Basement Full of Books

[Vonda N. McIntyre]

Archive-name: books/basement-full-of-books Version: 7.32 Last-modified: June 29, 1995 Periodicity: 30 days Copies of this list may be obtained by anonymous ftp to rtfm.mit.edu under /pub/usenet/news.answers/books/basement-full-of-books. Or, send email to mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu with "send usenet/news.answers/books/basement-full-of-books" in the body of the message. BASEMENT FULL OF BOOKS Release 7.32 June 29, 1995 NEW BOOKS, AVAILABLE BY MAIL DIRECTLY FROM THEIR AUTHORS Note to readers: Please be clear about any special requests: inscription to someone other than yourself; signature only; if you're a book collector and ``mint condition'' is important to you. Readers interested in the following books may write (or in many cases send e-mail) to the individual authors for more information. A stamped return envelope (SASE) or International Reply Coupon is very much appreciated and often allows a quicker response. ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE IN FORMAT. New or updated listings appear at the top of the list. The complete list contains work by: Diane de Avalle-Arce (Pilar de Ovalle), *Lee Ballentine Todd Barton & Ursula K. Le Guin, William Barton & Michael Capobianco, *Richard Bear, Nancy Varian Berberick, *Fred Bortz, *Bruce Boston, *David Brin, *Peter Brown, Jeff Carver, *C.J. Cherryh, Valerie Nieman Colander, Juanita Coulson, Joel Davis, Dayle A. Dermatis, Gene DeWeese, *Roy H. Dingle, *Phyllis Eisenstein, Harlan Ellison, M.J. Engh, *Jane Fancher, Sheila Finch, Colin Greenland, *Frances Grimble James Gunn, *Joe Haldeman, Gwenyth Hood, *Jim Hughes, *Derek Humphry, Norman F. Joly, *Eileen Kernaghan, Victor Koman, David Kopaska-Merkel, *John M. Landsberg (ed), Edward M. Lerner, *Jayne Loader, *Vonda N. McIntyre, Thom Metzger, Janice Miller & Russ Miller, *Colin Morton, Hank Nuwer, Jerry Oltion, *Jonathan Ostrowsky-Lantz (ed.), Alexei & Cory Panshin, Bill Ransom, *Leonard J. Rizzo, *T. Thacher Robinson, *Mary Rosenblum, J. Neil Schulman, *Richard Seltzer, *Paul Siegel, Dave Smeds, *Cynthia Soroka, *Gloria Stern, *Rodger Stevens, *John E. Stith, L.A. Taylor, *Roz Warren (ed), *Irving Weiss, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, *Phyllis Zagano, George Zebrowski. *New or updated since v. 7.00 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NONFICTION BY PETER C. BROWN JUMPING THE JOB TRACK: Security, Satisfaction and Success as an Independent Consultant, by Peter C. Brown (301 pages, trade paperback, published by Crown/Random House, March 1994, in 3rd printing, available from bookstores or directly from author). Jumping the Job Track will help you decide whether to leave your job to work as an independent contractor, and if so how to succeed. The book presents profiles and anecdotes from a dozen consultants who left their jobs to go on their own and have succeeded. They tell in their own words how they did it and what they think you should know. Peter Brown, himself a consultant since leaving Control Data in 1981, distills their lessons into practical advice about setting your prices, getting clients, building predictable revenue streams and growing your business without hiring employees. He complements this advice with nuts and bolts about how to set up your office, select a name for your company, set up your record keeping, handle taxes, etc. Brown is an engaging writer whose credits include The New Yorker magazine. Jumping the Job Track is fun to read and has been endorsed enthusiastically by many prominent business leaders and educators. For information, please send SASE, IRC, or email to: Peter C. Brown 874 Fairmount Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55105 e-mail: br...@Winternet.com voice: 612/225-4358 fax: 612/225-4369 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS ON THE SEARCH FOR THE SELF BY RODGER STEVENS NEW-AGE ANSWERS TO AGE OLD QUESTIONS -- ppb.73pg. Twenty questions with answers. Good stuff. ISBN 0-9618596-0-1 NEVEREVERDROP (A RAINDROP'S SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE) ppb. 92pg. A story about a raindrop who seeks what he really is, and meets with all sorts of dogmatic droplets who all insist they are right. A parable about who we humans really are. ISBN 0-9618596-2-8 BOOTSTRAPS & JUMPERCABLES -- hrd. cover 59 pg. Poems of the search for the meaning of our lives. No ISBN For more information, please send SASE, IRC, or email to: Rodger Stevens PO Box 9401 Moscow, ID 83843-0118 (208) 882-9471 pag...@moscow.com ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ POEMS BY RICHARD BEAR DESIRE FOR THE LAND Poems by Richard Bear, with drawings by Ernie Goertzen. Thought to be the first book of poems to appear first on the World Wide Web and then in print. You may preview the book at http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~rbear/desire.html. She sells books from nine to six. They are good books, well bound, well written, colorful to the eye, and children love them, but the town is poor. She sits waiting for hours for one grandmother to come in and buy one book for a favored grandchild. The owner of the store is her friend; she cannot leave her just now, but the store, she knows, is not her place in life. All she has ever wanted is to farm: at evening, when the dinner things are cleared, and the hot sun drops behind the cottonwood, she farms. Food for the ducks, and soapy water for broccoli; old lettuce gone to seed comes out; the hay is rearranged, and fall peas go in. She stops only to hear the geese pass overhead, then bends among her plants until the stars, first one and then another, leap and are caught in the hair of approaching night, which is so like her hair. She comes in stained with soil to the elbows, and leans against the table, extending an open palm. Look, she says, her eyes on fire. Marigold seeds! And these are calendulas. For more information, please send SASE, International Reply Coupon, or email to: Richard Bear Stony Run Press 36690 Wheeler Road Pleasant Hill, OR 97455 USA rb...@efn.org ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY EILEEN KERNAGHAN DANCE OF THE SNOW DRAGON, Kernaghan's new YA fantasy, is based on Tibetan Buddhist accounts of Shambhala, the mystical kingdom beyond the farthest snow peaks. Set in eighteenth century Bhutan, it tells the story of the young monk Sangay Tenzing, who sets out on an arduous journey across the Himalayas to save Shambhala from destruction. His companion and guide is the bad-tempered Bon sorceress Jatsang. DANCE OF THE SNOW DRAGON vividly evokes a world of ancient warriors, kings, magicians, goddesses and demons. Sean Stewart, author of PASSION PLAY and resurrection man, ``This book delivers in spaces that sense of wonder fantasy was always supposed to be about.'' Thistledown Press, 1995, paperback, 325 pages. THE SARSEN WITCH is a tale of earth-magic, megaliths and high adventure in the bronze-age world of the Wessex warrior chieftains. Apprenticed to a bronze-smith, trapped into a political marriage with the Great Chief Ricca, the earth-witch Naeri uses her geomantic powers in a plot to overthrow the horse-tribes and restore the Earth-Mother's people to their ancestral lands. Continues the chronicles of the Grey Isles that began with JOURNEY TO APRILIOTH and SONGS FROM THE DROWNED LANDS (winner of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award for 1983-1984) Ace, 1989, pb. 218 pp. Based on a critically acclaimed documentary film by Jonathon Kay, WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT is a wide-ranging, in-depth look at the emotional and spiritual dimensions of reincarnation. Included are interviews with the Dalai Lama of Tibet and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross; the personal experience of Martin Sheen, Rae Dawn Chong and other entertainment figures; interviews with Australian aboriginal people on their concept of the ``dream time''; chapters on channeling, spontaneous recollection of past lives, past-life regression and child prodigies; and a history of reincarnation as reflected in western art, literature and music. Berkley Non- fiction pb, 1990, 217 pp. LIGHT LIKE A SUMMONS, edited by J. Michael Yates. This anthology of five B.C. women poets includes speculative poetry by Rhysling Award nominees Eileen Kernaghan and Mary E. Choo. Cacanadadada Press, 1989. Trade pb, 77 pp. Please send SASE or International Reply Coupon to: Eileen Kernaghan 7793 Royal Oak Burnaby, B.C. V5J 4K2 CANADA ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY RICHARD SELTZER THE NAME OF HERO, an historical novel (hardcover, Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin, 1981, 290 pp., first edition, autographed on request) Historical novel based on the life of Alexander Bulatovich. Bulatovich is impelled by a need to prove himself: first to others, then to himself, and finally to God. This historical figure (1870-1919) was, at various times, a soldier, an explorer, a monk, and a religious leader. His field of action ranged from Tsarist Russia to Ethiopia to Manchuria to Mount Athos to the Eastern Front in World War I. The main story takes place in 1900 in the frontier/plains of Manchuria, with flashbacks to the jungles of Ethiopia, and Russia and the Ukraine. The novel was thoroughly researched -- based in part on writings of Bulatovich himself and his commanding officer in Manchuria, as well as interviews with his hundred-year-old sister. If you are on the Web, you can see a sample at http://www.tiac.net/users/samizdat/hero1.html THE LIZARD OF OZ, a satiric fable for adults and children (paperback, B&R Samizdat Express, 1974, 126 pages, illustrated by Christin Couture, third printing; a few first edition copies with hand-silkscreened covers available, autographed on request. The story is also available in the form of a stageplay intended for elementary school, and as a multi-part radio play. When an elementary school class sets out on a quest to save the world from disenchantment, their adventures reveal paradoxes of the human mind and ways of awakening the magic within us. o Meet Lewis Carroll in the Underworld: ``I don't understand everything. I just stand under the world. There are others much lower who stand under us. There are many levels of understanding. o Meet Prince Frog, the frog who turned himself into a prince to make himself lovable: ``It's so good to be loved, but then it's so comfortable being a frog. I think I'll go down to the river and croak.'' o Meet Miss Fortune, one of the Mothers of Fact: ``That'll be the emperor's new clothes. There's a very special fiber for making it visible. Yes, moral fiber. The emperor has to supply that himself.'' o Meet Humpty and the little blue wallflower he fell for, Sir Real, Francis Bacon, the Redcoats, the Mothers of Fact, Joan of Noah's Ark, Mr. Charon, Mr. Plato, the Witch, the Physicist, King Arthur, the Knights of the Merry-Go-Round table, Shakespeare, Daniel Boone, Mr. Marx, Crazy Horse, the Weatherman, Mr. Shermin, Mrs. O'Rourke, and many more characters. If you are on the Web, for a sample check http://www.tiac.net/users/samizdat/liz1.html NOW AND THEN AND OTHER TALES FROM OME, a short collection of children's stories. (paperback or hardcover first edition, B&R Samizdat Express, 1976, 63 pages, autographed on request). The book consists of four stories: Now and Then ``Once upon a space there was a time, a cute little time. Her name was Now. Her Father was Yesterday, and her mother was Tomorrow...'' If you are on the Web, you can read this one at http://www.tiac.net/users/samizdat/now.html Princess Julie ``Here she was an ordinary princess with a mother who loved her, and she was never miserable, and Prince Charming would never come to rescue her... unless she made herself miserable.'' The Little Oops Named Ker Plop ``Once beneath a space there was an oops named Ker Plop. She had fallen through that vast empty space and landed in the middle of nowhere.'' Mary Jane's Book: the Book of Animals ``It was summer vacation, and everything was different: Mary Jane didn't have to go to school, and everything she just loved turned into a car, all the animals, that is; and May Jane just loved all sorts of animals.'' For information, please send SASE or email to: Richard Seltzer PO Box 161 West Roxbury MA 02132 Internet: sel...@samizdat.com http://www.tiac.net/users/samizdat ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ VISUAL POETRY BY IRVING WEISS Team Sonnet: 14 Lines by 14 Different Canonical Poets from Visual Voices: The Poem As a Print Object Appease this virtuous enemy of man (MARVELL) The way which thou so well hast learn'd below, (DRYDEN) And dwell, as in my center, as I can, (JONSON) As into air the purer spirits flow-- (POPE) Thou whose exterior semblance doth belie (WORDSWORTH) A chronicle of actions just & bright, (COWPER) Cheerful & fresh as ever as ever: let us try (R. BROWNING) The grave of joy, prison of day's daylight. (DRAYTON) Whom thousand souls devoutly idolize (G. FLETCHER) Full in the smile of the blue firmament, (KEATS) Rise in thy heart & gather to the eyes (TENNYSON) With glist'ring beams, gold streaming where they bent. (SACKVILLE) To sing again, beneath the shadowy trees, (RANDOLPH) Of tempests can no more disturb thy ease. (VAUGHAN) If it looks like a sonnet and reads like a sonnet, then it's a sonnet. Try it on an English professor without giving the names away and ask him what period. Visual Voices: The Poem As a Print Object (Port Charlotte, FL: Runaway Spoon Press, 1994) is a collection of 71 poems, the kind you can find in any traditional anthology, transformed into print objects. Why print objects? Because, although poetry is supposed to be an oral art, for the last 500 years we've known it primarily from page print: a cluster of words in the middle of the page, each line beginning with a capital letter, recognizable stanza shapes on the page, an irregular right margin with rhymes sometimes clinching the line endings, and so on. Until print as a fixed record of information was extended by new technologies, from photograph through audio and video to computer; until modernist verse, becoming a display on page space, disengaged poetry from its conventional print obligations--until then, the significance of print as such in traditional verse lay below the threshold of our awareness. Just as the significance of paint as such in the art of the past became remarkable only after modernist art gave up imitating nature. Visual Voices is about the poem as a print object in a page environment. Now that most word-poems, including those I still sometimes write, are free-verse sprawls on the page, my visual reworkings of conventional poems can remind us that the printed poem of the past has always been a subliminal pictograph on the page. And so, most of my subject poems in Visual Voices consist of the representative black appearance of verse on the white page. My ``visual voices'' are a kind of light verse whose content is the traditional poem. I am transforming the print to compromise the sense by making it difficult to ``read'' the poem intelligibly except as a print object. The original manu/typescript of Visual Voices has been acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. For graphic examples from the book originally composed as manuscript, typescript, or freehand, or combinations of these modes, please go to http://worcester.lm.com/basement/basement.html For further information, please email: irving...@washcoll.edu or send SASE for other graphic examples from the book to: Irving Weiss 319 Rosin Drive Chestertown, MD 21260 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ DO THE WRITE THING: MAKING THE TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL by GLORIA STERN ISBN 0-9641266-0-5 Myriad Press How to avoid the slush pile, fiction/non-fiction, how a bestseller is created, protecting your work, formatting your submission for ``yes'', finding a publisher who will be interested, pros and cons of self-publishing, what to expect from an agent, coping with copyright, terms of a good author/publisher contract, and more. A handbook created by a literary agent with ten years of experience. All the resources, data and guidance in one comprehensive volume. 192 pps. Trade Glossary, Appendix, Index, Charts. For further information, please send SASE or email to: Gloria Stern 12535 Chandler Blvd #3 N Hollywood CA 91607 e-mail af...@lafn.org Voice/Fax: 1(818) 508-6296 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ FICTION / NON-FICTION BOOK BY T. THACHER ROBINSON The dual work CONVERSATIONS WITH A COLORFUL COMPOSTER and UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING was published shortly before the author's death in the summer of 1994. The volume has, in effect, two front covers. One carries the reader into the informal and reader-friendly fictional work CONVERSATIONS WITH A COLORFUL COMPOSTER. Here, fluid dialogue between the author and an extra- terrestrial visitor leads to fresh perspectives on the contemporary human situation. Flip the book over, and cover two takes you into UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING -- a succinct exposition of the key ideas presented in CONVERSATIONS.... The two works present a range of insights and helpful ways of looking at things that touch on many topics, but the book's primary focus is the relationship between today's troubled human society and its sophisticated and powerful technologies. A few comments on the book by Copthorne Macdonald* We grow in knowledge by gathering facts and information. We grow in wisdom by viewing the facts we already possess in more illuminating ways and from more enlightening vantage points. CONVERSATIONS WITH A COLORFUL COMPOSTER and UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING offers that sort of wisdom-fostering read. CONVERSATIONS... is a wide-ranging, thought-provoking book. It leads us to ponder the question of universal purpose, the nature of knowledge, and the relationship of our technologies to the wellness of body, psyche, and planet. The book explores fundamental issues and deals with them in illuminating ways. The author effectively argues that, both as individuals and a society, we embrace new technologies with too much naive ardor and too little appreciation of the unexpected and unwelcome side effects that are sure to arise whenever a technology comes into widespread use. >From Thacher Robinson's vantage point, humanity is in the midst of a capital-T Transition between two realities. On the past side of this Transition is a world dominated by technology-facilitated pleasure seeking and massive ecological impacts. On the future side is a world where our most powerful technologies will increasingly be devoted to the search for understanding of how the Universe and its evolutionary processes work, and be less and less devoted to destructive uses. The Author feels that the demands placed on us by this difficult Transition will lead to a higher level of spiritual understanding. The need to find the elusive balance between - our desires, - our technological capabilities, - the limits to what we know (and can ever know), and - the earth's ecological needs is the challenge we face. He feels that in successfully meeting that challenge the higher-level understanding will emerge. As Thacher Robinson put it, ``Our own powers are forcing us into a new level of wholistic and spiritual awareness and concern.'' * Copthorne Macdonald is author of TOWARD WISDOM (Hounslow Press, Toronto, 1993) and the forth- coming GETTING A LIFE (Hounslow Press, Fall 1995). He is a former columnist with THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS and developed the slow-scan TV system used by radio amateurs to send pictures around the world using voice radio equipment. For more information, send SASE to: New Perspectives Publishing 7411 SW 59th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97219-1201, USA Or call: 503-244-7013 Or send email c/o: mlam...@garnet.berkeley.edu ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ DESIGN YOUR FUTURE by Paul Siegel DESIGN YOUR FUTURE: Live Your Vision in the Ever-Changing Learning Society by Paul ``the soarING'' Siegel THESIS: Each person has a vision of what he or she wants to be. But this vision is often diminished, distorted, degraded, or destroyed by the confusion, disorientation, and anxiety caused by radical transformations in society. DESIGN YOUR FUTURE clears the view by showing the reader how to paint a grand vision and live it. SEVEN Major Points DESIGN YOUR FUTURE Makes: (1) Don't allow others to define your ``success'' -- Be yourself. (2) Don't plan for an uncertain future -- Design it as you desire it. (3) Don't build your resume -- Paint a vision; (4) Don't get an education -- Be a lifetime learner (5) Don't be an organization maniac -- Be a people maniac (6) Don't be a loner -- Enlist others in your vision (7) Don't be a rugged individualist -- Build a learning community SEVEN Endorsements (1) ``In these changing times of tremendous uncertainty, DESIGN YOUR FUTURE is a `must read' for those who want to be in charge of their destiny,'' -- Les Brown, Author, Live Your Dreams (2) ``Beware! This book is not for the fainthearted. It can lead you and equip you for greatness,'' -- Joe Batten, CPAE, Author, Tough-Minded Leadership (3) ``The stories and examples in this book will spark your vision and convince you that you truly can DESIGN YOUR FUTURE!'' -- Elizabeth Jeffries, CSP, Speaker, Author, The Heart of Leadership (4) ``DESIGN YOUR FUTURE is a magnificent expression! With its guidance the reader can, at last, actualize their true potential,'' -- Burt Dubin, Professional Speaker (5) ``Full of imagination and written in non-sexist prose, DESIGN YOUR FUTURE is an excellent introduction to the role of vision and the power of thought in realizing our unique potential as individuals,'' -- Sue Mehrtens, Co-Author, The Fourth Wave (6) ``DESIGN YOUR FUTURE is an insightful - and yet easily read and fun -- book which step by step takes you through the art of creating your life. Read it and you'll have a most enjoyable learning experience!'' -- Rolf Vilhelm Vsterberg, Author, Corporate Renaissance: Business as an Adventure in Human Development< (7)``In DESIGN YOUR FUTURE Paul Siegel explores how to choose your focus and commit to it as you select the plays that will move you forward. Design more touchdowns in your life. Read it. Use its wisdom.'' -- Jim Tunney, Ed. D, Professional Speaker, Former NFL Referee For further information, please send SASE or e-mail to: Paul Siegel Learning Society Publications 3461 Marna Ave Long Beach, CA 90808 soar...@ix.netcom.com ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS ON DEATH WITH DIGNITY BY DEREK HUMPHRY Derek Humphry is the original founder in l980 of the Hemlock Society and is the best-known international spokesperson on the `right to die'. The following of his books are available direct from him: FINAL EXIT: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying. Paperback. ISBN 0-440-50488-0. Useful guidance for the terminally ill adult facing a difficult end. This book, a l991 bestseller, also still in stores. 214 pages. LAWFUL EXIT: The Limits of Freedom for Help in Dying. Paperback. ISBN 0-9637280-0-8. How the law could be changed to permit careful voluntary euthanasia for the dying. Includes model Death With Dignity Act. 166 pages. JEAN'S WAY. Paperback. ISBN 0-06-09766-9. The moving story of a terminally ill woman's planned self-deliverance from suffering. A bestseller in l978-9. 152 pages. DYING WITH DIGNITY: What You Need to Know About Euthanasia. Paperback. ISBN 0-312-95176-0. Informative essays about the many and sensitive aspects of modern dying. 217 pages. THE RIGHT TO DIE: An historical and Legal Perspective of Euthanasia. Paperback. ISBN 0-9606030-9-3. A complete overview of the background, ancient and modern, of the ethical complexities of dying well. 372 pages. LET ME DIE BEFORE I WAKE: How Dying People End Their Suffering. Paperback. ISBN 0-44050477-5. Carefully told true stories of how terminally ill persons brought their lives to a dignified close to avoid further suffering. 178 pages. For further information, please send SASE or e-mail to: Norris Lane Press, 24829 Norris Lane, Junction City, OR 97448-9559 Voice: 503-998-3285 FAX: 503-998-1873 E-Mail: dhum...@efn.org HOMEPAGE: http://www.efn.org/~ergo ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BIOGRAPHY BY JIM HUGHES W. EUGENE SMITH: SHADOW & SUBSTANCE, The Life and Work of an American Photographer, by Jim Hughes (600 pp, 32 pp photographs, pub. by McGraw-Hill, NY, 1989) examines the passionate, haunted and brilliant man whose quest for perfection resulted in an unparalleled photographic legacy. Smith's searing images of World War II and his later, subtly structured photographic essays for LIFE magazine made him the standard-bearer among photojournalists, and influenced how a sizable public perceived the times in which it lived. The issues Smith confronted were large: life and death, love and hate, good and evil. The thread that ran through all of his work was the indomitability of the human spirit. After more than a decade of research and 300 interviews with family, friends, associates, and enemies, award-winning editor and writer Jim Hughes brings into focus the shadow and substance of a creative genius in this landmark biography. SOME EXCERPTED REVIEWS: ``Jim Hughes' masterful and meticulous biography shows how Smith, through a life of almost unbearable psychological and physical agony, was able to sustain that level of obsession that separates the artist from the artisan....A compassionate and fair biography that is compelling in its narrative...an often sad, very human story, gracefully told.'' -- R. H. Miller, The Louisville (Ky) Courier-Journal. ``A thorough and highly readable biography of this creative and tormented man....This biography, 12 years in the making, is a colossal achievement...and a good read, too.'' -- Marianne Fulton, Associated Press ``The account is -- without argument -- a history of the craft, as well as of the man.'' -- Toren Beasley, Syracuse (NY) Herald-American ``Required reading.'' -- Russell Hart, American Photo ``Smith rose to prominence as a member of an elite cadre of camera-toting journalists who roamed the world for such mass-circulating magazines as LIFE and LOOK....It seems like a lost world now, but Jim Hughes brings it to life.'' -- Douglas Balz, Chicago Tribune ``The author paints a totally revealing portrait of a complicated personality and proves to a degree the old notion that truth is indeed stranger than fiction....The book is a gripping story for anyone, photographer or not.'' -- Anne Price, Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate ``Hughes' book reads breathlessly, like a Chandler mystery novel, except that the murders here are mainly symbolic...inflicted by Smith psychologically on himself, his family and friends as a sacrifice to Goddess Photography, or to an image of himself he could not measure up to.'' -- Carole Naggar, Camera International ``A thorough biography...that leads us through a life as harrowing as the great American photographer's black-and-white images of war and other madness.'' -- Kirkus Reviews ``The most thoroughly researched and arguably the best written photo bio ever....A grand, epic, landmark work that ranks with Robert Caro's recent biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses. Both are models of what a biography can and should be.'' -- Fred W. McDarrah, The Picture Professional For further information, please send SASE or e-mail to: Jim Hughes 22 Strong Place Brooklyn, NY 11231 Internet: ja...@pipeline.com ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ A BOOK AND A MOVIE BY JAYNE LOADER THE ATOMIC CAFE (a film by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, and Pierce Rafferty, produced by The Archives Project, Inc., 88 min.) Long out-of-print, this classic American film is now available on video. Released in 1982 to great critical and popular acclaim, THE ATOMIC CAFE was one of the most sucessful documentaries of the decade. A collage, culled from newsreel footage and government archives of the 1940's and 50's, THE ATOMIC CAFE served up the dark side of Cold War America and taught a whole generation to ``duck and cover.'' Vincent Canby of the New York Times called it ``A stunner. Has one howling with laughter, horror, and disbelief.'' ``A comic horror film,'' J. Hoberman wrote in the Village Voice. ``It does more to evoke the what-me-worry social madness of the Cold War than any documentary I've ever seen. Everyone should visit THE ATOMIC CAFE.'' ``The blackest apocalyptic humor since Dr. Strangelove,'' according to the Washington Post. ``Should be seen by everyone...it's an explosive movie,'' raved the Christian Science Monitor. BETWEEN PICTURES by Jayne Loader (hardcover, 275 pages, published by Grove Press, 1987). Anna Kate O'Shea, a world-class party girl slash screenwriter, falls hard for a married physicist in this black comedy by Jayne Loader. ``Like attending a wild, drunken, glamorous party--hilarious, frantic, exhilarating,'' raved the New York Times. ``A depiction of Hollywood written with a witty, self-deprecating brio.'' ``A little like GIDGET GOES TO HELL,'' according to the Village Voice. ``Jayne Loader is original on subjects everyone else has been boring on for years. Grimly funny.'' ``A literary Madonna, Jayne Loader is knockdown funny and smart,'' wrote Rhoda Lerman. ``Hot, sexy, and a fabulous new voice in fiction.'' ``Fast, funky, feisty, and fun, this book leaks personality.'' --Barbara Raskin, author of HOT FLASHES ``This delightful, wicked book has been written with wit and malice by a lady who has lived it all and clearly knows whereof she speaks.'' --Paul Bartel, director of EATING RAOUL ``Anna Kate O'Shea is a Holly Golightly for a new age.'' --Publishers Weekly ``A minor miracle, a nightmare with punch lines.'' --Timothy Leary For more information, send SASE or e-mail to: EJL Productions 906 W. Main St. Waxahachie, TX 75165 Internet: e...@netcom.com ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ HOW-TO BOOK BY LEONARD J. RIZZO Leonard J. Rizzo is the author of the How-To Book: ``The Key To Success In Running An Outdoor Festival.'' An eighty-three page booklet published by the author. The book is in its third printing (2,800 copies printed), and it includes graphs, charts, illustrations, worksheets, guides, guest writers who have successfully run festivals, everything needed to pull off a big-dollar outdoor festival fundraiser. It is presently sold by the International Festival Association as part of their library of helpful books in the trade. For more information, send SASE or e-mail to: Leonard J. Rizzo 620 Maywood Ave. Green Bay, WI 54303 Riz...@UWGB.EDU 414-434-0835 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY JOHN E. STITH: REUNION ON NEVEREND, Tor hc 1994. (Tor pb scheduled for April 1995). At a high school reunion in space, an undercover agent blows his cover when he involves an old flame in interplanetary adventure. MANHATTAN TRANSFER, Hugo Award Honorable Mention, Tor hc 1993, Tor pb 1994. Aliens kidnap Manhattan. Read all about it. REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS, Nebula Award Nominee, Ace pb 1990. Hard SF featuring a starship hijack in a universe of slow light. DEEP QUARRY, Ace pb 1989. SF private eye ``Bug Eye'' on a distant world uncovers buried alien enclave. Don't try anything funny; this could be serious. DEATH TOLLS, Ace pb 1987. SF mystery set on partially terraformed Mars, following exploits of an ex-investigative reporter trying to find out if his brother's death was murder. MEMORY BLANK, Ace pb 1986. Amnesia story set on an L-5 colony. The protagonist's only ally in clearing himself of a murder charge is a wise-cracking AI--his wrist computer. SCAPESCOPE, Ace pb 1984. Set partly in NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex, where the author used to work. Mike Cavantalo uses Scapescope, a device that gives glimpses of the future, to learn he will soon be on the government's known political criminal list. Quantities are limited. For further information, send SASE or email to: John E. Stith 1242 Amsterdam Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907-4004. CompuServe: 74375,235 GEnie: J.STITH Internet: 7437...@compuserve.com For the curious: Stith rhymes with smith. ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY PHYLLIS ZAGANO ON PRAYER by Phyllis Zagano--First edition, signed by author and inscribed-to you--Paulist Press, 1994. ``A reflection of timeless wisdom: On Prayer originally conceived as a very personal letter to author Phyllis Zagano's godchild, is actually a marvelous introduction to prayer in the Catholic tradition. This simple and elegant book holds intimate reflections of understanding and timeless wisdom.'' WOMAN TO WOMAN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITIES by Phyllis Zagano--First edition, signed by author and inscribed--to you--The Liturgical Press, 1993. ``The women whose writings make up the bulk of this book are different colors in the wonderful kaleidoscope of history. Their works are arranged chronologically, beginning with Hildegard of Bingen in the eleventh century and moving to Ita Ford in our own. They are not all mystics; they are not all contemplatives; they are not all abbesses, or founders, or mothers, or secular champions of the faith. They are all different while they are all the same. They are icons of women through the centuries who have loved and loved deeply their husbands, their communities, their careers or their causes, but who, most of all, loved God.'' For information, send SASE or email to: Phyllis Zagano BU-Com 640 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215. pza...@acs.bu.edu ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ WOMEN'S HUMOR BOOKS EDITED BY ROZ WARREN Roz Warren is the editor of the ground-breaking Women's Glib humor collections. Roz's latest effort is THE BEST CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S HUMOR, just published by The Crossing Press. A frequent speaker on women's humor, Roz has given the slide show she developed from the cartoons in her books at many libraries, women's groups, and bookstores. She writes about and reviews humor on a regular basis for FEMINIST BOOKSTORE NEWS, HYSTERIA, THE LAUGHTER PRESCRIPTION NEWSLETTER and SOJOURNER MAGAZINE. Roz grew up in Detroit, graduated from the University of Chicago and received her law degree from Boston University Law School. Roz practiced law until the birth of her son five years ago. She lives with her son and her husband, writer Rick Smith, outside of Philadelphia. THE BEST CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S HUMOR (Crossing Press ISBN: 0- 89594-694-7) All the best laughs from women of wit the world over. Roz Warren's latest and greatest collection features the work of your favorite humorists: Flash Rosenberg, Ellen Orleans, Rita Rudner, Hattie Gossett and cartoonists Nicole Hollander, Rina Piccolo, Diane Dimassa, Barbara Brandon and many more. Topics include Bitchiness is the Best Revenge, Family Values, Mr. Right & Mr. Coffee, Marriage, Job Hell, and the Night of the Living Bra. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED SEX? (Crossing Press, ISBN 0- 89594-631-9) What could possibly be more ridiculous than sex? Explore the entire sexual universe with the hippest women cartoonists. Topics from The Tragedy of the Solar Powered Vibrator to Aliens Gave Me Herpes. Barbara Brandon, Alison Bechdel, Kris Kovick, Nicole Hollander and many other funny women. WOMEN'S GLIBBER: STATE-OF-THE ART WOMEN'S HUMOR (ISBN 0- 89594-548-7) The ``sequel'' to the popular Women's Glib is bigger and glibber than ever. 400 hilarious pages of state-of-the-art women's humor by many of the women who made GLIB a success plus Molly Ivins, Kris Kovick, Jane Wagner, Nina Paley, Barbara Brandon, June Jordan and many others. Laugh about sex, activism, therapy, shoes, malls, Madonna, television and Texas. Feisty, funny, bigger and bolder! ``...another outrageous collection... virtually everybody is here!'' --Ms. ``An amazing collection. Buy one copy for the library, one for yourself and one for any human being you know who needs a good laugh.'' --Women's Library Workers Journal ``There is something for everyone in this eclectic collection... Some of these are so funny that they'll be tacked to all the future fridges in my life.'' --Sojourner ``Even the contributors notes are funny.'' --San Jose Mercury News GLIBQUIPS: FUNNY WORDS BY FUNNY WOMEN (Pb; ISBN 0-89594-668- The funniest women's words ever spoken, written, sung, shouted or scrawled on a bathroom wall are collected for your amusement by women's humor expert Roz Warren, and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Kris Kovick. Bon mots by literary wits and deliciously subversive T-shirt slogans share the page with zingers from the hottest new women comics. Women of wit enjoy the last laugh on hundreds of topics, including men drivers, solo sex, hot coffee, penises, philosophy, fun, games, and feminist protection. From Edith Wharton to Lea Delaria -- Everyone is here. WOMEN'S GLIB: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S HUMOR (ISBN 0-89594- 466-9) A classic collection of women's humor. Cher to gifilte fish. panty angst to the Pope... God, childbirth, going out, breaking up, death, sex and President Bush. And, of course, a visit to the gynecologist. ``Fanatically funny and feminist. There is power in the laughter this book produces.'' --The Utne Reader ``A laugh-out-loud collection'' --Feminist Bookstore News ``(Warren) has succeeded in collecting some of the finest humor writers and cartoonists who find the comedy in the female condition.'' --New Directions for Women ``Side splitting humor by some of the country's funniest female scribes.'' --Inside Magazine. MOTHERS! CARTOONS BY WOMEN (ISBN 0-89594-539-8) An irreverent, passionate and wickedly funny look at motherhood by the real experts -- mothers and daughters. Topics include: The Job of Pregnancy and Childbirth; Baby Frenzy; The Art of Motherhood; Are You SURE You're a Good Mother? and more. A must-read for anyone who's a little feminist, a little frazzled, or just needs to know she's got it together.'' -- Metro Parent. KITTY LIBBER -- CAT CARTOONS BY WOMEN (ISBN 0-89594-539-8) 130 cartoons address topics from the mundane (food, poop, hairballs and mice) to the surreal (genetic engineering, Elvis impersonators and feline drug use). All the great, universal themes are covered -- cats' love of their owners, cats' indifference to their owners, cats' love of other cats, cats' indifference to other cats. ``Meander happily through KITTY LIBBER or pick it up at random anytime you need a lift.'' -- Cat Fancy For further information, please send SASE or email to: Roz Warren P.O.B. 259 Bala Cynwyd PA 19004 rozw...@aol.com ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NONFICTION BY FRED BORTZ SUPERSTUFF! MATERIALS THAT HAVE CHANGED OUR LIVES by Fred Bortz (Franklin Watts, 1990, ages 12-up, 144 pp.) >From the Stone Age through the Bronze Age and the Iron Age to the present Age of Superstuff, human tools have become more powerful and versatile because of an ever-increasing selection of new materials. SUPERSTUFF is the only popular book on materials science and engineering for readers of any age. It connects the application of materials -- semiconductors and superconductors, glass and ceramics, polymers, alloys, composites, and more -- to the scientific knowledge underlying their properties and their manufacture. The American Institute of Physics Children's Science Writing Awards Committee commended the author with ``special mention'' for his efforts to convey this important subject to young readers. MIND TOOLS: THE SCIENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by Fred Bortz (Franklin Watts, 1992, ages 12-up, 144 pp.) This detailed look at the thoroughly modern science of artificial intelligence (AI) confronts its young readers with the question, ``Can computers think?'' It discusses the famous Turing test of machine intelligence, expert systems, chess-playing machines, computer vision and hearing, and more. The author's joint interview with Herbert Simon and the late Allen Newell enables these two founders of AI to speak directly to teenagers, and they seem to have relished the opportunity. CATASTROPHE! GREAT ENGINEERING FAILURE -- AND SUCCESS by Fred Bortz (W. H. Freeman, Scientific American Books for young Readers, to be published April, 1995, ages 9-14, 80 pp.) Beginning with the true story behind Murphy's Law and the Law's true meaning -- You can succeed if you pay attention to things that may fail -- the author takes us on a tour of some of the most fascinating failures of engineered artifacts over the last century, with a focus on the past thirty years. Readers will * imagine dancing on the Skywalks of the Kansas City Hyatt before their catastrophic fall, * rock and roll with Galloping Gertie, * imagine the last ride aboard doomed aircraft, * feel the agony of the engineers who were fearful before Challenger exploded, * wonder what the Three Mile Island meltdown means for our future, * relive the Great Northeast Blackout as they envision potholes on the Information Superhighway, * feel the terror of the people engulfed by water as a defective dam failed, and Lake Conemaugh became a roaring cascade on its way down the mountain to Johnstown. Despite all its attention to failure, the book is really about success, a theme that the author establishes in his dedication: ``In memory of my father,... who taught me not to fear failure, nor to accept it, but to learn from it in order to succeed.'' He learned his father's lesson well. For more information, send SASE or email to: Fred Bortz 1312 Foxboro Drive Monroeville, PA 15146 412-856-9312 (h) 412-396-6101 (o) bo...@duq3.cc.duq.edu ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVELS BY DAVID BRIN GLORY SEASON, by David Brin, hardcover 600 pages. Runner-up for the 1994 Best Novel Hugo. A scientifically solid (and action-packed) exploration of a world where the rules of human sexuality have been changed, as seen through the eyes of Maia, a youth who must find her way in a society run mostly by and for clone-families of identical women. Everything on Stratos has evolved from one simple, plausible change. Women are capable of giving birth to clones of themselves, cutting out the middle men. Only during summer are old-fashioned mixed-gene girls like Maia conceived, along with a small crop of boys. The pastoral utopia concept is explored sympathetically and critically, in a tale filled with both intellectual content and rousing adventure. EARTH (Bantam Books, hardcover, 1990, 600pp). EARTH by David Brin is the author's biggest and most important book, delving into everything from ecology to computer networks to destiny and the Gaia Hypothesis, all while spinning a plot around the problem of saving the planet from a truly ultimate and final type of ``pollution.'' EARTH belongs to that special sub-genre, the 50 year projection, in which the writer drops all crutches and makes a bold stab at actually predicting... if not THE future, then A future which might actually come true. Runner up for the 1991 Hugo (by 10 votes out of a thousand) EARTH also received kudos from the environmental and computer-net communities, for its depiction of both problems and solutions in a near tomorrow. This particular hardcover edition is a bargain, since it was printed on acid-free recycled paper, and bound with Smith Sewn signatures. A real book-lovers' book which will last a lifetime. Limited supply. For more information, send SASE or email to: David Brin 162 S. Rancho Santa Fe Road #E90/300 Encinitas CA 92024 Internet: br...@alumni.caltech.edu ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ ADULT SF BY VONDA N. McINTYRE THE COMPLETE STARFARERS SERIES: STARFARERS The starship STARFARER prepares for Earth's first interstellar voyage. Its diverse faculty includes J.D. Sauvage, the alien contact specialist; the other members of the alien contact department: Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, Satoshi Lono, and Stephen Thomas Gregory; J.D.'s friend Zev, the diver; a world-famous sensory artist; Crimson Ng, paleontologist and performance artist; Miensaem Thanthavong, Nobel laureate; General Nikolai Petrovich Cherenkov, cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union and (in the eyes of the political entity that swallowed up his homeland) war criminal; Griffith, the man from the GAO who says he's an accountant; Infinity Kenjiro Yanagihara y Mendoza, the gardener, among other things; and Florrie Brown, the first member of Grandparents in Space. But political conditions on Earth are shaky and delicate. As J.D. her colleagues eagerly anticipate their departure... ... EarthSpace cancels the deep space expedition. So what do they do? They do what any red-blooded multi- national starship faculty would do. They steal the starship. TRANSITION The starship STARFARER plunges into the Tau Ceti system, its computer web crashed and its surface penetrated by a nuclear missile. J.D. Sauvage finds evidence of an interstellar community... but will it welcome STARFARER, or drive human beings away? METAPHASE J.D. Sauvage encounters Nemo, a squidmoth. It has one trait in common with human beings: they all are outcasts. NAUTILUS The starship STARFARER and its faculty and staff encounter the Four Worlds, their sponsors into Civilization. J.D. Sauvage, alien contact specialist, meets the four different peoples of the Four Worlds: the charming Largerfarthings, the mysterious and demanding Smallerfarthings, the whale-eel Orchestra of Largernearer, and the unique, lonely Smallernearer. Performance artist and paleontologist Crimson Ng grapples with ethical problems when the Four Worlds representatives take her archaeological art project all too seriously. Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, Satoshi Lono, and Stephen Thomas Gregory struggle to keep their family partnership from fragmenting under the strain of love, fear, and unacknowledged grief. And the cosmic string is moving again. Comments about THE STARFARER SERIES: ``A very human story in a very exotic setting, TRANSITION solidifies Vonda McIntyre's position in the vanguard of American science fiction writers.'' -- Mike Resnick ``TRANSITION is a must for those who enjoy scientific extrapolation and interesting people.'' -- LOCUS ``A fine novel of adventure.'' -- Greg Bear McIntyre is a master SF stylist, creating well-rounded, believable and distinctive characters, and she excels at lush descriptions that allow the reader to visualize the action. -- Publishers Weekly With this third novel, STARFARERS clearly becomes the most important series in science fiction. The rich cast of characters and their fascinating psychological interplay, the fast dramatic pace, the wit and brilliance of both scientific and social imagination, and the sheer beauty of the invention -- wait till you meet the squidmoth! -- make METAPHASE the most exciting and satisfying science fiction I have read this year. -- Ursula K. Le Guin THE EXILE WAITING The rulers of the last city on earth exile Mischa (a young empath), and Jan Hikaru (an offworld poet) to the deep underground. They find a world of crystalline caverns, strange, isolated people, and rebellion. (Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 255 pp. Hardcover, first trade edition, autographed.) FIREFLOOD & OTHER STORIES A collection of eleven stories, including ``Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand,'' the Nebula award-winning novelet that formed the basis of DREAMSNAKE; ``Fireflood,'' in which Dark, a genetically engineered human being who can live in the most extreme environments, fights for her right to live and work; and ``Wings'' and ``The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn,'' in which a species of winged people escape their dying planet on spaceships that they navigate by instinct. (Houghton Mifflin, 281 pp. Hardcover, first edition, autographed.) SUPERLUMINAL Laenea Trevelyan, a starship pilot, has her heart replaced with a machine so she can survive faster-than-light travel. Orca, a diver, divides her time between starships and the Strait of Georgia, where her relatives include a family of killer whales and a group of other divers, human beings who can exist underwater, and who are, technically, at war with the United States. Radu Dracul, a colonist from the alien world Twilight, having chosen to leave his home and become a starship crew member, discovers he has abilities he never dreamed of. (Houghton Mifflin, 298 pp. Hardcover, first trade edition, autographed.) A few copies of the numbered & boxed limited first edition of SUPERLUMINAL are available. These are signed and in the original shrink-wrap, but I will open and inscribe copies on request. STAR WARS: THE CRYSTAL STAR (Bantam Spectra, hardcover, December 1994). Leia's children have been kidnapped... SF NOVEL FOR CHILDREN BY VONDA N. McINTYRE BARBARY Twelve-year-old Barbary emigrates to space, to the research station _Einstein_. Researchers and diplomats on board the station are preparing to meet the first alien spacecraft to visit the solar system. Barbary wants to stay with her new sister Heather and Heather's father Yoshi, but Barbary is keeping a secret. If her secret is discovered, she could be sent back to Earth. (Houghton Mifflin, 192 pp. Hardcover, first edition, autographed; or Ace paperback.) SPECIAL OFFER: For every two hardcovers you order, you may request a free paperback. Paperbacks include any volume of the STARFARERS series; DREAMSNAKE; my Star Trek books (THE ENTROPY EFFECT, ENTERPRISE: THE FIRST ADVENTURE, ST II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, ST III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, STIV: THE VOYAGE HOME); and my children's book BARBARY. Dealer inquiries welcome on orders of multiple copies. For information, special requests, and queries about foreign editions, send SASE or email to: Vonda N. McIntyre P.O. Box 31041 Seattle, WA 98103-1041 Compuserve: 72077,61 GEnie: V.MCINTYRE1 Internet: mcin...@sand.npl.washington.edu ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ GRAPHIC NOVELS BY JANE FANCHER & C.J. CHERRYH GATE OF IVREL comic no. 1 adapted and illustrated by Jane Fancher from the novel by C. J. Cherryh published by Fancheristics (black and white) GATE OF IVREL, Claiming Rites adapted and illustrated by Jane Fancher from the novel by C. J. Cherryh an illustrated adventure from Starblaze Graphics (full color) GATE OF IVREL, Fever Dreams adapted and illustrated by Jane Fancher from the novel by C. J. Cherryh an illustrated adventure from Starblaze Graphics (full color) For further information, please send SASE to: Jane Fancher 10413 Ski Drive Oklahoma City, OK 73162-9715 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NONFICTION BY FRANCES GRIMBLE AFTER A FASHION: HOW TO REPRODUCE, RESTORE, AND WEAR VINTAGE STYLES AFTER A FASHION covers medieval through Art Deco styles, for women and men. It guides readers though each stage of a reproduction project and advises them on all aspects of collecting vintage clothes. The pattern-making and sewing instructions are useful to sewers at any experience level. An appendix lists over 300 sources for supplies, vintage clothes, and information. Detailed drawings enhance the style descriptions and step-by-step instructions. ``Most of the book's sewing instructions are numbered and illustrated, and they're among the clearest I've seen in any sewing resource.'' --Sew News ``Wonderfully practical.'' --Cutters' Research Journal Frances Grimble has collected, restored, and reproduced vintage clothes since 1972. She has been a professional writer and editor since 1983. Illustrator Deborah Kuhn is a Folkwear cover artist and builds costumes for the Seattle opera. 8 1/2" X 11" quality paperback, 352 pages, 147 line drawings. Bibliography, resource list, metric conversion table, index. Published December 1993. For more information, please send SASE to: Lavolta Press 20 Meadowbrook Drive San Francisco, CA 94132 PHONE/VOICE MAIL: (415) 566-6259 E-MAIL: ate...@teknowledge.com ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ AUTOGRAPHED NEW FIRST EDITIONS BY JOE HALDEMAN ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED St. Martins 1977 Gorilla-shaped bismuth junkies who stack their dead ancestors like cordwood in the living room; gentle souls who can kill with a touch or a thought. A throwback fiefdom on a planet where huge poisonous bats rule the night sky, where serpents the size of semi-trailers slither through the rotting jungle -- where men fight duels with swords in the shadows of starships. A world whose sun is a dying ember, where a sarcastic mansized beetle that's a Talmudic scholar, and swears like a longshoreman, claims to be immortal -- and claims that he can move planets with his mind. Bad people want to know how. All in a life's work for Otto McGavin: Prime Operator for the TBII, undercover guardian of the rights of aliens and humans under the Confederaci n. Thief, spy, murderer -- who by technological voodoo can take on the appearance and personality of any enemy, for months at a time. And talk fast or fight when the magic runs out. BUYING TIME William Morrow, Inc. 1989 (First trade hardcover) Dallas Barr is a wealthy playboy in a world where wealth can buy eternal youth -- but the terms are steep and non-negotiable: all of your money every ten years, and don't walk through the door with less than a million pounds. Dallas is one of the oldest people on Earth, one of the original Stileman Immortals. You have to have a knack for making money fast, or accept your three score and ten. Dallas has that knack, but also a propensity for asking the wrong questions and an unwillingness to be pushed around. Immortals start dying under suspicious circumstances, and it becomes obvious that Dallas is at the top of the list. He goes underground to try to solve the mystery before his time runs out. The killers follow him. THE HEMINGWAY HOAX William Morrow, Inc. 1990 A con artist talks a Hemingway scholar, John Baird, into attempting the forgery of Hemingway's lost novel of the 1920's. John finds out that it's not nice to mess with literary destiny, as he's stalked through various alternate presents and pasts by a literary critic with a license to kill. The shortened version of this novel won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Science Fiction Novella of the Year. THE LONG HABIT OF LIVING New English Library. British First Edition 1989 (published in the USA as BUYING TIME ) MINDBRIDGE St. Martins 1976 Jacque LeFavre is a Tamer -- one of an elite group of explorers who are teleported for days or weeks to unknown worlds, to set up bases for the colonists who follow. Not one Tamer in four lives long enough to retire. But if you're good enough for the job, you probably don't want any other job. In the course of interstellar exploration, humans run into the L'vrai -- a race of angelic beauty but with a callous disregard for life. They are colonizing this corner of the universe and see humans as easily disposed-of pests. Lefavre's assignment: use a dangerous psychic creature to establish a telepathic link with a L'vrai leader, and find a way out of the interstellar war that threatens the extinction of humankind. The adventure unfolds alongside a conflict between Lefavre and Carol Wachal, who as part of an experiment have sex while connected telepathically -- which is a disaster -- and then slowly fall in love. TOOL OF THE TRADE William Morrow, Inc. 1987 Nick Foley is a middle-aged college professor in Boston who is also a deep- cover Soviet agent and very privately insane. He has invented a device that makes people literally his slaves, as long as they are in earshot -- if he asks you to jump off a bridge, smiling, you will do it -- and his hobby is using this machine to improve the quality of life in Boston by asking muggers and junkies and pimps to politely throw themselves in front of large moving vehicles. He is crazy, and admits it to himself in an oblique way, but he's not crazy enough to give such a powerful device to the KGB. The KGB finds out about it, and so does the CIA, and the game is afoot. After a convoluted chase scene that involves police and agents from Maine to Key West, and about 80 gallons of Type O spattered hither and yon, Foley winds up in Leningrad at the President's elbow, in disguise, substituting as his interpreter in a turn-of-the-century arms negotiation. Fluent in both Russian and English, anything he says will be obeyed. How crazy is he? WAR YEAR Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1972 (Joe's first novel) ``George Lucas once told me this was his favorite novel about Vietnam. It's a simple story taken from my own combat diary -- I fought in the Central Highlands in 1968 -- with things rearranged and exaggerated for dramatic impact. I wanted John Farmer to be an `everyman' soldier -- everything that normally happens to an unwilling combat soldier happens to him.'' WORLDS APART Viking 1983 Worlds Apart tells the story of two tenuously linked worlds: the high-tech satellite community of New New York and an Earth that is literally maddened by the aftereffects of a brutal war. A mutated biological warfare agent is loose all over the world. It killed almost all of the adults. Now, it kills the children when they reach their late teens. It's a futuristic world where everything has broken down, and children can't fix it. They're reverting to a Lord of the Flies kind of savagery. In Florida and parts of Georgia there's a perverted kind of Christianity called Mansonism, where the children worship Christ and Charlie. Death is the only state of grace and murder is a sacrament. The story up in orbit is less grim, as Marianne O'Hara works on various projects, first to help the Earth recover (involving disastrous rescue attempts in Africa and New York) and then serving as a junior administrator in a project to build a huge starship, one that will carry ten thousand people on a century-long voyage, where their grandchildren will colonize an Earthlike planet circling Epsilon Aurigae. WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME Morrow 1992 Worlds Enough and Time deals with Marianne as a middle-aged woman and elder, participating in the voyage to Epsilon, working essentially as a city manager for this very odd city: ten thousand people inhabiting an area about the size of a shopping mall, knowing they will never go outside; knowing that their lives depend on complicated life support and propulsion systems -- and if something goes wrong, there's no way to send out for spare parts. Stir- craziness is the order of the day. Technology intervenes, for good and ill. Marianne arrives on the planet still fairly young, and when they meet the aliens who already live there, she's presented with a challenge larger than any human has ever faced. The anthologies COSMIC LAUGHTER (Holt, 1974; very few copies), STUDY WAR NO MORE (St. Martin's, 1977), and NEBULA AWARDS 17 (Holt, 1983) are also available. For further information, please send SASE or email to: Joe & Gay Haldeman 5412 NW 14th Ave. Gainesville, FL 32605 GEnie: JOE.HALDEMAN ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ FANTASY NOVELS BY CYNTHIA SOROKA The Dark Chronicles - Volume I - The Beginning (Flash Blasters, Inc.; ISBN#:1-881374-70-X; UPC#:757385000193) And the fight for life begins... Long ago, a sinister plot to destroy unfolded. Hatred between generations and a willful destruction of life itself was exposed. The only way of survival: to band together. In this, the first of three, The Dark Chronicles sends you on a journey of sword & sorcery that is destined to be a classic. Come into the darkness... The Dark Chronicles - Volume II - Red Blood (Flash Blasters, Inc.; ISBN#: 1-881374-71-8; UPC#:757385000216) The fight for life continues . . . A power struggle between inner strength and outer influences puts the world in danger of destruction. Fighting against a dream, only one can save them. The second of The Dark Chronicles series takes you through a journey of adventurers desperately staying alive. Take a peek into the dark. For more information, please send SASE or email to: Cynthia Soroka 50 Lindeman Avenue Closter, NJ 07624 (201) 784-9148 Dark...@aol.com ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS AND TAPES BY COLIN MORTON %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Signed first editions. Poetry. Concrete and performance poetry on cassette. Film animation, performance scores, comic book. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _HOW TO BE BORN AGAIN_ (Quarry Press, 1992) If poets are born, not made, then Colin Morton is born again with each new poem ... Whether lyrical, satirical, meditative, or surreal, his poems encourage us to remake ourselves each day. ``Long, lung-deep stanzas, short, poky ones, even prose poem paragraphs, Morton's attack changes with every new piece, his sweeping sense of enthusiasm the only constant. He writes as if poetry actually had an audience, words flung out across crowded rooms.'' Barry Dempster in Poetry Canada Review ``There is an odd but stimulating combination in his world of joy springing out of mor[t]ality, or of the recognition of change and death strengthening the heroic heart, as in that splendid poem of marriage at mid-glory, Not Time's Fool. The tenderness of Morton's poems is a rough, direct male one, and often the brusque in speech and the masculine in imagery are combined in a verse of extraordinary literary power.'' - George Woodcock in Ottawa Citizen ``By describing simply a domestic moment and the emotion it creates, Morton discovers a strong, elegant, and clear poetry. His work also suggests that the prose poem is a futurist form.'' George Elliott Clarke in Journal of Canadian Poetry %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _THE MERZBOOK: KURT SCHWITTERS POEMS_ (Quarry Press, 1987) Prize-winner in the 1984 CBC Literary Competition - an innovative narrative poem based on the life and art of the renowned German dadaist Kurt Schwitters. - Morton's poems in The Merzbook are ``powerful illustrations of the range of intellect that occasionally still operates in poetry.'' Fred Wah in Books in Canada - ``Morton has found his forte.... Merzbook is a witty, concise, idiosyncratic masterpiece.'' Chris Faiers in Canadian Book Review Annual - ``Colin Morton...has achieved the best balance between the varying demands of the documentary form: between objective fact and subjective interpretation, between documentation and lyricism, between his persona and himself.... The Merzbook strikes me as a quite major addition to the genre.'' Stephen Scobie in Malahat Review - ``Morton's poems... continually destabilize a reader and put her into a position of joyful discovery.'' Dennis Cooley in Journal of Canadian Poetry %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _THIS WON'T LAST FOREVER_ (Longspoon Press, 1985) Winner of the first Archibald Lampman Poetry Award ``Morton's poems, whether erotic discoveries, satiric variations on a theme or cries of outrage, are accessible and interesting.... His experimental, playful approach to poetry is frank and refreshing.'' Shaun Hunter in Journal of Canadian Poetry %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% THE FIRST ANIMATED SHORT MADE FOR IMAX PRIMITI TOO TAA - sound poetry and typewriter animation film (Teeswater Animation, 1986, 1987) Winner of several international film festival awards including Best Soundtrack, ASIFA East Film Festival, New York (1988) Bronze Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival (1988) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% AND WORK BY THE INTERMEDIA PERFORMANCE GROUP FIRST DRAFT Wordmusic (audio-cassette, First Draft, 1986) The Scream: First Draft group show (ed., Ouroboros, 1984) North/South, by C. Morton, S. McMaster and A. McClure (Underwhich, 1987) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% AND MORE In Transit - poetry (Thistledown, 1981) Printed Matter - concrete poetry (Sidereal, 1982) Two Decades: from A Century of Inventions (Ouroboros, 1987) Musical Ride - comic book, (Clarion, 1990) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% For more information, send SASE, IRC, or email to: Colin Morton 40 Grove Ave. Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3A6 Canada (613)730-9079 Internet: aa...@freenet.carleton.ca ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NON-FICTION BY ROY H. DINGLE NOTHING BUT CONSERVATION Life career of a soil conservationationist -- Beginning of Soil Conservation Service, July 1935. Learning while doing. Working with rural people -- local politics -- watershed associations. ``Schtick fleisch, schtick brodt'' -- ``It nevah washes heah.'' -- What is a ``goat ranch``? How to plant a tree -- Do you ``ride the saw?'' -- Whizzy Whizmore. -- ``Oil City'' = Shoestring gullies -- What is hay? -- Making contour strips -- Ecology -- Rattlesnake Mountain -- What is soil? -- Budgeley's Painted Ponies -- A farmer's idea of soil -- Jim's Special Watershed Edition -- ``straightening the crick.'' All this and much more in NOTHING BUT CONSERVATION. For information, please send SASE to: Roy H. Dingle 1400 West Seminary St. Richland Center WI 53581 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY LEE BALLENTINE BASEMENTS IN THE MUSIC-BOX Xexoxial Editions, 1986. Illustrated. Paperback or Handbound Hardcover. POLY: NEW SPECULATIVE WRITING. Ocean View Books, 1989. 320 pages, illustrated. Includes work by Vance Aandahl, Diane Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, David R. Bunch, Tom Disch, Steve Rasnic Tem, and others. ``...A rich and diverse feast worthy of repeated attention.'' -- Locus ``...Perfect for the adventurous reader.'' -- Twilight Zone ``...A dazzling display of wit, erudition, and heart.'' -- Jane Yolen POLY is winner of two design awards from Bookbuilder's West -- the Certificate of Merit, and Best Limited Edition of the Year (1989). Oversize art paperback or 200-copy clothbound edition with full-color dust jacket. DREAM PROTOCOLS. Talisman, 1992. Illustrated by Richard Kadrey. Finalist for the Colorado Book Award. 92 pages. Oversize paperback or 50-copy signed-and-numbered clothbound edition. I will sign or inscribe any of the above upon request. For information, please send SASE to: Lee Ballentine P.O. Box 102650 Denver CO 80250 or send email to: lee...@csn.org ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOK BY BRUCE BOSTON STAINED GLASS RAIN A Novel of the Sixties Ocean View Books, 464 pages, ISBN 0-938075030-6 (-29-2) Stained Glass Rain has the authentic taste and feel of the times... an unrepentant, unglamorized look at the Sixties that puts the reader in the middle of its delusions, illusions, ideas and hallucinations. This is what we call virtual writing. -- Timothy Leary ...a fine writer who swept me into the spell of his storytelling. There is a truthfulness to his writing uncommon to memory. The images endure by the willingness of a greater authority than words. Stained Glass Rain is virtually a docudrama, a realistic portrayal of an unreal time. -- A.A. Attanasio, author of RADIX ...captures the spiritual technology of an age which is becoming fable... a repository of home, madness, dream and reality -- a true history of a mythical time... a story of the Sixties written by a writer sure of his craft -- without imposing the judgments of today on the real experience of yesterday. -- Don Webb, author of THE SEVENTH DAY AND AFTER Tell a good story and the world will listen. Stained Glass Rain tells it in a way that the _avante-garde_ and the straight world will both find compelling. -- Ed Sanders ...affords not only recollections of the psychedelic Sixties, but insights into all of us at the dawn of the twenty-first century. -- Robert Anton Wilson, author of THE ILLUMINATI PAPERS For further information, send SASE to: Bruce Boston P.O. Box 6398 Albany CA 94706 510-524-9797 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ UNEARTH, THE MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE FICTION DISCOVERIES John M. Landsberg and Jonathan Ostrowsky-Lantz, eds. UNEARTH was the first publication devoted to new writers. The eighties were marked by the emergence of major talents UNEARTH discovered; the nineties are witnessing the continued expansion of their influence. Fewer than two hundred mint copies of each issue, never removed from the original printer's boxes, exist. Small imperfections can be found in some; the editors, with no financial backing, were concerned with finding and supporting new writers; inexpensive printing was mandatory. We hope you will relish the delight of experiencing the first works, in original settings, by writers who are now acknowledged masters. Each issue features a ``First Sale,'' a reprint of the first story by a major writer, along with a brand new introduction by that writer. NUMBER ONE A striking black-and-white cover by Steven Gildea, whose work has been widely displayed, including in an exhibit at Boston's Museum of Science. Paul Di Filippo's first story, Harlan Ellison's ``First Sale,'' with Ellison's new introduction, Hal Clement's initial column about the uses of science in fiction. Fiction by Debra Thrall, Daniel C. Smith, K. W. MacAnn, Danny Williams, and Chris Dornan. Book and movie reviews by Craig Shaw Gardner. An article on writing science fiction by editor John M. Landsberg. NUMBER TWO Timothy R. Sullivan's first story, ``Tachyon Rag.'' Keith Justice's first story. ``Proof,'' Hal Clement's famous ``First Sale,'' with Clement's new introduction. Film reviews by Craig Shaw Gardner. ``Science For Fiction'' column by Hal Clement. Fiction by Chris Dornan, David Frieze, and Sterling Taylor. Book review by Terence Green. Letters from James Tiptree and Algis Budrys. And our first color cover. NUMBER THREE ``Fragments of a Hologram Rose,'' the first work of fiction by cyberpunk megastar William Gibson. Also includes the first stories by three other superstars: James P. Blaylock, one of the few science fiction writers ever to win an O. Henry Award, Somtow Sucharitkul (S. P. Somtow), and Richard Bowker. Algis Budrys' ``First Sale,'' with Budrys' new introduction. Harlan Ellison's initial column on writing. Hal Clement's science column. Fiction by Toby Perkins. Film reviews by Craig Shaw Gardner. Theodore Sturgeon said this issue has ``the finest clutch of fiction to be found in any prozine around.'' He added, ``I have long wanted a Hugo to go to the best issue of any magazine during the Hugo year... I'd nominate this one.'' NUMBER FOUR Part one of the serial ``Downward To Darkness,'' by Timothy R. Sullivan. Columns by Harlan Ellison, Hal Clement; Craig Shaw Gardner's analysis of Star Wars. Fiction by Mike Baron, John Kelly, Bruce Kent, and Chris Dornan. Poetry by Caroline Dechert. Norman Spinrad's ``First Sale,'' ``The Last of the Romany,'' with Spinrad's new introduction. NUMBER FIVE The First Anniversary Issue, heralded by a startling wrap- around cover by Clyde Caldwell. The conclusion of Tim Sullivan's serial ``Downward To Darkness.'' Fiction by now-prominent sf novelists David C. Poyer and Steve Vance. John Kelly's second story. Fiction by David DeWitt. TWO ``First Sales'': Kate Wilhelm's and Roger Zelazny's, each with the author's new introduction. Guest editorial by Theodore Sturgeon. Columns by Harlan Ellison, Hal Clement, and Craig Shaw Gardner. And the UNEARTH Story Contest -- write a story with Harlan Ellison. NUMBER SIX The first story by best-selling author Craig Shaw Gardner. James P. Blaylock's second story, possibly the first ``steam-punk'' story ever. Damon Knight's ``First Sale,'' with his new introduction. Harlan Ellison's famous statement of ethical position concerning his Guest of Honor status at WorldCon 1978. A writing column by Charles Platt. An article on music in sf by Somtow Sucharitkul. Fiction by Meg Files, Richard P. Saggio, Laura E. Campbell, and Daniel Gordon. Hal Clement's ``Science For Fiction'' column. Craig Shaw Gardner's film review. All of the varied and stunning artwork in this issue is by the amazing Clyde Caldwell. NUMBER SEVEN The first installment of Rudy Rucker's remarkable, primal cyberpunk novel, Spacetime Donuts. Fiction from Steve Vance and Neil Olonoff. Poul Anderson's ``First Sale,'' with his new introduction. ``Science For Fiction'' column by Hal Clement. Film reviews by Craig Shaw Gardner. Book review by Jeff Frane. NUMBER EIGHT Second Anniversary Issue. The second installment of Rudy Rucker's novel, Spacetime Donuts. New fiction from Richard Bowker, Craig Shaw Gardner, Steven Bryan Bieler, and Kevin A. Lyons. THREE ``First Sales'': by Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, and Fritz Leiber, each with a fascinating new introduction by the author. The winning entry in the UNEARTH Story Contest. ``Science For Fiction'' by Hal Clement. Book reviews by Jeff Frane and John M. Landsberg. An sf games review by Craig Shaw Gardner. Many illustrations by Barclay Shaw. For further information, please send SASE to: John M. Landsberg P.O. Box 23234 Santa Barbara, CA 93121. ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ SF NOVELS BY MARY ROSENBLUM THE DRYLANDS Nita Montoya, mother of an infant daughter, empath, wanders into a town on the brink of a water war in the drought-stricken Northwest. Carter Voltaire, Colonel in the Corps of Engineers, the man who controls the water, finds himself standing between Army and farmers, trying to keep the war from happening. Together, he and Nita may be able to stop it, but only if Nita is willing to expose her unusual talent, and risk alienating the people she loves. (Del-Rey, paperback, 271 pages, autographed.) CHIMERA David Chen was a VR artist in the Net and he was one of the best. Jewel Martina had escaped the violent, dirt-poor `burbs by becoming a medical aide. But she was determined to make it as a VR broker in the global economic network. They might never have met if Jewel hadn't saved the life of David's partner -- only to find that someone very powerful wanted him dead. Trouble was brewing in the Net, and Jewel and David were caught in the middle. So they searched for answers -- in the Net, in the flesh world, and in their own troubled pasts. (Del-Rey, paperback, 324 pages, autographed.) For more information, please send SASE or email to: Mary Rosenblum 9100 SE 152nd Portland, OR 97236 GEnie: M.ROSENBLUM3 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ FANTASY NOVELS BY PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN BORN TO EXILE Alaric the minstrel was discovered, newborn, alone on a hillside, a bloody, severed hand clutching his ankles. Now he moves through a world of medieval superstition and cruelty, trying to hide the power that he never asked for, that would brand him a feared and hated witch and expose him to constant danger of death -- the ability to transport himself instantaneously to any place he has ever visited or seen. Yet, sometimes, to save himself or someone else, he must use that power. And so he can never stop wandering, never find a place where he can settle down in safety... until he meets the one-handed midwife who knows how to find his lost and immensely powerful family. (Arkham House, 202 pages, with illustrations by Stephen Fabian. Hardcover, first edition, autographed.) SORCERER'S SON Cray Ormoru is the son of the sorceress Delivev and -- they believe -- of the mysterious, wandering knight Mellor, whom Delivev nursed back to health, and who disappeared before Cray was born. Though schooled in sorcery, Cray wants to follow in his father's footsteps, and he sets off on a quest to discover his unknown heritage, not knowing that it bears no resemblance at all to his assumptions. His efforts to find his father's origins and to reunite his broken family take him through dangers both ordinary and sorcerous, and ultimately lead him to the strange and wonderful demon worlds, where creatures made of flame or cloud, ice or water, wait to be called to slavery by sorcerous masters. (British edition from Grafton Books, 379 pages. The only hardcover edition. Autographed.) THE CRYSTAL PALACE Cray Ormoru, now a full-fledged sorcerer, devises the Mirror of Heart's Desire and sees in it the image of a young woman. But when he tracks her down, he finds that she lives in a palace in the depths of the demon world of Ice, and, totally dedicated to the study of sorcery, she is as cold and unfeeling as any ice demon. In taking on the task of making her human and willing her affection, Cray exposes himself to human, sorcerous, and demon dangers, and must ultimately confront the person responsible for her existence, her passionate and psychotic sorcerer grandfather. (British edition from Grafton Books, 286 pages. The only hardcover edition. Autographed.) For more information, please send SASE to: Phyllis Eisenstein Box 59723 Chicago IL 60659 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVEL BY DIANE DE AVALLE-ARCE (PILAR DE OVALLE) CALABRINIA FALLING (Crossing Press, 1990) ``CALABRINIA FALLING is simply brilliant from the start. The author draws you along through her colorful world of pale salamanders, rusty breastplates and silver bells, white brandy and slim girls with beryl-green eyes. My God, Pilar de Ovalle spills more good writing in this book than most writers manage to string together in a career.'' --Neal Barrett, Jr. (Pink Vodka Blues) East of the great Western Ocean and west of the Desert of Death, Calabrinia the ancient city reposes beside the River Ca amid fields of amaranth and apricots. Alina, youngest and most willful of the nine hundred eighty-two princesses, finds herself in serious trouble and sets out to meet more. For further information, send SASE to: Diane de Avalle-Arce 4640 Oak View Road Santa Ynez CA 93460 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ AUDIOTAPE BY TODD BARTON & URSULA K. LE GUIN MUSIC & POETRY OF THE KESH, music by Todd Barton, words by Ursula K. Le Guin This is an audio cassette originally released with the hardcover edition of Ursula K. LeGuin's book ALWAYS COMING HOME. For further information, send SASE to: VALLEY PRODUCTIONS P.O.Box 3220 Ashland OR 97520 Or call or fax 503/488-2492 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVEL BY WILLIAM BARTON & MICHAEL CAPOBIANCO IRIS, Doubleday, 1990, hardcover signed by both authors. From a future Earth ravaged by economic collapse to a rogue planet and its three enigmatic moons, from the familiarity of a colony ship to the heart -- and mind -- of a totally alien world, William Barton and Michael Capobianco take both the reader and the crew of the Deepstar on a daring odyssey of extraterrestrial exploration and dazzling alien contact. For further information, send SASE to: Horus Associates P.O. Box 4443 Woodbridge, VA 22194 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVELS BY NANCY VARIAN BERBERICK SHADOW OF THE SEVENTH MOON (Ace 1991, 303 pp, paperback) In Britain, during the dark age after King Arthur's death, when the race of Men is rising, and the race of Dwarfs is ending, the Dwarf-skald Garroc brings a tale to Ellisif Hinthan's daughter. He tells Ellisif of a time when he as known as Silent Skald, weaving the history of his ancient race with the tale of his love for a Dwarf-witch of the Welsh kin, and of his ghost-haunted flight from berserker-madness--a flight doomed to fail unless he can offer gifts of courage and hope to the boy Hinthan, a Man-child orphaned by war, and then accept these very gifts from Hinthan's own hand. ``For lovers of ancient lore... Berberick has woven a beautiful novel...'' --The Knoxville News-Sentinel ``...This book is definitely worth reading.'' --FOSFAX ****************************************** THE PANTHER'S HOARD The second in the series of Garroc's tales Coming from Ace in February 1994 ****************************************** THE JEWELS OF ELVISH (TSR 1989, 346 pp, paperback) A sorcerer's threat in the Northlands forces age-old enemies, Elves and Men, into an alliance. Thus, Nikia, daughter of the Elf-king, is wed to the human prince Garth. To the marriage Nikia brings her strange, magical ways and an ancient family heirloom, the Ruby of Guyaire. When the ruby is stolen, its true worth is discovered--nothing but it will save the Twin Kingdoms from the evil of the Sorcerer. Nikia must recover the jewel, no matter the cost. A CHILD OF ELVISH (Ace 1992, 282 pp, paperback) The second in the Elvish series. The Twin Kingdoms are dying of the evil Sorcerer's last curse, ravaged by plague and drought. Beneath the earth, in deep caverns, the ghost of a long-dead queen mourns for the dying kingdoms. She sends on a quest two soldiers--one Mannish, one Elvish--to steal a child made for magic; Nikia's daughter, who alone may save the kingdoms. ``Berberick makes a special effort to interest the reader in her character's emotional lives, taking the novel a step beyond an action narrative. -- The Charlotte Observer For further information, send SASE to: Nancy Varian Berberick 1911 Kenwood Avenue Charlotte NC 28205 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY BRUCE BOSTON NIGHT EYES, previously uncollected sf/fantasy/horror stories, 1993, paper, 64 pp., includes reprints from Amazing, Asimov's, Masques, Pulphouse, Honorable Mentions from Year's Best Science Fiction and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (signed limited edition includes original poetry broadside, ``The Last Existentialist''), Chris Drumm Books, Polk City, Iowa ACCURSED WIVES, dark fantasy poetry, illustrated by Ree Young, 1993, paper, 28 pp., Night Visions, Troy, North Carolina. A portion of profits donated to the Montgomery County Women's Crisis Council. CHRONICLES OF THE MUTANT RAIN FOREST, by Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier. Story-introduction by Lucius Shepard, photo-collage by Robert Frazier. In the depths of the mutant rain forest where the water falls each afternoon in a light filtered to vermilion, a feline stone idol stands against the opaque foliage. On the screen of the monitor it rises up from nowhere, upon its hind legs, both taller and thicker than a man. See how the cellular accretion has distended its skull, how the naturally sleek architecture of the countenance has evolved to a distorted and angular grotesquerie, how the taloned forepaws now possess opposable digits. In the humid caves and tunnels carved from living vines, where leprous anacondas coil, a virulent faith calls us. A sudden species fashions godhood in its own apotheosis. Trade paper, 1992, 80pp, Horror's Head Press. JACKBIRD, short stories, magic realism, 1976, trade paper, 80 pp., Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, Berkeley, California. Also available rebound as hard cover, 1991, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California). SHE COMES WHEN YOU'RE LEAVING, short stories, magic realism, 1982, trade paper, 64 pp., Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, Berkeley, California Also available rebound as hard cover, 1991, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California). Includes ``Broken Portraiture'' (Pushcart Prize for Fiction) and ``Interview With a Gentleman Farmer'' (selected by Asimov, Carr and Greenberg for 100 Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories). NUCLEAR FUTURES, science fiction poetry, collages by Robert Frazier, 1987, paper, 18 pp., Velocities, Berkeley, California THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTOR, dark fantasy poetry, illustrated by Gregorio Montejo, 1988, paper, 36 pp., 2 AM Publications, Rockford, Illinois. Includes 1989 and 1990 Rhysling winners for Best SF Poem of the Year. SKIN TRADES, sf/fantasy/horror stories, illustrated by Allen Koszowski, 1988, paper, 64 pp., Chris Drumm Books, Polk City, Iowa. Also available rebound as hard cover, 1990, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California) FACES OF THE BEAST, dark fantasy poetry, illustrated by Allen Koszowski, 1990, trade paper, 60 pp., or hard cover, Starmont House, Mercer Island, Washington THE NEW BRUCE BOSTON OMNIBUS, five volumes as boxed set (includes Jackbird, She Comes When You're Leaving, Nuclear Futures, Titan Press Magazine #5: Time, and The Nightmare Collector), 1990, 218 pp., Ocean View Books, Mountain View, California AFTER MAGIC, fantasy novelet, illustrated by Lari Davidson, 1990, paper, 56 pp., The Eotu Group, Boise, Idaho HYPERTALES & METAFICTIONS, fantasy/horror stories, collages by t. winter-damon, 1990, paper, 64 pp. Also available in signed limited edition including poetry tape with music by Jack Poley. Chris Drumm Books, Polk City, Iowa SHORT CIRCUITS, prose poems and short-short stories, collages by t.winter-damon, bound in double format with Bad News From the Stars by Steve Sneyd, 1991, trade paper, 84 pp., Also available in hard cover. Ocean View Books, Mountain View, California ALL THE CLOCKS ARE MELTING, short story booklet, 1991, paper, 40 pp., Pulphouse, Eugene, Oregon (included in Hypertales & Metafictions) HOUSES & OTHER STORIES, mainstream novelet and stories, 1991, paper, 52 pp., Talisman, Beech Grove, Indiana CYBERTEXTS, science fiction poetry, 1992, paper, illustrated by Alan Giana, 40 pp., Talisman, Beech Grove, Indiana. Includes winning poems from both the Asimov and Aboriginal SF Reader Polls. For further information, send SASE to: Bruce Boston P.O. Box 6398 Albany CA 94706 510-524-9797 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ JOHN BRUNNER The pressure of work has forced John Brunner to withdraw from the list, with apologies to anyone who requested information on his books. ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVELS BY JEFFREY A. CARVER THE INFINITY LINK (hardcover, Bluejay, 1984, 540 pages) STAR RIGGER'S WAY (Dell, pb, 1978, 237 pages) STAR RIGGER'S WAY (Arrow U.K., pb, 237 pages) PANGLOR (Dell, pb, 1980, 268 pages) THE INFINITY LINK (Tor, pb, 1985, 540 pages) THE INFINITY LINK (Tor, pb, 2nd ed. , 540 pages) THE RAPTURE EFFECT (Tor, pb, 1987, 371 pages) ALIEN SPEEDWAY: CLYPSIS (Bantam, pb, 1987, 163 pages) FROM A CHANGELING STAR (Bantam, pb, 1989, 355 pages) DOWN THE STREAM OF STARS (Bantam, pb, 1990, 355 pages) DRAGONS IN THE STARS, (Tor, pb, 1992, 313 pages) For further information, send SASE to: Jeffrey A. Carver 102 Melrose St. Arlington, MA 02174 (GEnie: JEFF.CARVER) ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVEL BY VALERIE NIEMAN COLANDER NEENA GATHERING (Pageant Books, July 1988, pb, 270 pgs.) Lead SF title in debut of the short-lived Pageant line (Crown Publishers). Now out-of-print. Set in West Virginia, near future, following biochemical warfare and sectional division. Coming-of-age story. ``Unlike many postholocaust stories that offer Huck Finns wandering the wasteland, this charming, unpretentious novel delves into a different form of the pastoral, modeling itself on Thoreauvian attention to a person's place and moral actions in the spheres of nature, society, intellect and the like.'' -- Publishers Weekly For information, please send SASE or email to: Valerie Nieman Colander P.O. Box 1614 Fairmont, W.Va. 26554 CIS 70322,1441 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVEL BY JUANITA COULSON. DARK PRIESTESS. Historical romance(NOT a bodice ripper), set in 1770 B.C. in Hammurabi's Babylon. Protagonist is a Sumerian physician and lay priestess of Inanna-Ishtar. She and her father join the royal household and are caught up in its political intrigues and the pagan rituals and prophesies relating to the survival of Hammurabi's dynasty -- and the heroine's as well. Sex scenes are minimal enough so that it wouldn't be red-lined by the sternest librarian, yet the historical and adventure aspects work sufficiently well to have persuaded a number of male readers to tell the author (albeit with some surprise and occasional embarrassment that they've actually been reading women's genre fiction) that they really enjoyed it. Background heavily researched -- Samuel Noah Kramer, German archaeological sources, etc. -- in strong contrast to cover painting, which is a historical disaster as well as being ridiculous and having nothing to do with the story. For information, please send SASE to: Juanita Coulson 2677W-500N Hartford City, IN 47348 Or email in care of Gene DeWeese on GEnie at G.DEWEESE ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY JOEL DAVIS FLYBY: THE INTERPLANETARY ODYSSEY OF VOYAGER 2. New York: Atheneum, 1987. (Introduction by Isaac Asimov.) Hardcover 1st edition. Signed by author. Voyager 2 and its sister spacecraft Voyager 1 are the most successful space probes ever launched by the human species. Voyager 2, in particular, has carried out a near-``Grand Tour'' of the outer solar system, visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. FLYBY is the behind-the-scenes story of the Uranus flyby in 1986--the people, the machines, the near-catastrophes, and the final triumph. ``With a scientist's knowledge and appreciation and a journalist's eye for detail and the human element, the author supplies solid information on the mission and spices the account with tidbits on what working scientists are really like.'' --Booklist DEFENDING THE BODY: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF IMMUNOLOGY. New York: Atheneum, 1989. Hardcover first edition. Signed by author. From the front lines of medical research across the country, DEFENDING THE BODY looks at the practice and progress of immunology--one of the hottest fields of medical research today. DEFENDING THE BODY includes chapters on the genetics of the immune system, the new generation of vaccines, cancer, autoimmune diseases, and the battle against AIDS. ``. . . Joel Davis is among the best science writers we have.'' --Poul Anderson For information, please send SASE or email to: Joel Davis 1201 W. 12th Avenue Spokane, WA 99204-3907 VOICE: 509 624-4176 (day) 509 747-2620 (nite) FAX: 509 624-4176 EMAIL: jda...@comtch.spk.wa.us ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY DAYLE A. DERMATIS Where can you find a publication chock full of hints and tips from editors, agents and writers? Okay, okay, besides WRITERS' DIGEST... The answer is the League of Vermont Writers' first annual conference summary booklet. This 32-page tome is loaded with workshop notes from the past two annual conferences the LVW has held. You can find information from people such as: * John Brady, former editor of WRITERS' DIGEST and BOSTON, on ``The Craft of Interviewing.'' * Stephen Sterns, former science fiction editor for Del Rey, on ``The Science Fiction and Fantasy Market.'' * Dawn Raffel, Books and Fiction Editor for REDBOOK, on ``Magazine Fiction.'' * Damaris Rowland, Associate Publisher at Dell Publishing, on ``Women's Fiction.'' * Sue Protter, head of her own literary agency for 21 years, on ``Writing Effective Query Letters.'' * David Goodman, Assistant National Grievance Officer for the National Writers' Union, on ``Writers' Rights.'' * And much more! The book was written and designed by Writers' Forum and LVW member Dayle Dermatis. How can you get your hands on this informational goldmine? Send a SASE to... Dayle Dermatis 4265 Baywood Dr. Redding, CA 96003-2542 ...or Email her on GEnie at D.DERMATIS ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY GENE/JEAN DEWEESE. JEREMY CASE. Paperback sf. An alien something-or-other gives a borderline retarded young man the power to heal himself and others. Original title before editorial simplification: THE THREE DEATHS OF JEREMY CASE. BLACK SUITS FROM OUTER SPACE THE DANDELION CAPER THE CALVIN NULLIFIER Hardcover juvenile sf series about 12-year-old Calvin Willeford and Kathy Entsminger and the outer space denizens they bump into, including some klutzy dinosaur types and a small yellow cat with retractable fingers who's a sort of feline lensman (interstellar cop, for non-Doc Smith fans). In BLACK SUITS, they find out why Grey Barker's UFO aliens always wore black suits. In DANDELION, Calvin finds out why some people, including himself, can never get a VCR to work properly. In NULLIFIER, they use chocolate chip cookies and a couple of Newton's laws to save a Voyager-type spacecraft during its Uranus flyby. ADVENTURES OF A TWO-MINUTE WEREWOLF. Hardcover juvenile sf/fantasy, depending on your criteria. It was watered down a bit when it was made into an ABC Weekend Special in '85. And it's no relation to TEEN WOLF, unless whoever wrote the TW screenplay had read TWO-MINUTE and decided to really screw it up. THE WANTING FACTOR and SOMETHING ANSWERED The Salman Rushdie Special. In WANTING FACTOR, the Man in Half Moon Street turns out to be Christ. Bob Briney once said, ``If you could get Jerry Falwell to burn a polyester suit on your lawn, you'd have a bestseller.'' Fortunately or unfortunately, it never happened. In SOMETHING ANSWERED, someone finds what may or may not be God and, in the end, answers Her/His/Its prayer. Both are in ``occult'' format but are sf under the surface, if you consider psi powers sf. Both are paperbacks, 1980 and 1983, respectively. A DIFFERENT DARKNESS. 1982 paperback, closer to a ``standard'' occult than either of the above, but still with a more or less science fictional rationale. Reincarnation, dimensional doors, etc. GATES OF THE UNIVERSE and NIGHTMARE UNIVERSE. Paperback collaborations with Robert Coulson. GATES was about a hack writer who bumbles through a dimensional door on his employer's bulldozer and gets involved with aliens from various other universes. One is a scholarly dinosaur, another a six-foot-plus female warrior who tends to pick the protagonist up and throw him away when she gets annoyed with him. NIGHTMARE is an ``interactive'' version of the same story, with some new twists added. Read in the right order, it consists of three separate novelettes, each revealing a bit more of what is really going on. If desired, a map can be included so you can pick the right branches. MAKING AMERICAN FOLK ART DOLLS. Trade paperback. So far as I know, it's the only doll making book that tells you how to make a papier mache' mummy and a dried apple shrunken head. And a gourd George Washington. Illustrated, of course. NIGHTMARE IN PEWTER. Hardcover. Occult/romantic suspense format, but actually it's about a spaceship buried under a midwest Indian mound. For King fans, think of it as a cheapie version of THE TOMMYKNOCKERS, written ten years earlier. HOUR OF THE CAT. Hardcover. Straight mystery in which one of our cats (Fahfrd, renamed Muldoon for the book) is a major character and gets to help do in the villain at the end. GINGER'S WISH. Hardcover. A squeaky clean ``romance'' with some mystery elements involving what Ginger, a recently deceased small town newspaper owner and one-time vaudeville performer, really did with the money everyone thought she had. Written with Connie Kugi of West Allis, WI. For further information, send SASE or email to: Gene DeWeese 2718 N. Prospect Milwaukee, WI 53211 Or phone: (414) 332-7306 GEnie: G.DEWEESE ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY HARLAN ELLISON: ANGRY CANDY (Houghton Mifflin, 1988, hardcover) THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON, ed. Terry Dowling with Richard Delap & Gil Lamont (Morpheus International, hc or trade pb). The best of Harlan Ellison has been assembled in this massive volume of more than 1000 pages, encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, reviews, photos, and even a full-length teleplay. AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS (Doubleday, 1972, 1st edition/2nd state, hardcover) NIGHT AND THE ENEMY (Comico, 1987, graphic novel; artist: Ken Steacy) STRANGE WINE (Harper & Row, 1978, first edition, hardcover) SHATTERDAY (Houghton Mifflin, 1980, third edition, hardcover) APPROACHING OBLIVION (Walker, 1974, first edition, hardcover) ALONE AGAINST TOMORROW (Macmillan, 1971, first edition, hardcover) MEMOS FROM PURGATORY (Jove paperback) I HAVE NO MOUTH & I MUST SCREAM (Ace, 1983, 2nd printing, paperback) PAINGOD AND OTHER DELUSIONS (Ace, 1983, 1st printing, paperback) STALKING THE NIGHTMARE, foreword by Stephen King (Berkley, 1985, 2nd printing, paperback) HITLER PEIGNAIT DES ROSES (French trade paperback) LES BARONS DE BROOKLYN (French trade paperback) GENTLEMAN JUNKIE (French trade paperback) LA BETE QUI CRIAIT AMOUR (French trade paperback) LA CHANSON DU ZOMBIE (French trade paperback) All books are in mint condition. If you wish any of the books signed, please indicate to whom. For further information, send SASE (``Self-addressed stamped envelope'') to THE HARLAN ELLISON RECORD COLLECTION P.O. Box 55548 Sherman Oaks, CA 91413-0548. ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVELS BY M.J. ENGH THE HOUSE IN THE SNOW (Orchard, 1987, 132 pp, hardcover, illustrated by Leslie Bowman). Kids from 3rd through 7th grade write me fan letters about this. Nine boys fight twenty vicious robbers for control of the mysterious House and the secret of invisibility. WHEEL OF THE WINDS (Grafton, 1988, 352 pages, British paperback). On a cloud-shrouded planet that always turns the same face to its sun, two natives, a dog, and an off-world exile with a mission begin a voyage to the darkside and beyond. For information, please send SASE to: M.J. Engh NE 720 Illinois St. Pullman WA 99163 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY SHEILA FINCH THE GARDEN OF THE SHAPED (The Shaper Exile, Vol.I), 1987, Bantam pb, 217pp. Banished because of their renegade experimentation with human genetics, a handful of scientists from the infamous Venn Labs settle on the uninhabited planet of Ilia. What their enemies do not know is that the first subject of their experiments is the group itself: they have vastly extended their lifetimes. On Ilia, they are free to pursue their research, molding two races to possess talents unknown to mankind, and -- since the scientists have time on their hands to watch results -- giving them widely different social structures and theologies as well. The Lianis are hedonistic shapeshifters, matriarchal, beloved children (they have been given to believe) of their holy spirit, the Great Shaper. They inhabit a gentle, fruitful area of the planet, and their heart is the beautiful old city of Tia-ta- pel. The Rhodarus, who have been set down in harsh, desert country to the north, are fierce, warlike clans with exaggerated strength and skill. Their God, He-Who-Rules, is fierce and cruel to those who break his rules. Between these two races lives the third race, the Ganus, who were supposed to be standard human-stock controls. They are industrious farmers and artisans, family-oriented, and since they weren't given a deity they never found the need to invent one. This is the story of a young Liani princess, Sivell, ascending the throne in a time of an unprecedented Ganu uprising. Since her people value shapeshifting more than anything, and she is oddly awkward for one so royally bred, she feels inadequate to the task. But she does possess an uncommon curiosity and wisdom. Sivell stumbles on the horrifying secret of her people's creation, and as a result must deal with the social upheaval of war, discredited myths and her people's lost hope all at once. She has the chance to defy the powerful Venn scientists and forge a union among the races that the creators never dreamed possible. SHAPER'S LEGACY (The Shaper Exile, Vol II), 1989, Bantam pb, 279pp. Sivell's twin grandchildren, Col and Beryt, have grown up in a time of peace and prosperity between Ganu and Liani. There is one race now, instead of two, and they call themselves Ilian. Given access to the riches of the south, the Ganu craftsmen have inaugurated a period of high technical invention and comfort. Headstrong Beryt, who will one day be queen under the old Liani law, actually prefers to spend her time in the Ganu capital, hunting with her uncle in the dense forests that form Ilia's northern border. One day, separated from her uncle's hunters, she meets a fugitive Rhodaru chieftain. Opposites attract, they say, and Beryt and ReAth are alternately lovers and enemies, for their union can never be accepted by either nation. Their relationship plays out against the growing threat of Rhodaru invasion of Ilia, and the desperate attempts of Col and other wiser heads to defend the old Liani capital of Tia- ta-pel against the overwhelming power of the invaders. The Venn scientists, in the meantime, who discovered guilt in Sivell's time for their experiments, are now learning the limits of their longevity. One by one, they are dying out. But not before one of them manages to further complicate the lives and affairs of their former creations. SHAPING THE DAWN (The Shaper Exile, Book III), 1989, Bantam pb, 309pp. The Rhodarus rule all of Ilia, and the former Ganus and Lianis are subject races. But none of this matters to Rivi, a young orphaned Rhodaru girl of rather mixed parentage. Forced to leave her poor village, she makes her way to a settlement of free Ilians in the hills. But her new-found friends cannot protect her from the strange desire of the High Priest to hunt her down. She flees again, this time to the capital city of Kerratash where she becomes involved in clan intrigues and hostilities that she understands little of. The invalid and ineffectual Crown Prince helps her escape into the fabled country of Ilia to the south. Along the stages of this journey through a landscape torn by war and rebellion, she learns the secrets of her heritage; a visit to an old Liani queen, living in self-imposed exile, reveals Rivi's role in the destinies of the Ilian and Rhodaru peoples. She alone has the chance to unite all the races on Ilia -- if she is wise enough to find her way through the thickets of intrigue and danger and betrayal. Against this violent backdrop, the last of the Venn scientists, Kory Venn -- a child when the group first landed on Ilia -- learns of the coming of an unusual starship, and finds that his destiny is to answer for the deeds of the Shapers, and to face justice at the hands of their creations. For further information, please send SASE or email to: Sheila Finch Humanities Division El Camino College 16007 Crenshaw Blvd Torrance CA 90506 GEnie: S.FINCH4 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVELS BY COLIN GREENLAND DAYBREAK ON A DIFFERENT MOUNTAIN Fantasy quest novel. Two men set out together from the decaying walled city of Thryn to cross the wastelands in search of a vanished god. For the sake of everyone Dubilier needs to find Him; while Lupio is most determined they will not. (Allen & Unwin, 1984, 248 pp., hardcover, signed.) THE HOUR OF THE THIN OX First of two linked fantasy novels. In a world poised on the brink of industrial change, three cultures collide, with violent and paradoxical consequences. In the feverish jungles of Belanesi a young heiress from tranquil, prosperous Bryland and a child of imperial Escaly find that nothing they have been taught to expect is true. `Could be a classic' -- THE GUARDIAN. (Unwin Hyman, 1987, 186 pp, paperback, signed.) OTHER VOICES Second of two linked fantasy novels. The Eschalan Empire spreads its benign, suffocating rule across the little mountain principality of Luscany. While experimenters shift the boundary between life and death, the careers of Princess Nette and Serin Guille, most lowly of her subjects, become unexpectedly entwined. `Court intrigues, mannerly disputes, sudden violence and at least two strange seductions... Greenland continues to stake out his unique fictional territory.' -- City Limits (Unwin Hyman, 1988, 182 pp, paperback, signed.) Order from: Colin Greenland 2a Ortygia House 6 Lower Road Harrow HA2 0DA UK ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY JAMES GUNN ALTERNATE WORLDS: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION (Prentice Hall, 1975). The lavishly illustrated (32 pages of color photos) and much praised hardcover history of SF from the beginnings of imaginative writing to the mid- 1970s. (Very limited supply.) THE DREAMERS (Methuen, English paperback, 1982). A novel about a future shaped by the use of chemical memory to experience other people's lives -- and dreams. THE JOY MAKERS (Crown hardcover of 1961 Bantam paperback, 1984). A novel about the creation of a science of happiness and a world torn between philosophies of ``getting what you want'' and ``wanting what you get.'' NEBULA AWARD STORIES TEN (Harper & Row, hardcover, 1975), ed. James Gunn. The award-winning stories of 1974 plus stories by Zelazny, Reamy, Farmer, and Grant, essays by Dickson and Scholes, and an introduction by Gunn. SOME DREAMS ARE NIGHTMARES (Scribners, hardcover, 1974). Gunn argues in an introduction that the novelette is the ideal form for science fiction and illustrates with novelettes -- ``The Cave of Night,'' ``Name Your Pleasure,'' ``New Blood,'' and ``Not So Great an Enemy'' -- that became parts of three novels: STATION IN SPACE, THE JOY MAKERS, and THE IMMORTALS. For further information, please send SASE to: James Gunn Department of English 3116 Wescoe Hall Lawrence, KS 66045-2115 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVEL BY GWENYTH HOOD THE COMING OF THE DEMONS (William Morrow, 1982, hardcover, 288 pp). Generations ago, the technologically advanced Pelezitereans fled tyranny and disaster on their own planet, Urith, to seek a new home. Only after centuries of wandering, during which they form a complex ingrown culture within their colony ship, do they stumble upon a suitable planet. Unfortunately, it is inhabited, and their strict rules forbid them to interfere with its vibrant civilization. Unable, however, to resist the temptation, a small band of Pelezitereans mutiny and land. Then another party, including the young, untried, but brilliant Natheless yi-Induran, must hunt them down. In the process, they encounter a civilization indistinguishable from Medieval Terran Italy (circa 1268 A.D.) and find themselves, to their amazement, drawn into its political struggles.'' Autograph on request. For further information, send SASE or email to: Gwenyth Hood c/o Department of English, Marshall University Huntington WV 25755. GEnie: G.HOOD2 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NON-FICTION by NORMAN F. JOLY The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece : A Personal View (London : Joly, 1990. 151pp. ISBN 0-9515628-0-0) C O N T E N T S 0. PROLOGUE............................. 1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY....... 2. THE BIRTH OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.... 3. WHAT IS A RADIO AMATEUR?............. 4. THE 1921 AMATEUR TRANSATLANTIC TESTS. 5. THE FIRST GREEK RADIO AMATEURS....... 6. WORLD WAR II AND AFTER IN GREECE..... 7. PIONEERS IN GREECE................... 8. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES & ANECDOTES... 9. MISCELLANY........................... 10. GLOSSARY FOR NON-TECHNICAL READERS... ``A unique history book which traces Amateur Radio back to its original source 2,500 years ago. It describes the intervening steps which led to the mass generation and distribution of mains electricity, and claims that the true father of our hobby was James Clewrk Maxwell, who formulated mathematically the existence of electromagnetic waves about 150 yeasr ago. The book also contains reminiscences and anecdotes of the early days and is profusely illustrated with diagrams and original photographs taken by the author a long time ago.'' Available in paperback from the author. Norman F. Joly, 28 Oakington Avenue HARROW, Middlesex, HA2 7JJ. Or email Gordon Joly for more information. Internet: G.J...@cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ...!{uunet,uknet}!ucl-cs!G.Joly ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY VICTOR KOMAN THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT, Franklin Watts 1st, 1987, OP, new, hardback, autographed. A dying assassin is given one last hit--on God Almighty. With the aid of a telepathic hooker, a beautiful gambler, and an ancient Hollywood witch, he battles the forces of Heaven and Hell to pull the Cosmic Trigger. Prometheus Award Winner (1988) SOLOMON'S KNIFE, Franklin Watts 1st, 1989, OP, new, Hardback, autographed. Valerie Dalton thought she'd had an abortion until she discovers that her child lives as the result of a secret medical experiment. Prometheus Award Winner (1990) SPACEWAYS #13: JONUTA RISING! Berkley 1st, 1983, Mint Paperback, Autographed, OP. Mindrunner Marekallian Eks smuggles brainboosters to cultures ``protected'' by a Prime Directive-style law enforced by TransGalactic Organization. (Written as ``John Cleve'' w/ Andrew J. Offutt) [Mature Readers Only] SPACEWAYS #17: THE CARNADYNE HORDE, Berkley 1st, 1984, Mint Paperback, Autographed, OP. Marekallian Eks returns to assemble a fleet of dreadnoughts leading to an epic space battle between the forces of slavery and freedom. (Written as ``John Cleve'' w/ Andrew J. Offutt) [Mature Readers Only] SAUCER SLUTS, Impulse (Newspaper), 1978, VG set of 13- issue serial, limited to 92 numbered sets. Rare! Signed; wrapper illo by author. Four lovely green women kidnap two Earthmen to repopulate their dying planet, a world in which pockets of sex, anarchy, and free commerce survive, surrounded by the chaos of anti-sex government and religion. SF-porn satire classic. Koman's first published novel. [Very Mature Readers Only] PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK FOR UNDER $50! (Written with J. Neil Schulman) KoPubCo 1991, New. Low-tech/Hi-tech self-publishing strategies. Good overview of microfiche and electronic publishing: benefits and pitfalls. For further information, please send SASE or email to: Victor Koman P.O. Box 94 Long Beach, CA 90801-0094 GEnie: V.KOMAN ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ MAGAZINES EDITED BY DAVID KOPASKA-MERKEL DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES is one of the most prolific fantastic poetry magazines in existence, having published 39 issues since January, 1986. DN includes SF, fantasy, and horror poetry, as well as illustrations and occasional short-short fiction. Issues 34-39 are currently available. CWM, the magazine of possibilities, publishes material the form and content of which is limited only by the authors'/artists' imaginations. CWM publishes theme issues. The theme of issue #1 was ``water in all its forms.'' The theme of issue #2 is ``what lies beneath the surface'' and of issue #3 ``the archaeology of the soul.'' EDITED BY MORGAN KOPASKA-MERKEL KID'S WORLD is a literary magazine that publishes art, fiction, poetry, essays, jokes, puzzles, brain teasers, and cartoons by children under the age of 18. The editor is Morgan Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa AL 35404, and payment is one copy per published piece. POETRY BY DAVID KOPASKA-MERKEL UNDERFOOT is the first poetry collection by David C. Kopaska-Merkel, with artwork by Sheila Kopaska-Merkel. Underfoot contains a wide range of material, and was published by Runaway Spoon Press. For further information, please send SASE or email to: David C. Kopaska-Merkel 1300 Kicker Rd. Tuscaloosa AL 35404 GEnie: D.KOPASKS-ME ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ AUDIOTAPE BY TODD BARTON & URSULA K. LE GUIN MUSIC & POETRY OF THE KESH, music by Todd Barton, words by Ursula K. Le Guin This is an audio cassette originally released with the hardcover edition of Ursula K. LeGuin's book ALWAYS COMING HOME. For further information, send SASE to: VALLEY PRODUCTIONS P.O.Box 3220 Ashland OR 97520 Or call or fax 503/488-2492 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVEL BY EDWARD M. LERNER PROBE (Warner Books, 1991, 314 pages, paperback) ``Hold-on-to-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller'' -- Illinois Quarterly ``Good old-fashioned flight and chase and murder'' -- Fairfax Journal ``A fast-paced thriller sure to please'' -- Pete Earley _Prospector_, a privately owned space probe, has apparently stumbled upon the wreckage of an alien spaceship in the Asteroid Belt. Then researcher Bob Hanson uncovers proof that the discovery has been cleverly faked -- evidence that neither the hidden plotters nor the true believers want revealed. Hanson's only hope is to penetrate and expose the conspiracy... before the conspirators find him. For further information, please send SASE to: Edward M. Lerner 13018 Grey Friars Place Herndon VA 22071 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY THOM METZGER SHOCK TOTEM. Penguin/Onyx, 288 pp, paperback. ``Really an Amazing Book.'' Rudy Rucker ``Relentlessly bizarre... a wild ride of a novel.'' Rave Reviews ``Marginal epic disguised as medical horror novel... Lurid pulp... seething craziness.'' Peter Lamborn Wilson THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING, Autonomedia, 181 pp, paperback. ``An alluring mixture of pop-culture smut and orgiastic religion.'' Retrofuturism. ``Striking and original... zestful and frightening.'' Publishers Weekly ``Original, frightening and not bound by the conventions of good taste.'' Toxic Horror DROWNING IN FIRE, Penguin/Signet, 350 pp, paperback. ``Brilliant'' Screw Magazine ``Uniquely twisted.'' Times Union ``The prose equivalent of R. Crumb and S. Clay Wilson stoned on evil speed and sterno.'' Hakim Bey. For more information, please send SASE to: Thom Metzger Box 25193 Rochester, NY 14625 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ CHILDREN'S BOOK BY JANICE MILLER & RUSS MILLER THE COMMON TALE OF TWO DRAGONS is a 50-page, full color, 8.5"x11", children's book written by comic book colorist and writer Janice Miller. It is fully illustrated by comic book writer and artist Russ Miller. Tip and Leon, two tiny dragons, were born joined at the tail making flight impossible. The quest of these two courageous little adventurers is chronicled in this fine story enjoyed by children and adults. Please send SASE to: Russ Miller JKLM Productions P.O. Box 13144 Prescott AZ 86304 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NON-FICTION BY HANK NUWER BROKEN PLEDGES: THE DEADLY RITE OF HAZING BROKEN PLEDGES is written in literary journalism style. It is the only book to discuss hazing in fraternal groups, high schools, athletic clubs, the military, sororities, etc. Hank Nuwer is a Pennsylvania-based journalist and author. First-edition hardcover with dust jacket, very good or excellent condition. Specify if you want signed and with what message if you wish. 340 pages, Longstreet Press, Published October 1990. Category: Nonfiction. For more information, please send SASE or email to: Hank Nuwer 8311 Countryside Lane Fogelsville PA 18051 Compuserve: 76004,1761 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ STORY COLLECTION FROM JERRY OLTION Love Songs of a Mad Scientist (Hypatia Press, limited edition, leatherbound or regular trade hardcover) The first volume of Jerry Oltion's collected short fiction. Introduction by Stanley Schmidt. All copies numbered and signed by the author and by Dr. Schmidt. The book runs to 320 pages and contains 18 stories, three of them illustrated by Janet Aulisio, and one written and illustrated by the author when he was 7 years old. For more information, please send SASE or email to: Jerry Oltion 2040 Providence St. Eugene OR 97401 GEnie: J.OLTION Internet: J.OL...@GENIE.GEIS.COM ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ FICTION & NON-FICTION BY ALEXEI & CORY PANSHIN THE WORLD BEYOND THE HILL Hugo-winning analytic history of SF. Elephant limited first edition or Tarcher hardcover. RITE OF PASSAGE Nebula Award-winning novel. Collector's edition, Easton Press limited leather-bound hardcover. TRANSMUTATIONS: A BOOK OF PERSONAL ALCHEMY ``A virtuoso performance... authentically maddening... enormously rewarding... here is A Mind at Work.'' -- Virginia Kidd A unique collection of left-handed writing. A book that is more than the sum of its parts. Elephant limited hc, or pb. SF IN DIMENSION ``The strong suit of this book is its urgent, but never dumbly optimistic, sense of what might be possible, what imaginative span SF might be able to encompass in the future.'' -- Ian Watson First presentation and development of the ideas in THE WORLD BEYOND THE HILL. Twenty-two essays. Advent quality paperback. HEINLEIN IN DIMENSION The first booklength study of a modern science fiction writer, it remains the best introduction to Heinlein's first thirty years of writing. Winner of the first Fan Writer Hugo. Advent hc or pb. FAREWELL TO YESTERDAY'S TOMORROW -- Berkley/Putnam hc For further information, please send SASE to: Alexei and Cory Panshin 5580 Route 412 Riegelsville, PA 18077 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ SCIENCE FICTION AND POETRY by BILL RANSOM JAGUAR (Ace paperback, '90) A tale of triumph over childhood abuse and neglect that walks the line between science fiction and magical realism. In waking life, the Jaguar is a WWII vet with a mysterious sleep disorder, confined to a VA bed. When he sleeps, he roams this world and another, invading the minds of people as they dream, forcing them to do his will. Four dream-bonded children combine forces to cross the void between worlds and fight for their lives--and ours. THE ASCENSION FACTOR (Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, Ace/Putnam hardcover, '88) Final installment in the Pandora trilogy (THE JESUS INCIDENT, THE LAZARUS EFFECT, THE ASCENSION FACTOR). Pandora is under the fist of an ambitious clone who rules with a sadistic security force led by the assassin, Spider Nevi. The Director controls the people by controlling their food supply and their official religion. Small resistance groups, led by a news team and an underground religous group, fight to overthrow The Director and his forces, and reestablish the sentient kelp that used to calm the planet-wide ravaging seas. THE JESUS INCIDENT (Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, Putnam/Berkley hardcover, '78) This bestseller kicked off the Herbert/Ransom Pandora trilogy, and there are only a few copies of the original hardcover left. A Ship who claims to be God abandons colonists to the planet's bloodthirsty demons and to their own sinister leaders. A poet, a clone from hybernation and a drunken physican team up to save their own people and the planet's only sentient species, which their leader, a Chaplain/Psychiatrist, wants to wipe out completely. POETRY BY BILL RANSOM FINDING TRUE NORTH (Copper Canyon Press, '73 & 76, trade paper) Nominated for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1974, this first book of Ransom's is extremely difficult to find. Just a couple of copies left of this mint-condition collection. THE SINGLE MAN LOOKS AT WINTER (Empty Bowl Press, paper, '83) This poetry collection explores the period of separation, divorce and recovery. All titles signed by Bill Ransom upon request. For information, please send SASE to: Bill Ransom P.O. Box 284 Grayland, WA 98547-0284 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY J. NEIL SCHULMAN PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK FOR UNDER $50! (Written with Victor Koman.) KoPubCo 1991, New. Low-tech/Hi-tech self-publishing strategies. Good overview of microfiche and electronic publishing: benefits and pitfalls. ALONGSIDE NIGHT. Crown 1st, 1979, Mint Autographed Slipsheet Edition limited to 526 copies, signed and numbered by the author! America faces destruction and tyranny during hyperinflationary crackup. Young Elliot Vreeland must rescue his imprisoned family and help topple the government. Prometheus Award Hall of Fame winner! For further information, please send SASE or email to: J. Neil Schulman P.O. Box 94 Long Beach, CA 90801-0094 GEnie: SOFTSERV ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ FANTASY NOVEL BY DAVE SMEDS THE SCHEMES OF DRAGONS by Dave Smeds, pb, March 1989, 250 pgs. High fantasy. Praise from F&SF: ``Dave Smeds writes fantasy with the inventiveness and rigor of the best sort of hard science fiction. His story of a world being conquered by a Hitlerian dragon is so real that when you set it on the same shelf with woodsy-elvesy fantasies, within a week they crumble into dust.'' Original edition. Autographed on request. For information, send SASE or email to: Dave Smeds 164 Jack London Drive Santa Rosa CA 95409 GEnie: D.SMEDS ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY L. A. TAYLOR. A MURDER WAITING TO HAPPEN. 1989 hardcover mystery. Jamison, a somewhat confused mundane, addresses a science fiction convention on the topic of UFO investigation. FOOTNOTE TO MURDER. 1983 hardcover mystery-suspense. Marge Brock, a library researcher, finds herself in danger when she runs across a series of murders she may know something about. ONLY HALF A HOAX. 1983 hardcover mystery. First of a series featuring J.J. Jamison, software engineer and UFO investigator. SHED LIGHT ON DEATH. 1985 hardcover mystery. Third in J.J. Jamison series. POETIC JUSTICE. 1988 hardcover mystery. Takes place in a writers' conference where some have more on their minds than how to construct a line of poetry that scans. THE BLOSSOM OF ERDA. Science fiction adventure set in distant future with strong female lead character. Hardcover or softcover available. Please ignore title; it was the publisher's idea. For further information, SASE to: Laurie Sparer 4000 York Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55410 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ COLLECTION BY GENE WOLFE GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS, a collection of 18 short stories. Doubleday hardcover with dustjacket, signed. CASTLEVIEW, Novel, Tor 1990. For further information, send SASE to: Gene Wolfe P.O. Box 69 Barrington, IL 60010 ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ BOOKS BY JANE YOLEN THE ACORN QUEST, children's novel, Arthurian spoof, b&w illos, hardcover BROTHERS OF THE WIND, children's chapter book, Arabian horse fantasy, first illos by Barbara Berger, hardcover, 1st edition CARDS OF GRIEF, adult sf novel, winner Mythopoeic Award, paperback American or British editions DRAGON'S BLOOD, YA sf/fantasy novel, first book of Pit Dragon trilogy, British paperback. DRAGON NIGHT & OTHER LULLABIES, children's poetry collection, b&w illos Demi, hardcover THE GIANTS' FARM, easy-reading chapter book, 2-color illos Tomie dePaola, first edition, hardcover HEART'S BLOOD, YA sf/fantasy novel, second book of Pit Dragon Trilogy, British paperback HOBO TOAD & THE MOTORCYCLE GANG, children's novel, b&w illos Emily Arnold McCauley, hardcover first edition MERLIN'S BOOKE, adult short stories about Merlin, b&w illos Thomas Canty, hardcover, 2 editions (one with end papers more expensive) NEPTUNE RISING, YA collection of stories & poems about underwater myth creatures, hardcover, b&w illos David Wiesner ROBOT & REBECCA, children's sf novel, hardcover ROBOT & REBECCA AND THE MISSING OWSER, children's novel, paperback SHAPE SHIFTERS, YA anthology, hardcover SLEEPING BEAUTY, children's picture book, color illos Ruth Sanderson, hardcover (Yolen's husband, daughter, and Yolen herself posed for roles in book) SPACESHIPS & SPELLS, YA anthology, hardcover SPIDER JANE ON THE MOVE, children's easy-reading chapter book, b&w illos, hardcover TALES OF WONDER, collection of Yolen's short stories, hardcover, first edition UNCLE LEMON'S SPRING, children's tall tale novel, b&w illos Glen Rounds, hardcover. For further information, or queries about non-fantasy or sf titles, send SASE or e-mail to: Jane Yolen 31 School Street Box 27 Hatfield MA 01038 GEnie: J.YOLEN ///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\///\ NOVEL BY GEORGE ZEBROWSKI MACROLIFE (Harper & Row, 284 p. Illustrated by Rick Sternbach). Utopian novel about space habitats. ``So good it doesn't need any recommendation from me.'' -- Arthur C. Clarke. ``A work of sweeping imagination.'' -- Gerard K. O'Neill. ``Reminiscent of Le Guin but on a much larger canvas.'' -- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. ``Breathtaking scope.'' -- Publishers Weekly. ``Splendidly wrought.'' -- W.Warren Wagar. ``Far-sighted and poetic.'' -- Michael Bishop. Also available in limited artist edition with tipped-in plate. 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