Soldiers of Paradise
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| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0380791234 |
Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself "jessed," the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever has purchased her service. Indentured in the house of a wealthy merchant, she encounters many wondrous things....
| Author | Minister Faust |
| ISBN | 0345466357 |
Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings' best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university,...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0441801811 |
From one of science fiction's newest, brightest talents - a collection of worlds of wit and wonder demanding only that you be ready for them, including:
AND I AWOKE AND FOUND ME HERE ON THE COLD HILL'S SIDE -
Man seeks to get into bed with anything new and different, or die trying. But when the...
| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
| ISBN | 0061054429 |
Aiah worked for the Plasm Authority, metering the shimmering substance that powered the world-city, until she fell in love with Constantine, the rebel Metropolitan fighting a war to overthrow the corrupt dynasty of the Keremaths. Now the war is over, and Aiah is at the mercy of the tyrant she created....
| Author | Bradley Denton |
| ISBN | 0380718766 |
It doesn't have quite the same rocking energy that his first novel, Wrack and Roll, contained, but this is a very well written good book in the semi-quirky tradition of Rudy Rucker and the best of Avram Davidson. The characterization is especially well-drawn, and the plot, while a little hard to completely...
| Author | Eduardo Jiménez Mayo |
| ISBN | 1931520313 |
A huge, energetic, and ambitious groundbreaking anthology from emerging and established Mexican authors which showcases all-new supernatural folktales, alien incursions, ghost stories, apocalyptic narratives, and more. Stereotypes of Mexican identities and fictions are identified and...
| Author | Gregory Frost |
| ISBN | 0345497597 |
Daughter of the legendary shadow-puppeteer Bardsham, Leodora has inherited her father’s skills . . . and his enemies. Together with her manager–Soter, keeper of her father’s darkest secrets, and a gifted young musician named Diverus, Leodora has traveled from span to span, her masked performances...
It's 2038 and the earth has been devastated by tectonic shifts accompanied by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The U.S. has undergone a socialist revolution, retro-viruses are rampant and most technology relies on a powerful organic "clay" instead of microprocessors. When aliens land near...
| Author | Richard Grant |
| ISBN | 0553343696 |
An astonishing odyssey is about to begin.
Gone are the wild grasses and rolling meadows. Gone too are the towering trees--except in one last forest in a forgotten corner of the world. Until something totally unexpected, remarkable, and frightening happens: The forest begins to grow. And...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 0380812886 |
In The Physiognomy, "fascinatingly unconventional writer" (Locus) Jeffrey Ford introduced Physiognomist First Class Cley, a master of a terrifying science utilized to keep order in a night-mare world known as the Well-Built City. Its sequel, Memoranda, told of a reformed Cley embarking on a surreal...
| Author | Margo Lanagan |
| ISBN | 0375843205 |
Margo Lanagan's electrifying stories take place in worlds not quite our own, and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human. They are stories of yearning for more, and learning to live with what you have. Stories that show the imprint love leaves on us all.
If you think you don't like short...
For Dorthy Yoshida - abused earthborn Talent and prime player in the secret history of the galaxy - the seeds of destiny were sown a million years in the past...when a giant sun exploded and vast civilizations died in the subsequent blood feuding of ten thousand alien family nations. Or perhaps it all...
| Author | Robert Reed |
| ISBN | 1841492558 |
In the deepness of space there are millions of worlds like our own - and each with its own humanity. They are linked by the Bright, an ancient pathway between the stars created by an ancient, godlike race known only as the Makers. Now humanity travels the Bright, uniting its worlds to a common desiny. But...
| Author | K.W. Jeter |
| ISBN | 0451162781 |
i almost had an aneurysm trying to figure out how to encapsulate the world and plot of this book. so i'm just gonna pass on that. and the fact that jeter actually figured it all out from nothing and then wrote the damn thing and had it make sense and be this much fun is absolutely terrifying to me. i think of myself...
| Author | Thomas M. Disch |
| ISBN | 0425137465 |
Voices From the Grave
I am fascinated by the abiding religious influence of ‘secular’ writers, especially when they demonstrate a commonality which is otherwise difficult to articulate. The Catholic Thomas Disch, for example, is remarkably like the Jewish Stanley Elkin. Each wrote...
Total Oblivion, More or Less
| Author | Anya Johanna DeNiro |
| ISBN | 0553592548 |
“I remember the first time I began to understand that things might not be the same again.”
What’s a girl to do when her world is invaded by warriors from the ancient world? That’s the problem faced by sixteen-year-old Macy, who sees her quiet, normal life in suburban Minnesota turned...
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 1597800406 |
John M. Harrison delivers an extraordinary, genre-bending novel that weaves together mythology, sexuality, and the troubled past and present of Eastern Europe. It begins on a hot May night, when three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Years later, none of the...
| Author | Sean Stewart |
| ISBN | 0441005543 |
Sean Stewart is one of those writers I used to buy sight unseen (before he unfortunately dropped out of writing novels and decided to devote his time to writing interactive online games). His books tend to be very character driven, something I personally like, and he has an individual writing style that...
Strange Travelers: New Selected Stories
A compilation of some of Wolfe's stories from the 1990's, a decade where he was largely occupied with writing the epic Long Sun and Short Sun series'.
The general word is that Wolfe's short fiction decreased in quality during this time compared to his 70's and 80's work. In the strictest sense...
| Author | Jeffrey Thomas |
| ISBN | 1894815629 |
There are haunted places. Haunted houses. The metropolis of Punktown, on the planet Oasis, is a haunted city. An unassuming and aimless young man has begun to perceive the city's dark tentacles in the lay of the streets. Its roots in the labyrinth of the subways. Its polluted taint in the eyes of the people...
| Author | John Crowley |
| ISBN | 0863910262 |
Beasts describes a world in which genetically engineered animals are given a variety of human characteristics. Painter is a leo, a combination of man and lion. Reynard, a character derived from medieval European fable, is part fox.
Political forces result in the leos being deemed an experimental...
| Author | Elizabeth Hand |
| ISBN | 0061012165 |
From the author of the breakout bestseller "Waking the Moon," comes this stunning millennial thriller It is 1999. The Last Days -- some say; the First, say others. The climate has altered irrevocably, the cities have imploded into vicious shards and the stars haven't been seen for months. The sky is...
| Author | A.A. Attanasio |
| ISBN | 0380796171 |
First entry, though complete in itself, of a fantasy trilogy from newcomer Lee. Upon the Bright Shore lie the dominions of Irth; above, the Abiding Star emanates magical Charm; below, in the Gulf, exist the cold, heavy, Charmless worlds of the Dark Shore. Irth's entire socioeconomic system, from wizardry...
