Pullman, Philip His Dark Materials
(Knopf 0375823360, $35.85, trade paperback boxed set, September 2002)
Pullman's acclaimed YA fantasy trilogy is published in a boxed set of three matched trade paperbacks -- also available separately (click on cover images above).
• Published earlier by Scholastic Children's Books (UK), 1995, 1997, 2000
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Shippey, Tom J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
(Houghton Mifflin 0618257594, $13, trade paperback, September 2002)
This profile of the author of The Lord of the Rings was a Hugo Award finalist in 2002.
• Published earlier by HarperCollins (UK), September 2000
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Also...
Bradbury, Ray From the Dust Returned
(Avon 0380789612, $6.99, September 2002)
Bradbury's latest novel, about a family of vampires; a fix-up incorporating several early stories (including 1946’s "Homecoming") with substantial new material.
• Published earlier by HarperCollins/Morrow, October 2001
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Brandon, Paul Swim the Moon
(Tor 0312877935, $14.95, trade paperback, September 2002)
A first novel, about selkies in northernmost Scotland; received somewhat mixed reviews.
• Published earlier by Tor, September 2001
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Brooks, Terry The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax
(Del Rey 0345397673, $7.99, August 2002)
Second novel in Brooks's current trilogy; the third volume, Morgawr, just appeared in hardcover.
• Published earlier by Ballantine Del Rey, September 2001
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Chizmar, Richard, & Robert Morrish, eds October Dreams
(Roc 0451458958, $16, trade paperback, September 2002)
Original anthology of stories and essays about Halloween; winner of the International Horror Guild Award for best anthology of 2000.
• Published earlier by Cemetery Dance, October 2000
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Herbert, Brian, & Kevin J. Anderson Dune: House Corrino
(Bantam Spectra 0553580337, $7.5, September 2002)
Third in the series of prequel novels, after House Atreides in 1999 and House Harkonnen in 2000, to Frank Herbert's classic novel Dune (1965). The next novel, Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, is due in hardcover September 17.
• Published earlier by Bantam Spectra, October 2001
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Kress, Nancy Probability Moon
(Tor 076534341X, $6.99, September 2002)
Alien contact SF novel, expanded from the author's award winning novelette ''The Flowers of Aulit Prison''. There have been two sequels, Probability Sun (2001) and the just-released Probability Space (2002), in hardcover.
• Published earlier by Tor, July 2000
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Perry, Anne Tathea
(Ace 0441009700, $14.95, trade paperback, September 2002)
Fantasy novel, or religious allegory, by an English author best known for Victorian mysteries.
• Published earlier by Shadow Mountain, August 1999
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
Zahn, Timothy Angelmass
(Tor 081258418X, $7.99, September 2002)
SF novel about a black hole that spits out particles of human goodness, called 'angels', according the Amazon review.
• Published earlier by Tor, September 2001
• Purchase this book from Amazon or BookSense
