30 August 2004

Collection of three novellas in the Dominic Flandry series. It follows the first book, Agent of the Terran Empire, published by ibooks in April.
• The publisher's site has this description.
• SF Reviews.net has this review by T. M. Wagner.
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Far future SF novel about a tribe of humans trying to survive in the midst of a hostile machine civilization.
• It's third or fourth in the "Galactic Center" sequence, following In the Ocean of Night and Across the Sea of Suns, which Warner reprinted earlier this year, and The Stars in Shroud, which some include in the series, and is itself followed by three more novels set in the center of the galaxy. Warner's site has this brief description of the book.
• The book was a 1989 Nebula nominee, and placed #9 in the 1988 Locus Poll for best SF novel of the year.
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Collection of five stories by a writer highly regarded by H.P. Lovecraft, and reprinted as part of Hippocampus Press's "Lovecraft's Library" series, with a new introduction by S.T. Joshi.
• The publisher's site has this description with the Table of Contents.
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Dark fantasy novel of a vampire in Cleveland who falls in love with a beautiful dancer.
• The author's site has a page of book descriptions where he says "I think this is my best book to date." The Amazon page has the 1992 Publishers Weekly review, which calls the book "a marvelous fantasy, a vampire novel in which the word "vampire" never appears"
• It ranked #3 in the 1994 Locus Poll for best horror novel.
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Historical novel with fantasy elements about a mysterious woman in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest.
• This was Fowler's well-received first novel; the enthusiastic 1991 Publishers Weekly review is on the Amazon page. This edition include front cover blurb "From the author the New York Times bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club.
• The publisher's site has an excerpt and a reader's guide.
• The book was a 1993 Nebula Award nominee, and was shortlisted for the 1992 Tiptree Award.
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Collection of aphorisms first published as interludes in Heinlein's novel about Lazarus Long Time Enough for Love (1973).
• Baen's site has this description and a page of samples, while other samples -- perhaps the complete collection -- are available around the web at various places, e.g. here and here.
• This page reproduces the original 1978 Putnam cover.
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Fantasy novel set in an alternate-world England, in part an homage to Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series, and generally regarded as Moorcock's best novel.
• This edition includes both the original ending and the later revised ending, an afterword by Moorcock, and lyrics from an aborted musical version.
• The publisher's site has this long excerpt.
• The book won both the 1979 World Fantasy Award and the 1979 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
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Collection of epigrams, proverbs, puns, lyrics, etc. derived from several volumes of Robinson's "Callahan's Place" series, decorated with illustrations by Phil Foglio
• The author's official site, www.spiderrobinson.com, has this description.
• The Amazon page has the 1994 Publishers Weekly review.
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Omnibus volume of two YA fantasy novels, Swept Away! and Sun Blind, first published in 1989 and 1988. This edition is packaged as part of Del Rey's Imagine imprint, for YA readers.
• Del Rey's site has this description.
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Humorous fantasy novel, second in the "Wizard in Rhyme" series following Her Majesty's Wizard (1992), set in a world where magic is worked by speaking in rhyme. It was followed by six additional volumes, though The Feline Wizard in 2000. This edition is packaged as part of Del Rey's Imagine imprint, for YA readers.
• Del Rey's site has an author spotlight page, a description of the book, and an excerpt.
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The palace is as large as a good-sized town, for through the centuries its outbuildings, its lodges, its guest houses, the mansions of its lords and ladies in waiting have been linked by covered ways, and those covered ways roofed, in turn, so that here and there we find corridors within corridors, like conduits in a tunnel, houses within rooms, those rooms within castles, those castles within artificial caverns, the whole roofed again with tiles of gold and platinum and silver, marble and mother-of-pearl, so that the palace glares with a thousand colours in the sunlight, shimmers constantly in the moonlight, its walls appearing to undulate, its roofs to rise and fall like a glamorous tide, its towers and minarets lifting like the masts and hulks of sinking ships.

The railway workers were traveling from Seattle to Tenino on foot and had stopped, midday, to rest. They hadn't really made a camp, just a circle of baskets and blankets around a circle of damp dirt that Chin Ah Kin had cleared with his hands prior to building a fire. Chin was briefly alone, although in the distance to his left he could hear the companionable sounds of two men urinating.