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“A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion.”
—SCOTT WESTERFELD,
AUTHOR OF UGLIES, PRETTIES, AND SPECIALS
A SPRING/SUMMER 2008
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It’s Homeland Security
versus one bright,
tech-savvy teenager.
Bet on the kid.
Marcus, aka “w1n5t0n,” is
only seventeen years old,
but he figures he already
knows how the system
works—and how to work the
system. Smart, fast, and wise
to the ways of the networked
world, he has no trouble
outwitting his high school’s
intrusive but clumsy
surveillance systems.
But his whole world changes
when, having skipped school,
he and his friends find
themselves caught in the
aftermath of a major terrorist
attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus
and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland
Security and whisked away to a secret prison, where they’re mercilessly
interrogated for days.
When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has
become a police state, where every citizen is treated like a potential
terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him
only one option: to take down the DHS himself.
"The right book at the right time from the right author—and, not entirely
coincidentally, Cory Doctorow's best novel yet."
—JOHN SCALZI, AUTHOR OF OLD MAN’S WAR
"A great book…Thought-provoking, entertaining, and also a great education
piece." —RAY OZZIE, CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT, MICROSOFT
“A tale of struggle familiar to any teenager, about those moments when you
choose what your life is going to mean.”
—STEVEN GOULD, AUTHOR OF JUMPER
CORY DOCTOROW is a co-editor of BoingBoing.net and the former European
director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He writes columns for Make,
InformationWeek, and Locus, and was arrested twice for civil disobedience before
he turned eighteen. He has won the Locus Award for his fiction three times, been
nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula, won the Campbell Award, and was
named one of the Web’s twenty-five influencers by Forbes magazine and a Young
Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He hopes you’ll use technology to
change the world.
MAY 2008

From the creators of five New York Times
wonderful new epic sextet set in a world
First there was Dragonlance ,
the RPG-based novels that begat a fantasy empire.
Then there was Darksword, their first foray into the genre
of Tolkien, Donaldson, and Brooks.
Soon there came the Death Gate Cycle,
seven books strong, every one of them a bestseller.
Now the creative minds behind these bestselling worlds
launch their new fantasy quest epic….
Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and
eventually the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras
clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one
who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war.
But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise.
Skoval and the other ancient gods are under
siege from a new generation of gods who are
challenging them for the powers of creation…
and the only way to stop these brash interlopers
lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones
of the Vektan Dragons.
It will be up to the Vindras, the dragon-goddess’s
champion, to undertake the quest to recover all
Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras’s
people rests on their recovery—for this is not
only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest
for redemption.
Filled with heroes and heroines young and old
and exotic adventure in a magic-forged world,
this is a series that fully illustrates the mastery
of world-building and storytelling that has made
Weis and Hickman into the bestselling fantasy
co-authors of all time.
Welcome to the world of
Dragonships!
AUGUST 2008
“The authors of the Dragonlance
series again demonstrate their talent
for vivid world-crafting and strong
characterization in a novel that will
appeal to fans of epic fantasy.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL ON
FORGING THE DARK SWORD,
FROM THE DARKSWORD SERIES
”Another smash hit.”
—KIRKUS ON THE HAND OF CHAOS
FROM THE DEATH GATE CYCLE
“Bestselling authors Weis
and Hickman have made another
admirable addition to the history,
lore, and ways of Krynn.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON
DRAGONS OF A VANISHED MOON
FROM THE DRAGONLANCE SAGA

estselling epic fantasy series comes a
of heroes, dragons, gods, and magic
MARGARET WEIS lives in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
TRACY HICKMAN lives in Utah.
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The Wolfman
NICHOLAS PEKEARO
Marlowe Higgins is a moral man…but every full
moon he has to kill
Marlowe Higgins is a hard man, a wanderer. Since being
dishonorably discharged after a tour in Vietnam, he’s been
in and out of prison, moving from town to town, going wherever
the wind takes him. He’s not really the kind of guy who can stay
in one place too long. Every full moon he kills someone. Marlowe
Higgins is a werewolf.
For years he struggled with his affliction, until he found a way to
use his unfortunate curse for good—he only kills really bad people.
After years of being on the road, Higgins has found a home in
the small town of Evelyn, Tennessee. He works at a local kitchen;
he even has a friend, Daniel Pearce, one of Evelyn’s two detectives.
But one night everything changes. It turns out he’s not the only
monster lurking in the area. A fiendish serial killer, known as the
Rose Killer, is brutally murdering young girls all around the county.
Higgins targets the killer as his next victim. But on the night of
the full moon, things go drastically wrong….
“The too-short life of Nicholas Pekearo was both triumph and tragedy.
He died a hero’s death, sacrificing his own life to save others.And
now comes The Wolfman, a brilliant, insightful, overpowering debut
from a writer who studied, listened, and learned before he took his
shot…and centered the bull’s-eye. Published posthumously, this
‘debut’ novel is a triumph.”
—ANDREW VACHSS, CO-AUTHOR OF TERMINAL
“Consider Lon Chaney Jr. meets the Incredible Hulk—as imagined by
Charles Bukowski. The Wolfman’s great fun. My suggestion? Don’t
wait for the next full moon. Pounce!”
—JACK KETCHUM, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIDE AND SEEK
NICHOLAS PEKEARO was a young, prolific writer who left the world too
soon. While volunteering as a an NYPD Auxillary Police Officer, he was
killed in the line of duty, in the very neighborhood he grew up in, New York
City’s Greenwich Village. The Wolfman is his first published novel.
MAY 2008
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The Edge of Reason
MELINDA SNODGRASS
A provocative thriller about the eternal battle between
science and superstition
Since the dawn of consciousness, a secret war has been fought
between the forces of magic and religious fanaticism, and the
cause of reason, understanding, and technology. On one side
are the Old Ones, malign entities that feed on the suffering of
mankind. On the other are the Lumina, an ancient order dedicated
to the liberation of the human spirit.
Officer Richard Oort of the Albuquerque Police Department is
caught in the middle of this primal battle when he rescues a
mysterious teenage girl from a trio of inhuman hunters. Recruited
by the Lumina to serve as their latest paladin, Richard ends up
fighting beside a handful of unlikely allies, including an adolescent
sorceress, an enigmatic philanthropist, a sexy coroner, and a
homeless god with multiple personalities.
But the Old Ones and their mortal pawns are determined to
destroy Richard—or else subvert him to their cause. And they
have all powers of magic and organized religion at their disposal.
As the gates between the universes shred apart, it may be up
to Richard to save humanity from the endless horror of a new
Dark Age.
As provocative as The Golden Compass or the Illuminatus! trilogy,
The Edge of Reason dramatizes the fundamental conflict behind
the hot-button issues of today...and the future of the human race.
“If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might
have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. Melinda
Snodgrass just keeps on getting better and better, and The Edge of
Reason is her strongest novel yet, a gripping and ambitious tour de
force that is sure to stir up controversy and discussion.This one will
delight thinkers and outrage true believers of all stripes.”
—GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
MELINDA SNODGRASS lives in New Mexico.
MAY 2008
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Null-A Continuum
JOHN C. WRIGHT
Continuing A. E. van Vogt’s The World of Null-A
Grandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the
Golden Age of classic SF, the 1940s. Of his masterpieces,
The World of Null-A is perhaps most influential. It was the first
major trade SF hardcover ever, in 1949, and has been in print
ever since. The careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred
Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip José Farmer were created
or influenced by The World of Null-A. It is required reading for
anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics.
Inspired to write a sequel to the two novels of Null-A (the second
was The Players of Null-A), John C. Wright trained himself to write
in the pulp style and manner of van Vogt. So return again to the
Null-A future, in which the man with two brains, Gilbert Gosseyn,
now discovers his third brain and travels through heretofore
unimaginable distances in space and in time to fend off the death
of the Universe and the extermination of human life as humanity
reaches the peak of evolution millions of years in the future.
“After more than half a century I can still recall the impact of his
early stories.” —ARTHUR C. CLARKE ON A. E. VAN VOGT
“Brilliant. Acute, open-minded readers…will be stunned by a
classic of SF literature.” —CINESCAPE ON THE WORLD OF NULL-A
“Along with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein—and to a lesser
extent L. Sprague De Camp and L. Ron Hubbard—he seemed nearly
to create, by writing what Campbell wanted to publish, the first
genuinely successful period of US SF.”
—THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION ON A. E. VAN VOGT
“An exciting voice, adding richness to hard science fiction.”
—DAVID BRIN ON JOHN C. WRIGHT
JOHN C. WRIGHT lives in Centreville, Virginia.
www.johncwright.livejournal.com
MAY 2008
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In Milton Lumky Territory
PHILIP K. DICK
A novel about a sales territory and about states of mind
In The Novels of Philip K. Dick, Kim Stanley Robinson states that
“In Milton Lumky Territory…is probably the best of Dick’s realist
novels aside from Confessions of a Crap Artist,” and calls it a
“bitter indictment of the effects of capitalism.” Dick, on the other
hand, in his forward says, “This is actually a very funny book, and a
good one, too.”
Milton Lumky territory is both an area of the western United
States and a psychic terrain: the world and world-view of the
travelling salesman. The story takes place in Boise, Idaho, with
some extraordinary long-distance driving sequences in which our
hero (young Bruce Stevens) drives from Boise to San Francisco,
to Reno, to Pocatello, to Seattle, and back to Boise in search
of a good deal on some wholesale typewriters. He falls under
the spell of an attractive older woman (once his school teacher)
and Milton Lumky, a middle-aged paper salesman whose territory
is the Northwest. And then Bruce and the others slowly sink
into the whirlpool of Bruce’s immature personal obsessions
and misperceptions.
A compassionate and ironic portrayal of three characters enmeshed
in a sticky web of everyday events, in a tension between love
and money, with a basic failure to communicate, In Milton Lumky
Territory stands out among Dick’s early works.
“A kind of pulp-fiction Kafka, a prophet.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Remarkable…echoes of Dick’s contemporaries such as Ralph
Ellison, Richard Yates, Rod Serling, Raymond Chandler, and early
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. resonate.… Dick fans will be in rapture.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (BOXED REVIEW) ON VOICES FROM THE STREET
PHILIP K. DICK has had many movies based on his stories, including the
classic, Blade Runner. The official website maintained by the Philip K. Dick
Trust is www.philipkdick.com.
MAY 2008
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The Wanderer’s Tale
DAVID BILSBOROUGH
“A very promising debut.” —BOOKLIST
Afresh new fantasy voice emerges in this epic fantasy quest
that will excite fans of J. R. R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman.
Five hundred years ago, the Peladanes defeated a scourge
from the northernmost reaches of the world. It took the
combined forces of many lands to breach the fortress of the
monster that had terrorized the world for millennia. Since then
peace has reigned.
But an aging priest of the one true god has received a sign,
an omen. The Peladanes realize that if they don’t destroy the
fearsome power in the north, the world will suffer a fate worse
than that its slain master inflicted upon their ancestors.
When the great warrior of the Peladanes seeks brave men to
save the world, only a motley crew of misfits answers the call.
The least likely among them is Bolldhe, a rootless soul who has
for eighteen years traveled the land, bilking money from those
for whom he pretends to tell their future. Only fate can tell if
Bolldhe will fulfill his destiny, foreseen by the priest to be the
chosen one, the monster slayer, the potential savior of the
entire world.
Beset by supernatural terrors, this dubious company faces an
arduous trek though glittering mountains, vast dark forests,
lands of giants, fire, and ice—lands never before visited by men.
Theirs is a tale never-before told, an epic story to fire the
imagination of readers everywhere.
“Secrets abound, conflicts rage, gore is spilled—and I can’t wait
for the sequel!” —ED GREENWOOD
“Bilsborough has imbued the quest novel with a gritty realism, an
unlikely set of heroes, a range of magics and cultures, and shown
how almost anything that can go wrong will, and under the worst
of circumstances.” —L. E. MODESITT, JR.
DAVID BILSBOROUGH was born in Malvern, England. He currently lives
in Indonesia. His second novel, A Fire in the North, was just published.
MAY 2008
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The Immortal Prince
JENNIFER FALLON
The gods of legend rise again on the world of
Amyrantha in this start to Jennifer Fallon’s brilliant
new four-book series
When a routine hanging goes wrong and a murderer
somehow survives the noose, the man announces he is
an immortal. And not just any immortal, but Cayal, the Immortal
Prince, hero of legend, thought to be only a fictional character.
To most he is a figure out of the Tide Lord Tarot, the only record
left on Amyrantha of the mythical beings whom fable tells created
the race of half-human, half-animal Crasii, a race of slaves.
Arkady Desean is an expert on the legends of the Tide Lords.
At the request of the King’s Spymaster, she is sent to interrogate
this would-be immortal, hoping to prove he is a spy, or at the
very least, a madman.
Though she is set the task of proving Cayal a liar, Arkady finds
herself believing him, against her own good sense. And as she
begins to truly believe in the Tide Lords, her own web of lies
starts to unravel….
“Fallon begins her latest epic asking the question of how an immortal,
tired of immortality, might find his way to death? With her vivid
style and snappy dialogue, Fallon embarks on a rollercoaster ride of
mortal and immortal machinations, as the ruthless and immoral
Tide Lords emerge from a thousand years of hiding into a world
where everyone has attributed the stories of their existence to myth.
Everyone, that is, but the mysterious and secretive Cabal, who watch
and wait in the shadows, searching for a way to protect humanity
from the Tide Lords’ return.” —NEXUS ON THE IMMORTAL PRINCE
“Fallon sets the stage for another lively fantasy saga full of intriguing
characters, smart dialogue and twisty plotting.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON WOLFBLADE
“An intriguing soap opera of espionage and family revelations.”
—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ON MEDALON
JENNIFER FALLON is the award-winning author of the Hythrun Chronicles,
and one of Australia’s bestselling fantasy authors. She lives in Australia.
MAY 2008
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame,
Volume Two B
The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time
Chosen by the Members of the Science Fiction
Writers of America
BEN BOVA, editor
This volume contains eleven great classics.
Published in 1973, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
introduced tens of thousands of young readers to
the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite
of libraries across the country.
This volume contains novellas by: Ray Bradbury,
James Blish, Algis Budrys, Theodore Cogswell,
E. M. Forster, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz,
T. L. Sherred, Wilmar H. Shiras, Clifford D. Simak,
and Jack Vance.
“Libraries can toss out worn collections of partly
good/partly poor and buy this volume of the
crème de la crème.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL ON THE SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME
BEN BOVA is a six-time winner of the Hugo Award and is
the author of more than a hundred works of science fact
and fiction. He lives in Florida.
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Requiem
Collected Works and Tributes to the Grand Master
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
YOJI KONDO, editor
Collected short fiction, speeches, and tributes
to one of science fiction’s greatest writers
Requiem is a compelling celebration of Robert
A. Heinlein and his vision, containing many rare,
uncollected works by the Grand Master of science
fiction, including the novellas Destination Moon
and Tenderfoot in Space. Also featured are contributions
from such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke,
Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, and Larry Niven.
“I’ve read (and cried over) Requiem—a fine memorial.”
—ARTHUR C. CLARKE
“Heinlein showed us where the future is.”
—TOM CLANCY
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN was the dominant science fiction
writer of the modern era, a writer whose influence on the
field was immense. He won science fiction’s Hugo Award
for Best Novel four times.
YOJI KONDO holds a PhD in astrophysics, headed the
astrophysics laboratory at the Johnson Space Center during
the Apollo and Skylab Missions, and was the NASA director
of a geosynchronous satellite observatory for fifteen years.
He also writes science fiction under the name Eric Kotani.
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Starfish
PETER WATTS
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
When civilization needs someone to run generating stations
three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks
out a special sort of person for its rifters program. It recruits those
whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments,
people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that
life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step
up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven’t
spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back, you wouldn’t
be a rifter in the first place. It’s a small price to keep the lights
going, back on shore.
But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de
Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find, and enough pressure
can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made
of iron. At first, not even the rifters know what powers they have
in them—and by the time anyone else finds out, the outcast and
the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole
damn planet….
★
“The dark universe of the sea bottom and the rich characterization
captivate to the last page.Watts makes a brilliant debut with a novel
that is part undersea adventure, part psychological thriller, and
wholly original.” —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
“Like some adrenaline-charged fusion of Clarke’s The Deep Range and
Gibson’s Neuromancer.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“No one has taken this premise to such pitiless lengths—and depths
—as Watts. In a claustrophobic setting enlivened by periodic flashes
of beauty and terror, the crew of Beebe Station come across as not
only believable but likeable as they fight for equilibrium against their
own demons, one another, their superiors and their remorselessly
hostile surroundings.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
PETER WATTS lives in Toronto, Ontario.
www.rifters.com
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Hawkspar
A Novel of Korre
HOLLY LISLE
Hawkspar is dead! Long live Hawkspar!
Stolen away from their families, they are slaves, women
with no names and no futures. Every moment of their days
controlled by the avatars of the stone Eyes—Obsidian, Emerald,
Raxinan, Ruby, Windcrystal, Sapphire, Sunspar, Tigereye….
And the most powerful of them all, Hawkspar, the eyes of time.
Kings and despots come to her to know their futures, and she
wades in the river of time, pulls apart its sticky threads, to arrange
the world to her satisfaction.
But she too was once a slave, plucked from her home, chosen by
the Eyes to live in service to them, as much a slave now as she
ever was. And with her sight into past and future, she can see the
secrets of the Eyes—and the evil of the Eyes.
Before the death of Hawkspar, another must be chosen by the
Eyes—but the avatar has her own plans, and chooses a slave for
her courage and rebelliousness, rather than her dedication to the
goals of the Eyes.
This slave is put to trial, but time after time, she is protected by
forces unseen. Once she has swallowed the bitter liquid and has
her eyes pulled from her head and replaced with the Eyes of
Hawkspar stone, she can slip into the streams of time…and use
time to her own ends—to free the slaves once and for all, and
destroy the Eyes, even if it means destroying herself in the process.
Praise for Talyn:
“Anyone will likely be captivated by this stern and stirring treatise on
the dangers of enforced peace and the virtues of paranoid preparation
for the worst.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Fierce loyalties, foul magics, and fresh plot twists abound in Holly
Lisle’s tale of love, war, and possession.”
—JACQUELINE CAREY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KUSHIEL’S DART
HOLLY LISLE is a professional writer. She lives in Georgia.
JUNE 2008
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Jack: Secret Histories
F. PAUL WILSON
The first young adult novel by New York Times
bestselling author F. Paul Wilson, starring his most
popular character, Repairman Jack, as a teenager
Ever come across a situation that simply wasn’t right—where
someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you
wished you could fix things but didn’t know how? Fourteenyear-old
Jack knows how. Or rather he’s learning how. He’s
discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or
toys or appliances—situations….
Here’s where it all starts: when Jack and his best friends,
Weezie and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse—the victim of ritual
murder—in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the
body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs. What
is its secret? What is the secret of the corpse? What other
mysteries hide in the dark, timeless Pine Barrens? And who
doesn’t want them revealed?
Jack’s town, the surrounding Barrens, his friends, even Jack
himself: they all have…Secret Histories.
Praise for Repairman Jack:
“The Tomb is one of the best all-out adventures stories I’ve read in
years.” —STEPHEN KING (PRESIDENT OF THE REPAIRMAN JACK FAN CLUB)
“Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters
to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages.” —DEAN KOONTZ
“The most welcome discovery, for readers new to the thriller universe,
is F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack.” —JANET MASLIN
F. PAUL WILSON, the New York Times bestselling author of ten
Repairman Jack novels, lives in Wall, New Jersey. Secret Histories,
about Repairman Jack’s teenage years, is his first novel for young adults.
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ALSO AVAILABLE
Dragon and Herdsman (7/07)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5276-7
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5276-1
$5.99/$6.99 Can
Dragon and Slave (6/06)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4041-2
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4041-0
$5.99/$8.99 Can
MIDDLE-GRADE FICTION
Starscape Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1419-2
$17.95
$19.95 Canadian
5 3 /16" x 7 5 /8" / 400 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1419-3
TOR
Dragon and Liberator
The Sixth Dragonback Adventure
TIMOTHY ZAHN
The exciting climax of the Dragonback series
In this exciting space adventure, fourteen-year-old Jack Morgan
and Draycos, a poet/warrior K’da dragon who can hide himself
as a tattoo on Jack’s back, have their backs to the wall. Brought
together by a twist of fate, these two have been through a lot of
scrapes, risking death and imprisonment on worlds far and wide,
seeking justice for Jack and information that might save Draycos’s
people from a genocidal ambush. But now the man who killed
Jack’s parents and destroyed the scout fleet is poised to strike,
armed with the Death weapon that felled the scout fleet. Only
Jack and Draycos stand in his way.
Time is running out: not just for our young heroes, but also for
the millions of K’da who face annihilation. Resourceful Jack and
his remarkable ally will find a way…or die trying.
“Tim Zahn is a master of tactics and puts his own edge on complex
hard-SF thrillers.” —KEVIN J. ANDERSON
“Zahn has always managed to tell an enthralling story in the past, and
this one is no exception.” —SF CHRONICLE ON DRAGON AND SLAVE
“This is a great read whatever your age.”
—SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE ON DRAGON AND SOLDIER
“These are good, old-fashioned, SF thrillers aimed at teenagers
but recommended to readers of all ages looking for a fast,
suspenseful romp.” —VECTOR ON THE DRAGONBACK SERIES
TIMOTHY ZAHN is the Hugo Award–winning author of more than thirty
SF novels, including the first five Dragonback novels, as well as Night
Train to Rigel, The Third Lynx, and Blackcollar: The Judas Solution. He
has also written the all-time bestselling Star Wars spinoff novel, Heir to
the Empire, and other Star Wars novels, including the recent Allegiance.
He lives in Oregon.
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FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2042-1
$25.95
$28.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 592 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2042-8
TOR
The Court of the Air
STEPHEN HUNT
A powerful new fantasy of magic and science—and of
two orphans on the run, each with the power to save
the world
When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at
the brothel to which she has recently been apprenticed,
her first instinct is to run back to the poorhouse where she grew
up. But there she finds her fellow orphans butchered, and it slowly
dawns on her that she was the real target of the attack. For
Molly is a special little girl, carrier of a secret that marks her for
destruction by enemies of the state.
Oliver Brooks has led a sheltered existence in the backwater
home of his merchant uncle. When he is framed for his only
relative’s murder he is forced to flee for his life, accompanied by
an agent of the mysterious Court of the Air. Chased across the
country, Oliver finds himself in the company of thieves, outlaws,
and spies, and gradually learns more about the secret that has
blighted his life.
Soon Molly and Oliver will find themselves battling a grave threat
to civilization, an ancient power thought to have been quelled
millennia ago. Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but the two
orphans are also aided by indomitable friends in this endlessly
inventive tale full of drama, intrigue, and adventure.
Set in a fantastical Dickensian clockwork universe, The Court
of the Air is a rollicking adventure that will appeal to fans of
Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman.
Praise for The Court of the Air (UK):
“An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels.”
—THE LONDON TIMES
“The Court of the Air is a genuinely engaging read, which has believable
characters in a fantastic setting.”
—THE BOOKSELLER (THIS TITLE WAS THE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE
FOR APRIL 2007)
“A confident, audacious novel.” —SFX MAGAZINE
“The depth and complexity of Hunt’s vision makes it compulsive
reading for all ages.” —THE GUARDIAN
STEPHEN HUNT is the manager of the popular website SFCrowsnest.com.
The Court of the Air is his second novel. He resides in London.
JUNE 2008
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The Books of the South:
Tales of the Black Company
GLEN COOK
The second omnibus of novels from one
of the greatest fantasy epics of our age,
Glen Cook’s Black Company series
Marching south after the ghastly battle at the
Tower of Charm, the Black Company is
hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way.
The game is on: the Company versus the
Shadowmasters, deadly creatures that deal in
darkness and sorrow.
When hope dies, there’s still survival. And there’s
still the Black Company.
“With the Black Company series Glen Cook singlehandedly
changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of
people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought
the story down to a human level, dispensing with the
cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers.
Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction
on peyote.”
—STEVEN ERIKSON, AUTHOR OF GARDENS OF THE MOON
GLEN COOK lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
FANTASY
Tor Trade Paperback Original
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2066-7
$17.95
$19.95 Canadian
61 /8" x 91 /4" / 736 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2066-5
TOR
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Also by
Glen Cook
Chronicles of the
Black Company
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1923-4
$15.95/$18.50 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1923-3
The Tyranny of the Night
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0684-5
$25.95/$35.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0684-0
Lord of the
Silent Kingdom
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0685-2
$27.95/$34.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0685-9

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Mistborn (8/07)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5038-1
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5038-6
$7.99/$10.99 Can
Elantris (6/06)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5037-4
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5037-8
$7.99/$10.99
FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1689-9
$27.95
$30.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 560 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1689-7
TOR
The Hero of Ages
Book Three of Mistborn
BRANDON SANDERSON
The astonishing conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy
To end the Final Empire, Vin and Kelsier killed the Lord Ruler.
As a result, the Deepness—the mists’ lethal form—is back,
along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and powerful earthquakes.
Humanity appears to be doomed.
Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension
only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture
hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow
him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been
tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the
Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its cosmic power makes
stopping it seem hopeless. Yet, as Kelsier taught, they refuse to
give up.
The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the
first two books. Revelations abound, deeply rooted connections
click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning,
blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to
a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave
readers rubbing their eyes in wonder and amazement.
“Sanderson’s hallmark is to take traditional high fantasy tropes and
turn them upside down, and he doesn’t disappoint here.Vin’s a
beautifully realized protagonist whose struggles are wonderfully
written and, as always, the worldbuilding is unusual and compelling.”
—ROMANTIC TIMES BOOKREVIEWS ON THE WELL OF ASCENSION
“This entertaining read will especially please those who always
wanted to know what happened after the good guys won.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON THE WELL OF ASCENSION
BRANDON SANDERSON teaches at Brigham Young University and
lives in Provo, Utah. This is his fourth novel. For fascinating behind-thescenes
information about the Mistborn series and his first novel, Elantris,
visit him at www.brandonsanderson.com.
JUNE 2008
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HC: 978-0-312-85787-5
Necroscope
BRIAN LUMLEY
A classic of modern horror, offered for the first time
in trade paperback! A Necroscope for the ages
Twenty years ago, the horror world was forever altered by the
publication of Necroscope. An instant classic, Brian Lumley’s
astonishing feat of imagination spawned a universe which Lumley has
explored and expanded through more than a baker’s dozen of novels and
novellas. Millions of copies of Necroscope and its successors are in print
in a dozen languages throughout the world. Nominated for the British
Fantasy Award, Necroscope has inspired everything from comic books
and graphic novels to sculptures and soundtracks.
This new edition of Necroscope uses the author’s preferred text and
includes a special introduction by Brian Lumley, telling how the
Necroscope saga came to be. It also includes chapter ornaments by
Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton, long-identified with Lumley’s
blood-sucking monsters.
As a classic, Necroscope rightfully claims a place in the Orb trade
paperback list, for scholars of the field and the dedicated Lumley collector.
And also for all the people who have read more than one mass market
copy of the book to tatters.
BRIAN LUMLEY has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has won the
British Fantasy Award. His other works include the Titus Crow and Primal Lands series
and the novel Khai of Khem. He lives in England.
HORROR
Orb Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2018-6
$14.95
NCR
61 /8" x 91 /4" / 400 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2018-5
TOR
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Also by
Brian Lumley
Harry Keogh: Necroscope
and Other Weird Hereos!
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1060-6
$14.95/$19.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1060-0
Titus Crow:Volume 1
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86867-3
$15.95/$22.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-86867-7
The Brian Lumley
Companion
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0440-7
$17.95/$23.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0440-6

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Household Gods (7/00)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-6466-2
ISBN-10: 0-8125-6466-9
$7.99/$9.99 Can
FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0397-4
$22.95
$25.95 Canadian
5 1 /2" x 8 1 /4" / 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0397-3
TOR
Bring Down the Sun
JUDITH TARR
From the mists of time, legend tells of a priestess who
became a mighty Queen and mother to an Empire
Alexander the Great ruled the greatest Empire of the ancient
world, but he was ruled by his mother, called Olympias.
There are as many legends about this powerful Queen as there
are of her famous son, and the stories began long before she
even met Philip of Macedon.
Priestess of the Great Goddess, daughter of ruling house of Epiros,
witch, and familiar of Serpents...she was a figure of mystery,
fascination, and fear even during her own lifetime. Author Judith
Tarr uses the legends to weave an intensely romantic fantasy
novel set in ancient Greece and Macedon.
“Tarr excels at bringing historical events to life.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON QUEEN OF SWORDS
“This well-written novel about loyalty, passion, and the search for
understanding between different kinds of people showcases Tarr’s
ability to create fascinating, passionate characters and to bring their
unique cultures to life. Highly recommended.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL ON WHITE MARE’S DAUGHTER
“Seduction, power, and politics are the order of the day.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL ON THRONE OF ISIS
“Tarr spins an entertaining and often enlightening tale.... In keeping
with the distances she must travel, historical and otherwise,Tarr
travels light. Her prose is lean and powerful, and she exerts
admirable control over an impressive cast of characters.”
—WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD ON LORD OF TWO LANDS
JUDITH TARR is the author of more than twenty fantasy novels, including
the Hound and Falcon series and the Avaryan Rising books. Her most
recent novel for Tor was Queen of the Amazons in 2006. Tarr lives in Vail,
Arizona, where she breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm.
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SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1709-4
$25.95
$28.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1709-5
★
TOR
Escapement
JAY LAKE
Return to the clockwork magic of Lake’s Mainspring
In his 2007 novel Mainspring, Jay Lake created an enormous
canvas for storytelling with his one-hundred-mile-high
Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth.
Now, in Escapement, he explores more of that territory.
Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual
ability—a genius on the level of Isaac Newton. But she has grown
up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on the
Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She knows little of the
world, but she knows that England rules it, and must be the home
of people who possess the learning that she so desperately wants.
And so she sets off to make her way off the Wall, not knowing
that she will bring her astounding, unschooled talent for sorcery
to the attention of those deadly factions who would use or kill
her for it.
Praise for Mainspring:
“Lake’s steampunk-esque alternative nineteenth century is an
astonishing, marvelous place.” —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
“In his intriguing first trade hardcover novel, a fantasy set in the
magic-tinged late nineteenth century. Lake demonstrates his
enormously fertile imagination.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Could Mainspring be the opening canto of a metaphysical magnum
opus in the vein of Wolfe? Yes, very plausibly.The language is lyrical
and perfectly calibrated, the symbolism is profound, the intelligent
mystification is just at the appropriate level.With this novel,
Jay Lake has ascended from journeyman to Master; let the
Masterwork now unfold.” —LOCUS
JAY LAKE lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of over
two hundred short stories, four collections, and a chapbook, along with
novels from Tor Books, Night Shade Books, and Fairwood Press. In 2004,
Lake won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
JUNE 2008
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FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1893-0
$25.95
$28.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 480 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1893-8
TOR
A Fire in the North
DAVID BILSBOROUGH
The rousing sequel to the Tolkienesque debut fantasy
The Wanderer’s Tale
Five hundred years ago a huge force defeated an evil, supernaturally
powerful tyrant who terrorized and ravaged those
who cowered under his lash. Now, terrible news from the north
suggests that someone or some thing is once again preying
upon the northern lands, threatening to once again darken the
lives of those whose forebears still remember the horrific past.
Now, a small, motley band faces a daunting challenge. Led by a
brave warrior and a visionary priest, they have finally reached the
land to the north. They have seen wonders and endured terrifying
experiences, barely escaping from a dizzying series of perils,
magical and otherwise. But the direst perils lie before them as
they approach the evil that has risen again, its dread power
terrorizing and enslaving all who oppose it. Finally, the Wanderer,
fated to face the ultimate test, will confront his destiny. A world
and its trembling masses await the outcome.
Fresh and powerfully told, this epic will satisfy fantasy readers as
few others have done.
Praise for The Wanderer’s Tale:
“The saga’s world is conceived on the grand scale, loaded with detail,
originality, and wit. A very promising debut.” —BOOKLIST
“Bilsborough has imbued the quest novel with a gritty realism, an
unlikely set of heroes, a range of magics and cultures, and shown
how almost anything that can go wrong will, and under the worst
of circumstances.” —L. E. MODESITT, JR.
“Plunges readers into a rich, vividly realized world, exploring it
alongside fascinating characters. Secrets abound, conflicts rage,
gore is spilled—and I can’t wait for the sequel!” —ED GREENWOOD
DAVID BILSBOROUGH was born in Malvern, England. He currently lives
in Asia.
JUNE 2008
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ALSO AVAILABLE
HC: 978-0-7653-1332-4
Cosmonaut Keep (1/02)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4073-3
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4073-9
$7.99/$9.99 Can
SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2067-4
$14.95
$16.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2067-3
★
TOR
The Execution Channel
KEN MACLEOD
The War on Terror is over. Terror won.
It’s after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq war. After 7/7.
After the Iran war. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits.
After Rosyth. It’s the day when the world changes all the way
down to its fundamental assumptions.
In a world just down the road from our own, online bloggers
vie with old-line political operatives and new-style police to
determine just where reality lies. And on every cable system, the
mysterious Execution Channel broadcasts deaths from around
the world, around the clock.
On the day the Big One hits, James Travis and his daughter must
strive to make sense of the nuclear bombing of Scotland and
the political repercussions of a series of terrorist attacks. With the
information war in full swing, the only truth they have is what
they’re able to see with their own eyes. They know that everything
else is—or may be—a lie.
Praise for The Execution Channel:
“Adroit. MacLeod’s most compulsively readable novel to date.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
“Thrilling…. MacLeod nimbly melds a tech- and culture-savvy
appreciation of what the blogosphere might look like in a few
short years, with some old-fashioned spycraft.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Ken MacLeod’s invented an entirely new genre—the Blogothriller,
the infinitely weirder cousin of the technothriller. More improbable,
hilarious, and engrossing than 70,000,000 conspiracy sites, a trillion
trackbacks, a heptillion message-board posts. The Execution Channel
feels like the future, like our futuristic present. It scared the hell
out of me.” —CORY DOCTOROW
KEN MACLEOD is the author of many acclaimed SF novels, including
The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and Newton’s Wake. His latest
novel, Learning the World, won the Prometheus Award (his third) and
was a finalist for the Hugo Award. He lives with his family near
Edinburgh, Scotland.
JUNE 2008
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ALSO AVAILABLE
The Wizard Lord (4/07)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4901-9
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4901-9
$7.99/$9.99 Can
FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1028-6
$24.95
$27.95 Canadian
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1028-7
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 320 pages
TOR
The Summer Palace
Volume Three of the Annals of the Chosen
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS
The last installment of an epic fantasy trilogy of duty,
honor, and abuse of power by the award-winning
author of the Obsidian Chronicles and Ethshar series
All of the world is kept in a delicate balance under the
supervision of the Wizard Lord. It is his duty to govern lightly
and protect his domain…but if he should stray from the way of
the just then it is up to the Chosen to intercede. The Chosen are
the Leader, the Seer, the Swordsman, the Beauty, the Thief, the
Scholar, the Archer, and the Speaker, magically infused mortal
individuals who for the term of their service have only one function
—to remove an errant Wizard Lord.
But the new Wizard Lord has changed the playing field by
neutralizing all magic in his domain (both his own and that of the
Chosen) and has successfully killed and/or blocked his adversaries
and their challenges to his omnipotence. Sword (now on the run)
must work alone to restore order to the land and unravel the
mystery of the Ninth Talisman—which might be the salvation or
downfall of all that is good.
Praise for The Ninth Talisman:
“If you like swords, sorcery, and interplay between characters, this is
the book for you.The rush towards confrontation was exhilarating.
I look forward to the third installment.” —SFREVU.COM
“Fans of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance saga will
find this series much to their taste.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“The deliberately archetypal Chosen are not without individual
character, thanks to Watt-Evans’ dry wit, and the Wizard Lord isn’t a
standard magical potentate. But he is treading a classic path for his
ilk by introducing technology that may conflict with magic—how
deeply is the Chosen’s current and probably future concern in the
gifted, prolific Watt-Evans’s promising new series.” —BOOKLIST
“Veteran SF and fantasy author Watt-Evans (The Obsidian Chronicles)
displays his command of the fantasy genre in this fast-paced, fluidly
told sequel to The Wizard Lord.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS has written more than a dozen fantasy novels.
He lives in Maryland.
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Since its debut in 1990, Robert Jordan’s
beloved Wheel of Time ® series has become an
international phenomenon topping bestseller lists
all over the globe. With well over fifteen million
books in print, readers have been enjoying Jordan’s
lush storytelling for nearly twenty years.
Selected by Robert Jordan himself out of submissions
received from Wheel of Time enthusiasts,
the twelve pieces of art included in this calendar
symbolize the devotion that readers have to
Robert Jordan and to the rich world he created.
TOR
“Robert Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal. The evil
laced into the forces of good, the dangers latent in any promised salvation bears the
marks of the American national experience during the last three decades.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE WHEEL OF TIME®
COVER NOT FINAL
JULY 2008
This calendar is a new way for fans to experience
their favorite stories and characters and will be a
must-have for Robert Jordan’s millions of fans.
ROBERT JORDAN (October 17, 1948–September
16, 2007), a native of Charleston, South Carolina,
is the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time,
with millions of books in print.
FANTASY
Calendar
ISBN 13: 978-0-7653-2001-8
$14.95
$16.95 Canadian
ISBN 10: 0-7653-2001-0
12" x 12" / 24 pages

The Eye of the World
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-85009-8
HC • $29.95/$39.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-85009-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-0048-6
TPB • $14.99/$21.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-0048-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-1181-9
MM • $6.99/$9.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-1181-6
Lord of Chaos
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-85428-7
HC • $29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-85428-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-1375-2
MM • $7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-1375-4
Knife of Dreams
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-87307-3
HC • $29.95/$39.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-87307-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-7756-3
MM • $7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-7756-6
ROBERT JORDAN BACKLIST
“The Wheel of Time ® …is a fantasy tale seldom equaled and still
less often surpassed in English.” —CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
The Great Hunt
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-85140-8
HC • $29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-85140-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-0971-7
TPB • $15.95/$19.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-0971-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-1772-9
MM • $7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-1772-5
A Crown of Swords
ISBN 13: 978- 0-312-85767-7
HC • $29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-85767-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-5028-3
MM • $7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-5028-5
New Spring:
The Novel
ISBN 13: 978-0-7653-0629-6
HC • $22.95/$32.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-7653-0629-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-7653-4545-5
MM • $6.99/$9.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-7653-4545-5
The Dragon Reborn
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-85248-1
HC • $29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-85248-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-7653-0511-4
TPB • $14.95/$21.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-7653-0511-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-1371-4
MM • $7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-1371-1
The Path of Daggers
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-85769-1
HC • $27.95/$35.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-85769-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-8125-5029-0
MM • $7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN 10: 0-8125-5029-3
The World of
Robert Jordan’s
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
and Teresa Patterson
ISBN 13: 978-0-312-86936-6
TPB • $21.95/$29.95 Can
ISBN 10: 0-312-86936-3
The Shadow Rising
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An Autumn War
DANIEL ABRAHAM
The sequel to A Shadow in Summer and A Betrayal in
Winter “puts both of them in the shade. This book really
blows the top off!” (George R. R. Martin)
Daniel Abraham delighted fantasy readers with his brilliantly
original and engaging first novel, and in his second penned
a tragedy as darkly personal and violent as Shakespeare’s King
Lear. Now he has written an epic fantasy of much wider scope and
appeal that will thrill his fans and enthrall legions of new readers.
Otah Machi, ruler of the city of Machi, has tried for years to
prepare his people for a future in which the magical andat, entities
that support their commerce and intimidate all foes, can no longer
be safely harnessed. But his efforts are too little, too late. The
Galts, an expansionist empire from across the sea, have tired of
games of political espionage and low-stakes sabotage. Their
general, a ruthless veteran, has found a way to do what was
thought impossible: neutralize the andat.
As the Galtic army advances, the Poets who control the andat
wage their own battle to save their loved ones and their nation.
Failure seems inevitable, but success would end the Galtic threat.
With wonderful storytelling skill, Abraham has wedded the
unique magic, high-stakes betrayal, and political intrigue of his
previous works with a broad tapestry of action in a spectacular
fantasy epic.
“A Betrayal in Winter is exactly the kind of book I love: dynamic
characters, sharp plotting, and an original, thoughtful take on magic.”
—BRANDON SANDERSON, AUTHOR OF MISTBORN
“Compellingly plotted and elegantly written, A Betrayal in Winter is a
very successful continuation of what promises to be a significant
and original contribution to fantasy literature.” — SCIFI.COM
DANIEL ABRAHAM won the International Horror Guild Award for best
short story. His previous novels include A Shadow in Summer and A Betrayal
in Winter, the first two volumes of the Long Price Quartet. He is also the
author of the Wild Cards comics miniseries The Hard Call, and co-author
with George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois of the novel Hunter’s Run.
He lives in New Mexico.
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By Schism Rent Asunder
DAVID WEBER
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller
Off Armageddon Reef
The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis
has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it.
Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns, and better devices
of all sorts—Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the
world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef—and broke them.
Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting,
Charis still stands, still an island of innovation in a world where
the Church has worked for centuries to keep humanity locked at
a medieval level of existence.
But the powerful men who run the Church aren’t going to take
their defeat lying down. Charis may control the world’s seas, but
it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb
knows, far too much of the kingdom’s recent good fortune is due
to the secret manipulations of the being that calls himself Merlin
—a being who, the world must not find out too soon, is more than
human. A being on whose shoulders rests the last chance for
humanity’s freedom.
Now, as Charis and its archbishop make the rift with Mother
Church explicit, the storm gathers. Schism has come to the world
of Safehold. Nothing will ever be the same.
Praise for Off Armageddon Reef:
“Gripping. Shifting effortlessly between battles among warp-speed
starships and among oar-powered galleys,Weber brings the political
maneuvering, past and future technologies, and vigorous protagonists
together for a cohesive, engrossing whole.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
★ “Splendid!” —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
★
“Vast, complex, intricate, subtle, and unlaydownable.This looks like
the start of the biggest thing in science fiction since Isaac Asimov’s
Foundation series.” —DAVE DUNCAN
“A new SF epic.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)
“Fantastic in every sense of the word—the kind of book that makes
you sit back and think about this reality that we call life.Who can
ask for more than that?” —R. A. SALVATORE
DAVID WEBER is the author of the New York Times bestselling Honor
Harrington series, the most recent of which was At All Costs. His many
other novels include Mutineers’ Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance,
Heirs of Empire, Path of the Fury, and Wind Rider’s Oath. He lives in
South Carolina.
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Reading the Wind
BRENDA COOPER
The saga of the Silver Ship continues….
The colony planet of Fremont was supposed to be free of all
genetically altered beings—a new home for a pure race.
So when Chelo and her brother Joseph, along with two other
genetically altered teenagers, were abandoned on Fremont,
they were not welcome. They vowed to get off the planet by any
means necessary. Joseph and the others managed to escape,
but Chelo was left behind with her new found love, forced to
live underground.
Joseph and the others find that their homeworld is full of
vengeance. Believing that the people of Fremont killed the
teenaged castaways, they sent a technologically advanced
mercenary team to Fremont to eliminate the entire planet’s
population. With the help of Joseph’s father, the youngsters
head back to Fremont to try to save Chelo.
★
“Distinctive characterizations, well-limned interrelationships, and the
vividly realized Fremont contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story
with a strong message about the evils of prejudice.YAs are sure
to relate to the travails and exploits of these extraordinary young
people.” —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) ON THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA
“Fast-paced and full-bodied, The Silver Ship and the Sea is characterdriven
hard SF at its best.” —THE SEATTLE TIMES
BRENDA COOPER is the author of The Silver Ship and the Sea and the
co-author of the novel Building Harlequin’s Moon, which she wrote with
Larry Niven. Her solo and collaborative short fiction has appeared in
multiple magazines, including Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Oceans
of the Mind, and The Salal Review. She lives in Kirkland, Washington.
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Jhegaala
STEVEN BRUST
The latest in the New York Times bestselling
Vlad Taltos series
Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal
Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to
hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario. All he knows
about them is that their family name is Merss and that they live
in a papermaking industrial town called Burz.
At first Burz isn’t such a bad place, though the paper mill reeks
to high heaven. But the longer he stays there, the stranger it
becomes. No one will tell him where to find his relatives. Even
stranger, when he mentions the name Merss, people think he’s
threatening them. The witches’ coven that every Fenarian town
and city should have is nowhere in evidence. And the Guild,
which should be protecting the city’s craftsmen and traders, is an
oppressive, all-powerful organization, into which no tradesman
would ever be admitted.
Then a terrible thing happens. In its wake, far from Draegara,
without his usual organization working for him, Vlad is going to
have to do his sleuthing amidst an alien people: his own.
“Dzur gives us Vlad Taltos at his best.” —CINESCOPE
“Fresh, snappy, and terribly likeable…Dzur shows you what heroic
fantasy can be.” —CORY DOCTOROW
“Steven Brust may well be America’s best fantasy writer.”
—TAD WILLIAMS
STEVEN BRUST is the bestselling author of Dragon, Issola, and the New
York Times bestselling Dzur, among many others. A native of Minneapolis,
he currently lives in Las Vegas.
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The Grin of the Dark
RAMSEY CAMPBELL
“Campbell excels in displaying the horror of the everyday.
His slice-of-life characters and fast-paced plotting
give a cinematic feel to this tale of modern terror.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL ON THE OVERNIGHT
Ramsey Campbell has won a dozen British Fantasy and
World Fantasy Awards and three Bram Stoker Awards.
A new Campbell novel is an opportunity to delight in the
craftsmanship of an extraordinary writer.
A former professor offers struggling film critic Simon the chance
of a lifetime—to write a book on one of the greatest long-lost
comedians of the silent-film era, Tubby Thackeray. Simon is
determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man’s
disappearance from film—and from the world.
Tubby’s work carries the unmistakable stamp of the macabre.
People literally laughed themselves to death during his
performances. Soon, wherever Simon goes, laughter—and a
clown’s wide, threatening grin—follow. Is Simon losing his mind?
Or is Tubby Thackeray waiting for him to open the door back
to the world?
“Campbell draws the reader into the story slowly, accumulating a
wealth of detail and family dynamics. One of the most unsettling
voices in horror literature, back in fine, eerie form with The Darkest
Part of the Woods.” —FANGORIA
“Rich and evocative…a high water mark of horror.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) ON THE OVERNIGHT
“Not for the faint of heart.”
—ROMANTIC TIMES BOOKREVIEWS ON THE OVERNIGHT
“For more than forty years, Ramsey Campbell has been one of the
premier horror writers of the English-speaking world.”
—THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
RAMSEY CAMPBELL lives in the Liverpool area in England. He is the
author of The Overnight, The Darkest Part of the Woods, and the classic
Obsession, among other novels. His short fiction has been collected in
several anthologies, including Alone With the Horrors.
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The Dragon’s Lair
ELIZABETH HAYDON
Ven and his friends encounter an angry dragon in
this third installment of bestselling author Elizabeth
Haydon’s acclaimed fantasy series for young readers
Barely one day after fulfilling his second mission for King
Vandemere as Royal Reporter of the land of Serendair, young
Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme—known as Ven—is off on another
adventure. To keep them safe from the wrath of the Thief Queen,
whose rage at their escape from the Gated City knows no bounds,
the king sends Ven and his friends on an important mission. They
are joined by Ven’s friend Amariel, a merrow who has given up her
tail and grown legs to explore the dry world for the very first time.
Their journey takes them across a wondrous land filled with
marvels and danger. For the mission the king entrusts to Ven is a
delicate one: to discover the cause of a dispute between two
warring kingdoms—and the answer leads Ven straight into the
lair of a very angry dragon.
Fans of The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter—
both chosen as Book Sense Children’s Picks—will love this third
enchanting adventure in the Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme
series by bestselling author Elizabeth Haydon.
“Haydon not only maintains the dazzling action, convincing characterizations,
and vigorous world building of the first book, but also
carefully paves the way for further installments in the Lost Journals
of Ven Polypheme series.Another surefire winner.”
—BOOKLIST ON THE THIEF QUEEN’S DAUGHTER
“This first-rate novel will have wide appeal.”
—SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL ON THE THIEF QUEEN’S DAUGHTER
“A delightful epic fantasy that will attract a readership both older and
younger than the target audience.”
—BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) ON THE FLOATING ISLAND
“Haydon spins a story both warm and thrilling.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON THE FLOATING ISLAND
ELIZABETH HAYDON is the author of the bestselling Rhapsody series.
The Journals of Ven Polypheme is her first series for young readers.
She lives on the East Coast with her husband and three children.
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The Time Engine
The Fourth Book of the Moonworlds Saga
SEAN McMULLEN
Swords, sorcery, and time travel are a strange and
dangerous mix
Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his world’s future and did
not approve. The inspector knew about time travel because
he had once met his future self. What he did not know was that
he would be abducted into the future, and wind up on the run
with a constable who had shape-shifted into a cat.
Danolarian would also find himself marooned in the ancient
past, where he would have to recover his time engine from
five thousand naked, psychopathic horsemen.
A faulty repair plunges him another three million years back in
time, to a world of strange, beautiful people living idyllic lives in
splendid castles. But things are not always as they seem. After
being attacked, he learns from his unlikely rescuer that time travel
is not entirely real. A furious Danolarian returns to his own time,
planning revenge against the time engine’s true builders.
Praise for Voidfarer:
★
“Imagine Alexandre Dumas’s account of H. G.Wells’s Martians invading
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.… A vibrant, thoughtful, spectacular,
adventure-drama.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
“Sean McMullen’s back in his funny, rowdy, bawdy moonworld
Verral….Third in this series, after the lovely Voyage of the Shadowmoon
and Glass Dragons, this volume has McMullen’s characters reprising
H. G.Wells’s War of the Worlds and a series of love-and-sex mistakes
that could’ve been lifted from Shakespeare. One very fun novel.”
—THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
SEAN McMULLEN, one Australia’s leading SF and fantasy authors, lives
in Melbourne. He has had a dozen books published, and is the winner of
thirteen awards for SF and fantasy.
www.seanmcmullen.net.au
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FANTASY
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Mage-Guard of Hamor
L. E. MODESITT, JR.
The new Recluce fantasy novel from the bestselling writer
Acclaimed author L. E. Modesitt, Jr. continues his new
Recluce story in Mage-Guard of Hamor, the second of
two volumes set mostly on the continent of Hamor, far across
the sea from Recluce, where the story began.
Rahl was a young apprentice on the island of Recluce sent to
the mages training school for testing, then banished to Hamor.
His education now continues under dangerous circumstances.
In Hamor, his powers have increased, but so has the amount of
trouble he attracts.
The whole society of Hamor is a new culture for Modesitt—and
Rahl—to explore, one in which magic is a monopoly of the state.
Rahl is a mage now, powerful and still just as dangerous to himself
and to others. This is the story of how he gains both more
knowledge and power, and more self-control.
“This is a writer who cares about his characters and his world.This
is disciplined fantasy, not fluff. L. E. Modesitt, Jr. is uncompromising
when it comes to the effects of magic, both on the natural world and
on the human heart.There are no cheap solutions to the problems of
Recluce. Because of that, it is a world worth returning to.”
—MEGAN LINDHOLM (ROBIN HOBB)
Praise for Ordermaster:
A VOYA selection for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror of 2004
“In this thirteenth novel in the Saga of Recluse [sic], Modesitt’s subtext
is power and responsibility, explored both through the action-packed
main plot and through Kharl’s legal studies….This thoughtful work
should appeal to all readers of fantasy.” —VOYA
“Modesitt’s Recluce sagas derive their appeal from the evocation of
reality in every detail of setting and character.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL
L. E. MODESITT, JR. lives in Cedar City, Utah.
www.lemodesittjr.com
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The Risen Empire
SCOTT WESTERFELD
Thrilling space opera from a #1 New York Times
bestselling author, “in the tradition of Isaac Asimov’s
Foundation series and Frank Herbert’s Dune books”
(The New York Times)
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Evolution’s Darling (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a
New York Times notable book) and Uglies, Pretties, and Specials,
comes a sweeping epic. The Risen Empire is the first great space
opera of the twenty-first century.
The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of
eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can
grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known
as the Risen, his power is absolute. He and his sister, the Child
Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods.
The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very
different gods: AI compound minds of planetary size. Cool,
relentless fanatics, their only goal is to propagate such AIs.
They seek to end the Emperor’s prolonged rule, and supplant
it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty. They begin by taking the
Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial
Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue.
Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and
pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must both face the challenge of
the Rix, and both will hold the fate of the empire in their hands.
Praise for The Risen Empire:
“Westerfeld illumines the clash of mighty galactic empires by focusing
on individuals who, despite the distractions of war and politics,
cannot help falling in love.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
★
“Westerfeld’s exceptionally smart and empathetic novel…confirms
the buzz that space opera is one of the most exciting branches of
current SF.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
SCOTT WESTERFELD lives in New York City and Sydney, Australia.
www.scottwesterfeld.com
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The Valley-Westside War
HARRY TURTLEDOVE
Racing to discover what destroyed a world—in the
latest novel of Crosstime Traffic
Usually Crosstime Traffic concerns itself with trade. Our world
owns the secret of travel between parallel continuums, and
we mean to use it to trade for much-needed resources with the
worlds next door. Preferably without letting them know about
any of that parallel-world’s stuff.
But there’s one parallel world that’s different. In it, the atomic war
broke out in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love. Now,
Crosstime Traffic has been given a different sort of mission: find
out what on earth, or on the many earths, went wrong.
“Readers nostalgic for the juvenile SF novels of Robert A. Heinlein
and Andre Norton will find much to enjoy.Turtledove presents his
teenaged heroes with a series of moral choices and dilemmas that
will particularly resonate with younger fans.This is a rousing story
that reminds us that ‘adventure’ is really someone else in deep
trouble a long way off.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON GUNPOWDER EMPIRE
“The best so far in this series!”
—BOOKLIST ON THE DISUNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HARRY TURTLEDOVE, “the modern master of alternate history”
(Publishers Weekly), lives in Los Angeles.
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Mathematicians in Love
RUDY RUCKER
Reality is never more unpredictable than when two
mathematicians are in love with the same girl, and can
change the world to get her
This is a riveting science fiction novel by the writer who twice
won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF novel.
Bela and Paul, two wild young mathematicians, are friends and
roommates, and both are in love with Alma, Bela’s girlfriend.
They fight it out by changing reality using cutting-edge math.
The contemporary world they live in is not quite this one, but
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are trying to finish their degrees and get jobs. It doesn’t help
that their unpredictable advisor Roland is a mad mathematical
genius who has figured out a way to predict specific bits of the
future that can cause a lot of trouble…and that he’s starting
to see monsters in mirrors.
When Bela and Paul mess around with reality, all heaven and hell
break loose. Those monsters of Roland’s were really there, but
who are they?
This novel is a romantic comedy with a whole corkscrew of
SF twists.
“An excellent book under any label.”
—THE DENVER POST ON MATHEMATICIANS IN LOVE
“Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American
Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Godel and
Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space,
but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy Rudy-ness at the
core of the singularity.”
—WILLIAM GIBSON, AUTHOR OF PATTERN RECOGNITION,
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“Before you can say E. T. or A Wrinkle In Time, Frek and some very odd
companions are off on an escapade…a magical mystery tour of the
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—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ON FREK AND THE ELIXIR
RUDY RUCKER lives in Los Gatos, California.
www.rudyrucker.com
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COVER
NOT FINAL
THE VEIL OF GOLD
Kim Wilkins
FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2006-3
$25.95
$28.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2006-1
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The Veil of Gold
KIM WILKINS
A startling new fantasy novel from one of Australia’s
bestselling fantasy talents: “Aficionados of dark
urban fantasy will find this a fast-paced treat.”
(Jacqueline Carey on The Autumn Castle)
When an ancient gold bear is found walled up in a dilapidated
St. Petersburg bathhouse, researcher Daniel St. Clair and
his frosty colleague Em Hayward set out for the university in
Arkhangelsk to verify its age. Along the way they are mysteriously
set adrift. Maps are suddenly useless. Lost and exhausted, they
turn north, sinking even deeper into the secrets and terrors of
the Russian landscape.
Daniel’s lost love, the wild and beautiful Rosa Kovalenka, fears
the worst when Daniel goes missing and resolves to find him.
To do so will mean confronting her past and secrets that she has
fought to suppress. The only way to save him is to go forward,
where she encounters the haunted Chenchikov clan, a family
with their own shadowy tangle of grief, desire, and treachery.
In the unknowable, impenetrable Russian forest, Rosa meets an
enigmatic wanderer who is full of tales and riddles of times past.
Who might hold the key to Rosa and Daniel’s future—or the
destruction of their world.
Praise for The Autumn Castle:
“A fascinating adventure on a high note.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“An eerie, dark fantasy of friendship, art, pain, and magic.” —LOCUS
“An intense, disturbing saga of betrayal, revenge, and sacrifice…
four stars.” —ROMANTIC TIMES BOOKREVIEWS
“An enthralling read that, when I was done, left me wanting to
immediately track down anything else I could find by her.”
—CHARLES DE LINT
KIM WILKINS is an Australian bestseller who has won an Aurealis Award
for both Best Horror Novel and Best Novel. She resides in Brisbane with
her husband, son, assorted cats, and far too many books.
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The Voyage of the Space Beagle
A. E. VAN VOGT
One of the great original classics of modern
SF returns! “It is reasonable to assume that
the book was an influence on both Star Trek
and Alien”(Wikipedia)
An all-time classic space saga, The Voyage of
the Space Beagle is one of the pinnacles of
Golden Age SF, an influence on generations of
stories. An episodic novel filled with surprises and
provocative ideas, this is the story of a great
exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches
of space on a long mission of discovery. They
encounter several terrifying alien species, including
the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which
then devour the humans from within when they
hatch. This is one of the most entertaining and
gripping stories in all of classic SF.
“A. E. van Vogt is truly a grand master of science fiction.
He is to Canadian SF what H. G.Wells is to the British
variety or Jules Verne is to the French.We all stand on
his broad shoulders.” —ROBERT J. SAWYER
SFWA Grand Master A. E. VAN VOGT was born in Canada
and moved to the US in 1944. He lived in Los Angeles,
California, until he died in 2000.
SCIENCE FICTION
Orb Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2077-3
$14.95
$16.95 Canadian
51 /2" x 81 /4" / 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2077-0
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The Vampire Tapestry
SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS
Now in Orb, the vampire book Stephen King
called “Scary, entertaining…unputdownable”
Almost thirty years after its initial publication,
competing with Anne Rice at every turn, The
Vampire Tapestry is still considered a genuine classic
and one of the definitive books in the genre. And
Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire:
not only is he a respected anthropology professor,
but his condition is a biological—rather than supernatural—one.
He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by
decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs
rather than commiting murder. Weyland is a monster
who must form an uneasy empathy with his prey
in order to survive, and Tapestry is a story wholly
unlike any you’ve heard before.
Praise for The Vampire Tapestry:
“The best vampire novel I’ve ever read.”
—PETER S. BEAGLE, AUTHOR OF THE LAST UNICORN
“Among the genre’s few modern classics.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS has won the Hugo, Nebula,
and James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She lives in New Mexico.
HORROR
Orb Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2082-7
$14.95
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$16.95 Canadian
51 /2" x 81 /4" / 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2082-7

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The Ghost Brigades (5/07)
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ISBN-10: 0-7653-5406-3
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SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1698-1
$24.95
$27.95 Canadian
5 1 /2" x 8 1 /4" / 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1698-6
Zoe’s Tale
JOHN SCALZI
A return to the bestselling Old Man’s War universe,
by science fiction’s fastest-rising new star
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it’s what I have to do. I’m Zoe Boutin Perry: a
colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a
race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match
to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend.
Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don’t know
my tale: How I did what I did—how I did what I had to do—not
just to stay alive, but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I’m going
to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but
true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy
and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope.
Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of
its captivity. All through my eyes.
It’s a story you know. But you don’t know it all.
Not yet.
“Fantastic, eminently readable, and more than a little bittersweet….
Heartstopping in its absolute rightness.”
—ROMANTIC TIMES BOOKREVIEWS (TOP PICK) ON THE LAST COLONY
★
“The sequel to Old Man’s War combines taut military action with keen
insights. Highly recommended.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW) ON THE GHOST BRIGADES
★
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“Astonishingly proficient.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) ON OLD MAN’S WAR
“Top-notch.” —THE WASHINGTON POST ON OLD MAN’S WAR
“John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun, intelligent, and irreverent.
I haven’t enjoyed science fiction this much in years.”
—CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, AUTHOR OF ERAGON
JOHN SCALZI won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer,
and his debut novel Old Man’s War was a finalist for the Hugo Award.
His other novels include The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, and The
Android’s Dream. His popular weblog is at scalzi.com/whatever. He lives
in southern Ohio with his wife and daughter.
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Children of Chaos (2/07)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5381-8
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5381-4
$7.99/$9.99 Can
FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1687-5
$24.95
$27.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1687-0
★
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Ill Met in the Arena
DAVE DUNCAN
A gripping adventure of revenge, political
machination, and thwarted love from a master
of invented-world fantasy
The nobles of Aureity have been breeding their children for
psychic powers for generations. Women’s powers include
psychic control and mind-reading, making them ideal rulers.
Men have superhuman strength and can teleport to any place
they have previously visited. Consequently, young noblemen
make their fortune by competing in psychic gladiatorial contests,
displaying their powers in the hope of being hired—and married
—by women of high rank.
When Quirt, an older man with obvious skill but little known record,
first enters the arena, the combat circuit is abuzz wondering who
he might be. But this mystery is almost eclipsed by the young cub
with enormously powerful bloodlines who has been entering
competitions anonymously. Barely in his teens, full of raw power
but short on training or patience, Humate is so intrigued by Quirt
that he insists on finding out his origin.
Unfortunately for Humate, the answer reaches far beyond his birth:
back to the terrible wrongs done to Quirt’s mother and his new
wife by one of Humate’s relatives, and back to Quirt’s sentencing,
a doom which takes away his identity until he can bring the
culprit to justice. Humate is in deep denial about this familial
scandal generations deep, but Quirt must try to convince him to
help, compelled by his doom and by the stirrings of a new love
that cannot possibly be realized in his nameless condition.
When is revenge ever as easy as it sounds?
“Duncan’s storytelling has never been better [than] in this superb
fantasy. How the children of Celebre reunite makes for a captivating,
adventure-filled story.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) ON CHILDREN OF CHAOS
★“Inventive,
labyrinthine, witty, and thoroughly engaging: Duncan
rarely disappoints, and here he outswashbuckles himself.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) ON PARAGON LOST
Ill Met in the Arena is DAVE DUNCAN’s fortieth novel. Originally from
Scotland, he now lives in Western Canada.
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FANTASY
Tor Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1851-0
$14.95
$16.25 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1851-2
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The Darker Mask
CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS
and GARY PHILLIPS, editors
Wildly fantastic stories by a cross section of today’s
cutting-edge urban fantasy and crime writers
Expanding on the concept behind Byron Preiss’s Weird Heroes
from the 1970s, George R. R. Martin’s Wild Card series, and
Michael Chabon’s McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling
Tales, The Darker Mask is a collection of original prose stories
recalling the derring-do of the beings we call Superheroes and
the worlds they fight to save. But unique to The Darker Mask
stories is that these plots and characters color a literary universe
outside of what has been predominantly white, idiosyncratic,
and male in previous homages to pulp. This is the stuff of urban
legends, new mythos, and extraordinary folks who might live in
a soon-to-be-gentrified ghetto, the dreary rust-belt of the city,
or in another dimension. The Darker Mask offers an eclectic
mix of popular fiction writers exploring worlds gritty, visceral,
and fantastic.
Including stories by: Walter Mosley, L. A. Banks, Naomi Hirahara,
Lorenzo Caceterra, Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes, Mike
Gonzalez, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ann Nocenti, Jerry Rodriguez,
Reed Farrell Coleman, Dossell Young, Mat Johnson, Peter
Spiegelman, Alexandra Sokoloff, Christopher Chambers, Gary
Phillips, Victor LaValle, and Wayne Wilson.
CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS is the author of Sympathy for the Devil and
A Prayer for Deliverance. He is currently woking on a historical novel titled
Yella Patsy’s Boys, about the African-American experience during the
American Revolution.
GARY PHILLIPS is the author of the Ivan Monk series and the Martha
Chainey series, as well as Bangers and The Perpetrators. His short fiction
appeared most recently in Los Angeles Noir and Hollywood and Crime.
He lives in Los Angeles, California.
FANTASY
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1850-3
$24.95
$27.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1850-4
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Crystal Rain (5/07)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5090-9
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5090-4
$7.99/$10.99 Can
SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1920-3
$25.95
$28.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1920-9
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Sly Mongoose
TOBIAS S. BUCKELL
“Tobias S. Buckell is a dazzling new voice.”
—ROBERT J. SAWYER, HUGO AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF HOMINIDS
Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing
pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old
Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet
above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual
storm. Above the acidic clouds the temperature and pressure are
normal. But to make a living, Timas like many other young men, is
lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can.
Timas’s life is turned upside down when a strange man crashlands
on the city. The newcomer is fleeing an alien intelligence
intent on invading the planet and discovering the secret hidden
deep inside the perpetual storm—a secret that could lead to
interplanetary war.
As the invaded cities fall silent one by one, Chilo’s citizens must
race against time to stop the enemy. And Timas will find out
what kind of man he has become in the harsh conditions of
Chilo’s surface.
“Ragamuffin is a winner.” —SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
“First-class space adventure, with tip-top characterization, action, and
world-building. May Buckell enjoy a long, productive career.”
—BOOKLIST ON RAGAMUFFIN
“Buckell plays with Caribbean and Aztec cultures, bending their exotic
flavor to technology-flavored ends.A lot of fun.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON RAGAMUFFIN
“Crystal Rain is refreshing and imaginative, an exotic stew of cultures,
myths, and technology.”
—KEVIN J. ANDERSON, BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR OF
THE SANDWORMS OF DUNE
“Buckell’s first novel conjures a vividly imagined world, spiced with
intrigue and adventure that unfolds at a breakneck pace.”
—BOOKLIST ON CRYSTAL RAIN
TOBIAS S. BUCKELL is a Caribbean-born writer who grew up in
Grenada, the United States, and the British Virgin Islands. He now lives
in Bluffton, Ohio.
www.tobiasbuckell.com
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Mercury (3/06)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4314-7
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4314-2
$6.99/$9.99 Can
SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1787-2
$24.95
$27.95 Canadian
5 1 /2" x 8 1 /4" / 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1787-7
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Mars Life
BEN BOVA
An exciting new addition to Ben Bova’s Grand Tour books
During his first mission to Mars, Jamie Waterman discovered
a set of cliff dwellings that proved that intelligent life had
existed on the red planet sixty-five million years ago. In the wake
of his discovery, Jamie returned to Earth and became a college
professor, leaving the work of uncovering Mars’ further secrets to
the two hundred scientists that still inhabit the base.
One of these scientists is Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who
has started to dig up the remains of the Martian village. When
he finds a fossil—the first-ever remains from an actual Martian—
the world’s eyes turn back to Mars. Everyone has an opinion on
the significance of his finding.
Carleton’s biggest critic is the ultraconservative New Morality
movement, which doesn’t much like the religious implications
of thinking beings existing anywhere other than Earth. And as
New Morality increases its hold on US government and culture,
anything they don’t like, including the further exploration of
Mars, is in grave danger.
As Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program’s funding
and uncover who the vanished Martians were, the two worlds
become a battleground in the war between science and
politics: a war whose outcome may change the nature of space
exploration forever.
“Immensely entertaining. A cracking read.” —SFX ON THE PRECIPICE
“Hard-charging….Ambitiously juggling elements of space opera,
western, and Sophoclean drama, Bova keeps the pages turning.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON THE ROCK RATS
“Vintage Bova.” —BOOKLIST ON THE SILENT WAR
A six-time winner of science fiction’s Hugo Award, a former editor of
Analog and former fiction editor of Omni, and a past president of the
National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America,
BEN BOVA is the author of over a hundred works of science fact and
fiction. He lives in Florida.
www.benbova.net
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Sun of Suns (7/07)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5453-2
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5453-5
$6.99/$8.99 Can
Lady of Mazes (7/06)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5078-7
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5078-5
$7.99/$10.99 Can
SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1545-8
$25.95
$28.95 Canadian
5 1 /2 “ x 8 1 /4" / 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1545-9
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Pirate Sun
Book Three of Virga
KARL SCHROEDER
Hard SF space opera hasn’t been so colorful in years!
The new Karl Schroeder Virga adventure
This is the third novel, after Sun of Suns and Queen of
Candesce, to be set in Virga, a bubble universe artificially
separated from our own future universe.
Chaison Fanning, the admiral of a fleet of warships, has been
captured and imprisoned by his enemies, but is suddenly rescued
and set free. He flees through the sky to his home city to confront
the ruler who betrayed him. And perhaps even to regain his
lovely, powerful, and subversive wife, Venera. He has not seen
her since she fled careening off into the air of Virga before he
was captured, with the key to the artificial sun, Candesce, at the
center of Virga. Schroeder sets a whole new standard for hard
SF space opera.
“Oh, what worldbuilding! Schroeder is a master.” —CORY DOCTOROW
Praise for Sun of Suns (A Kirkus Best of 2006 and a Romantic Times
BOOKreviews Top Pick):
★
“Outrageously brilliant and absolutely not to be missed.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
“A classic space opera…full of feudal castles and wooden ships,
ancient compasses, old revolvers, and frothing beakers on one hand,
and flying bikes, space travel, and cyborgs on the other.”
—TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL
“I loved it. It never slowed down.The background is fascinating and the
characters held my attention. It reminded me a little of The Integral
Trees, with technology a little more advanced.” —LARRY NIVEN
Praise for Queen of Candesce:
“Karl Schroeder…is proving to be one of our most ingenious devisers
of exotic, fantastic settings as well as a spinner of ripping yarns.…
Schroeder’s world-building, storytelling, and character-drawing chops
seem strong enough to given even Known Space run for its money.”
—LOCUS
KARL SCHROEDER lives in Toronto, Ontario.
www.kschroeder.com
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Shadow of the Giant (3/06)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-7139-4
ISBN-10: 0-8125-7139-8
$7.99/$10.99 Can
SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Trade Paperback Original
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2000-1
$15.95
$17.95 Canadian
51 /2" x 81 /4" / 416 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-2000-2
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Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic
Medicine Show,Vol. One
ED SCHUBERT and
ORSON SCOTT CARD, editors
A treasure trove of new fiction, including new
“Ender universe” stories by Orson Scott Card!
Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online
magazine The InterGalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It’s been
a big success, drawing submissions from well-known SF and
fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents.
This collection contains some of the magazine’s best stories from
the past year.
There is fiction from David Farber, Tim Pratt, and David Lubar
among others, plus four new Ender’s Game universe stories by
Card himself. This collection is sure to appeal to Card’s fans, and
be a great ambassador to them for these other talented writers.
Praise for Ender’s Game:
“An undeniable heavyweight.… This book combines Card’s quirky
style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits.”
—NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
“Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and an
interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization,
pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of
compelling power.” —BOOKLIST
“This book provides a harrowing look at the price we pay for trying
to mold our posterity in our own aggressive image of what we
believe is right.” —THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
ED SCHUBERT is the editor of The InterGalactic Medicine Show.
ORSON SCOTT CARD is the bestselling author of Ender’s Game,
Shadow of the Giant, and Empire.
A SPRING/SUMMER 2008
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4102-0
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4102-6
$7.99/$10.99 Can
SCIENCE FICTION
Tor Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1826-8
$24.95
$27.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1826-1
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Juggler of Worlds
LARRY NIVEN and EDWARD M. LERNER
A new look at Niven’s Known Space, two hundred years
before the discovery of the Ringworld
For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds.
Now Sigmund is pulling the strings….
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth’s secret weapon, humanity’s
best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential—and
imaginary—of foes both human and alien. Who better than a
brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of
the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior
technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth’s traitors
and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly
vanishes from Known Space.
As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end
horribly for him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom
of it all had eluded him. That fog has begun to lift….
But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations
will take him—or that his destiny is entwined with the fates
of worlds.
“A lively prequel to Niven’s 1970 classic, Ringworld.… Fans of hard SF
will be well rewarded.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON FLEET OF WORLDS
“Exceptional freshness and suspense…full of startling revelations
about human and puppeteer politics.”
—BOOKLIST ON FLEET OF WORLDS
“A far-future SF mystery/adventure set two centuries before the
discovery of the Ringworld by humans.… Intriguing human and
alien characters and lucid scientific detail.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL ON FLEET OF WORLDS
LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winning author of the
Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His
Beowulf’s Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes,
was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
EDWARD M. LERNER has degrees in physics and computer science, a
background that kept him mostly out of trouble until he began writing SF
full-time. His books include Probe, Moonstruck, and the collection Creative
Destruction. Fleet of Worlds was his first collaboration with Larry Niven.
He lives in Virginia with Ruth, his wife of a mere thirty-five years.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4145-7
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4145-X
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1766-7
$24.95
$27.95 Canadian
6 1 /8" x 9 1 /4" / 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1766-4
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Dark Vengeance
ED GREENWOOD
“Greenwood, creator of the popular Forgotten Realms
world and the Band of Four series (The Dragon’s Doom,
etc.), spins a chilling Norse-inspired tale of the Niflghar,
dark elves inhabiting the cold, subterranean universe of
Dark Below.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON DARK WARRIOR RISING
Orivon Firefist was captured as a six-year-old child by the
Nilfghar—the dark elves—who attacked his village by night
on one of their surface raids.
Fifteen years later, he was a moon-pale, scarred, muscular giant
of a man, who spent his days at forgework for a dark elf family.
He was also forced to use his great strength to shift furniture in
the grand rooms of their castle. He had been trained (and flogged
and ordered about) by the beautiful Tsarnarra, a lash-wielding
matron who is icily cruel, but proud of the slaves that she
has trained.
Through all of this, Orivon’s spirit had never been broken and he
rose up and opposed his underworld tyrants. He has successfully
returned to the surface world home that he thought only existed
in his most distant dreams.
But the score is far from settled. Years of oppression and new
revelations of the dark deeds of his former captors only fuel
his forge of rage. And the fact that their evil still permeates the
underworld only intensifies his desire for a dark vengeance.
Praise for Dark Warrior Rising:
“A page-turning, swash-buckling thriller of a tale of dark elven magic.”
—J. ROBERT KING, EDITOR OF REALMS OF THE UNDERDARK
“No one is more adept a world-builder or as entertaining a storyteller
as Ed Greenwood.”
—DOUGLAS NILES, CO-AUTHOR OF FORGOTTEN REALMS:
MENZOBERRANZAN—THE FAMED CITY OF THE DROW REVEALED AT LAST!
“Ed Greenwood is a master of fantasy adventure world-building. His
magic and wizardry are wondrous to all.”
—MARGARET WEIS, AUTHOR OF MASTER OF DRAGONS
ED GREENWOOD is the creator of the bestselling world of the Forgotten
Realms as well the Band of Four series. He lives in Ontario, Canada.
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The Incredible
Shrinking Man
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85664-9
$14.95/$17.25 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-85664-4
I am Legend
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1874-9
$14.95/$17.25 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1874-1
Duel
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87826-9
$15.95/$18.50 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-87826-5
RICHARD MATHESON BACKLIST
Hell House
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86885-7
$13.95/$16.25 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-86885-5
Button, Button
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1257-0
$12.95/$14.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1257-3
Somewhere in Time
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86886-4
$14.95/$21.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-86886-3
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What Dreams May Come
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0870-2
$14.95/$21.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0870-3
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87827-6
$14.95/$17.25 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-87827-3
A Stir of Echoes
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0871-9
$12.95/$14.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0871-1
Noir
Richard Matheson
ISBN-13: 978-0-763-1140-5
$14.95/ $18.50 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1140-2

Wizard’s First Rule
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85705-9
$29.95/$34.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-85705-5
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0027-0
$17.95/$24.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0027-3
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-4805-1
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-4805-1
Soul of the Fire
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89054-4
$27.95/$35.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-89054-0
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-5149-5
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-5149-4
Chainfire
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0523-7
$29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0523-2
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4431-1
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4431-9
TERRY GOODKIND BACKLIST
Stone of Tears
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85706-6
$29.95/$39.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-85706-3
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-4809-9
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-4809-4
Faith of the Fallen
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86786-7
$29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-86786-7
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-7639-9
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-7639-X
Phantom
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0524-4
$29.95/$39.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0524-0
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4432-8
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4432-7
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Blood of the Fold
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89052-0
$29.95/$39.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-89052-4
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-5147-1
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-5147-8
The Pillars of Creation
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0026-3
$29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0026-5
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4074-0
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4074-7
Confessor
HC •ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1523-6
$29.95/$34.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1523-8
Temple of the Winds
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89053-7
$29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-89053-2
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-5148-8
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-5148-6
Naked Empire
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0522-0
$29.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0522-4
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4430-4
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4430-0
SWORD OF TRUTH
MASS MARKET BOXED SETS
Boxed Set #1
ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-7560-6
$23.97/$32.97 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-7560-1
Featuring: Wizard’s First Rule,
Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold
Boxed Set #2
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4494-6
$23.97/$32.97 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4494-7
Featuring: Temple of the Winds,
Soul of the Fire, Faith of the Fallen
Boxed Set #3
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5685-7
$23.97/$32.97 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5685-6
Featuring: The Pillars of Creation,
Naked Empire, Chainfire

First Meetings
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0873-3
$17.95/$24.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0873-8
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4798-5
$6.99/$9.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4798-9
Shadow of the Giant
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85758-5
$25.95/$35.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-85758-6
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-7139-4
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-7139-8
Children of the Mind
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0474-2
$15.95/$22.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0474-0
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-2239-6
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-2239-7
ORSON SCOTT CARD BACKLIST
Ender’s Shadow
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86860-4
$24.95/$34.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-86860-X
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-7571-2
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-7571-7
Ender’s Game
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-93208-4
$25.95/$34.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-93208-1
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85323-5
$13.95/$16.25 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-85323-8
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-5070-2
$6.99/$9.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-5070-6
Empire
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1611-0
$24.95/$32.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1611-0
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5522-5
$7.99/$9.99 Can.
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5522-1
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Shadow of the Hegemon
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87651-7
$25.95/$36.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-87651-3
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-6595-9
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-6595-9
Speaker for the Dead
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-93738-6
$25.95/$29.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-93738-5
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-85325-9
$13.95/$19.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-85325-4
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-5075-7
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-5075-7
A War of Gifts
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1282-2
$12.95/$14.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1282-4
Shadow Puppets
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0017-1
$25.95/$35.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0017-6
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4005-4
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4005-4
Xenocide
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-312-86187-2
$15.95/$18.50 Can
ISBN-10: 0-312-86187-7
MM • ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-0925-0
$7.99/$10.99 Can
ISBN-10: 0-8125-0925-0
MASS MARKET
BOXED SETS
Beyond Ender’s Game
MASS MARKET BOXED SET
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4192-1
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4192-1
$23.97/$32.97 Can
Featuring: Speaker for the Dead,
Xenocide, Children of the Mind
Ender’s Game Boxed Set
MASS MARKET BOXED SET
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4495-3
ISBN-10: 0-7653-4495-5
$22.97/$31.97 Can
Featuring: Ender’s Game, Ender’s
Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon
See Card’s
new trade paperback
Intergalactic Medicine Show
on page T 45

Dune:
The Butlerian Jihad
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0157-4
$27.95/$38.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0157-1
The Road to Dune
Frank Herbert,
Brian Herbert, and
Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1295-2
$25.95/$34.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1295-6
DUNE HARDCOVER BACKLIST
Dune:
The Machine Crusade
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0158-1
$27.95/$38.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0158-X
Hunters of Dune
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1292-1
$27.95/$36.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1292-1
Dune Mass Market
Boxed Set #1
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5711-3
$23.97/$32.97 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-5711-9
Featuring: Dune: The Butlerian
Jihad, Dune: The Machine Crusade,
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
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Dune:
The Battle of Corrin
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0159-8
$27.95/$38.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0159-8
Sandworms of Dune
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1293-8
$27.95/$32.50 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1293-X
Dreamer of Dune
Brian Herbert
TPB • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0647-0
$16.95/$21.00 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0647-6
HC • ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0646-3
$27.95/$41.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0646-8

The Ancient
R. A. Salvatore
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1789-6
$25.95/$28.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1789-3
The Dragons of Babel
Michael Swanwick
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1950-0
$25.95/$28.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1950-0
RECENT TOR HARDCOVERS
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Keeper of Dreams
Orson Scott Card
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-0497-1
$27.95/$30.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-0497-X
Elom
William H. Drinkard
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1785-8
$25.95/$28.95 Can
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1785-0