Callahan's Lady
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| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0812524969 |
A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived from Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however,...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345406443 |
Pip and Flinx meet Midworld!
Where Flinx and his flying minidrag Pip went, trouble always followed--that law had governed their lives through years of unsought danger and galactic intrigue. Now an evil rich man was out to kidnap the minidrag for his personal zoo, and Flinx and Pip were on the...
| Author | Manly Wade Wellman |
| ISBN | 0671654187 |
Collection of 17 short stories (written in two chronological periods, 1951-58 and 1979-86) plus a few ultra-short vignettes written in 1962-63, presented in the order they were written, and all set in Appalachia and featuring Wellman series character Silver John. John wanders the mountains on foot...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0671318578 |
Publisher's Note: The stories and novel herein have previously appeared in parts in Envoy To New Worlds, Galactic Diplomat, and Retief's War. This is the first unitary edition.
Contents:
p. 1 • Extraordinary Diplomats (Retief!) • (2002) • essay by David Drake
p....
| Author | Harry Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553276115 |
After saving the world, diGriz is called on to save the universe. Liberating his two, now teenage, twin' sons from a military boarding school and penitentiary, diGriz sets out to free his wife, who has been arrested by the tax men. But the family is soon fighting an enemy of a different sort, when the humans-only...
| Author | Robert Lynn Asprin |
| ISBN | 0441662536 |
I learned a lot about casinos and how they are run from this one. Not entirely sure that's what Asprin was trying to impart to the reader, but there you go.
I liked that the story was able to delve more into some of the peripheral characters from the first book. I laughed out loud at the depictions...
| 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 | Esther M. Friesner |
| ISBN | 0671878670 |
A brief word from the characters: We seem to have a failure to communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached Number 3 on the Locus bestseller list, and everybody wanted more, please. But people, you need to take us sword-swinging amazons a little more seriously....
| Author | Eric Flint |
| ISBN | 1416555854 |
The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel that was approaching their star system. The vessel’s design was odd—a multitude of separate globular habitats in a framework—and most of the alien team that entered one of the habitats were slaughtered by savage creatures...
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.
When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt like the luckiest man in the universe.
There...
| Author | David Weber |
| ISBN | 0743435206 |
WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR
Lady Dame Honor Harrington—starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess—has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit...
| Author | Joss Whedon |
| ISBN | 1848568622 |
Joss Whedon’s Emmy award-winning musical tragicomedy tells the story of Billy, aka Dr Horrible, a budding supervillain who wants to beat superhero Captain Hammer and take over the world... and pluck up the courage to speak to his laundromat crush Penny. With exclusive new material from Joss and...
| Author | Peter David |
| ISBN | 0743448324 |
The return of Sir Apropos of Nothing!"This sequel to the wildly successful Sir Apropos of Nothing starts off with a bawdy send-up of Lord of the Rings, but quickly segues into its own territory with the appearance of a mysterious Visionary at Apropos's bar, Bugger Hall. The man tells our antihero, 'You...
| Author | Elizabeth Moon |
| ISBN | 0743435524 |
Fleet officer Heris Serrano came from a family of Fleet officers, so when a lying superior forced her to resign, life lost all meaning. To pay the bills, she became Captain of a rich old lady's interstellar luxury yacht, adding insult to injury. But Cecelia, the rich old lady, had more brains than most...
