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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.
The Fey: Rival
by Kristine Kathryn RuschWhen the ruthless Black King Rugad, leader of the Fey, threatens to invade Blue Isle, he targets his great-grandchildren Arianna and Sebastian, who are loyal Islanders, but their efforts are thwarted by a discovery about Sebastian's true parentage.
Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos
by Kate WilhelmWhat's the link between a powerful mind-altering computer program and two murders in the Oregon woods? Seven years ago Lucas Kendricks deserted his young family and took off for mathematician Emil Frobisher's research project in Colorado. Now, after one day's warning--he ordered a monster computer to be sent to his old address--he's back, and then, moments later, he's dead, along with a young woman he gave a lift to only a few hours before. The police think Lucas raped and killed the hitchhiker and was shot down by his tiny, sharpshooting wife Nell; but defense attorney Barbara Holloway, needled by her estranged father into coming back to him and the law (she'd been on the run from both for five years after a dose of professional disillusionment) is convinced that Lucas's death had more to do with the mysterious men who followed him from Colorado. Taking on her share of cliches--alliance with her curmudgeonly, reluctantly supportive father; opposition from prosecutor/former lover Tony DeAngelo; romance with mathematician Mike Dinesen (whom she's called in to make sense of the connections Lucas had with Frobisher, psychiatrist Ruth Brandywine, and computer expert Walter Schumaker)--Barbara delves into those blank seven years, and comes up with answers that are even scarier than the questions: a set of the most user-unfriendly computer disks in literature.
Villains by Necessity
by Eve ForwardThe triumph of Good and Light has transformed the world into a place of peace. This is bad news for the "bad guys", who include a depressed thief who dresses in black, his short, feisty sidekick, a black knight, a female druid, a man-eating sorceress and an innocent centaur who is a spy for Good. Finding Utopia boring, they set out on a quest to restore balance to the world.
Isaac's Universe Volume 3: Unnatural Deplomacy
by Martin GreenbergA collection of classic short stories by various authors with an introduction by ISAAC Robert Silverberg
Shattered
by Dean KoontzAs Alex and Colin speed toward their new home in San Francisco where Courtney awaits them, they are pursued by a madman who is also eager to see Courtney.
Summer of Love: A Time Travel
by Lisa MasonA Philip K. Dick Award Finalist. A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of the Year. <P> The year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, psychedelic drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, free love, bikers, dropouts, flower children. An age of innocence, a time of danger. The Summer of Love. <P> San Francisco is the Summer of Love, where runaway flower children flock to join the hip elite and squares cruise the streets to view the human zoo. <P> Lost in these strange and wondrous days, teenager Susan Bell, alias Starbright, has run away to San Francisco to find her troubled best friend. Her path will cross with Chiron Cat’s Eye in Draco, a strange and beautiful young man who has journeyed farther than she could ever imagine. <P> With the help of Ruby A. Maverick, a feisty half-black, half-white hip merchant, Susan and Chi discover a love that spans five centuries. But can they save the world from demons threatening to destroy all space and time? <P> A harrowing coming of age. A friendship ending in tragedy. A terrifying far future. A love spanning five centuries. And a gritty portrait of a unique time in American history--the Summer of Love.