Dean, Pamela :
Tam Lin
(Firebird 0-14-240652-X, $8.99, 11+468pp, trade paperback, August 2006, cover illustration Steve Stone)
(First edition: Tor, April 1991)
Young adult fantasy novel based on a Scottish ballad, here translated to a Midwestern university setting. This edition has a new introduction by Terri Windling.
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The book was a Mythopoeic Award finalist in 1992.
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The author's website has a post about the new edition of this book.
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Foster, M. A. :
The Book of The Ler
(DAW 0-756-40352-9, $15, 923pp, trade paperback, October 2006, cover art Michael Whelan)
Omnibus of three SF novels: The Gameplayers of Zan (1975), The Warriors of Dawn (1977), and The Day of the Klesh (1978).
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The publisher's site has a brief description: "the history of an alternate human race, the Ler, from their origins as a bioengineered 'superhuman' race on Earth to their complex civilizations in space."
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Wikipedia has this entry about the author.
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Gaiman, Neil :
Stardust
(HarperPerennial 0-06-114202-6, $13.95, 250pp, trade paperback, August 2006)
(First edition: DC Comics/Vertigo, October 1998)
Fantasy novel about a young man's adventures in faerie, with illustrations by Charles Vess.
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It won both the Mythopoeic Award in 1999 for Adult Literature, and the Geffen Award for best fantasy book.
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The publisher's site has this description, with a text excerpt and an audio excerpt. This edition includes 16 pages of "PS" features at the end of the book.
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Amazon has a review by Therese Littleton of the original edition: "Stardust is a perfect read-aloud book, a brand-new fairy tale you'll want to share with a kid, or maybe hoard for yourself. (If you read it to kids, watch out for a couple of spicy sex bits and one epithet.)"
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Heinlein, Robert A. :
Red Planet
(Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-49318-4, $13.95, 13+255pp, trade paperback, October 2006, cover art John Picacio)
Young adult SF novel, third in Heinlein's popular and fondly remembered 'juveniles' following Rocketship Galileo (1947) and Space Cadet (1948). It's about two Martian colony students who discover a plot that threatens the colony.
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This edition follows the 1990 revised edition, which restored text edited by the original pubisher. It has a new introduction by William H. Patterson, Jr., and has 5 pages at the end showing how Heinlein's manuscript was marked up by the Scribners editor.
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Amazon's 'search inside' feature includes an excerpt.
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Wikipedia has this detailed summary and publication history.
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The Heinlein Society website has this essay, "Red Planet - Blue Pencil" by Jane Davitt, about the publisher's changes, plus this concordance entry for the book.
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Heinlein, Robert A. :
Time for the Stars
(Tor 0-765-31493-2, $23.95, 244pp, hardcover, August 2006, jacket art Chris Moore)
Young adult SF novel, tenth in Heinlein's popular and fondly remembered series of 'juveniles'. It's about telepathic twins, one of whom boards a relativistic starship on a voyage to another star system, while the other stays on Earth and grows old.
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This is a hardcover edition, with a trade paperback reprint due next March.
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Amazon's 'search inside' feature includes an excerpt.
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Wikipedia has this detailed summary.
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The Heinlein Society website has this concordance entry for the book.
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Kushner, Ellen :
Swords of Riverside
(SFBC 978-0-7394-7336-8, $13.99, 627pp, hardcover, September 2006, jacket art Stephen Youll)
Omnibus of two fantasy novels: Swordspoint (first published 1987) and The Privilege of the Sword (2006), set in the land of Riverside.
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This is an exclusive edition from the Science Fiction Book Club, whose website has this description with a member's review.
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The first volume, Swordspoint, won a Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame Award in 2000.
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Martin, George R. R. :
The Ice Dragon
(Starscape 0-765-31631-5, $12.95, 107pp, hardcover, October 2006, jacket art Yvonne Gilbert)
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Young-adult fantasy novella, first published in the 1980 anthology Dragons of Light (Ace). This edition has illustrations by Yvonne Gilbert.
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Amazon has the book description and reader reviews. Its 'search inside' feature includes an excerpt.
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Bookgasm has this review by Mark Rose: "It's a strong story, well told, with layers of meaning that can be explored with a young reader who may have some questions at the end."
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Norton, Andre :
Dragon Magic
(Starscape 0-765-35300-8, $5.99, 215pp, trade paperback, August 2006, cover art Tristan Elwell)
Young adult fantasy novel, fourth in the "Magic Book" series following Steel Magic, Octagon Magic, and Fur Magic and followed by two further volumes (which Starscape will reprint over the next year), all first published in the 1960s and '70s.
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The books are about ordinary kids with magical powers. This book is about four boys and a magical puzzle box they've discovered in an abandoned house.
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Priest, Christopher :
The Prestige
(Tor 0-765-35617-1, $7.99, 360pp, mass market paperback, September 2006)
(First edition: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, September 1995)
Movie tie-in edition of Priest's 1995 World Fantasy Award-winning novel about the rivalry between two late-19th century magicians and their involvement with real-life scientist Nikola Tesla.
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The novel has an extra layer of complexity that was omitted from the film, concerning a contemporary reporter who's a descendant of one of the two magicians.
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ArtsJournal weblog BookDaddy has this post about the real rivalry between magicians that inspired Priest's novel. (via Bookslut)
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Priest's website links to this interview with the author about the genesis of the novel. Note that links within the author's site tended to hang Locus Online's browser.
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Amazon has the Publishers Weekly review of the original US book edition. Locus Online recently posted reviews of the film by Gary Westfahl and by Howard Waldrop & Lawrence Person.
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