Black on Black
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| Author | Holly Lisle |
| ISBN | 0671721321 |
Faia, a shepherd girl, develops her magic powers until she is ready to seek revenge on those responsible for the destruction of her family., From the author whom Mercedes Lackey calls "one of the hottest writers I've come across in a long time", comes a mesmerizing, action-filled story. A simple shepherd...
| Author | Chris Dolley |
| ISBN | 1416509127 |
Graham Smith is a 33 year-old office messenger. To the outside world he's an obsessive-compulsive mute - weird but harmless. But to Graham Smith, it's the world that's weird. And far from harmless. He sees things others can't . . . or won't. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office...
| Author | David Weber |
| ISBN | 0671318322 |
There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was US Navy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible aeronautics...
| Author | Ellen Guon |
| ISBN | 0671721771 |
I downloaded a bunch of free books from the Baen library, and I don't think a single one of them was any good, at least for my taste.
This one was--I don't know, maybe it's meant to be a middle-grade book, in which case some of the behaviour might make sense? But for an adult, it was just stupid. The...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0671578219 |
“Tell them that I don’t know if we can release [him] alive by force. But I’ll promise to burn their planet for his funeral pyre if we can’t.”
This retelling of The Odyssey is another selection of the Venture Science Fiction series (an imprint of Arrow Books, not to be mistaken for the...
| Author | Linda Evans |
| ISBN | 0671875949 |
The sad thing is their are some really cool ideas like the idea that Odin is a villain and that it looks at the monsters as more of as tragic characters instead of as villains like they usually are. But the problem comes mostly with the main character Randy is just really boring and seems more like a gary stu...
| Author | Scott G. Gier |
| ISBN | 0345395093 |
Genellan -- a beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return. Genellan -- the sole refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Now winter is coming, and the...
Jason Wood was just an information specialist - finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from and occasional crook trying to eliminate the evidence. The a body with two holes in its neck and no blood left turned up at his back...
| Author | Dave Freer |
| ISBN | 0671578316 |
Greetings one and all! After reading "Rats, Bats and Vats" (RBV) and "The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly" (RBU), I thought I would try Dave Freer's first novel. I'm very happy I did. It starts off on three different paths that eventually meet up and that's when things really take off.
I loved the characterization...
| Author | Spider Robinson |
| ISBN | 0440102359 |
HALF AN OAF - If you're buying a time machine, don't go to a discount house!
SATAN'S CHILDREN - One way to save the world is to blow its mind.
THE MAGNIFICENT CONSPIRACY - A free lunch is always the most expensive kind.
TIN EAR - How'd you like to play 'Name that Tune'. with life life...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0743435273 |
This collection of three novels by the creator of Retief features three heroes on interstellar adventures.
Contents:
Galactic Odyssey (aka Spaceman!) was first serialized in IF magazine (May-July, 1967) and first published in novel form by Berkley in 1967.
"A Trip to...
| Author | Christopher Anvil |
| ISBN | 0743488482 |
The crew of the ship were marooned on a planet with no ship repair facilities, where the well-meaning schemes of social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. They had their own invention with them-an emotional amplifier, which could cause anyone to feel a heightened emotion, but...
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| ISBN | 0671578383 |
THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING All Gerin the Fox ever wanted to do was go down to the City of Elabon and study. Life made other plans. When the barbarous Trokmoi killed his father and older brother, he became Baron of Fox Keep, warring against not only the Trokmoi and their fearsome evil wizard but also against...
A future war is being fought across the galaxy and the key to victory can be found on the legendary lost world where humanity originated - Earth. But even if the lost home world can be found, there may be no place for humans on it anymore. The once-lowly creatures who are now the sole inhabitants, and which...
| Author | James P. Hogan |
| ISBN | 0553563637 |
Richard Jarrow was a mild and unassuming teacher who was sure that the government knew best, with its strong environmental controls on industry and its equally stringent control of education and the media. He knew that the countries of the former Eastern Block, who now claimed to have more freedom than...
TNT: Telzey Amberdon & Trigger Argee Together
| Author | James H. Schmitz |
| ISBN | 0671578790 |
Telzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy.
Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals,...
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 1416520783 |
The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that the invaders were really a feint, being under the...
