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Faun and Games (Xanth #21)
by Piers AnthonyPiers Anthony's most exceptional Xanth adventure ever reveals wnodrous new worlds of mirth and magic!<P> The miraculous and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun's quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day mare" as his constant companion, Forrest will find more marvels then he ever dreamed of.<P> Packed with magic, mystery, and mirth, Faun & Games is the freshest and most exciting Xanth adventure in a month of Pundays!
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (Giants Trilogy #2)
by James P. HoganLong before the world of the Ganymeans blew apart millennia ago, the strange race of giants had already vanished. All that remained of them was a wrecked ship abandoned on a frozen moon of Jupiter. Now Earth's scientists are there, determined to ferret out the secret of the lost race. But when suddenly the Ganymeans return, they bring with them answers that will reveal the secret of our own as well.
The Forlorn Hope
by David DrakeThey had fought long and hard, and damn near won in spite of everything. But now the men who hired them are going to sell them to the enemy...and so begins a novel of adventure in which a band of Star Mecenaries is driven across the face of a planet by enemies bent on their distruction. With only the guns in their hands, this tiny band must battle ships, artillery, treachery, and the most powerful tank in the universe.
Finity
by John BarnesLyle Peripart's world is coming apart. Up until just a few days ago he was a settled professor at the University of Auckland. The descendant of American expatriates, he's proud of his ancestry and privately doesn't care for the Reichs that have dominated the world since the Axis victory over a century ago. But he's the quiet type, not looking for a fight. Then Lyle is recruited for private industry by the mysterious industrialist Geoffrey Iphwin--and that's when everything stops making sense.<P> His fiancee turns out to be a gun-toting weapons expert who saves him from assassination--and who, immediately afterwards, remembers nothing of what she did. But what she does remember is that she grew up in a world with an entirely different history, in which America surrendered to the Soviet Union in the 1970s.<P> Even stranger, several of their friends turn out to have each grown up in worlds with different histories still. Worse, they gradually realize that not one of them has ever talked to anyone inside the continental United States. In fact, just thinking about the United States is hard--as if something is trying to stop them.
Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein
by Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. Heinlein, the dean of American SF writers, also wrote fantasy fiction throughout his long career, but especially in the early 1940s. The Golden Age of SF was also a time of revolution in fantasy fiction, and Heinlein was at the forefront. His fantasies were convincingly set in the real world, particularly those published in the famous magazine Unknown Worlds, including such stories as "Magic, Inc.," "'They--,'" and "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag." Now all of Heinlein's best fantasy short stories, most of them long novellas, have been collected in one big volume for the first time.
The Immortality Option (Code of the Lifemaker #2)
by James P. HoganSequel to Code Of The Lifemaker.
The Changeling (The Fey #2)
by Kristine Kathryn RuschYears after a political marriage fails to bring peace to the land of Blue Isle, Jewel learns that the son she and her husband have been raising is a changeling and launches a rescue mission in the Shadowlands.
Starfleet Academy: Breakaway
by Bobbi Weiss David WeissThe Orion leader, Chogu, sat down in the captain's chair and thumped his dirty booted feet up on the desktop.
Through Alien Eyes
by Amy ThomsonA thoughtful view of human nature filtered through the perceptions of a pair of engaging and well-meaning, though sometimes unpredictable, aliens.
The Worlds of Clifford Simak
by Clifford D. SimakSOME OF the worlds of Clifford Simak are located on Earth now; some are at the ends of the galaxy. Others are in the far future, and some turn the corner into a universe of more than four dimensions. In all there is that sense of wonder and imagination that is the hallmark of the best of science fiction.
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1)
by Juliet MarillierJuliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched. Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to that talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love.<P> Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader; Diarmid, with his passion for adventure; twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling; rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight; and the young, compassionate Padriac.<P> But it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift.<P> To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror.<P> When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once.
Four Complete Novels
by Frank HerbertWhipping Star, The Dosadi Experiment, The Santaroga Barrier and Soul Catcher.
The Firebird Trilogy
by Kathy TyersWhat if God had waited a few thousand years longer to send His Son as Savior? By setting this trilogy of God's love and redemption in a place unfamiliar to us, Kathy Tyers will help you see all the drama and intensity of God's love in a new way. Firebird is a brilliant military officer who is captured by an enemy planet. She accepts their God--but can she come to believe that He will send His Son to shed His blood to pay for the sins of the people? Does life have real meaning without God? In Fusion Fire, Firebird struggles to save herself, her husband--and the lives of her two unborn sons. Can her new-found faith give her the strength to do what she knows she must do? Crown of Fire is the dazzling finale of the Firebird Trilogy. Firebird returns to her home planet to avert a civil war. Will she have the wisdom to serve her new God and bring peace-- or will her pride destroy everything shejoyes?
Caduceus Wild
by Ward MooreMedarchy. It finally happened. The medical establishment has taken over the civilized world. Orwell's Big Brother is a doctor, and there is a prescription for everyone... usually thanatization or "modification." The all-powerful high court of Medics will decide. The primitive operations and drugs of an earlier culture have been replaced by more sophisticated methods and controls. The population at large, described as Patients, willingly observe the codes of behavior set by the ruling Medics. It is a strange and cold world, still evolving from the devastation of ancient bacteria aerosols. All that is visible, from architecture to transportation, has been newly created by the Medical technologists. The minds and bodies of the citizens are on "hold." Nothing must encroach on the Public Health. Every facet of life has been measured and made safe. But there are a few escapees, dissidents, deviants. The "Abnormals." This is the story of three of them. . . As the author explains in a note, this book is a substantial expansion and re-write of a 1959 magazine serial of the same name, by Ward Moore, Robert Bradford, and Jean Ariss.
Harpy Thyme (Xanth #17)
by Piers AnthonyHalf-harpy, half-goblin, Gloria is the star of Anthony's latest romp through Xanth. Being the only one of her crossbred species and at an age when the opposite sex holds some attraction, Gloria appeals to Good Magician Humphry for help in finding a mate. Of course, nothing is straightforward or easy in Xanth. First Gloria must master three challenges just to see the magician; then she has to find Humphry's second son, who will start her on her quest. Accompanied by a rejuvenated Magician Trent and Cynthia, the flying centaur, Gloria treks through the underworld and across Xanth. Along the way, the trio outwits (and out-puns) dragons, goblins, mermaids, and the like and greets old friends, including Com Pewter and Marrow Bones. Gloria is successful, but the plot is once again incidental to the ruthless punning and outright fun. After all, in Xanth, as in life, it's the journey that's important, not the destination.
A World Out of Time
by Larry NivenJaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors. Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!
If Wishes Were Horses
by Anne MccaffreyThe third in the popular author's series of illustrated gift books, following An Exchange of Gifts, relates the story of a lady magician, healer, and mother who fulfills her family's dreams in the midst of war.