Amph SFF: Books New Releases

A Forest of Stars
Authors: Kevin J. Anderson
Year: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Orbit
Pages: 704
Binding: pb

Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks by the hydrogues and decides to use a cybernetic army to fight them. Yet the Terran leaders don't realize that these military robots have already exterminated their own makers - and may soon turn on humanity. Once the rulers of an expanding empire, humans have become the galaxy's most endangered species. But the sudden appearance of incredible new beings will destroy all balances of power. Now for humans and the myriad alien factions in the universe, the real war is about to begin...and genocide may be the result.


Altered Carbon
Authors: Richard Morgan
Year: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages: 544

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person?s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or ?sleeve?) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.

Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats ?existence? as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .

Amberlight
Authors: Sylvia Kelso
Year: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Juno Books
Pages: 272
Binding: pb

Tellurith, the head of a great ruling House in Amberlight, inexplicably finds a battered outlander left for dead in the streets of the legendary city - and an oracle reveals that he must not die. The man, although stripped of his memory, may know of a threat to Amberlight's unique possession: the motherlodes of the qherrique, the pearl-rock that gives their world its most powerful tool. Tangled in intrigue, insurrection and brutal warfare, it will take a cataclysmic upheaval for Tellurith and the stranger to begin to grasp the more-than-human mystery that brought them together.

Apricot Brandy
Authors: Lynn Cesar
Year: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Juno Books
Pages: 240
Binding: tp

Karen Fox returns to the family homestead after her father's suicide and discovers it has become the locus of a malignant Mayan plant demon. She must battle the demon and its adherents with the help of Kyle, an ex-con, and Quetzal, a magic-wielding Guatemalan bruja. Quetzal raises an army of the ghosts of women who have been sacrificed - but if they cannot win the battle, their souls will be forfeit.

Bandersnatch
Authors: Paul Tremblay , Sean Wallace
Year: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Wildside Press
Pages: 192
Binding: hc

Rich in curiosity and virtue, poor in dirths of the imagination and the dull phrase, Bandersnatch in this dead trees edition, eschewing flesh-and-blood for pulp, deals in the currency of wonder and mystery.

Blood Beast
Authors: Darren Shan
Year: 2007-11-01
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pages: 240
Binding: hc

"Locked inside Dervish's study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe

 

Queens of Tristaine: Tristaine Book Four
Authors: Cate Culpepper
Year: 2007-11-12
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Pages: 288
Binding: tp

When a deadly plague stalks the Amazons of Tristaine, Jess and Brenna must return to the place of their nightmares, the notorious City Clinic, to find a cure.

Tristaine's hard-won peace is shattered when a lethal epidemic threatens to devastate the Amazon clan. Their only hope for a cure lies in the sinister laboratories of the City Clinic. To save the sisters they love, Jess and Brenna must leave their mountain village and return to the malevolent government facility that almost cost them their lives. The danger they face is harrowing, the stakes enormous...and they have precious little time.

A New Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema, Revised and Updated Edition
Authors: David Pirie
Year: 2007-11-13
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Pages: 352
Binding: tp

David Pirie?s acclaimed 'A Heritage of Horror' was the first book on the British horror movie, and the first to detect and analyse the roots of British horror, identifying it as 'the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own.' It has long been regarded as a trail-blazing classic, ?having the force of a revelation?, according to one recent study of the subject, and heralded by Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese.
Now with 'A New Heritage of Horror', David Pirie has revised his original work, bringing the story up to date and into the 21st century. Alongside the classic films of the twentieth century, all explored within the full context of their production and appearance on our screens, he examines the latest horror boom, inaugurated by such films as 'The Others' and '28 Days Later'. He has also uncovered fresh documentation from the original files for this new edition, to add more revelations abuot the history of UK horror and Hammer Films, not least the largely untold story of their desperate battles against censorship. He has further up-dated the original text and added new illustrations. 'The New Heritage of Horror' promises to be one of the key film books of 2008.

Chronicles of the Black Company
Authors: Glen Cook
Year: 2007-11-13
Publisher: TOR Books
Pages: 704
Binding: tp

Darkness wars with darkness as the hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must. They bury their doubts with their dead.

Then comes the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more?.

This omnibus edition comprises The Black Company, Shadows Linger, and The White Rose.

Confessor
Authors: Terry Goodkind
Year: 2007-11-13
Publisher: TOR Books
Pages: 592
Binding: hc

Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesand has lost. Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.

Dark Lord
Authors: Ed Greenwood
Year: 2007-11-13
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
Binding: unk

When he mysteriously finds himself drawn into a world of his own devising, writer Rod Everlar is confronted by a shocking truth ? he has lost control of his creation to a brooding cabal of evil. In order to save his creation ? and himself ? he must seize control of Falconfar and halt the spread of co

 

I've not got it yet. I've a long trip on a train in a couple of weeks and I think it'll be the ideal travelling companion. Having waited three years another couple of weeks won't kill me. I will let you know what it's like once I have finished it.

BTW, please don't stop. This is a great thread to scan through every couple of weeks to see if anything worth buying has been released. I think you are doing a great job and I'm sure I'm not the only one who reads it.

 

Twilight: A Novel
Authors: William Gay
Year: 2007-11-20
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Pages: 240
Type: NOVEL

Suspecting that something is amiss with their father?s burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture to his gravesite and make a horrific discovery: their father, a whiskey bootlegger, was not actually buried in the casket they bought for him. Worse, they learn that the undertaker, Fenton Breece, has been grotesquely manipulating the dead.

Armed with incriminating photographs, Tyler becomes obsessed with bringing the perverse undertaker to justice. But first, he must outrun Granville Sutter, a local strongman and convicted murderer hired by Fenton to destroy the evidence. With his poetic, haunting prose, William Gay rewrites the rules of the gothic fairytale while exploring the classic Southern themes of good and evil.

Evil for Evil (Engineer Trilogy)
Authors: K. J. Parker
Year: 2007-11-21
Publisher: Orbit
Pages: 704
Binding: tp

Civitas Vadanis is in trouble. The Mezentines have declared war; and the Mezentines are very focused on their goals when it comes to killing. Duke Valens, of Civitas Vadanis, has a dilemma. He knows that his city cannot withstand the invading army; yet its walls are his only defence against the Mezentines. Perhaps the only way to save his people is to flee, but that will not be easy either. Ziani Vaatzes, an engineer exiled by the Mezentines for his abominable creations, has already proven that he can defend a city. But Ziani Vaatzes has his own concerns, and the fate of Civitas Vadanis may not be one of them.

Dr. Quantum in the Grandfather Paradox (Dr. Quantum) (Dr. Quantum) (Dr. Quantum)
Authors: Etan Boritzer , Fred Alan Wolf
Year: 2007-11-23
Publisher: Elora Media
Binding: tp

First introduced in the worldwide hit film "What The Bleep Do We Know?!" , "Dr. Quantum in The Grandfather Paradox" is the first in series of adventures which sends Dr. Quantum and his team back in time to save the universe from immenent peril.

Antediluvian Tales
Authors: Poppy Z. Brite
Year: 2007-11-25
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Binding: hc

From Publishers Weekly
The seven stories in this slim collection from Brite (Soul Kitchen) form a poignant requiem for pre-Katrina New Orleans, which serves as the setting for all of them. Most are brief sketches featuring characters on the periphery of her tales of chefs Rickey and G-Man, and in their descriptions of local landmarks and daily rituals of the natives, one catches the author's unabashed affection for the Big Easy. Two stories, Wound Man and Horned Melon Go to Hell and The Devil of Delery Street, come from the supernatural side of Brite's oeuvre, but the book's best is The Feast of St. Rosalie, whose simple account of a young woman contemplating romance in the midst of a religious festival mixes charm and pathos for a beautiful elegy to Brite's hometown.


Escape From Hell!
Authors: Hal Duncan
Year: 2007-11-25
Publisher: MonkeyBrain Books
Pages: 128
Binding: pb

A hitman, a hooker, a homosexual kid, and a hobo suicide make the ultimate prison break...escape from Hell itself! But when news of their attempted escape gets out, the souls of the damned are transformed into a rioting mob, and all Hell truly does break loose. It's Escape from New York meets Jacob's Ladder, by one of fantasy's rising stars.

Stargate Atlantis: Blood Ties: SGA--8 (Stargate Atlantis)
Authors: Sonny Whitelaw , Elizabeth Christensen
Year: 2007-11-25
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Pages: 336
Binding: pb

The Atlantis team return from the Pegasus Galaxy to investigate a Wraith sighting on Earth. Teaming up with members of SG-1, they soon discover that the Wraith aren't the only monsters stalking human prey.

The Nye Incidents
Authors: Whitley St

 

They released River Horses as a hardcover? Wow, that's surprising, and probably not worth the money on it's own.

Connie Willis is fantastic, I'll look for that one and Evil for Evil is on my radar...

 

Good work here. There's a few I've spotted that look worth reading, but I have too many to get through already.

 

I second SW

 

Colliding Forces
Authors: Constance O'Day-Flannery
Year: 2007-11-27
Publisher: Tor Paranormal Romance
Price: $4.99
Binding: pb

Deborah Stark is a newscaster with ambition to spare and a take-no-prisoners attitude when it comes to love. Her latest whirlwind affair with the darkly sexy Marcus ends with D. never expecting to see him again. Then her mother dies right before Thanksgiving and Marcus shows up on the doorstep of D.?s childhood home in New Jersey--and the ice around her heart cracks a little.

But for D., work comes first. She?s deep into a story about corruption throughout the highest levels of the company that owns her Philadelphia television station, and not even the hint of true love can distract her.

Marcus has secrets--about the mysterious Foundation he works for, about his ability to shape-shift--secrets D. isn?t ready to hear. But when D. realizes that Marcus is too aware of what she?s investigating to be an innocent bystander, she knows she must accept his truths. For only with Marcus?s help will D. survive long enough to expose corruption . . . and claim love.

Crystal Dragon
Authors: Sharon Lee , Steve Miller
Year: 2007-11-27
Publisher: Ace
Pages: 384
Binding: pb

Teamed up with a rogue soldier, an odd duo who call themselves wizards, and a sentient tree, Cantra yos'Phelium is the universe's last hope against a merciless world-destroying enemy.

Cursor's Fury
Authors: Jim Butcher
Year: 2007-11-27
Publisher: Ace
Pages: 544
Binding: pb

In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. But even magic cannot sway the corruption that threatens to destroy the realm of Alera once and for all.

[Has anyone read this series by Butcher? I've read the Dresden ones, but I haven't picked these up yet. Are they any good?]


Demon Eyes (Leisure Fiction)
Authors: L. H. Maynard , M. P. N. Sims
Year: 2007-11-27
Publisher: Leisure
Pages: 384
Binding: pb

No description.

Divine Night (Love Spell Paranormal Romance)
Authors: Melanie Jackson
Year: 2007-11-27
Publisher: Leisure
Binding: pb

No description.

Dragon's Fire
Authors: Anne McCaffrey , Todd J. Mccaffrey
Year: 2007-11-27
Publisher: del Rey
Pages: 432
Binding: pb

Bringing fresh wonders and dangers to light in the skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd, who demonstrated his writing talents in the bestselling novels Dragon?s Kin and Dragonsblood, return with their second collaboration: a thrilling adventure of discovery and fate.

Pellar is an orphan taken in by Masterharper Zist. Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker, and when Zist sets off to take over as harper for Natalon?s coal-mining camp, Pellar?along with his fire-lizard, Chitter?joins him on a secret mission of his own: to find out if reported thefts of coal are the work of the Shunned, criminals condemned to a life of wandering and hardship.

Halla is one of the children of the Shunned. Though innocent of their parents? crimes, these children have inherited their cruel punishment. Lack of food, shelter, and clothes is their lot; hope is unknown to them. And what future would they hope for? Without a hold to call their own, there will be no protection for them when the lethal Thread inevitably falls again. Life is even tougher for Halla. Her family gone, she must fend for herself. Yet despite the brutality of her surroundings, Halla is kind and gentle, devoted to those more helpless than she.

As depraved as Halla is good, Tenim is in league with Tarik, a crooked miner from Camp Natalon,

 

Starship: Mercenary
Authors: Mike Resnick
Year: 2007-12-05
Publisher: Pyr
Pages: 290
Binding: hc

The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a
reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of a media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated military service. Faced with a court martial, he was rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Theodore Roosevelt. Branded mutineers, the Teddy R. has quit the Republic, never to return.

Seeking to find a new life, Wilson Cole first remade the Teddy R. as a pirate ship plying the spaceways of the lawless Inner Frontier. But military discipline and honor were a poor match for a life of pillaging and plundering, and Cole's principles naturally limited his targets. Seeking a better way of life, the Teddy R. becomes a mercenary ship, hiring out to the highest bidder. Whether it's evacuating a hospital before war can reach it, freeing a client from an alien prison, or stopping a criminal cartel from extorting money from a terrified planet, the crew of the Teddy R. proves equal to the task. Along the way they form a partnership with the once human Platinum Duke, team up with a former enemy, and make the unique Singapore Station their headquarters.

But the life of a mercenary is not always predictable, and eventually circumstance pits Cole and the Teddy R. against his right-hand woman, the former Pirate Queen known as the Valkyrie. Soon the fragile trust that has grown between these two legends is put to the test as they find themselves on opposite sides of a job.

A Shout for the Dead
Authors: James Barclay
Year: 2007-12-06
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages: 608

No description.

Blood Brothers
Authors: Nora Roberts
Year: 2007-12-10
Publisher: Large Print Press
Binding: tp

In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys-Caleb, Fox, and Gage-went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men-and the women who love them.

Borne in Blood
Authors: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Year: 2007-12-10
Publisher: TOR Books
Pages: 368
Binding: hc

The year is 1817.In Switzerland, the Count Saint-Germain leads a comfortable life with his paramour Hero whose husband died fighting Napoleon. Saint-Germain's loving kindness cannot keep Hero from missing her children who are being raised by their hard-hearted grandfather.The Count has become intrigued by the work of an Austrian noble investigating the properties of blood, a subject always of key interest to a vampire.But when the noble's beautiful ward fixates sexually on the Count, the vampire fears for himself and his gentle lover. With Borne in Blood, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's saga of Count Saint-Germain, reaches a milestone-the twentieth volume of the vampire's adventures.The Saint-Germain cycle is one of our age's most compelling bodies of work of dark fantasy and horror, and the longest running series of vampire novels.Historically accurate, these deeply emotional novels have a devoted readership. Recognizing her impact on the genre, the International Horror Guild named Chelsea Quinn Yarbro a Living Legend at the World Fantasy Convention in 2006.

Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
Authors: Neil Hook , Mark Brake
Year: 2007-12-10
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages: 250
Binding: hc

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. I

 

Holy Crap, I want the Science Fiction History book.

 

I believe Raven has read the Codex series or whatever by Butcher; he'd probably tell you about it.

I need to go through these more carefully; looks like a lot of good stuff

 

Beyond Window-Dressing? Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium
Authors: K. V. Johansen
Year: 2007-12-14
Publisher: Sybertooth Inc
Pages: 152
Binding: tp

In the late twentieth century, Canadian children's fantasy had a poor reputation internationally. Was this reputation deserved, and if so, has the quality of children's fantasy and the climate for its publication improved since that time? After a survey of twentieth-century Canadian children's fantasy, Beyond Window-Dressing examines these questions through an extensive cross-section of Canadian children's fantasy published between 2000 and 2004. From Palmer Cox and Catherine Anthony Clark to Judd Palmer and Alison Baird, and writers of international reputation such as Dave Duncan, O.R. Melling, Kenneth Oppel and Charles de Lint, Beyond Window-Dressing weighs Canadian fantasy against the best of the UK and US. It provides not only a window onto Canadian developments in the genre during the opening years of the twenty-first century, but insists that fantasy must be judged by standards as rigorous as those applied to any other genre of literature. K.V. Johansen held the 2001 Eileen Wallace Research Fellowship in Children's Literature from the Eileen Wallace Collection at the University of New Brunswick and was the recipient of the 2004 Frances E. Russell Award for research in children's literature from the Canadian section of IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People. She has Master's Degrees in Medieval Studies (Toronto) and in English (McMaster), and is the author of a number of fantasy and science fiction novels for children and teens. Her 2005 book on the history of children's fantasy, Quests and Kingdoms: A Grown-Up's Guide to Children's Fantasy Literature, has received international critical acclaim and was short-listed for the 2006 Harvey Darton Award. The author's website may be found at: www.pippin.ca

The Escapement
Authors: K. J. Parker
Year: 2007-12-14
Publisher: Orbit
Pages: 592
Binding: tp

The engineer Ziani Vaatzes engineered a war to be reunited with his family. The deaths were regrettable, but he had no choice. Duke Valens dragged his people into the war to save the life of one woman - a woman whose husband he then killed. He regrets the evil he's done, but he, equally, had no choice. Secretary Psellus never wanted to rule the Republic, or fight a desperate siege for its survival. As a man of considerable intelligence, he knows that he has a role to play - and little choice but to accept it. The machine has been built. All that remains is to set it in motion.

Amberlight
Authors: Sylvia Kelso
Year: 2007-12-15
Publisher: Juno Books
Pages: 304
Binding: hc

Tellurith, the head of a great ruling House in Amberlight, inexplicably finds a battered outlander left for dead in the streets of the legendary city - and an oracle reveals that he must not die. The man, although stripped of his memory, may know of a threat to Amberlight's unique possession: the motherlodes of the qherrique, the pearl-rock that gives their world its most powerful tool. Tangled in intrigue, insurrection and brutal warfare, it will take a cataclysmic upheaval for Tellurith and the stranger to begin to grasp the more-than-human mystery that brought them together.

Conclave of the Cryptic 7, Volume 1
Authors: Roy Klaire
Year: 2007-12-15
Publisher: Orange Palm/Magn Magus
Pages: 174
Binding: tp

Plunge into a universe yet to be discovered! 'We must admit it, we are not alone! Exceptional beings OcohabitO our Universe, and man's isolation draws to a close. The time has come for Knowledge to circulate freely from one world, one universe, and one galaxy to another...'

Contagion
Authors: Jason Gehlert
Year: 2007-12-15
Publisher: Stonegarden.Net Publishing
Pages: 220
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I'm doing this a bit early because I'm traveling.

A March into Darkness: Volume II of The Destinies of Blood and Stone
Authors: Robert Newcomb
Year: 2007-12-26
Publisher: del Rey
Pages: 640
Binding: pb

The defeat and death of the evil Wulfgar should inspire a time of rejoicing throughout Eutracia. But Prince Tristan grieves. Not only is his beloved wife dead, but across the Sea of Whispers, in the island fortress known as the Citadel, Wulfgar?s bride, the sorceress Serena, plots to continue her husband?s nefarious plans, aided by the Scroll of the Vagaries and the advice of the otherworldly Heretics. Although the ranks of Tristan?s faithful soldiers were decimated in recent battle, the prince nevertheless plans a bold surprise attack.

But on the eve of the mission, disaster strikes. From behind the towering azure wall of magical energy in the forbidding face of the massive Tolenka Mountains comes Xanthus, a powerful warrior dispatched by the Heretics to bring Tristan into their mysterious realm. A master of a mystical martial art against which even the great swordsman Tristan is helpless, Xanthus launches a reign of terror against Eutracia?s innocent subjects, compelling Tristan to journey behind the azure wall. There, in a magical land as beautiful as it is violent, Tristan will learn the shocking truth about the destiny he and Shailiha, his sister, will share.

In Tristan?s absence, Shailiha must lead the fleet of Black Ships against the Citadel, accompanied by the wizards Faegan and Wigg and the beautiful pirate queen Tyranny. But unknown to them, Serena has prepared a deadly trap with hellish creatures summoned by the Heretics. And as Shailiha?s troops sail blindly into danger, Serena is preparing a spell unlike anything the world has ever seen?a spell powerful enough to defeat death itself.

Black Magic Woman
Authors: Justin Gustainis
Year: 2007-12-26
Publisher: Solaris
Pages: 256
Binding: tp

Occult investigator Quincey Morris and his "consultant", white witch Libby Chastain, are hired to free a family from a deadly curse that appears to date back to the Salem witch trials. Fraught with danger, the trail finds them stalking the mysterious occult underworlds of Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans and New York, searching out the root of the curse. After surviving a series of terrifying attempts on their lives, the two find themselves drawn inexorably towards Salem itself - the very heart of darkness.

By Venom's Sweet Sting (Hallowmere)
Authors: Tiffany Trent
Year: 2007-12-26
Publisher: Mirrorstone
Binding: pb

Are Corrine and her friends strong enough to take on the Fey?

Following the destruction of Falston, Corrine and her schoolmates embark for Scotland to chase Rory and the stolen rathstone. On the moors of Kenmore, tensions mount between the friends as a new love interest comes into Corrine's life. In the layers of lies and secrets, who can she trust?

In this exciting sequel to In the Serpent's Coils, Tiffany Trent delivers a larger-then-life battle between the Fey that readers will never forget!

Doctor Who: Peacemaker (Dr Who)
Authors: James Swallow
Year: 2007-12-26
Publisher: Random House UK
Pages: 256
Binding: hc

The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for 'the healer'. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns that shoot bolts of energy instead of bullets. Meanwhile, in the town of Redwater, the Doctor and Martha learn of a snake-oil salesman who's patent medicines actually cure his patient. But when the Doctor and Martha investigate they discover the truth is stranger, and far more dangerous. Caught between the law of the gun a

 

Across the Face of the World
Authors: Russell Kirkpatrick
Year: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Orbit
Pages: 736
Binding: pb

From a tiny snowbound village, five men and women are about to embark on a journey that will change their lives -and the destiny of their world.For two thousand years, since he was cast out from Dona Mihst, the fabled Undying Man has been plotting his revenge on the Most High. The Destroyer's plans of vengeance are nearing fruition-and he will allow nothing to stand in his way.But one man has escaped from the Destroyer's prison, and even though the Lords of Fear ride in pursuit, he will bring word to his people. It will be up to his sons, Hal and Leith, together with a small group of villagers, to warn their world of the coming war.

Bella at Midnight
Authors: Diane Stanley , Bagram Ibatoulline
Year: 2008-01-01
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Binding: pb

Bella has grown up thinking that she was just a simple peasant girl. But suddenly, Bella's world collapses. First, her best friend, Julian, betrays her. Then she finds out that she is, in fact, Isabel, the daughter of a knight who abandoned her in infancy. And now he wants her back. Bella is torn from her beloved foster family and tries to accept her new life with her deranged father and his resentful wife. But when she finds out about a terrible plot that threatens the kingdom, she sets out on a journey that will lead her to a destiny far greater than she could have imagined.

Black: Book 1 in the Circle Trilogy
Authors: Ted Dekker
Year: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Pages: 432
Binding: tp

Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly espaces to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head . . . and his world goes black.

From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world--a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman. Then he remembers the dream of the chase as he reaches to touch the blood on his head.

Where does the dream end and reality begin? Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other--both facing catastrophic disaster. Thomas is being pushed beyond his limits . . . even beyond the limits of space and time.

Blood in the Fruit
Authors: L. Timmel Duchamp
Year: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
Pages: 568

Blood in the Fruit, the hard-hitting fourth volume of the five-novel Marq ssan Cycle, focuses sharp, analytical attention on human rights issues. The novel opens in October 2086. After ten years absence, the Marq ssan Fleet returns to Earth to determine whether humans should be quarantined, and a young alien, unprepared for the shock of human culture, becomes a dangerous loose cannon taking violent, unilateral action. In the Free Zone, a flood of renegades led by Elizabeth Weatherall establish a fortress; even Hazel Bell, Weatherall s lover, doesn t know what they re up to. In the US, when the government responds to increasing dissent and civil disorder by ratcheting up its repressive tactics, brave and dedicated human rights activists like Celia Espin join forces with the Free Zones in a global challenge that threatens to undermine governments around the world. Blood in the Fruit offers a grand, sweeping story through the eyes of four individuals with markedly contrasting perspectives and experience.

Earthblood and Other Stories
Authors: Keith Laumer , Rosel George Brown
Year: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Baen
Pages: 544
Binding: tp

Two complete novels of interstellar adventure:

Earthblood by Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown chronicles one man's struggle to find his destiny in a future where the very existence of Earth is a legend that few believe. Humanity was defeated by the hostile Niss mille

 

Debatable Space
Authors: Philip Palmer
Year: 2008-01-07
Publisher: Orbit
Pages: 384
Binding: tp

Flanagan (who is, for want of a better word, a pirate) has a plan. It seems relatively simple: kidnap Lena, the Cheo's daughter, demand a vast ransom for her safe return, sit back and wait. Only the Cheo, despotic ruler of the known universe, isn't playing ball. Flanagan and his crew have seen this before, of course, but since they've learned a few tricks from the bad old days and since they know something about Lena that should make the plan foolproof, the Cheo's defiance is a major setback. It is a situation that calls for extreme measures. Luckily, Flanagan has considerable experience in this area . . .

The Best of Lucius Shepard
Authors: Lucius Shepard
Year: 2008-01-07
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Pages: 600
Binding: hc

Contents

* The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule ? (1984) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* Salvador ? (1984) ? shortstory by Lucius Shepard
* A Spanish Lesson ? (1985) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* The Jaguar Hunter ? (1985) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* R & R ? (1986) ? novella by Lucius Shepard
* The Arcevoalo ? (1986) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* Shades ? (1987) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* Delta Sly Honey ? (1987) ? shortstory by Lucius Shepard
* Life of Buddha ? (1988) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* White Trains ? (1987) ? poem by Lucius Shepard
* Jack's Decline ? (1988) ? shortstory by Lucius Shepard
* Beast of the Heartland ? (1992) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* Radiant Green Star ? (2000) ? novella by Lucius Shepard
* Only Partly Here ? (2003) ? novelette by Lucius Shepard
* Jailwise ? (2003) ? novella by Lucius Shepard
* Hands Up! Who Wants to Die? ? (2004) ? shortfiction by Lucius Shepard
* Dead Money ? (2007) ? novella by Lucius Shepard
* Stars Seen Through Stone ? (2007) ? novella by Lucius Shepard

A Rush of Wings
Authors: Adrian Phoenix
Year: 2008-01-08
Publisher: Pocket
Pages: 416
Binding: tp

HIS NAME IS DANTE.

Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination.

HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY.

F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own.

HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS.

What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer -- and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man -- who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire -- in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....

Blasphemy
Authors: Douglas Preston
Year: 2008-01-08
Publisher: Forge Books
Pages: 416
Binding: hc

The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world's most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the

 

Blasphemy sounds interesting. I'll definitely have to pick that one up.

Thanks, Sey, for all your hard work!

 

Maggie Again
Authors: John D. Husband
Year: 2008-01-15
Publisher: Talywain Press
Pages: 276
Binding: tp

Life is idyllic for four rural Indiana teenagers until one of them, Maggie, moves to New York City with her parents in this time-warp yarn set in 1926 and 1984. When Maggie's three friends hop a boxcar to visit her in New York, their journey takes a mystical turn, catapulting them to the year 1984 and, eventually, back again. On their return to 1926, they try to manipulate events in their favor, only to find that "time" is a fickle chronicler of events -- which wreaks havoc with their best intentions.

Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith
Authors: C. L. Moore
Year: 2008-01-15
Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC.
Pages: 220
Binding: tp

75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of old Mars, Northwest Smith blazes a trail through the underbelly of the solar system in 13 action-packed stories you won't soon forget.

The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch: A Grotesque Tale of Horror
Authors: Ladislav Klima , Carleton Bulkin
Year: 2008-01-15
Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
Pages: 243
Binding: tp

Kl'ma believed that philosophy cannot be limited to speaking or writing; it must be lived. This led him to embark on a lifelong pursuit of becoming God, which he equated with Absolute Will. Drawing his greatest inspiration from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, he developed his conceps of will and radical subjectivism in numerous essays, aphorisms, prose works and plays. In Kl'ma's only full-length work of fiction, and his only work translated into English, a series of journal entries chronicles Prince Sternenhoch's descent into madness. The German empire's top aristocrat and the Kaiser's favorite, Sternenhoch become the "lowliest worm" at the hands of his wife, Helga, the Queen of Hells, yet eventually attains an ultimate state of bliss and salvation. Kl'ma explores here the paradoxical nature of pure spirituality with dark absurdist humor and comically grotesque, often obscene episodes.

The Domino Men
Authors: Jonathan Barnes
Year: 2008-01-17
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages: 288

A young man discovers a manuscript and so begins a bizarre tale that brings together his grandfather, every conspiracy theory you've ever heard about the royal family and the true story about where the power of Number 10 really lies. Readers of The Somnambulist may well recoginise the characters kept within a chalk circle in a cellar beneath Downing Street. With a gallery of vividly grotesque characters, a gleefully satiric take on modern life and a playful and highly literate style, this is an amazingly readable literary fantasy. In his sequel to the crazed Victoriana of The Somnambulist Jonathan Barnes brings his invention, reality, grotesquerie and curiosities bang-up-to-date.

Weaver
Authors: Stephen Baxter
Year: 2008-01-17
Publisher: Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Group
Pages: 512
Binding: hc

No description.

Duma Key: A Novel
Authors: Stephen King
Year: 2008-01-22
Publisher: Scribner
Pages: 592
Binding: hc


Six months after a crane crushes his pickup truck and his body self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches into a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed her with a plastic knife and tried to strangle her one-handed (he lost his arm and for a time his rational brain in the accident). He divides his wealth into

 

Nothing this week that has be uploading the library's site, but the one about the Roman vamp looked interesting.

 

Great Horror Stories: Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others
Editors: John Grafton
Year: 2008-01-28
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages: 240
Binding: pb

Featuring an international rogues' gallery of authors, this spine-tingling anthology celebrates one of the most popular and enduring literary traditions. Fourteen timeless tales of terror include chilling classics from Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Izumi Kyoka, Algernon Blackwood, and more.

Hunter's Run
Authors: George R. R. Martin , Gardner Dozois , Daniel Abraham
Year: 2008-01-28
Publisher: Subterranean
Pages: 280
Binding: hc

No real description just this:
A signed edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the authors.


All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well: A Novel
Authors: Tod Wodicka
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages: 272
Binding: hc

Meet Burt Hecker: a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York. He prefers oat gruel to French fries because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 AD; and, at war with the modern world, he enjoys hosting large-scale re-enactments at the Victorian bed and breakfast he calls home.

But Burt has some serious problems. After an incident involving the New York State police and an illegally borrowed car, Burt is forced to join a local music therapy workshop to manage his anger. He gallantly accompanies the group to Germany for a festival celebrating the music of the visionary saint Hildegard von Bingen--but he has no plan to return home. His real destination is Prague: he must find his estranged son Tristan, who, he believes, has lost his way in the Bohemian city.

As we move between past and present, the tragic details of Burt's life are gradually revealed: the recent death of his beloved wife; the circumstances that separate him from his children; his complicated relationship with his mother-in-law. And we begin to understand, with heart-wrenching clarity, Burt's eccentric and poignant devotion to a time other than one's own.

Wildly inventive and mesmerizing, Tod Wodicka's debut is a modern-day Arthurian quest that introduces one of the most winning oddball characters to come along in years.

An Exchange of Gifts
Authors: Anne McCaffrey
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company
Pages: 336
Binding: pb

A runaway princess and a poor young boy try to make a new life for themselves without revealing their pasts or the magical powers they possess.

Boundary
Authors: Eric Flint , Ryk E. Spoor
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Baen
Pages: 544
Binding: pb

What is a paleontologist doing on Mars? Pushing her boundaries. . . .Problematica, n: a term used in paleontology to refer to fossils that appear to be either of unknown taxonomic origin, or whose occurrence in the location they are found contradicts current beliefs of the field. The find was made by a teenager. A ?funny fossil? no one had seen before out in the middle of the Arizona desert. And right in the middle of controversy: the strangely shaped fossil could help explain one of the greatest mysteries of Earth?s past, the great die-off at the KT boundary. It warranted a big dig, one that could lead to the mother lode, andprofessional immortality. But what Dr. Helen Sutter didn?t realize was that it would take her all the way to Mars. . .

Brothers in Arms
Authors: Lois McMaster Bujold
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Baen
Pages: 352
Binding: pb

If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Vorkosigan (alias Admiral Naismith) decided bitterly, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But his enemies were plotting

 

The Blood King: Book two in the Chronicles of the Necromancer
Authors: Gail Martin
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Solaris
Pages: 368
Binding: pb

The second installment of the Chronicles of the Necromancer. Having escaped being murdered by his evil brother, Jared, Tris must take control of his magical abilities to summon the dead, and gather an army big enough to claim back the throne of his dead father. But it isn't merely Jared that Tris must combat. The dark mage, Foor Arontala, has schemes to raise the Obsidian King...

The Borderkind
Authors: Christopher Golden
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Spectra
Pages: 480
Binding: pb

For centuries they lived amongst us. The frightful and wondrous, the angelic and bloodthirsty. Living in a reality just beyond the Veil, humanity?s myths and legends are caught in a struggle for their very survival?against hunters far more powerful than they are.

Into this struggle has stepped a New England lawyer who once wanted to be an actor?a man who both longs for the mortal woman he was to marry and is desperate to rescue the sister who?s been taken hostage. Neither hero nor warrior, Oliver Bascombe now finds himself brandishing a magical sword, walking in the company of a woman who sometimes appears as a fox and a man made of pure ice, and dueling with albino giants and winged killers. For in the world of the Borderkind?and the realms that exist beyond it?Oliver is discovering just how vulnerable are humankind?s myths, the dire consequences of their extinction, and the reason he was chosen to save them.?

The Condemned
Authors: David Jack Bell
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Delirium Books
Pages: 222
Binding: tp

The world is at war.the city is dying.and those left for dead within its walls have awakened. A terrorist attack on the water supply has left the city quarantined by the army and inhabited by the City People, the mindless living dead who rule the urban night. Plagued by nightmares and wracked with guilt for having left his best friend behind, Jett returns to work, hoping to provide for his family. But his new partner, a wounded veteran known only as The Kid, won't let Jett forget that his best friend might not be entirely dead. As their city raids grow bloodier, Jett finds himself increasingly under the mysterious influence of his new partner. And just as his murderous rage for the City People grows nearly out of control, he realizes things may not be exactly as they appear. The night, and those who control it-the City People-hold many secrets. Secrets that might just set Jett free.or destroy him and everything he holds dear.

The Nightwalker
Authors: Thomas Tessier
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Leisure Books
Pages: 384
Binding: pb

No Description other than Stephen King endorsing it as scary.

Tracing the Shadow
Authors: Sarah Ash
Year: 2008-01-29
Publisher: Spectra
Pages: 432
Binding: hc

Sarah Ash?s acclaimed trilogy, the Tears of Artamon, was a stunning blend of sorcery and intrigue, politics and breathtaking imagery. Now this gifted storyteller returns with a tale of a siege between kingdoms, and a battle between heretics and believers?each with their own truths, their own lies, and their own soul-shattering discoveries waiting to be made.

Book One of the Alchymist?s Legacy

The kingdom of Francia has purged its magi. But when a young Guerrier rescues an orphaned street waif, little does he know that she is the daughter of a magus who met his end on their pyres?or that she is guarded by an aethyric spirit and driven by the name of the traitor who condemned her father to flames. With the gift of song infused within her, the child?s voice will bring her before the most powerful heads of state. And she wi