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Set in 2020, former bounty hunter Joanna Dark has had a traumatic conflict with hypercorporation dataDyne, and she's set on vengeance.  Joanna is not the only one who is at war with dataDyne. But will she join forces with them, or carry the battle by herself?  This novel is based on the XBOX game, Perfect Dark Zero.
Perect Dark: Initial Vector
Rucka, Greg
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2005.
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What do Edinburgh, Scotland, orcs, virtual reality and banks have in common?  Charles Stross' Halting State.  It's 2018, and a cop with the very ordinary name of Sue Smith is assigned to investigate a bank robbery from a virtual bank.  The suspects?  A band of orcs who bring along an unusual weapon--a dragon.  Copper Sue may just be in over her head.  351 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 /34".  Jacket illustration by Sophie Toulouse.
Halting State
Stross, Charles
New York: Ace Books, 2007.
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Teenager Joss is a time-traveling, harminica-playing free spirit.  At first she's not happy about being chosen as the study partner and Earth guide to Mavkel, the first alien to attend the Centre for Neo-Classical Studies.  When Mavkel becomes ill, however, Joss realizes that going back in time and interceding in past events is the only way to save Mavkel's life.  Winner of the 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel.  Shortlisted for the 1999 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Best Young Adult Fiction.  The author's first novel.  265 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket illustration by John Picacio.
Singing the Dogstar Blues
Goodman, Alison
New York: Viking Press, 1998.
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In the year 2380, astronomers watch a star vanish, but not by the usual means--it didn't go supernova, nor collapse into a black hole.  The Second Chance starship, commanded by Wilson Kime, is send to investigate.  But a group known as the Guardians, who don't want the mission to proceed, try to sabotage it.  Which entity poses more dange to Kime and The Second Chance--the Guardians, or the unknown force that caused the disappearance of the star?  758 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket illustration by John Harris.
Pandora's Star
Hamilton, Peter F.
New York: Del Rey, 2004.
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Based on the screenplay and story by George Lucas.  This is the beginning of the Star Wars Saga.  327 pp.  9 1/4" X 6 3/8".  Jacket design by David Stevenson.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Brooks, Terry
New York: Del Rey, 1991.
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A flying saucer more than 140,000 years old is discovered buried in the sands of the Sahara Desert.  The U.S. military wants it, as does a billionaire entrepreneur.  But Rip Cantrell, the man who actually discovered the saucer, hijacks it and flies it away.  240 pp.  9 1/4" X 6".
Saucer
Coonts, Stephen
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002.
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Late 21st century earth is plagued by disasters of such magnitude that it needs a new world in which it can start over.  Two planets, dubbed Blue and Green, are chosen for the new civilizations.  But is the damage on earth too much?  Will the new world succeed?  397 pp.  9" X 6".  Cover illustration by Brian W. Dow.
Hurricane Moon
Latner, Alexis Glynn
Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007.
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Third book in the Dragon series, after The Dragon and the George and The Dragon Knight.  In this sequel, Sir James, the Dragon Knight, battles the Hollow Men, empty suits of armor on invisible steeds, but who weild immense power.  393 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket art by Denis Beauvais.
The Dragon on the Border
Dickson, Gordon R.
New York: Ace Books, 1982.
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Wilder writes science fiction and fantasy.  In Signs of Life, she again writes of the planet, Rhomary Land.  A group of people escaped from a space ship just before it was destroyed, and land in scattered places on Rhomary Land.  What will their lives be like now, on the planet?
Signs of Life
Wilder, Cherry
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 1996.
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DAW Books Collectors No. 1300.  This is Judson's first science fiction novel.  It takes place in the 26th century, in what used to be the United States and Canada, where the Confederacy of the Yukons, a feudal society, presides over a non-electrical world, what's left after the Storm Wars of the late 21st century.  Lord Isaac Prophet Fitzpatrick is a Yukon hero.  A memoir written by Sir Robert Bruce, Fitzpatrick's chief engineer, has recently been found.  What will the memoir reveal about Fitzpatrick?  481 pp.  9 1/4" X 6 1/4".  Jacket painting by Gnemo.
Fitzpatrick's War
Judson, Theodore
New York: DAW Books, 2004.
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A new Robot novel.  Sequel to Caliban.  The planet Inferno is hosting a meeting of Spacers and Settlers, long distrustful of each other.  When Inferno's Governor is murdered, and the robot Caliban is suspected of the crime, the conflict between the pro-robot Spacers and the anti-robot Settlers escalates.  226 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket art by Ralph McQuarrie.
Isaac Asimov's Inferno
Allen, Roger MacBride
New York: Ace Books, 1994.
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Flinx is a human orphan with enhanced empathic abilities, roaming the universe in search of his past, and looking to the future.  He hacks into an AI program and finds information on a eugenics society--a society which had conducted the experiment via which Flinx was born.  He sets out to find the truth behind the classified information.  9 1/2" X 6 1/2".  Jacket painting by Robert Hunt.
Reunion: A Pip and Flinx Novel
Foster, Alan Dean
New York: Del Rey, 2001.
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The second book in the Dingilliad trilogy.  Charles "Chigger" Dingilliad and his two brothers, Doug and Bobby, have fled earth for the orbital Geosynchronous Station, where they successfully instigate a divorce from their severely dysfunctional parents.  Before they can decide what to do next, however, they find themselves pursued by interplanetary corporate spies, intent on seizing a microchip embedded in Bobby's animatronic toy money.  Their only hope is to enlist the aid of a rogue lunar conman.  It's a battle for their very survival.  319 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket art by Royo.
Bouncing Off the Moon
Gerrold, David
New York: Tor Books, 2001.
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The third book in the Dingilliad trilogy.  Charles "Chigger" Dingilliad and his brothers Doug and Bobby have narrowly escaped capture by interplanetary corporations who have chased them across the lunar landscape.  The boys, exiled from Earth after divorcing their parents, must find a new home.  Headed for Outbeyond, a colony of planet Earth, the discover they are still being pursued, this time because Chigger is carrying a Harlie--an artificial intelligence device intended to help build a better world Outbeyond.  316 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket art by Royo.
Leaping to the Stars
Gerrold, David
New York: Tor Books, 2002.
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The first book in the Dingilliad trilogy for young adults.  Life is tough enough for teenager Charles "Chigger" Dingilliad.  The 21st century world in which he lives is a disaster--it's over-populated, and international corporations battle for control.  Then the usual 2-week summer vacation with his father and two brothers turns weird.  His father seems to have a secret agenda, but Chigger can't figure out if his father has set out to kidnap his sons to keep them from their mother, or if his father has become a smuggler of corporate intelligence.  Winner of the 2001 Hal Clement Award for Young Adult fiction, and nominated for the Lambda Award, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award .  285 pp.  8 1/2" X 5 3/4".  Jacket art by Royo.
Jumping Off the Planet
Gerrold, David
New York: Tor Books, 2000.
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Four professors travel from New Mexico to the Sahara Desert to look for a Stonehenge-like structure buried beneath it.  While there, they discover that it's a portal to another planet which may have had something to do with the origins of earth.  Jack Williamson has won the Hugo, Nebula, and other awards for his science fiction writings;
The Stonehenge Gate
Williamson, Jack
New York: tor, 2005.
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A collection of 19 short stories by the award-winning Swanwick, including the 1999 Hugo Award-winning story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine."  Other stories include, "The Dead," "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur," "Ancient Engines," "North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy," The Mask," "Mother Grasshopper," "Riding the Gigantosaur," "Wild Minds," "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O," "Microcosmic Dog," "In Concert," "Radiant Doors," "Ice Age," "Walking Out," "The Changeling's Tale," "Midnight Express," "The Wisdom of Old Earth," and "Radio Waves."  277 pp.  9 1/4" X 6 1/4".
Tales of the Old Earth
Swanwick, Michael
Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd., 2000.
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Project Argus has for years has listened to the universe, waiting for a message from some intelligent life form.  A last, it has been received.  Life for Eleanor Arroway, director of Argus, will never be the same, as she decodes the message and plans how to respond.  This is the book on which the film starring Jodie Foster was based.  431 pp.  9 1/2" X 6 1/4".  Jacket painting by Jon Lomberg.
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Sagan, Carl
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Price: $30.00
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