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5 May 2005
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Anvil, Christopher, compiled and edited by Eric C. Flint :
Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity
(Baen 0-7434-9892-5, $26, 648pp, hardcover, March 2005, cover art Jeff Easley)
Omnibus/collection of five stories and one novel (Warlord's World, DAW 1975) in Anvil's Interstellar Patrol series -- following earlier stories published in Interstellar Patrol in 2003 [Locus Online's description] -- plus 17 other stories in the same Federation of Humanity setting. Afterword by editor Eric Flint.
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Ballard, J. G. :
Empire of the Sun
(Simon & Schuster 0-743-26523-8, $13, 279pp, trade paperback, March 2005)
(First edition: UK: Gollancz, 1984)
Associational novel about an aristocratic British boy separated from his parents during the Japanese invasion of Shanghai during World War II, based on the author's own experiences. It's the author's best-known novel, courtesy the 1987 Steven Spielberg film.
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Heinlein, Robert A. :
Have Space Suit -- Will Travel
(Pocket 1-4165-0549-0, $12, 249pp, trade paperback, February 2005, cover design David Stevenson)
(First edition: Scribner, 1958)
Young adult SF novel, 12th of Heinlein's acclaimed and fondly-remembered series of 'juveniles' published from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, and perhaps the single most popular of them. It's about a teenage boy who wins a space suit in a contest and is subsequently kidnapped by aliens.
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Heinlein, Robert A. :
Starman Jones
(Pocket 1-4165-0550-4, $12, 261pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover design David Stevenson)
(First edition: Scribner, 1953)
Young adult SF novel, 7th of Heinlein's acclaimed and fondly-remembered series of 'juveniles' published from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. It's about an orphaned young man who gets a position aboard a starship and gradually, by dint of an eidetic memory, rises to captaincy.
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Heinlein, Robert A. :
Tunnel in the Sky
(Pocket 1-4165-0551-2, $12, 262pp, trade paperback, March 2005, cover design David Stevenson)
(First edition: Scribner, 1955)
Young adult SF novel, 9th of Heinlein's acclaimed and fondly-remembered series of 'juveniles' published from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. It's about a group of high school survivalist students who become stranded on a test planet when the matter transmitter fails to return them to Earth.
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Myers, John Myers :
Silverlock
(Ace 0-441-01247-7, $14.95, 15+364pp, trade paperback, April 2005, cover art Dan Craig)
(First edition: Dutton, 1949)
Classic, one-of-a-kind fantasy novel famous for its elaborate references to literary and mythological works.
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Norton, Andre :
Dark Companion
(Baen 0-7434-9898-4, $26, 410pp, hardcover, April 2005, cover art Bob Eggleton)
Omnibus of two novels, Dark Piper (1968) and Dread Companion (1970). This first concerns the last human survivors on a planet of mutant creatures; the second is about the governess of a student with an invisible companion that leads them to a Faerie-like world.
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Rucker, Rudy :
Master of Space and Time
(Thunder's Mouth Press 1-56025-703-2, $14.95, 229pp, trade paperback, April 2005)
(First edition: Bluejay, 1985)
SF novel about a zany inventor who creates his own tailor-made universe.
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Yolen, Jane :
The Wizard of Washington Square
(Starscape 0-765-35016-5, $5.99, 78pp, trade paperback, March 2005, cover art Charles Vess)
(First edition: World, 1969)
Short middle-grade fantasy novel about a boy and a girl who discover a wizard living behind the door in Washington Square Arch.
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Opening lines: My screen began flashing. I had the console rigged to measure quitting time to the nanosecond. Softech had a flexitime system, which meant that you could quit for the week after putting in forty hours. A few quick keypunches and I'd logged off for the weekend. I yawned and looked around the too-familiar room. I was pretty old to be working this hard. A couple of years ago I'd had it made--my own company and my own signature on the paychecks. But now...Opening lines: You see, I had this space suit.Opening lines: Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.
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