The Dark Abyss

Author	S.M. Stirling
ISBN	0671720473

Many years ago I found this book at a flea market and the cover instantly caught my interest. I was dubious as to quality, I mean, the cover is rather cheesy, but I love fantasy, and the idea of a lesbian hero to my then teenage self proved irresistible.

This is one of the few books I've read that has...

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0425064875

Contents:

· Riverworld [revised from Worlds of Tomorrow Jan ’66; Riverworld] · na *
· J.C. on the Dude Ranch · ss *
· The Volcano [as by Paul Chapin] · ss F&SF Feb ’76
· The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol · ss Playboy Dec ’77
· The Problem of the Sore Bridge—Among...

Author	Wilhelmina Baird
ISBN	0441121632

Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Second Best Reading Challenge, and the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge.

I originally chose to read this book because I needed to read women I had not read for the Women of Genre Fiction challenge, this one had been nominated...

Author	Amy Thomson
ISBN	0441007392

Bound to the human race by a lifesaving link and a sacred pledge of honor, two members of the alien Tendu species leave the safety of their homeland and board a spacecraft headed toward Earth. Isolated from humans because of their alien bodies, customs, and language, the Tendu must learn the ways of Earth...

Author	Richard A. Lupoff
ISBN	0553273469

The return of a classic shared world fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award-winning author of the Riverworld saga! Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs, and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi-leveled...

Author	Melissa Scott
ISBN	0671697838

The heavy summer air of 1595 is full of portents for Elizabeth, England's Queen, and James VI, King of Scotland. A coven of witches secretly controlled by the Wizard Earl of Bothwell has summoned a storm to sink the ship that bears James' bride to Scotland. Though the ship made port, the success of their...

Author	James P. Hogan
ISBN	0671877577

I went through a big Jim Hogan kick a few years back. I picked this one up recently in a second-hand bookshop, and I think I can now more clearly see both Hogan's strengths and his weaknesses. He's easy to get addicted to, easy to dislike when you're not addicted.

The premise: the Allies lost the...

Author	Charles de Lint
ISBN	0553279580

In this, the third volume of Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon, the gang splits up early on. Clive Folliot, Horace, and the cyborg Guafe go through one gate, and User Annie, Shriek, Sidi, and Finnbogg go through another. Clive's group encounters the Walking Mountains and their Herdsmen, while Annie's...

Author	Robin Wayne Bailey
ISBN	0553281852

In The Lake of Fire, the fourth volume of Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon, Clive Folliot and gang, with brother Neville in tow, cross a landscape out of Dante's Inferno, with none other than Baron Samedi as their guide. Who will they find once they reach their destination, Castle of the Morning Star and...

Author	Katherine Blake
ISBN	0671720104

I read this because Jo Walton wrote about it glowingly in "What Made This Book So Great." It is a domestic time-slip fantasy in which Sue, a mother of three (the back of my copy got it wrong and said she has 2 kids) slips in between doing dishes and cleaning house to a fantasy world that may or may not be in her...

Author	Randall Garrett
ISBN	0553259423

This is an omnibus of 3 novels; THE STEEL OF RAITHSKAR, THE GLASS OF DYSKORNIS, and THE BRONZE OF EDDARTA.

One moment he was Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor from our own world. The next, he found himself in a young, strong body in the exotic desert world of Gandalara.

He was...

Author	Jack L. Chalker
ISBN	9991490434

Cassie did not feel the soul rider enter her body...

but suddenly she knew that Anchor was corrupt, and that, far from being a formless void from which could issue ony mutant changelings and evil wizards, Flux was the soure of Anchor's very existence.

The price of her new knowledge is...