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New SF, Fantasy, and Horror books seen : April 2005 Week 4
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Antieau, Kim :
Counting on Wildflowers: An Entanglement
(Aqueduct Press 0-9746559-7-x, $9, 106pp, trade paperback, April 2005)
Collection of essays, poetry, and a short story, several previously published online, with illustrations by Terri Windling.
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Campbell, Ramsey :
The Overnight
(Tor 0-765-31299-9, $24.95, 396pp, hardcover, March 2005, jacket art David Bowers)
First US edition (UK: PS Publishing, June 2004).
Horror novel set in a large chain bookstore, based on the author's own experiences. Locus Magazine's New and Notable Books list for May calls it a "chilling, somewhat tongue-in-cheek novel of employees working overnight in a haunted superstore".
(Fri 29 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Duchamp, L. Timmel :
Alanya to Alanya
(Aqueduct Press 0-9746559-6-1, $19, 443pp, trade paperback, June 2005, cover design Lynne Jensen Lampe)
SF novel, book one of the Marq'ssan Cycle, projected to be five volumes, about alien invaders who arrive at Earth in 2076. The story focuses on feminist professor Kay Zeldin as she assists government officials responding to the threat.
(Sat 23 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Effinger, George Alec :
George Alec Effinger Live! From Planet Earth
(Golden Gryphon Press 1-930846-32-0, $25.95, 363pp, hardcover, May 2005, jacket painting John Picacio, jacket design Lynne Condellone)
Collection of 22 stories from throughout the career of the author, who died in 2002, selected and introduced by 16 writers, including Neil Gaiman, Michael Bishop, Gardner Dozois, Mike Resnick, Lawrence Person, and Howard Waldrop. Stories include Hugo nominee "All the Last Wars at Once", Hugo and Nebula nominee "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything", and eight previously uncollected stories written under the pseudonym O. Niemand, in which Effinger mimics the style of Hemingway, Steinbeck, and other literary icons in stories set on the asteroid Springfield.
(Sat 23 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Emshwiller, Carol :
I Live with You
(Tachyon Publications 1-892391-25-2, $14.95, 204pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover illustration Ed Emshwiller, cover design Ann Monn)
Collection of 12 recent stories and a speech (given at WisCon), with an introduction by Eileen Gunn.
(Fri 22 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Eschbach, Andreas :
The Carpet Makers
(Tor 0-765-30593-3, $24.95, 300pp, hardcover, April 2005, jacket art Rick Berry)
SF novel, the first by this German SF writer to appear in English (originally published as Die Haarteppichknüpfer in 1995), translated by Doryl Jensen. It's about a planet where weavers make carpets out of human hair, each carpet taking a lifetime, for a far away emperor. An extract appeared as "Carpetmaker's Son" in F&SF, January 2001. The book is introduced by Orson Scott Card. In translations, it won the 2002 Italia Award, and the 2001 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.
(Fri 22 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Guilfoile, Kevin :
Cast of Shadows
(Knopf 1-4000-4308-5, $24.95, 321pp, hardcover, March 2005)
Near-future thriller set in a world in which cloning is legal, about a doctor who creates a clone from DNA evidence at his daughter's murder scene in order to one day try to understand the killer's motives. The author's first novel.
(Wed 20 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Hemry, John G. :
Rule of Evidence
(Ace 0-441-01262-0, $6.99, 276pp, mass market paperback, March 2005, cover art Michael Herring)
Military SF legal thriller featuring lawyer-in-space Paul Sinclair, third in the series following A Just Determination and Burden of Proof (2004).
(Fri 29 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Hickman, Tracy & Laura :
Mystic Quest
(Warner Aspect 0-446-53106-5, $24.95, 453pp, hardcover, April 2005, jacket illustration Matt Stawicki)
Fantasy novel, second in the "Bronze Canticles" series following Mystic Warrior (2004), involving parallel worlds of human, goblin, and faery.
(Wed 20 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Jensen, Jan Lars :
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
(Carroll & Graf 0-7867-1562-6, $14.95, 273pp, trade paperback, 2005)
First US edition (Canada: Raincoast Books, February 2004).
Nonfiction memoir about the author's experience "losing his mind" following the sale of his first novel Shiva 3000 in 1999 -- concerned that hostile reactions to the book in India, the novel's setting, would trigger lawsuits, nuclear strikes, and the end of the world.
(Fri 22 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Oltion, Jerry :
Anywhere but Here
(Tor 0-765-30619-0, $25.95, 382pp, hardcover, March 2005, jacket art Vincent Di Fate)
SF novel, sequel to The Getaway Special (2001), in which cheap interstellar travel enables lots of ordinary citizens to abandon Earth for the stars. This book follows a couple from Wyoming who "climb into their pickup truck and head for Alpha Centauri" according to the Publishers Weekly review reproduced on the Amazon page.
(Fri 29 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
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Williams, Sean :
The Resurrected Man
(Prometheus/Pyr 1-59102-311-4, $25, 529pp, hardcover, April 2005, jacket illustration and design John Picacio)
First US edition (Australia: HarperCollins/Voyager, 1998).
SF novel in which teleportion technology is used by a serial killer to repeatedly murder the same duplicated person.
(Thu 21 Apr 2005) Purchase this book from Amazon |
Opening lines: Lying in bed, I waited for my killer.Opening lines: This wasn't grief Davis felt, staring at her so-still feet pointing at impossible angles to the tight synthetic weave of charcoal carpet. Grief is born. Grief matures. Grief passes. Despair, on the other hand, which arrives in an instant, ferments into depression. And although depression was months away, at least, already he felt himself not caring. About his life, his wife, his practice, his patients, his new home, near the golf course, and his second home, by the lake. He imagined everything -- people, property, possessions -- in flames while he stood before it all, impassive, not caring.Opening lines: That day in February 2076, SeaTac and every other civilian airport in the world became a graveyard for the mammoth carcases of dead machines.
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