Space Magic by David D Levine
Publisher Comments Space Magic is the first short story collection from David D. Levine. His "Tk'Tk'Tk" won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. "The Tail of the Golden Eagle" was a previous Hugo nominee; it also appeared on the Nebula preliminary ballot and was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award and Locus Award. Levine was a John W. Campbell Award nominee (2003 and 2004), Writers of the Future Contest winner (2002), James White Award winner (2001), and Clarion West graduate (2000). His stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, and anthologies including Mike Resnick's New Voices in SF and four Year's Best volumes (two Fantasy, two SF). David lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Kate Yule.
Your price $26.67 New Trade Paperback
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius by Adams, John Joseph
Publisher Comments From Victor Frankenstein to Lex Luthor, from Dr. Moreau to Dr. Doom, readers have long been fascinated by insane plans for world domination and the madmen who devise them. Typically, we see these villains through the eyes of good guys. This anthology, however, explores the world of mad scientists and evil geniuses — from their own wonderfully twisted point of view. An all-star roster of bestselling authors — including Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson, Austin Grossman, Naomi Novik, and Seanan McGuire…twenty-two great storytellers all told — have produced a fabulous assortment of stories guaranteed to provide readers with hour after hour of high-octane entertainment born of the most megalomaniacal mayhem imaginable. Everybody loves villains. They're bad; they always stir the pot; they're much more fun than the good guys, even if we want to see the good guys win. Their fiendish schemes, maniacal laughter, and limitless ambition are legendary, but what lies behind those crazy eyes and wicked grins? How — and why — do they commit these nefarious deeds? And why are they so set on taking over the world? If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, you're in luck: Its finally time for the madmen's side of the story. Your price $14.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Armored by John Joseph Adams, Wendy N Wagner
Publisher Comments Original paperback anthology of science fiction action adventure featuring armored battle-suits and battle-mechs. Armor up for a metal-pounding feast of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers (such as Nebula winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnet, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell). Armor up for a metal-pounding feast of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers (including Nebula-award winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnet, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell) on a future warrior that might very well be just around the corner. Science fiction readers and gamers have long been fascinated by the idea of going to battle in suits of powered combat armor or at the interior controls of giant mechs. First, when the armor starts to take over, even the generals may be at its mercy-and under its control. Then solve the problem of armored rescue when irradiated vacuum stands between the frail flesh of the living and safety. And what happens when the marriage of soldier and armor becomes a bit too intimate—and that marriage goes sour! It’s an armor-plated clip of hard-hitting tales featuring exoskeleton adventure with fascinating takes on possible future armors ranging from the style of personal power suits seen in Starship Troopers and Halo to the servo-controlled bipedal beast-mech style encountered in Mechwarrior and Battletech. About Armored: “Powered armor rocks our world…we're excited [by this] book of power-armor stories.” -i09 About Editor John Joseph Adam’s The Living Dead: “Prolific anthologist Adams delivers. . .great storytelling for zombie fans as well as newcomers.” -Publishers Weekly “[A] remarkable job. . .highly recommended.” -Library Journal About Editor John Joseph Adam’s Wastelands: With this well-chosen set of post apocalyptic stories, editor Adams provides a bit of everything that is best about the trope. . .well-crafted stories, offering something to please nearly every. . .palate.” -Booklist Mass Market
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Wild Cards I by George R R Martin
Publisher Comments Back in print after a decade, expanded with new original material, this is the first volume of George R. R. Martins Wild cards shared-world series There is a secret history of the world—a history in which an alien virus struck the Earth in the aftermath of World War II, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Some were called Aces—those with superhuman mental and physical abilities. Others were termed Jokers—cursed with bizarre mental or physical disabilities. Some turned their talents to the service of humanity. Others used their powers for evil. Wild Cards is their story. Originally published in 1987, Wild Cards I includes powerful tales by Roger Zelazny, Walter Jon Williams, Howard Waldrop, Lewis Shiner, and George R. R. Martin himself. And this new, expanded edition contains further original tales set at the beginning of the Wild Cards universe, by eminent new writers like Hugo-winner David Levine, noted screenwriter and novelist Michael Cassutt, and New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn. Your price $10.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Years Best Science Fiction 24 by Gardner R Dozois
Publisher Comments The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: * Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. Dellamonica Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart. Your price $34.99 New Trade Paperback
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Science Fiction The Best Of 2003 by Karen Haber
Publisher Comments The Best Stories of the Year!
Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies, and journals.
Included are such tales as: "A Study in Emerald" by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman; "Confusions of Uni" by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin; "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick; James Patrick Kelly's "Bernardo's House"; and "Only Partly Here" by Lucius Shepard. Mass Market
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Years Best Fantasy 02 by David G Hartwell
Publisher Comments Building on the success of David Hartwell's Years Best SF series (now in its sixth volume), is the second volume of the Years Best Fantasy series, a collection of the best fantasy short stories published in the past year. Following the popular Year's Best SF series, acclaimed editor David Hartwell collects the very best fantasy short stories of the last year in the Year's Best Fantasy 2, a harvest of shimmering beauty and powerful writing. Established masters rub elbows with rising stars and together they give us a dazzling treasure trove of stories, rich with imagined lands and sharply drawn characters. Contributors to the first Year's Best Fantasy included New York Times bestselling authors Terry Goodkind and George R. R. Martin, plus acclaimed authors Nicola Griffith, Nalo Hopkinson, Michael Moorcock and more. Mass Market
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Years Best Fantasy 05 by David Hartwell
Publisher Comments Magic lives in remarkable realms – and in the short fiction of today's top fantasists. In this fifth breathtaking volume of the year's best flights of the fantastic, award–winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present a dazzling new array of wonders – stories that break through the time–honored conventions of the genre to carry the reader to astonishing places that only the most ingenious minds could conceive. In the able hands of Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Tim Powers, and others, miracles become tangible and true, impossible creatures roam unfettered, and fairy tales are reshaped, sharpened, and freed from the restrictive bonds of childhood. Lose yourself in these pages and in these worlds – and discover the power, the beauty, the unparalleled enchantment of fantasy at its finest. Mass Market
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Transhuman by Mark L. Van and T. K. F. Weisskopf
Publisher Comments 1. New York Times best-selling author John Ringo raved about Mark van Name’s novel “ One Jump Ahead is like well-aged white lightning: it goes down smooth then delivers a kick that knocks you on the floor.” 2. Best-selling science fiction master Orson Scott Card concurs, writing that One Jump Ahead has “a hero who is worth at least a dozen more novels. I want this to be a series. I want to read a new one every year.” 3. This is cutting-edge science fiction, from the rapidly advancing frontiers of the cybernetic/human interface. 4. Advertising in Locus, more. The rate of technological development today is exploding. Such diverse technologies as computing, communications, genetics, biology, and nanotechnology are rapidly pushing humanity to a new singularity, a point at which all the rules change and everything we assume about what it means to be human may no longer apply. Leading science fiction writers such as Wil McCarthy, Esther Friesner, James P. Hogan, Hugo-winner David D. Levine, Dave Freer, Wen Spencer, Mark L. Van Name, and others explore this strangest of new frontiers. From a criminal given a last chance at life in a very new kind of existence to a man struggling to claim his own humanity, from battles in the depths of very strange spaces to an amazing new version of keeping up with the Joneses, the stories in Transhuman take you where no human has gone before--but where many of us might one day go. Mass Market
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