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Thin Air
George E. Simpson
It's a mystery that dates back to World War II--what happened to the USS Sturman and its crew. For Naval Investigator Nicholas Hammond, the search will challenge him…and the answers will, like bodies floa...
Shadow of Ashland
Terence M. Green
“THE BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ”–Entertainment Weekly
"Things have to be settled, or they never go away."
Only weeks before she dies in March, 1984, Leo Nolan’s mother shows her son a rose she says w...
The Longest Way Home
Robert Silverberg
"What wonders and adventures he has to tell us," is how Ursula K. LeGuin characterized the world of Robert Silverberg, and in The Longest Way Home, he takes readers on another dazzling odyssey.
Joseph, ju...
Marriage Is a Bad Habit
Ruth Dickson
When Ruth Dickson released her 1967 book MARRIED MEN MAKE THE BEST LOVERS, it went off like a bombshell. Defenders of the “sanctity” of marriage rose up to dismiss her frank, innovative, thoroughly resear...
Orion's Dagger
Paula Downing King
With ORION’S DAGGER, Paula E. Downing presents the thrilling final installment of THE CLOUDSHIPS OF ORION trilogy, which Starlog magazine called “special...a thoroughly engrossing story.” The trio wa...
Fair Warning
George E. Simpson
America is set to finally end World War II with a devastating act--dropping the atomic bomb over Japan. But what if a secret mission was set in place to alter the course of history? In this fast-paced, and i...
Rogues of the Black Fury
Travis Heermann
When a band of shadowy fanatics abducts Javin Wollstone’s little sister, Bella, from his care, his only hope to bring her home is turning to a hard-bitten band of special warriors, the Black Furies, led by C...
The Sudden Star
Pamela Sargent
The appearance of a white star bathing the world in a deadly glare turns Earth into a nightmare of fear and death. Rape and murder are as common as suicide. Medical help is allowed only for certain diseases, a...
Philosophy and the Challenge of the Future
John Lange
The sciences, as opposed to politics and religion, have their roots in philosophy. Philosophy has been spoken of as the mother of the sciences, although she is, in many cases, more of a grandmother or grea...
The Man in the Moon Must Die
Jeff Bredenberg
What do a cunning old man, a code-slopper gone rogue, a pair of lowlife tech-runners, a sexually frustrated AI, and a hermaphrodite underworld boss have in common? They're all out to get Benito Funcitti, ow...
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Tales of the Village Rabbi
Rabbi Harvey M. Tattelbaum
In the late fifties and sixties, Greenwich Village was the quirkiest, most charming, jazzy, eccentric and urban of environments, the center of all that was both quaint and "cool": brownstones and beatniks, co...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
The Rapture Effect
Jeffrey A. Carver
In a galaxy-spanning novel of adventure and philosophical conflict, set in the year 2165, a fleet of colonizing starships from Earth approaches the planet Argus, 138 light-years from Earth. During their years...
Walker's Widow
Heidi Betts
Between Heaven and Hell lies Purgatory, Texas--a town with too few saints ... and too many sinners.
TO CATCH A THIEF
Clayton Walker had been sent to Purgatory…but it felt more like hell. Assign...
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...
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...
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...
Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour
Marti Rulli
REVISED EDITION with new updates and additional information not included in the original hardcover release!
GOODBYE NATALIE, GOODBYE SPLENDOUR is the long-awaited, detailed account of events that led to the...
Survivor
William W. Johnstone
In a book that forms a coda to William W. Johnstone's "Ashes" series, Jim LaDoux, the grandson of the legendary General Ben Raines has seen his grandfather, and the last of his family, die in the beginnings of...
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...
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 Beauty of the Beasts
Ralph Helfer
They're major stars who don't speak a word on-screen, yet are world-famous for their compelling performances. Who are they? The animal stars of the big screen, of course! In THE BEAUTY OF THE BEASTS, Ralph Hel...
Talking Back to Prozac
Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Talking Back to Prozac: What Doctors Aren’t Telling You about today’s Most Controversial Drug With an Information Packed New Introduction
Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Bestselling Author of Medication Ma...
Remember the shooting war a year ago January when Amazon dimmed the Buy Buttons on Macmillan books over the issue of the agency etail business model? To refresh your memory read Publishing’s Weekend War: 48 Hours That Changed an Industry
A lot of authors were caught in the crossfire. But the CEO’s of both companies have presented them with a gift to make it up to them. In his letter accompanying Macmillan’s semi-annual royalty statements CEO John Sargent informs authors and agents that Macmillan and Amazon have jointly created an “Amazon Kindle Outage Adjustment” compensating them for royalties they would have received had the trade war not suspended business. Sargent explains how the adjustment was calculated:
“…You may also see an item toward the bottom of your statement called Amazon Kindle Outage Adjustment. Most of these adjustments were processed last royalty period but some are being finalized now. We believe it was not fair that authors should suffer from the Amazon buy button takedown imposed on us for a week last year when we switched over to the agency model. So we estimated as best we could what Kindle sales would have been for that week and processed the royalties on those sales as if they had happened. Amazon felt the same way and graciously split the cost with us. Interestingly, from what we could discover, almost all non-Kindle Amazon sales migrated to other outlets.”
We agree that it is a gracious gesture on the part of both industry leaders and though there may still be some bruised feelings and lost revenue, we wanted to give credit where it is due for the good will.
There was another gift from Sargent in his covering letter which you may read in its entirety here.
Richard Curtis
