse, they\nsuddenly do. he discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and\nbewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly\nunfair.\n\nSo Long and Thanks for All the Fish.\nJust as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly\nfinds the girl of this dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe\nin which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people\nwill find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His\nCreation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 1 +20 The Light 1957 'The Light', Galaxy 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 5 +1378 Planet of Exile \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +21 The Discovery of the Past 1984 'The Discovery of the Past'\nA small part of this essay was published in Profanity magazine, 1977 by Bruce\nPelz. 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 5 +537 The Siege of the Dome 1986 Treet listened to the tension in the voices; heard the fear creeping in. It was as if an unseen hand had closed around the group, slowly crushing out hope.\n\nHe was on his feet.\n\n"Listen to me. What you feel is the ancient mindless fear that paralyzes and consumes, that destroys first the will and then the heart." His voice rose to a shout. "You think to pull down a dictator, but the danger is greater than you suspect. We have a world to save." 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 32 +194 One Night of Song 1982 First published in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +205 The Eye of the Beholder 1986 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +208 The Fights of Spring 1987 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +291 The Winds of Darkover 1978 The planet Darkover bathed in its blood red sun - served as a convenient space port for the terran empire. Beyond that the Terrans knew little of the planet's strange landscape - its vast mountain ranges, its deadly winds and its hostile inhabitants.\n\nDan Barron a simple spaceport dispatcher, found himself alone and helpless in this alien world. A victim of powerful psychic forces beyond the comprehension of scientific man, he is irresistibly drawn into a life and death struggle... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 21 +865 One Night of Song 1982 F & SF, April, 1982\n(also in Azazel) The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 6 +296 City of Sorcery 1987 Haunted by the mysterious images of dark, hooded figures and the cawing of strange birds, and drawn by the memory of two lost comrades, Magdalen Lorne, chief Terran operative on Darkover, must pursue her quest, not only to the frozen ends of the physical world, but to the perilous limits of the spiritual overworld as well.\n\nFor to find this city that no man has seen, she will be tested as she has never been before by the evil sorcery of the Dark Sisterhood. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-12-07 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 7 +302 The Four Moons of Darkover 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +303 The Jackal 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +304 Death's Scepter 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 22 +305 A King's Ransom 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 22 +556 The Steel Tsar 1981 The first ever steampunk stories from the author whom The Modern Review called 'A great novelist... Original and ambitious... Resolutely British'. These are the adventures of Captain Oswald Bastable (ex-53rd Lancers and Special Air Force), flung from the North East Frontier of 1902 into the future world of a 1973 where the stately airships of the great powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. Guided only by the red republican cosmonaut, Una Persson, Bastable must question his most cherished ideals, and confront a multitude of alternate futures before at last gaining an understanding of his fate. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 31 +306 Man of Impulse 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +307 Swarm Song 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 22 +308 Out of Ashes 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +309 My Father's Son 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +310 House Rules 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 22 +311 To Challenge Fate 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 22 +352 Rockets 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +506 The Ladies of Mandrigyn 1984 Swords Against The Wizard\n\nThe City of Mandrigyn was conquered in the foul mines of the evil Wizard King, Altiokis. Now the women of the city, led by Sheera Galernas, had come to hire the mercenary army of Captain Sun Wolf. But Sun Wolf was too wise to become involved in fighting against wizardry...\n... until he woke to find himself kidnapped and offered a grim choice by Sheera. He could train and lead the ladies of Mandrigyn against Altiokis - or he could die in lingering agony from the anzid they had given him and for which only they had the antidote.\n\nThere was more to the ladies than Sun Wolf could have guessed. There was also far more to the evil Altiokis than anyone knew.\n\nBut above all there was a great deal more to Sun Wolf and his destiny than he had ever dreamed. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 8 +124 Little Lost Robot 1947 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +812 The Originist 1989 Foundation;s Friends, ed. Martin H. Greenberg (Tor, 1989) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 7 +353 The Coming Age of Rocket Power 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +1476 Rides a Dread Legion 2009 A lost race of elves, the taredhel or ‘people of the stars’, have found a way across the universe to reach Midkemia. On their current home world, these elves are hard pressed by a ravaging demon horde, and what was once a huge empire has been reduced to a handful of survivors. The cornerstone of taredhel lore is the tale of their lost origins in the world they call simply ‘Home’, a place lost in the mists of time. Now they are convinced that Midkemia is that place, and they are coming to reclaim it.\n\nRuthless and arrogant, the taredhel intend to let nothing stand in their way; but before long, Pug and the Conclave realise that it's not necessarily the elves, but the demon horde pursuing them where the true danger lies. And hanging over Pug always is the prophecy that he will be doomed to watch everyone he loves die before him… 2009-04-10 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 1 3 1 6 25 +354 Extraterrestrial Relays 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 1 25 +489 Silverthorn 1995 For nearly a year peace reigned in the enchanted kingdom of Rillanon. But new challenges awaited Arutha the Prince of Krondor when Jimmy the Hand - youngest thief in the Guild of Mockers - came upon a sinister Nighthawk poised to assassinate him.\n\nWhat evil power raises the dead and makes corpses do battle with the living at the behest of the Guild of Death? And what high magic can defeat it? \nThe new King of Midkemia is threatened - and a life-or-death quest must be undertaken for an antidote to a poison that fells a beautiful Princess on her wedding day... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-05-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +355 The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +1393 At Winter's End 1988 For generations the survivors of the cataclysm have sheltered in cocoons buried in the earth and waited for the gods to grow tired of hurling down death-stars onto a frozen world. Now it is time for Koshmar and the boy-chronicler, Hresh, and the rest of Koshmar's tribe to emerge into the sun. A strange and savage landscape awaits them, where rat-wolves, bloodbirds and soulless hijk-men stalk - and the terrifyingly altered other creatures.\n\nIn the ruins of Vengiboneeza, the ancient capital of the sapphire-eyes fold, Hresh dares to celebrate their triumph - and suffers shattering defeat at the realization of a great and terrible truth. 2005-05-22 00:00:00 2005-05-29 00:00:00 2 2 1 4 7 +1279 Jinian Star-Eye \N 2004-03-16 00:00:00 2004-03-16 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +356 The Challenge of the Spaceship 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +547 The Fortress of the Pearl 1989 Elric: hero of song, story, rock show, disc graphic novel, PC and role-playing games, not fighting sorcery, but using it to spectacular effect. Yet, tormented always by his human failings, his longing for peace, his is a world of dragons, spectral armies, nature in upheaval on every side... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 31 +357 First Men in the Moon 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +358 The Problem of Dr. Campbell 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +472 What Makes Us Human 1984 First published in F & SF.\nSubsequently appeared in Beserker Base, edited by Fred SaberHagen, Tor 1985.\nLater appeared in one of Daw's "Year's Best" collections Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 25 +1478 The Silver Mage 2009 Spurred on by the priestesses of the false goddess Alshandra, the Horsekin hordes are massing on the northern border of Prince Dar's holdings. Their leaders believe that the rich grasslands of the prince's domain belong to them by divine right, no matter whom they must destroy to claim them.\n\nBut Dar has powerful allies on his side, including the dragon Arzosah, who has hated the Horsekin for hundreds of years. She will vow to take a revenge worse than anything the Horsekin and their priestesses could possibly foresee...\n\nThe prince's most powerful ally, however, is the one the Horsekin refuse to understand: the deep magic of the dweomer, as wielded by the band of sorcerers sworn to protect him, and especially by the elven master of magic, Dallandra, the silver mage. 2009-09-27 00:00:00 2010-03-14 00:00:00 1 2 1 7 25 +1396 The Chronicles of Amber 2000 Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin Crown Prince of Amber [of] his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 34 +359 The Lackeys of Wall Street 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +360 Voyages to the Moon 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +548 The Sailor on the Seas of Fate 1976 Elric: hero of song, story, rock show, disc graphic novel, PC and role-playing games, not fighting sorcery, but using it to spectacular effect. Yet, tormented always by his human failings, his longing for peace, his is a world of dragons, spectral armies, nature in upheaval on every side... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 31 +549 The Dreaming City 1961 Elric: hero of song, story, rock show, disc graphic novel, PC and role-playing games, not fighting sorcery, but using it to spectacular effect. Yet, tormented always by his human failings, his longing for peace, his is a world of dragons, spectral armies, nature in upheaval on every side... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +361 You're on the Glide Path, I Think 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 1 25 +508 God Emperor of Dune 1987 More than a millennium has passed since the first events recorded in Dune. One link only survives with that epic past: Leto Atreides, God Emperor of the galaxy.\n\nHe alone it is who understands the future, who knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into the species. Yet he knows also that these new and vital forces can only prove themselves through the fateful process of his own destruction 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 28 +798 Fat Farm 1980 OMNI, January 1980 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +362 Morphological Astronomy 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +386 Winding Up 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +494 Prince of the Blood 1990 Set twenty years after the events of The Riftwar Saga, Prince of the Blood follows the intrigues and adventures that erupt when a group of powerful nobles attempts to overthrow the Empress of Kesh, bitterly dividing the court, in the centre of the conflict are the two princes of Krondor, Boric and Erlund. When Boric is kidnapped and overhears a plot to assassinate them both, he escapes and makes a desperate journey back to the court to warn of the traitor's plans - which, if they were to succeed, would start a war that would tear the Empire apart.\n\nFrom the author of the phenomenally successful novels in The Riftwar Saga comes a bold new tale of swashbuckling adventure in one of the most popular fantasy worlds ever created. Prince of the Blood is the classic, action-packed saga of conflict and love, magic and legend, from the master of epic fantasy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 6 +363 The Conquest of Space 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +552 Son of the Shadows 2000 I saw an old, old man, wandering the empty halls of Sevenwaters alone, his gnarled fingers grasping a staff of yew support. He was mumbling to himself, They are all gone... no sons, no daughters ... how can the forest be saved, if there are no children at Sevenwaters? And I saw that this crippled ancient was my brother Sean.\n\nAfter years of happiness, darkness has fallen upon Ulster, Trouble is brewing and leaders are being called into strategic alliances to defend their land. Even those in the heart of the forest are not safe.\n\nOf the three children at Sevenwaters, it is not golden-haired Niamh nor the young heir Sean, but Liadan, Sean's twin, with her gift of Sight and her mother's talent for healing, who seems to hold the key. Liadan's road will be tortuous. She must journey into the shadowy world of the Painted Man and his warriors, and walk a fine line between right and wrong if she is to succeed.\n\nBut will Liadan risk the safety of the her family to be a pawn in Ireland's future? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2009-12-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 33 +369 Review: When Worlds Collide 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +370 Review: Man on the Moon 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +371 Flying Saucers 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +1481 The Last Light of the Sun 2004 The Northlands; countries of mist and myth, the clash of weapons and sea-faring invaders echoing over the huddled settlements. But through the actions of a few, the world can change, and irresistible forces fall.\n\nAlun Ab Owyn, young and impulsive with a head full of songs, is such a man. Grieving for his brother’s death, he is consumed by the need for revenge. Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father’s sins, is another, as is the king who holds his beleaguered people together, King Aeldred.\n\nMaking brilliant use of saga, song and chronicle, Guy Gavriel Kay has written a novel of infinite, spellbinding richness, full to the brim with intrigue, passion and unforgettable storytelling. 2010-05-05 00:00:00 2010-12-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 65 +372 Review: Flying Saucers Have Landed 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +373 Undersea Holiday 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +1425 Ironcrown Moon \N 2006-10-23 00:00:00 2006-10-23 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +554 The Warlord of the Air 1971 The first ever steampunk stories from the author whom The Modern Review called 'A great novelist... Original and ambitious... Resolutely British'. These are the adventures of Captain Oswald Bastable (ex-53rd Lancers and Special Air Force), flung from the North East Frontier of 1902 into the future world of a 1973 where the stately airships of the great powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. Guided only by the red republican cosmonaut, Una Persson, Bastable must question his most cherished ideals, and confront a multitude of alternate futures before at last gaining an understanding of his fate. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +374 The Exploration of the Moon 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +375 Eclipse 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +376 Astronautical Fallacies 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +1479 At the Gates of Darkness 2010 Recent events have devastated the Conclave of Shadows; the discovery of the Demon horde on the heels of the taredhel invasion of Midkemia, the threat of the star elves themselves, and the terrible personal cost paid by Pug and his family.\n\nBut grieving must wait. At a deserted fortress in the Valley of Lost Men, the Conclave's agents witness horror beyond their imagination, orchestrated by a familiar enemy. But Belasco's motives are as yet unclear. The Conclave must regroup and discover the true meaning behind the chaos seeded by the evil magician if they are ever to find a way to stop the destruction of Triagia before the demon horde even arrives. 2009-12-07 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 1 3 1 6 25 +799 Closing the Timelid 1979 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December, 1979 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +377 The Star of Bethlehem 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 3 25 +378 Capricorn to Cancer 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +595 Sundiver 1980 Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury. Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in our history. A journey into the boiling inferno of the sun, to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life.\n\nFor in a universe in which no species can reach sentience without being 'uplifted' by a patron race, it seems that only mankind has reached for the stars unaided. And now, the greatest mystery of all may be explained... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 23 +379 Keeping House in Colombo 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +380 The Reefcomber's Derby 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +381 Rest Houses, Catamarans, and Sharks 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +382 The First Wreck 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +1447 Into a Dark Realm 2008 The dread plot to destroy the Empire of Great Kesh has failed. The Conclave of Shadows has ended the murderous Nighthawk brotherhood's horrific reign of terror and death. But the mad sorcerer, Leso Varen, has fled, taking refuge among the most powerful men and women on Kelewan--a world now threatened, along with Midkemia, by hordes of the most vicious warriors in the known universe. The great sorcerer Pug knows of no power that will vanquish these invaders. And now he, brave Magnus and Nakor, and a disturbing young stranger named Bek must venture into the poisonous heart of the Dasati realm--the most terrible place they have ever encountered -- in a valiant, impossible attempt to turn the tides against the encroaching doom that would swallow their world. 2008-02-03 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 0 +383 A Clear Run to the South Pole 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +562 The Sleeping Sorceress 1971 'Strange and tormented landscapes, peopled by characters of archetypal dimensions, are the setting for a series of titanic duels between the forces of Chaos and Order...\n\n'Over these presides the central figure of Elric, the haunted warrior-king whose ambivalent relationship with the magical sword Stormbringer is the author's most original creation. The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents' J.G. Ballard\n\nThe epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins - spectacular, tormented, the most infamous hero-villain in all of heroic fantasy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +384 The Isle of Taprobane 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +385 The Great Reef 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +470 Penance 1993 date is a guess, cannot be earlier than 1993, maybe later up to 1999 Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 25 +387 Failures of Nerve and Imagination 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +388 We'll Never Conquer Space 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +389 Rocket to the Renaissance 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +390 The Obsolescence of Man 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 3 25 +391 Space and the Spirit of Man 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +392 The Uses of the Moon 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 1 25 +471 The Woman Who Loved Pigs 1993 First published in Full Spectrum 4, edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +393 The Playing Fields of Space 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +394 Kalinga Prize Speech 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +395 More Than Five Senses 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 2 25 +396 Son of Dr. Strangelove 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +397 Possible, That's All! 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +398 The Mind of the Machine 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +1399 Sign of the Unicorn 1975 Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin Crown Prince of Amber [of] his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 34 +399 God and Einstein 1965 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 1 25 +400 Satellites and Saris 1975 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +483 The Betrayal of Arthur 1999 this may be a PhD thesis, most interesting is the 'conditions' prevalent and meaning behind much of the story from 12th century religious/anti-british background A prophecy of a golden age, a magic sword and a chosen one... This is the legend of King Arthur ... or is it?\n\nFrom the manuscripts of a twelfth-century English cleric to a New York bestseller, tales of King Arthur and his court permeate our world. But where did the stories start and how much is true? Was Merlin a wise man or magician? And was King Arthur a great and glorious king or a tragic man doomed from conception?\n\nThe Betrayal of Arthur is an enchanting exploration of Arthurian legend, twentieth-century sensibilities and the medieval mind. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-01-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 2 +792 Tales of Capitol 1991 This is a revision of some of the earlier novels in a book entitle Capitol On a far-away world a young boy, Lared, meets a man who walks on water. As Lared's friendship with this miraculous and telepathic stranger grows, he begins to dream. Of places like the corrupt world Capitol, and of people like Abner Doon, slayer of worlds, and Jason Worthing, starfighter, who is exiled from Capitol with a group of colonists whose memories are wiped. And as Lared tells of his dreams, so we learn the stories of how Jason and his companions struggled to create a perfect society... 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-03-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +401 Mars and the Mind of Man 1975 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +402 The Sea of Sinbad 1975 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +403 Willy and Chesley 1975 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +404 The Snows of Olympus 1975 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +405 Writing to Sell 1975 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +1450 The Treasured One 2004 The one ray of hope shining through the darkness are the four children called the Dreamers. They alone hold the power to change the course of history... and stop the Vlagh in its quest for total world domination.\n\nThe God Dahlaine brought the Dreamers into the world of the Elder Gods and now he wishes he'd thought harder about the consequences. He'd had no idea that they would be so powerful, it seems there is no limit to the havoc they can wreak. It's bad enough with them dreaming the future - at least it's a future - but on top of that, what if someone else is actually controlling their dreams?\n\nThen spies of very short stature start cropping up in Veltan's bucolic and peaceful domain. They look like people, or maybe they all look like the same person, but they are more sinister than any person could be. Dahlaine is soon on the scene riding his thunderbolt, the Dreamers are threatening to dream, invasion from beyond the sea is rumoured, and war is about to happen... 2008-03-18 00:00:00 2008-03-28 00:00:00 1 3 3 7 25 +509 Dune 1974 This collection of Frank Herbert's great novels, Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune brings together three of the finest achievements of post-war science fiction. They are epic tales, full of excitement and intrigue, packed with memorable characters and scenes.\n\nDominated by a vast, treacherous desert world of Dune, the trilogy the story of Paul Atreides, prince turned revolutionary leader, who becomes the reluctant messiah to a fanatical religious movement that threatens and entire galactic empire. Opposing him are the maligned sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit - who, unable to dominate the man they have made a god, set out to destroy him - and the Atreides' deadliest enemy, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Towering over everything is the planet itself, Frank Herbert's finest imaginative creation: a savagely hostile place inhabited only by giant sandworms and fierce natives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-09 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 42 +406 The Steam-Powered Word Processor 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +407 Afterword: "Maelstrom II" 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +408 Mother Nature Got There First 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +1400 The Hand of Oberon 1976 Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin Crown Prince of Amber [of] his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 34 +409 Message to Comsat, February 18, 1988 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +410 Graduation Address: International Space University 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +411 Back to 2001 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +412 Coauthors and Other Nuisances 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +413 The Power of Compression 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +1401 The Courts of Chaos 1978 Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin Crown Prince of Amber [of] his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 4 34 +414 Life in the Fax Lane 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 2 25 +486 Crusader 1999 Qeteb rages, and Tencendor's peoples huddle in sanctuary. But are they safe?\n\nFor countless millennia the Star Dance and the TimeKeeper Demons have battled their way across the universe, destroying innumerable planets, constellations, galaxies and civilisations in their path.\n\nThe Star Dance has picked Tencendor as the final battleground and DragonStar as the last weapon it can throw against the Demons.\n\nBut the Demons are strong, and the DragonStar vulnerable. There is a traitor within his camp who plans to hand Sanctuary over to the Demons. And ultimate victory for the Starson depends on a sacrifice so bloody and horrifying it will precipitate the destruction of everything DragonStar holds dear.\n\nStarLaughter abandons the Demons to pursue her own maddened quest ... WolfStar plots to regain power ... and Niah harbours an appalling secret that will destroy DragonStar if she cannot be stopped in time. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 25 +415 Credo 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +416 The Colors of Infinity: Exploring the Fractal Universe 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +417 Close Encounter with Cosmonauts 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +418 The Century Syndrome 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +1406 Virtual Light 1994 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunger. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these high-tech specs can make you rich - or get killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash... 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 6 11 +419 Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +420 My Four Feet are on the Ground 1985 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +421 Marconi Symposium 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +422 Introduction to Charlie Pellegrino's Unearthing Atlantis 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +423 Tribute to Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +424 Satyajit and Stanley 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +425 Aspects of Science Fiction 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +426 Save the Giant Squid! 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +500 Krondor: The Betrayal 1998 based on a computer game It is nine years on from the aftermath of Sethanon and news is feeding through to the people at the Kingdom of the Isles that deadly forces are stirring on the horizon. The bringer of the latest grim tidings is Gorath, a moredhel (dark elf).\n\nThe bloodletting has started. Nighthawks are murdering again. Politics is a dangerous, cut-throat game once more. At the root of all this unrest lies the mysterious machinations of a group of magicians known as the Six.\n\nMeanwhile, renegade Tsurani gem smugglers, a rival criminal gang to the Mockers led by someone known only as the Crawler, and traitors to the crown, are all conspiring to bring the Kingdom of the Isles to its knees. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-07-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 4 25 +427 A Choice of Futures 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +428 Gene Roddenberry 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +429 Introduction to Jack Williamson's Beachhead 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +430 Scenario for a Civilized Planet 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +431 NASA Sutra: Eros in Orbit 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +432 Minehead Mde Me 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +501 Krondor: the Assassins 1999 The Assassin's Guild returns to Krondor, seemingly killing without pattern or purpose. Squire James and newly commissioned Lieutenant William con Doin are plummeted into a dark world of murder and politics as war threatens to engulf the Kingdom, for among those murdered is a noble from a neighbouring state.\n\nTime is short and the city is gripped in terror as the two young men race to find the man responsible for this act of war, a mysterious figure known only as The Crawler. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-07-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 5 25 +122 Escape! 1945 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +433 Good-bye, Isaac 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +1090 Great Canine Chorus 1971 The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +801 A Sepulchre of Songs 1981 Omni, June 1981 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +434 Encyclical 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +435 Letter from Sri Lanka 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +436 Message to Mars 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +437 Preface: The War of the Worlds 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +438 Preface: The First Men in the Moon 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +439 The Joy of Maths 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 25 +793 Tales from the Forest of Waters 1991 This is a revision of some of the earlier novels in a book entitle Capitol On a far-away world a young boy, Lared, meets a man who walks on water. As Lared's friendship with this miraculous and telepathic stranger grows, he begins to dream. Of places like the corrupt world Capitol, and of people like Abner Doon, slayer of worlds, and Jason Worthing, starfighter, who is exiled from Capitol with a group of colonists whose memories are wiped. And as Lared tells of his dreams, so we learn the stories of how Jason and his companions struggled to create a perfect society... 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-03-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +440 Tribute to Robert Bloch 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +441 Spaceguard 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +442 Foreword: Encyclopedia of Frauds by James Randi 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +443 Bucky 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +444 Homage to Frank Paul 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +445 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +446 The Birth of HAL 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +561 Stormbringer 1993 'Strange and tormented landscapes, peopled by characters of archetypal dimensions, are the setting for a series of titanic duels between the forces of Chaos and Order...\n\n'Over these presides the central figure of Elric, the haunted warrior-king whose ambivalent relationship with the magical sword Stormbringer is the author's most original creation. The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents' J.G. Ballard\n\nThe epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins - spectacular, tormented, the most infamous hero-villain in all of heroic fantasy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +447 The Coming Cyberclysm 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 2 25 +448 Tribute to David Lasser 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +449 Toilets to the Gods 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +450 When Will the Real Space Age Begin? 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +555 The Land Leviathan 1974 The first ever steampunk stories from the author whom The Modern Review called 'A great novelist... Original and ambitious... Resolutely British'. These are the adventures of Captain Oswald Bastable (ex-53rd Lancers and Special Air Force), flung from the North East Frontier of 1902 into the future world of a 1973 where the stately airships of the great powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. Guided only by the red republican cosmonaut, Una Persson, Bastable must question his most cherished ideals, and confront a multitude of alternate futures before at last gaining an understanding of his fate. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 31 +451 Review: Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +452 Eyes on the Universe 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +453 Walter Alvarez and Gerrit L. Verchuur 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +454 The Gay Warlords 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 3 25 +574 Nightwings 1974 For decades the Watcher had scanned the depths of space for the invaders. Their conquests of devastated Earth meant the end of his Guild, so he travelled to the ancient city of Jerusalem where he hoped to regain his youth and claim the Flier he had come to love.\n\nBut the slim young girl who soared on luminescent wings held the keys to Earth's freedom and for the Watcher a new purpose. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 5 +455 More Last Words on UFOs 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +456 Carl Sagan 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +457 For Cherene, Tamara, and Melinda 1995 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +458 Science and Society 1998 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +459 Is There Life After Television 1998 near-repeat of earlier story Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +460 The Twenty-First Century: A (Very) Brief History 1998 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 25 +466 Reave the Just 1992 First published in After the King, edited by Martin H. Greenberg Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 25 +467 The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed 1985 First published in "World Tales" the souvenir booklet of the 1985 World Fantasy Convention. Later appeared in Arabesques 2, edited by Susan Schwartz Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 25 +468 The Killing Stroke 1993 date is a guess, cannot be earlier than 1993, maybe later up to 1999 Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 25 +469 The Kings of Tarshish Shall Bring Gifts 1995 First published in The Book of Kings, edited by Richard Gilliam and Martin H. Greenberg Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +797 Deep Breathing Exercises 1979 Omni, July 1979 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 7 +510 Dune Messiah 1971 This collection of Frank Herbert's great novels, Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune brings together three of the finest achievements of post-war science fiction. They are epic tales, full of excitement and intrigue, packed with memorable characters and scenes.\n\nDominated by a vast, treacherous desert world of Dune, the trilogy the story of Paul Atreides, prince turned revolutionary leader, who becomes the reluctant messiah to a fanatical religious movement that threatens and entire galactic empire. Opposing him are the maligned sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit - who, unable to dominate the man they have made a god, set out to destroy him - and the Atreides' deadliest enemy, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Towering over everything is the planet itself, Frank Herbert's finest imaginative creation: a savagely hostile place inhabited only by giant sandworms and fierce natives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-09 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 42 +596 Startide Rising 1983 The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed on the uncharted water-world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Above, in space, armadas of alien races clash in a titanic struggle to claim her. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret - the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom through the stars. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +572 The Majipoor Chronicles 1983 'There's a room in their where millions of people of Majipoor have left memory-readings. You pick up a capsule, put it in a special slot and suddenly... you find yourself living in Lord Confalume's time, or Lord Siminave's, or out there fighting the Metamorph Wars...'\n\nThe archives of the house of Records of the planet Majipoor are rediscovered by the boy Hissune in the time after the restoration of the Coronal Lord Valentine. In tales of life, love, conflict and discovery, the complex and colourful world of Majipoor is explored from different perspectives, ranging across it's long history and immense terrain. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 2 +487 Good Omens 1990 According to the Nice and Accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday.\nNext Saturday, in fact.\nJust after tea.\n\nWhich means that Armageddon will happen on Saturday night. There will be seas of fire, rains of fish, the moon turning to blood and the massed armies of Heaven and Hell will sort it all out once and for all.\n\nWhich is a major problem for Crowley, Hell's most approachable demon and former serpent, and his opposite number and old friend Aziraphale, genuine angle and Soho book shop owner. They like it down here (or, in Crowley's case, up here).\n\nSo they've got no alternatives but to stop the Four Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse, defeat the marching ranks of the Witchfinder army (footnote: all two of them) and - somehow - stop it all happening.\n\nAbove all (or, in Aziraphale's case, below all) they need to find and kill the Antichrist, currently the most powerful creature on Earth.\n\nThis is a shame.\n\nBecause he's eleven years old, loves his dog even though it's really a Satanic hellhound under all that hair, really cares about the environment and is the sort of boy anyone would be proud to have as a son. He's also totally invulnerable, and a nice kid.\n\nAnd if that isn't enough, they've still got Sunday to deal with. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 27 +495 The King's Buccaneer 1994 Nicholas, third son of the Prince Arutha of Krondor, is a bright and gifted youngster, but sheltered by the restrictive life of his father's court. To learn more of the world outside the palace walls, Nicholas and his squire, Harry, set sail for pastoral Crydee. Thus begins an adventure that will place the fate of his nation on his unsure shoulders.\n\nShortly after their arrival, Crydee is brutally attacked by unknown forces. The castle is reduced to ruins, the townspeople slaughtered and two young noblewomen - friends of Nicholas - abducted. More than a simple raid for slaves, the invaders serve dark forces intent upon the wholesale destruction of the Kingdom of the Isles.\n\nAs brother to the future King, Nicholas must undertake a long and dangerous journey. And as he ventures further from the familiar land-marks of his home, Nicholas learns that more than the fate of two girls is at stake, even more than the fate of the Kingdom, for behind the murderous pirates stands a force that menaces the entire world of Midkemia, and he is destined to confront this terrifying threat. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 14 +1475 Anathem 2008 Erasmas - Raz - is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world by ancient stone, honoured traditions and complex rituals. Three times during history's darkest epochs, the cloistered community has been devastated by violence. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe. Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite, the avout prepare to open the concent's gates. Before the week is out, both worlds - the inner and the outer - will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change. Suddenly Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world - as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet...and beyond. 2009-01-03 00:00:00 2009-01-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 64 +136 In a Good Cause - 1951 First published in New Tales of Space and Time Nightfall two is the second half of one of the largest collections of Isaac Asimov's short science fiction yet to appear. As in Nightfall one, each story in this volume has been selected and prefaced by the author himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +497 Rise of a Merchant Prince 1996 Roo Avery, recently returned from a harrowing brush with the armies of the Emerald Queen, is now free to choose his own destiny and his ultimate ambition is to become one of the richest and most powerful merchants in Midkemia.\n\nBut nothing can prepare him for the dangers of the new life he has chosen where the demand for repayment of a debt can be as deadly as a knife in the shadows. Even those closest to him are suspect and as Roo struggles to build his financial empire, betrayal is forever close at hand. his instinctive cunning will serve him well, but he will soon realise that the road to success is far from smooth.\n\nAnd while Roo works towards achieving his goal, the memory of the distant forces of darkness are never far away. For the war with the Emerald Queen is far from over and the inevitable confrontation will pose the biggest threat yet to his new found wealth and power. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 25 +498 Rage of a Demon King 1997 Midkemia once again lies under the terrible shadow of the Emerald queen. Her dark forces are ready to launch a devastating invasion against the Kingdom of the Isles.\n\nCome the battle's dawn the magician Pug, along with his life-long warrior friend Tomas, discover that something far worse than the Queen's mere sorcery is afoot. For elemental, malevolent forces are being unleashed...forces that threaten to tear Midkemia apart. Pug and his band of supporters must track down the long-missing sorceror Macros the Black and confront his formidable powers. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 25 +499 Shards of a Broken Crown 1998 The enemy has been routed, yet peace still eludes the Kingdom. Midkemia lies in smouldering ruins following the Demon King's siege. Many lives have been lost, including that of brave James, Duke of Krondor.\n\nAs the people turn their hands to rebuilding their once great nation, a new threat arises from the ashes of war: the fearsome Fadawah, former Commanding General of the Army of the Emerald Queen. He has grasped the fallen reins of command and seeks to forge a personal empire out of the ruin of the Western Realm.\n\nAnd so it falls to two young men - Jimmy and Dash - grandsons of the late Duke, to gather together the shards of the broken crown and resurrect the Kingdom to its former glory. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 25 +794 Maps in a Mirror 1990 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 7 +648 Fire Sea 1992 Abarrach, the Realm of Stone. Here, on a barren world of underground caverns built around a core of molten lava, the lesser races - humans, elves, and dwarves - seem to have all died off. Here, too, what may well be the last remnants of the once powerful Sartan still struggle to survive. For Haplo and Alfred - enemies by heritage, travelling companions by necessity - Abarrach may reveal more than either dares to discover about the history of the Sartan... and the future of all their descendants.\n\nThe Death Gate Cycle\n\nAges ago, sorcerers of unmatched power sundered a world into four realms - sky, stone, fire, and water - then vanished. Over time, magicians learned to work spells only in their own realms and forgot the others. Now only the few who have survived the Labyrinth and crossed the Death Gate know of the presence of all four realms - and even they have yet to unravel the mysteries of their severed world... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 11 +521 House Harkonnen 2000 The international bestseller House Atreides began the thrilling saga of the blood feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen: the background to Frank Herbert's magnificent science fiction epic Dune. Now the story continues as more of the heroes of Dune take their places in their intrigues, the wars and the treacheries that will lead inevitably to the fall of a dynasty.\n\nDuke Leto Atreides is now the skillful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, where two of his most loyal warriors have come to manhood. Duncan Idaho trains to become House Atreides' new Swordmaster. And Gurney Halleck, tortured slave of the Harkonnnens, begins the ordeal of loss and pain that will eventually bring him to Duke Leto's side. Leto's heart is at war with his duty, for he must marry for politics and power, not love - despite the charms of Princess Kailea of the fallen House of Ix and Jessica, the exquisite, perfectly trained concubine chosen by the Bene Gesserit to be the mother of Leto's daughter.\n\nAt House Harkonnen, arch enemy of House Atreides, Baron Vladimir is slowly being consumed by a loathsome disease. His nephew and heir, Rabban, prepares to take over the Harkonnen empire. At the same time gentle, helpless Abulurd strives to undo his half-brother's cruelty and his own son's viciousness.\n\nOn Dune - planet Arrakis - House Harkonnen ruthlessly harvests the precious, mind-enhancing space spice, melange. Planetologist Pardot Kynes' twelve-year-old son Liet is already a Fremen warrior: learning first-hand of the savage injustices the Harkonnens inflict on his desert people and planning for the day the Fremen will defeat them. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 30 +527 The Black Raven 2000 At the end of the civil wars, Prince Maryn sees peace finally within his grasp. But powerful sorcery threatens to tear his life, his reign and his troubled kingdom apart. Only Lilli, a young apprentice, can see the horrifying power of the curse that could visit disaster on them all. Yet what use is untried magic in the fight to save her beloved Prince?\n\nCenturies later this ancient evil rises again, bringing the prospect of an endless war that will destroy Deverry for ever. Deadly armies, led by the savage goddess Alshandra are gathering in the lonely Northlands. Directly in their path lies the peaceful city of Cerr Cawnen... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2010-03-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 25 +123 Evidence 1946 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 1 10 +539 Orion Arm 2000 As the deadly struggle between Galapharma AC and Rampart Starcorp continues, Helly, the son of Rampart's boss, must try to resist what will be the most hostile of takeovers. Helly and his band of companions must attempt to capture a crucial witness to the Galapharma conspiracy, who has taken refuge on a hostile planet. Galapharma's insanely ambitions boss, Alistair Drummond, will stop at nothing in his quest for power, and Helly is marked for death as the two corporations continue to do battle.\n\nMeanwhile, the malevolent Haluk follow their own appalling agenda, using human technology obtained from Galapharma to mutate their alien bodies, allowing them to infiltrate and ultimately conquer human society. Helly must find a way to alert the Commonwealth to the Haluk peril, while also protecting his family from Drummond's increasingly desperate efforts to annihilate the Rampart Worlds. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 25 +541 The Tower and the Hive 1999 Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance - of human and furry Mrdini - had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonization.\n\nOf Damia's children, some were put on the Hiver search, and others, the gifted and valuable T-1 Telepaths, were worked to the point of exhaustion as planets destroyed by the Hivers were opened up for colonization by the rapidly exploding Mrdini population.\n\nAnd there was dissent within the Star League Worlds - a growing resentment of the power of the privileges of the Telepaths, most especially the dynasty that stemmed from the Rowan and Damia.\n\nAs a new Telepath, Vagrian, a flawed T-2, was shipped in to help Laria's exhausted team, and he brought with him tension and antagonism, an outward sign of the trouble fermenting among the Star Worlds. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 11 +542 The Skies of Pern 2001 A new age is dawning on Pern, for since the dragons have changed the orbit of the Red Star, the horrors of Threadfall will soon be a thing of the past. But even as the dragon riders are trying to decide what their future role will be, further dangers are beginning to emerge, as those calling themselves the Abominators plot together to destroy all the learning that has been discovered from the records of the Old Ones.\n\nTheir first vicious assault is on the Healer Halls - irrevocable damage is done and it is obvious that this is a worldwide movement with a dangerous mind leading those who would destroy all of the new knowledge.\n\nAnd now comes a fresh and terrible catastrophe - a large cometary fragment is hurtling towards Pern and cannot be deflected. Everyone - dragons, riders, holders and craftsmen - must stand by to perform a giant rescue operation.\n\nAs F'lessan, son of Lessa and F'lar, plays his heroic part in the events that follow, he is helped by Tai, his new weyrmate. But it is the dragons, bronze Golanth and the brilliant green Zaranth, who will provide the solution to the dangers of the skies. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 11 +543 Pegasus in Space 2000 Peter Reidinger was the most brilliant and powerful telepath and telekinetic yet discovered on Earth. He was also barely fifteen years old and a paraplegic who 'moved' his body through kinesis. When the telepaths of Earth suspected a plot to take over Padrugoi, the newly manned space station, they realised they needed his unique gifts to foil the insane plans of Barchenka, the space construction manager. But even they didn't realise how strong his abilities to 'read' the minds of those around him and move heavy loads over vast distances.\n\nAs his career progressed, so his talents increased beyond the dreams of those trying to reach out into space. Peter Reidinger was going to be the salvation of man's exploration of the stars.\n\nAnd even as he becomes the most important man on Earth, so his friendship with the tiny orphan girl found in the floods of Bangladesh grows and flourishes. For Amariyah, too, has psychic gifts which no one at first could define. But these special people are constantly at risk; hated and feared by the avaricious, the evil and the ignorant - people whose constant ambition was to destroy Peter Reidinger and those like him. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +545 Elric of Menibone 1996 Elric: hero of song, story, rock show, disc graphic novel, PC and role-playing games, not fighting sorcery, but using it to spectacular effect. Yet, tormented always by his human failings, his longing for peace, his is a world of dragons, spectral armies, nature in upheaval on every side... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 31 +583 Far Horizons 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +584 Old Music and the Slave Women 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 23 +585 A Separate War 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +522 House Corrino 2001 From the Royal planet Kaitain, the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV strikes without mercy at planets which defy his edicts. He believes that soon he will grasp absolute power with a new, artificial substitute for spice which he alone will control.\n\nOn Dune, Liet Kynes leads the newly confident Fremen as they strike crippling blows against the planet's Harkonnen overlords.\n\nFrom his exile on Caladan, Price Rhombur Vernius is ready at last to liberate his unhappy planet Ix from the tyranny of the Tleilaxu Masters.\n\nBut the final war - the one which will change the future of worlds - must be between two men: Leto Atreides of Caladan and Vladimir Harkonnen of Giedi Prime. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 30 +15 WildCat 1958 'Wildcat', Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 5 +586 Investment Counselor 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +587 Temptation 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +1430 The System of the World 2004 'Tis done.\n\nThe world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.\n\nNo sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.\n\nUnbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.\n\nEverything that was will be changed forever ... 2006-11-17 00:00:00 2007-11-11 00:00:00 1 3 1 5 62 +588 Getting to Know the Dragon 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 23 +589 Orphans of the Helix 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +590 Sleeping Dogs 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +16 Welcome 1960 'Welcome', Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 5 +591 The Boy Who Would Live Forever 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +592 A Hunger for the Infinite 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 23 +796 Quietus 1979 OMNI, August 1979 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 8 7 +593 The Ship That Returned 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +594 The Way of All Ghosts 1999 Enter the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction ever created.\n\nThe twentieth century has been the century of science fiction. This landmark collection of new short novels celebrates its greatest achievements.\n\nWith eleven of the most acclaimed SF authors returning to their best-known worlds, FAR HORIZONS is a showcase of breathtaking imagination, challenging ideas, compelling storytelling and the sense of wonder inspired by science fiction at its very best.\n\nEdited by one of the genre's outstanding writers and critics, FAR HORIZONS includes new works, each with an introduction by the author, set in the following worlds:\n\nTHE EKUMEN - Ursula K. Le Guin\nTHE FOREVER WAR - Joe Haldeman\nTHE ENDER SERIES - Orson Scott Card\nTHE UPLIFT UNIVERSE - David Brin\nROMA ETERNA - Robert Silverberg\nTHE HYPERION CANTOS - Dan Simmons\nTHE SLEEPLESS - Nancy Kress\nTALES OF THE HEECHEE - Frederik Pohl\nTHE GALACTIC CENTRE SERIES - Gregory Benford\nTHE SHIP WHO SANG - Anne McCaffrey\nTHE WAY - Greg Bear\n\nThe most dazzling collection of science fiction ever assembled, this volume takes these epic works of the imagination to incredible new heights. FAR HORIZONS is a landmark in the genre. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 23 +620 The Glory That Was 1979 World Emperor Vasil IX rules the 27th century with a hand too eccentric to be called "iron", but plenty heavy in its own way. He has ordered the area called "Greece" sealed off with a force wall - and all over the rest of the world, people of Greek descent are mysteriously disappearing. Wiyem Flin's wife is one of the missing, and he means to find out why. He breaks through the force wall into the forbidden area - only to have his yacht rammed by what appears to be a Classical Greek trireme! And what is to become of a man of the future in the Athens of Perikles... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 3 +623 The Tombs of Atuan 1972 The four books of the legendary Earthsea saga together for the first time in a single volume:\n\tA Wizard of Earthsea\n\tThe Tombs of Atuan\n\tThe Farthest Shore\n\tTehanu\nUrsula Le Guin's creation, Earthsea - an ancient world of wizards, magic, darkness and light, and an ever-shifting balance of power - is an acknowledged masterpiece. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-23 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 39 +624 The Farthest Shore 1973 The four books of the legendary Earthsea saga together for the first time in a single volume:\n\tA Wizard of Earthsea\n\tThe Tombs of Atuan\n\tThe Farthest Shore\n\tTehanu\nUrsula Le Guin's creation, Earthsea - an ancient world of wizards, magic, darkness and light, and an ever-shifting balance of power - is an acknowledged masterpiece. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-23 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 39 +625 Tehanu 1990 The four books of the legendary Earthsea saga together for the first time in a single volume:\n\tA Wizard of Earthsea\n\tThe Tombs of Atuan\n\tThe Farthest Shore\n\tTehanu\nUrsula Le Guin's creation, Earthsea - an ancient world of wizards, magic, darkness and light, and an ever-shifting balance of power - is an acknowledged masterpiece. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-23 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 39 +646 Dragon Wing 1990 Ages ago, sorcerers of unmatched power sundered a world into four realms - sky, stone, fire, and water - then vanished. Over time, magicians learned to work spells only in their own realms and forgot the others. Now only the few who have survived the Labyrinth and crossed the Death Gate know of the presence of all four realms - and even they have yet to unravel the mysteries of their severed world...\n\nDragon Wing\n\nIn Arianus, Realm of Sky, humans, elves, and dwarves battle for control of precious water - traversing a world of airborne islands on currents of elven magic and the backs of mammoth dragons. But soon great magical forces will begin to rend the fabric of this delicate land. An assassin will be hired to kill a royal prince - by the king himself. A dwarf will challenge the beliefs of his people - and lead them in rebellion. And a sinister wizard will enact his plan to rule Arianus - a plan that may be felt far beyond the Realm of the Sky and into the Death Gate itself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 11 +647 Elven Star 1990 Long ago, mighty magic-users divided their world into four realms, separating the peoples, obliterating history, planting the seeds of chaos and warfare. The Patryn, Haplo's people, were imprisoned for eons in the deadly maze of the Labyrinth - until a mysterious lord began to help them escape. Erecting a foothold in the Nexus, the lord has found a way to bring Haplo through the Death Gate into the four realms. His mission: To explore, to uncover lost history, to find his ancient oppressors - and to help his master establish dominion over the sundered world.\n\nIn Elven Star Haplo journeys to steamy Pryan, a world where never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain gave birth to a vigorous jungle so vast that humans and elves live in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves serve as weapon merchants to the other races, whose incessant warfare sends a steady stream of profits and essential resources skyward.\n\nHaplo's mandate was to sow chaos among Pryan's inhabitants, to prime them for eventual Patryn rule. But the constant wars have already achieved this. The generations of dissent and race hatred will not heal even under the threat of annihilation at the hands of the legendary tytans. Crying doom and armed with a magic powerful enough to rival Haplo's own, a human priest and his dragon ride in the vanguard of destruction. Now, Haplo's salvation depends on his ability to overcome the tytans - but not even he knows the way to conquer the renegade giants. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 5 11 +802 The Changed Man and the King of Words 1981 Omni, \nDecember 1981 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 7 +649 Serpent Mage 1993 After searching the four worlds Alfred has at last found his people on Chelestra, the realm of sea. But his travels have taught him to be cautious ... and Alfred soon realizes his caution is justified, even among his own kind.\n\nThe one person Alfred can trust is, strangely, Haplo the Patryn. But Haplo's lord has decreed all Sartan to be the enemy, and Haplo dares not go against his lord. Now the companions have arrived in a land where humans, elves, and dwarves have learned to live in peace. Unaware of an even greater threat to all the realms, it is Sartan and Patryn who will disrupt this alliance of the lesser races in their struggle to gain control of all four worlds. Only Alfred and Haplo realize that they have a much older - and more powerful - enemy that each other...\n\nThe Death Gate Cycle\n\nMillennia ago a battle waged between the Sartan and the Patryn. The Sartan split the world into four realms ... then vanished. But now the two races have rediscovered each other through the magic of the Death Gate - and the war is about to rage anew. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 11 +651 Into the Labyrinth 1994 From his army of the undead, Xar, Lord of the Nexus, learns of the existence of the mysterious Seventh Gate. It is said that this gate grants whoever enters it the power to create worlds - or destroy them. Only Haplo knows its location - but he doesn't know he knows it. Now an ex-lover has been sent to betray Haplo and bring back his corpse. Meanwhile, the assassin Hugh the Hand is also after Haplo, welding the Accursed Blade. With his old companion Alfred, Haplo must seek sanctuary in the Labyrinth - a deadly prison maze whose inhabitants are condemned to death.\n\nThe Death Gate Cycle\n\nMillennia ago a battle waged between the Sartan and the Patryn. The Sartan sundered the world into four realms - and then vanished. But now the two races have rediscovered each other through the magic of the Death Gate - and war is about to erupt anew. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 11 +652 The Seventh Gate 1995 Mortally wounded, Haplo finds himself at the mercy of Lord Xar, facing a fate worse than death. Xar plans to resurrect Haplo - bringing him back to life as one of the tormented living dead - to force him to reveal the location of the legendary Seventh Gate. In Haplo's darkest hour, the only hope for his rescue lies with Marit, Hugh the Hand, and Alfred.\n\nBut a terrible decision awaits them: To save Haplo they must enter the forbidden Seventh Gate. If they do so, they risk betraying its location to Lord Xar, who will use it to claim his terrible dominion over the worlds. Suddenly all their lives - and the fate of the sundered realms - hang in the balance. The final chapter is about to unfold in the apocalyptic struggle between good and evil... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 11 +869 The Winds of Change 1982 Speculations, 1982 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 6 +665 Magician's Gambit 1988 Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princes of Tolnedra, was confused. Everyone knew that the tales of the Orb that protected the West from the evil God Torak were just silly legends. But here she was, forced to join a serious and dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believed in sorcery. Yet Garion's aunt and grandfather seemed to be the fabled sorcerers Polgara and Belgarath, who would have to be thousands of years old. Even young Garion was learning to do things that could only be sorcery.\n\nGarion! He was nothing but a farm boy, totally unsuitable for an Imperial Princess. Then why did she have such an urge to teach him, to brush his tangled hair, and to comfort him?\n\nNow he was going to a strange tower in the centre of all he believed evil, to face some horrible, powerful magician. And she wouldn't be there to watch over him. He might be killed! She'd never see him again... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +666 Castle of Wizardry 1984 It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterwards, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.\n\nNow, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing it's end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide.\n\nAfter that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished.\n\nBut the Prophecy still held future surprises for\nGarion - and for the little princess Ce'Nedra! 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +669 Polgara the Sorceress 1997 Polgara is the pre-eminent woman in all the world. She could have chosen any king or emperor for a husband and lived in a palace. She chose instead a simple country blacksmith, Durnik, and lives on a remote farmstead. Twin children keep her as busy as she has ever been in her long and eventful life - busy and, at last, content. But, in the dead of winter, her peace of mind is ruined when her nephew, the Rivan King Garion, and his wife Ce'Nedra visit.\n\nHaving read Belgarath's story, Ce'Nedra feels distinctly cheated. The Old Wolf left out so much! The Eternal Man in all senses, Belgarath wrote nothing of Polgara's years at Vo Wacune, nor of what happened at Gar og Nadrak. Ce'Nedra wants Polgara to finish the history - for the sake of her son Geran who will one day be the Rivan King. There are two worlds running side by side, and if Geran doesn't know about them, evil may once more rise from the City of Endless Night ...\n\nCe'Nedra is no match for Polgara, the most fabled sorceress the world has ever known, who has no desire to tell her tale. However, Polgara herself is no match for the wolf Poledra, her mother - who orders her to tell it, anyway. And so, finally, the full truth of The Belgariad is revealed, the story of wizardry and politics, doom and evil, love and magic. Above all, the story of Polgara, a beautiful woman whose constancy and inner power have been the foundation of all the luck and love that have saved the world.\n\nPolgara the Sorceress is the crowning achievement of the great fantasy epic which began with The Belgariad and continued with The Malloreon. Once again David and Leigh Eddings display the epic imagination, humour, and storytelling power which have made this series the most popular fantasy of modern times. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 25 +670 The Rivan Codex 1999 The Rivan Codex is a book full of wonders. In its pages can be found the origin and birth of the greatest fantasy epic of modern times which began with The Belgariad and continued with The Malloreon. Here for the very first time David and Leigh Eddings present the seminal texts on which they built their worldwide bestselling masterpiece. Their millions of readers are entranced by the magic of the Eddings' writing, but it is the sheer scale of the world of the novels that inspires awe. Its undeniable air of authenticity was forged in the beautiful writings that make up The Rivan Codex. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 25 +706 Child of the Prophecy 2001 The outstanding conclusion to Juliet Marillier's award-winning Son of the Shadows and her international bestseller, Daughter of the Forest.\n\nA freezing terror ran through me. It was not just that I had done the unforgivable. It was something far worse. Had not I just proved my grandmother right? She had told me I bore the blood of a cursed line, a line of sorcerors and outcasts. It seemed I could not fight that; it would manifest itself as it chose. Were not my steps set inevitably towards darkness? I turned and fled in silence.\n\nRaised in an isolated cove in Kerry, the young sorceress Fainne has been sent to live at Sevenwaters and burdened with a terrible task. She must use whatever powers she can to prevent the Fair Folk winning back the islands, no matter what the cost. Even if it means denying herself the one she loves.\n\nBut can Fainne turn her back on the family for whom she has come to care? And, more importantly, can she bring herself to rid the world of the chosen one... the child of the prophecy? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 33 +711 Cryptonomicon 2000 Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obessesions of men, decrypting with dazzlingly virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. Weaving together the cracking of the Nazis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present, Cryptonomicon explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the twentieth century in a gripping and page-turning thriller. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 21 +712 Snow Crash 2000 Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.\n\nSnow Crash\n\nIn reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that;s striking down hackers everywere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous... you'll recognize it immediately. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 11 +546 Elric of Menibone 1972 Elric: hero of song, story, rock show, disc graphic novel, PC and role-playing games, not fighting sorcery, but using it to spectacular effect. Yet, tormented always by his human failings, his longing for peace, his is a world of dragons, spectral armies, nature in upheaval on every side... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +726 The Sun Shines Bright 1984 Contents:\n\nTHE SUN\n1 Out, Damned Spot!\n2 The Sun Shines Bright\n3 The Noblest Metal of them All\n\nTHE STARS\n4 How LIttle?\n5 Siriusly Speaking\n6 Below the Horizon\n\nTHE PLANETS\n7 Just Thirty Years\n\nTHE MOON\n8 A Long Day's Journey\n9 The Inconstant Moon\n\nTHE ELEMENTS\n10 The Useless Metal\n11 Neutrality!\n12 The Finger of God\n\nTHE CELL\n13 Clone, Clone of my Own\n\nTHE SCIENTISTS\n14 Alas, All Human\n\nTHE PEOPLE\n15 The Unsecret Weapon\n16 More Crowded!\n17 Nice Guys Finish First! The Sun shines bright and in reality, of course, it's a huge and complicated nuclear reaction 150 million kilometers away from Earth.\n\nThe star we call the sun is just one of the subjects of Isaac Asimov's entertaining explanations. Asimov is superb when it comes to throwing a new light on the universe about us and here he excels himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 10 +819 Sandmagic 1979 Swords Against Darkness 4, ed Andrew J. Offut (Zebra, 1979) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-30 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +29 The Stars Like Dust 1986 Overnight, young Biron Farrill changed from a casual student preparing for\ngraduation at the University of Earth info a fugitive fleeing from an unknown\nassassin. Someone had tried to kill him in his dormitory. And he learned that,\nmany light-years away in the inky blackness of the Horsehead Nebula, his father\nhad already been murdered.\n\nThe mystery took him deep into space where he found himself in a relentless\nstruggle with the power-mad despots of Turann. From now on it was a case of\ndeath or freedom for the galaxy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 9 +719 The Years of Rice and Salt 2002 A vanguard of the Mongol horde rides west across the steppe, into an eerily silent world. People lie dead in villages and in the streets of towns. The Black Death has struck Europe. There are virtually no survivors.\n\nInto this empty land pour merchants, warlords and refugees - from China, India and the Arab nations. They fill a world without the ancestors of Columbus and Shakespeare, Newton and Einstein and Hitler. Nothing will ever be the same again.\n\nFrom that day forward, history is shaped by the East instead of the West; the whole sweep of civilization unfolds along a different path. As Japanese ships cross the Pacific Ocean and Chinese ships cross the Atlantic to colonise the New World, and a scientific revolution is begun in Samarkand, the destinies of a cast of unforgettable characters weave a bright new pattern through seven hundred years of alternative history. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 14 +1407 Palace 1996 Vi-Kata, the deadliest assassin in the Pinch, has been hired to murder two seemingly unconnected humans in the Pleasure Sect. Vida, an unmarked girl living in an up-market brothel, The Close, and Arno, heir to the head of the Cyberguild - overseers of the virtual reality computer network, the Map.\n\nBut as Vi-Kata attempts to fulfil his contracts, his task is about to become more difficult. For Arno the most talented of the Cyberguild apprentices has dropped out of the guild and disappeared. And if the secret of Vida's heritage proves to be true the current First Citizen, Karlo Peronida, could find her very useful. His plans would put her out of Vi=Kata's reach behind the secure walls of the Centre Sect.\n\nAnd on the Map, Arno's cousin, Rico, comes across a powerful and appalling entity that is obliterating large areas of the network. Who or what lies behind this is unclear, but if it continues the consequences are too horrifying to imagine... 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2 1 1 12 25 +803 Prior Restraint 1986 Aboriginal SF, September 1986 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +723 Murder in LaMut 2002 The heavy action was supposedly at Crydee these days which meant that the one place they could be sure the three of them were not going was Crydee. Come spring, the privateer Melanie was due in Ylith, and its captain could be counted on for a swift conveyance away for sure, and likely not to murder them in their sleep. That would be bad for business. But away where?\n\nThat wasn't Durine's worry, Kethol would surely be able to find the three of them somebody who needed men who knew which part of the sword you used to cut with and which part you used to butter your bread, and Pirojil would be able to negotiate a price a least half again what the employer was ready to pay. All Durine would have to do was kill people. That was fine with him.\n\nDurine, Kethol and Pirojil are three mercenaries who have spent twenty years fighting other people's battles: against the Tsurani and the Bugs and the goblins, and now it seems they've run out of Tsurani, Bugs and goblins to kill. The prospect of a few months of garrison duty offers a welcome respite but then they are given an assignment that seems, on the surface, like cushy work - to protect a lady and here husband and deliver them safely to the city of LaMut. It should all have been so simple... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-26 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 25 +724 Talon of the Silverhawk 2002 Among the Orosini tribe, every boy must undergo the traditional manhood ritual in order to understand his place in the universe and discover his manhood name. Kielianapuna must survive on the remote mountain peak of Shatana Higo until the gods grant him his vision. But Kieli has already waited for four days and nights, and how he is cold, lonely, despairing, and very, very tired...\n\nWhen he is woken by the terrifying sensation of sharp claws piercing his skin, and finds a rare silver hawk upon his arm, it is such a disorientating moment that he is not sure whether it has even happened, or whether it was a vision.\n\nReturning to his home, nameless and still a child, Kieli stumbles upon devastation. His village is being burned, his people slaughtered. Although it means certain death, Kieli throws himself into the battle...\n\nAgainst all the odds, he survives, alone of all the Orosini, who have been cur down where they stand: every last man, woman and child.\n\nA distant voice echoes in his mind: Rise up and be a talon for your people...\n\nThe visitation of the bird n Shatana Higo was indeed his naming vision. He is a boy called Kielianapuna no more. No he is Talon of the Silver Hawk, a man who must avenge the murder of his people, whatever that may take... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2008-01-04 00:00:00 1 3 1 4 25 +725 The Butlerian JIhad 2002 Legends of Dune 1\n\nOne hundred and ten centuries from now, humanity has spread across space. And all-powerful machines rule most of humanity...\n\nThe Butlerian Jihad begins the story of the epic war against evil thinking machines that establishes the very foundations of Frank Herbert's classic universe.\n\nReaders will discover the origins of the Spacing Guild and the Suk doctors; the Bene Gesserit sisterhood and the first Fremen settlers on the desert world of Arrakis. And the beginning of the deadly feud between the Atreides and Harkonnen families... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-09-11 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 28 +39 Pebble in the Sky 1990 One moment Joseph Schwartz was a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he was a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learned, was a backwater, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dared to claim it was the original home of man. And Earth was poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil - so poor that everyone was sentenced to death at the age of sixty. And Schwartz was 62... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 6 +41 The Caves of Steel 1985 A Spaceman - a specialist in robotics - has been murdered. Lije Baley, a plainclothesman of his time, combs the vast caves of steel in a tense hunt for a lone fanatic, for a murderer and for the solution to an almost perfect crime that could set an entire galaxy ablaze.\n\nThis masterly science fiction novel of suspense by the world's greatest SF author has all the pace, invention and excitement that readers all over the world have come to expect from Isaac Asimov. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 10 +43 The Currents of Space 1986 They called him 'Crazy Rik' - but only he knew that the planet was doomed with all its people. The only key to the vital information that could save it was locked in the subconscious memory of this strange, child-minded man ... a memory obliterated by a psychic probe!\n\nCaught in a galactic web of intrigue, Rik struggled courageously with his own blasted mind and an unknown enemy in a desperate and one-sided race with time... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +730 Dragons of a Lost Star 2002 A mysterious force holds Krynn in thrall. A young woman, protected by her regiment of dark-amoured knights, calls upon the might of an unknown god to bring victory to her army as it sweeps across the land. The souls of the dead rob the living of their magic. A dragon overlord threatens the very land the elves hold most dear.\n\nAmidst the chaos, a band of brave and selfless heroes struggles against an immortal power that appears to thwart them at every turn. The encroaching darkness threatens to engulf all hoper, all faith, all light.\n\nThe War of Souls rages on. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-10-31 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 44 +731 Perseus Spur 1998 I was living in pleasant anonymity under the name of Helmut Icicle, taking smartass sport-divers out on holocam trips around the reefs of Kedge-Lockaby. K-L's a freesoil planet way out in the boondocks. That's why I like it: as a Throwaway, it makes life easier if no one asks nosy questions. Plus, it's fourteen thousand light years away from civilization: from Rampart Starcorp, from the HQ of the Interstellar Commerce Secretariat (where I used to work), and best of all, my father.\n\nSo one minute there I was, subbing around Brillig Reef watching the piscoids finning through the underwater forests, making enough of a living to afford a little rotgut Danaen whiskey now and again the next think I know, some giant sea-toad has eaten my house and I'm caught up in a galactic conspiracy!\n\nFrom gently coaxing an aging submersible around the shores of K-L to piloting a state-of-the-art Javelin starship in order to execute a perfect hyperspatial microleap out in the comet zone may seem like a big jump: but when it looks as if the future course of human civilization is under thread, it's a hell of a motivator.\n\nI had a lot of scores to settle: not least finding out who had tried to kill me by death by sea-toad. That'; not a nice way to go... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 2 25 +732 Dragons of a Vanished Moon 2003 The flames of war devour Ansalon. The army of dead souls marches toward conquest, led by the mystical warrior Mina, who serves the powerful One God. A small band of heroes, driven to desperate measures, leads the fight against overwhelming odds.\n\nTwo unlikely protagonists emerge. One is a dragon overlord who will not easily relinquish her rule. The other is an irrepressible kender who has been on a strange and remarkable journey that will end in a startling and unforeseen fashion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-10-31 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 44 +813 Unaccompanied Sonata 1979 Omni, March, 1979 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +814 A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon 1979 Chrysalis 7, ed. Roy Torgeson (Zebra, 1979) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 7 +815 The Porcelain Salamander 1981 Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories, Dial Press, 1981 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +816 Middle Woman 1981 Dragons of Darkness, ed. Orson Scott Card (Ace, 1981; as Byron Walley) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +1412 Knights of Shadows \N 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1413 Prince of Chaos \N 2005-12-22 00:00:00 2005-12-22 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +126 The Rest of the Robots 1976 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +127 Robot AL-76 Goes Astray 1941 First appeared in Amazing Stories in 1942 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +867 Sure Thing 1977 Asimov's, #2, Summer, 1977\nBAD pun The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 9 6 +817 The Bully and the Beast 1979 Other Worlds 1, ed. Roy Torgeson (Zebra Books, 1979) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-30 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +818 The Princess and the Bear 1980 Berkley Showcase 1, ed. Victoria Schochet (Berkley, 1980) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-30 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +820 The Best Day 1984 Woman of Destiny, ed. Roy Torgeson (Berkley, 1984; as Dinah Kirkham) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +822 The Monkeys Thought 'Twas All in Fun 1979 Analog, May 1979 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 7 7 +823 Mortal Gods 1979 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1979 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-04 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 7 +824 Saving Grace 1987 Night Cry 2:5, 1987 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-04 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +826 St. Amy's Tale 1980 Omni, December, 1980 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-04 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +827 Kingsmeat 1978 Analog Yearbook, ed. Ben Bova (Baronet, 1978) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-04 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +828 Holy 1980 New Dimensions 10, ed. Robert Silverberg (Harper & Row, 1980) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 7 +829 Ender's Game 1977 Analog, August 1977 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-04 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 7 +128 Victory Unintentional 1942 First appeared in Super Science Stories in 1942 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 3 9 +1516 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005 2016-09-21 00:00:00 2016-09-21 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 68 +621 The Earthsea Quartet 1993 The four books of the legendary Earthsea saga together for the first time in a single volume:\n\tA Wizard of Earthsea\n\tThe Tombs of Atuan\n\tThe Farthest Shore\n\tTehanu\nUrsula Le Guin's creation, Earthsea - an ancient world of wizards, magic, darkness and light, and an ever-shifting balance of power - is an acknowledged masterpiece. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 39 +830 Mikal's Songbird 1978 Analog, May 1978 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-05 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 7 +831 Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow 1989 Sunstone, August, 1989 (poetry) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 10 7 +832 Malpractice 1977 Analog, 1977 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +833 Follower 1978 Analog, February, 1978 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 7 7 +834 Hitching 1978 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +835 Damn Fine Novel 1989 The Green Pages, October 1989 (as Noam D. Pellume) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 9 7 +836 Billy's Box 1978 The Friend, February 1978 (as Byron Walley) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 8 7 +160 Isaac Asimov's Universe - Volume 1: The Diplomacy Guild 1992 Five premier practitioners of the art of Science Fiction embark on an astonishing flight of the imagination inspired by the innovative genius of Isaac Asimov. The Grand Master of the genre has created a totally new universe for the writers to bring to life - a cosmos completely formed, intricately detailed and utterly compelling.\n\nIn the Milky Way galaxy of 1000 years hence, six vastly different starfaring races co-exist under a precarious truce. It is a volatile peace, threatened by the presence of the most recent addition to the galactic community - the species called Man... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 6 +88 Second Foundation 1994 One man understood the shifting patterns of the inhabited cosmos. This was\nHari Seldon, the last great scientist of the First Empire. The mathematics of\npsychohistory enabled Seldon to predict the collapse of the Empire and the\nonset of an era of chaos and war. To restore civilisation in the shortest\npossible time, Seldon set up two Foundations.\n\nThe first was established on Terminus in the full daylight of publicity. But\nthe second, 'at the other end of the galaxy', took shape behind a veil of total\nsilence. Because the Second Foundation guards the laws of pyschohistory, which\nare valid only so long as they remain secret.\n\nWhen the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not forseen - the\noverwhelming power of a single individual, a mutant called the Mule - the\ninfinitely worse, a portion of its power. But so far its location, its most\nclosely guarded secret of all, has been kept hidden. So far. The Mule and the\nremnants of the First Foundation will do anything to discover it.\n\nThis is the story of the Second Foundation. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-23 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +843 The Power That Preserves 1977 I had to use the copyright date because the book did not have an imprint date - Twice before, Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange other-world where magic worked. Twice he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land.\nNow he was back to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul. The Lords were besieged and helpless. No place was safe and Foul's victory seemed certain. Only Covenant could avert it.\nDesperately and without hope, he set out to confront the might of the Enemy. With him went a Giant, a Bloodguard, and the madwoman he had wronged. And in Foul's Creche, Lord Foul grew in power with each new defeat for the Land. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +845 The One Tree 1982 Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery flee from the Land, and embark with the Giants on a desperate search for The One Tree, the powerful life-force whose branches alone can re-make the staff of Law.\n\nThey leave the Sunbane-ravaged shores they know for a new world where awesome creatures attack them at sea - and strangely powerful new races both welcome and threaten them on Land.\n\nLord Foul sends his Ravers to harry Covenant and all who help him. Before them lies the prize that can vanquish the Sunbane - or wreak the devastation that Lord Foul seeks... 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +729 Dragons of a Fallen Sun 2000 The people of Krynn have known war in past ages. Some are still alive who remember the triumph of good at the conclusion of the War of the Lance. Still more remember the devastation of the Chaos War, which ended the Fourth age of the world.\n\nBut now a new war is about to begin, more terrible than any have known. This war is one for the very heart and soul of the world itself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-10-31 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 44 +111 The Dune Trilogy 1989 This collection of Frank Herbert's great novels, Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune brings together three of the finest achievements of post-war science fiction. They are epic tales, full of excitement and intrigue, packed with memorable characters and scenes.\n\nDominated by a vast, treacherous desert world of Dune, the trilogy the story of Paul Atreides, prince turned revolutionary leader, who becomes the reluctant messiah to a fanatical religious movement that threatens and entire galactic empire. Opposing him are the maligned sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit - who, unable to dominate the man they have made a god, set out to destroy him - and the Atreides' deadliest enemy, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Towering over everything is the planet itself, Frank Herbert's finest imaginative creation: a savagely hostile place inhabited only by giant sandworms and fierce natives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 42 +113 Foundation's Fear 1999 Hari Seldon, close to perfecting his theory of Psychohistory, is now a reluctant candidate for First Minister. But dangerous enemies force him to flee to Trantor. However, the difficulties he faces only serve to hone Hari's political skills for the confrontation to come. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-09-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 23 +855 Good Taste 1976 Apocalypse Press, 1976; Asimov's, #3, Fall, 1977 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +877 Speaker for the Dead 1986 Three thousand planet-bound years have fled while Ender the star-traveller remains young.\n\nIn those long years the name of Ender has become anathema, for he is the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings.\n\nNo other sapient race has been found in all the galaxy - until Lusitania is discovered.\n\nThere is encountered a young intelligent race just beginning to lift its eyes to the stars. This is a gift to mankind - a chance to redeem the previous destruction. And so this race, the 'piggies', is placed off limits. The only humans allowed to meet them are trained xenobiologists. This time there will be no tragic misunderstandings...\n\nBut this time, again, men die, bizarrely killed by the piggies. Andrew Wiggin arrives on Lusitania to speak the deaths of two xenobiologists, and walks into a maelstrom of fear and hatred. He must now unravel a web of secrets. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 21 +879 The Folk of the Fringe 1990 Civilized people are never prepared for the collapse of civilization. One day, without warning, there is no water in the taps, no shows on TV. You would trade your whole house for a loaded pistol so you could dare to open the door.\n\nOnly six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough to change the world drastically. A few communities are trying to hold on. Word has spread: Head for the Rocky Mountains. There's peace there, and enough to eat, and thousands make the dangerous trek across the plains. Yet even in a haven, there are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe. And all they want is to go home. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-04-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +880 A Man Rides Through 1988 Terisa Morgan desperately needs to escape, Gilbur is trying to kill her, Castellan Lebbick wants to torture her and she needs to find Geraden. The fortress of Orison is under siege by the Alend army; the forces of Cadwal, led by the Arch-Imager Vagel, are poised to strike; the traitor Eremis is preparing the ground for the hated enemies and King Joyse's actions are more baffling than ever.\n\nEverything Geraden and Terisa love in the land of Mordant is about to be destroyed - unless they can find a way to prevent it using their new-found talent for mirrors and Imagery. But Terisa knows Eremis will resort to every evil power at his disposal to ensure the success of his terrible master plan. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +161 They Hide, We Seek 1992 Five premier practitioners of the art of Science Fiction embark on an astonishing flight of the imagination inspired by the innovative genius of Isaac Asimov. The Grand Master of the genre has created a totally new universe for the writers to bring to life - a cosmos completely formed, intricately detailed and utterly compelling.\n\nIn the Milky Way galaxy of 1000 years hence, six vastly different starfaring races co-exist under a precarious truce. It is a volatile peace, threatened by the presence of the most recent addition to the galactic community - the species called Man... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 6 +881 The Day all Gods Die 1996 The crippled starship Trumpet drifts in space, its drives sabotaged by a crewman tainted with an alien mutagen. Morn Hyland, cyborg Angus Thermopyle and the rest of its small band of battered survivors may hold the key to Earth's future. Yet unless they can regain control and return on their own terms, their recent escape from the Amnion will prove to be a hollow triumph.\n\nAs Punisher closes in on the helpless Trumpet to arrest her crew as fugitives, back on a satellite near Earth a deadly game is being played out. UMCP Director Warden Dios is preparing to expose the secret machinations of the Dragon, the corrupt head of the UMC. But the revelation of Dios's own dangerous actions may precipitate all-out war with the Amnion, leaving humanity to pay a terrible price.\n\nAs Dios in Earth's orbit and Morn in deep space both make far-reaching decisions, the Amnion act with swift fury, and suddenly Earth stands threatened with fiery destruction. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 25 +882 Battleaxe 1995 A thousand years ago the Acharites drove the Forbidden from their land. Now, strange sightings along Achar's northern border foreshadow their return. The barbaric tribes of the Ravensbund are pouring south with tales of fearsome beings who feed on the terror of their prey.\n\nWinter has come early, and with it the promise of war.\n\nAxis, bastard son of the dead Princess Rivkah, is sent to the battlefront at Gorkenfort with his elite Axe-Wielders. Once there, he must hand over command to his hated half-brother, Borneheld. But travelling north, Axis falls in love with Faraday - Borneheld's betrothed, and meets two priests who challenge the very essence of his beliefs.\n\nThe Sentinels walk the land, the Treefriend has been found, and the people of the Plough, the Wing and the Horn must set aside their differences and unite against one leader against the evil rising in the north... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 14 +884 Starman 1997 Weakened by their terrible encounter with Borneheld's men, Axis and his army are forced to march north as Gorgrael breaks through Jervois Landing and invades Tencendor with ice and terror. But under a sky black with Gryphon, Axis discovers that he's confronting a seemingly invincible enemy.\n\nAs the Prophecy of the Destroyer hurtles toward fulfillment, Azhure and StarDrifter unravel the mysteries of the Island of Mist and Memory, where they finally confront WolfStar; Faraday moves east to replant the ancient forests of Tencendor; and the Sentinels begin a lonely journey planned for them thousands of years ago.\n\nEnveloping all looms the promise of treachery - treachery that threatens to strike into the heart of Axis and Azhure's family. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 14 +885 Escape on Venus 1973 Carson Napier - astronaut-extraordinary - plunges deep into new adventures on the cloud-darkened planet of Venus.\n\nBy a ruse he had rescued his beloved Princess Duare from the tree city of the evil Minteo. In the only airship on the weird world they fled together, facing the most hideous dangers.\n\nBefore they can hope to return home, they must suffer appalling hardships, survive unspeakable dangers and overcome seemingly insuperable obstacles. Death rides always at their elbow and madness is their constant companion. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-12-02 00:00:00 1 1 3 12 28 +886 Midnight at the Well of Souls 1981 Entered by a thousand unsuspected gateways - built by a race lost in the clouds of time - Well World transforms creatures of any sort into different forms. So, spacefarer Nathan Brazil is not surprised to find himself accompanied by a batman, an amorous female centaur and a mermaid as he sets out on his strange mission.\n\nYet Nathan Brazil's own metamorphosis is more terrifying than any of the others - and with the gradual return of his memory comes the secret of the Well World. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-06-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 24 +887 The Pride of Chanur 1983 The Lordly Hani traders and their ancient enemies, the treacherous Kif, co-exist in uneasy peace at Meetpoint Station. Until the Outsider appears, and changes everything.\n\nFor this strange, haunted, smooth-skinned being holds the key to the future of the Compact, and, for the Hani, to future Glory - or disastrous ruin. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2005-01-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 45 +889 The Kif Strike Back 1986 When the kif seized Hilfy and Tully, hani and human crew of The Pride of Chanur, they issued a challenge Pyanfar, captain of Pride, couldn't ignore, a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmate to Mkks station and into a deadly confrontation between kif, hani, mahendo'sat, and human. And what began as a simple rescue attempt soon blossomed into a dangerous game of interstellar politics, where today's ally could become tomorrow's executioner, and where methane breathers became volatile wild cards playing for stakes no oxy breather could even begin to understand.... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2005-01-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 22 +18 Eutopia 1967 'Eutopia', Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 5 +890 Chanur's Homecoming 1990 When those enigmatic entities called humans sent their first exploration ship into Compact space all the traditional power alliances of the seven Compact races were totally disrupted. And, giving shelter to Tully, the only surviving human, Pyanfar Chanur and her hani crew were pitched into the centre of a galactic maelstrom, key players in a power game they scarcely understood.\n\nNow with space stations destroyed by rival factions, unwillingly "allied" with the most devious and untrustworthy Kif, and forced to doubt their own long-time champions, the Mahendo Sat, Pyanfar and her space-going comrades had become the last desperate hope of the entire Hani race! For, a one-planet race among whom only the females were allowed into space, the Hani were in the direct path of a running space battle which might wipe the very memory of their worlds from the galactic maps! 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2005-01-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 45 +891 Downbelow Station 1989 This novel won the Hugo award Earth was exhausted, introverted, feeble. Man's colonization of the stars had formed a multiplicity of worlds far beyond its control. Its once might Fleet was a remnant answering to none but itself. In the face of a Union attack, Earth was virtually powerless.\n\nPell was the pivot: the holder of Pell's station had the key to Earth's defences. But Pell was neutral, and wanted to stay that way. Pell's station becomes the focus of a titanic struggle, told in a sustained narrative which for imaginative vision, tension and vivid detail has few rivals in science fiction. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-06-30 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 45 +892 Fortress in the Eye of Time 1995 A ruined tower in a vast forest is the haunted home of the world's last great wizard, Mauryl. Here in the storm-drenched night, Mauryl performs a final act of the highest Old magic, a Shaping, hoping that by this most wondrous of spells the wrongs of a long-forgotten wizard war may be righted.\n\nIn the tower, a boy is brought full-grown to life. Named Tristen, he is neither golem nor man, and to Mauryl's dismay, he has none of the wisdom needed to ensure the success of his last gambit of the wizard's long life. Presented with the precious book that contains the knowledge he needs, Tristen cannot understand a single word. Instead, Tristen loves his maker blindly, and loves the beauty of the world.\n\nTristen walks alone and helpless from the last outpost of the Old Lands into a new age of holiness rife with treachery and war. A glamour protects him until, as the veils of unknowing are blown aside by events, Tristen's power is manifest. Then Mauryl's enemies become his. And though Mauryl's book is with him always, still Tristen cannot read it. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 25 +162 The Diplomacy Guild 1992 Five premier practitioners of the art of Science Fiction embark on an astonishing flight of the imagination inspired by the innovative genius of Isaac Asimov. The Grand Master of the genre has created a totally new universe for the writers to bring to life - a cosmos completely formed, intricately detailed and utterly compelling.\n\nIn the Milky Way galaxy of 1000 years hence, six vastly different starfaring races co-exist under a precarious truce. It is a volatile peace, threatened by the presence of the most recent addition to the galactic community - the species called Man... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +163 Myryx 1992 Five premier practitioners of the art of Science Fiction embark on an astonishing flight of the imagination inspired by the innovative genius of Isaac Asimov. The Grand Master of the genre has created a totally new universe for the writers to bring to life - a cosmos completely formed, intricately detailed and utterly compelling.\n\nIn the Milky Way galaxy of 1000 years hence, six vastly different starfaring races co-exist under a precarious truce. It is a volatile peace, threatened by the presence of the most recent addition to the galactic community - the species called Man... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 6 +1414 Fireship / Mother and Child 1981 FIRESHIP\n\nEthan Ring was on the run with a half-million dollar price on his head - for Ethan was the amazing fusion of an ordinary man and the most incredible computer ever devised - and the man had decided to run with his other half to Khorram Kabir's fantastic casino on Mars. But unscrupulous people knew he was there and he was blackmailed in order to penetrate Kabir's planet-wide computer network, or die...\n\nMOTHER AND CHILD\n\nA child was born in a brutally forced marriage. But the King who had stolen the beautiful priestess Etaa from her rightful marriage-bed was not the father of the boy. And the boy was fated to be the plaything in an incomprehensible game spanning the stars that would change the face of their world and its people forever. 2005-12-29 00:00:00 2005-12-29 00:00:00 2 1 3 7 55 +1415 Fireship 1975 Originally appeared in ORBIT 16, Edited by Damon Knight FIRESHIP\n\nEthan Ring was on the run with a half-million dollar price on his head - for Ethan was the amazing fusion of an ordinary man and the most incredible computer ever devised - and the man had decided to run with his other half to Khorram Kabir's fantastic casino on Mars. But unscrupulous people knew he was there and he was blackmailed in order to penetrate Kabir's planet-wide computer network, or die...\n\nMOTHER AND CHILD\n\nA child was born in a brutally forced marriage. But the King who had stolen the beautiful priestess Etaa from her rightful marriage-bed was not the father of the boy. And the boy was fated to be the plaything in an incomprehensible game spanning the stars that would change the face of their world and its people forever. 2005-12-29 00:00:00 2005-12-29 00:00:00 2 1 3 8 55 +129 First Law 1956 First appeared in Fantastic Universe Science Fiction in 1956 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 8 9 +130 Let's Get Together 1956 First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction in 1957 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 3 1 1 1 9 +164 The Burning Sky 1992 Five premier practitioners of the art of Science Fiction embark on an astonishing flight of the imagination inspired by the innovative genius of Isaac Asimov. The Grand Master of the genre has created a totally new universe for the writers to bring to life - a cosmos completely formed, intricately detailed and utterly compelling.\n\nIn the Milky Way galaxy of 1000 years hence, six vastly different starfaring races co-exist under a precarious truce. It is a volatile peace, threatened by the presence of the most recent addition to the galactic community - the species called Man... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 6 +893 The Chronicles of Morgaine 1988 To read the chronicles of Morgaine is to find yourself engrossed in a magnificent adventure. C.J. Cherryh's awesome imaginative power creates a whole series of worlds set in different parts of space and time. Linking these worlds are the Gates, set up in the unimaginable past - once safe entries, now the thresholds of chaos. To seal the Gates is the mission of the Morgaine - to prevent her is the equally dedicated aim of her ancient enemy Chya Roh.\n\nEncountering the violent upheaval of declining worlds and cultures in collapse, striving to hold the very fabric of a universe together, Morgaine finds an unlikely ally in a dishonoured warrior. With him, her great horse Siptah, and Changeling her only (but terrifying) weapon, she is the great protagonist of a compelling legend of the future. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-12-16 00:00:00 1 1 3 7 26 +863 Nothing for Nothing 1979 Asimov's, February, 1979 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 6 +894 Gate of Ivrel 1976 To read the chronicles of Morgaine is to find yourself engrossed in a magnificent adventure. C.J. Cherryh's awesome imaginative power creates a whole series of worlds set in different parts of space and time. Linking these worlds are the Gates, set up in the unimaginable past - once safe entries, now the thresholds of chaos. To seal the Gates is the mission of the Morgaine - to prevent her is the equally dedicated aim of her ancient enemy Chya Roh.\n\nEncountering the violent upheaval of declining worlds and cultures in collapse, striving to hold the very fabric of a universe together, Morgaine finds an unlikely ally in a dishonoured warrior. With him, her great horse Siptah, and Changeling her only (but terrifying) weapon, she is the great protagonist of a compelling legend of the future. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-12-10 00:00:00 1 1 3 6 26 +895 Well of Shiuan 1978 To read the chronicles of Morgaine is to find yourself engrossed in a magnificent adventure. C.J. Cherryh's awesome imaginative power creates a whole series of worlds set in different parts of space and time. Linking these worlds are the Gates, set up in the unimaginable past - once safe entries, now the thresholds of chaos. To seal the Gates is the mission of the Morgaine - to prevent her is the equally dedicated aim of her ancient enemy Chya Roh.\n\nEncountering the violent upheaval of declining worlds and cultures in collapse, striving to hold the very fabric of a universe together, Morgaine finds an unlikely ally in a dishonoured warrior. With him, her great horse Siptah, and Changeling her only (but terrifying) weapon, she is the great protagonist of a compelling legend of the future. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-12-13 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 26 +983 The Past Through Tomorrow Vol. 2 1987 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 28 +908 The Moment of the Magician 1988 The call came from the far South of the strange world where Jon Meriweather was stranded - where animals walked and talked, and where magic really did work. It came to Clothahump the magician, a cry for help from a beleaguered city, held in thrall by a darkly powerful magician.\n\nReluctantly, Jon and a rebellious Mudge set out - only to discover that the evil they face stems from Jon's own world. And if Jon is to conquer it, he must risk never, ever returning home... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 46 +4 So Long and Thanks for All the Fish 1984 Charting the whole of Arthur Dent's Odyssey through space are:\n\nThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.\nOne Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for\na new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house\ndemolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.\nSadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very\nvery large and startling place.\n\nThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe.\nWhen all questions of space, time, and matter and the nature of being have been\nresolved, only one question remains - 'Where shall we have dinner?' The\nrestaurant at the end of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic\nexperience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.\n\nLife, the Universe and Everything.\nIn consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised\nto find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric earth.\nHowever, just as he thinks that things cannot possible get any worse, they\nsuddenly do. he discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and\nbewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly\nunfair.\n\nSo Long and Thanks for All the Fish.\nJust as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly\nfinds the girl of this dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe\nin which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people\nwill find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His\nCreation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-03-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 1 +5 Mostly Harmless 1992 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this is, however, at all comprehensible to anyone below the level of Advanced God, and since it is now well-established that all known gods came into existence a good three millionths of a second after the Universe began rather than, as they usually claimed, the previous week, they already have a great deal of explaining to do as it is, and are therefore\nnot available for comment at this time... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 2 +17 The Nest 1953 'The Nest', Science Fiction Adventures 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 5 +896 Fires of Azeroth 1979 To read the chronicles of Morgaine is to find yourself engrossed in a magnificent adventure. C.J. Cherryh's awesome imaginative power creates a whole series of worlds set in different parts of space and time. Linking these worlds are the Gates, set up in the unimaginable past - once safe entries, now the thresholds of chaos. To seal the Gates is the mission of the Morgaine - to prevent her is the equally dedicated aim of her ancient enemy Chya Roh.\n\nEncountering the violent upheaval of declining worlds and cultures in collapse, striving to hold the very fabric of a universe together, Morgaine finds an unlikely ally in a dishonoured warrior. With him, her great horse Siptah, and Changeling her only (but terrifying) weapon, she is the great protagonist of a compelling legend of the future. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-12-13 00:00:00 1 1 3 5 26 +897 The Tripods Trilogy 1988 I read the White Mountains in early high school Massive, alien machines, the Tripods had ruled Earth for hundreds of years and enslaved the minds and bodies of most adults through the silvery caps they made them wear. Determined to escape the ritual Capping ceremony, Will Parker runs away, heading for the distant White Mountains and the small rebel camp there, hoping to join their desperate attempts to overthrow the rule of the Tripods. The journey is long, the missions dangerous and the hope of survival very slim... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 39 +898 The Fountains of Paradise 1979 The Year: 2142 A.D.\n\nThe Place: Taprobane, a tropical island paradise\n\nThe Project: A giant space elevator to transport men and materials to a point outside the Earth's atmosphere\n\nThe Problem: Only suitable site is a sacred mountain jealously guarded by monks... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 2 +996 Misfit 1939 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 28 +19 The Little Monster 1974 'The Littel Monster', Way Out, edited by Roger Elwood 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 5 +1280 Jinian Footseer \N 2004-03-16 00:00:00 2004-03-16 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +195 The Smile That Loses 1982 First published in F & SF MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +909 The Paths of the Perambulator 1988 Jonathan Meriweather, trapped in the strange world where animals walk and talk, and where he, as the Spellsinger, possesses unearthly powers, has faced any number of perils since Clothahump the wizard called him from his own world to help in the war against the evil of the Greendowns.\n\nNow Jonathan, with Clothahump and Mudge the Otter, faces the greatest challenge of all, for the mysterious Perambulator is threatening the very fabric of the universe unless and his company can stop him. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 46 +910 The Time of the Transference 1988 It was a pretty good life for a spellsinger from L.A. He'd battled demons, fought deadly Plated Folk, even met a socialist dragon and survived. Now Jon-Tom was quite happy to settle into domestic bliss with fiery Talea, study magic and practise spellsinging on his duar. But the magic instrument is broken when Jon-Tom protects the wizard Clothahump from thieves and he must set out across the Glittergeist Sea to find the one person who can fix it. With the irrepressible Mudge the Otter as a travelling companion, only the unexpected can happen. But cannibal muskrats, ogres and a fierce pirate king parrot seems ordinary indeed when Jon-tom finds a way back to Earth - and he must choose which world is home. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 46 +914 Shadowkeep 1984 They called it Shadowkeep. Its evil had blasted the land and plunged it into darkness. Its malice had ravaged the countryside with foul creatures of the night that ventured forth from its walls. The bastion of one sorcerer's powerful magic, Shadowkeep was an abode of death that had stood longer than anyone could dare to remember and few dared to challenge.\n\nNow a hero descends into the dreaded valley of the keep. Summoned by the cloaked and ghostly Spinner, he is Practer Fime, an apprentice blacksmith eager for adventure. But young Practer soon learns he must do more than carry a big sword and shout orders. To free his land, he must find the key to an ancient enchantment and conquer the castle from which no man has ever returned... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-07-29 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 48 +916 The Gandalara Cycle I 1986 One moment he was Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor from our world. The next, he found himself in a young, strong body in the exotic desert world of Gandalara.\n\nHe was now a master swordsman telepathically linked to a giant warcat called Keeshah. And he was a man on the run, accused of murder and the theft of a precious gem with awesome powers.\n\nWith the aid of Tarani, a beautiful illusionist, he set out on a perilous quest to recover the sacred gem and clear his newfound name... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +917 The Steel of Raithskar 1981 One moment he was Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor from our world. The next, he found himself in a young, strong body in the exotic desert world of Gandalara.\n\nHe was now a master swordsman telepathically linked to a giant warcat called Keeshah. And he was a man on the run, accused of murder and the theft of a precious gem with awesome powers.\n\nWith the aid of Tarani, a beautiful illusionist, he set out on a perilous quest to recover the sacred gem and clear his newfound name... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +918 The Glass of Dyskornis 1982 One moment he was Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor from our world. The next, he found himself in a young, strong body in the exotic desert world of Gandalara.\n\nHe was now a master swordsman telepathically linked to a giant warcat called Keeshah. And he was a man on the run, accused of murder and the theft of a precious gem with awesome powers.\n\nWith the aid of Tarani, a beautiful illusionist, he set out on a perilous quest to recover the sacred gem and clear his newfound name... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +920 The Bronze of Eddarta 1983 One moment he was Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor from our world. The next, he found himself in a young, strong body in the exotic desert world of Gandalara.\n\nHe was now a master swordsman telepathically linked to a giant warcat called Keeshah. And he was a man on the run, accused of murder and the theft of a precious gem with awesome powers.\n\nWith the aid of Tarani, a beautiful illusionist, he set out on a perilous quest to recover the sacred gem and clear his newfound name... 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +921 The Gandalara Cycle II 1986 Transported from Earth to the desert world of Gandalara, Rikardon and Tarani set out to find the fabled lost city of Ka. Aided by a giant telepathic warcat and a mystic bird, they undertake a perilous quest to recapture the Ra'ira, the sacred gem of Dyskornis, and use its ancient powers to claim Tarani's rightful place on the throne of Eddarta. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +196 To the Victor 1982 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +197 The Dim Rumble 1982 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +922 The Well of Darkness 1983 Transported from Earth to the desert world of Gandalara, Rikardon and Tarani set out to find the fabled lost city of Ka. Aided by a giant telepathic warcat and a mystic bird, they undertake a perilous quest to recapture the Ra'ira, the sacred gem of Dyskornis, and use its ancient powers to claim Tarani's rightful place on the throne of Eddarta. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +923 The Search for Ka 1984 Transported from Earth to the desert world of Gandalara, Rikardon and Tarani set out to find the fabled lost city of Ka. Aided by a giant telepathic warcat and a mystic bird, they undertake a perilous quest to recapture the Ra'ira, the sacred gem of Dyskornis, and use its ancient powers to claim Tarani's rightful place on the throne of Eddarta. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +924 Return to Eddarta 1985 Transported from Earth to the desert world of Gandalara, Rikardon and Tarani set out to find the fabled lost city of Ka. Aided by a giant telepathic warcat and a mystic bird, they undertake a perilous quest to recapture the Ra'ira, the sacred gem of Dyskornis, and use its ancient powers to claim Tarani's rightful place on the throne of Eddarta. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +925 The River Wall 1986 In the Valley of the Mists, Rikardon and Tarani have discovered an ancient truth that will alter the destiny of Gandalara forever. But an evil lord has enslaved the land through the mystic force of the sacred stone of the Ra'ira. Outlawed and hunted, Rikardon and Tarani stage a daring and desperate raid to shatter his death-grip of fear. In this stunning epic, the sweeping saga of Gandalara reaches its unexpected, awe-inspiring conclusion as the secret of this strange desert world is revealed at last. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 11 +937 The Walls of Air 1983 Three thousand years before, the monstrous Dark had sprung from loathsome underground lairs to destroy most of humanity. Now they were again ravening and ruining in their blood-hunger. Only a few thousand people had managed to find refuge in the ancient fortress Keep of Renweth.\n\nThere, even the magic of the wizard Ingold Inglorion could offer them little hope against the Dark.\n\nTo defeat the savage horror, they must gain help from the Hidden City of Quo, to which all other wizards had been summoned. But Ingold could not pierce the walls of illusion that separated Quo from the world.\n\nWith his student, Rudy Solis, the old wizard set out to cross two thousand miles of dangerous desert to the City of Wizards.\n\nWhat he might find there he could not know - and dared not guess! 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 8 +938 The Armies of Daylight 1989 Outside the great stone Keep of Renweth, the night was the domain of the monstrous Dark - evil creatures that had erupted from their forgotten lairs for the first time in three thousand years.\n\nInside the Keep the survivors of the once-great Realm of Darwath sheltered, squabbled and fought for power. The Chancellor Alwir planned to use the wizard Ingold Inglorion and his disciple Rudy Solis, who with Gil Patterson had crossed the Void with the wizard from their own world when he sought their help, in a desperate attack on the Nests of the Dark. Bishop Govannin, obsessed by a fanatical fury, sought to destroy magic by murdering the wizards.\n\nNo one in that climate of ambition, hatred and fear would heed Gil's discovery of the truth that lay behind the rising of the Dark - no one except the wizard Ingold. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 49 +192 Nemesis 1989 Tearing its way through space on a collision course for Earth is NEMESIS, a fiery ball of destruction, a dwarf star as red as the colour of blood.\n\nCircling NEMESIS is ROTOR, and Earth colony whose occupants have cut themselves off from the anarchy and degeneration of an old and wasted world.\n\nFor them ROTOR is a kind of Ark.\n\nAnd NEMESIS is the Flood... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 11 +856 How It Happened 1978 Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, Spring, 1979 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 6 +193 Azazel 1990 MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +210 Flight of Fantasy 1988 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +970 Secret of the Sixth Magic 1986 BEYOND THE FIVE MAGICS.\n\nThe laws of the five magics were being set aside. First to go where those of the high art of sorcery. Then true magic, upon which the commerce of all Arcadia depended, had been voided. And now even thaumaturgy, the engineering knowledge of the world, was under attack.\n\nJemidon had traced the trouble to Melizar, the strange, cold being who had seemingly appeared from nowhere. Somehow, Melizar could alter or negate the laws that had always existed by using a mysterious\n metamagic - something which only he understood.\n\nIf the world was to be saved from Melizar, it was up to Jemidon to save it. But what could he do? He was only an outcast, unable to perform even the simplest ritual without ruining everything. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2005-04-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +973 The Lions of Al-Rassan 1995 In the once powerful empire of Al-Rassan, King Almalik Cartada is on the ascendancy, adding city after city to his realm aided always by the notorious Ammar Ibn Khairan - poet, diplomat, soldier and assassin. Cartada's empire is threatened only by the ambitious Jaddite kings of the north who are eager to reclaim the lands they once held.\n\nBut the Jaddite lands are divided and their own celebrated military leader Rodrigo Belmonte and his war-band are forced into exile. Thus in the exquisite lakeside city of Ragosa, Rodrigo and Ibn Khairan meet and serve - for a time - the same monarch.\n\nAnd observing the byplay between the two men, is the beautiful, brilliant physician, Jehane, who herself becomes a crucial player as the peninsula is swept to the brink of holy war . . . 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 25 +974 The Summer Tree 1987 Five young people find themselves flung into the magical land of Fionavar, First of All the Worlds, there to play their part in the vast battle against the forces of evil led by the fallen god Rakoth Maugrim and his dark hordes. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 49 +975 The Wandering Fire 1992 It finds the evil Rakoth threatening the existence of Fionavar. To stop him, Kimberly Ford and her companions from Earth must summon the Warrior Condemned from his resting place. But desperate measures can have desperate consequences - ancient curses and prophecies are set in motion that may change the tapestry forever. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +976 The Darkest Road 1988 The Darkest Road carries the young heroes from our own world to the final titanic battle for Fionavar against the evil of Rakoth Maugrim. On a ghost-ship the legendary Warrior, Arthur Pendragon and Pwyll Twiceborn, Lord of the Summer Tree, must sail to confront the Unraveller at last; while Darien, Child of Light and Dark must tread the darkest road... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 49 +977 The Dispossessed 1979 The Principle of Simultaneity - a stupendous concept which will revolutionize interstellar communications between the nine Known Worlds. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's ideas are being stifled by jealous colleagues. So he goes to the authoritarian hell-planet Urras from whence his ancestors fled, seeking a different kind of freedom - and finds himself embroiled in deadly intrigue and bloody revolution...... 2003-03-18 00:00:00 2005-01-04 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 10 +978 The Lathe of Heaven 1980 Before George Orr slips into a dreaming sleep induced by Doctor Haber, there are seven billion undernourished people on an overcrowded Earth. "Dream of space, of elbow room, of freedom" the Doctor says. The sleeper dreams of burying mounds of corpses. When he wakes, he "remembers" the plague. Pollution-caused cancer wiped out six billion people ­ ten years ago. Doctor Haber is pleased with his day's work of playing God. Tomorrow, the race question... 2003-03-18 00:00:00 2003-03-18 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 10 +982 Citizen of the Galaxy 1981 'Lot ninety seven' the auctioneer announced. 'A boy'. From that fateful day at the Sargon slave market, when he was bought by the cripples beggar Baslim, Thorby's life changed dramatically. Treated with unaccustomed kindness, the young boy came to love the wise old man who was teaching him lessons which were to prove invaluable...\n\nOn Baslim's sudden death, Thorby leaves the planet Sargon to join the Free Traders travelling the galaxy, coming into contact with many cultures, human and alien, until finally he discovers the startling truth about his own identity and purpose in life. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 24 +989 Ordeal in Space 1948 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-05 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 28 +990 The Green Hills of Earth 1947 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-05 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 28 +993 The Menace from Earth 1957 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-06 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 28 +994 If This Goes On - 1940 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 28 +995 Coventry 1940 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 28 +1005 The Red Wyvern 1997 A new chapter of the history of the kingdom of Deverry - an ideal starting point for newcomers to Katherine Kerr's gorgeous epic; and a satisfying continuation of the saga for those readers who have followed the series through its previous incarnations.\n\nIn Cengarn, Rhodry of the silver daggers - half-elven, half-human - is beset by strange dreams. A dark-haired enchantress, the Raven Woman, is haunting his sleep, and he can find no release, even in the arms of Dallandra, his lover.\n\nLittle does he know that his feud with the Raven Woman goes back over three hundred years, to a time when the very throne of Deverry stood under threat of civil war.\n\nIn those days, the young king's cousin, Lilli, was forced by her scheming mother to scry for omens, and she saw terrible visions: great red wyverns sweeping down from the mountains to plunge like hawks upon a herd of feeding swine...\n\nWere these fancies of an untrained mind? Or omens foretelling bloodshed and disaster for the clan of the Boar. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2009-09-27 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 25 +1006 The Fire Dragon 2000 Ancient hatreds, ancient wrongs - their chains bind Rhodry Maelwaedd, the mad berserker, and his blood-sworn enemy, Raena, shape-changer and prophet. Both have glimpsed the great secret of the dweomer, that each soul leads many lives. Neither understands what they have seen.\n\nThey forged their chain of hatred during Deverry's civil wars, when they lived as Maddyn the bard and Lady Merodda, a dabbler in poisons and forbidden magicks. The evil that Merodda worked then claimed lives that Maddyn held dear. Not even the might dweomermaster Nevyn and his apprentice Lilli could undo the harm she worked or prevent Maddyn from swearing a vengeance-vow that has smouldered down the centuries.\n\nNow Rhodry and Raena are to meet again far from the Kingdom of Deverry. Their blood-feu\nd threatens to destroy the peaceful city of Cerr Cawnen. The elven dweomermaster Dallandra mus summon every power and ally at her disposal to break the chains of their Wyrd and save thousands of innocent lives. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2009-09-27 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 25 +1014 Messengers: AGGELOI 1995 AGGELOI is written in the Greek alphabet.\nyear published is a guess In a near-future, strangely altered world, Tiffany has been resurrected. Twice. Vaguely she can remember how she died, and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she has suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast, she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers is about to provide Tiffany with the missing pieces she needs to complete the story of her ;life before death'. But it is a story that can have many possible endings. And in another world a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. A daughter who, unbeknown to her, may still be alive, somewhere... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 14 +1007 The Gold Falcon 2007 The powerful dweomermaster Nevyn has been reincarnated, but the young orphan Neb knows nothing of his previous life.\n\nMeanwhile, the savage Horsekin tribes, spurred on by their new goddess, Alshandra, are raiding the villages on the Western border of Deverry, the first step in their plans to destroy both the Deverrian farmers and the nomadic Westfolk.\n\nNeb finds love and danger as he and his soulmate Branna are drawn inexorably into a war for the survival of the kingdom itself. Although they have powerful allies in the Westfolk dweomermasters Dallandra and Salamander, they are also facing mighty enemies, enemies that they have fought before in the past lives that they no longer remember...\n\nIntricately interweaving human and elven history over several hundred years, Katharine Kerr’s enthralling and moving tale of extraordinary characters living their many lives through exceptional times is epic fantasy on truly a grand scale. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2010-03-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 25 +883 Enchanter 1996 'Welcome Axis, into the House of SunSoar and into my heart... Sing well and fly high and may nothing and no-one tear your feet from the path of the Star Dance again.'\n\nAxis has fled to Talon Spike, the home of the Icarii, where he must learn to wield his Enchanter powers to fulfil the Prophecy.\n\nSomehow he must lead the Icarii and the Avar back into Achar, defeat his half-brother Borneheld and reunite the former kingdom of Tencendor under his rule.\n\nMeanwhile, Gorgrael waits impatiently for winter, to continue his destructive drive into the heart of Achar... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 14 +1008 The Spirit Stone 2008 "A dagger laid against our throat."\n\nSo Prince Dar of the Westlands calls Zakh Gral, a new fortress built by the Horsekin, the ancient enemies of his people. To help him destroy this threat, the elven prince has called upon his allies: the dwarven folk of the northern mountains and the human men of Deverry to the east. Their leaders know that if the Westlands fall to the Horsekin, their own throats will feel that dagger next. Joining them are two powerful dragons, who have their own bitter reasons to hate the Horsekin.\n\nBut the fanatical Horsekin believe that they have the most powerful ally of all: a new goddess. Alshandra's pri\nestesses have announced that she has given the Horsekin the lands belonging to the prince - and that his people must be utterly destroyed.\n\nRooted in Celtic mythology and intricately interweaving human and elven history over several hundred years, Katharine Kerr's dazzling saga tells of ancient enmities and undying friendships experienced through many lives. Epic fantasy on a truly grand scale. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2010-03-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 25 +821 A Plague of Butterflies 1981 Amazing, November, 1981 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +1009 Freezeframes 1994 In a near-future, strangely altered world, Tiffany has been resurrected. Twice. Vaguely she can remember how she died, and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she has suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast, she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers is about to provide Tiffany with the missing pieces she needs to complete the story of her ;life before death'. But it is a story that can have many possible endings. And in another world a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. A daughter who, unbeknown to her, may still be alive, somewhere... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 14 +1010 Dr Lucky 1995 year published is a guess In a near-future, strangely altered world, Tiffany has been resurrected. Twice. Vaguely she can remember how she died, and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she has suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast, she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers is about to provide Tiffany with the missing pieces she needs to complete the story of her ;life before death'. But it is a story that can have many possible endings. And in another world a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. A daughter who, unbeknown to her, may still be alive, somewhere... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 14 +1011 The Stargazer 1995 year published is a guess In a near-future, strangely altered world, Tiffany has been resurrected. Twice. Vaguely she can remember how she died, and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she has suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast, she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers is about to provide Tiffany with the missing pieces she needs to complete the story of her ;life before death'. But it is a story that can have many possible endings. And in another world a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. A daughter who, unbeknown to her, may still be alive, somewhere... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 14 +1012 Asylum 1994 In a near-future, strangely altered world, Tiffany has been resurrected. Twice. Vaguely she can remember how she died, and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she has suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast, she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers is about to provide Tiffany with the missing pieces she needs to complete the story of her ;life before death'. But it is a story that can have many possible endings. And in another world a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. A daughter who, unbeknown to her, may still be alive, somewhere... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 14 +839 I Think Mom and Dad are Going Crazy, Jerry 1979 The New Era, May 1979 (as Byron Walley) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 7 7 +1013 Resurrection 1992 In a near-future, strangely altered world, Tiffany has been resurrected. Twice. Vaguely she can remember how she died, and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she has suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast, she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers is about to provide Tiffany with the missing pieces she needs to complete the story of her ;life before death'. But it is a story that can have many possible endings. And in another world a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. A daughter who, unbeknown to her, may still be alive, somewhere... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 14 +1015 L'Envoi, Without The Roses 1995 year published is a guess In a near-future, strangely altered world, Tiffany has been resurrected. Twice. Vaguely she can remember how she died, and her shattered mind and body are proof of the trauma she has suffered. Now in a rehab centre on the California coast, she tries to put together the fleeting memories of her previous life. A chance meeting with two unlikely messengers is about to provide Tiffany with the missing pieces she needs to complete the story of her ;life before death'. But it is a story that can have many possible endings. And in another world a mother is coming to terms with the loss of her daughter. A daughter who, unbeknown to her, may still be alive, somewhere... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 14 +1017 Salvage 1990 Civilized people are never prepared for the collapse of civilization. One day, without warning, there is no water in the taps, no shows on TV. You would trade your whole house for a loaded pistol so you could dare to open the door.\n\nOnly six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough to change the world drastically. A few communities are trying to hold on. Word has spread: Head for the Rocky Mountains. There's peace there, and enough to eat, and thousands make the dangerous trek across the plains. Yet even in a haven, there are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe. And all they want is to go home. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 2 1 9 7 +1022 Deryni Rising 1985 To be a Deryni is to be one of a race of sorcerers, possessed of extra-human powers. But for centuries to be a Deryni in the land of Gwynedd has meant being an outcast - reviled by the Church. Until the emergence of Clarissa, a full-blooded Deryni who champions their cause in such a way as to threaten the very throne itself.\n\nRebellion is strife and the reign of young King Kelson not likely to last, unless he can use all means at his command - including magic - to survive thereby preserve the Eleven Kingdoms. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 51 +1023 Deryni Checkmate 1989 The magical Deryni have seen their numbers diminish over the generations as a result of bitter persecution. That persecution is now cruelly renewed by church priests who, fearing their own power threatened, spread atrocious lies throughout the land of Gwynedd.\n\nBut over the centuries, those of Deryni blood have learned to survive against all odds, and even the zealous priests harbour a secret Deryni in their midst. With Duke Alaric Morgan - himself half-Deryni - by his side, the fourteen-year-old King Kelson prepares to ride the approaching storm. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 7 +1025 The Bishop's Heir 1987 Gwynedd: a land where magic and religion have lived side by side in uneasy truce since the days of the legendary Saint Camber the Heretic. Now once again it will be torn apart by war between the church and the Deryni, the race that possesses magical powers.\n\nArchbishop Loris, freed at last from his exile, has returned to plot against the Deryni King Kelson. Together with the secret backing of six of the leading bishops in the land, he plans to exterminate forever King Kelson and all his Deryni friends, while in another corner of the kingdom the Pretender Queen of Meara is also conspiring to free her land from Deryni rule. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 7 +1026 The King's Justice 1987 King of Gwynedd and heir to the magical talents of the Deryni, young King Kelson, should have been the most fortunate of men. But for 200 years, the Deryni had been feared and persecuted, their powers called witchcraft.\n\nNow Archbishop Edmund Loris strove to reinstate the reign of terror against the Deryni. His ally, Pretender Queen Caitrin, was leading a rebellion seeking to rip Meara from Gwynedd and make it again an independent kingdom. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 21 +1030 Camber the Heretic 1981 Camber of Culdi, most powerful of the magical Deryni race, was worried. Twelve years before, he had "died" and assumed the form of Bishop Alister Cullen, in order to guide the human king Cinhil and ensure peace between Deryni and humans in Gwynedd. In most ways, he and the Camberian Council he headed had been successful.\n\nBut now Cinhil was dying, leaving the kingdom to his sickly young son Alroy, in whose name a council of regents would govern. And Camber knew those regents to be evil men, greedy for power and filled with hatred for all Deryni. Once they ruled, no Deryni would be safe. Already the persecutions were beginning, with terror, rapine and genocide soon to follow. Even the Church could offer no refuge.\n\nThe only hope of Camber and the Council lay in a discovery by the healer Rhys, who had learned * without understanding * to block off all Deryni talents. So blocked, some few Deryni might go underground, undetectable as other than merely humans.\n\nBut that meant that the race of Deryni could be saved only by being destroyed as Deryni! 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 8 +1091 Finder's Keeper 1973 The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +1032 The Harrowing of Gwynedd 1990 Evil times had fallen on the Deryni, the race of humans with magical powers. In Gwynedd a boy-king reigns, manipulated by evil, power-hungry Regents who are determined to destroy the Deryni. Now Camber of Culdi is apparently dead, but as they stand before his body on the bier neither his son Joram nor his daughter Evaine can be sure. As the black forces close down on the Deryni, Evaine searches frantically through the forbidden spells to find the one to recover Camber...\n\nThe price for using the spell wrongly is unthinkable. But the price of success is even higher. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 7 +255 Strength of Stones 1988 They were built to hold the hopes of Mankind. they exposed only his folly...\n\nIn the deserts of God-Does-Battle the Cities stand alone, as beleaguered as the aspirations of Mankind. Those still alive are silent - like stars in a dying universe they await dust and decay. Yet within the living plasm of their fragmented structures an ancient programme works still, implanted by the human creators they cast our a thousand years ago. Before long, it is clear, some of the Cities will fight extinction. And many of them will do battle in a quite unexpected way... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 19 +256 Darwin's Radio 1999 The discovery of a mass grave of mutated villagers in the Caucasus; a mummified prehistoric family revealed by ice-thaw high in the Alps; a mysterious new disease that strikes only pregnant women, resulting in miscarriage - three disparate facts that will converge into one science-shattering truth.\n\nSo-called junk genes that have slept in our DNA for millions of years are waking up; the women who miscarry become spontaneously pregnant again without sexual activity. \nThe new babies are not normal.\n\nGovernments enact emergency measures: segregation of the sexes, abortion of all foetuses. Only three scientists in the world believe it isn't a plague: famous biologist Kaye Lang, disgraced paleontologist Mitch Rafelson and the government's 'virus hunter' Christopher Dicken. Can their leap of faith overcome mass panic and superstition? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 14 +319 Sort of Chaos 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 22 +1033 King Javan's Year 1992 Uneasy Lies the Head\n\nThe young King Alroy was dying, and so the power-hungry former Regents began their plotting anew. They conspired to immure the rightful successor, the Deryni-sympathizing Prince Javan, in the monastery where he had taken holy vows.\n\nJavan proved to be a formidable opponent: the Deryni-like powers bequeathed to the Haldane kings were already stirring in him. Javan was determined to claim his rightful crown and to restore justice to the kingdom. But the former Regents would stop at nothing to wrest back control of Gwynedd. They would use every political alliance they had cemented during the princes' minority, as well as the might of a fanatical new religious order, to keep Javan from ever becoming a true ruler.\n\nTo prevail against the Regents, to rule his kingdom justly, and even to live, Javan would have to be strong. He would have to be very clever. And he would have to be very lucky indeed... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 8 +913 Son of Spellsinger 1993 Much to Clothahump the Wizard's distress, ex-hippie Jon-Tom and otherworldly Talea's son Buncan wants to be a questing hero, but not a spellsinger. Instead he forms a band with Mudge's kids, otters Noctor and Squill, one that creates a wild unpredictable magic - based on rap!\n\nThen an anteater arrives with rumors about a dangerous legend. Soon the young rappers, aided by a drunk rhino, are off on an odyssey to a fortress where evil sorcerers threaten the world. And where only the unknown power of Buncan's beat can stop the hordes of hideous hybrids. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2005-01-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 47 +1047 The Non Born King 1983 The dominion of the Tanu has been broken. In the aftermath of cataclysm, Aiken Drum seizes his hour to grasp control of the Pliocene world.\n\nThere are those, human and Tanu, who rally to him - and those who fear and hate him. The Grand Master, Elizabeth...the mad Felice...the goblin hordes of the firvulag all thrust into a violent and stormy struggle for irresistible power... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 2 +1048 The Adversary 1984 The Firvulag are rising, while the children of the metapsychic rebels race to re-open the time-gate, the sole escape route back into the Galactic Milieu. Now the adversary takes up his destined role in the power play...Marc Remillard, defeated leader of the metapsychic rebellion determined to keep the time-gate sealed and to create a new race from his own offspring. Will he aid the Firvulag or bring succor to Aiken, when the day of the Grand Tourney comes, when the Tanu and the humans meet the Firvulag in the last great contest of the exile world... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 2 +198 Saving Humanity 1983 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +844 The Wounded Land 1980 Thomas Covenant returns unwillingly to a Land ravaged by four thousand years of Lord Foul's pestilence.\n\nUnder the evil Sunbane, the people of the Land submit to cruel sacrfices; the rulers of Revelstone are corrupt, the fields and forests laid waste; the healing Earthpower impotent.\n\nAccompanied by a woman from his own world, Covenant begins a new quest to save the Land from the forces that have all but destroyed it. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +928 Mona Lisa Overdrive 1989 In his first two novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero, William Gibson established himself as the most original and admired new voice in science fiction for many years. Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final self-contained novel in his 'cyberspace' sequence. Set in the same fascinating near-future as its predecessors, it puts the earlier works into a new and deeper focus. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2004-05-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +1092 A Proper Santa Claus 1973 The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +840 Gert Farm 1977 The Ensign, July 1977 (as Byron Walley) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 9 7 +1069 Red Star Rising (Dragonseye) 1997 For two hundred years there had been peace on Pern - but now the signs were\nominous. Violent winter storms and erupting volcanoes heralded the coming of\nthe second Pass of Thread, when the red planet would rain down its horrifying\nharvest and destroy ever living organism on the face of Pern. No human or\ndragon or animal or plant was safe from the hideous death inflicted by Thread.\n\nWeyrs and Holds tried to prepare, but they had serious problems. Over the\ngenerations much of the old technology had been lost. AIVAS, the giant\ninformation bank, was buried under tons of volcanic ash, and valuable and\nskilled men and women had succumbed to disease and old age, taking with them\nthe knowledge of a great civilization.\n\nThey had to prepare as best they could, training the great flights of dragons\nand ensuring that the Lord Holders did their part by protecting their people\nin every possible way. Only Lord Chalkin, Holder of Bitra, refused to\nco-operate. He did not believe in Threadfall. It was a plot of the Weyrs to\ngain ascendancy over the Holds. He would do nothing to protect Bitra or its\npeople. The Lord Holders and Weyrleaders were of one accord. Chalkin must be\nimpeached and removed from his lands if the planet was to be made safe. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2005-02-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +284 Hawkmistress! 1988 She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of the hill and forest, who tried humanity and turned it down. She had the MacAran Gift, the rare laran that gave mastery over hawk and horse.\n\nThere was war in the lands of Darkover, for this was the age when usurpers took the throne and the true king wandered with a price on his head. Romilly wanted none of all this, but there were those who shared her talents - the men and women of the Towers. And for them, Romilly was the key.\n\nWhether male-garbed or beast-minded, she was also human. And duty to her own true kind pointed her to the ultimate decision. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 7 +285 The Heirs of Hammerfell 1991 Darkover: planet of the bloody sun and world of legend and mystery. The Age of a Hundred Kingdoms; when Darkover is hewn apart by border conflict between the fighting realms...\n\nTHE HEIRS OF HAMMERFELL\n\nThey were separated and cast into the night in the fatal blow of a clan feud which raised hammerfell against Storn and soaked the land red for countless generations.\n\nAlastair and Conn - the infant twins of Hammerfell.\n\nNow the time has come for the banner of Hammerfell to rise once more against the might of Storn. And for brother to reunite with brother in the test of buried loyalty that will decide a dynasty's fate... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 7 +299 Exile's Song \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1081 Get off the Unicorn 1981 The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-11-18 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 20 +971 Riddle of the Seven Realms \N 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +199 A Matter of Principle 1983 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +200 The Evil Drink Does 1984 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +110 The Code Book 2000 Since humans began writing, they have also been communicating in code. In the Code Book, Simon Singh reveals, through thrilling stories of espionage, intrigue, intellectual brilliance and military cunning, the gripping history of cryptography. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 54 +114 Foundation and Chaos \N N/A 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1074 The Rowan 1993 The talents where the elite of the Nine Star League. Their gifts were many and varied, ranging from the gently telepathic, to the rare and extremely valued Primes. On the Primes rested the entire economic wealth and communications systems of the civilised worlds. But Primes were scarce - only very rarely was a new one born.\n\nAnd now, on the planet Altair, in a small mining colony on the western mountain range, a new Prime existed, a three-year-old girl - trapped in a giant mud slide that had wiped out the rest of the Rowan mining community. Every Altarian who was even mildly talented could 'hear' the child crying for help, but no one knew exactly where she was buried.\n\nEvery resource on the planet was centred into finding 'The Rowan' - the new Prime, the first ever to be born on Altair, an exceptionally unique Prime, more lonely, than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star League. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1093 The Smallest Dragonboy 1973 the impression of Keevan The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 20 +565 Kings in Darkness 1962 'Strange and tormented landscapes, peopled by characters of archetypal dimensions, are the setting for a series of titanic duels between the forces of Chaos and Order...\n\n'Over these presides the central figure of Elric, the haunted warrior-king whose ambivalent relationship with the magical sword Stormbringer is the author's most original creation. The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents' J.G. Ballard\n\nThe epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins - spectacular, tormented, the most infamous hero-villain in all of heroic fantasy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 31 +1075 Damia 1993 Of all the Rowan's children, Damia was the most brilliant, the most difficult, the loneliest, and the one who had inherited the greatest Talent. It was obvious from childhood that she was going to be a Prime, with all the honours, burdens and strains of the elite class. Her one friend was Afra - older, wiser, Talented in his own way, but 'belonging' almost exclusively to the Rowan and the workings of Callisto Station. As Damia grew up, her Talent became almost too strong to control, and the solution was separation - from her parents, from Callisto, from her beloved Afra. Sent to the distant planet of Deneb, to her strange and gifted grandmother, Damia began the training necessary to turn her into a Prime of extraordinary gifts - a Prime who could contact the minds of approaching aliens though space, some of whom threatened to totally destroy the worlds of the Nine Star League. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1076 Damia's Children 1994 Damia and Afra Raven-Lyon had reared their children in a brilliant and unorthodox way - 'pairing' them when six months old with the furry, one-eyed Mrdinis, the only other sentient being in the Alliance, who could communicate with humans by their 'dream messages.' Together, Man and Mrdini worked to create prosperous worlds and guard against the terrible threat of the annihilating Hivers. \n\nAnd now, in the deeps of Space, Mrdini scouts had crossed the path of three Hive ships -- ships that were giant hulks of cell units, bearing the queens and workers out into space, to breed and multiply and destroy wherever they found a viable planet. \n\nIt was the four elder children of Damia -- Laria, Thian, Rojer and Zara -- all uniquely talented in their various ways, who were to play their part, helped by their life-long Mrdini friends, in the conquering and investigation of the alien threat of the Hivers. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +860 The Last Answer 1979 Analog, January, 1980 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 6 +1077 Lyon's Pride 1994 The survival technique of the Hivers was terrifying -- and brilliant. Their huge Sphere ships, controlled by the Many Mind of ten to sixteen queens, surged out into space. When an appropriate planet was found, the Hivers destroyed any and every variety of indigenous life, the queens propagated, and when the new world was full, more ships were sent out, the colonization repeated until no planet, no species, least of all Man and Mrdini, was safe.\n\nThe furry and courageous Mrdini had fought the Hivers for centuries, many dying bravely in an attempt to save their own worlds. Now Mrdini and Man combined to form the Alliance -- and Humankind had their own weapons to offer -- the power and might of the Talents who could not only communicate silently with each other, but could project cargoes, ships and themselves across the deeps of space.\n\nThe four children of Damia were primes amongst the Talents, and all their skills were desperately needed, for the Hivers' terrible Sphere ships were still thrusting through space, unfathomable, impenetrable, and carrying death in their labyrinthine depths. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1079 Killashandra 1992 he was one of the Crystal Singers, the elite, mysterious ones, who cut the crystals from the planet Ballybran - precious glittering crystals without which the universe could not function.\n\nSent to the planet to of Optheria to repair the famous crystal organ, she was - at first - accorded all the honour and pomp due to her rank. Then her life became threatened and she found herself isolated at the very heart of the planet, knowing that she alone held the power to confront and destroy the evil that had permeated the world of Optheria. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-11-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 20 +1082 Lady in the Tower 1959 now part of the Rowan The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 20 +342 The Forests of Avalon 1998 First published as The Forest House 'Her awareness flared with images of blood and splendour, battles and stone cities ... and finally a fair-haired man with Gaius's eyes who rode to battle with the image of the Lady on his shield...'\n\nEilan, daughter of the Druids, is destined to serve as a virgin priestess in the Forest House of Avalon, Gaius, son of a Roman father and British mother, serves with the legions. Trapped between a love that can never be permitted and duty to their irreconcilable cultures, their hearts and minds are in turmoil as Rome and the tribes clash in the bitter struggle for Britain. Yet it is foretold by High Priestess Caillean that from their tragic union of Eagle and Dragon will come one day a defender of the land ... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-10-02 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 24 +343 Lady of Avalon 1997 Like the inhabitants of the mystical Avalon, readers of Lady of Avalon will feel they have been transported to another world - a world of myth, magic, romance, and history. This magnificent novel spans the creation of Avalon itself and foreshadows the birth of the legendary King Arthur. Here, we meet three remarkable holy women who steer the fortunes of Roman Britains as they struggles with their own destinies:\n\tCaillean retreats to the island of Avalon with a small band of priestesses. There she establishes a sisterhood to serve the Great Goddess, raises the heir to the mystic royal line, and veils Avalon from a hostile world in its everlasting mists.\n\tThe astute Dierna guides Avalon through treacherous political waters by marrying a young priestess to a Roman general ... only to discover that love - especially her own - cannot be so easily controlled.\n\tAna gives birth to a baby girl who will be the mother of the great King to come. But it is her beautiful and feisty oldest daughter, Viviane, who is destined for true greatness - as the famed Lady of the Lake and guardian of the Grail.\n\nCompulsively readable, dynamically plotted and rich in ritual, character, and the turbulence of Roman Britain, Lady of Avalon has the epic grandeur sure to win the hearts of Bradley's fans and lovers of myth everywhere. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-10-02 00:00:00 1 3 1 4 18 +1094 Apple 1969 now in To Ride Pegasus The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-11-04 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 20 +540 The Gate To Women's Country 1999 Women rule in Women's Country\n\nWomen live apart form men, sheltering the remains of civilization. They have cut themselves off with walls and by ordinance from marauding males. Waging war is all men are good for. Men are allowed to fight their barbaric battles... amongst themselves, garrison against garrison. But all the secrets of civilization are strictly the possession of women.\n\nNaturally, there are men who want to know what the women know... and when Stavia meets Chernon, the battle of the sexes begins all over again... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +611 Great Sky River 1995 In the far distant future the universe has become a battleground between organic and inorganic lifeforms - and the machines are winning ... \n\nMANTIS!\n\nThe Family had never seen a manhunter like it. And when its machine-mind engulfed their captain, they knew Mantis was not simple killing-mech. A collector of human minds, a plunderer of living personalities, Mantis was a weaver of complex, murderous illusions. But why, Killeen wondered, did it indulge in such elaborate variations of slaughter when it could destroy the last remnants of mankind in a single blast?\n\nHis answer lay in the heart of Mathis, in the museum of living ghosts and defiled spirits which drove the machine... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-06-28 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 19 +350 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! 1998 Collected Essays: 1934-1998\nNOTE: all subbook dates are estimates based on decade written.\nMuch of the material in this book is repetitive. Much also, is not attempting to tell anything interesting, rather review books, write intro's etc. Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +1084 Daughter 1971 story about Nora Fenn The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +1085 Dull Drums 1973 2nd story about Nora Fenn The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 20 +201 Writing Time 1984 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +202 Dashing Through the Snow 1984 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +203 Logic is Logic 1985 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +204 He Travels Fastest 1985 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +1086 Changeling 1977 year published is a guess The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 20 +861 The Last Shuttle 1981 Today, April 10, 1981 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 6 +1088 The Thorns of Barevi 1970 now in Freedom's Landing The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 9 20 +1089 Horse from a Different Sea 1977 year published is a guess The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 20 +461 The Ships of Earth 1994 The master computer of the planet Harmony was full of hope at last. The chosen human beings had been drawn together and removed from the city of Basilica. Now they were embarked on the first of two journeys, this one taking them through the desert and the Valley of Fires, to the southern tip of the island once called Vusadka, to a place where no human being had set foot for forty million years. The second journey would be across a thousand lightyears to the home planet of the human species, Earth, abandoned forty million years ago and ready now for human beings to return...\n\nThese particular human beings had been chosen through a million generations of guided evolution, and had the strongest possible ability to communicate with the master computer, the Oversoul. However, this did not always result in the most intelligent, or obedient of humans. The sixteen people chosen by the Oversoul included some who had killed - and some who would kill again - some who were committed to the Oversoul's cause and some who were equally committed to thwarting it. Cut off from the larger world, would they be able to curb the darker impulses which were no longer inhibited by a strong society? The Oversoul could only believe so, because these humans were to recolonize Earth. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-20 00:00:00 1 2 1 12 7 +484 Sinner 1997 It's forty years since Axis defeated Gorgrael and created a new, peaceful Tencendor...\n\nCaelum SunSoar has succeeded Axis as supreme ruler of Tencendor, but simmering tensions threaten to tear his country apart.\n\nAcharites are deeply unhappy with their place in the new order and want Zared, son of Rivkah and Magariz, to reclaim their realm. Caelum strongly opposes any resurrection of the troublesome Achar throne and is preparing to fight it, when a brutal murder occurs, unleashing mayhem among his family.\n\nChief suspect is Drago SunSoar. Divested of his Icarii powers as a babe, Drago has harboured a life-long resentment of Caelum and yearns to disposess his brother of his birthright.\n\nCaelum's troubles seem overwhelming. Then they are completely eclipsed by news of abominable forces from beyond the Star Gate which threaten to wreak destruction on a divided Tencendor. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 25 +485 Pilgrim 1998 The Star Gate is destroyed.\nThe Star Dance is dead.\n\nEnchanters and gods alike are helpless as the TimeKeeper Demons lay waste to Tencendor.\n\nThere must be hope somewhere, but no-one knows where to find it. Caelum and his parents go to Star Finger, hoping to discover the mountain's ancient secrets. Zared tries to help his people, but loses that which he loves most to the appetites of the TimeKeepers. Meanwhile, Faraday grows fearful, wondering if she will be trapped in her previous fate. Must she lose everything for this land...\n\nQeteb waits, as he has waited tens of thousands of years, for the StarSon ... for revenge ... for the hunt through the Maze. Death lurks in every twist of the Maze, but only those who have the courage to endure death can learn the secrets of the ancient Enemy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 25 +512 Heretics of Dune 1984 In this brilliant addition to the world-famous Dune saga the wheel of history has turned full circle: the deserts have returned to Dune, and with them the giant sandworms. God-Emperor of Dune told how the Tyrant Leto II - son of Muad'Dib, transformed into a monstrous hybrid of human and sandworm - achieved his simultaneous apotheosis and downfall. His death triggered the release of a swarm of sand-trout, the earliest stage in the sandworm-cycle. Over the millennia which have passed since, they and their descendants have reversed the ecological miracle that change Rakis (as Dune is now known) from a burning desert to a verdant and pleasant world.\n\nAmid the confusion and violence which followed Leto's fall, there was a great exodus of humankind, exploring the galaxy in search of new habitable worlds. Now people from this Scattering are returning, and they include a mysterious and threatening new group: women who call themselves the Honoured Matres, whose control and manipulation of sexual ecstasy makes them immensely dangerous opponents. They introduce an unpredictable new element into the precariously balanced equation of power involving the women of the Bene Gesserit with their long-term genetic schemes, the Tleilaxu masters of disguise and deception, the CHOAM Spacing Guild and other factions.\n\nMeanwhile, on Rakis, an old prophecy has been fulfilled. A girl, Sheeana, has appeared who has the power to summon, and control, and ride Shai-hulud, the great sandworm, which is now the centre of a new religious movement. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 29 +513 Chapter House Dune 1985 After the events described in Heretics of Dune, the oldest-established galactic order is in disarray. The ruthless Honoured Matres are conquering all; the planet Dune has been destroyed; only pockets of resistance remain, with the opposition coming mainly from the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, co-ordinated from their still undiscovered home world, Chapter House.\n\nNow, on Chapter House, a new Scattering is being planned with Bene Gesserit women fleeing to all parts of the galaxy to guard against possible extinction at the hands of the Honoured Matres. And they still hold one asset which has not fallen into enemy hands: they have sandworms, the offspring of one giant worm that was rescued from Dune before its destruction. A desert was prepared for it on Chapter House, and its myriad tiny descendants are hard at work implementing the early stages of the cycle which will eventually turn the planet into another barren wasteland. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 29 +520 House Atreides 1999 A breathtaking story of war, treachery an decadence; of love, loyalty and steadfastness in the face of overwhelming odds.\n\nIt is the year 10,154 of the Imperial Calendar, and for four decades the planet Arrakis - called Dune by its inhabitants - has been ruled by the Harkonnen family. Proud of his cruelty and ruthlessness, iron-fisted Baron Vladimir Harkonnen dreams of ever-larger harvests of the precious substance called "spice", the chemical that prolongs life and increases mental powers; the drug that mutated Spacing Guild Navigators use to control starships with their minds.\n\nBut the seeds of change have been sown. On Dune itself, an idealistic young planetologist goes out into the desert to live among the Fremen, desert nomads who hold the key to the secrets of spice and the giant sandworms who guard it. And on the water and island world of Caladan the Duke's heir, young Leto Atreides, prepares to take up his birthright... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 28 +1256 The House in the Tree 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +563 The Revenge of the Rose 1991 'Strange and tormented landscapes, peopled by characters of archetypal dimensions, are the setting for a series of titanic duels between the forces of Chaos and Order...\n\n'Over these presides the central figure of Elric, the haunted warrior-king whose ambivalent relationship with the magical sword Stormbringer is the author's most original creation. The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents' J.G. Ballard\n\nThe epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins - spectacular, tormented, the most infamous hero-villain in all of heroic fantasy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 31 +617 Endymion 1996 The year is 3126 and, on the world of Hyperion, twenty-seven-year-old Raul Endymion is executed. Because he has not converted and accepted the resurrecting symbol of the cruciform, this means final death for him.\n\nSo when Raul wakes up - alive - in the abandoned university of Endymion, half a continent away, he finds that he has been chosen to undertake a world-changing quest to make history. For Martin Silenus, old poet and author of the notorious Cantos, has picked Raul to accompany his niece into the future, and to protect her there until her destiny to become the One Who Teaches is fulfilled. The daughter of Brawne Lamia and the cybrid John Keats, eleven-year-old Aenea stepped into the Sphinx 263 years ago and when she emerges in only forty-two hours' time, it won't just be be Raul who's waiting for her ... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 37 +868 To Tell at a Glance 1977 The Saturday Evening Post, February, 1977 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 6 +1249 The City of Gold and Lead 1967 Massive, alien machines, the Tripods had ruled Earth for hundreds of years and enslaved the minds and bodies of most adults through the silvery caps they made them wear. Determined to escape the ritual Capping ceremony, Will Parker runs away, heading for the distant White Mountains and the small rebel camp there, hoping to join their desperate attempts to overthrow the rule of the Tripods. The journey is long, the missions dangerous and the hope of survival very slim... 2003-07-14 00:00:00 2003-07-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 39 +206 More Things in Heaven and Earth 1986 appeared in a pamphlet, "Science Fiction by Asimov" MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +207 The Mind's Construction 1986 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +312 The Devourer Within 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +313 Sin Catenas 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +294 The Spell Sword 1987 Earthmen on Darkover staged within the shelter of their specially constructed space port. Beyond lay uncharted territory - wild, inhospitable and sinister.\n\nBut for space traveller Andrew Carr the desolate planet held an attraction he could not resist. Darkover drew him. Darkover haunted him. And it was the planet's irresistable force that lured his craft to destruction among the unexplored mountains, leaving him alone among the magical people of the ancient planet... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-12-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 21 +1095 Honeymoon 1977 year published is a guess.\nsequel to The Ship Who Sang -- really need to have read The Ship Who Sang first, I guess... The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-11-04 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 20 +618 The Rise of Endymion 1997 Set after the coming-of-age of the new Messiah, this concluding novel tells the story of Aenea and her quest to counter the Popes final genocidal crusade to gain total domination over the universe. In this extraordinary new novel in the Hyperion Cantos, Dan Simmons brings to a triumphant conclusion one of the most celebrated, compelling and dramatic science fiction sagas of our time. Brilliant, provocative, unfailingly inventive, the odyssey began with the Hugo Award-winning HYPERION, continued through the critically acclaimed THE FALL OF HYPERION and ENDYMION, and now ascends to its greatest heights yet... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 37 +1210 The Darkness on Diamondia 1980 Colonel Morton was sent to Diamondia to report on the war between Earth-descended colonists and the guerilla warriors of the inhuman Irsk. Because something was going terribly wrong - a darkness was setting in, mental confusion was epidemic, and there was evidence of Outside interference.\n\nThe Darkness was impartial, and Morton;s encounters with it were the most disturbing events of his career. For it seemed as if the Outside were deliberately stirring up the planetary pot., mixing minds with minds, and personalities with personalities. But when Morton realized that the only solution might be to find and use the incalculable power of the Lositeen Weapon, he realized also that the decision was too great for any one man - even for all men together - to make. 2003-06-11 00:00:00 2004-07-18 00:00:00 1 1 3 9 28 +619 Playgrounds of the Gods 1999 At age 34 award-winning reporter Ian Stafford realised that if he was ever going to live out his sporting fantasies of competing with the world's best, pitting his skills against theirs, he had to do it before he got any older. So he did. He spent a week training and playing on their own turf with world's best cricketers (Australia), best soccer team (Brazil's Flamengo), best runners (the Kenyan Olympic team), best rugby players (the Springboks), best rowers (British Olympic team) and best light-heavyweight boxer (America's Roy Jones Jnr).\n\nNo-one spared Ian: Roy Jones threw real punches at him, he has to shoot for goals against the game's best keepers, and he had to row as many kilometres each day as the Olympians. Throughout his (self-chosen) ordeals, Ian kept his sense of humour, and Playgrounds of the Gods, the fulfillment of his sporting fantasy, is as funny as it is awe-inspiring: the ideal book for the armchair champion in every home. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 38 +1028 King Kelson's Bride 2001 Speculation runs rampant throughout the kingdom of Gwynedd as to when, and to whom, King Kelson will finally be wed. As a rival monarch takes his rightful place on the throne of a nearby land, it becomes more imperative than ever that Kelson produce a long-awaited heir.\n\nWith the mystical Deryni blood flowing through his veins, Kelson can only hope for a woman whose power and conviction are equal to his own. Love is set aside for duty - and Kelson the king must make the choice that Kelson the man cannot... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-10-31 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 3 +295 The Forbidden Tower \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +979 The Left Hand of Darkness 1979 The world called Winter in this richly textured novel is located in a distant corner of the galaxy. It is much like Earth - but for two facts: Even during high summer conditions are sub-arctic and its inhabitants are all of the same sex. 2003-03-18 00:00:00 2004-11-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 10 +1103 Prince Ivan 1990 Peter Morwood enters a world of wonders to tell a tale of a Russia that never existed in history books - of great heroes and beautiful princesses, of sorcerors both good and evil. All set beyond the steppes where the horizon goes on forever, and within forests that could swallow Europe.\n\nHorses that talk and rivers that burn are part of the magic created in a story which starts in the walled town of Khorlov. From here Prince Ivan Aleksandrovich, only son of the local Tsar, sets out on the bridal quest that will lead him to the fairest princess in all the Russias. But for all that she is a beauty and a sorceress in her own right, Mar'ya Morevna holds in the cellar of her castle a secret that threatens to end Ivan's new happiness before it has begun. Koshchey the Undying.\n\nEven as Ivan resolves to do battle with the evil wizard and scatter his ashes to the four winds, he knows that centuries of wisdom and the power of necromancy are ranged against him in the shape of an enemy acknowledged as deathless. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 7 +654 The House That Stood Still 1965 Stephens had to solve the mystery of the centuries-old House That Stood Still - or Earth would be destroyed!\n\nAt first Allison Stephens knew only that there was something strange about the house and its sinister inhabitants. Then he stumbled onto the spaceship and learned of the catastrophe that threatened to obliterate the universe from the heavens - and a catastrophe that the masked immortals from the The House That Stood Still could prevent.\n\nBut the immortals planned instead to escape to another planet - leaving Earth to its terrible fate. Only one of them, the unearthly beautiful Mistra Lannett, agreed to help save the world. During the fateful days that followed, Stephens and Mistra met the challenge to defeat the most indestructible aliens the world had ever known! 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 41 +664 Queen of Sorcery 1990 Legends told how the evil God Torak had\nCoveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until\ndefeated in a final battle.\n\nBut prophecy spoke of a time when he\nwould awake and again seek dominance\nover all the world. Now the Orb had been\nstolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was\nat hand.\n\nThe master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter\nPolgara the arch-sorceress were on the trail of\nthe Orb, seeking to regain it before the final\ndisaster. And with them went Garion, a simple\nfarm boy only months before, but now in the focus of the struggle. He had never believed in Sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they travelled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +676 The Shining Ones 1994 Prince Sparhawk is pledged to fight the enemies of the Tamul Emperor Sarabian with all the skill and cunning of a Pandion Knight. Meanwhile his Queen, Ehlana, educates Sarabian in the art of ruthless statesmanship. Sarabian is transformed from a mere puppet ruler into a formidable politician. But still Trolls, vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghouls and Ogres form a vast conspiracy to take over the Empire. Most disturbing of all are reported sightings of Shining Ones amongst the hordes. These luminous beings inspire more fear than the rest combined. And Sparhawk and his companions must resurrect the sacred jewel of the Troll-Gods to combat them.\n\nThe enemies of the Empire know that possession of the jewel makes Sparhawk as dangerous as any god. But gods are among his foes. And while Sparhawk defends the far-flung Tamul Empire, he cannot also protect his beautiful Queen ...\n\nThe second book in The Tamuli begins to unveil the hidden powers at work for both good and evil. In the hands of David Eddings, the undisputed master of modern fantasy, the story of the Pandion Knight Sparhawk is an epic for our times. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 14 +570 Valentine Pontifex 1984 Dark dreams stir Lord Valentine's sleep. The Shapeshifters scheme in secret to regain their stolen world, and confusion and chaos are whispered on the winds of Majipoor. A planet that has known only peace for countless centuries must now prepare itself for war.\n\nTo save Majipoor, Valentine faces an anguishing choice--accept the mantle of Pontifex and surrender the high office of Coronal to his ambitious young successor Hissune, or use his own great powers to avert a long nightmare of bloodshed and battle. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-03-28 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 11 +677 The Hidden City 1995 Sparhawk, the greatest of Pandion Knights, has offered freedom to the Troll-Gods trapped in the Blue Rose in exchange for their aid in fighting Cyrgon, the sinister god of the Cyrgai. But Cyrgon has turned to the unspeakable arts of Zemoch magic in his war against the Tamul Empire. He has brought back to the world the very essence of evil which was cast out at the beginning of time by Azash and the other Elder Gods. Klael! As ancient as the Blue Rose, and as powerful.\n\nThe ultimate battle between Blue Rose and Klael must be fought - though Ehlana is held prisoner by the enemy in the Hidden City, defended by Klael. The time for strategy, and hope, is past.\n\nThe final, breathtaking volume of the Tamuli, full of battles, astonishing magic and awesome gods, reveals David Eddings at his triumphant best. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 14 +678 The Redemption of Althalus 2000 Here in a single volume is a completely new and self-contained epic from the modern masters of fantasy. The Redemption of Althalus is set on the grandest scale in an entirely new, magical world.\n\nAlthalus - burglar, armed robber and occasional murderer - is commissioned to steal a book by a mysterious cloaked stranger named Ghend. Althalus sets off to the House at the End of the World where the book is kept - after stealing Ghend's cloak; after all, winter is coming on.\n\nAt the House at the End of the World, in the same room as the book Ghend described, he finds a talking cat. What he can't find once he's in the house is the door by which he entered.\n\nAnd Deiwos marked that awful edge with fire to warn all men back form Daeva's abyss, and then he rested there in his keep and communed with his Book while time continued her stately march.\n\nBy the time he manages to escape - with the cat, Emerald, in the hood of his (Ghend's) cloak Althalus can read. He's read the Book of Deiwos, and discovered a tool mightier than the blunt instrument he once used to disable his victims. But there is another Book, written by the god Daeva who is the evil brother of Deiwos, and who is trying to unmake the world.\n\nAnd Ghend lifted his face and looked upon Althalus with his burning eyes. And the eyes of Ghend seared at the soul of Althalus. And Ghend spoke then, saying, 'It is of little moment, my thief. Run, Althalus, run, and I shall pursue you down the nights and down the years, and the Book shall avail you not, for I shall deliver you up to the throne of Daeva'\n\nEmerald is in fact the sister of the two conflicting gods, and her intention is to use Althalus to stop Daeva returning all of them to primordial chaos. Althalus will teach her what she needs to know, which is how to lie, cheat and steal - 'Whatever works,' Emerald reflects - and in return she, more amazingly, will teach Althalus truth, justice and morality.\n\n'The forest was dark and tangled, and the sky was steely grey. Althalus had lost his way, though he could not remember exactly where he'd been going before... the hollow sound of wailing blotted out his thought... 'she comes,' the trees sang. 'She comes,' the vines replied. 'Fall down before her in abject surrender!'\n\nThe existence of the world hangs in the balance in this fabulous and extraordinary story of The Redemption of Althalus... the rogue destined to steal the hearts and minds of readers. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 25 +1113 The Sword of the Dawn 1977 Part of box set of first four 'History of the Runestaff novels' The Spell of the Runestaff\n\nIn Earth's dim future the Dark Empire had grown more powerful - so powerful that it threatened to destroy even the well-protected province of the Kamarg. Only the ancient crystal machine of the wraith fold could save the Kamarg's people by warping them into another dimension. And so they found sanctuary. But DORIAN HAWKMOON knew that sanctuary was an illusion...and suffocatingly dull!\n\nHe was fated to don sword and armour once again! To find himself in a strange, unfriendly land, battling new an powerful enemies.\n\nHe knew his destiny was still ruled by the Runestaff - but while he strove to discover where in time and space he was, KING HUON's scientists perfected deadlier war-machines. The armies of the Dark Empire spread farther and faster across the globe, staining the map with blood... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 53 +1114 The Runestaff 1977 Part of box set of first four 'History of the Runestaff novels' The Quest Nears Its End\n\n'As it is written: "Those who swear by the Runestaff must then benefit or suffer from the consequences of the fixed pattern of destiny that they set in motion." And Baron Meliadus of Kroiden had sworn such an oath, had sworn vengeance against all of Castle Brass, had sworn that Yisselda, Count Brass's daughter, would be his. On that day, many months earlier, he had fixed the patter of fate; a pattern that had involved him in strange destructive schemes, that had involved Dorian Hawkmoon in wild and uncanny adventures in distant places, and that was now nearing its terrible resolution.' from THE HIGH HISTORY OF THE RUNESTAFF. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 53 +1115 The Knight of Swords 1987 A VENGEANCE BORN\n\nBy creating Man, the universe had betrayed the old races. Spreading like a pestilence across the Earth. Man destroyed the Vadhagh and the Nhadragh, the ancient peoples. Only Vadhagh Price Corum remained to raise his sword, to avenge the slaughter of this family and race, to battle the unjust fate of a blind and deaf universe... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 3 +1117 The King of Swords 1980 The King of the Swords\n\nThe third of the BOOKS OF CORUM which concerns the quests and adventures of Corum Jhaelen Irsei of the Vadhagh Folk, who is also called the Prince in the Scarlet Robe. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 10 +1118 The Prince with the Silver Hand 1993 Michael Moorcock brings the old Celtic gods alive again in this tale of Prince Corum, avatar of the Eternal Champion, called to a Celtic Golden Age, where he must do battle against a race as old as his own.\n\nIn a time not far from this, Corum, the Prince with the Silver Hand, must journey across a harsh world threatened by perpetual winter to seek objects of great power, the lost weapons of the Celts, and beg the aid of dwarves and giants in an urgent search which must inevitably end in his own death... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 34 +1120 The Bull and the Spear 1973 Michael Moorcock brings the old Celtic gods alive again in this tale of Prince Corum, avatar of the Eternal Champion, called to a Celtic Golden Age, where he must do battle against a race as old as his own.\n\nIn a time not far from this, Corum, the Prince with the Silver Hand, must journey across a harsh world threatened by perpetual winter to seek objects of great power, the lost weapons of the Celts, and beg the aid of dwarves and giants in an urgent search which must inevitably end in his own death... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 34 +1152 The Face of the Waters 1992 It is the year 2450. Humanity is scattered among the stars, which teem with intelligent life, while the home world has been destroyed by an inadvertent catastrophe two hundred years before. Thus all Earthmen are exiles, and Earth itself is only a memory.\n\nHydros is a world of great complexity. It has almost no landmass, only a great globe-encompassing ocean with occasional tiny islands. Its seas swarm with apparently intelligent life-forms of a hundred kinds, and one - a bipedal humanoid form - has created a kind of land for itself: floating islands, woven from sea-borne materials, buffered by elaborate barricades against the ceaseless tidal surges that circle the planet.\n\nTo Hydros have come an assortment of Earthmen. For them it's a world of no return: having no form of outbound space transportation. This brilliantly inventive novel tells their story, as they travel across the planet;s endless ocean in search of the mysterious area from which no human has ever returned- the Face of the Waters. 2003-05-29 00:00:00 2004-06-05 00:00:00 1 1 3 7 6 +1184 Fires of Eden 1994 FIRES OF EDEN\nAt first only the wind is screaming...\n\nTycoon Byron Trumbo is the owner of the Mauna Pele, a luxurious Hawaiian resort, and he's got a problem: guests have been disappearing, and now five hundred five-star rooms are standing empty. Determined to sell the resort to Japanese investors, Trumbo invites them to the Mauna Pele to finalise the sale, refusing to allow anything to stand in the way of his deal. Not even when giant beasts capable of human speech are spotted, visitors turn up dead and dismembered, and volcanic eruptions fill the sky with smoke and flames as fast-moving lava flows inexorably towards the resort.\n\nAlso at the Mauna Pele are two remarkable women guests: Eleanor Perry, who is following the itinerary outline in her intrepid aunt's old diary; and thrice-married Cordie Stumpf, on a pilgrimage of her own, and determined to have the time of her life. The disparate trio are forced to band together in the face of imminent natural catastrophe and the wrath of the immortal enemies of the volcanic goddess, Pele. 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-08-04 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 37 +1185 A Touch of Sturgeon 1987 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2005-04-11 00:00:00 1 3 3 7 56 +1253 A Revel in Rel Mord 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 3 +1186 Killdozer! 1944 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-14 00:00:00 1 3 3 7 56 +1187 The Sex Opposite 1952 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-15 00:00:00 1 3 3 6 56 +1188 Mr Costello, Hero 1953 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-17 00:00:00 1 3 3 6 56 +314 Circles 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 22 +315 Festival Night 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 22 +1189 The Golden Helix 1954 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-19 00:00:00 1 3 3 5 56 +1196 Sideshow 1994 Barbaric customs and bizarre human cults are preserved on the planet Elsewhere. The rest of the universe has been taken over by the Hobbs Land Gods, which means that everyone alive, except the people on Elsewhere, lives in perfect harmony with nature and with each other.\n\nBut Elsewhere is ruled by computer-encrypted professors who have been dead for a thousand years. The professors were dedicated to maintaining human diversity. Their ancient analogs are dedicated to something infinitely more sinister.\n\nThe time has come to consider whether enslavement by the Hobbs Land Gods is not preferable to the depravity being cultivated on Elsewhere. The time has come to ask the Big Question, What is the Destiny of Man? And answer it. 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-08-25 00:00:00 1 1 3 7 14 +727 Sorcerers of Majipoor 1997 On the gigantic planet Majipoor it is a time of ancient mysteries and new wonders. The aged Pontifex Prankipin is at last near death. Omens are seen, prodigies are born... even the sea dragons have been glimpsed from the cliffs. Surely some great change is at hand!\n\nThe Coronal Lord Confalume will succeed him as Pontifex, and it is no secret that the next Coronal will be Prince Prestimion of Muldemar - for, by law and custom, the blood son of the present Coronal cannot rule. Besides, everyone knows that young Korsibar much prefers the pleasures of the hunt to the intrigues of court.\n\nThey cannot know this hunter has found a new quarry - the Starburst Crown. For, when Korsibar is visited by an oracle, the two-headed Su-Suheris whispers words that plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration and engulf its myriad races in a war to alter destiny itself.\n\nA thousand years before Lord Valentine, the Majipoor Cycle unfolds another magnificent epic in a world conceived on a titanic scale. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 2 +1190 When You're Smiling 1955 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-19 00:00:00 1 3 3 8 56 +1193 Slow Sculpture 1970 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-19 00:00:00 1 3 3 9 56 +316 A Laughing Matter 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 22 +317 Mourning 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 22 +1194 Dervish Daughter 1988 I am called Jinian Footseer by some. By some, Jinian Star-Eye. And by some, the Wizard Jinian. One or two call me Dervish Daughter...\n\nOn thinking it over, I decided I had been right all along. Everything I had told Peter was true. All the evidence pointed in one way and one way only. I felt as I had felt so long ago, travelling toward Bleer with Peter, when he put the clues to a mystery in my hands and asked me to make sense of it. Now, as then, all the pieces were in my hands, or in my head.\n\nThe great Flitchhawk who had granted me a boon in Chimmerdong, and the d'bor wife , and the gobblemole, The story of Lite Star and the Daylight Bell. The Oracle. The Eesties, Yellow crystals and blue, separated by a thousand years of time. My illness in Chimmerdong, the diagnoses of Bartelmy of the Ban the Dervish, my mother. All these. No matter how I turned them, there was no other explanation.\n\nCould anything be done? 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 20 +1098 The Demon Lord 1984 It has taken Aldric Talvalin four years of his life to achieve a fitting revenge on the slayers of his family; and now that life has lost its direction, its purpose and even its first love. He decides to leave the newly-won citadel of Dunrath, his lost birthright, and his wandering bring him to the ominous border provinces of the troubled Drusalan Empire. Here in the forests of the Jevaiden plateau, Aldric meets Evthan the hunter and his beautiful niece, and learns that she, too, is the lost heir to a stolen citadel. Together they set out to the fortress of Seghar to quell the demon spirit that possesses it and to turn back into Outer Darkness forever the evil power of the god-turned-devil Issaqua. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 5 51 +622 A Wizard of Earthsea 1968 The four books of the legendary Earthsea saga together for the first time in a single volume:\n\tA Wizard of Earthsea\n\tThe Tombs of Atuan\n\tThe Farthest Shore\n\tTehanu\nUrsula Le Guin's creation, Earthsea - an ancient world of wizards, magic, darkness and light, and an ever-shifting balance of power - is an acknowledged masterpiece. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 39 +1195 A Plague of Angels 1994 SPECTRES\n\nFollowing the Great Upheaval, beings of fable and monsters have come to life on Earth. Dragons and trolls menace those remnants of the human race living hand-to0-mouth on the land. In the few remaining derelict cities everyone dies young by violence or plague.\n\nCYBORGS\n\nStriding tirelessly across the ruined land, their inhuman eyes kindle terror as they ask a single question of everyone they meet. For a dozen years they have been searching for someone. Soon they will find her, and a sinister prophecy will unravel.\n\nANGELS\n\nOn the side of the angle are an orphan girl and a young tattooed streetfighter. Their enemy, the witch controlling the cyborgs from the Place of Power, the last fusion power plant on Earth, has strength on her side. And the orphan and her friend do not yet realize that angles are to be feared by friend and foe alike... 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-07-25 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 14 +280 Falcolns of Narabedla 1988 Simple (but lame) fantasy - not related to Darkover series NARABEDLA\n- where the Rainbow Cities gleam in every colour imaginable, under the light of two suns.\n\n- where the luch flowers croon a song of death in the garden of Karamy the Golden ... and their victims are never found.\n\n- where falcons with human intelligence hunt in the forests, but seek no ordinary prey.\n\n- where the mutant Dreamers sleep fitfully in their dark Keep, dreaming of power long lost ... and soon to be relcaimed. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 3 7 7 +1218 The Ships of Merior 1995 A prophecy fulfilled...\n\nAnd it came to pass, the art of power over light and dark was channelled through two princes: and the fogs that had smothered Athera's skies were dispersed. But in defeat, the Mistwraith set its two royal captors at odds under a powerful curse of vengeance. Locked now in deadly enmity, Lysaer and Arithon hold the fates of nations and the balance of the world;s mystical powers entangled in the throes of their feud.\n\nArithon, forced out of hiding, finds himself hounded by Lysaer and his mighty army. He must take to his natural element - the seas - to evade pursuit and steal the initiative. However, maligning his efforts are several outside magical factions including a drunken prophet sent to safeguard his life, but determined to wreck his cause by misadventure... 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-01-03 00:00:00 1 1 3 4 14 +1220 Warhost of Vastmark 1995 Tricked once by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother's hips yards have been meticulously abandoned and destroyed and Arithon has vanished as if into thin air.\n\nMeanwhile Arithon and the Mad Prophet Dakar are travelling on foot through the treacherous Kelhorn Mountains towards the Vastmark clans, there to raise further support for his cause. But raising a warhost is a costly business, so its it only mere coincidence that Princess Talith - beautiful but headstrong wife of Lysaer - is taken captive and held for a vast ransom by a master brigand? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a a huge conflict. And in the background, the Fellowship of Seven Sorcerers and the Koriani Enchantress watch and plan, and wait... 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-01-03 00:00:00 1 1 3 5 14 +1221 Fugitive Prince 1998 The schism began with two half-brothers empowered to subdue a Mistwraith. Its vengeance in defeat cursed them to lifelong enmity, locking their gifts of light and shadow in perpetual conflict. Each believes absolutely in his cause - and loathes the other for opposing it...\n\nLysaer, Price of Light - a charismatic leader sworn to set humanity free from sorcerous oppression. He claims divine power to safeguard his people from an enemy he is convinced will destroy them.\n\nArithon, Master of Shadow - a trained mage who wishes for nothing but to defuse war, and search out the vanished old races who hold the key to restore the world's shattered peace.\n\nWhen Koriani enchantresses join forces with Lysaer, new intrigues upset Arithon's hard-won autonomy. Their ageing Prime Matriarch wants him taken captive, no matter the means or the cost, as a a bargaining chip to break a deadlocked rivalry with the Fellowship Sorcerers. So faction is once more set against faction, heart against heart, and the scene is set for an explosive recurrence of war. 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-01-03 00:00:00 1 1 3 5 14 +1222 That Way Lies Camelot 1994 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 14 +573 Tom O'Bedlam 1985 The 22nd century, 150 years after the Dust War destroyed America's Mid-West, and much else besides. California is a last outpost for survival and reclamation during a long epidemic of all-purpose despair.\n\nThe extraordinary cult of 'Tumbonde', a former taxi driver its prophet and leader, predicts the imminent arrival on earth of 'Gods' from the stars. The movement grows daily.\n\nTom O'Bedlam, an apparent madman, prey since childhood to visions which seem to confirm 'Tumbonde', goes even further. He can, he will, help others to make the Crossing. If the world doesn't go too mad too soon. If well-meaning 'rationalists' don't lock him away... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 23 +1223 Wayfinder 1994 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 14 +1002 A Time of Omens 1994 A Time Of Omens takes up many threads in the rich tapestry of Deverry's history: it tells of Dallashandra's struggle to help Evandar's people - the strange and evanescent Guardians - survive, by finding them a new home on the material plane.\n\nIt charts the progress of the Deverry civil wars during the ninth century, and especially focuses on the return of the true king - Maryn - to Dun Cerrmor and his marriage to the young Bellyra; of Rhodry's adventurings as a silver dagger during the wars; and of the strange talisman entrusted to his keeping. And we meet once more the seductive and infuriating Salamamder as he searches for and finds a lost love; and witness the beginning of Jill's search for the lost elves of the Southern Isles. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-08-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 14 +504 Faerie Tale 1988 LOST IN THE FOREST OF DARKNESS\nWhen successful screenwriter Phil Hastings decided to move his family from sunny California to a ramshackle farmhouse in New York state, the old Kessler place seemed like an ideal base from which to pick up the threads of his career as a novelist.\n\nBut the Kessler place was originally known as Erl King Hill -- 'Hill of the Elf King'. Soon Phil's wife and daughter, and their two mischevious eight-year-old boys, began to sense that strange presences were moving in the centuries-old wood that tangled around their new home like the enchanted web of a huge, malignant spider... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 6 +1234 That Way Lies Camelot 1992 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 14 +318 The Death of Brendon Ensolare 1988 When Four Moons Rise - the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkoven, Terran, and even the native chieri must all beware - for at such times the destinies of all who dwell in Keep, Tower, Guildhall, or town may forever be changed for good or ill.\n\nFrom vengeance claimed to laran power tamed ... from the dangers of matrix-weapons unleashed to the magic of the first circle raised ... here are magnificent new tales drawn from many times and places, stories of dangers defeated and talents transformed as the peoples of this wondrous world meet the ever-changing challenges of life on Darkover. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 22 +1254 The Five Dragon Bowl 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +351 Dunsany, Lord of Fantasy 1940 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 25 +281 Darkover Landfall 1987 DARKOVER\n- planet of wonder, planet of mystery.\n\nAn alien sphere of strange intelligences; of brooding skies beneath a blood-red sun; a world where Earthmen have never set foot.\n\n... Until a starship crashes, stranding its passengers in this uncharted corner of the galaxy. Alien flora and fauna attack the unacclimatised invaders; enormous banshee vultures swoop from the sky homing in on the body heat of their prey.\n\nAnd when the Ghost Wind blows, extrasensory powers - long dormant in man's chromosomes - come to life, driving the explorers insane... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-06-23 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 21 +1070 To Ride Pegasus 1976 Theirs was a very special group.\n\nTheirs was the power to change the face of the world.\n\n\nBut the telepathic Talents they shared set them apart. They met with suspicion, then outright hostility from the un-Talented. Disaster loomed large when freaks, 'wild' Talents, brought dissension to the group and threatened to destroy it.\n\nHaving a Talent was like riding a winged horse. And the path of Pegasus unbridled could lead in terrifying directions... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 5 +364 The Effect of Interplanetary Flight 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +1235 The Crash 1994 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 10 14 +125 The Evitable Conflict 1950 I, ROBOT\n'To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. They're a cleaner, better bread than we are.'\n\nI, ROBOT\nWhen Earth is ruled by master-machines... when robots are more human than mankind\n\nI, ROBOT\nIsaac Asimov's unforgettable, spine chilling vision of the future. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2 1 1 3 10 +1004 A Time Of Justice: Days Of Air And Darkness 1995 Rhodry, his new dragon ally Arzosah, and the dwarven axemen are rushing to aid the town of Cengarn, under siege from the massive Horsekin army.\n\nMeanwhile, within the town walls, the Princess Carra - and her precious unborn child - is under the protection of the sorcerers Jill and Dallandra who eagerly await the arrival of their allies.\n\nOnly by destroying Alshandra can there ever be peace between Horsekin and humankind. But it seems an impossible task... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-08-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 14 +1239 The Misenchanted Sword 1988 THE SPELLING MISTAKE\n\nThe old wizard wasn't exactly happy with Valder, who'd led the enemy to his hut. Now hut and magical supplies were destroyed., But he'd promised the young army scout a magic sword to get him safely back to his own lines - and a much enchanted sword Valder would get!\n\nThe resulting sword gave perfect protection - sometimes! It could kill any man - or even half-demon. In fact, once drawn, it had to kill before it could be put down or sheathed.\n\nArmy wizards told Valder that the sword would keep him alive until he'd drawn it 100 times: then it would kill him! It wouldn't prevent his being wounded, maimed or cut to pieces. but it wouldn't let him die. If his new job as Chief Assassin for the army didn't make him use up the spell, he'd be practically immortal.\n\nNot bad, it seemed. But there had to be a catch somewhere - and there was! 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 3 6 6 +1241 Neverness 1988 good but slow in parts The universe of Neverness is intriguingly complex and filled with extraordinary beings. There are the Alaloi, whose genes gave 'backmutated' so that they look like Neanderthals... the Order of Pilots which reworks the laws of time and physics to slingshot its members through dense regions of 'thickspace'... the Solid State Entity, a nebula-sized brain made up of moon-sized biocomputers... and the leldra, a legendary race of aliens that seeded the galaxy aeons ago with its DNA and so initiated the evolutionary cycle.\n\nAgainst this rich backdrop unfolds the story of Mallory Ringess, a headstrong novitiate of the Order of Pilots. Against all odds, he has penetrated the Solid State Entity - and made a stunning discovery. A discovery that could unlock the secret of immortality hidden among the Alaloi. But first he will lead a perilous quest through uncharted regions of thickspace where he will be asked to undergo the ultimate sacrifice: to discard the last vestiges of humanity in return for mankind's salvation... 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-12-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +1246 Pendragon 1994 I, Myrddin Emrys, was with Arthur from the beginning. I stood beside him on his darkest day. A day unlike any otherin the long history of our race - a day of deceit, and dread, and great glory. For on that day Arthur won the name he treasured above all others: Pendragon. That is a tell worth telling. 2003-06-28 00:00:00 2010-12-31 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 32 +1248 The White Mountains 1967 Massive, alien machines, the Tripods had ruled Earth for hundreds of years and enslaved the minds and bodies of most adults through the silvery caps they made them wear. Determined to escape the ritual Capping ceremony, Will Parker runs away, heading for the distant White Mountains and the small rebel camp there, hoping to join their desperate attempts to overthrow the rule of the Tripods. The journey is long, the missions dangerous and the hope of survival very slim... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 39 +473 By Any Other Name 1993 date is a guess, cannot be earlier than 1993, maybe later up to 1999 Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 25 +365 Space Travel in Fact and Fiction 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 3 25 +366 Review: Destination Moon 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 25 +679 Permutation City 1995 Copying human personalities into cyberspace implies a kind of immortality, severely limited by computing capacity. So this book's visionary hero takes a further step with his crazy mathematical-philosophical vehicle to a virtual computer space immense enough to contain universes, infinities, heaven and hell. Of course it eventually starts going wrong ... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 34 +336 The Keeper's Price \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1255 Twistbuck's Game 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +496 Shadow of a Dark Queen 1994 Something dark is moving in distant nations, and ancient powers are readying themselves for a final confrontation. A Dark Queen has raised a standard in remote lands and is gathering armies of unmatched might.\n\nInto this battleground of good and evil come a band of desperate men whose only hope for survival is to travel to face this ancient power and discover its true nature. Their quest is at best dangerous and at worst suicidal.\n\nAnd with these men travel the mysterious Miranda upon whom all must wager their lives. She appears to be an ally but knows much more than she is willing to tell. Does she have a hidden agenda of her own? And will she prove ally or even more deadly foe when the final confrontation is at hand? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 14 +502 Krondor: Tear of the Gods 2000 A DROP IN THE OCEAN?\n\nA raid upon the high seas signals an attack of unprecedented magnitude by the forces of darkness.\n\nBut the daring assault upon the Temple of Ishap goes dramatically wrong and the prize, the Tear of the Gods, sinks beneath the waves of the Bitter Sea. The most powerful artefact known to the Temples of Midkemia, this colossal gem allows the priests to speak with their gods. Without it they are lost for a decade, until another is formed in the distant mountains.\n\nSquire James, William, and Jazhara must seek out the location of this gem, with Brother Solon, a warrior priest of Ishap, and Kendaric, the sole member of the Wreckers;s Guild with the power to raise the ship. But they are opposed by the minions of the Dark God, who seeks to possess the Tear for his own ends.\n\nA breathless race for a priceless treasure, against time, myriad sinister and competing evil forces, and ultimately against the fundamentals of nature, which in Midkemia can be as formidable as the Gods themselves... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-07-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 25 +367 Interplanetary Flight 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +368 The Exploration of Space 1955 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!\n\nThe most visionary and versatile thinker of this century gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke.\n\nIn these essays we witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Center; scripts the best sf movie ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics.\n\nSir Arthur's bona fide scientific understanding combined with a generosity of spirit, the interests of a new renaissance man, a sublime lack of false modesty and a great flair for the dramatic. He has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of this century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can uniquely provide a coda for our century. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 25 +1257 Cats Versus Rats 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +1258 Love Laughs at Locks 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 3 +1087 Weather on Welladay 1969 The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 9 20 +550 While the Gods Laugh 1961 Elric: hero of song, story, rock show, disc graphic novel, PC and role-playing games, not fighting sorcery, but using it to spectacular effect. Yet, tormented always by his human failings, his longing for peace, his is a world of dragons, spectral armies, nature in upheaval on every side... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 31 +1451 Crystal Gorge 2005 The Elder Gods have defeated the Vlagh twice - with the aid of the Dreamers and the mysterious Treasured One who seems, worryingly, to be controlling them - but the unspeakable Creature of the Wasteland is on the fast track to world domination as the time approaches for the Younger Gods to take their place.\n\nNow all the varied resources of the domains of the Gods are marshalled to bring a halt to the spread of evil. But there is pestilence and skirmishing, and suddenly the balance of power shifts\n\nThe Ruler of the Wasteland has infiltrated another domain of the Gods, the land of short summers, where bison and deer roam. There, the strange and marvellous crystal gorge, which can be no natural formation of rock, is destined to become a battleground of great beauty and great terror\n\nThe enemy is closer to knowing the secrets of the Treasured One and the Dreamers are in grave danger of delivering a nightmare to the world of the Elder Gods. 2008-03-18 00:00:00 2008-03-28 00:00:00 1 3 3 8 25 +1453 The Younger Gods 2006 As the time approaches for the Younger Gods to take their rightful places in the world...\n\nThe attacks of the dreadful Vlagh, ruler of the Wasteland, have been repelled in three of the Elder God's realms. Now, only the land ruled by the Goddess Aracia remains for the Vlagh to attack.\n\nBut the Goddess Aracia herself may be their greatest foe - she craves worship and hates the idea of being replaced by a younger god.\n\nThe Creatures of the Vlagh have become too canny to fall for the old tricks and pose an even bigger threat. With the Misty Lady controlling the Dreamers and Aracia out of control, the fate of the Land of Dhrall has never before been in such peril. 2008-03-18 00:00:00 2008-03-28 00:00:00 1 1 3 12 25 +465 Reave the Just and Other Tales 1999 Here are tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including 'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages; 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a battlefield, searching for the dying; and 'Reave the Just', which demonstrates that neither brute force nor alchemy can contend with the power of suggestion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 25 +511 Children of Dune 1976 This collection of Frank Herbert's great novels, Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune brings together three of the finest achievements of post-war science fiction. They are epic tales, full of excitement and intrigue, packed with memorable characters and scenes.\n\nDominated by a vast, treacherous desert world of Dune, the trilogy the story of Paul Atreides, prince turned revolutionary leader, who becomes the reluctant messiah to a fanatical religious movement that threatens and entire galactic empire. Opposing him are the maligned sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit - who, unable to dominate the man they have made a god, set out to destroy him - and the Atreides' deadliest enemy, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Towering over everything is the planet itself, Frank Herbert's finest imaginative creation: a savagely hostile place inhabited only by giant sandworms and fierce natives. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-05-09 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 42 +524 Forever Peace 1998 2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages, fought by "soldierboys" - remote control war machines run by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for him, war is indeed hell. The psychological strain of being jacked-in to his soldierboy - and the genocidal results - are becoming too much to bear. Now he and his lover, Dr. Amelia Harding, have made a terrifying scientific discovery that could literally put the universe back to square one. For Julian, however, the discovery isn't terrifying. It's tempting... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-02-07 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 3 +525 Forever Free 1999 William Mandella and his partner Marygay survived a war which should never have\nbeen. They lived long enough to see humanity changed beyond all recognition.\nThe human race has evolved into Man, a group mind similar to the alien Taurans\nthat William and Marygay used to fight.\n\nBut Man's society doesn't feel right. The veterans are treated as specimens, a\nbaseline that humanity can return to if Man's continuing evolution goes badly\nwrong. The old soldiers decide to hijack a spaceship and plot a 40,000\nlight-year-long journey to nowhere and back: an attempt to escape to the future\nusing relativity in the hope that something, anything will have changed. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-02-08 00:00:00 1 3 1 6 29 +553 A Nomad of the Time Streams 1993 The first ever steampunk stories from the author whom The Modern Review called 'A great novelist... Original and ambitious... Resolutely British'. These are the adventures of Captain Oswald Bastable (ex-53rd Lancers and Special Air Force), flung from the North East Frontier of 1902 into the future world of a 1973 where the stately airships of the great powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. Guided only by the red republican cosmonaut, Una Persson, Bastable must question his most cherished ideals, and confront a multitude of alternate futures before at last gaining an understanding of his fate. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 31 +564 The Stealer of Souls 1962 'Strange and tormented landscapes, peopled by characters of archetypal dimensions, are the setting for a series of titanic duels between the forces of Chaos and Order...\n\n'Over these presides the central figure of Elric, the haunted warrior-king whose ambivalent relationship with the magical sword Stormbringer is the author's most original creation. The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents' J.G. Ballard\n\nThe epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins - spectacular, tormented, the most infamous hero-villain in all of heroic fantasy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +566 The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams 1962 'Strange and tormented landscapes, peopled by characters of archetypal dimensions, are the setting for a series of titanic duels between the forces of Chaos and Order...\n\n'Over these presides the central figure of Elric, the haunted warrior-king whose ambivalent relationship with the magical sword Stormbringer is the author's most original creation. The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents' J.G. Ballard\n\nThe epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins - spectacular, tormented, the most infamous hero-villain in all of heroic fantasy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 31 +567 Stormbringer 1977 'Strange and tormented landscapes, peopled by characters of archetypal dimensions, are the setting for a series of titanic duels between the forces of Chaos and Order...\n\n'Over these presides the central figure of Elric, the haunted warrior-king whose ambivalent relationship with the magical sword Stormbringer is the author's most original creation. The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents' J.G. Ballard\n\nThe epic tale of Elric of Melnibone, albino prince of ruins - spectacular, tormented, the most infamous hero-villain in all of heroic fantasy... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 31 +568 The Ice Schooner 1969 The time is the distant future, the place Earth; an Earth covered by the fourth mantle of the Ice Age.\n\nAcross the frozen wastes, the ice schooners skim on knife-edged runners, relics of the once rich culture of the ice.\n\nSea Captain Konran Arflane saves the life of the Lord of Friesgalt, greatest of the cities of Matto Grosso. From the old man, he accepts a strange commission: to sail the schooner, Ice Spirit, north across the plain in search of the legendary city of New York... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 5 +627 Grand Conspiracy 1999 The wars began when two half-brothers, gifted of light and shadow, stood shoulder to shoulder to defeat the Mistwraith. In defeat, their foe set its captors at odds, bestowing upon them a lifelong curse of enmity that has so far woven three bitter conflicts and uncounted deadly intrigues...\n\nIt is a time of intrigue, fanaticism and rampaging armies. Distrust of sorcery has set off a purge of the talented mageborn - none reviled more than Arithon, Master of Shadow. Through clever manipulation of events at the hands of Lysaer , Master of Light, Arithon's very name has become anathema. Now the volatile hatreds that spearheaded the campaign against Shadow have overtaken all reason.\n\nThose that still stand in Arithon's desperate defence are downtrodden, in retreat and close to defeat. And the stage is set for ultimate betrayal... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-01-03 00:00:00 1 2 3 6 25 +630 Dragons of Spring Dawning 1986 The Queen of Darkness and her dragons of destruction, war and oblivion threaten the world of Krynn. Eight heroes are given the power to save the world.\n\nVolume 3. Dragons of Spring Dawning\n\nArmed with the Dragonlance, the heroes come at last to the vast iron works at Pax Tharkas to do battle with the dragons. But there is an enemy within. Each of them must first overcome their own inner conflicts before they can hope to defeat Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 24 +1122 The Sword and the Stallion 1974 Michael Moorcock brings the old Celtic gods alive again in this tale of Prince Corum, avatar of the Eternal Champion, called to a Celtic Golden Age, where he must do battle against a race as old as his own.\n\nIn a time not far from this, Corum, the Prince with the Silver Hand, must journey across a harsh world threatened by perpetual winter to seek objects of great power, the lost weapons of the Celts, and beg the aid of dwarves and giants in an urgent search which must inevitably end in his own death... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 34 +650 The Hand of Chaos 1993 Chaos is everywhere as the Lord of the Nexus orders his servant Haplo and the human child known as Bane to further their master's work on Arianus, the realm of air. But their onetime companion Alfred has been cast into the deadly Labyrinth. And somehow the assassin Hugh the Hand has been resurrected to complete his dark mission. More important, the evil force that Haplo and Alfred discovered on Arianus has escaped. As Haplo's doubts about his master grow ever deeper, he must decide whether to obey the Lord of the Nexus or betray the powerful Patryn... and endeavour to bring peace to the universe.\n\nThe Death Gate Cycle\n\nMillennia ago a battle waged between the Sartan and the Patryn. The Sartan sundered the world into four realms - and then vanished. But now the two races have rediscovered each other through the magic of the Death Gate - and war is about to erupt anew. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +714 Space 1982 The enthralling saga of America's exploration into space... the incredible successes of the Gemini and Apollo manned flights, the Viking landings on Mars, the breathtaking performances of the Columbia - these and other awesome achievements of the space programme form the background to James A. Michener's monumental new novel - one in which he blends fact, fiction and future possibilities, and which will delight and enthrall his millions of readers. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-07-07 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 20 +715 Threshold 1997 A shadow is looming over the great hot southern land of Ashdod. It is the shadow of Threshold, the pyramid which the Magi of Ashdod are building to propel them into Infinity.\n\nBut something is waiting in Infinity. Waiting for the final glass plate to be laid, waiting for the capstone to be cemented in blood ... waiting to use Threshold to step from Infinity into Ashdod!\n\nThousands of slaves have been drafted into the construction of Threshold. Among them is Tirzah, a young glassworker. Tirzah has a secret gift - and one that may kill her. She can communicate with glass, and what the glass of Threshold screams at Tirzah every time she touches it drives her to despair.\n\nBoaz, the Master Magus, is watching Tirzah. He knows she hides something, and he'll do whatever it takes to discover it.\n\nBut what secret does Boas hide? And why is the Song of the Frogs the only way to save Ashdod? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 25 +717 The Sagittarius Whorl 2002 In this adrenaline-fueled finale to the Rampart Worlds trilogy, Helly continues his search for evidence of a planned Haluk invasion. His investigation leads him to Phlegethon, the sleaziest smuggler port in the universe, looking for information from the only man ever to return from the Haluk worlds alive.\n\nBut the price of this crucial lead will be very high indeed. Discovering too late that trusted friends may be deadly enemies, Helly finds himself alienated and on the run. With time running out, it appears there is nothing he can do to prevent the Haluk invasion of earth. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 25 +804 Memories of My Head 1990 first publication Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 8 7 +6 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 1988 When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up\nthrough the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to\nclaim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even\nBritish Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation\nwas completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there\nwas hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion\nwould make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before\nfinally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.\n\t\nNo rational cause could be found for the explosion - it was simply designated\nan act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be\nhanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 to\nOslo?\n\nFunnier than Psycho ... more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge ... shorter than War and Peace ... the new Dirk Gently novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-11-30 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 1 +7 Being a Green Mother 1987 On her lifelong quest for the Liano, the legendary song of songs that controlled all things, Orb had gathered only a few fragments of the great symphony of being.\n\nThen she met Natasha. When he sang her the Song of Morning and the song of Day, she realised that he was the greater magician and found herself falling in love with him.\n\nBut when her mother Niobe arrived with the news that Orb was to be the Incarnation of Nature - the Green Mother - their romantic interlude was cut short.\n\nNiobe reminded her of the prophecy that she would marry Evil. Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Incarnation of Evil, laying a trap for her? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 6 +14 Past Times 1987 'It was raining again, hot and heavy, and the air stank of swamp. You could\njust see the derricks a mile away under the floodlights, and hear the engines.\nFurther away, a bull brontosaur cried and thunder rolled though the night...'\n\nThere were a new breed of oilmen, wildcatters slipping back a hundred million\nyears in search of black gold. Their drilling machines were eagerly probing\nthe gulf that would one day become Oklahoma. And they scarcely even suspected -\nuntil it was far, far too late - the real reason behind the decision to bury\nthem so deeply in the past... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 5 +790 The Worthing Saga 1991 On a far-away world a young boy, Lared, meets a man who walks on water. As Lared's friendship with this miraculous and telepathic stranger grows, he begins to dream. Of places like the corrupt world Capitol, and of people like Abner Doon, slayer of worlds, and Jason Worthing, starfighter, who is exiled from Capitol with a group of colonists whose memories are wiped. And as Lared tells of his dreams, so we learn the stories of how Jason and his companions struggled to create a perfect society... 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-03-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +718 Altered Carbon 2002 In the 26th century mankind has spread through the galaxy, taking its religions and racial divisions out into the cold arena of space. While tensions exist and small dirty wars flare up every now and then, the UN Protectorate maintains an iron grasp on the new worlds, aided by its very own elite shock-troops: the Envoy Corps.\n\nMeanwhile, what religion cannot guarantee technology has already delivered; when your consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack and routinely downloaded into a new body, even death has become little more than an inconvenience. As long as you can afford a new body...\n\nEx-UN Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before; it was a hazard of the job, but his last death was particularly brutal. Needlecast across light years of space, re-sleeved into a body in San Franscisco on Old Earth and thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that has forgotten how to value life, he soon realises that the shell that blew a hole in his chest on Harlan's World was only the beginning of his problems. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 27 +720 The Ill-Made Mute 2001 The Stormriders land their splendid winged stallions on the airy battlements of Isse Tower. Far below, the superstitious servants who dwell in the fortress's depths tell ghastly tales of evil creatures inhabiting the world outside, a world they have only glimpsed. Yet it is the least of the lowly - a mute, scarred, and utterly despised foundling - who dares to scale the Tower, sneak aboard a Windship, and then dive from the sky.\n\nThe fugitive is rescued by a kindhearted adventurer who give it a name, the gift of communicating by handspeak, and an amazing truth it has never guessed. Now Imrhien begins a journey to distant Caermelor, to seek a wise woman whose skills may change the foundling's life.\n\nAlong the way, Imrhien must survive a wilderness of endless danger. And as the challenges grow more deadly, Imrhien discovers something more terrifying than all the evil eldritch wights combined: the shunned outsider with an angel's soul and a gargoyle's face is falling in love... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2009-12-07 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 16 +721 The Lady of Sorrows 2002 Though Imrhien's memory is clouded by sorcery, she must take vital news to the King-Emperor of Caermelor. She hopes that there she may also find Thorn, the fearless ranger who has won her heart.\n\nSince no commoner may approach the royal court, Imrhien assumes a new identity as Rohain, a noble visitor from the distant Sorrow Isles. She soon discovers that the King and his rangers have departed to battle the unseelie hordes which have suddenly declared war against the mortals.\n\nAttacks by nightmare monsters of the Wild Hunt, led by the unseelie Lord Huon, grow ever more freqeuent and brutal. And when evil forces lay siege to the royal sanctuary on a hidden mystic island, Rohain is confronted with a horrifying discovery.\n\nTo protect those she loves, the Lady of Sorrows must undertake a desperate quest to discover who she is and why an inhuman evil would wreak such destruction. But the truth of Rohain's past will prove more incredible - and far more tragic - than any she could possibly have imagined. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2009-12-07 00:00:00 1 2 3 3 16 +632 War of the Twins 1986 The Continent of Ansalon is a desolate land, its people struggling for survival in a world ravaged by plague, starvation and war.\n\nVolume 2: War of the Twins\n\nEscaping the doomed city of Istar, Raistlin - now a wizard of great power - casts a spell that brings his twin brother, Caramon, and the beautiful cleric, Crysania, forward in time. Here, in the Tower of High Sorcery, Raistlin intends to enter the Portal and challenge the Dark Queen.\n\nToo late Raistlin discovers he is in a time loop - that must lead inexorably to his destruction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 24 +805 Lost Boys 1989 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October, 1989 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 7 +770 Lord Prestimion 1999 Prince Prestimion has at last become Coronal Lord Prestimion. Though he should have succeeded automatically to the title, Korsivar, the son of the last Coronal, claimed it and thereby plunged the nation into war. Prestimion's first act as Coronal is to summon a vast magical spell that obliterates across the land all memory of the civil war. Korsivar was killed in batlle and now memory of his existence is totally erased... even his father, who has become Pontifex, has no memory of the son he sired and raised. Only Prestimion himself and a handful of trusted associates have knowledge of the catastrophic civil war.\n\nBut a scar so vivid on the face of the land is not so readily wiped out. Mass psychosis threatens the new peace, and Prestimion must find a way to deal with this threat, as deadly as the forgotten war itself. But the last thing Prestimion can contemplate is further use of sorcery to set the matter right. From Labyrinth to Castle Mount, from Isle of Sleep to Desert of Stolen Dreams, a plague of madness sweeps the land. Prestimion's quest for a cure takes him to the most extraordinary territories on all Majipoor, and brings him face to face with old enemies, new delusions and forgotten powers. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2009-12-20 00:00:00 1 3 1 12 25 +772 The Wounded Hawk 2001 The Demon-King wears the Crown of England and only a man strong enough to resist love can defeat him.\n\nCasting aside his vows to the Church, and protected by the powerful Duke of Lancaster and his don Hal Bolingbroke, Thomas Neville is now free to pursue his quest for Wynkyn de Worde's casket. But Richard II is subtle and cunning, and moves swiftly against Neville and Bolingbroke, destroying both their families and using his minions to drive the realm towards bloody rebellion.\n\nOnly Neville's wife Margaret can help, but Neville knows be cannot fully trust her. And what of Bolingbroke who, as them months go by, reveals ambitions far greater and deadlier than Neville ever realised? As does Joan of Arc in France, Neville learns that those he trusts the most are also those who hide the most devastating secrets.\n\nAs Neville inches closer and closer to the casket, he discovers that opening it might well release a greater horror across the earth than the one he wishes to thrust back into hell. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-01-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 25 +789 The Memory of Earth 1992 The planet called Harmony had been settled by humans nearly forty million years before. The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, called the Oversoul, high in orbit. This master computer had one overriding command: Guard the people of Harmony against the dangers that destroyed humankind on Earth and other worlds. But now the Oversoul was itself in danger. Its systems were failing. Soon, within a thousand years, catastrophic war would break out on Harmony unless the Oversoul could be repaired.\n\nThe Oversoul determined that its core must be taken back to lost Earth, to interface with the Master Computer there, to be repaired and reprogrammed. But in order to do that, someone on Harmony must be given back the knowledge of space travel. And so the Oversoul must interfere directly with individuals on Harmony, in order to save the planet from disaster.\n\nAnd so, on the planet, while on the road to the city called Basilica, a man named Wetchik had a vision of destruction, sent by the Oversoul. Soon his sons, Elemak, Issib, Mebbekew an Nafai were drawn into conflict - with the city and with each other - as the Oversoul began destabilizing forty million years of social engineering., But even a master computer worshipped as a god can't guarantee that knowledge will be used only as it is intended.\n\nThe Memory of Earth is the first of a new five book series that will carry its readers from the road to Basilica back to Lost Earth. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 12 37 +929 Sea of Death 1987 Few people have ventured into the Ashen Desert, and fewer still have returned to tell of what they saw and how they managed to survive. But a young man named Gord cannot allow himself to be disheartened by this knowledge. Part of an ancient and evil artifact is hidden somewhere in the Ashen Desert, buried beneath the arid and deadly landscape of this forsaken area, and Gord has accepted the challenge of finding and holding the Final Key to keep it out of the hands of those who would use it for evil purposes. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-08-31 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +936 The Time of the Dark 1990 For several nights Gil had found herself dreaming of an impossible city where alien horrors swarmed from underground lairs of darkness. She had dreamed also of the wizard Ingold Inglorion.\n\nThen the same wizard crossed the Void to seek sanctuary for the last Prince of Dar and revealed himself to a young drifter, Rudy. But one of the monstrous, evil Dark followed in his wake and in attempting to help Ingold, Gil and Rudy were drawn back into the nightmare world of the Dark. There they had to remain - unless they could solve the mystery of the Dark.\n\nThen, before they could realise their fate, the Dark struck! 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 49 +1261 Polar City Nightmare 2000 The Republic: a human-run interstellar government caught between the Carli Confederation and the H'Allevae Coreward Alliance, trying to maintain its independence in the face of two huge galactic powers.\n\nA political incident is brewing on Polar City, Hagar, which might cost the Republic its autonomy. A Carli artefact is missing along with a bureaucrat from the Confederation Embassy. And Yosef Mbaye, a troubled athlete from the successful Polar City Bears, is being blackmailed to carry something with him to the Galactic Series on Sarah, the capital planet of the Republic.\n\nWhen Yosef refuses to let Bobbie Lacey help him find the blackmailer, and the blackmailer turns up dead, Bobbie can't leave it alone. Whatever Yosef is carrying could lose the Bears - and everyone else - a whole lot more than the Galactic series... 2003-10-03 00:00:00 2008-05-25 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 29 +1265 Ender's Shadow 2000 Ender Wiggin was not the only young general trained to defend Earth from a terrifying alien threat. Many others had a apart to play. But for one of them, it was to prove crucial.\n\nNo one knew his real name, but they called him Bean. His early life was a fight just to survive. Even living on the streets, however, his extraordinary talents did not escape the attention of the Battle School recruiters. For in him they recognised a master strategist. Someone who could become Ender's right hand. This is the story of the boy who became Ender's Shadow. 2003-11-28 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 23 +1291 Robbie 1940 First appeared under title "Strange Playfellow", Super Science Stories, September 1940. Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 19 +1292 Reason 1941 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 19 +791 The Worthing Chronicle 1981 On a far-away world a young boy, Lared, meets a man who walks on water. As Lared's friendship with this miraculous and telepathic stranger grows, he begins to dream. Of places like the corrupt world Capitol, and of people like Abner Doon, slayer of worlds, and Jason Worthing, starfighter, who is exiled from Capitol with a group of colonists whose memories are wiped. And as Lared tells of his dreams, so we learn the stories of how Jason and his companions struggled to create a perfect society... 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-25 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +806 A Thousand Deaths 1978 Omni, December 1978 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 7 +807 Clap Hands and Sing 1982 Best of Omni #3, ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (1982) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +808 Dogwalker 1989 Isaac Asimov;s Science Fiction Magazine, November, 1989 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +809 But We Try Not to Act Like It 1979 Destinies, August 1979 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +810 I Put My Blue Genes On 1978 Analog, August 1978 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +811 In the Doghouse 1978 Analog, December, 1978 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-28 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 7 +871 The Gap into Conflict (the Real Story) 1990 Crossing the Gap, faster-than-light travel has become commonplace throughout explored space, and all of it is controlled by a single monolithic corporation, the United Mining Companies. At the farthest reaches of the UMC's fiefdoms The Real Story unfolds.\n\nThe story starts small, with a simple case of ore piracy, and focuses on three individuals: Angus Thermopyle, a pirate and murderer who will stop at nothing for personal gain; Morn Hyland, a brilliant young policewoman who has committed a horrifying act and who falls prey to Thermopyle; and Nick Succorso, a legendary star captain who may be the key to Morn's salvation, or her worst nightmare.\n\nBut The Real Story is not that simple. Through the lives of Angus, Morn and Nick, an entire world begins to unfold ,a world of politics and betrayal, extraordinary developments, and a shadowy alien presence that lies on the other side of the Gap. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +873 A Dark and Hungy God Arises 1992 On a lonely planetoid in forbidden space, the players in a power game of mind-shattering proportions were heading for an explosive confrontation.\n\nAfter a terrifying encounter with the Amnion aliens, Nick Succorso had made for the safety of Thanatos Minor, the infamous bootleg shipyard where illegals from all over the galaxy came to repair their ships and indulge their exotic tastes in entertainment. But the Amnion were waiting, and for Nick, Morn Hyland and her force-grown son Davies, the safe haven would become a vision of hell.\n\nOne thing was certain - they would not be alone. Angus Thermopyle had been captured by the UMCP and turned into a deadly cyborg. Now, as the UMC controllers looked on from the sidelines, he was heading for Thanatos Minor, programmed to carry out a secret mission that could have nightmarish consequences for them all... 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +1215 The Snow Queen 1981 Arienrhod. As beautiful as she was ancient, she ruled Tiamat whose twin suns circled the Stargate linking her world with the Empire. Now the Stargate was closing, heralding the end of Winter rule. But Arienrhod, faced with ritual sacrifice, has cloned an heir - her key to immortality and perpetual dominion. The Snow Queen will defy the laws of the galaxy for the fountain of youth kept flowing by genocide and the power of love. 2003-06-11 00:00:00 2004-12-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 23 +876 Ender's Game 1985 When humanity is under threat from an alien race, Ender Wiggin, at the age of six, leaves his family on Earth to journey to the Belt. There he enters Battle School, where his life is strictly disciplined by mind games and computer mock-battles fought in deadly earnest. Instinct, compassion and genius make Ender unequalled. But while he trains, the invasion approaches fast. And Ender will be pushed to the limits of endurance, for his is a unique destiny... 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2008-04-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 7 +900 The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers 1990 Shabble. In appearance, a miniature sun, though coloration tends to be changeable and idiosyncratic. In voice eccentric, speaking at will in any of the accents ever heard on Untunchilamon, even those implacable foreign accents otherwise voiced only by the conjurer Odolo. In behaviour feckless, for Shabble has scant regard for consequences. That is Shabble.\n\nWhile Shabble is still hanging there in the air, a massive energy drain affects all of Injiltaprajura. Lights darken. Fires go out. Candles die. Then, to Shabble's horror, Shabble feels Something trying to seize Shabble's own energy. Shabble squeals in fright and flees down the nearest drainpipe. The drainpipe (naturally) leads Downstairs. Downstairs! There is horror down there, and Shabble fears in greatly. Yet the alternative is death.\n\nWhat has caused this massive energy drain? It is left to Chegory Guy, an Ebrell Islander, to find out. This in unfortunate as his chief skills are as a knifefighter and a rock-gardener. And yet it is he who finally holds the future of the entire, equatorial island of Untunchilamon in his hands. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2004-02-04 00:00:00 1 1 3 12 20 +1250 The Pool of Fire 1968 Massive, alien machines, the Tripods had ruled Earth for hundreds of years and enslaved the minds and bodies of most adults through the silvery caps they made them wear. Determined to escape the ritual Capping ceremony, Will Parker runs away, heading for the distant White Mountains and the small rebel camp there, hoping to join their desperate attempts to overthrow the rule of the Tripods. The journey is long, the missions dangerous and the hope of survival very slim... 2003-07-14 00:00:00 2003-07-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 39 +902 The Castle of Iron 1979 The Mathematics of magic - it was the greatest discovery ever. Or so thought Professor Harold Shea. With the proper equations he could instantly transport himself and his friend Reed Chalmers back - or sideways - in tie to all the wondrous lands of ancient myth and legend.\n\nBut slips in time were a hazard. And Shea's magic didn't always work quite as he expected. A dragon spell might yield a hundred dragons - or, even worse, one-tenth of a dragon. And the various imaginary lands he travelled to held countless dangers that even Shea's equations couldn't predict. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 5 +903 The Enchanter Compleated 1980 The Mathematics of magic - it was the greatest discovery ever. Or so thought Professor Harold Shea. With the proper equations he could instantly transport himself and his friend Reed Chalmers back - or sideways - in tie to all the wondrous lands of ancient myth and legend.\n\nBut slips in time were a hazard. And Shea's magic didn't always work quite as he expected. A dragon spell might yield a hundred dragons - or, even worse, one-tenth of a dragon. And the various imaginary lands he travelled to held countless dangers that even Shea's equations couldn't predict. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-07-27 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 5 +907 The Day of the Dissonance 1988 Clothahump the wizard is dying. His only salvation lies in arcane medicinal powers from far across the Glittergeist ocean. Weary from his trials, Jon Meriweather, the Spellsinger, must set out once more on a perilous journey, with Mudge the Otter his reluctant guide.\n\nAcross moor, mountain and sea, facing all the dangers of a world where wild magic prevails, where strange friendships and stranger perils come from human animal alike, the Spellsinger faces a terrifying new chapter in his history. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2003-03-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 46 +927 Count Zero 1987 When the Angels pulled Count Zero out of the matrix there wasn't much left of him. The centipede did a good job on his face though - and now Two-a-Day was going to let him in on the really big stuff...\n\nTurner woke up in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him. They let him recuperate for a while in Mexico, then Hosaka reactivated his memory for the most dangerous mission of all: to make Mitchell defect Maas Biolabs...\nIt seemed that the rich had long ceased to be recognisably human. Like Virek, whose body was suspended in a vat somewhere while his hologram told Marly that he wanted her to find some Art Works for him. And she was on the payroll for life...\nIn the matrix of cyberspace - where zaibatsus fought it out for world domination and the computer jocks risked their minds scuffling for fat crumbs - the lives of three human beings were inextricably scrambled. 2003-03-16 00:00:00 2004-05-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 6 +946 Silent Tower 1987 Antryg Windrose, dog wizard student of the Dark Mage, has been imprisoned in the Silent Tower for seven long, lonely years.\n\nBut have his powers been limited by the spell-bound tower walls, or is the life-sapping Void and the appearance of appalling abominations throughput the countryside somehow connected to him?\n\nAnd is he linked to the strange reoccurrences noticed by young computer programmer Joanna Sheraton at the San Serano Aerospace Complex? Joanna has the feeling that someone is following her, but who, and why? At a party thrown by her boyfriend Gary, she is soon to find out: whirled through the Void into an unfamiliar world, accompanied by a mad wizard and a beautiful swordsman, she is about to discover depths within herself she had never dreamed of, and horrors worse than any nightmare... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-06-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 49 +947 The Silicon Mage 1988 The corrupt Archmage Suraklin has taken over the body, brain and computer of Gary, Joanna;s ex-boyfriend. Through magic he is already able to leech the life-force out of two worlds to rule his lust for power and life: now he will harness science as well.\n\nHis main adversary, Antryg Windrose, dog-wizard and Joanna's lover, is imprisoned again in the Silent Tower, his mind and body broken. Joanna is on her own. Somewhere, in this strange medieval world full of superstition and corruption, where worship of the Dead God, lord of entropy, has emerged once more, where human sacrifice is practised and abominations abound, Suraklin has hidden his computer. Armed with a backpack full of software, a worm disc and a .38, Joanna Sheraton is all that stands between the Dark Mage and the death of the future. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-06-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 49 +950 The Rainbow Abyss 1991 Jaldis and Rhion make a scant living, like most freelance wizards in a hostile universe, from luck-spells, love-potions and fortune-telling. Love and magic are dangerous practices: combining the two can be lethal, as Rhion discovers when he sells a love-potion to the wrong woman. Before long, the wizards are running fro their lives, leaving a rare and dangerous spell unfinished.\n\nYears pass before Jaldis can repeat the spell: to open a Dark Well across the Void. From the Well he hears a voice crying for help: magic in their world is being destroyed - they need a wizard to save them... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +951 Magicians of the Night 1992 When Jaldis the Blind performed the ancient spell to open a Dark We;; he heard voices from another world pleading for help, for wizards in that world are being persecuted. Jaldis and his apprentice, Rhion, entered the Well to cross the Void to the wizards' aid: but only Rhion survived the perilous journey.\n\nOn regaining consciousness, Rhion finds himself surrounded by men in severe gray uniforms, emblazoned with swastikas: he has fallen into the hands of the Nazi occultists determined to use real magic to decimate their enemies. Only Jaldis could open a Dark Well - Rhion realises that he is a prisoner of the Gestapo and cannot avoid being caught up in their evil plans... 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-03-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +969 Master of the Five Magics 1983 QUEST OF THE FAIR LADY\n\nAlodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired siege of her frontier castle. But aspire he did.\n\nHis quest forced him from one exacting branch of magic to another, with the rewards he earned always gong to others. Finally, only the branch of wizardry remained - the great, almost lost art of controlling demons.\n\nIt was then he learned of the ancient plot behind the rise - and faced the greatest danger any man could dare! 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2004-08-21 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 8 +997 Daggerspell 1988 In a void outside reality, the flickering spirit of a young girl hovers between incarnations, knowing neither her past nor her future. But in the temporal world there is one who knows and waits: Nevyn, the wandering sorcerer. On a bloody day long ago he relinquished the maiden's hand in marriage - and so forged a terrible bond of destiny between three souls that would last through three generations. Now Nevyn is doomed to follow them across the plains of time, never resting until he atones for the tragic wrong of his youth... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +1000 Dragonspell 1990 CAUGHT IN A WEB OF PASSION, DESTINY AND MAGIC\n\nFor years the provinces of Deverry have been in turmoil, but the conflict escalates to new heights with the kidnapping of Rhodry, heir to the throne of Aberwyn. Intent on rescuing him, his beloved Jill and the elven wizard Salamander infiltrate the distant land of Bardek, where Rhodry is held captive.\n\nTied to Deverry by bonds of obligation, the immortal wizard Nevyn begins to see that all its problems originate from a single source--his ancient enemy, a master of dark magics, backed by a network of evil that stretches across the sea. With this realization, Nevyn understands that he too is being lured to Bardek, and into a subtle and deadly trap... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 6 +857 Ideas Die Hard 1957 Galaxy, October, 1957 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 6 +825 Eye for Eye 1987 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1987 Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-04 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 7 +858 Ignition Point! 1981 Finding the Right Speaker, 1981 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 6 +837 The Best Family Home Evening Ever 1978 The Friend, January 1978 (as Byron Walley) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 9 7 +838 Bicicleta 1977 The Friend, October 1977 (as Byron Walley) Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-02-07 00:00:00 1 2 1 10 7 +1040 Arthur 1989 "'Are you certain, Myrrdin?'\nArthur whispered anxiously. 'Everyone is watching.\nWhat if it will not work?'"\n"'It will, as you say, "work." Just do as I have told you.'"\n"Arthur nodded grimly, and stepped up to the great keystone where the sword stood, its naked blade stuck fast in the heart of stone."\n\nIn order to bring about the Summer Kingdom - the reign of peace and prosperity foreseen by Taliesin - Arthur must first unite the petty British kings under his banner as High King and Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty. A period of intense warfare and considerable treachery follows with Arthur narrowly prevailing, greatly aided by Merlin's guidance and counsel. But that is only the beginning...\n\nWave upon wave of barbarian troops, traitorously assisted by some of the defeated British kings, batter Arthur's depleted forces. Once again, following an epic struggle against terrible odds, the High King prevails. Peace reigns, the Summer Kingdom flowers but only for a season. Soon Arthur will face his greatest test - a deadly trap set by the sorceress Morgian with his beloved Queen Gwenhwyvar as the bait! 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2010-12-31 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 52 +1042 Out of the Silent Planet 1938 Malacandra - cold and archaic - home to multitudinous and unimaginable races. To this mysterious new world comes the malice of two men and their captive Dr Ransom, and innocent hostage to the unknown...\n\nPlunging though the cloud belt of the young and joyous Venus, known as Perelandra, Ransom has been sent by the eldila to battle against evil incarnate - and decide the planet's destiny.\n\nYet finally the powerful forces unleashed in the Solar System will descend onto an unsuspecting Earth... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-06-15 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 2 +1043 Perelandra 1943 Malacandra - cold and archaic - home to multitudinous and unimaginable races. To this mysterious new world comes the malice of two men and their captive Dr Ransom, and innocent hostage to the unknown...\n\nPlunging though the cloud belt of the young and joyous Venus, known as Perelandra, Ransom has been sent by the eldila to battle against evil incarnate - and decide the planet's destiny.\n\nYet finally the powerful forces unleashed in the Solar System will descend onto an unsuspecting Earth... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-06-15 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 2 +1053 Magnificat 1996 Dealing mainly with the Metapsychic rebellion of 2083, Magnificat focuses mainly on Marc, a powerful metapsychic and member of the mighty Remillard family. He believes that the only logical way to speed the evolution of the Galactic mind is through artificial enhancement of the human brain. Thus he plans to remove and artificially nurture the brains of newborn test-tube babies, subjecting them to intense metapsychic training.\n\nBut not all the Remillard family agree with Marc's megalomania. His brother Jack the Bodiless - a mind born into a body that eventually destroyed itself - has had to endure a similar fate as a matter of survival, evolving into a powerful, poignant figure utterly alone in his uniqueness. He is opposed to Marc's plans and his sentiments are shaped by some of the other members of the Remillard family. And so, Jack must decide how best to hinder his brother;s scheme without compromising human metapsychics in the larger community of th Milieu.\n\nAs the final volume in the epic Galactic Milieu trilogy (Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask), Magnificat is a powerful and compelling conclusion to Julian May;s highly successful series detailing the human struggle in a new galactic civilisation. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 3 1 2 2 +1055 Moreta Dragonlady of Pern 1989 Some fourteen hundred turns after men first came to Pern rode Moreta, on her great golden dragon, Orlith.\nIt was towards the end of the Pass of the Red Star - a time when every living creature on Pern was threatened by Threadfall - when the courage and daring of dragons and their riders was all that kept the planet from extinction.\nAnd then, at the height of the battle against Thread, came a new and terrible evil. Moreta, in one last superhuman endeavour, was to save her people, and become the greatest legend of dragonlore until the end of time. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1059 Dragonflight 1981 The men who rode the dragons were a breed apart. Chosen when the dragons were first hatched, they became soulmates for life with the huge, magnificent beasts they controlled - the green, blue, brown and bronzes - beautiful - terrible - the only creatures who could defend the planet Pern from the blood-red star. But without the Queen, the dragons would become extinct. Only the gigantic, golden Queen could breed the new flights. And the Queen was fading... dying... leaving behind one last, huge, golden egg... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1062 Dragonsinger 1982 When Menolly, daughter of Yanus Sea Holder, arrived at the Harper Craft Hall, she came in style, aboard a bronze dragon, followed by her nine fire lizards.\n\nThe Masterharper of Pern, aware of her unique skills, had chosen her as his only girl apprentice. But the holdless girl had first to overcome many heartaches in this strange new life. Two things sustained her; her devoted lizards - a subject on which she was fitted to instruct her Masters - and the music... music of transcendent beauty, music-making where at last she was accepted.\n\nIn the Great Hall, Menolly could fulfill her destiny... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1072 Pegasus in Flight 1991 Earth was at bursting point - desperately overcrowded in spite of the birth restrictions of only one child to each couple. Extra children existed in a sub-cultured world or were rounded up into slavery.\n\nThe only hope was the space platform - the jumping off point for the colonisation of other worlds. And to build the space platform more 'Talents' were needed - the gifted special ones whose mental powers could perform prodigious tasks across space and time.\n\nRhyssa Owen, Director for Parapsychic Talents, was the one responsible, both for finding 'Talents' and training them. And when she felt the first tentative, sad, encroachment of a mind reaching out for her, she knew it was exceptional - a fourteen-year-old boy, his body crushed beyond repair , with the most powerful kinetic ability she had ever encountered. And, at the same time, in the seamy underworld of forgotten, unwanted, near-criminal children, was another brilliant mind. Young, streetwise, but so talented she was in danger from ruthless groups of kidnappers.\n\nRhyssa knew she had to find the two children - find them and train them for the survival of the Earth. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1101 The Warlord's Domain 1989 BETRAYED...\n\nBy the king he had loyally served, Aldric and his lady, Kyrin, are now plotting a course for the city of Drakkesborg, deep in the hostile Drusulan Empire.\n\nThere lies the Warlord's Domain - ruled by the evil Voord, slayer, sorcerer and former Commander of the Imperial Secret Police, a man whose hatred of the land of Alba is fathomless.\n\nAnd Aldric has sworn to recapture a powerful jewel: the talisman that will permit Gemmel, his foster-father, to return home after centuries of exile. It is a debt Aldric must repay, even if the must face his deadliest foe to do so. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 7 +1121 The Oak and the Ram 1973 Michael Moorcock brings the old Celtic gods alive again in this tale of Prince Corum, avatar of the Eternal Champion, called to a Celtic Golden Age, where he must do battle against a race as old as his own.\n\nIn a time not far from this, Corum, the Prince with the Silver Hand, must journey across a harsh world threatened by perpetual winter to seek objects of great power, the lost weapons of the Celts, and beg the aid of dwarves and giants in an urgent search which must inevitably end in his own death... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 34 +1301 Think! 1977 First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1977 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 19 +1135 Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos 1991 The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe.\n\nTheir job description is to determine the fate of the universe. Their careers are inspiring, frustrating, controversial, extraordinary... Their story is fascinating.\n\n(Inside Cover)\nEver since the first rocket entered space, science and technology have been the obsessions of the twentieth century. With their aid it seems possible that man can discover his own origins and learn the history of the cosmos.\n\nThis is the story of the cosmologists whose job is to determine the fate of the universe. Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time, is but one member of this band, who, armed with computer chips, radio telescopes, underground particle accelerators, pride and imagination, must discover through science the secrets of the universe.\n\nAs well as the creation myths, there are radically opposed scientific theories of the world's origin. Some hold the 'big bang' theory, by which the world was born in a fiery cataclysm and might disappear again equally dramatically. Others believe that the universe is infinite and always the same... This is not a book of theory but a lively and readable tribute to the people who, with the help f science, might eventually reach the truth. It is a story of failure, controversy and strife - but also of personality, hope and inspiration. 2003-05-24 00:00:00 2003-05-24 00:00:00 1 3 1 4 33 +1137 The Crippled Angel 2002 Shortlisted for Best Fantasy Novel (Aurealis Award 2002) The battle for mankind's soul draws to its terrible conclusion.\n\nThe angels, who have been scheming for aeons, intend to allow neither Thomas Neville nor Hal Bolingbroke to spoil their triumph. Where Neville though tot have choice, he finds only despair; where he though to find love, he finds only the angles; entrapments.\n\nEngland is reeling under supernatural plagues and treachery-driven rebellions. Mandkind's fate rests on the outcome of three battles: Agincourt, where Bolingbroke challenges Philip for Catherine and for France; the sacrificial ground before Joan's pyre, where Neville must choose between his love for Margaret and the will of the angels; and the Field of the Angels itself - Heaven, where Christ watches... and waits. 2003-05-24 00:00:00 2004-01-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +846 White Gold Wielder 1983 After bitter defeat on the Isle of the One Tree, Thomas Covenant, Linden Avery and the Giants of the Search take ship again. Across the frozen oceans, they return to the Land, now perilously close to destruction from the ravages of the Sunbane.\n\nDrawn inexorably towards the caverns deep below Mount Thunder, Covenant and Linden Avery prepare to meet their bitterest foe. even the white gold they carry may not serve against Lord Foul's powers. For once the wild magic is released, the Arch of Time will crack, and Lord Foul's conquest of the land will be assured . . . 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +1302 Segregationist 1967 First appeared in Abbottempo 4 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 19 +1146 Antarctica 1997 ANTARCTICA, OUR LAST WILDERNESS - BUT FOR HOW LONG?\n\nLike the icecap it protects, the Antarctic Treaty is dissolving. The world's last unstripped asset, Antarctica is becoming a free-for-all - oil companies intent on mass extraction, adventure travellers trailing waste across the tundra, strategic interests covertly vying for influence.\n\nThe free-for-all has become a benefit-to-none. So reasons a new radical environmental group who embark on a drastic course of 'ecotage' to show humanity that Antarctica cannot be plundered like the rest of the world. They try to avoid loss of life, but in Antarctica even a slight disruption can have devastating consequences... 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2003-07-27 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 25 +1284 Blue Adept 1981 DOUBLE DESTINY\n\nFor Stile, life was a matter of shuttling madly between two worlds, with the problems growing greater on each. On the science world of Proton, he was a serf, trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. On Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept, trying to master the powers of sorcery. And on both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him.\n\nAside from winning increasingly difficult contests with no time to prepare, all he had to do was win the love of the Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon - and, of course, seek the paranoid Adept or the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!\n\nAnd now, just when things were growing impossible, he had to fight a mortal duel with the unicorn Herd Leader, against whom his magic powers were useless! 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 1 1 3 5 8 +1148 Green Mars 1993 Mars. The green planet.\n\nMan's dream of a new world is underway, but corrupted. The First Hundred have scattered or died, the rebels are underground, planning their utopia, waiting. The transnational corporations aided by the UN are rebuilding the ruined cities and mining valuable resources. They too have a dream. Mars can be plundered, cultivated and terraformed to suit Man's needs - frozen lakes are forming, lichen is growing, the atmosphere is slowly being bought and sold by the transnationals. Why not here too? Man's dream is underway, but so is his greatest test. Societies are crumbling and re-forming, adapting and reacting to new conditions. The survivors of the First Hundred know that technology alone is not enough. Trust and co-operation are needed to create a new world - but these qualities are as thin on the ground as the Martian air they breathe. 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2003-07-27 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 14 +1303 Mirror Image 1972 First appeared in Analog: Science Fiction - Science Fact, May 1972 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 19 +1153 The Queen of Springtime 1991 The people of the New Springtime are on the brink of the ultimate war.\n\nYears have passed since the Chronicler Hresh led the People from the lost city of Vengiboneeza to found a new home. For beautiful Nialli Apuliana, his daughter, they have been years of disquiet and confusion, haunted by her memories of the dreaded and despised hijks, the insect men who destroyed her childhood.\n\nNow, once again the hijks have entered her life - and, with apocalyptic war threatening the People, only Nialli, the seeds of hijk wisdom planted in her long ago, can guide her tribes on to the paths of peace. 2003-05-29 00:00:00 2005-06-02 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 7 +1154 Starborne 1996 The mission of the starship Wotan is to find in the depths of space a planet where humanity can being again. Earth has become one of vast pleasant suburb of well-to-do elderly childless folks, the last members of a decadent and fast diminishing species. The Wotan represents their one hope that the human race can reinvent itself by taking on the challenge of a virgin world, a new Eden. If such a planet can be found in a lifetime of searching. The only certainty known to the Wotan's crew of fifty men and women is that they are bound on a voyage from which they will not return.\n\nthe Wotan contains in its vast cargo hold an entire world-building storehouse: wildlife domestication plaques, matrix jacks, hydrocarbon converters, climate nodes, artificial intelligences, molecular replicators, heavy-machinery templates and all the mediq machines, gene replacement kits, data bubbles a civilization might need. And a zygote bank of ten thousand fertilized ova in permafreeze spansules.\n\nAs the stardrive comes on and the Wotan makes its giddy leap into the matter-free tube of nospace the problems begin. Realtime communication with Earth suffers interference from an unknown source. The diversity of the cosmos is revealed in the utter strangeness - and unsuitability - of planes that appear by instrument to be perfectly Earth-like. The captain and the complex, trouble people he commands are fail specks of life engulfed by loneliness. As humanity's emissaries to the universe in general, they face a completely unknown challenge, and must render it knowable.\n\nThis dramatic and vivid story of the furthest frontier is Robert Silverberg at his best. 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2003-06-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 6 25 +1155 Hot Sky at Midnight 1994 There's no mistaking the terminal phase of irreversible catastrophe. The climate has gone berserk. Rising oceans inundate swamps and deserts. Genetic engineers have yet to redesign the human body to cope with the crud in the air, the water, the food, the soil. Now time has run out.\n\nWith Earth a lost cause, the satellite worlds twinkling in orbit are prime territory for takeover by the powerful and rich. They are a single battleground on which the richest and most powerful megacorps, Kyocera-Merck and Samurai Industries, fight, no holds barred.\n\nIn the artificial purity of satellite air or beneath the bilious skies of Earth, despite newly evolved bacterial plagues and bribe-taking androids, Robert Silverberg's characters pursue destinies both outrageously self-interested and heartwrenchingly familiar in a savagely funny story of our planet's last gasp. 2003-05-30 00:00:00 2004-05-28 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 14 +847 The Winds of Change 1987 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 6 +848 About Nothing 1975 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +1304 Lenny 1957 First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction, January 1958 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 19 +1191 And Now the News... 1956 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-19 00:00:00 1 3 3 7 56 +1192 The Other Celia 1957 \n\nThese are among the tributes to Theodore Sturgeon's work that poured in from readers and fellow-writers after his death in 1985. He was a genius story-teller, whose writing had a profound influence on successive generations of SF writers, including the American New Wave. He was also a writer of great tolerance and humanity, who was frequently ahead of his time in this treatment of political, social and sexual issues. He introduced alien intelligences, new social systems, marvelous inventions and strange mutations into his stories as a means of emphasizing the extraordinary qualities of ordinary people.\n\nThis books is a celebration of all that is finest and most original in Sturgeon's writing. David Pringle's selection is the first to take into account Sturgeon's whole writing career of more than forty years, and it contains several stories never previously published in Britain. It is a treat not to be missed. 2003-06-01 00:00:00 2004-01-17 00:00:00 1 3 3 6 56 +1201 The Hobbit 1979 The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure undertaken by a company of dwarves, in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving, unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar.\n\nEncounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves and giant spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug the Magnificent and a rather unwilling presence at the Battle of the Five Armies are some of the adventures that befall Bilbo. But there are lighter moments as well: good fellowship, welcome meals, laughter and song.\n\nBilbo Baggins has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of children;s fiction. Written for Professor Tolkien's own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when published. It is a complete and marvellous tale in itself, but it also forms a prelude to the Lord of the Rings. 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2003-06-02 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 49 +1203 First Family 1985 After countless years of fighting - of pitting sophisticated technology against the primitive surface-dwelling people who seemed to possess supernatural powers - the Federation was still no nearer to ending the battle wit the Mutes. But then a lone flier was hauled into one of its underground bunkers - a man whose very existence was a challenge to the all-pervading wisdom of the First Family. A man whose destiny would determine the future for both the Federation and the Mutes... 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-01-27 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 5 +1206 Death-Bringer 1989 With Clearwater now safely in their hands, the Federation hatches a plan to capture Cadillac and Mr Snow and annihilate the Clan McCall: a plan which forces Steve to continue his double role as loyal agent of the Federation and blood-brother to the Mutes. The First Family is hell-bent on extracting retributions for past defeats but the twice-bloodied House of Yama-Shita is also thirsting for vengeance. Both parties blindly pursue their own ends unaware that the outcome is governed not by force of arms but by the irrevocable power of prophecy. 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-02-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 5 +1207 Earth-Thunder 1990 As the great mountain in the west speaks to the sky with a tongue of flame, the Talisman of Prophecy is on the verge of fulfillment. The rulers of the Federation believe that Clearwater's unborn child is the Thrice-Gifted One, and they hold both in their power. Cadillac and Roz, who have combined their formidable talents, are determined to free her, but Steve, lured by the prospect of a dazzling career within the First Family, is no longer certain who to support or betray. He has little time left in which to decide, for in Ne-Issan, home of the Iron Masters, a lone woman intent on avenging her dead lover, is about to plunge her nation into a civil war that will set the whole continent ablaze. 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-02-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 5 +1216 Asimov: The Unauthorized Life 1994 Isaac Asimov dominated science fiction for over half a century. By his late teens, he had already embarked upon the works with which everyone associates him: the first Robot story, during which he laid down the Three Laws of Robotics accepted today by researchers into Artificial Intelligence; Nightfall, arguably his most famous-ever story; and the first installment of the Foundation series, where he established the template for huge galactic empires, and changed the face of science fiction forever.\n\nAsimov: The Unauthorized Life takes us from Asimov;s early childhood when, working in his father's candy store, he came across the SF pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, to his domination of both popular science writing and the SF world. Moving from his obsessive drive to write and his many prolific works, through the impact on and upheavals in his personal life, via the army (including how Asimov managed to narrowly miss the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll), to his divorce and subsequent re-marriage, Michael White chronicles the successes and the extraordinary life of one of the most popular writers of all time. 2003-06-17 00:00:00 2004-03-17 00:00:00 1 3 3 7 34 +1217 The Curse of the Mistwraith 1994 TWO BROTHERS WORLDS APART, THEIR FATES INTERLOCKED IN ENMITY BY THE CURSE OF THE MISTWRAITH...\n\nThe world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith's stranglehold:\nArithon - Master of Shadows\nLysaer - Lord of Light\n\nArithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapable bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their deepest convictions. Yet there is much more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith - as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of the Seven know well. For between them the half-brothers hold the balance of the world, its harmony and its future in their hands. 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-01-03 00:00:00 1 1 3 1 14 +849 A Perfect Fit 1981 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +1236 The Firefall 1994 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 14 +1252 The Weird Occurrence in Odd Alley 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +800 Freeway Games 1979 Gallery, November 1979 (published title: "Hard Driver") Maps in a Mirror is a giant volume of Orson Scott Card's short fiction. Inside are forty-six stories, broken into five books: eleven 'Tales of Dread', seven 'Tales of Human Futures', ten 'Fables and Fantasies', size 'Cruel Miracles' and twelve 'Lost Songs - The Hidden Stories'. This comprehensive collection also contains extensive personal introductions and afterwords - and there is a good deal of autobiography in the bargain. 2003-01-20 00:00:00 2003-01-23 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 7 +722 The Battle of Evernight 2002 With vital fragments of her memory restored, Tahquil-Ashalind also regains the Langothe, a terrible longing for the world of Faeran, for which there is no cure but to return there. She undertakes a journey to seek the Bitterbynde Gate, the only remaining way into that world. But when Tahquil's companions are ruthlessly abducted, she abandons this purpose in spite of the dreadful yearning, and sets out to try to rescue them, venturing into the land of Darke, and the blackness of Evernight... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2009-12-07 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 16 +1268 Peril's Gate 2001 On the world of Athera, two half brothers gifted of Light and Shadow defeated the Mistwraith. Its revenge left them cursed to life-long enmity, splitting the world into war and coils of deadly intrigue. Lysaer and his Alliance of Light have raised new forces and touched on the lore of blood magecraft to bring down Arithon, Master of Shadow. The Koriani Enchantresses also seek to capture Arithon, and use him as their pawn to destroy the world's balance and break the Fellowship Sorcerer's compact.\n\nTheir wily enemy seems ripe for defeat. Just escaped from the scaffold, now set under heated pursuit, Arithon is thwarted in his plans to rejoin the spellbinder, Dakar, and slip off to safety at sea. The failed Koriani plot to take him has loosed unnatural forces: imbalances weaken the wards that confine the Mistwraith, a breaking crisis which forces Dakar's return to Fellowship service.\n\nArithon, must flee inland alone, over the mountains to Daon Ramon Barrens. Harried by winter weather and armed guards, he will ride into the teeth of Lysaer's specialized assault troops. His nearest defenders are Jieret's clan war band, a diminutive force too small to prevail, and too far away to bring rescue. Other interests entangle their thread with Arithon's fate: the ousted Sorcerer, Davien the Betrayer, stirs from his retreat in Kewar Tunnel. Elaira, the enchantress who holds Arithon's heart, walks the narrowest path of them all - her choice: to betray the man she loves to the Koriani prime, or to risk self-destruction in rebellion against her order. 2003-11-28 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 25 +1273 The Elder Gods 2003 They are called the Dreamers. They look like sleeping children. They are, in fact, Gods.\n\nThere are eight elder Gods, four awake, four asleep, by turns. When they sleep, they sleep for eons. The only time th Gods are vulnerable is when the sleepers awake.\n\nKnowing this,m the Ruler of Wasteland, ambitious to become a God by destroying Gods, watches and waits, marshalling troops for war. So it is that the coming of the Dreamers passes unnoticed in the Wasteland. But the world is soon out of kilter, it is being dreamed, and the awakening of Gods is no simple transition.\n\nThe sleeping Gods are stirring. When they wake the battle will begin.\n\nThere will be trickery and deception. Tribes of humans, creatures of the deep, the sea itself and the earth, the weather and the divinities, all will play their part in the epic struggle against the Ruler of the Wasteland. 2003-12-30 00:00:00 2008-03-28 00:00:00 1 3 3 6 25 +1281 Robot Visions 1993 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 19 +1288 Robot Adept 1991 Proton and Phaze, parallel worlds of science and magic, and ripe with the seeds of revolution. Mach, the brave but sensitive robot from Proton and his alternate self, magical Bane from Phaze, have the power to link the two warring systems - or to destroy them entirely. Both are very ready to try to save their worlds.\n\nBut neither Mach nor Bane had anticipated the dangers of forbidden love with members of the opposite realm... 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 28 +1305 Galley Slave 1957 First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, May 1941 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 19 +1308 The New Teachers 1976 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1309 Whatever You Wish 1977 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 19 +1310 The Friends We Make 1977 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 19 +862 Lest We Remember 1982 Asimov's, February 15, 1982 The Winds of Change is a brilliant, original volume of stories whose subjects range from a chillingly familiar totalitarian future to the true story of how Genesis was written; and from computerization to space travel. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +209 Galatea 1987 First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM) MEET AZAZEL...\nHe's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life... all with the best intentions, of course.\n\nGeorge Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancient incantation that calls forth this diminutive demon of astonishing wizardry. Unfortunately, Azazel refuses to do anything for George's personal gain - but he agrees to help out a few of his friends.\n\nWith Dr. Asimov himself as eager audience, George recounts eighteen episodes of life with Azazel - disastrous, hilarious episodes that could only spring from science fiction's most fertile imagination. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 11 +985 Battlefield Earth 1984 Battlefield Earth is an enormous epic of adventure set in the year 3000, when the future survival of what's left of the human race is at stake. When Jonnie Goodboy Tyler decides to venture out of the small and dwindling community of humans barely surviving in their Rocky Mountain retreat, he has no thought of challenging the order that for a thousand years has held the earth prisoner to the oppressive alien race of the Psychlos.\n\nThe Psychlos and their vast intergalactic mining corporation have dominated and exploited all known galaxies for centuries, ruthlessly destroying races who dare to resist. How one man tackles the greatest malignant power in the universe makes for a sprawling adventure of thrilling heroics, full of dangerous underground work, interplanetary wars, intergalactic financial intrigue, monster races, and complex political manipulation spread across a vast canvas of epic scale. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-03-20 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 50 +1035 Beyond Humanity 1987 Sally Forth, spacer, has a man's mind, a woman's form - and a three-foot long prehensile tail. Candy Darling, Implant Queen, keeps her ancient thoughts young in a series of pre-teen bodies. Go-Go, Earth's last ape, is cloned from a long extinct, gene-damaged chimp. Golem, the program, is an electronic brat, a computer imp, the hologram trickster of the dataflow...\n\nAnd to survive the deadly mobs, save each other, and solve the ultimate mystery of the stars, they have to take a shattering step beyond mortality, beyond prejudice, beyond morality - 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-11-26 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 16 +986 A Song for Arbonne 1993 Until the sun dies and the moons fall, Gorhaut and Arbonne shall not lie easily beside each other ...\n\nArbonne. Warm and sun-blessed in the south, a country of olive trees and vineyards, of troubadours and courts of love, and of the sensuous, flamboyant men and women who dwell in the castles and towns of a country dedicated to the worship the mother goddess.\n\nGorhaut: Land of hard, dour northerners who are pious in their worship of the god Corannos and rapacious in war. Ruled by an ambitious, debauched young king, the warriors of Gorhaut look south and see a land riper for the taking, blasphemously worshiping a goddess and ruled by a woman.\n\nIn a time of testing and great peril, the men and women of both countries will find their lives, and their ideas of what life should be, put in the balance; and Arbonne will be made to realize that love and music may be powers only in a civilized time, for they cannot combat fire and sword. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-11-17 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 50 +987 We Also Walk Dogs 1941 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-05 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 28 +988 Searchlight 1962 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-05 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 28 +991 Logic of Empire 1941 In 1939, inspired by a short-story contest, Robert Heinlein wrote his first story. It was called Life-Line, and it signalled the beginning of a brilliant literary career. It was the first of Heinlein's future history tales.\n\nIn this anthology are collected the short stories and novellas which form the core of Heinlein's achievement, accompanied by the author's own chart showing the scheme of the vents and ideas covered. They prove, once and for all, Heinlein's true claim to the title 'Dean of science fiction'. 2003-03-20 00:00:00 2003-09-06 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 28 +1018 The Fringe 1990 Civilized people are never prepared for the collapse of civilization. One day, without warning, there is no water in the taps, no shows on TV. You would trade your whole house for a loaded pistol so you could dare to open the door.\n\nOnly six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough to change the world drastically. A few communities are trying to hold on. Word has spread: Head for the Rocky Mountains. There's peace there, and enough to eat, and thousands make the dangerous trek across the plains. Yet even in a haven, there are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe. And all they want is to go home. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +1019 Pageant Wagon 1990 Civilized people are never prepared for the collapse of civilization. One day, without warning, there is no water in the taps, no shows on TV. You would trade your whole house for a loaded pistol so you could dare to open the door.\n\nOnly six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough to change the world drastically. A few communities are trying to hold on. Word has spread: Head for the Rocky Mountains. There's peace there, and enough to eat, and thousands make the dangerous trek across the plains. Yet even in a haven, there are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe. And all they want is to go home. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +1020 America 1990 Civilized people are never prepared for the collapse of civilization. One day, without warning, there is no water in the taps, no shows on TV. You would trade your whole house for a loaded pistol so you could dare to open the door.\n\nOnly six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough to change the world drastically. A few communities are trying to hold on. Word has spread: Head for the Rocky Mountains. There's peace there, and enough to eat, and thousands make the dangerous trek across the plains. Yet even in a haven, there are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe. And all they want is to go home. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-04-02 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +249 Kingdom of the Grail 1994 Ten years have passed since the aged Baroness Ailena Valaise was ruthlessly turned our of her castle by her treacherous son, Guy. Sent off on a perilous pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she has sworn to return someday. But when a young woman arrives unannounced at the Castle Lanfrac and declares herself to be the baroness, it is not the frail and arthritic dowager of old but a maiden of enigmatic beauty, the perfect image of a younger Ailena. Having drunk from the Holy Grail, she claims to have been restored to her youth by its mystic power, a miracle she sees as a message from God compelling her to return home to end Guy's tyrannical reign. Is this bold young woman an imposter or a living miracle returned to test her people's faith?\n\nIn Kingdom of the Grail, Attanasio has created a richly imagined historical saga combining elements of the Arthurian legend, romance and religion to produce a stunning work of fantasy fiction. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 14 +1024 High Deryni 1986 For centuries the Deryni, a race of powerful sorcerers, had been outcasts - long suppressed and long-feared, especially by the Church. Now with the boy-king, Kelson Haldane, on the throne of Gwynedd, the preisthood of the Eleven Kingdoms feels its control seriously threatened. For Kelson's half-Deryni ancestry was revealed at his coronation - opening the door of distrust on his royal Haldane line, and causing the archbishops to busy themselves with treachery which takes the form of attempting to excommunicate Kelson and then plotting to split his kingdom by the creation of civil war, with royalists against rebels. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 51 +1034 The Bastard Prince 1994 The power-hungry former Regents of the three Haldane princes were pleased. They controlled Gwynedd once more, now that Rhys Michael was king - malleable, wine-loving, and soft. Or so they thought...\n\nUnbeknownst to the Regents, Rhys Michael was coming into his birthright. With secret Deryni aid, he struggled to grasp the magic bequeathed to all anointed kings. And when Marek - heir to Gwynedd's last, degenerate deposed Deryni despots - marched into Gwynedd at the head of an army, even the Regents had to admit that Rhys Michael must take to the field himself as king to repel the pretender.\n\nRhys Michael saw his chance at last. He swore that the power of the throne - from now on and for all time to come - was to be held by Gwynedd's rightful king. For this, for his sons, and for his country, the king would risk all... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 8 +1061 Dragonsong 1980 Menolly - Mistress of Music, Ward of Fire Lizards. Every two hundred years or so, shimmering threads fall, raining black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleaguered skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the planet. it was not Threadfall that made Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no choice but to run away. She came upon a group of fire lizards, wild relatives of the fire-breathing dragons. her music swirled about them; she taught nine to sing, suddenly Menolly was no longer alone. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1044 That Hideous Strength 1945 Malacandra - cold and archaic - home to multitudinous and unimaginable races. To this mysterious new world comes the malice of two men and their captive Dr Ransom, and innocent hostage to the unknown...\n\nPlunging though the cloud belt of the young and joyous Venus, known as Perelandra, Ransom has been sent by the eldila to battle against evil incarnate - and decide the planet's destiny.\n\nYet finally the powerful forces unleashed in the Solar System will descend onto an unsuspecting Earth... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-06-15 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 2 +1045 The Many-Coloured Land 1982 The epic odyssey of the misfits and mavericks of the 22nd century\nwho pass through the time-doors of the Pliocene Epoch into the\nbattleground of two warring races from a planet far away... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 2 +1058 The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall 1993 Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture culture undetected, is condemned\n to be isolated in space.\n\nHere is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold - a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.\n\nAnd here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to the realise that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly fored Benden Weyr. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2004-09-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +1063 Dragondrums 1981 Piemur, a boy soprano, had been chosen out of all the singers at the Harperhall of Pern for the leading role in the dramatic choral work to be presented at Lord Groghe's Gather. But during practice one day his voice broke - and suddenly seemed uncertain.\n\nBut Masterharper Robinton, Menolly and Sebell had other plans for Piemur - they were sure that his quick wits and discretion could be used to keep a check on the troublesome Oldtimers and their strange traffic in fire lizards.\n\nSo whilst serving as a messenger-drum apprentice, Piemur carried out special errands for the three. And it was on one such errand that he realized his wildest dream - and got into deeper trouble than ever before... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1064 The White Dragon 1989 Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Pure white and incredibly agile, Ruth possessed remarkable qualities. Not only could he communicate with the iridescent, fluttering fire lizards, but he could fly back in time to any WHEN with unfailing accuracy.\nNearly everyone else on Pern though Ruth was a runt who would never amount to anything, but Jaxom knew his dragon was special. In secret they trained to fight against the burning threads from the Red Planet, to fly back in time as well as Between, and finally their close and special union was to result in the most startling and breathtaking discovery of all\\x{2026} 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1318 My Robots 1987 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1065 The Renegades of Pern 1991 They were the misfits, the outcasts, the murderers without Hold or Crafthall. Some were resentful, some sought vengeance, but it was not until Thella, Lady Holder of Telgar, began to weld them together into a terrifying and brilliantly evil clan that they became the Renegades of Pern. It was a time of great turmoil on the planet. The pass of the Red Star had brought a new terrible reign of Threadfall, and in the Southern Hold, Toric was carving out an enormous empire for himself from lands as yet uncharted. And as the times of trouble grew, so did the ravages of Thella and her band, turning from theft to murder to vicious and insane revenge. Jayge Lilcamp, the young trader, was one of the first of the renegades, and as he saw what Thella had done to his family and his wagon train he began to seek his own revenge, a revenge which grew into a determination to destroy the most evil woman on Pern. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2004-09-06 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +1289 Unicorn Point 1990 Neither the magic of Phaze, nor the technology of Proton, can save the parallel worlds from a ruthless takeover. The fight for freedom must be waged by Mach and Bane, robot and wizard, linked between worlds. But they are not the only ones with this strange ability. For their children have been born - each possessing powers the enemy could never imagine... 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 3 +1068 The Dolphins of Pern 1996 When Masterfisher Alemi took young Readis out to catch redfins for the evening feast, neither of them realized it heralded a new chapter in the history of Pern. For when a sudden black squall blew up, their mast splintered and broke and their boat capsized. It was the shipfish who saved them, swooping up from the deep, holding them firm above the water, guiding them back to land, and above all speaking to them.\n\nAlemi, called to the all-encompassing power of AIVAS, learned that the shipfish were dolphins - brought to Pern with the early colonists to help and guide man through the oceans of the new planet. Now all the old Dolphin lore had to be rediscovered.\n\nReadis fascinated by the many gifts of the dolphins - gifts unshared by any other creature on Pern - longed to work with them. Helped by T'lion, the young dragonrider with his bronze Gadareth (who established his own particular friendship with the dolphins), Readis, fighting against vehement parental opposition, set out to become Pern's first Dolphineer. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-04-29 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 20 +283 Two to Conquer 1982 It was the final, flaming days of the Ages of Chaos. Beneath its Bloody Sun, Darkover was divided into a hundred warring kingdoms, and civilization teetered on the brink of oblivion. This is the story of Bard di Asturien, the ambitious soldier-outlaw they called the Wolf of the Kilghard Hills; of Varzil, whom history was to dub The Good - and of the alien from distant Terra who was the exact double of Varzil's enemy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 21 +297 Star of Danger \N 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +344 The Mists of Avalon 1983 IN MY TIME i HAVE BEEN CALLED MANY THINGS: SISTER, LOVER, PRIESTESS,\nWISE-WOMAN, QUEEN\n\nMorgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of\nknightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change.\n\nThrough the lives of pious Guinevere, ambitious Morgause, austere Viviane and\nher successor as Lady of the Lake, Morgaine herself, this rich and haunting\nepic reveals a greater threat to the idyll than the Saxons. For the spread of\npatriarchal Roman ways and a narrow Christianity seem likely likely to alienate\nthe Old People, and drive the ancient worship of the Mother forever in the\nmists... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-23 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 5 +1083 A Meeting of Minds 1959 now a part of Damia The only thing Keevan wanted in life was to be a dragonrider, just like his father. Surely nothing could be as thrilling as soaring through the air between the powerful wings of a dragon...But Keevan was small, and there were always more boys than there were dragons--someone must be disappointed. Keevan wasn't exactly the foremost candidate, but dragons have their own standards, especially the bronzes, the most highly-prized dragons of all... 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2003-10-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 20 +345 Priestess of Avalon 2000 Published posthumously with Diana L. Paxson This is the story of a legend...\n\nWith her mother's dying breath, Eilan, the fifth child of the High Priestess of Avalon, takes life.\n\nThe baby is taken to her father, King Coel, and raised in the Roman way as Helena, but in the year A.D. 259 the ten-year old girl is returned to the mystical place of her birth. There she begins her training as a priestess, in the face of her Aunt Ganeda's determination that she shall fail.\n\nDespite Ganeda's hostility, fired by her resentment over the death of Helena's mother, the child grows to be a gifted priestess, and on the moonlit night of her initiation she has a vision of the Roman, Constantius, the man she will love for th reset of her life. Her vision also reveals that he will father the one whose light will blaze across the world, the on who will free Britannia from Roman tyranny. But to be with him she must betray her sisters and turn her back on the security o f Avalon, to build a new life in the danger-filled city of the enemy. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-10-02 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 25 +503 Honoured Enemy 2001 Freedom at any price?\n\nHartraft's Marauders, a crack band of Kingdom raiders, are a special unit designed to infiltrate and fight behind enemy lines. They are currently heading for a frontier garrison, after a disastrous encounter with the Tsurani.\n\nMeanwhile, a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on the same garrison. Both sides arrive at the same time and discover the garrison has been overrun by a migrating horde of moredhel (dark elves) and they are forced by circumstances to band together and fight as one to survive.\n\nThe only problem is, who do they hate the most - their mutual enemy, or each other? As they make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom, they have to struggle not only with the elements and their enemies, but also their conscience. For what is more important - one's life or one's honour? 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 3 25 +523 The Forever War 1999 Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy, but his greatest test will come when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few month's tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2005-01-31 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 31 +598 Brightness Reef 1995 On the distant planet of Jijo, six exiled races live side by side. Only ancient relics form their home planets, fragments of half-forgotten stories and the crumbling ruins of the mysterious and god-like Buyur remind the dispossessed of a more noble past, when they were full citizens of the Five Galaxies. The races of Jijo, it seems, have been forgotten, along with whatever crimes they committed. But for how long?\n\nIt is at the time of the Gathering, the council of sages, when the spacecraft is first spotted. For some, it offers a new hope. For others, it heralds a time of reckoning. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 23 +600 Heaven's Reach 1999 After centuries of mutual peace, the six fugitive races that escaped to jijo from the Five Galaxies have been discovered by ancient enemies - the terrifying Jophur. The Jijoans' only hope is the ship that inadvertently led the Jophur to their obscure planet. For the Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins and commanded by an untested human, carries a cargo of ancient artefacts that may unlock the secret of the Progenitors, the mythical race that first brought sapience to the galaxies.\n\nBut some believe a dire prophecy is already coming to pass: an age of terrifying changes in time and space that could end galactic civilization. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2011-03-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 23 +1112 The Mad God's Amulet 1977 Part of box set of first four 'History of the Runestaff novels' One Man against the Darkness\n\nHaving braved incredible dangers and hardships, and wearied by his battle against the science-sorcery of the Dark Empire, Dorian Hawkmoon was returning to his adopted homeland of the Kamarg.\n\nBut even worse awaited him.\n\nHis betrothed Yisselda had been abducted by the Mad God, an evil sorcerer who had usurped the Red Amulet of the Runestaff. The amulet gave the power of the Runestaff itself to its possessor, and the Mad God was perverting that mighty power to his own unimaginably evil ends. Even as the destructive shadow of the Dark Empire spread across the world, Hawkmoon knew that only he could rescue Yisselda - and the Red Amulet - from the Mad God. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 53 +631 Dragons of Summer Flame 1995 The War of the Lance is long over. The seasons come and go. The pendulum of the world swings. Now it is summer. A Hot parched summer, such as no one on Krynn has ever known before. The uneasy balance starts to shift.\n\nThe pendulum moves into light.\n\nDistraught by a grievous loss, the young mage Palin Majere seeks to enter the Abyss in search of his lost uncle, the infamous archmage Raistlin.\n\nThe pendulum swings the opposite direction, to darkness.\n\nThe Dark Queen has found new champions. Devoted followers, loyal to the death, the Knights of Takhisis follow the Vision to victory. A dark paladin, Steel Brightblade, rides to attack the High Clerist's Tower, the fortress his father died defending.\n\nThe pendulum ceases to move at all.\n\nOn a small island, the mysterious Irda capture an ancient artifact and use it to ensure their own safety. Usha, child of the Irda, arrives in Palanthas claiming that she is Raistlin's daughter. The summer will be deadly. Perhaps it will be the last summer Ansalon will ever know.\n\nSearing flames consume the dry grass.\nChaos, father of the Gods, returns. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 2 40 +633 Test of the Twins 1986 The War of the Lance has ended. The darkness has passed or has it?\n\nVolume 3: Test of the Twins\n\nThe fields of magic shift, swirl and collide; Caramon operates the magical time-travelling device before being transported, with Tasslehoff the kender, into an unexpected and horrifying time and place.\n\nMeanwhile, for Raistlin, the Portal opens. But as he enters the Abyss, he must prepare to face the most deadly challenge of all: Takhisis, Queen of Darkness.\n\nThe epic tale that began with the meeting of old friends at the Inn of the Last Home under the vallenwood here reaches its dramatic climax and startling conclusion. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 24 +728 The Mountains of Majipoor 1995 'His soul itself began to change. He who had been so rollicking and outgoing turned crabbed and harsh and inward, a sullen man, embittered perhaps beyond all soothing by the wrong that had been done to him'\n\nExiled from Castle Mount by the Coronal to the far continent of Zimroel, Prince Harpirias faces a grim future until, one day, he is offered the chance of redemption.\n\nHe is to lead an expedition in search of a party of scientists who have been captured by a savage lost tribe. He must then negotiate for the safe return of the scientists. But the tribe live beyond the Nine Sisters mountain range in a land of furious blizzards and river's of ice and they are expecting to treaty with the Coronal himself. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2006-11-17 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 2 +1100 The Dragon Lord 1986 FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE\n\nHis mission for King Rynert has taken Aldric Talvalin on a perilous journey, many miles and months from home. Yet, now that all hope of success seems lost, he has been betrayed to the Drusulan Empire by the same king. It is an act of policy on Rynert's part; but it is also an act of treachery so dishonourable that it costs him the support not only of Aldric's foster-father, the sorcerer Gemmel, but even of Dewan, his captain-of-guards.\n\nA MATTER OF HONOUR\n\nIn defiance of Rynert's cynical statecraft, the two companions leave Alba in a race to reach Aldric before the forces of the Empire - or to rescue him if the trap has already closed. But a king who can betray one friend can also try to kill another, and a sorcerer who is judged unworthy of his power can find such power no longer his to command...because while honour has a value more than that of gold, lost honour has a price far higher still. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 21 +661 Sorceress of Darshiva 1990 As Zandramas's intention to fulfill the Dark Destiny becomes clear, Garion and his friends know that they must travel to Kell. There they will discover from the Malloreon Gospels the truth of their ultimate destination, The Place Which Is No More. But their friends are not alone in their search as the prophecies of Cyradis, the Seeress of Kell, begin to be fulfilled. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 20 +663 Pawn of Prophecy 1990 Long ago, so the storyteller claimed, the evil\nGod Torak sought dominion and drove men and\nGods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the west. So long as it lay in Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.\n\nBut that was only a story, and Garion did not\nbelieve in magic dooms, even though the dark\nman without a shadow had haunted him for years.\n\nBrought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread Torak, or that he would be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by\nthose he loved - but did not know?\n\nFor a while his dreams of innocence were safe,\nuntroubled by knowledge of his strange heritage. For a little while... 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2003-03-13 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 20 +1105 Firebird 1992 In the dark winter of 1235 the Teutonic Knights are plotting a crusade against Russia. Their secret weapon is the foul with Baba Yaga, out for revenge against her old enemy Ivan, Prince of Khorlov.\n\nIn his second spectacular fantasy adventure, Prince Ivan finds himself battling against civil war at home, foreign invaders, the dreadful powers of the Inquisition, and above all the soured magic of an evil old woman.\n\nWitty, thrilling, played out against the backcloth of a brilliantly realised medieval world, Peter Morwood seamlessly weaves together Russian myths - shape-changing wolves, the incredible Firebird, a fabulously realised alternate wold, and much more - with real history to conjure up a highly original, unputdownable tale. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +1106 The Golden Horde 1993 In the middle of the thirteenth century, the private quarrels of Russia's brawling little kingdoms are savagely concluded by the ruthless advance of the Tatars. One by one the citystates fall to the irresistable force of the Golden Horde. Those that resist are stamped out of existence and their inhabitants slaughtered; only those that submit are spared, but each conquered Prince must travel to the great tent-city of Sarai, and surrender his crown to the Khan. At last the choice comes to Khorlov; bow down or be destroyed!\n\nIvan Khorlovskiy, once Price, now Tsar, needs all his cunning - and all his patience - to restrain his proud, hotheaded warriors from defying the mightiest army the world has ever seen, and brining destruction down on all his people. When the Khan commands him to Sarai with Khorlov's Great Crown, that command include three treasure as priceless - and as dangerous: Ivan's wife Mar'ya Morevna the sorceress, and their two small children. But once within the walls they find themselves facing a peril more terrible even than their captors: the dark pagan gods of Russia, starved of worship - and of sacrifice - for half a thousand years... 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 7 +1111 The jewel in the Skull 1977 Part of box set of first four 'History of the Runestaff novels' Dorian Hawkmoon, The Runestaff - and the Black Jewel.\n\nThe Runestaff held all the secrets of the barren earth.\nThe destiny of Dorian Hawkmoon, Duke of Koln, Eternal Champion, was forever bound by it.\nHow was the Black Jewel to twist his fate?\n\nDorian regained consciousness with the Black Jewel embedded in his skull, and it felt warm, pulsing, comforting. Then he discovered the terrible truth. The evil black gem was an eye through which his enemies, the Force of the Dark Empire, could see everything he saw - all the places he travelled, all the people he encountered. And if he refused to carry out their plan to overcome Granbretan, the Black Jewel could be made to come alive.\n\nAnd Eat Dorian Hawkmoon's Brain. 2003-05-03 00:00:00 2003-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 53 +1290 Too Bad! 1989 First appeared in the Microverse, November 1989 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 19 +1224 The Antagonist 1988 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 14 +1311 Our Intelligent Tools 1977 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1312 The Laws of Robotics 1979 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 19 +1313 Future Fantastic 1989 First appeared in Special Reports magazine, Spring 1989 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 19 +1314 The Machine and the Robot 1978 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 19 +1315 The New Profession 1979 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1317 Intelligences Together 1979 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1319 The Laws of Humanics 1987 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 19 +1225 Tale of the Snowbeast 1986 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 8 14 +1226 Silverdown's Gold 1991 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 14 +1227 Double Blind 1989 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 4 14 +1134 City 1988 Jenkins was a robot. He was built to be the perfect worker, tireless and uncomplaining, but quite unexpectedly he also became a close companion to generation after generation of his owners as the human race matured, moved beyond the confines of its one tiny planet, and eventually changed beyond all recognition. And then, because he was a good and dutiful servant, Jenkins went on to serve Earth's inheritors...\n\n\nHere is a masterful tale of an Earth overrun by ants, a series of parallel worlds ruled by dogs, and a Jupiter where th human race finds its Golden Age - if human it could still be called. 2003-05-11 00:00:00 2003-05-11 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 26 +1228 Dreamsinger's Tale 1988 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 14 +1229 Triple-Cross 1990 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 14 +1230 Dreambridge 1993 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 14 +1143 Footfall 1986 a few too many characters and a bit predictable. It was big all right, far bigger than any craft any human had seen. It had been decelerating for weeks and it was still traveling fast enough to escape the Sun's gravity with ease. Now it was heading for Earth.\n\nThe best brains in the business reckoned that nay spacecraft nearing the end of a a journey that might have taken centuries would just have to be friendly.\n\nBut they were wrong! Catastrophically wrong!\n\nThe most successful collaborative team in the history of science fiction has combined again to produce a devastating and totally convincing novel of alien invasion.\n\nFOOTFALL - the ultimate disaster. 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2004-02-21 00:00:00 1 1 3 6 5 +1231 Song's End 1989 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 9 14 +1232 The Renders 1981 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 14 +1233 No Quarter 1991 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-10 00:00:00 1 2 3 5 14 +1320 The Sense of Humor 1988 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1321 Cybernetic Organism 1987 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 19 +1259 Cat or Pigeon? 1987 In a world fraught with sorcery and skulduggery, every day can bring a new experience - some of them humorous, some utterly horrifying. So it is with Gord, a young adventurer who not only attracts excitement but thrives on it. 2003-08-24 00:00:00 2003-08-24 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 3 +1260 lord of emperors 2000 Crispin the mosaicist, having finally achieved his journey to fabled Sarantium, wants nothing more than to confront the challenges of his art high on the scaffolding of destiny - but in Sarantium no man may easily withdraw from the turmoils of court and city, or forget that the presence of the half-world is always close by.\n\nFrom the east comes Rustem of Kerakek, the physician, who learns that saving the life of Bassania's King of Kings is not enough to ensure a man's fortune. He must find his own balancing of ambition, healing and death, as he, is drawn into the deadly webs of Sarantium. 2003-10-03 00:00:00 2004-09-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 58 +771 The Nameless Day 2000 1348... and the black pestilence decimates Europe. Corpses pile high in streets, crops rot in fields, infants are left to suckle a the decomposing breasts of their dead mothers.\n\nBut this creeping death is only a harbinger of the horror to come: as the Church is torn asunder demons escape from Hell to scurry across the face of the earth.\n\n1377... and the Archangel Michael sends Brother Thomas Neville on a mission across Europe to find the means to thrust the demons back beyond the doorway of Hell. But i has been thirty years, and the minions of Satan have had more than enough time to prepare.\n\nAs Thomas Neville encounters angels and demons, saints and witches, he comes to realise that the armies of God and Satan are arraying themselves for the final battle... and that his soul is to be the battleground. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2004-01-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 25 +1029 Camber of Culdi 1985 At the beginning of the 10th Century in the mythical land of Gwynedd, the crown sits on the head of young Imre, who proves himself to be both tyrant and murderer. A king whom the great CAMBER OF CULDI knew he could never serve.\n\nBut in a cloistered monk's cell, under a twelve-year vow of silence, lives Prince Cinhil - the last Haldane and rightful human heir to the throne. And thus Camber MacRorie, greatest among the Deryni sorcerers and a legend in his own lifetime, leads the revolt to restore the kingship to the old House of Haldane. But this determination to remove power from the evil Imre, into the hands of the legitimate but reluctant recruit, seems doomed from the outset. 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 51 +1266 The Call of Earth 1994 In this second volume of his brilliant new series, Homecoming, Orson Scott Card continues the story of the planet Harmony and its computer guardian, the Oversoul. Feeling itself to be failing the Oversoul realises that it needs the technology of the Lost Earth to achieve its aims. It has already caused Nafai, a teenage boy, to commit murder...\n\nNafai, his father and his brothers have left Basilica, but the rest of his family remain there, including his mother, the influential Lady Rasa. However, Rasa has other things on her mind, such as the 'friendly' invasion of troops under the leadership of General Vozmuzhalnoy Vozmozhno of Gorayni, who does not believe in any Gods, including the Oversoul - although he may still be its unknowing instrument. 2003-11-28 00:00:00 2003-11-28 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 7 +1296 Little Lost Robot 1947 First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1947 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 19 +1283 Split Infinity 1980 THROUGH THE CURTAIN\n\nOn the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot.\n\nBeyond the curtain lay Phaze - a world totally ruled by magic. There, his first encounter was with an amulet that turned into a demon determined to choke him to death. And there, he soon learned, his alternate self had already been murdered by sorcery, and he was due to be the next victim.\n\n"Know thyself!" the infallible Oracle told him. But first he must save himself as he shuttled between worlds.\n\nOn Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games. On Phaze, he could survive only by mastering magic. And if he used any magic at all, the werewolf and unicorn who were his only friends were determined to kill him at once! 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 1 1 3 4 8 +1293 Liar! 1941 First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, May 1941 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 19 +1294 Runaround 1942 First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1941 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 19 +842 The Illearth War 1981 Cursed by a terrible disease, Thomas Covenant is an outcast in our world: shunned by his neighbours, pushed by loneliness to the edges of madness. Suddenly he is transported to a mysterious and beautiful new world - The Land - where gentle people work magic with wood and stone, and the very earth and air bring healing. Covenant is welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour: his maimed hand and white-gold wedding ring mark him as a figure of power and sorcery, with a magic powerful against evil.\n But Covenant does not believe that the Land is real and thus, he becomes the unwilling tool of the enemy who seeks to destroy it: Lord Foul the Despiser.\n Three times, in their hour of greatest need, the peoples of the Land will summon him to their aid. Three times, as their reluctant leader, he will fail them.\n Only at the end, as a victorious Lord Foul prepares to devastate the Land and enslave its people forever, will Thomas Covenant call on the wild magic he alone can wield - for at last, epic battle with the forces of evil. 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +874 Chaos and Order 1995 Events were not moving as the Amnion had intended. Once again humans had been false in their dealings with the aliens.\n\nAs the planetoid Thanatos Minor exploded into atoms, the Trumpet hurtled into space only one step ahead of hostile pursuers. On board were Morn Hyland and her force-grown son Davies, cyborg Angus Thermopyle and Captain Nick Succorso, old enemies thrown together in a desperate bid for survival.\n\nFor both the Amnion and the UMCP, the immediate capture of the fleeing ship and the secrets it contained was imperative. But for Trumpet's exhausted crew the only hope lay in an illegal lab in the distant binary solar system of Valdor Industrial. It would be a journey of unpredictable danger, from which not all would return... 2003-03-12 00:00:00 2003-03-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 13 +972 Captive Universe 1978 The valley was isolated in time and space, a land of barbarous science and human sacrifice.\nCoatlicue the Dreadful stalked the night, her twin serpent heads dealing death to taboo-breakers.\nCitlallatonac the first priest sacrificed anyone believed to be possessed by the gods.\nChimal rebelled. He wanted to escape the cruel confines of his lost civilization, to venture into the unknown realm beyond the valley - into a world of hope ... and nightmare, too. 2003-03-17 00:00:00 2003-09-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 5 +1016 West 1990 Civilized people are never prepared for the collapse of civilization. One day, without warning, there is no water in the taps, no shows on TV. You would trade your whole house for a loaded pistol so you could dare to open the door.\n\nOnly six missiles flew in World War III, but that was enough to change the world drastically. A few communities are trying to hold on. Word has spread: Head for the Rocky Mountains. There's peace there, and enough to eat, and thousands make the dangerous trek across the plains. Yet even in a haven, there are some people who just don't fit in. These are the folk of the fringe. And all they want is to go home. 2003-03-13 00:00:00 2003-03-22 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 7 +1041 The Cosmic Trilogy 1989 Malacandra - cold and archaic - home to multitudinous and unimaginable races. To this mysterious new world comes the malice of two men and their captive Dr Ransom, and innocent hostage to the unknown...\n\nPlunging though the cloud belt of the young and joyous Venus, known as Perelandra, Ransom has been sent by the eldila to battle against evil incarnate - and decide the planet's destiny.\n\nYet finally the powerful forces unleashed in the Solar System will descend onto an unsuspecting Earth... 2003-03-22 00:00:00 2004-06-15 00:00:00 1 1 3 8 2 +1054 Dragonsdawn 1998 IN THE BEGGINING...\n\nBefore Thread, before the Dragons, before the Holds and the Weyrs and the elite Dragonriders of Pern, was just the great ship gliding through space with nearly thousand colonists prepared to tackle the mighty tasks of beginning a new world on a strange planet.\n\nIt was a jewel of a planet - with rivers and seas and mountains, and breathable air and growing things. Then came the terror.\n\nThe strange, unidentifiable circles in the grass suddenly revealed a meaning, and every living thing was at risk. Many died - a horrible and consuming death. All resources, every man, woman and child had to fight the terrible nightmare of Thread.\n\nBut a new creature was about to save the planet. From the delicate fire lizards a new life was born - a new symbiosis between man and beast.\n\nTHE LEGEND OF PERN WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2004-09-25 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +1295 Evidence 1946 First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1946 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 19 +1297 The Evitable Conflict 1950 First appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, June 1950 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 19 +1298 Feminine Intuition 1969 First appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1969 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 1 19 +1299 The Bicentennial Man 1976 First appeared in Stellar #2 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-01 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 19 +1300 Someday 1956 First appeared in Infinity Science Fiction, August 1956 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 19 +1142 Lucifer's Hammer 1991 The chances that LUCIFER's HAMMER would his the earth head-on were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a hundred. And then... 2003-05-26 00:00:00 2004-02-21 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 23 +1149 Blue Mars 1996 Mars has grown up.\n\nIt's fully terraformed - specifically engineered plants and animals live by recently formed canals and stormy seas - and it is politically independent. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth.\n\nEarth has grown too much.\n\nChronic overpopulation, bitter nationalism, scarce resources: to too many Terrans, Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for, fight for... perhaps even die for. 2003-05-28 00:00:00 2003-07-27 00:00:00 1 1 1 2 25 +1202 Cloud Warrior 1983 Ten centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in the War of a Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes. But the primitive Mutes possess ancient powers greater than any machine... 2003-06-02 00:00:00 2004-01-22 00:00:00 1 1 1 3 5 +1438 The Invisible Man 1897 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2008-02-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 5 42 +1237 The Snare 1994 JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACE TO ALTERNATE WORLDS AND THE NEAR FUTURE IN A SUPERB COLLECTION OF INTERCONNECTED STORIES\n\nThe title story is a poignant and moving tale which deals sensitively with the eternal blight of humankind - cancer, Sandy is in the last throes of life and has one final wish. A wish that, sadly, cannot possibly be fulfilled. For Sandy would like to visit the Round Table of King Arthur - an impossible task, but one which is about to be realised. In Dreambridge, the last tree which links this world to the world of the feys has been brutally attacked. Kirelle, apprentice healer, has been chosen to seek revenge on the humans who have so thoughtlessly attempted to destroy this sacred link. Can they be made to understand the gravity of their actions? And in Janny Wurt's brilliant Fleet stories we follow the fortunes and encounters with the space-pirate MacKenzie James. Theirs is a relationship that will captivate all readers and leave you wondering who the villain really is 2003-06-21 00:00:00 2004-03-08 00:00:00 1 2 3 7 14 +1322 Robots in Combination 1988 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1324 Robot Visions 1990 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 19 +1482 Paul of Dune 2008 PAUL OF DUNE beings the story of those twelve fateful years and the wars of the Jihad of Paul Muad'Dib.\n\nIt is an epic of battle and betrayal: of love and idealism; of ambition and intrigue. Above all, it is the story of how Paul Atreides - who achieved absolute power when scarcely more than a boy - changes from an idealist into a dictator who is the prisoner of the bureaucrats and fanatics who surround him. 2010-10-20 00:00:00 2011-05-09 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 30 +1359 The Battle of Corrin 2004 Legends of Dune 3\n\nHumanity can still win -\nif it can make the final sacrifice\n\nTHE BATTLE OF CORRIN\n\nThe universal computer mind Omnius has retreated to its last stronghold, where it plots a devastating new strategy that could undo the victories of the Butlerian Jihad. The surviving Titans are creating new lieutenants to do their will when at last they return to attack the human beings they once ruled.\n\nIn the years of peace too many of mankind have forgotten that their machine enemies never sleep.\n\nBut some have forgotten nothing - and learned from their triumphs. The brilliant military commander Vorian Atreides, son of a Titan, has the gift of long life from his terrifying father and knows the machines minds better than any man alive. Norma Cenva, the genius inventory of humanity;s best defences, dreams of new discoveries that will make man invincible.\n\nAnd on the windswept desert planet Arrakis, the power that can give them victory waits. 2004-09-06 00:00:00 2004-09-17 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 30 +1395 Geomancer 2001 Two hundred years ago the Charon fought for their lives against the creatures of the Void. Hunted and afraid, the last of the Charon sought to cross the Forbidding and take refuge on the human world of Santhenar.\n\nIn the battle that followed the power of the Charon was broken and humanity saved - but every victory comes at a price...\n\nFor in that battle that followed the Forbidding was destroyed. Now the forces that slaughtered the Charon have emerged from the Void, and Santhenar's people fight a desperate battle for survival.\n\nBut there is yet hop. For in the Secret Arts there lies hidden a strength as perilous and deadly as anything the Void commands. And it is the destiny of one woman to wield that power - to become a warrior, a leader, a saviour ... A Geomancer. 2005-09-17 00:00:00 2005-09-27 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 23 +1363 Bearing an Hourglass 1985 In a world where physics and magic flow side by side, the Incarnation of Time is a potentially powerful figure. But Chronos is fated to perform his task backwards: he begins his career at its end - as a complete novice, ill-equipped to cope with the subtle schemes of Satan, the Father of Lies and Illusions.\n\nIt was after the death of the child he had fathered, and the suicide of the woman he loved, that Norton accepted the role of Time - and took up the power-filled hourglass.\n\nBut his terrible loss, combined with his awesome capabilities, made him peculiarly vulnerable to Satan's wiles... 2004-09-18 00:00:00 2005-01-10 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 10 +1364 For Love of Evil 1989 Parry is a young apprentice and gifted musician; Jolie is a village girl whom he woos and wins - only to lose her to an early violent death. But Parry survives and prospers; first as a powerful sorcerer, later as a monk, and finally - in this mortal lifetime, at least - as a powerful Inquisitor.\n\nThis last vocation is a trap for Parry. For in it, he not only winnows the damned souls from the saved, but he finally succumbs to the temptations of a demoness.\n\nLiving out his final days in complete depravity, Parry ends his life at the gates of Hell itself actually confessing Lucifer for dominion over the infernal realms... 2004-09-18 00:00:00 2005-01-12 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 10 +1365 With a Tangled Skein 1981 When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil's.\nHoping for revenge. Niobe accepted a position as one of the three Aspects of Fate, only to find that Satan's plots were tangled into the very Tapestry of Fate. Now the Evil One was laying a trap to ruin Niobe's granddaughter Luna, who threatened his plans—and he had tricked her son into Hell.\nNiobe's only chance to save her son and Luna was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit—a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan's devising! 2004-09-18 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 8 +1366 The P.E.R.N. Survey 1993 Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture culture undetected, is condemned\n to be isolated in space.\n\nHere is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold - a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.\n\nAnd here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to the realise that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly fored Benden Weyr. 2004-09-25 00:00:00 2004-09-25 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 20 +1368 The Dolphins' Bell 1993 Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture culture undetected, is condemned\n to be isolated in space.\n\nHere is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold - a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.\n\nAnd here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to the realise that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly fored Benden Weyr. 2004-09-25 00:00:00 2004-09-25 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 20 +1361 Phaze Doubt 1991 At last! Piers Anthony presents the final, enthralling chapter of his acclaimed Apprentice Adept series. The dual worlds of magic and science - Phaze and Proton - are threatened by a terrifying species of beings, more powerful and destructive than any force on the planet. Only two special children, Nepe and Flach, will dare to fight back - by befriending one of the enemy... 2004-09-18 00:00:00 2004-10-09 00:00:00 1 1 3 6 8 +1369 The Ford of Red Hanrahan 1993 Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture culture undetected, is condemned\n to be isolated in space.\n\nHere is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold - a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.\n\nAnd here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to the realise that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly fored Benden Weyr. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2004-09-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 20 +1485 The Last Dark 2013 Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land".\n\nNow they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles they discover in each other their true power - and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the Worlds End from unmaking Time.\n\nNevertheless they must resist the ruin of all things giving their last strength in the service of the worlds continuance. 2011-03-08 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 3 1 12 31 +1371 Rescue Run 1993 Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture culture undetected, is condemned\n to be isolated in space.\n\nHere is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold - a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.\n\nAnd here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to the realise that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly fored Benden Weyr. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2004-09-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 20 +1386 The Runes of the Earth 2004 Since their publication more than twenty years ago, the first six books in the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant have sold more than 10 million copies and have been published around the world. Now, with The Runes of the Earth, Donaldson returns to the Land, and the story of Thomas Covenant.\n\nStruck down with a deadly disease, Covenant is abandoned by his wife and son. Alone and despairing, he is drawn into the Land, where the earth itself brings healing. He is welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour, but cannot - will not - accept this magical world is real. But the Land itself is under threat, and only Covenant has the power to save it.\n\nAs Covenant battles to save the world he has come to love, he is killed: his death is both the ultimate sacrifice and his redemption.\n\nNow comes the book every fantasy reader has been waiting for. It's ten years on, and Dr Linden Avery had thought she would never see the Land, or Covenant, her beloved, again. But Lord Foul has stolen her adopted son, and there is more at risk than the lie of the boy she adores: Lord Foul is unmaking the very laws of nature and if he is not stopped, he could destroy everything.\n\nAnd though Linden believes Covenant dead, he keeps sending her messages: 'Find me', and 'You're the only one who can do this', and 'Remember that I'm dead'.\n\nThe Land is in turmoil, and Lord Foul has plans for them all... 2004-12-28 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 3 1 12 27 +1387 King of Foxes 2003 Talon, last of the Orosini tribe has been transformed by the Conclave of Shadows from a trusting young boy to the dashing young nobleman Talwin Hawkins, now Roldem's premier swordsman. The title, won at the Masters' Court, before the King, brought him a step closer to his desire - to avenge the massacre of his family. Two participants in the slaughter are already dead by his hand; Lieutenant Capaneal fell under his blade during the Masters' Tournament, and Raven, the mercenary captain, died whilst trying to butchers an Orodon village, just as he destroyed Tal's people.\n\nBut Tal's desire for vengeance will not be satisfied until the reason for the massacres has been uncovered and their architect revealed and punished. The Conclave demands its membership price from Tal: he must gather information on Laso Varen, a magician of terrible power and subtle craft, dangerous beyond contemplation. And to do this means service with the sorcerer's master, Duke Kaspar of Olasko - swearing loyalty to the very man who ordered the destruction of everything TAl loved.\n\nTal must now face the dilemma of serving two masters, two deadly enemies: Kaspar of Olasko and the Conclave of Shadows. 2005-04-24 00:00:00 2008-01-04 00:00:00 1 3 1 5 25 +1388 Crisis on Doona 1994 RETURN TO DOONA\n\nMore than twenty-five years ago, the first humans had set foot on Doona and had found a beautiful, unspoilt planet. But they had also found that they were not alone.\n\nTheir early survey had completely ignore or missed the fact that the planet was already settled - by the alien, feline Hrrubans.\n\nThe ensuing conflict let to the historic Decision at Doona - a social experiment in living together that was to last a quarter of a century.\n\nNow that contract has run out and s up for renewal. Everything that Human and Hrruban has worked for - particularly the delicate alliance itself - is in peril and could be destroyed utterly... 2005-04-24 00:00:00 2005-06-06 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 23 +1389 The Novels of Ray Bradbury 1984 Here for the first time in one volume are Ray Bradbury's three haunting novels Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.\n\nFarenhiet 451 is a famous and terrifying fable which has also been filmed by the French director Francois Truffaut.\n\nDandelion Wine is a beautiful novel - full of summer, set in the real world but enriched by Bradbury's original imagination and his unique gift for fantasy.\n\nSomething Wicked This Way Comes is a novel of pure and classic fantasy imbued with a frightening air of evil.\n\nTogether these novels reveal the range of imagination, the art, the phenomenon that is Ray Bradbury. 2005-04-24 00:00:00 2005-05-21 00:00:00 1 3 3 7 10 +1306 Christmas With Rodney 1988 First appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1988 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 8 19 +1428 Quicksilver 2004 In this wonderfully inventive follow-up to his bestseller Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery, men and women whose exploits defined an age known as the Baroque.\n\nDaniel Waterhouse possesses a brilliant scientific mind -- and yet knows that his genius is dwarfed by that of his friends Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Robert Hooke. He rejects the arcane tradition of alchemy, even as it is giving birth to new ways of understanding the world.\n\nJack Shaftoe began his life as a London street urchin and is now a reckless wanderer in search of great fortune. The intrepid exploits of Half-Cocked Jack, King of the Vagabonds, are quickly becoming the stuff of legend throughout Europe.\n\nEliza is a young woman whose ingenuity is all that keeps her alive after being set adrift from the Turkish harem in which she has been imprisoned since she was a child.\n\nDaniel, Jack, and Eliza will traverse a landscape populated by mad alchemists, Barbary pirates, and bawdy courtiers, as well as historical figures including Samuel Pepys, Ben Franklin, and other great minds of the age. Traveling from the infant American colonies to the Tower of London to the glittering courts of Louis XIV, and all manner of places in between, this magnificent historical epic brings to vivid life a time like no other, and establishes its author as one of the preeminent talents of our own age. 2006-11-17 00:00:00 2009-01-05 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 21 +1517 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007 2016-09-21 00:00:00 2016-09-21 00:00:00 1 3 1 2 68 +1429 The Confusion 2004 In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.\n\nMeanwhile, back in Europe ...\n\nThe exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child.\n\nWhile ...\n\nNewton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. 2006-11-17 00:00:00 2007-11-11 00:00:00 1 3 1 7 62 +1433 The Assault on Reason 2007 How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making, Degrade Democracy and Imperil America and the World. We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the US electorate's thinking, and America is currently in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous government in sharing the truth with its citizenry. Related to this, and of even greater concern, is the administration's lack of interest in the process by which the truth is ascertained - including open inquiry, in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions.\n\nHow did the US \nget here? And how much damage has been done to the functioning of American democracy and its roles as steward of its own national security and guardian of the wider world? Drawing on a life's experience in politics as well as on the work of expects across a broad range of disciplines, former US Vice President Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth, has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking about the vital role of reason in a healthy democracy. 2007-06-15 00:00:00 2007-11-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 0 +1434 H G Wells 1983 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2008-06-05 00:00:00 1 3 1 4 42 +1436 The Time Machine 1895 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2007-11-12 00:00:00 1 3 1 3 42 +1437 The Island of Dr Moreau 1896 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2008-02-03 00:00:00 1 3 1 5 42 +1307 Robots I Have Known 1954 appeared in "Computers and Automation", October 1954 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 19 +1316 The Robot as Enemy 1979 Experience Asimov at his extraordinary best - in the brilliant companion volume to ROBOT DREAMS.\n\nAt the age of nineteen, Isaac Asimov wrote his first robot story, Robbie, which gave birth to not only a new concept in science fiction, but also paved way to a new science - robotics.\n\nNow, in ROBOT VISIONS, Asimov has collected 36 of his most important and entertaining robot short stories and essays.\n\nFrom Robbie himself, to the tales of Susan Calvin, first robot psychologist, to the human and robot detectives Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw - here are key moments in the fictional history of robot - human relations. 2004-05-01 00:00:00 2004-05-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 19 +1362 And Eternity 1990 IN PURSUIT OF THE ULTIMATE GOOD\n\nAfter an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.\n\nJoined in Afterlife by Jolie - her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself - together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.\n\nAn extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns - facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves. 2004-09-18 00:00:00 2005-01-16 00:00:00 1 1 1 5 59 +1439 The First Men in the Moon 1901 A literary pioneer in many fields, H.G. Wells made his name with the first of his exciting 'scientific romances' - THE TIME MACHINE. His brilliant imagination and the logical presentation of his horrific tales is combined with a down-to-earth realism and make his futuristic ideas seem only too possible. Above all his stories have lost nothing of their horror and freshness since they were first published. 2007-11-12 00:00:00 2008-06-05 00:00:00 1 3 1 6 42 +526 Tigana 1990 stuff for cam Tigana\r\n\r\nSet in a long-vanquished land Tigana is the deeply moving story of a beleaguered land caught in a web of tyranny, struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the dark sorceries of the tyrant King Brandin that even the very name of their once beautiful land cannot be spoken or remembered. But years after their homelands devastation, a handful of men and women, following a leader whose identity is the most closely guarded secret of their day, set in motion a dangerous crusade - to overthrow their conquerors and bring back to the world the lost brightness of an obliterated name: Tigana. 2003-01-12 00:00:00 2021-01-15 04:16:14.449501 1 3 1 1 24 +1370 The Second Weyr 1993 Here are five gripping episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture culture undetected, is condemned\n to be isolated in space.\n\nHere is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins. Here, too, is the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold - a mammoth undertaking in the early days of Pern.\n\nAnd here is one of the most fascinating dragon tales ever written by Anne McCaffrey, when Fort Weyr was the only weyr, and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to the realise that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly fored Benden Weyr. 2003-04-29 00:00:00 2004-09-26 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 20 +1358 The Machine Crusade 2003 Legends of Dune 2\n\nThe first battle was a victory.\nBut the war is just beginning...\n\nTHE MACHINE CRUSADE\n\nEarth is a radioactive ruin. But the first campaign of the Butlerian Jihad has given new hope to mankind. Where once all-powerful machines ruled, unchallenged except in a few beleaguered worlds, now a new era has begun Serena Butler, whose murdered child has become a symbol for oppressed humanity, inspires a war against the thinking computers led by her brilliant generals Xavier Harkonnen and Vorian Atreides.\n\nBut four of the Titans - murderous machines with human brains and human cunning - still remain, and they seek a new way to challenge both humans and computers. And the universal computer mind, Omnius, still wields most of its power.\n\nInto this unstable landscape where brutal massacres alternate with short-lived victories, come two new factors.\n\nFrom the depths of space and time, a free Titan - the near-legendary Hecate - joins forces with humanity. And in a humble laboratory on the planet Poritrin, the mathematical genius Norma Cenva is perfecting a theory that will utterly transform the rules of space travel. 2004-09-06 00:00:00 2004-09-17 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 30 +1384 Fortress of Owls 2000 THE SCARLETT BANNERS OF WAR\n\nIn a world of constant strife, King Cefwyn and his brid Ninevrise are beset by\nplotters, traitors and enemies at every turn. Cefwyn's ally is Tristen, a\nShaping of the last great Sihhe wizard Mauryl, and now the King's Steward in\nthe land of Amefel. When war threatens once again, knowledge unfolds in\nTristen's mind of a far older and more fearsome struggle: the ancient war\nbetween wizardry and sorcery, embodied by the shadowy immortal enemies Mauryl\nand Hasufin. Tristen was made as a weapon in this terrible conflict. He must\ntake up the sword and the Sihhe magic he has forsworn, for he is destiny's own.\nCefwyn, his friend and his King, face dangers darker than armies can fight\nalone. 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2005-01-23 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 25 +1372 Ancestors of Avalon 2004 The full sweep of the rich history of Avalon - from the fall of Atlantis to the founding of a new temple on the mist-shrouded isle of Britain - is finally revealed in this magnificent tale.\n\nThe priests and priestesses of Atlantis have known for many years that the Sea Kingdoms were doomed. Even so, they are unprepared for the catastrophe when it occurs.\n\nMicail and Tiriki, prince and princess, priest and priestess of the last island to fall, are separated during the escape and land on different shores of the island of Britain. Micail's party is led by Prince Tjalan, who dreams of founding a glorious new empire in the tradition of Atlantis, whether the local tribes like it or not. Meanwhile Tiriki and the elderly priest Chedan lead their smaller group to form a new community in harmony with the existing population at the sacred Tor (Glastonbury). Once the two factions become aware of each other, conflict will be inevitable. 2004-10-02 00:00:00 2005-04-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 25 +1373 This Accursed Land 1991 Sir Douglas Mawson's epic and tragic journey across one thousand kilometers of unknown Antarctic wasteland has been described by Sir Edmund Hillary as the "The greatest story of the lone survival in Polar exploration".\n\nThis Accursed Land tells that story; How Mawson declined to join Captain Scott's ill-fated British Expedition in order to lead the Australasian expedition and the three-man team - Mawson, Ninnis and Mertz - who set out with husky teams to explore the far eastern coastline of the Antarctic continent.\n\nThe loss of the young officer Ninnis and most of the supplies turned a hazardous trek into a nightmare. Mawson and Mertz were trapped 500 kilometers from base with a bare nine days' food and nothing for the dogs. On the journey back they lived by slaughtering there starving animals and eating what is now known to be poisoned meat. Mawson's ultimate and lone struggle for survival - starving, poisoned, exhausted and indescribably cold - is a powerful story of human strength, grippingly told by Leonard Bickel. 2004-10-03 00:00:00 2004-10-03 00:00:00 1 2 1 1 33 +1376 City of Illusions \N 2004-11-07 00:00:00 2004-11-07 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1390 Farenheit 451 1954 Here for the first time in one volume are Ray Bradbury's three haunting novels Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.\n\nFarenhiet 451 is a famous and terrifying fable which has also been filmed by the French director Francois Truffaut.\n\nDandelion Wine is a beautiful novel - full of summer, set in the real world but enriched by Bradbury's original imagination and his unique gift for fantasy.\n\nSomething Wicked This Way Comes is a novel of pure and classic fantasy imbued with a frightening air of evil.\n\nTogether these novels reveal the range of imagination, the art, the phenomenon that is Ray Bradbury. 2005-04-24 00:00:00 2005-04-26 00:00:00 1 3 3 8 10 +1391 Dandelion Wine 1957 Here for the first time in one volume are Ray Bradbury's three haunting novels Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.\n\nFarenhiet 451 is a famous and terrifying fable which has also been filmed by the French director Francois Truffaut.\n\nDandelion Wine is a beautiful novel - full of summer, set in the real world but enriched by Bradbury's original imagination and his unique gift for fantasy.\n\nSomething Wicked This Way Comes is a novel of pure and classic fantasy imbued with a frightening air of evil.\n\nTogether these novels reveal the range of imagination, the art, the phenomenon that is Ray Bradbury. 2005-04-24 00:00:00 2005-05-21 00:00:00 1 3 3 8 10 +1484 Against All Things Ending 2010 Thomas Covenant is alive again, restored to his mortal body by the unimaginable combined force of his own white gold ring, Linden Avery's Staff of Law, and the ancient dagger called High Lord Loric's krill. His resurrection is Linden's defiant act of love, despite warnings from mortals and immortals that unleashing this much power would destroy the world. She brought his spirit back from its prison in the Arch of Time, and revived his slain body, so precious to her, his wild white hair like a flame, his face now etched with lines of pain. Thomas Covenant is returned to her. \n\nBut the truth is inescapable: The thunderclap of power has awakened the Worm of the World's End, and all of them, and the Land itself, are forfeit to its devouring. If they have any chance to save the Land, it will come from unlikely sources - including the mysterious boy Jeremiah, Linden's adopted son, whose secrets are only beginning to come to light. And it will come from sacrifices, some freely offered by friends who have traveled far and trusted much, and some taken by force that can be recognized only later as compassion. 2011-03-08 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 2 1 12 3 +1456 Sandworms of Dune 2007 When Frank Herbert died in 1986, the epic he began with Dune and continued over the course of two decades to Chapterhouse: Dune remained unfinished. For nearly twenty years, millions of fans were left with a cliffhanger -- until now.\n\nWorking from Frank Herbert's last outline, his son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson have at last completed the chronological grand finale to the world's most-beloved science fiction saga. Sandworms of Dune is the conclusion to the epic, finishing the story as the original author intended.\n\nThe foe that humanity believed to be long defeated has reappeared from the edge of the universe ­ and mankind's last defenders fear that nothing can stop it now.\n\nSlaughtering whole planets with biological plagues, the terrible Enemy accidentally reawakened by the Honored Matres approaches ever closer to Chapterhouse, where Mother Commander Murbella and her combined force of Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres desperately gather their every defense to stop its advance. Meanwhile, Sheanna's no-ship flees from both Murbella and the Enemy, carrying the last surviving sandworms from Arrakis and the reborn heroes of past ages, among them Duncan Idaho, Paul Atreides, the Lady Jessica, the God Emperor Leto II, and even the traitor Dr. Yueh.\n\nOne of them is the ultimate Kwisach Haderach ­ the messiah who will change the world in ways that no-one can predict. But far away on a horribly altered Caladan, the Enemy seeks to create a Kwisach Haderach of its own. 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2011-05-09 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 30 +1457 Fatal Revenant 2007 Linden Avery watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant and her adopted son, Jeremiah, ride desperately towards Revelstone. But their reunion has vast consequences which she could not have foreseen. Soon she is betrayed by people whom she most needs to trust. Transported deep into the Land’s past, she is forced to confront mysterious strangers, legendary heroes and ancient evils, and to stand alone against the malevolence of the Despiser’s minions.\n\nWhen she finds herself abandoned in Garroting Deep, the most bloodthirsty of the Land’s long-dead forests, she reaches a fearsome decision; if she is to end the Despiser’s evil and her own son’s suffering, she must reshape reality. For this, she needs to find Loric’s krill, a weapon lost in the Hills of Andelain millennia ago. And she needs the aid of friends and allies who would turn against her if she revealed her intent. 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 27 +1461 The Shadow Isle 2009 When Evandar transformed the dying Rhodry Maelwaedd into a dragon, the strength of the mystical dweomer power he invoked astonished even Dallandra, his lover and a powerful mage in her own right. Now she has taken on the task of revoking the spell and setting Rhodry free of his assumed form - if she can discover how.\n\nThe secret may lie on Haen Marn, the mysterious island that disappeared from the Northlands during the First Horsekin War - if she can find it. And if she does unearth the secret, working the dweomer might kill her, just as it killed Evandar himself.\n\nIn the epic penultimate novel of Katherine Kerr's highly acclaimed epic fantasy series, the threads of the intricatelyu woven tale of the land of Deverry and her peoples draw together as ancient mysteries are about to be uncovered... 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2010-03-14 00:00:00 1 1 1 7 25 +1463 polar city blues 1991 POLAR POLITICS\n\nPolar City: capital of Hagar, one of a handful of worlds on which the tiny, human-dominated Republic sits, uneasily squeezed between the powerful Interstellar Confederation and the enormous Coreward Alliance.\n\nWhen a suspected alien spy from the Confederation Embassy is found murdered, a potentially explosive political situation faces Police Chief Bates. And when talented psychic Mulligan is brought to the scene to pick up echoes of the event, what he experiences sends him into amnesiac shock.\n\nMeanwhile, murders continue unabated and a major crisis threatens to destabilise the Republic... 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2008-05-25 00:00:00 1 1 1 4 6 +1392 Something Wicked This Way Comes 1963 Here for the first time in one volume are Ray Bradbury's three haunting novels Farenheit 451, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.\n\nFarenhiet 451 is a famous and terrifying fable which has also been filmed by the French director Francois Truffaut.\n\nDandelion Wine is a beautiful novel - full of summer, set in the real world but enriched by Bradbury's original imagination and his unique gift for fantasy.\n\nSomething Wicked This Way Comes is a novel of pure and classic fantasy imbued with a frightening air of evil.\n\nTogether these novels reveal the range of imagination, the art, the phenomenon that is Ray Bradbury. 2005-04-24 00:00:00 2005-05-21 00:00:00 1 3 3 6 10 +1469 Children of the Mind 1997 The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.\n\nJane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.\n\nSoon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves. 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2009-01-03 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 16 +1471 Shadow of the Hegemon 2000 Ender Wiggin and his fellow pupils at Battle School have defeated the alien forces in an extraordinary military operation. Ender's destiny among the stars awaits him, but for his young army it is time to return to earth. One by one, however, they are disappearing. Earth faces a new danger, only this time the enemy is much closer to home. 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 23 +1472 Shadow Puppets 2002 Manoeuvring through international politics and war, Peter Wiggin and Achilles fight a shadow-battle of propaganda and assassination. Each is determined to defeat the other and become Hegemon of Earth, but each has fought the other to a stalemate. Ender's greatest friend, Bean, might tip that balance, but he refuses to ally his tactical genius to either side ...\n\nBut now cloned embyros carrying Bean's brilliant intelligence have fallen into the hands of Achilles' people. If Bean cannot reclaim them Achilles will become unstoppable ... 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 3 12 23 +1473 Shadow of the Giant 2005 Bean, Ender Wiggins' former right-hand man, has shed his reputation as the smallest student at Battle School. He has completed his military service for the Hegemon, acting as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire that attacked Earth.\n\nHe and his wife, Petra, now yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known. Yet no such place exists on Earth, a world riddled with Bean's enemies from the past. Once again he must follow in Ender's footsteps and look to the stars. 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 0 +1486 Oceanic 2009 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 0 +1487 Lost Continent 2008 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 0 +1488 Dark Integers 2007 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 0 +1490 Crystal Nights 2008 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 0 +1492 Steve Fever 2007 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 2 0 +1494 Induction 2007 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 3 0 +1403 Scrutator 2003 The Node has failed, rendering humanity's battle clankers and the Aachim's constructs useless. The battle has been lost. Now hordes of alien lyrinx are swarming out of the tar pits of Snizort, intending to fall upon the survivors and destroy them to the last man.\n\nTiaan, crippled and unable to walk, is held prisoner by a vengeful Vithis, who is determined to extract her geomantic secrets from her at any cost. For his failings, Nish has been cast out and branded a traitor, while Irisis, accused of high treason, has been forced to flee for her life.\n\nThe fate of humanity is dependent on the survival of one wily old man, Scrutator Xervish Flydd. But Flydd has been blamed for the defeat a Snizort. His enemy, vicious Chief Scrutator Ghorr, has expelled him from the Council and stripped him of all rights. Now Flydd is condemned to die a brutish death as a slave, hauling ironclad clankers out of the battlefield mire until his heart bursts under the strain. 2005-11-13 00:00:00 2006-01-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 6 24 +1495 Singleton 2002 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 0 +1496 Oracle 2000 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 0 +1497 Border Guards 1999 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 4 0 +1498 Riding the Crocodile 2005 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 0 +1499 Glory 2007 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 6 0 +1500 Hot Rock 2009 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 0 +1404 Chimaera 2004 All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo's defences. Xervish Flydd, Irisis and their allies have been condemned to die in a brutal aerial spectacle designed to reinforce Chief Scrutator Ghorr's power and majesty.\n\nNish is their one remaining hope. But Nish is trapped in a burning watchtower, and hunted by both the scrutators and his former lover, Ullii, whose twin brother he accidentally killed. Before Nish can hope to rescue his friends, he must convince Ullii to spare him, then overcome the most powerful cabal of mancers in the world as well as the Council's four hundred crack guards.\n\nAnd even if he succeeds, to win the war the allies still have to defeat the scutators and overthrow Nennifer, the corrupt Council's dread bastion, before the rampaging lyrinx overwhelm all Santhenar. 2005-11-13 00:00:00 2006-01-15 00:00:00 1 1 1 9 24 +1502 Oceanic 1998 In these glimpses to the future Egan continues to explore the essence of what it is to be human, and the nature of what - and who - we are, in stories that range from parables of contemporary human conflict and ambition to far-future tales of our immortal descendants.\n\nReturn to the universe of the meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, which Egan explored in his critically acclaimed novel INCANDESCENCE: "Riding the Crocodile", which recounts an epic endeavour a million years from now to bridge the divide between the Amalgam and the reclusive Aloof; "Glory", set in the same future, in which two archaeologists strive to decipher the artefacts of an ancient civilisation, and "Hot Rock", where an obscure, sunless world conceals mind-spinning technological marvels, bitter factional struggles, and a many-layered secret history.\n\nThis superb collection also includes the title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Oceanic": a boy is inducted into a religion that becomes the centre of his life, but as an adult he must face evidence that casts a new light on his faith. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 0 +1504 Murder In Mississippi 2013 When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippis most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murdered – and what was more, the killer was black.\n\nAt first the murder seemed a twist on the old Deep South race crimes. But then more news rolled in. Maybe it was a dispute over money, or most intriguingly, over sex. Could the infamous racist actually have been secretly gay, with a thing for black men? Did Safran have the last footage of him alive? Could this be the story of a lifetime? Seizing his Truman Capote moment, he jumped on a plane to cover the trial.\n\nOver six months, Safran got deeper and deeper into the South, becoming entwined in the lives of those connected with the murder – white separatists, black campaigners, lawyers, investigators, neighbours, even the killer himself. And the more he talked with them, the less simple the crime, and the world, seemed. 2014-01-11 00:00:00 2014-01-11 00:00:00 1 2 1 12 24 +1510 Midkemia: Chronicles of Pug 2013 After inheriting the mantle as leader of Sorcerer's Isle, Magnus, Pug's son, unearthed his father's journal. Rather than consigning it to the library shelf, Magnus reorganized its contents and inserted some of his own observations and clarifications of his father's life. Here for the first time, father and son are united in a single story that charts the evolution of Midkemia itself. Complete with hand-drawn maps, which Pug collected throughout his life, that detail changes in Midkemia's geography as war ravages the land and physically alters the landscape, the book is part journal and part atlas. With thirty pieces of specially commissioned artwork that bring key moments in the Chaoswar Saga to vivid life, it delivers an in-depth look into the world of Midkemia as never seen before. 2014-02-02 00:00:00 2014-02-02 00:00:00 1 3 1 12 0 +1511 Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone 1998 What did Harry Potter know about magic? He was stuck living with the decidedly un-magical Dursleys, who hated him. He slept in a closet and ate their leftovers. But an owl messenger changes all that, with an invitation to attend the Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches, where it turns out Harry is already famous... 2016-09-21 00:00:00 2016-09-21 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 68 +1512 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 1999 In one of the most hotly anticipated sequel in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left off with Harry's second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, an outrageously conceited professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, and a mysterious force that turns Hogwarts students to stone. 2016-09-21 00:00:00 2016-09-21 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 68 +1509 A Kingdom Besieged \N 2014-02-02 00:00:00 2014-02-02 00:00:00 4 4 2 11 0 +1513 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 1999 FOR TWELVE long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.\n\nNow he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts ... he's at Hogwarts".\n\nHarry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst. 2016-09-21 00:00:00 2016-09-21 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 68 +1520 Earl Aubec 1993 Earl Aubec - Master of Chaos, charged to carve justice from the very stuff he presides over ...\n\nSimon of Byzantium - following Alexander the Great into the Orient, half-sure that he has thrown in his fortune with a living god...\n\nRackhir the Red Archer - Warrior priest of Phum, who sought the tranquillity of the lost, fabled, Tanelorn...\n\nKlein - the Russian agent, drawn inexorably into an inconceivable doom as the warlords gradually gain control of nuclear weapons... 2018-09-08 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 2 1 12 34 +1521 Sailing to Utopia 1993 The Tale of the Eternal Champion, Volume V. The Ice Schooner; The Black Corridor; The Distant Suns; Flux. Steering their great vessels over the frozen oceans of the Matto Grosso, they survive only by hunting the monstrous land whales and seal-packs that roam this icy world. Arflane and Ulrica play out their passion as The Ice Schooner sails the frozen wastes of fabled New York, realm of the Ice Mother who brings cold kindly death to her sons and daughters. Down The Black Corridor, at once deep space and his own psyche, Ryan is trapped aboard a spaceship fleeing the ruined Earth to the depths of an interstellar abyss, drawing him closer to his own deepest fears and fantasies. Max Von Bek plunges into the Flux of the time-streams, seeking salvation and discovering a nightmare, while Jerry Cornelius and his gallant crew set off to unravel the mystery of The Distant Suns. 2018-09-08 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 2 1 12 34 +1402 Tetrarch 2002 SANTHENAR IS ON ITS KNEES. The war with the alien lyrinx drags on, and humanity is losing it, but there is worse to come. The Aachim have invaded with an irresistible force: a fleet of battle constructs. Cursing humanity for the loss of his own clan, the embittered Aachim leader, Vithis, demands half the world in reparation. The council is in no position to resist. But even if they agree to his demands, can anything satisfy his thirst for vengeance?\n\nTiaan is in despair. Her life is in ruins, and now she is being hunted through the abandoned city of Tithrax by an implacable Nish, who blames her for the attack.\n\nThe future of the world rests in the hands of three flawed people: Tiaan, whose geomancy holds the key to the power that can save or destroy them; Nish who has sworn to bring her to justice; and Irisis, whose great talents are hidden even from herself. 2005-10-02 00:00:00 2006-01-15 00:00:00 1 2 1 5 61 +1459 Childe Morgan 2008 Feared by the populace of Gwynedd and viewed with deep suspicion by the Church, the magical Deryni have no allies, yet they are quick to scorn the half-human, half-Deryni Alaric Morgan. Under the King's protection, Alaric has a future mapped out for him that should ensure his survival. For his Deryni blood makes him ideal to safeguard the powers of the Haldane kings and ensure that Prince Brion shall have the protection if his hereditary magic.\n\nBut Alaric is only four years old... 2008-04-26 00:00:00 2008-11-19 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 3 +1507 Magician's End 2013 Civil war is tearing apart the Kingdom of the Isles, for the throne lies empty and rivals are converging. Having spirited his beloved Princess Stephane safely out of Roldem, Hal -now Duke of Crydee- must turn his attention to the defence of the ancient realm so that a king can be anointed by the Congress of Lords, rather than by right of might.\n\nBut the greatest threat may well lie out of the hands of men. Somewhere in the Grey Towers Mountains something not of this world is emerging. It will require that alliances be made between mortal enemies if disaster is to be averted.\n\nElves and men must stand together, ancient heroes must rise again, dragons must fly and Pug, Magnus and the other magic-users of Midkemia must be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice if the whole world is to be saved. 2014-02-02 00:00:00 2014-02-02 00:00:00 1 3 1 12 67 +1514 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2000 It's the pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part saga of a young wizard's coming of age. The thickest. The juiciest yet. Harry Potter turns fourteen. But will all his friends? Rumors have persisted that one of the characters may not see the conclusion of this novel, something the author has refused either to confirm or deny. But we who love Ron, Hermione, Hagrid...even pitiful Neville Longbottom...wait anxiously to see if they will make it through safely. 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Whether it's taking a front-row seat at the International Quidditch World Cup, or meeting the new Defense-Against-the-Dark-Arts teacher, or finding out if Harry really does start a romance with Cho Chang, fans of the history-making boy-wizard will find their thirst for Hogwarts adventure slaked deliciously...at least for a little while! 2016-09-21 00:00:00 2016-09-21 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 68 +1515 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2003 The book that took the world by storm....In his fifth year at Hogwart's, Harry faces challenges at every turn, from the dark threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be- Named and the unreliability of the government of the magical world to the rise of Ron Weasley as the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Along the way he learns about the strength of his friends, the fierceness of his enemies, and the meaning of sacrifice. 2016-09-21 00:00:00 2016-09-21 00:00:00 1 3 1 1 68 +1518 Slant 1997 The Majority Of The World's Population Are Therapied Model Citizens. But There Seems To Be A Slow Unwinding, Becoming Ever Faster As Old Mental Illnesses Return To Haunt People Long Cured. In Different Ways, Both Mary Choy, Policewoman, And Martin Burke, Therapist, Become Involved In This Strange Event 2018-09-08 00:00:00 2018-09-08 00:00:00 1 1 1 12 23 +1519 gold 1995 Gold is Isaac Asimov's first original collection of science fiction in over a decade. It is also his last science fiction collection, one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that have never before appeared in book form.\nGold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-five year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of SF for its practitioners, for its millions of readers, and for the world at large. The stories collected here for the first time range from the humorous to the profound, for Asimov was engaged until the end of his days in the work of redefining and expanding the boundaries of the literature he loved, and indeed, helped create. And there is more. For at the heart of this extraordinary compendium is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality-a gamble Asimov himself made. 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+ + +-- +-- Name: rating_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE SET; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +SELECT pg_catalog.setval('public.rating_id_seq', 17, true); + + +-- +-- Name: series_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE SET; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +SELECT pg_catalog.setval('public.series_id_seq', 138, true); + + +-- +-- Name: bdb_user bdb_user_dn_key; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.bdb_user + ADD CONSTRAINT bdb_user_dn_key UNIQUE (dn); + + +-- +-- Name: author pk_author; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.author + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_author PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: bdb_user pk_bdb_user_id; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.bdb_user + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_bdb_user_id PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: book pk_book; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_book PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_author_link pk_book_author_link; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_author_link + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_book_author_link PRIMARY KEY (book_id, author_id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_genre_link pk_book_genre_link; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_genre_link + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_book_genre_link PRIMARY KEY (book_id, genre_id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_loan_link pk_book_loan_link; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_loan_link + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_book_loan_link PRIMARY KEY (book_id, loan_id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_series_link pk_book_series_link; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_series_link + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_book_series_link PRIMARY KEY (book_id, series_id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_sub_book_link pk_book_sub_book_link; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_sub_book_link + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_book_sub_book_link PRIMARY KEY (book_id, sub_book_id); + + +-- +-- Name: condition pk_condition; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.condition + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_condition PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: covertype pk_covertype; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.covertype + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_covertype PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: genre pk_genre_lst; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.genre + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_genre_lst PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: loan pk_loan; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.loan + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_loan PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: owned pk_owned; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.owned + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_owned PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: publisher pk_publisher; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.publisher + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_publisher PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: rating pk_rating; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.rating + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_rating PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: series pk_series; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.series + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_series PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_user pk_user_id; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_user + ADD CONSTRAINT pk_user_id PRIMARY KEY (id); + + +-- +-- Name: author u_author_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.author + ADD CONSTRAINT u_author_name UNIQUE (firstnames, surname); + + +-- +-- Name: condition u_condition_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.condition + ADD CONSTRAINT u_condition_name UNIQUE (name); + + +-- +-- Name: covertype u_covertype_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.covertype + ADD CONSTRAINT u_covertype_name UNIQUE (name); + + +-- +-- Name: genre u_genre_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.genre + ADD CONSTRAINT u_genre_name UNIQUE (name); + + +-- +-- Name: loan u_loan_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.loan + ADD CONSTRAINT u_loan_name UNIQUE (firstnames, surname, date_lent); + + +-- +-- Name: owned u_owned_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.owned + ADD CONSTRAINT u_owned_name UNIQUE (name); + + +-- +-- Name: publisher u_publisher_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.publisher + ADD CONSTRAINT u_publisher_name UNIQUE (name); + + +-- +-- Name: rating u_rating_name; Type: CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.rating + ADD CONSTRAINT u_rating_name UNIQUE (name); + + +-- +-- Name: book book_moddatetime; Type: TRIGGER; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +CREATE TRIGGER book_moddatetime BEFORE UPDATE ON public.book FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION public.moddatetime('modified'); + + +-- +-- Name: book_author_link fk_book_author_link_author_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_author_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_author_link_author_id FOREIGN KEY (author_id) REFERENCES public.author(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_author_link fk_book_author_link_book_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_author_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_author_link_book_id FOREIGN KEY (book_id) REFERENCES public.book(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book fk_book_condition; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_condition FOREIGN KEY (condition) REFERENCES public.condition(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book fk_book_covertype; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_covertype FOREIGN KEY (covertype) REFERENCES public.covertype(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_genre_link fk_book_genre_link_book_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_genre_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_genre_link_book_id FOREIGN KEY (book_id) REFERENCES public.book(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_genre_link fk_book_genre_link_genre_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_genre_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_genre_link_genre_id FOREIGN KEY (genre_id) REFERENCES public.genre(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_loan_link fk_book_loan_link_book_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_loan_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_loan_link_book_id FOREIGN KEY (book_id) REFERENCES public.book(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_loan_link fk_book_loan_link_loan_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_loan_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_loan_link_loan_id FOREIGN KEY (loan_id) REFERENCES public.loan(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book fk_book_owned; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_owned FOREIGN KEY (owned) REFERENCES public.owned(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book fk_book_publisher; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_publisher FOREIGN KEY (publisher) REFERENCES public.publisher(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book fk_book_rating; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_rating FOREIGN KEY (rating) REFERENCES public.rating(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_series_link fk_book_series_link_book_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_series_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_series_link_book_id FOREIGN KEY (book_id) REFERENCES public.book(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_series_link fk_book_series_link_series_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_series_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_series_link_series_id FOREIGN KEY (series_id) REFERENCES public.series(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_sub_book_link fk_book_sub_book_link_book_id; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_sub_book_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_sub_book_link_book_id FOREIGN KEY (book_id) REFERENCES public.book(id); + + +-- +-- Name: book_sub_book_link fk_book_sub_book_link_sub_book_; Type: FK CONSTRAINT; Schema: public; Owner: ddp +-- + +ALTER TABLE ONLY public.book_sub_book_link + ADD CONSTRAINT fk_book_sub_book_link_sub_book_ FOREIGN KEY (sub_book_id) REFERENCES public.book(id); + + +-- +-- PostgreSQL database dump complete +-- +