A book illustrating various characters for the Anne McCaffrey crafted world of Pern

    Recently, Oloitokitok, the planet survey team's physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by whom? One of his fellow surveyors? Or by one of the Sprookjes, the birdlike natives of Lassti? Are the Sprookjes intelligent? If so, then parties that want the planet for development will lose it. Why is the survey team having so much trouble finding out? Into this situation arrives Tocohl, a Hellspark trader who just wanted to have a vacation on Sheveschke at the St. Veschke festival. After being attacked, rescuing a young woman, and going before a judge, Tocohl has learned all she ever wanted to know about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now she is on her way to find Lasti to find answers to the mysteries there.

    Unlike much of the current form, full of blood, monsters and melodrama, Aickman's stories achieve a quieter, more subtle and, in several ways, more lasting sense of disquiet. His lucid, finely tuned prose moves imperceptibly from the small crises and celebrations of ordinary life into another sphere. In these 11 stories, the occasion may be a walking tour of Northern England, a birthday present of a Victorian dollhouse or a stay at a Swedish sanatorium for insomniacs, but it simultaneously traps the characters with dread and opens them up to a new awareness of a greater, deeper and more dangerous world. A remarkable collection by an author who deserves to be better known.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

    They deal with the universal themes of folk literature: fear and need; folly, greed, and enchantment; courage and generosity. They are about princesses and giants, about a soldier and a brave young boy (half-hedgehog and half-human), and about a storyteller terrified that he will run out of tales. Infused with the spellbinding Henson magic, these tales, treasured by generation after generation in the Old World, come to us now with a new radiance.

    Murder, politics, and genetic manipulation provide the framework for the latest Union-Alliance novel by the author of Downbelow Station. Cherryh's talent for intense, literate storytelling maintains interest throughout this long, complex novel.

    John wanders the mountains on foot as an itinerant folk singer of the old songs (his nickname comes from his guitar strings made of silver --- a substance that also repels some supernatural nasties --- but he's also known as a "witch-master," that is, a kind of paranormal troubleshooter whose lore and skills render him "master over" and able to defeat the sinister sorcery of witches and "ha'nts." His variety of supernatural adventures bring him to face with time travel, revenants, various monsters of regional folklore such as the "Behinder," and other macabre phenomena.Contents:1 · Foreword: Manly in the Mountains · David Drake · fw * [Manly Wade Wellman] 4 · Introduction: Just Call Me John · Karl Edward Wagner · in * [Manly Wade Wellman] 9 · O Ugly Bird! · ss F&SF Dec ’51 25 · The Desrick on Yandro · ss F&SF Jun ’52 41 · Vandy, Vandy · ss F&SF Mar ’53 59 · One Other · ss F&SF Aug ’53 77 · Call Me from the Valley · ss F&SF Mar ’54 92 · The Little Black Train · ss F&SF Aug ’54 112 · Shiver in the Pines · ss F&SF Feb ’55 134 · Walk Like a Mountain · ss F&SF Jun ’55 154 · On the Hills and Everywhere · ss F&SF Jan ’56 165 · Old Devlins Was A-Waiting · ss F&SF Feb ’57 189 · Nine Yards of Other Cloth · ss F&SF Nov ’58 212 · Wonder as I Wander · gp F&SF Mar ’62; Then I Wasn’t Alone, vi; You Know the Tale of Hoph, vi; Blue Monkey, vi; The Stars Down There, vi; Find the Place Yourself, vi; I Can’t Claim That, vi; Who Else Could I Count On, vi 219 · Farther Down the Trail · gp Who Fears the Devil, Arkham House, 1963; John’s My Name, vi; Why They’re Named That, vi; None Wiser for the Trip, vi; Nary Spell, vi 223 · Trill Coster’s Burden · ss Whispers II, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979 237 · The Spring · ss Shadows #2, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1979 252 · Owls Hoot in the Daytime · ss Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980 268 · Can These Bones Live? · ss Sorcerer’s Apprentice #11 ’81 280 · Nobody Ever Goes There · ss Weird Tales #3, ed. Lin Carter, DAW, 1981 294 · Where Did She Wander? · ss Whispers Oct ’87

    This is the time when Jaki Gefjon was born in the dark jungle of Borneo. A fair-skinned half-breed, Jaki is outcast as a devil child--until he emerges from the jungle and enters upon an epic adventure through violence, treachery, mysticism and love.

    It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in Belgrade and his search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II.The truth about his fate--some of it set in motion 2,000 years ago and some of it by the Nazis--is raveled in the history and secrets of Mount Athos, the most ancient of all monasteries, perched atop its inaccessible mountain on the Aegean.

    But now these rare children have come of age, and they demand the same freedom as all men and women--and possess a unique power with which to fight for it.

    In this novel the author takes up the life of the African explorer, H.M.Stanley, and creates an epic novel based on his last dangerous mission into the African interior to rescue the Emin Pasha, the only man holding back the enemy in the outreaches of the British Empire.

    Quite a number of disparate threads wove into the final narrative. One important thread was my feeling that a story involving time travel should have a nonlinear narrative to reflect the discontinuous way the characters experience time. I also wanted to see if it was possible to write a story in which real physics is presented. Very little of modern SF goes beyond the early quantum mechanics of Heisenberg and Schrodinger, work which is admittedly remarkable and beautiful, but by no means the end of the story. Here I tried to invoke some of the strangeness and beauty— I might even say sense of wonder—of the physics of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. In 'Ripples' I decided to explore the inconsistency between Dirac's relativistic quantum mechanics and the mathematics of infinity developed by Cantor and others (as far as I can tell, a quite real inconsistency). The Dirac sea is also real, not an invention of mine— despite the very science-fictional feel of an infinitely dense sea of negative energy that surrounds and permeates us."

    M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one–in the words of Laurence Houseman, author of the classic Rocking-Horse Land– “is an expression of the joy of living.”Accompanied by the illustrations from the original editions of these works–by such celebrated Victorian artists as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Maxfield Parrish, and Arthur Rackham–this collection will delight readers both young and old.

    Reprint.Contents:The Vanishing American (1955)Appointment with Eddie (1988)Mourning Song (1963)Gentlemen, Be Seated (1960)Last Rites (1955)Miss Gentilbelle (1957)Place of Meeting (1953)The Devil, You Say? (1951)Free Dirt (1955)Song for a Lady (1960)The Howling Man (1959)The Dark Music (1956)The Magic Man (1960)Fair Lady (1957)A Point of Honor (1955)The Hunger (1955)Black Country (1954)The Jungle (1954)The New People (1958)Perchance to Dream (1958)The Crooked Man (1955)Blood Brother (1961)A Death in the Country (1957)The Music of the Yellow Brass (1959)Night Ride (1957)The Intruder (Chapter 10) (excerpt) (1988)The Crime of Willie Washington (1988)The Man with the Crooked Nose (1988)The Carnival (1988)To Hell with Claude (1988) with Chad Oliver

    McAuley165 • Perpetuity Blues • (1987) • novelette by Neal Barrett, Jr.193 • Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight • (1987) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin220 • The Pardoner's Tale • (1987) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg240 • Glass Cloud • (1987) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly280 • The Evening and the Morning and the Night • (1987) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler303 • Night of the Cooters • [War of the Worlds] • (1987) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop322 • Angel • (1987) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan338 • Shades • (1987) • novelette by Lucius Shepard369 • The Faithful Companion at Forty • (1987) • shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler378 • Candle in a Cosmic Wind • (1987) • novelette by Joseph Manzione413 • The Emir's Clock • (1987) • shortstory by Ian Watson428 • Ever After • (1987) • novelette by Susan Palwick449 • The Forest of Time • (1987) • novella by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ]495 • The Million-Dollar Wound • (1987) • shortstory by Dean Whitlock505 • The Moon of Popping Trees • (1987) • novelette by R. Garcia y Robertson536 • Diner • (1987) • shortstory by Neal Barrett, Jr.551 • All the Hues of Hell • (1987) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe564 • Halley's Passing • (1987) • shortstory by Michael McDowell580 • America • [The Mormon Sea] • (1987) • novelette by Orson Scott Card605 • For Thus Do I Remember Carthage • (1987) • shortstory by Michael Bishop622 • Mother Goddess of the World • (1987) • novella by Kim Stanley Robinson675 • Honorable Mentions: 1987 • essay by Gardner Dozois

    His journey of discovery will take him from war-torn Italy through the plague-ridden French countryside and into the Moorish slave markets. And at the end of his odyssey lies a shattering confrontation with the Father of Lies and an awesome reckoning with an unexpected destiny.

    Ballard's short stories from Arkham House united around the theme of the failed US space program, mostly set in a deserted and desolate Cape Canaveral, with a scattering of lone ex-astronauts and others still dreaming of the Space Age.Cover artwork 'Europe After the Rain' by Max Ernst, illustrated by J.K. PotterThe Cage of Sand (New Worlds Jun ’62) A Question of Re-Entry (Fantastic Mar ’63)The Dead Astronaut (Playboy May ’68)My Dream of Flying to Wake Island (Ambit #60 ’74) News from the Sun (Ambit #87 ’81) Memories of the Space Age (Interzone #2 ’82)Myths of the Near Future (F&SF Oct ’82) The Man Who Walked on the Moon (Interzone #13 ’85)

    P. Lovecraft;* A Matter of Form / Horace L. Gold;* Jane Brown’s Body / Cornell Woolrich;* Who Goes There? [as by Don A. Stuart] / John W. Campbell, Jr.;* Sidewise in Time / Murray Leinster;* Alas, All Thinking! / Harry Bates;* Seeker of Tomorrow / Eric Frank Russell, Leslie J. Johnson; Johnson given as Leslie T.* Dawn of Flame / Stanley G. Weinbaum;* Divide and Rule / L. Sprague de Camp;* Wolves of Darkness / Jack Williamson.Within "The Mammoth Book Of..." series, the first of Asimov's 6 book anthology series, highlighting science fiction thru the 30's (Classic), 40's (Golden Age), 50's (Vintage), 60's (New World), 70's (Fantastic) and 80's (Modern).

    In order to save her sick grandmother, Truzjka embarks on a fanciful journey to find the answer to the question of where the wild geese go.

    Then it discovers a way, an escape, back into the world of men…in the form of a seductively beautiful .357 Colt Python revolver. Forged in the damned fires of the underworld, hammered from the strongest but cursed steel, the gun and the entity that inhabit it are capable of immeasurable destruction and insidious evil. Anyone who comes in contact with it, even touches it, will find themselves staring into the muzzle of a loaded and sinister gun…and into the mouth of hell.

    

    Kesler's definitive book, The Wild Wild West, The Series (1988). Completely re-edited and redesigned, much of the previous book's overall style and content remains. Lots of color has been added, along with cleaner copy and fresh material. There are great photos of the original book's 1988 San Diego Comic-Con launch. This is an absolute MUST for any fan of the series (1965-1969).

    It is a land as distant from our own as the surface of the moon -- and as alien. Here, Raba, a young Aborigine girl first enters the magical realm of the Dreamtime and learns something of its awesome power. But when she is "rescued" by a well-meaning missionary, Raba finds herself caught between two worlds -- with disastrous results. Now she must return to the Dreamtime to appease the wrath of the Ancestors and learn their deepest secrets -- secrets that can save both her and her tribe. Vibrant, rich, and endlessly fascinating, Michaela Roessner's Walkabout Woman is a spellbinding novel of an old world full of new ideas -- and real magic.

    He puts an awful lot of care into fashioning the birds, whereas he simply pulls Newt out of the ground. The author's other books for children include The Iron Man.