| Authors | Title | Series | Description | Format |
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| Isaac Asimov (ed.) | New Hugo Winners Volume 2 | | | Hardcover |
| Isaac Asimov (ed.) | Hugo Winners Volume 3 | | | Hardcover |
| Janet Asimov, Isaac Asimov | Norby and the Oldest Dragon | | Grade 3-5 --Norby's many fans will enjoy this latest additon to the popular series. Cadet Jeff Wells is steamed that he must leave the Space Academy to visit the planet Jamyn for the Grand Dragon's birthday celebration. His bad mood lasts until he is sent to find the Grand Dragon's mother and bring her to the party. The Dowager Dragon, Jeff, his brother, Fargo, and Norby are soon plunged into adventure when a mysterious vapor surrounds the planet, threatening all life on Jamyn. Jeff enters into a battle of wits with the sentient cloud, but with the help of Norby and the Dowager, he rescues his brother and the planet. Young readers will be quickly engrossed in this fast-paced space opera. The writing is good, and the humor is appealing. Previous volumes are mentioned, but the book stands easily on its own. An easy, entertaining introduction to the genre for reluctant or beginning science-fiction readers. --Anne Connor, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | Paperback |
| Janet Asimov | Mind Transfer | | Using the background of husband Isaac's classic robot stories of the '40s and '50s, Janet Asimov considers the possibilities and problems of the title technique: imprinting human minds on robot brains to give the aging and ill a second life. Naturally, there is a backlash, the rabid conservative movement called biofundamentalism. The novel is structured around the life, death and subsequent robotic existence of Adam Durant, who is born into a dynasty torn between "bioeffers" and pioneering roboticists. In a story crowded with incident (settling another star system, terrorist bombings, hyperdrive innovations, alien encounters), the interesting question of a robotic culture that doesn't imitate its human parent is not developed. Also appealing as an idea is the outlined family chronicle with robots as relatives, but the bland characters and rushed, chaotic plot weaken its impact.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | Paperback |
| Scott Asnin | A Cold Wind from Orion | | | Paperback |
| Robert Asprin | Myth Alliances (Myth Adventures #5, 6, 7) | Myth Adventures | Book Club Omnibus of Mythin-ing Persons, Little Myth Marker, and M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link. | Hardcover |
| Robert Asprin | Phule's Paradise (Phule's Company #2) | Phule's Company | Captain Willard Phule must lead his group of unlikely interstellar armed forces on a mission to protect The Fat Chance, an intergalactic casino, from a criminal takeover. | Paperback |
| Robert Asprin | Phule's Company (Phule's Company #1) | Phule's Company | Behind the puerile punning names and extraterrestrial setting stands a modest, winning story about a commander who builds a company of misfits, rejects and even a few aliens into a disciplined military outfit. Tricked into taking on the worst detachment in a far outpost of the Space Legion, Captain Willard Phule uses every resource in his control, particularly his immense wealth and his knowledge of how to motivate and lead people, to whip his skeptical crew of strays into shape and make them feel that they have, at last, found a home. This lighthearted tale is part science fiction, part spoof, part heart-warmer, its farcical elements pitted against the proper, stuffy voice of Phule's butler, Beeker, whose wry commentary precedes each section of narrative. Phule rings true as an astute entrepreneur of the human (and nonhuman) spirit. The psychological acumen that colors Asprin's characterizations, Phule in particular, gives the book the verisimilitude that is the essence of successful science fiction. Asprin wrote the Myth series.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review by Bob Wright (PSSFS):
Phule's Company is the first book in the new humor series of novels by Robert Asprin, the man who has been responsible for the fantasy-humor series of the Myth books. This new series is a parody of science fiction. The basic premise is that the most inept commander in the entire Space Legion has been put in command of a company of the worst soldiers.
Surprisingly, this book is both hilariously funny and has a plot. After the last several, rather disappointing, novels in the Myth series, this is a welcome and refreshing change. As with most humor books, there is really no way to quite describe Phule's Company. The closest I can come is to ask you to imagine Kevin Kline leading a Muppet Show army in space. Whatever it's like, this book is highly recommended to those who enjoy the funny side of sf. | Paperback |
| Robert Asprin | Myth Adventures (Myth Adventures 1-4) | Myth Adventures | First four books in one omnibus | Hardcover |
| Robert Asprin (ed.), Lynn Abbey (ed.) | Wings of Omen (Theives' World #6) | Thieves’ World | | Paperback |
| Robert Asprin (ed.) | Tales Vulgar Unicorn (Thieves' World #2) | Thieves’ World | | Paperback |
| Robert Lynn Asprin (ed.), Lynn Abbey (ed.) | Storm Season (Thieves World, Book 4) | Thieves’ World | | Paperback |
| Chris Atack | Project Maldon | | With religious fanaticism on the rise and civilization crumbling, the world's only hope is Helen, Project Maldon's artificial intelligence, but the computer's increasingly unusual directives are triggering social unrest, murder, and civil war. Original." | Paperback |
| A. A. Attanasio | In Other Worlds | | 130 BILLION YEARS INTO THE FUTURE....One star-chained evening in a Manhattan bathroom, Carl Schirmer spontaneously transforms into light....Then, 130 billion years later, when all of spacetime is collapsing into the vast nothingness of the cosmic black hole, Carl Schirmer is remade from the remnants of his light. He is reborn in time's last world, the strangest of all-the Werld....There, Carl discovers the Foke, nomadic humans who travel among the floating islands of the Werld. Among them he finds the beautiful Evoë, and their life together is blissful in this kingdom that knows no aging or disease. But it is cut brutally short when Evoë is captured by the zotl, a spidery intelligence who hunt the Foke and eat them in an excrutiating fashion. In order to save her life, Carl must return to Earth-130 billion years earlier-where he is shocked to discover that the Earth he's come back to is not the one he left....Can he meet the harsh demands of his task before the zotl find him and begin ravishing the Earth?
Review by Bill Johnston (PSSFS):
Despite its claim to be a sequel to Radix, has nothing to do with the original. It is about a man named Carl from our world who is brought to a world several billion years from now by a being who can perceive the flow of time. Carl falls in love in this strange place, and when his love is captured he goes back to the being who brought him from Earth. The being has expected her to be captured and his price for her rescue is for Carl to go back to the Earth of his time and get the being some necessary supplies. He agrees to go even though his presence could lure humanity's greatest enemy, the zotl, to Earth. The world of the far future is not well described except for its layout. It orbits a black hole and sunlight comes down to the hole as opposed to up from it, and the people live on floating chunks of rock which are connected by gravity distortions. At times Attanasio describes his "treknology," but it all seems pretty nonsensical to me. The book is rather well written, but is not really what I enjoy reading. It's more of an adventure than an idea. | Hardcover |
| Jean M. Auel | The Clan of the Cave Bear | | When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | Paperback |
| Jean M. Auel | The Shelters of Stone | Earth’s Children | Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age. --Tim Appelo | Hardcover |
| Richard Avery | The Venom of Argus (The Expendables # 4) | The Expendables | | Paperback |
| Richard Avery | The Deathworms of Kratos (The Expendables #1) | The Expendables | | Paperback |
| Jim Baen (ed.) | The Best From Galaxy Vol. III | | | Paperback |
| Jim Baen (ed.) | New Destinies Vol. 4 | | | Paperback |
| Robin Wayne Bailey | Night Watch (Tsr Books) | | AUTHOR: Robin Wayne Bailey TITLE: Nightwatch Murder By Magic PUBLISHER: TSR Inc. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin DATE: 1990 SIZE: Mass Market Paperback PAGES: 311 COMMENTS: "All the fables Seers of Greyhawk have been killed on the same night, each by their own instruments of divination. And the only unusual sign is the ominous number of black birds in the skies of late. The mystery is dumped in the lap of Garett Starlen, commander of the night shift of the City watch, who discovered that a web of evil has been tightly drawn around the great city." CONDITION: The book a small stain to the inside of the front cover, light edge wear, else a tight clean copy. appears not to have been read. SEE PHOTOS The book you see is the book you will receive. We do not use stock photos. THANKS FOR LOOKING AND BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR OTHER LISTINGS tnybcs 1 /// 081010 | Paperback |
| Brian N. Ball | The Probability Man | | | Paperback |
| J. G. Ballard | The Drowned World & The Wind from Nowhere | | | Hardcover |
| Iain M. Banks | Use of Weapons | | 'There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness' The Times | Trade Paperback |
| Iain M. Banks | Against a Dark Background | | On the run from a cult of intergalactic religious fanatics who want her death, the Lady Sharrow emerges from retirement to seek out a powerful artifact that may save her life--the legendary Lady Gun, a weapon that kills by altering the reality around it. The author of Consider Phlebas ( LJ 5/15/88) and The Player of Games ( LJ 2/15/89) has constructed a richly hued, far-future tapestry for his latest space adventure. Sophisticated prose, complex characters, and an unbridled imagination combine in this tale of high drama and intrigue. A good choice for most libraries.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. | Trade Paperback |