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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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Dagger of Flesh
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters ...
Grey Wolf, Grey Sea
E.B. Gasaway
The history of one of World War II’s most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in GREY WOLF, GREY SEA, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitanleutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German ...
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Th...
Guardian Angel
Linda Winstead Jones
Defying her father's wishes that she find a suitor and marry, Melanie Barnett is well equipped to sharp shoot anyone who gets in her way in Paradise, Texas. She isn't out to play the love game, but when a mask...
Starrigger
John DeChancie
Independent space trucker Jake McGraw, accompanied by his father Sam, who inhabits the body of the truck itself, his "starrig," picks up a beautiful hitchhiker, Darla, and a trailer-load of trouble. One of the...
On Killing
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this in...
Shanji
James C. Glass
On the planet Shanji, a ruthless Emperor rules a subjugated people. Kati, raised by the lower caste Tumatsin, is taken captive by the Emperor's troops, but saved by The Searchers, who see her as the promise...
Eagles Cry Blood
Donald E. Zlotnik
While too many soldiers are fighting for the brass in the midst of the bloody Vietnam battles, Lt. Paul Bourne is compelled to fight the enemy for his country’s freedom. But when he comes up against his capt...
Conjure Wife
Fritz Leiber
What if half the world's population (the female half) practiced witchcraft and kept it a secret from men?
Norman Saylor, a professor of ethnology, discovers his wife Tansy has put his research in t...
The Harder They Fall
Jill Shalvis
The good doctor Hunter Adams’ steady life is suddenly wracked by a whirlwind. Trisha Malloy, vixen, lingerie saleswoman and magnet for disaster, has entered Hunter’s life and begun to destroy everything. H...
The Third Eagle
R.A. MacAvoy
Original and provocative science fiction from an author famed for her fantasy writings. Subtitle: Lessons Along a Minor String. When the warrior Wanbli came of age, he cast his lot among the stars and left...
Dirty Tricks
George Alec Effinger
In these eleven short stories by speculative fiction master George Alec Effinger, New York's populace must deal with the realities of a bi-polar existence; patients' brains are cut to tiny pieces in a clinica...
Eternity
Greg Bear
Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon—a world devastated by nuclear war. The crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by ...
Live Girls
Ray Garton
Davey's on the down and out when he loses his girl, his job and practically his sanity. While some men drown themselves in a forgiving bottle, Davey believes it's much more profitable to sink into Times Square...
The Cold War
Robert Vaughan
The launch of Sputnik. Rock 'n' roll fever. The struggle for civil rights. Robert Vaughan's seventh volume of the American Chronicles has America entering the fifties amidst the fright of a cold war with Rus...
Damiano
R.A. MacAvoy
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard's son, an alchem...
Here’s an insightful comment on our recent posting, Are You Too Young For Kindle?
RC
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Well, I’m 29 and I got a Kindle as a gift at the beginning of 08 right when they went on sale during Christmas 07. I LOVE my Kindle. Would I have bought one if it wasn’t given to me? No, but I would have been salivating with jealousy any time I saw one on the street. I didn’t pay money for books before I got my Kindle because books are too easy to come by. So I’d agree that my disposable income isn’t something I’d spend on books (I work in book publishing too) generally. Now, however, it’s almost too easy to drop $5.99 here or $9.99 there (btw – $9.99 is the absolute max I’ll pay for an e-book) for a book. I also have a NYTimes “headline story” subscription for a $1.99/month which gives me the top 15 or so stories of the day. I wouldn’t have taken a NYTimes subscription of any kind before then. It would have seemed like a waste of paper when I can get the gist of the news online.
The best feature is the “sample read”. If I pull a sample book its almost a sure bet that I’m going to buy the book. My buy rate has DRAMATICALLY improved since I got the Kindle. The Amazon library is a big deal as well. The library coupled with the wireless download is a hurdle that will be mighty big for any $99 application to beat…
The price point of the Kindle is only half the problem. I think young people would spend money on a piece of hardware they’d use. The sad fact is that many people don’t read enough to make a nearly $400 commitment to a piece of hardware. I carry my Kindle with me everyday and I use it regularly. The average reading in the US is like two books and a fashion mag, right? These people aren’t dropping $359 for a Kindle. All the 80G iPods, iPhones, and Wiis out there tell you that young people will shell out the dough for something they want and that they’ll use. Books aren’t the thing for the majority.
Also, I think old people were the ones commenting on the Amazon community pages because old people are the only ones who’d be tickled enough to go to an Amazon community page. I’ve had my Kindle for more than a year and I’ve never felt the need to visit the Amazon community. I didn’t need to ask a lot of questions on how to use it and I don’t really have the time to “make friends” with other people who have a Kindle just because they have a Kindle…
IMHO.
Here’s an insightful comment on our recent posting, Are You Too Young For Kindle?
