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The Book of Summer:  David, James F.

In the sequel to Judgment Day, a young female slave on the lost colony of planet America, Summer Lund flees a vicious encounter with her master's oldest son to seek refuge in the alien wilderness, where another human being, Reynolds Mann, plots his revenge on those who had left him for dead.

ORDER # S508-1   $14-50   ISBN 0765351471

 

Axis:  Wilson, Robert Charles.

A sequel to Spin brings readers to an engineered planet connected by the mysterious Hypotheticals to the planet Earth, where Lise and her companions witness the planet's seeding by remnant Hypothetical machines that would render the planet hostile to human life.

ORDER # S508-2   $14-50   ISBN 0765348268

 

Dawn of the Eagles 2360-2369 (Star Trek: Terek Nor):  Perry, S.D.

As violent Bajoran resistance continues to escalate, the Cardassian forces battle for control of the captive planet, while on Terek Nor, shifting alliances, secret dealings, and a mysterious shape-shifting life form play their own role in a revolution that could affect the fate of the universe, in the third volume in the Terek Nor trilogy.

ORDER # S508-3   $14-50   ISBN 0743482522

 

Everfree:  Sagan, Nick.

The conclusion of a trilogy that began with Idlewild and Edenborn finds a small band of apocalyptic epidemic survivors struggling with conflicting ideas about how to repopulate the earth and synthesizing an organ that will exponentially strengthen the human immune system, a breakthrough that also enables an unanticipated power.

ORDER # S508-4   $14-50   ISBN 0451462165

 

Galactic North: Stories from the Revelation Space Universe:  Reynolds, Alastair.

Presents a collection of eight short stories and novellas based on the universe of Revelation Space, including three tales original to this collection, that capture a dark and dangerous future world of squabbling human space colonies, mysterious alien civilizations, and vast light-hugger starships.

ORDER # S508-5   $14-50   ISBN 0441016006

 

Grantville Gazette III:  Flint, Eric, ed.

A third volume in the series of anthologies based on the saga that began in 1632 describes life for the inhabitants of Grantville, an American town from West Virginia that finds itself hurtled back in time and into the middle of the Thirty Years War, as they struggle to incorporate their advanced technology and modern-day culture into the seventeenth century.

ORDER # S508-6   $14-50   ISBN 141655565X

 

The Heart of Valor: A Confederation Novel:  Huff, Tanya.

Jumping at the chance to go to Crucible, the Marine Corps training planet, to work with Major Svensson, Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr finds herself caught in a desperate fight for survival when someone begins attacking the training scenarios.

ORDER # S508-7   $14-50   ISBN 0756404819

 

Metal Swarm (Saga of Seven Suns: 06):  Anderson, Kevin

While the earth is overrun by swarms of ancient robots built by the not-so-extinct Klikiss race, King Peter breaks away from the resistance-crushing forces of the Hansa's brutal Chairman in order to forge independent colonies.

ORDER # S508-8   $14-50   ISBN 031602175X

 

One Jump Ahead:  Van Name, Mark L.

A nanotech-enhanced warrior searching for a way back to his home world, Jon Moore, assisted by Lobo, an AI-enhanced Predator-Class Assault Vehicle equipped for any environment, sets out to right a wrong that he had unwittingly committed when he becomes the pawn of two megacorporations battling for control of Macken.

ORDER # S508-9   $14-50   ISBN 1416555579

 

Ragamuffin:  Buckell, Tobias S.

Their universe run by alien tyrants who systematically block all technological advances and eliminate any races who might scratch out more than a meagre existence, a band of Caribbean refugees from distant Earth forms a rebellion in the hopes of overthrowing the evil Benevolent Satrapy.

ORDER # S508-10   $14-50   ISBN 0765354101

 

Future Americas:  Helfers, John & Greenberg, Martin H.

Offering predictions about the America of the near and distant future, a collection of sixteen original stories shares their forecast of what is to come in politics, science, religion, society, and other fields, in works by Jean Rabe, Ed Gorman, Pamela Sargent, Brian Stableford, George Zebrowski, Jane Lindskold, and other notable authors.

ORDER # S508-11   $14-50   ISBN 0756405084

 

The Best of Jim Baen's Universe:  Flint, Eric,ed.

A collection of outstanding science fiction and fantasy stories from the popular online magazine, Jim Baen's Universe, features contributions from such Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors as Mike Resnick and Gene Wolfe, as well as David Drake, Gregory Benford, Esther Friesner, and other notable authors.

ORDER # S508-12   $14-50   ISBN 1416555587

 

The Alton Gift:  Bradley, Marion Zimmer

In this highly anticipated sequel to Traitor's Sun, Lew Alton's daughter Marguerida, a psychic, must decipher visions of impending doom, while her son searches for his place in a world of shifting loyalites, and the rulers of Darkover face a new threat, an ancient enemy that has risen again.

ORDER # S508-13   $14-50   ISBN 0756404800

 

Year's Best SF 13:  Hartwell, David G.

This latest selection of outstanding science fiction stories, originally published in magazines during 2007,showcases the talents of such authors as Gene Wolfe, Kage Baker, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter, Bruce Sterling, Greg Egan, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.

ORDER # S508-14   $14-50   ISBN 0061252093

 

Ascendancy of the Last (Lady Penitent: 03): Smedman, Lisa.

After her transformation, Lolth, the much feared Queen of the Demonweb Pits, and her assassin, the Lady Penitent, prepare for a final confrontation with Eilestrace, the Lady of the Dance, with the fate of every dark elf on Fairûn hanging in the balance, in the epic conclusion of The Lady Penitent trilogy.

ORDER # S508-15   $14-50   ISBN 0786948647

 

Blood and Iron:  Bear, Elizabeth.

Seeker, a woman enchanted by the Faerie Queen and forced to kidnap human children for the pleasure of her mistress, goes after her latest prey, a Merlin, a child possessing a limitless magic that could tip the ultimate balance of power.

ORDER # S508-16   $14-50   ISBN 0451462173

 

Code Spell:  McCullough, Kelly.

When Necessity, the sentient computer that runs the universe, falls victim to a virus that crashes most of the magical Internet, Ravirn, a direct descendant of one of the fates, a talented sorcerer, and master computer hacker, is assigned the task of trying to fix the problem, only to discover that deadly enemies plan to use his talents to rule the world.

ORDER # S508-17   $14-50   ISBN 0441016030

 

Boneslicer:  Odom, Mel.

Warned by the old wizard Craugh about an ancient threat know as Kharrion's Wrath that endangers the entire world, Juhg, a young halfer and new Grandmagister, must search through the secrets contained in the journals of his absent mentor Wick, "The Rover," as well as in a trilogy of missing books,, that could hold the key to salvation.

ORDER # S508-18   $14-50   ISBN 076535425X

 

The Good Fairies of New York:  Millar, Martin.

Unexpectedly - and mistakenly - transplanted to Manhattan, two fugitive Scottish thistle fairies have a lot of adjusting to do, but before they can form the first radical fairy punk rock band, they must make a match between two unlikely lovers, start a brawl between rival gangs of fairies, help a ghost find his lost guitar, and save New York from an invasion of evil Cornish fairies.

ORDER # S508-19   $14-50   ISBN 0765358549

 

A Distant Magic:  Putney, Mary Jo.

On a visit to Marseille to attend a Guardian wedding, Jean Macrae is kidnapped by Captain Zander, a handsome stranger who claims that her family owes him a blood debt and who threatens to sell her into slavery on the Barbary Coast, and her only chance is to use her Guardian magic to make him fall in love.

ORDER # S508-20   $14-50   ISBN 0345476921

 

Night Child: An OSI Novel:  Battis, Jes.

An Occult Special Investigator for Vancouver's Mystical Crime Lab, Tess Corday is called in to investigate the death of a vampire and follows a trail of bizarre clues that lead to Mia Polanski, a teenager living at the address found in the victim's pocket, and to Lucian Agrado, a necromancer allied to the vampire community.

ORDER # S508-21   $14-50   ISBN 0441016022

 

The Man with the Golden Torc:  Green, Simon R.

With his own family convinced that he has become a menace and that humanity needs to be protected from him, Eddie Drood is on the run, forced to use every magical trick in the book to avoid capture and hoping he lives long enough to prove his innocence.

ORDER # S508-22   $14-50   ISBN 0451462149

 

A Pound of Flesh:  Wright, Susan.

A former pleasure slave, Marja joins forces with her one-time master, Lexander, to free all slaves by destroying pleasure houses around the world, but when Marja disguises herself as a slave to infiltrate a series of training houses to sow the seeds of revolution, her mission could cost her the man she loves.

ORDER # S508-23   $14-50   ISBN 0451462157

 

The Serpent Bride:  Douglass, Sara.

A first instalment in a new series by the author of the Axis trilogy finds Serpent cult devotee Ishbel Labarde preparing to become Archpriestess while contriving to marry the king of Escator in order to prevent the return of a deadly enemy.

ORDER # S508-24   $14-50   ISBN 006088214X

 

The Silver Moon Elm: A Jennifer Scales Novel:  Davidson, Mary Janice

Almost immediately after learning yet another devastating family secret, fifteen-year-old Jennifer - half weredragon and half beaststalker - awakens in a universe transformed by werachnid sorcery, in which weredragons are long extinct, and she must try to find a way to change everything back.

ORDER # S508-25   $14-50   ISBN 0441016014

 

Vampire of the Mists: The Ravenloft Covenant:  Golden, Christie.

Ravaged by grief and thirsting for revenge, Jander Sunstar, a gold elf and five-hundred-year-old vampire, is transported into the nightmare realm of Ravenloft, where he encounters Count Strahd Von Zarovich, an elegant fellow vampire who may be tied to Jander's dark legacy.

ORDER # S508-26   $14-50   ISBN 078694871X

 

The Incredible Hulk:  David, Peter.

Searching for a cure to his unique condition, which causes him to transform into a powerful green monster in moments of emotional turmoil, scientist Bruce Banner struggles to elude his pursuers, but he is confronted by a terrible choice when he encounters the Abomination, a nightmarish and bloodthirsty creature whose powers match his own.

ORDER # S508-27   $14-50   ISBN 0345506995

 

Well of Ascension (Mistborn: 02):  Sanderson, Brandon.

Charged with the task of rebuilding the world after the defeat of the brutal Lord Ruler and the death of his mentor, former street urchin Vin finds herself worshipped for her Mistborn powers and worries about the strange behaviour of the mists since the death of the Lord Ruler.

ORDER # S508-28   $14-50   ISBN 0765356139

 

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Settling Accounts: In at the Death:  Turtledove, Harry.

After launching World War II, the Confederate States of America is confronted by the bitter reality of imminent defeat, as the United States of America and its German allies make a final push to end the conflict, and CSA President Jake Featherston faces the decision of whether or not to unleash a desperate last ditch effort with the help of the ultimate weapon, a uranium bomb.

ORDER # S508-29   $21-90   ISBN 034549248X 

 

The Execution Channel:  MacLeod, Ken.

In a future world ravaged by war and pandemic disease, British patriot and French spy James Travis and his daughter investigate the implausible nuclear bombing of Scotland by terrorists, an effort that forces them to discern fact from fiction in the face of information glutted blog sites.

ORDER # S508-30   $20-90   ISBN 0765320673 

 

The Spider: City of Doom:  Page, Norvell W.

Hunted by both the underworld and the police, the enigmatic, masked crime fighter called the Spider returns in a trio of action-packed adventures as he deals with a killer who disguises himself with the faces of his victims, a supposedly dead foe with a talent for mind control, and an unknown criminal mastermind with a penchant for destructive urban renewal.

ORDER # S508-31   $19-90   ISBN 1416555552 

 

Soon I Will Be Invincible:  Grossman, Austin.

When Doctor Impossible, an evil genius, mad scientist, time-traveller, and ambitious wannabe world dominator, escapes from prison and launches a new plot to seize control of the world, Fatale, a woman built by the NSA to be the next generation of weaponry, joins a group of misfit superheroes in their quest to destroy Doctor Impossible.

ORDER # S508-32   $20-90   ISBN 0307279863 

 

Bloodheir:  Ruckley, Brian.

A second instalment in an epic series that began with Winterbirth finds the war between the Black Road and True Bloods complicated by growing internal dissent, a situation that is further challenged by the growing powers of Aeglyss and the resurrection of the long-dormant Anain race.

ORDER # S508-33   $20-90   ISBN 0316067709 

 

Thirteen:  Morgan, Richard K.

The subject of a failed government experiment to produce a more deadly military warrior, Carl Marsalis is a hit man who has lost his taste for killing, but when he is arrested in Miami, government officials come up with a plan to use his talents to achieve their own ends.

ORDER # S508-34   $20-90   ISBN 0345480899 

 

Goddess (Percheron Saga: 03):  McIntosh, Fiona.

Zaradine Ana is kidnapped by desert tribesmen amidst rumours about her royal pregnancy, while Lazar struggles with the illness he contracted during a heroic rescue, and Zar Boaz hatches a daring plan to safeguard Percheron from imminent war.

ORDER # S508-35   $20-90   ISBN 0060899077 

 

The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company:  Cook, Glen.

In a second omnibus of tales featuring the Black Company, the survivors of the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm are hounded by the predatory Shadowmasters throughout a risky march to the south.

ORDER # S508-36   $21-90   ISBN 0765320665 

 

The Invisible Ring:  Bishop, Anne.

An escaped slave who had murdered his owner, Jared, a Red-Jeweled Warlord, is captured and sold back into slavery to a notorious queen with a mysterious and deadly reputation, but he soon discovers that the Gray Lady may not be what she seems and that he must face a difficult choice between his honor and his freedom.

ORDER # S508-37   $19-90   ISBN 0451462068 

 

Midnight Never Come:  Brennan, Marie.

The loyalties of a faerie lady-in-waiting and a mortal spymaster agent are tested in Elizabethan London, which is being challenged by complicated politics between the queen and the ruler of the faerie underworld.

ORDER # S508-38   $20-90   ISBN 031602029X 

 

Spectre: A Zoë Martinique Investigation: Weldon, Phaedra.

Zoë Martinique's plans to help her boyfriend, Atlanta homicide detective Daniel Frasier, investigate a series of bizarre murders in which the victims turn up with missing body parts - without revealing her special ability to travel outside her body at will - go badly awry when her mother's mysterious disappearance forces her to use all the powers at her command to save her.

ORDER # S508-39   $19-90   ISBN 044101593X 

 

 
Hardcover Titles
Children of Dune:  Herbert, Frank. Intro by Brian Herbert.

On the planet of Arrakis, men, nature, and time attend the messianic and evolutionary growth of Leto and his twin sister Ghanima, children and successors of the mighty Muad'Dib, as their aunt Alia plots to obtain the secrets of the twins' prophetic visions in order to secure her reign, in a new hardcover edition of the classic third novel in the Dune Chronicles.

ORDER # S508-40   $35-90   ISBN 0441015905 

 

Escapement:  Lake, Jay.

A follow-up to Mainspring finds genius sorceress Paolina Barthes, a shipwreck survivor who grew up in isolation on the immense Equatorial Wall in the middle of the ocean, setting out in the hopes of acquiring an education, only to be exploited by those who would use her powers for their own means.

ORDER # S508-41   $36-90   ISBN 0765317095 

 

Grantville Gazette IV:  Flint, Eric, ed.

Cultures clash as seventeenth-century Europe encounters modern America in Grantville, the modern-day West Virginia town hurtled back in time, as teenage girls form an investment group, a linotype operator gains new status, a sit-down mower doubling as a locomotive transforms military transportation, and heavy metal music comes to the pre-Bach era.

ORDER # S508-42   $35-90   ISBN 1416555544 

 

Into the Storm (The Destroyermen):  Anderson, Taylor.

Pursued by Japanese battleships, the USS Walker, a Great-War vintage destroyer under the command of Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, tries to lose the enemy by heading into a mysterious storm, only to become trapped in a primitive alternate world, populated by strange creatures, in which their ship could alter the balance of power.

ORDER # S508-43   $34-90   ISBN 0451462076 

 

The Prefect:  Reynolds, Alastair.

A hardened law enforcement officer with the Panoply, Prefect Tom Dreyfus gets more than he had bargained for when an investigation into a murderous attack on one of the space habitats of the Glitter Band - a crime that has left nine hundred people dead - uncovers a covert plot by a mysterious entity seeking total control of the region.

ORDER # S508-44   $35-90   ISBN 0441015913 

 

Valor's Trial: A Confederation Novel:  Huff, Tanya.

A veteran Confederation Marine gunnery sergeant, Torin Kerr is unexpectedly pulled from the battlefield and confined to an underground POW camp, where she must not only find a way to escape, but also overcome the compulsion - which has affected her fellow Marine prisoners - to give up and accept her fate.

ORDER # S508-45   $35-90   ISBN 0756404797 

 

Dragonscarpe (The Last Realm: 01):  McNamara, Pat

Fiery heroics, a doomed love, and vengeful betrayal are the cornerstones of the first volume in this visually rich and cinematically paced, illustrated novel series - The Last Realm. The storm of war has engulfed the Realms. Thrust into the heart of the turmoil is Zayd, Paladin of the Dragonscarpe. Zayd takes the first step to discovering that the only hope for survival lies in a past deliberately forgotten - beyond the barrier to the terrifying Last Realm. Illustrations.

ORDER # S508-46   $38-90   ISBN 9829109011 

 

Essential Batman Encyclopedia:  Greenberger, Robert.

A lavishly illustrated reference covering the complete history of the Dark Knight furnishes details on Batman's origins and history, biographical profiles of almost every character in the Batman universe, an overview of his exploits and adventures, and other essential facts. Illustrations.

ORDER # S508-47   $37-90   ISBN 0345501063 

 
The Court of the Air:  Hunt, Stephen.

Targeted for their possession of a magical secret that has stripped them of their families and forced them into lives of hardship, street-wise Molly and sheltered Oliver find themselves on the run in the company of outlaws and spies who assist their efforts to counter deadly and ancient enemies of the state.

ORDER # S508-48   $36-90   ISBN 0765320428 

 

Bring Down the Sun:  Tarr, Judith.

A tale inspired by the myths of Alexander the Great's powerful mother, Olympias, is set in ancient Greece and Macedon and traces the contributions of a magical priestess and Serpent familiar to her famous son's life.

ORDER # S508-49   $32-90   ISBN 0765303973 

 

Daemons Are Forever:  Green, Simon R.

In the sequel to The Man with the Golden Torc, Eddie Drood is forced to take on some nasty daemons from another dimension, who arrived in this world at the behest of the Drood family to help battle the Nazis during World War II and who have decided that they have no intention of leaving.

ORDER # S508-50   $34-90   ISBN 0451462084 

 

The Dark Ferryman (Elven Ways: 02):  Rhodes, Jenna.

As the civil war escalates, Sevryn and Rivergrace are separated from each other as Rivergrace battles the warrior queen Lariel's accusations of high treason, with only her Dweller sister and the mysterious Dark Ferryman as her allies, in the sequel to The Four Forges.

ORDER # S508-51   $34-90   ISBN 0756405211 

 

Dragon Forge (Draconic Prophecies: 02):  Wyatt, James.

Fulfilling part of the prophecy to become the Storm Dragon, Gaven journeys to Argonessen, the dragon nation, to seek the Draconic Prophecy, unaware that Aundairian loyalists, aided by a sinister dragon cabal, are constructing the Dragon Forge, an eldrich machine intended to harness and amplify the power of a Siberys dragonmark, in the sequel to Storm Dragon.

ORDER # S508-52   $36-90   ISBN 0786948701 

 

Dragon and Liberator:  Zahn, Timothy.

Having shared dangerous adventures on numerous worlds, fourteen-year-old Jack Morgan and poet/warrior Draycos take on their final challenge when the man who killed Jack's parents and destroyed the scout fleet prepares to eliminate Draycos's people with the Death weapon.

ORDER # S508-53   $25-90   ISBN 0765314193 

 

Havemercy:  Jones, Jaida

When their enemies, the Ke-Han, come up with an ingenious scheme to conquer Volstov, a country protected by magicians, the metal dragons they have created, and the men who ride them, an unlikely quartet of heroes - exiled magician Margrave Royston, country boy Hal, unpredictable airman Rook, and Thom, a grad student - is forced to band together to save the kingdom.

ORDER # S508-54   $32-90   ISBN 0553806963 

 

A Fire in the North (Annuals of Lindormyn 02):  Bilsborough, David.

A motley band of companions, led by a brave warrior and a visionary priest, arrive in the northern lands to confront a supernatural tyrant who ravaged the land five hundred years earlier, a situation that forces the Wanderer to confront his destiny.

ORDER # S508-55   $36-90   ISBN 0765318938 

 

Hawkspar: A Novel of Korre:  Lisle, Holly.

Approaching the end of her life, powerful avatar Hawkspur remembers her early years of slavery in service to the oppressive stone Eyes and chooses as her successor a courageous and rebellious slave whom Hawkspur hopes will have the strength to use her growing powers to defeat the Eyes.

ORDER # S508-56   $37-90   ISBN 0765309947 

 

Kushiel's Mercy:  Carey, Jacqueline.

Witnessing the turmoil brought about as a result of their once-secret relationship, Imriel and Sidonie face the prospect of Sidonie's disinheritance by her mother, Queen Ysandre, unless Imriel can locate and turn in his own mother, who has been sentenced to death for treason.

ORDER # S508-57   $37-90   ISBN 0446500046 

 

Very Hard Choices:  Robinson, Spider.

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After stopping a serial killer in Very Bad Deaths, grieving widower Russell Walker, a telepath nicknamed "Smelly," and hard-headed Canadian police officer Nika team up once again to protect Smelly from the CIA, which has been hunting him since he escaped from a top-secret project during the 1960s.

ORDER # S508-58   $28-90   ISBN 1416555560 

 

 
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