The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
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| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0964853906 |
"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.
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| ISBN | 1596065869 |
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| ISBN | 1596060778 |
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| ISBN | 0966543602 |
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| ISBN | 1568652798 |
Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...
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| ISBN | 0743487117 |
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| ISBN | 1561453749 |
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| ISBN | 1596066091 |
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| ISBN | 0940841649 |
Black Hat Jack
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 1596066776 |
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| ISBN | 1596061812 |
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| Author | Harlan Ellison |
| ISBN | 1596066342 |
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 1596066709 |
Tracking the murderer of her fiancée through 19th century London's darkest warrens, Jacky Snapp has disguised herself as a boy -- but...
| Author | Maria Dahvana Headley |
| ISBN | 1596066792 |
As he attempts to rebuild his life in rural Oregon after a tragic accident, Malcolm Mays finds himself corresponding with Dusha Chuchonnyhoof, a mysterious entity who claims to be the owner of Malcolm's house, jailed unjustly for 117 years. The prisoner...
The Hunter from the Woods
| Author | Robert R. McCammon |
| ISBN | 1596064137 |
| Author | Clive Barker |
Tortured Souls is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary “first...
| Author | Cherie Priest |
| ISBN | 1596066849 |
On the island of Galveston, off the coast of southeast Texas, lies a hotel called the Jacaranda. In its single year of operation, two dozen people have died there. The locals say it's cursed. The Rangers say that's nonsense, but they know a man who might be willing to investigate. Horatio...
| Author | John Scalzi |
| ISBN | 1596065796 |
What sort of idiot spends fifteen years writing a blog? New York Times Bestselling author John Scalzi is that sort of idiot....