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The Madonna and the Starship

James Morrow · Tachyon Publications
Format: Book

Only Uncle Wonder can save us from the death beam of... THE DIABOLICAL LOBSTERS FROM OUTER SPACE! New York City, . The golden age of television, when most programs were broadcast live. Young Kurt Jastrow, a full-time TV writer and occasional actor, is about to have a close encounter of the apocalyptic...
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Beyond the woods : fairy tales retold

Paula Guran · Night Shade Books
Pages: 536
Format: Print book

Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as fairy tales were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of readers...
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Tainted Night, Tainted Blood

E.S. Moore · Kensington; 1 edition
Format: Book

Kat Redding is a vampire with a job to do - wiping out the vamps and werewolves who prey on Pureblood humans. Someone has to do it...as long as that someone is her. But suddenly Kat, also known as Lady Death, has competition, and it's causing problems. Vampire houses and werewolf clans...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 1

Ursula K. Le Guin · Library of America
Pages: 1100
Format: Hardcover

The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of "the nature of human nature," as Margaret Atwood has described...
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Kings of the Wyld

Nicholas Eames · Orbit
Pages: 529
Format: Paperback

GLORY NEVER GETS OLD. Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate...
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Chasing Magic

Stacia Kane · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A DEADLY HIGH   Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush. But when someone with money to burn and a penchant for black magic starts tampering with Downside’s drug supply,...
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Doctor Who: Shada: The Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams

Gareth Roberts · Ace Books
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

From the unique mind of Douglas Adams, legendary author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, comes Shada, a Doctor Who story scripted for the television series Doctor Who, but never produced--and now, transformed into an original novel...A little knowledge is a dangerous thingImagine...
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The Devil's Bible: A Novel

Dana Chamblee Carpenter · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The propulsive follow-up to Bohemian Gospel, which sends Mouse on a dangerous journey to Europe to find the missing pages from The Devil's Bible -- a mission which just may have a chance to save the world from the forces of evil. She calls herself Emma Lucas and, to the outsider, she looks...
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Fool's Assassin: Book One of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy

Robin Hobb · Del Rey
Pages: 667
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNearly twenty years ago, Robin Hobb burst upon the fantasy scene with the first of her acclaimed Farseer novels, Assassin's Apprentice, which introduced the characters of FitzChivalry Farseer and his uncanny friend the Fool. A watershed moment in modern fantasy,...
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Wasteland King

Lilith Saintcrow · Orbit
Pages: 341
Format: Paperback

The thrilling conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow's dark fantasy series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks.The plague has broken loose, the Wild Hunt is riding, and the balance of power in the sidhe realms is still shifting. The Unseelie...
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The Midnight Queen

Sylvia Izzo Hunter · Ace
Format: Paperback

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's Merlin College, the most talented - and highest born - sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover ... Gray's deep talent for magick has won him a place...
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Fire Kin: A Novel of the Half-Light City

M.J. Scott · Ace
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Imagine a city divided ... a city readying itself for a war. The vampire Blood and the shape-shifting Beast Kind seek to seize control now that the treaty is broken. Only the humans stand in their way ... but they stand without their Fae allies ... and they desperately need help.... I chose...
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A Blade of Black Steel

Alex Marshall · Orbit
Pages: 536
Format: Print book

The sequel to Alex Marshall's "A Crown for Cold Silver, " an outstanding, game-changing epic adventure featuring an unforgettable warrior. After five hundred years, the Sunken Kingdom has returned, and brought with it a monstrous secret that threatens to destroy every country...
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Agave Kiss: A Corine Solomon Novel

Ann Aguirre · Roc
Pages: 322
Format: Paperback

Chance was gone; he'd sacrificed himself so Shannon and I could escape Sheol. We'd raised him on Shan's spirit radio, which meant his soul wasn't wholly destroyed by the demon gate ... . Once Corine Solomon only had the touch - the ability to read an object's past by handling...
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