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Empress of Light
James C. Glass
In this sequel to SHANJI, Kati has used the light of creation to win a war bringing her to the throne as Empress of her planet, and she has forged new alliances with former enemies. Her daughter Yesui is born w...
Hôtel Transylvania
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a character first introduced to the reading world as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. We first mee...
Mother's Choice
Elizabeth Mansfield
It's a Mother's Duty To Protect Her Daughter
Cassandra Beringer would never allow her daughter Cicely to repeat her mistake and marry a man twenty years her senior--even if he is the handsome Viscount Inge...
Pock's World
Dave Duncan
In this thrilling story of adventure and suspense by master storyteller Dave Duncan, five flawed individuals must decide the fate of an entire world.
On the outskirts of the Ayne Sector sits Pock’s Worl...
Time Slave
John Norman
Dr. Brenda Hamilton--a Ph.D. mathematician from Cal Tech--is beautiful, though she does not know her true beauty. She is a woman, though she does not know her true womanhood. Deep within herself she is sensu...
Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute
Bill McWilliams
Using long established historical records and contemporary journals as well as recently-released war-time documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day that Will ...
Lord of the Fire Lands
Dave Duncan
Raider and Wasp have spent five years at Ironhall studying to become Blades, expert swordsmen whose talents stand unmatched. Magic both enhances the Blades' fighting skills and binds them in lifelong duty....
Miscalculations
Elizabeth Mansfield
His Woman Of Affairs
Jane Douglas had a sharp wit, a brilliant mind, and an extraordinary knack for numbers. As financial advisor to Lady Martha Kettering, she was able to provide for herself, her sister ...
The Girl With the Persian Shawl
Elizabeth Mansfield
An Arrogant Spinster, a Dashing Rake, and an Unsigned Painting
The Girl With Persian Shawl was a strangely bewitching masterpiece that had hung in the Rendell household for generations. Kate Rendell graci...
A Thousand Deaths
George Alec Effinger
While George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen novel WHEN GRAVITY FAILS is perhaps his most famous work, his lesser known novel THE WOLVES OF MEMORY remained his favorite. In it, he introduced readers to Sandor Couran...
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Living with Aliens
John DeChancie
What more could a thirteen-year-old want than two best friends who can help him get his first girlfriend? Young Drew finds out when he befriends two aliens, Zorg and Flez, who help him take his new girlfr...
Body Wave
Nancy J. Cohen
Salon owner Marla Shore is pretty hard to shock, but she's truly stunned to learn that her hateful ex-husband, Stanley Kaufman, has been arrested for the murder of his third wife, Kimberly--and wants Mar...
One Day, My Prince
Linda Winstead Jones
Joe White had made some very serious enemies because of his skills. He was a good man--one of the few in this dirty Western town. On the right side of the law, he was able to capture and kill the criminals t...
Daughter of the Reef
Clare Coleman
From Jean M. Auel's THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR to Linda Lay Shuler's SHE WHO REMEMBERS, novels set among pre-historic cultures have shown a very strong appeal to readers of all types from fans of genre fant...
Our Lady of Darkness
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields. His fiction won the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Gandalf, Lovecr...
This Fortress World
James Gunn
William Dane is a man with a nasty but valuable secret, one that all the cutthroats in the galaxy are itching to get their hands on. Dane must perfect the art of concealing himself from the crazed factions y...
The Omega Point Trilogy
George Zebrowski
6599 A.D. The war between the Earth Federation and the Herculean Empire had been over for more than three centuries. The planet in the Hercules Globular Cluster was a cinder; the few descendants of the surviv...
The Black Gondolier and Other Stories
Fritz Leiber
Announcing a new collection of stories by Fritz Leiber. Assembled here is a selection of Mr. Leiber's best horrific tales, many of which have been virtually unobtainable for decades. From the riveting "Spider ...
Chaining the Lady
Piers Anthony
The CLUSTER series of SF adventures is set in a future focused on colonization of distant planets. Sphere Sol is about 100 light years in diameter, centered on the Earth’s sun. Surrounding this spher...
No, He's Not A Monkey, He's An Ape and He's My Son
Hester Mundis
This book answers the question that’s on everybody's mind: “What’s it like to raise a chimpanzee in Manhattan?” Hester Mundis’s hilarious memoir NO HE'S NOT A MONKEY, HE'S AN APE AND HE'S MY SON is t...
Over There
Robert Vaughan
Volume Two of Robert Vaughan’s stunning American Chronicles follows the tumult of American during the second decade of the twentieth century. The indestructible Titanic goes down in the cold Arctic sea, mi...
Trace
Warren Murphy
TRACE aka Devlin Tracy. He operates out of Las Vegas as a very private investigator. The giant insurance company that employs him is willing to overlook his drinking, his gambling and his womanizing for on...
Demon Rider
Dave Duncan
All of Europe is ruled by the Khan, whose Golden Horde swept its conquering way across Europe in 1244. The Scottish outlaw Toby Strangerson, known as Longdirk, is ruled by an even harsher master. He is pos...
Dead Roots
Nancy J. Cohen
A haunted hotel, a family curse, mysterious Cossacks, hidden treasure, murdered guests--what looked to be a routine family reunion is turning into a serious Bad Hair Day indeed. One that's trouble all the wa...
Showstopper!
G. Pascal Zachary
Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by
Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary Bruce Cutler, a picked band of software ...
Quad World
Robert A. Metzger
John Smith began that morning a perfectly healthy man, but before he knows it time freezes during his morning staff meeting and he thinks he's dying. Has his body stopped or has everything around him? When th...
A combination of fresh thinking by a publisher and hardship at a book chain have produced a breach in the facade of a tradition that at least one observer asserts is at the heart of trade publishing’s woes. According to the Wall Street Journal, Borders has agreed to buy books from the Harper Studio imprint, recently founded by Robert Miller, at a deep discount of 58 percent to 63 percent off, on a nonreturnable basis. A typical hardcover discount runs 50% to 56% depending on quantity purchased.
When Miller launched HarperStudio he expressed determination to find a way to break the vicious cycle by which bookstores may return unsold inventory for full credit, a practice that has proven ruinous for many a publisher. Skeptics, familiar with previous efforts including deep discounting, ironically wished him “Lots of luck”. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Rob Gruen, a Borders executive, stated, “The idea of taking inventory and then shipping it back isn’t a good idea for anybody. We’re open to all publishers to discuss alternatives to the traditional return model.”
We wish Miller and Borders lots of luck too, but without a trace of smirk on our faces.
Richard Curtis
A combination of fresh thinking by a publisher and hardship at a book chain have produced a breach in the facade of a tradition that at least one observer asserts is at the heart of trade publishing’s woes. According to the Wall Street Journal, Borders has agreed to buy books from the Harper Studio imprint, recently founded by Robert Miller, at a deep discount of 58 percent to 63 percent off, on a nonreturnable basis. A typical hardcover discount runs 50% to 56% depending on quantity purchased.
Love the headline!
I think you’re right on the money with this. It’s just a shame it has taken the rest of the world sixteen years to catch up with you.
Hopefully publishing’s purge will not last as long as its binge.