The Secret Books of Paradys

Author	Patricia A. McKillip
ISBN	0441014836

These are two tales--or perhaps two thousand--about magic. The magic of slow reading, where you put time and care into each sentence until you see the spell. The magic of vast characters, who have remembered what they really are. The magic of a storyteller who has no need of death to raise the stakes beyond...

Author	Gilbert Adair
ISBN	0330291580

I Did It for A Dare!

To attempt a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” series raises reader expectations on at least two levels.

Firstly, the originals are so well-known and well-loved, not to mention extraordinarily well-written, that readers will approach the...

Author	Hal Duncan
ISBN	0345487311

An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description.

VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS

It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human;...

Author	Caitlín R. Kiernan
ISBN	0451461258

They are the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and concealed in shadows to be raised by ghouls, they are now changelings in service to the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly forbidden and punishment is swift and severe for those who...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	0575090243

The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become embroiled...

Author	Timothy J. Jarvis
ISBN	1782790691

After obscure author of strange stories, Simon Peterkin, vanishes in bizarre circumstances, a typescript, of a text entitled, 'The Wanderer', is found in his flat. 'The Wanderer' is a weird document. On a dying Earth, in the far-flung future, a man, an immortal, types the tale of his aeon-long life...

Author

Meredith Ann Pierce

They had been searching the mountain for a rare nectar -- the mistress, Eoduin, carelessly scoffing at old tales of the evil creatures they might encounter... the slave, Aeriel, apprehensive, and rightly so. For a darkangel DID swoop from the sky, and he stole the beautiful Eoduin away...

Loyal...

Author	Melissa Scott
ISBN	0312861567

Melissa Scott's award-winning work is known for its vividly imagined settings that explore humanity's far future. IN NIGHT SKY MINE, young Ista Kelly is a foundling, the only survivor of a pirate raid on an asteroid mine. In a future where one cannot live without an official identity, this is the story...

Author	Lisa Goldstein
ISBN	0553050907

I can’t remember how I found out about this novel, presumably a list of recommendations somewhere? The combination of surrealists, dreams, time travel, and revolution had obvious appeal and the library didn't have it, so I bought a cheap copy off eBay. Unfortunately I think it had been stored in a...

Author	Louise Cooper
ISBN	0886775558

I read this book when I was a kid, and while I only remembered some of the details, I remember how it made me feel-- pensive, a little haunted, strangely nostalgic. It took me forever to hunt down a copy of it to re-read, and I'm really glad that I did because it absolutely held up (which it not the case with some...

Author	Robert Silverberg
ISBN	1568658583

Trouble with water / H. L. Gold --
Nothing in the rules / L. Sprague de Camp --
Fruit of knowledge / C. L. Moore --
Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge Luis Borges --
Compleat werewolf / Anthony Boucher --
Small assassin / Ray Bradbury --
Lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Our fair...

Author	R.A. Robinson
ISBN	0985399538

After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...

Author

David G. Hartwell

Tales As Deep As Legend
And As New As DawnAcclaimed editor David G. Hartwell has gathered a harvest of shimmering beauty and powerful writing in this inaugural volume of the very best fantasy from the last year. Established masters rub elbows with rising stars in this outstanding collection of...

Author	Chris Wooding
ISBN	0575078812

An omnibus volume of the acclaimed oriental fantasy from one of the genre's most exciting young talents

The story of an exotic oriental world. The empire of Saramyr has relied on the secretive sect of Weavers for far too long. Now the Weavers, manipulating space and time through the Weave of...

Author	Dennis Danvers
ISBN	0380806460

Alice White has a secret. There is no friend or family member she can confide in—and she cannot trust it to the strangers she chooses for the fevered one-night stands that are as close as she dares come to love. Then she meets Erik Summers, college professor and biologist, who draws Alice from her cage,...

Author	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
ISBN	0812528042

A Flame In Byzantium is the first novel in the Atta Olivia Clemens trilogy by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. The trilogy is a spinoff of Yarbro's Saint-Germain vampire series, in which Olivia Clemens was one of Saint-Germain's lovers.

I've had this novel and most of the Saint-Germain novels on my bookshelves...

Author	Bridget Wood
ISBN	0345383281

The Emerald Isle was brown and blasted. Only fables spoke of a green Ireland long ago. But young Flynn and Joanna treasured those tales of myth and magic, of bold kings and terrible giants, until Joanna's father betrothed her to an ignorant pig farmer, and she ran away. She fled to the Glowing Lands, certain...

Author

Ellen Datlow

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry...

Author	Parke Godwin
ISBN	0385247729

The follow-up to Waiting for the Galactic Bus has Coyul taking over Topside after Barion is banished, and dealing with another bigoted American fundamentalist. Godwin tries to make Lance Candor his own character, and he's not the racist Roy Stride was, but it still feels like a bit of a rehash. A trial...

Author	James Alan Gardner
ISBN	0380813297

Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty's dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar's transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that...

Author

Andrew M. Butler

Terry Pratchett is a publishing phenomenon. Every new book becomes a best-seller, and every book gains him more fans. Despite this — or perhaps because of it — he has not been taken seriously by critics, even though some reviewers have, as he has said, "accused him of literature". This collection...

Author	Hallie Rubenhold
ISBN	0752435469

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies was a bestseller of the 18th century, selling 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual "guide book," it detailed the names and "specialities" of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday, 1757-1795, Harris's List was the essential accessory...

Author	Geraldine McCaughrean
ISBN	0064472183

The Worm is waking... After centuries of undisturbed slumber, the Stoor Worm -- the World Eater -- is waking. A creature of monstrous proportions and unimaginable evil, the Worm must be destroyed. Already its murderous hatchlings are spreading terror and destruction. And a strange trio -- Mad Sweeney...

Author	Charles L. Grant
ISBN	0312862741

When a preacher who has lost his faith suddenly discovers that he possesses the ability to heal and perform miracles, he becomes a reluctant participant in the battle against evil as he sets out to save a teenage girl and stop the occupants--who may be demons--of a mysterious car.

The approaching...