| Authors | Title | Series | Description | Format |
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| Lin Carter, Thomas Kidd (ill.) | Zanthodon (Zanthodon #2) | Zanthodon | | Paperback |
| Lin Carter | By the light of the Green Star (Green Star #4) | Green Star Rises | Cover Art by Roy G. Krenkel | Paperback |
| Lin Carter | Lankar of Callisto (Jandar #6) | Jandar | | Paperback |
| Lin Carter | The Enchantress of World's End (Gondwane #2) | The Gondwane Epic | | Paperback |
| Lin Carter | Mad Empress of Callisto (Jandar, #4) | Jandar | | Paperback |
| Lin Carter (ed.) | FLASHING SWORDS (5) Five: Demons and Daggers | | Tower of Ice by Roger Zelazny;
A Thief in Korianth by C. J. Cherryh;
Parting Gifts byDiane Duane;
A Dealing with Demons by Craig Shaw Gardner;
The Dry Season by Tanith Lee; | Hardcover |
| Jeffrey A. Carver | The Infinite Sea (Chaos Chronicles/Jeffrey a. Carver, Vol 3) | The chaos chronicles | Interstellar troubleshooter John Bandicut returns for an amiably routine third installment (after Strange Attractors) in Carvel's Chaos Chronicles, journeying to a world where the dominant civilization, the Neri, live under the sea. There, Bandicut and his motley crew (comprised of three aliens, two robots and an artificial intelligence in Bandicut's brain), aided by "translator-stones" that let him communicate with other species, deal with two menaces: the Astari, land-dwelling survivors of a crashed starship, and the Maw of the Abyss, a sapient interstellar portal that has accidentally endangered the planet while trying to repair itself. The witty tale moves briskly, as Bandicut and company solve one puzzle after another, but the multiplicity of technological marvels leaves many of them underdeveloped or implausible. Flavorless dialogue, moreover, undermines not only the wit but the characterization, particularly of the aliens. Loyal fans of the series should enjoy this competent, but by no means exceptional, work.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. | Hardcover |
| Jeffrey A. Carver | Neptune Crossing (Chaos Chronicles #1) | Chaos Chronicles | In this promising series kickoff about an astronaut exploring the surface of Neptune's moon, Triton, Carver ( Dragons in the Stars ) masterfully captures the joy of exploration, although the story itself follows a fairly standard save-the-world plot. Pilot John Bandicut has been cut off from his internal link to the "datanet" by faulty technology, leaving him subject to maddening "silence-fugues." His need for contact makes him a perfect candidate for a symbiotic relationship with the alien quarx, who are trying to save humanity from a mysterious disaster threatening Earth. The quarx, creations whose understanding of Terran culture comes mostly from monitoring old TV and radio programs, have a certain gee-whiz quality, although their interactions with the datanet are intriguing. A rather adolescent love story combines amusingly with an unlikely case of xenophobia, and a fiery conclusion sets Bandicut up for further adventures in yet another alien world, where Carver may find greater room to employ his gift for the fine rendering of difficult scientific concepts.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | Paperback |
| Jeffrey A. Carver, Roger Elwood (ed.) | Seas of Ernathe | | Cover by Kelly Freas. Millennia after the skills of starship rigging have been lost, can Seth Perland find the key to rediscovery on the world of the mysterious sea people, the Nale'nid? Seas of Ernathe was Jeffrey A. Carver's first novel, and the first full-length tale of what was to become his popular Star Rigger Universe. Set farthest into the future of all the Star Rigger stories, Seas of Ernathe sets the stage for a new cycle of history. A touching story of love and personal discovery, it leads the way to the rediscovery of the mode of star travel that once knit galactic civilization together. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. | Paperback |
| Jeffrey A. Carver | The Rapture Effect | | | |
| Jeffrey A. Carver | From a Changeling Star | | "Starts with a bang and keeps getting better. Carver handles not one, but two hot topics, and presents both vividly." --David Brin "Running from the micro to the macro and back again, redefining sentience, space-time, and perhaps humanity along the way, FROM A CHANGELING STAR is a fast-paced puzzler, rush in invention, and Jeffrey A. Carver's most ambitious book to date." --Roger Zelazny "Carver does an excellent job of tickling your sense of wonder, and in the end he leaves you both satisfied and craving another serving of his considerable talent." --ANALOG "Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good." --Craig Shaw Gardner "This is the rare science fiction novel that has everything: a mysterious and exciting story that grabs you from the first page, characters (both alien and human) who will come to matter a great deal to you, and some fascinating scientific concepts (from nanotechnology to hyperstrings). Most of all, it has what only the best science fiction can offer: an almost mystical sense of the wonder and strangeness of this universe and the creatures who inhabit it. If you're not crying at the end, you're a robot. It is Carver's best book." --Richard Bowker, author of REPLICA and DOVER BEACH "As audacious and imaginative as the best of John Varley, with characters as memorable as those of Sturgeon or Zelazny, and with one of the most powerful endings in science fiction." --Spider Robinson --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition. | Paperback |
| Michael Cassutt | The Star Country | | America after the next war: small communities scraping to survive while enclaves of high tech barricade themselves in armed fortresses. This is one of the most common settngs for contemporary SF, with its graphic mirror of the current inequities between rich and poor in the U.S. Cassutt's first novel throws in one wild cardaliens who are negotiating with several Earth governments to decide which will receive their wealth of knowledge. In the midst of the conference one of the aliens defects into outlaw country to prevent the wrong nation from winning that huge advantage. In this unfamiliar terrain the alien is aided by a poor young farmer and sees another way out of the diplomatic stalemate. Concise and direct, Cassutt covers familiar ground, doing best with almost historical vignettes, such as a young man's fearful first visit to town.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. | Hardcover |
| Ivan Cat, Darren Sarvari | The Eyes of Light and Darkness | | Scarred by a cryogenic sleep journey gone wrong, mining pilot Walker discovers a derelict sleeping-ship whose team has been asleep for more than one hundred years, and he is ordered to confront a terrifying alien force. Original. | Paperback |
| Jeanne Cavelos | Casting Shadows (Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages, Book 1) | Babylon 5 | The spectacular space epic continues, as the techno-mages face the growing threat of the Shadows . . .
As Elric and his student Galen watch with taut anticipation, dragons, angels, and shooting stars rain from the sky, heralding the arrival of the techno-mages on the planet Soom. It's the first time Elric-a member of the ruling Circle-has hosted such a gathering, and if all goes well, Galen and the other apprentices will emerge triumphant from the grueling initiation rites, ready to embrace their roles as full mages among the most powerful beings in the known universe.
But rumors fly of approaching danger and Galen and his young lover, Isabelle, are chosen to investigate the dark tidings. An ancient race has awakened after a thousand years, thirsty for war, slaughter, and annihilation. Will the techno-mages be the deciding factor in the war ahead? Or the first casualties?
| Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Cerberus: Wolf in Fold (The Lords of the Diamond, Vol. 2) | The Four Lords of the Diamond | | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | The Ninety Trillion Fausts (The Quintara Marathon, Book 3) | The Quintara Marathon | The final volume in Chalker's Quintara Marathon trilogy continues to blend space-opera adventure with crude theological and metaphysical speculation, but fails to provide escapist adventure.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Midnight at the Well of Souls (Well of Souls #1) | Well of Souls | "A Big, bold book that takes traditional science fiction and turns it upside down!"-- Leigh Brackett -- Review | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Charon: A Dragon at the Gate (The Four Lords of the Diamond, Vol. 3) | The Four Lords of the Diamond | They took the body of Park Lacoch and stripped away his mind. Then they stuck him aboard a spaceship and exiled him to Charon, from which no return was possible. And just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, Park found himself transformed into a changeling -- a half-beast, half-man, with the beast rapidly gaining ascendancy . . . | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | The Moreau Factor | | THE EVOLUTION OF TERROR
A hard-living reporter long past his Pulitzer Prize-winning prime, Chuck Vallone is about to meet a renowned geneticist who needs to clear his conscience. But when Vallone arrives at their rendezvous, he finds the D.C. hotel swarming with government agents. The scientist's room is now a grisly slaughterhouse splattered with blood--but no sign of a body.
Vallone knows he has the story of the century, especially when he receives a mysterious package filled with a computer disk and strange samples of DNA. Now he's determined to uncover the truth. But it's no brave new world Vallone will be exploring; rather, a deadly depraved one ruled by preeminent scientists. And this powerful cadre intends to make Vallone both eyewitness and executor of their final ferocious plan . . . | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Pirates of the Thunder (Rings of the Master, Book 2) | Rings of the Master | Hawks had refused to help the ambitious Lazlo Chen in his quest to find the five gold rings that could break Master System's hold over humankind -- and that refusal had landed him on the deadly prison planet Melchior.
But when Hawks and some fellow prisoners engineered a bold escape, it seemed almost too easy. Hawks guessed that Chen was pulling the strings, but he couldn't shake the feeling that there was another, greater power involved. And that scared him.
Now the stakes were rising, and Hawks was more determined than ever to find the gold rings. But Master System was out to capture him, and Chen was trying to follow him -- and the only place his small band of rebels could hide was smack in the middle of pirate territory... | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (The Four Lords of the Diamond, Vol. 1) | The Four Lords of the Diamond | | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Twilight at the Well of Souls (Well of Souls, Book 5) | Well of Souls | The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. If the Well World were destroyed, the entire universe would disappear like a blown-out candle. But the squabbling forces on the planet weren't going to let the impending doomsday stop them from having a serious war. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle. Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to reach the Well of Souls in time to save the universe and before any of the hostile natives managed to kill them. At best, a difficult mission. At worst, impossible - especially since there was a price on Brazil's head and many would-be claimants! So Nathan Brazil decided that the simplest way to reach the Well of Souls was to be killed. And his enemies would find that he was far more dangerous dead than he had ever been alive... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Exiles at the Well of Souls (Well of Souls #2) | Well of Souls | Antor Trellig, head of a ruthless interstellar syndicate, had seized a super computer with godlike powers, which could make him omnipotent. The Council offered master criminal Mavra Chang any reward if she stopped Trellig - and horrible, lingering death if she failed. But neither Trellig nor Mavra had taken the Well World into consideration. Built by the ancient Markovians, the Well World controlled the design of the cosmos. When the opponents were drawn across space to the mysterious planet, they found themselves in new alien bodies, and in the middle of a battle where strange races fought desperately, with the control of all the Universe as the prize. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | War Of Shadows/a | | | Paperback |
| Jack L. Chalker | Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail (The Four Lords of the Diamond, Vol. 4) | The Four Lords of the Diamond | | Paperback |