--No particular night or morning --The city --The fire balloons --The last night of the world --The veldt --The long rain --The great fire --The wilderness --A sound of thunder --The murderer --The April witch --Invisible boy --The golden kite, the silver wind --The fog horn --The black black and white game --Embroidery --The golden apples of the sun --Powerhouse --Hail and farewell --The great wide world over there --The playground --Skeleton --The man upstairs --Touched with fire --The emissary --The jar --The small assasin --The next in line --Jack-in-the-box --The leave-taking --Exorcism --The happiness machine --Calling Mexico --The wonderful ice cream suit --Dark they were, and golden-eyed --The strawberry window --A scent of sarsaparilla --The Picasso summer --The day it rained forever --A medicine for melancholy --The shoreline at sunset --Fever dream --The town where no one got off --All summer in a day --Frost and fire --The anthem sprinters --And so died Riabouchinska --Boys! Raise giant mushrooms in your cellar! --The vacation --The illustrated woman --Some live like Lazarus --The best of all possible worlds --The one who waits --Tyrannosaurus Rex --The screaming woman --The terrible conflagration up at the place --Night call, collect --The tombling day --The haunting of the new --Tomorrow's child --I sing the body electric! --The women --The inspired chicken motel --Yes, we'll gather at the river --Have I got a chocolate bar for you! --A story of love --The parrot who met Papa --The October game --Punishment without crime --A piece of wood --The blue bottle --Long after midnight --The utterly perfect murder --The better part of wisdom --Interval in sunlight --The black ferris --Farewell summer --McGillahee's brat --The aqueduct --Gotcha! --The end of the beginning.

    Continue on this magnificent journey and be entranced by a saga of strange lands and peoples, of prophecy and strife set against the background of a seven-thousand-year war of men, Kings, and Gods. The quest may be nearing its end, but the danger continues. After discovering a shocking secret about himself he never could have imagined—all in pursuit of the legendary Orb—Garion and his fellow adventurers must escape a crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a vast desert filled with ruthless soldiers whose only aim is to destroy them. But even when the quest is complete, Garion’s destiny is far from fulfilled. For the evil God Torak is about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion has to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of this dread duel rests the future of the world. But how can one man destroy an immortal God?“Fabulous . . . Eddings has a marvelous storyteller style . . . exceedingly well portrayed and complex people. . . . More! More! More!”—ANNE MCCAFFREY

    This is the story of their love, and their epic struggle to find it.The moles of Duncton Wood are a varied lot. There are the aggressive Westsiders, the secretive and sickly Marchenders and the independent Eastsiders. Despite their differences, all are members of the same once proud and famous mole system, and all are now the tyrannised by Mandrake a mole so powerful and senselessly destructive that his name seems a curse on those who utter it.But the source of the evil that spreads through Duncton lies not only in Mandrake but in the growing disinterest in the rites and traditions that surround the now deserted standing Stone that was once the heart of the system itself.It is in the shadow of this towering stone that the lonely Bracken by chance meets Rebecca, daughter of Mandrake. They exchange a few words and scurry off in the different directions, never to forget a moment which will change the course of their lives for ever. Only Hulver the Elder, guardian of the old ways, understands that the future happiness of the system depends on their love, and the courage with which they can pursue its suffering and joy.Accompanied by Boswell, the strange scribemole from Uffington, Bracken sets out to revive the ancient rituals and disperse the evil from Duncton. Together they seek the sacred seventh stillstone.

    The ultimate companion to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: a four-volume anthology of stories, poems, and archival material from the master of fantasy.Contains:The Tolkien ReaderThe SilmarillionUnfinished TalesSir Gawain and the Green Knight

    But he is back, and Convenant, armed with his stunning white gold magic, must battle the evil forces and his own despair...

    Introduction.--Ender's game.--Kingsmeat.--Deep breathingexercises.--Closing the timelid.--I put my blue genes on.--Eumenidesin the fourth floor lavatory.--Mortal gods.--Quietus.--The monkeysthought 'twas all in fun.--The porcelain salamander.--Unaccompaniedsonata.--Afterword: On origins.

    Good interviews with important members of the cast and crew; even includes Sir Alec Guiness. Especially illuminating chats with Lucas about the overall nine part structure of Star Wars. It's interesting to compare Lucas' initial ideas about the sequels and prequels with what was finally released. The highlight of the book is a transciption of a day spent following Irwin Kershner filming on the carbon freezing chamber set (Secrets revealed include the fact that Jeremy Bulloch as Boba Fett was actually desperate to use the lavatory throughout the whole day's shoot). As a collector of Star Wars related books, I have amassed over a hundred, but this remains my favourite.

    But soon there will be no flowers, no lovers, no tomorrows. The planet Malia has violated the Sole Restraint of Concorde, the space federation, by waging undeclared war on its former colony world, Vintra. Now Malia faces a swift and terrible fate: world-consuming molecular fire. As time ticks toward extinction for all Malians, Kayle, the mind-link, and Ryth, the pattern-master, race to discover why a people would knowingly commit an act of self destruction. Their only hope is a beautiful, unwilling accomplice, Faen, the last of an ancient aristocracy. She alone knows the secret of the sarsa, the musical instrument that can summon the undying wisdom of the shadows. She alone can call its name....

    Two hundred years earlier, a circus starship is stranded on the Planet Momus. Recently discovered by the rest of the galaxy, the population of Momus-the remaining descendants of the original circus-must deal with interstellar power politics and war, and they do so in their own special way in Circus World.

    His only escape lay in Phaze, a world totally ruled by magic. Soon he learned that his alternate self had already been murdered, and that he was next. On Proton, his fate depended on winning the great Games. On Phaze, he must master magic to survive. And if he used any magic at all, his friends were determined to kill him at once!

    These thrilling and sometimes frightening visions of the future include:• "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov• "Who's There?" by Arthur C. Clarke• "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

    The further adventures of Luke Skywalker and his friends in their continuing battle against Darth Vader and the evil side of the Force.

    Contents:QRM - Interplanetary (1942)Calling the Empress (1943)Recoil (1943)Lost Art (1943)Off the Beam (1944)The Long Way (1944)Beam Pirate (1944)Firing Line (1944)Special Delivery (1945)Pandora's Millions (1945)Mad Holiday (1947)The External Triangle (1973)Identity (1945)

    Greenberg· Angel’s Egg · Edgar Pangborn · Jun ’51· Rescue Party · Arthur C. Clarke · May ’46· Shape [“Keep Your Shape”] · Robert Sheckley · Nov ’53· Alpha Ralpha Boulevard · Cordwainer Smith · Jun ’61· Winter’s King · Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969· Or All the Seas with Oysters · Avram Davidson · May ’58· Common Time · James Blish · Aug ’53· When You Care, When You Love · Theodore Sturgeon · Sep ’62· The Shadow of Space · Philip José Farmer · Nov ’67· “All You Zombies—” · Robert A. Heinlein · Mar ’59· I’m Scared · Jack Finney · Sep ’51· Child’s Play · William Tenn · Mar ’47· Grandpa · James H. Schmitz · Feb ’55· Private Eye [as by Lewis Padgett] · Henry Kuttner · Jan ’49· Sundance · Robert Silverberg · Jun ’69· In the Bowl · John Varley · Dec ’75· Kaleidoscope · Ray Bradbury · Oct ’49· Unready to Wear · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · Apr ’53· Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night · Algis Budrys · Dec ’61· Day Million · Frederik Pohl · Feb/Mar ’66· Hobson’s Choice · Alfred Bester · Aug ’52· The Gift of Gab · Jack Vance · Sep ’55· The Man Who Never Grew Young · Fritz Leiber · 1947· Neutron Star [Beowulf Shaeffer] · Larry Niven · Oct ’66· Impostor · Philip K. Dick · Jun ’53· The Human Operators · Harlan Ellison & A. E. van Vogt · Jan ’71· Poor Little Warrior! · Brian W. Aldiss · Apr ’58· When It Changed · Joanna Russ · 1972· The Bicentennial Man · Isaac Asimov · 1976· Hunting Machine · Carol Emshwiller · May ’57· Light of Other Days [Slow Glass] · Bob Shaw · Aug ’66· The Keys to December · Roger Zelazny · nv New Worlds Aug ’66· Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand · Vonda N. McIntyre · Oct ’73· A Galaxy Called Rome · Barry N. Malzberg · Jul ’75· Stranger Station · Damon Knight · Dec ’56· The Time of His Life · Larry Eisenberg · Apr ’68· The Marching Morons · C. M. Kornbluth · Apr ’51· The Women Men Don’t See · James Tiptree, Jr. · Dec ’73· The Queen of Air and Darkness · Poul Anderson · Apr ’71

    But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. Their only chance at surviving the change is if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space. Interstellar politics, a millennia-long secret conspiracy, and a civilization whose hidden machineries might still control the fate of worlds all form the background to this spectacular hard science fiction novel from Joan D. Vinge.

    THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING.It is Monday, May tenth, and in a sixteenth-century palace, nine-year-old Dmitri Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible and heir to the Russian throne, has less than a week to live unless he can find a way to escape an assassin's blade....It is Monday, May tenth, and in twenty-first century America, college senior John Greene is about to participate in a simple hypnosis experiment - an experiment that will catapult him into a terrifying battle for his very existence....It is Monday, May tenth, and in a world where time has lost all meaning, beautiful graduate student Marina Kuryev can only wait and watch in helpless horror as the man she loves is caught in a lethal conflict with a boy long-dead....

    Within a century the population of the 'civilized' world dropped to a tiny remnant of narrow-minded survivors. Their few communities were ruled by hard-shelled fanatics whose prime need was women who could still bear children.Anne had been such a trade-off "wife"and when she slew her captor and fled, there was only one who would help her. This was the young man whose hidden stock of medicines made him a necessity to the isolated homesteads.The surprising and exciting adventures of Anne and David as they fled their barbarous pursuers and headed for a legendary sanctuary far across the ocean is a realistic and imaginative projection of a world that yet may be.