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Speculative Fiction Stars 2004
August 19, 2008
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram
Book Magazine unless otherwise noted. Titles are arranged by approximate date
of publication, then alphabetically by author.
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- Taverns of the Dead
Author: Burke, Kealan Patrick (ed)
Publisher: Cemetary Dance $ 40 ISBN: 1587670828 Date: 2004
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Updated 11.22.04 - Afterlife
Author: Clegg, Douglas
Publisher: Onyx $ 6.99 ISBN: 0451411676 Date: 2004PW
The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Nightmare House and Mischief returns with a terrifying new horror thriller. "The best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."--Bentley Little.
Updated 11.22.04 - Reflex
Author: Gould, Stephen
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312864213 Date: 2004PW
A mysterious group has kidnapped a teleport to use his abilities. His wife unexpectedly shares his teleporting ability and may be the only one able to rescue him.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 11.2.04 - Tainaron: Mail from Another City
Author: Krohn, Leena
Publisher: Prime $ 29.95 ISBN: 1930997825 Date: 2004PW
Updated 11.15.04 - Wolf Captured
Author: Lindskold, Jane
Publisher: Tor $ 27.95 ISBN: 076530936x Date: 2004PW
From the bestselling author of Through Wolf's Eyes comes the next novel of Firekeeper and her wolf companion.
Updated 10.25.04 - Polaris
Author: McDevitt, Jack
Publisher: Ace $ 24.95 ISBN: 0441012027 Date: 2004LJ
The national best-selling author brings back the daring Alex Benedict from A Talent for War and thrusts him into a far-future tale of mystery and suspense.
Updated 11.22.04 - The Finest Creation
Author: Rabe, Jean
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765308207 Date: 2004Booklist
The Finest series features mystically forged creatures of perfection sent by the creators to aid the Fallen (mankind) during their mortal existence. Resembling ordinary horses, their task is to prevent a new dark age from dimming the light of civilization.
Updated 11.2.04 - The Wizard: Book Two of the Wizard Knight
Author: Wolfe, Gene
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765312018 Date: 2004PWBooklist
His knighthood now beyond question, Able works to fulfill his vows to his king, his lover, his friends, his gods, and even his enemies. Able must set his world right, restoring the proper order among the denizens of all the seven worlds.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 11.2.04
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- Exultant
Author: Baxter, Stephen
Publisher: Del Rey $ 25.95 ISBN: 0345457889 Date: 2004Kirkus
Humanity battles to survive against an implacable alien force in the second installment of the Destiny's Children trilogy.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 10.08.04 - Crache
Author: Budz, Mark
Publisher: Spectra $ 6.99 ISBN: 0553586599 Date: 2004PW
In this sequel to Clade, Budz continues his startlingly realistic vision of a possible future on an ecologically ravaged Earth, in which social and ethnic hierarchies are rigorously enforced by nano- and bio-technology.
Updated 10.19.04 - Life
Author: Jones, Gwyneth
Publisher: Acqueuct $ 19 ISBN: 0974655929 Date: 2004LJ
Updated 9.22.04 - Polaris
Author: McDevitt, Jack
Publisher: Ace $ 24.95 ISBN: 0441012027 Date: 2004PW
The national best-selling author brings back the daring Alex Benedict from A Talent for War and thrusts him into a far-future tale of mystery and suspense.
Updated 9.27.04 - The
Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway
Author: Pohl, Frederik
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 076531049x Date: 2004PWKirkus
Returning to his bestselling Gateway universe for the first time in nearly 20 years, Pohl has written a science fiction novel to captivate the readers who helped Gateway and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon win the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 8.9.04 - Rite of Conquest
Author: Tarr, Judith
Publisher: Roc $ 16 (paper) ISBN: 0451460022 Date: 2004Booklist
National bestselling author Judith Tarr's House of War was hailed as a "beautifully researched, masterfully written fantasy" (Booklist). Now she tells the tale of a land in turmoil and an epic battle that spans worlds and ages, magical forces and earthbound armies that will be drawn together by the young William as he fights to achieve his destiny--to reign as King of England.
Updated 9.22.04 - Shadowmarch
Author: Williams, Tad
Publisher: Daw $ 25.95 ISBN: 0756402190 Date: 2004PW
Williams' first epic fantasy trilogy since his bestselling Memory, Sorrow and Thorn begins. Rich with detail and exotic culture, and filled with a cast of characters both diverse and three-dimensional, Shadowmarch is a true fantasy achievement, an epic of storytelling by a master of the genre.
Updated 10.4.04
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- The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
Author: King, Stephen
Publisher: Scribner/Donald M. Grant $ 35 ISBN: 1880418622 Date: 2004PWLJ
The final volume of King's masterful, multi-volume epic is hailed as a "hypnotic blend of suspense and sentimentality . . . a sprawling, eventful tale of demons, monsters, narrow escapes, and magic portals" (The New York Times Book Review).
Suggested Reading: Scary Stars
Updated 9.22.04 - Flash
Author: Modesitt, L.E.
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765311283 Date: 2004Kirkus
Flash is a new science fiction adventure set in the world of Archform: Beauty, Modesitt's most acclaimed SF novel.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 7.26.04 - Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld
Author: Pratchett, Terry
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060013133 Date: 2004PW
The newest entry in Pratchett's internationally bestselling series is a splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between.
Suggested Reading: Political Fiction Stars | Adult Books for Young Adults | If You Like Douglas Adams
Updated 9.6.04 - In the Night Room
Author: Straub, Peter
Publisher: Random $ 21.95 ISBN: 1400062527 Date: 2004PW
A children's book author realizes that the most basic facts of her existence have come into question. When she meets a struggling horror author, the frightening parallels between her loss and the author's manuscript suggest they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them.
Updated 10.4.04
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- Jonathan Strange
& Mr. Norrell
Author: Clarke, Susanna
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 29.95 ISBN: 1582344167 Date: 2004BooklistKirkusPWLJ
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that it leaves readers longing for more.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Magicians & Magic | Adult Books for Young Adults
Updated 8.16.04 - To The Stars
Author: Hubbard, L. Ron
Publisher: Galaxy $ 24.95 ISBN: 1592121756 Date: 2004PW
A timeless and immersing epic of the conquest of spaceby #1 New York Times bestselling author L. Ron Hubbard.
Updated 8.30.04 - The Language of Power
Author: Kirstein, Rosemary
Publisher: Del Rey $ 14.95 (paper) ISBN: 034546835x Date: 2004PW
The next novel in the series about the steerswoman's quest to uncover the secrets of her world, following The Lost Steersman.
Updated 7.26.04 - Marque and Reprisal
Author: Moon, Elizabeth
Publisher: Del Rey $ 24.95 ISBN: 0345447581 Date: 2004Kirkus
Elizabeth Moon is in the second installment in her military science fiction series featuring Kylara Vatta who must save her family from ruin.
Updated 7.8.04
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- The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Author: Azania, Malcolm & Minister Faust
Publisher: Del Rey $ 14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0345466357 Date: 2004LJBooklist
Mix together two young slackers with a thirst for adventure, several dangerous characters seeking a mystical Egyptian artifact, a hearty dose of mysterious occurrences, and a rollicking plot, and one has Faust's pop culture/sci fi debut.
Suggested Reading: Debuts | Adult Books for Young Adults
Updated 6.15.04 - The Year's
Best Fantasy & Horror, Seventeenth Annual Collection
Author: Datlow, Ellen (ed)
Publisher: Griffin $ 35 ISBN: 031232927x Date: 2004PW
Updated 8.2.04 - Nameless Day: Crucible Book One
Author: Douglass, Sara
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN:0765303620 Date: 2004PW
Douglass combines powerful storytelling with meticulous historical research and presents a unique take on the ageless battle between the forces of heaven and hell.
Updated 6.21.04 - Light
Author: Harrison, M. John
Publisher: Spectra $ 16 (paper) ISBN: 0553382950 Date: 2004KirkusPW
Published in the U.K to rave reviews, M. John Harrison's newest novel takes a stunning foray into the hot subgenre of New Space Opera, as it masterfully weaves together three intertwining strands of narrative that explore the mystery and the meaning of three enigmatic objects.
Updated 8.23.04 - Elegy for a Lost Star
Author: Haydon, Elizabeth
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312878834 Date: 2004PW
A son is pitted against his mother and Rhapsody is caught in the middle in Book Five of the national bestselling Symphony of Ages series.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 7.12.04 - Fitzpatrick's War
Author: Judson, Theodore
Publisher: Daw $ 19.95 ISBN: 0756401968 Date: 2004PW
An inspired first science fiction novel set several hundred years in the future when the world's population has been decimated by biological weapons, this book chronicles the Alexander-like rise and fall of Fitzpatrick the Younger, as told by one of his close companions.
Updated 7.19.04 - Foxmask
Author: Marillier, Juliet
Publisher: Tor $ 27.95 ISBN: 0765306743 Date: 2004Booklist
The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society where the Norse warriors and the gentle folks of the Orkney Isles live and thrive in contentment at last. A decade and more has passed since the devastating events of the creation of the settlement and Eyvind and Nessa have watched their children grow and thrive in peace. . .What happens to them on their journey of discovery will ultimately change the lives of all they know and love...and will doom (or redeem) an entire people. - Publisher Marketing
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 7.6.04 - Vamped
Author: Sosnowski, David
Publisher: Free $ 24 ISBN: 0743262530 Date: 2004LJ
A hot beach read, Sosnowski's Vamped is the story of a very different world--one where vampires rule and humans are the near-extinct minority.
Suggested Reading: Scary Stars| Adult Books for Young Adults | Alex Award Read Alikes: Martinez
Updated 6.1.04 - Dies the Fire
Author: Stirling, S.M.
Publisher: Roc $ 23.95 ISBN: 0451459792 Date: 2004LJ
An electrical storm over Nantucket island causes all electrical devices to cease function, and as some people band together, others are building armies for conquest.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 7.13.04 - The Dragon's Son
Author: Weis, Margaret
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765304694 Date: 2004PW
There is a new hope for the human race in the form of a special offspring of a high priestess and a dragon who might be able to contain the anarchy that is disrupting the delicate and unseen order that the Parliament has tried to protect.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 6.7.04 - Banquet of the Lords of Night
Author: Williams, Liz
Publisher: Nightshade $ 27 ISBN: 1892389932 Date: 2004PW
In such novels as The Poison Master and Empire of Bones, Liz Williams sparked readers' imaginations by creating worlds at once strange and familiar. Now this bold new writer brings her best short fiction together in one stunning collection.
Updated 8.16.04
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- Horizon Storms: The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 3
Author: Anderson, Kevin J.
Publisher: Aspect $ 24.95 ISBN:0446528722 Date: 2004PW
Bestseller Anderson . . . weaves action, romance and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg."--Publishers Weekly.
Updated 7.6.04 - Mother Aegypt: And Other Stories
Author: Baker, Kage
Publisher: Night Shade $ 27 ISBN: 1892389754 Date: 2004PW
A brand new short story collection from Kage Baker, including an original novella, Mother Aegypt.
Updated 6.21.04 - The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Author: Brown, Charles N. (ed)
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 15.95 (paper) ISBN: 0060594268 Date: 2004Booklist
This collection of the best science fiction and fantasy short works of the last three decades includes works by such legendary authors as Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Connie Willis, and others.
Updated 7.6.04 - The Year's Best Science Fiction 21st Annual Collection
Author: Dozois, Gardner
Publisher: Griffin $ 35/19.95 ISBN: 0312324782/0312324790 Date: 2004PW
Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, this award-winning anthology continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best sci fi writing.
Updated 6.30.04 - Mortal Love
Author: Hand, Elizabeth
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0061051705 Date: 2004PWKirkus
The breakout book from acclaimed author Hand is a powerful, beautifully written and romantic story of art, obsession, and imagination that ranges from Victorian London to present-day New York.
Updated 5.10.04 - Perfect Circle
Author: Stewart, Sean
Publisher: Small Beer $ 24 ISBN: 1931520070 Date: 2004Booklist
A novel about Texas, ghosts and perfect pop songs.
Suggested Reading: Contemporary Fantasy Stars | Adult Books for Young Adults
Updated 6.10.04 - Iron Council
Author: Mieville, China
Publisher: Del Rey $ 24.95 ISBN: 0345464028 Date: 2004PW
Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Mieville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut.
Suggested Reading: Dystopian Stars
Updated 7.6.04 - Iron Sunrise
Author: Stross, Charles
Publisher: Ace $ 23.95 ISBN: 0441011594 Date: 2004PW
Stross's debut novel Singularity Sky was hailed as "a carnival of ideas" (Michael Swanwick), sealing his reputation as a writer who "owns the cutting edge of science fiction" (James Patrick Kelly). Now he moves beyond that horizon with his stunning sequel.
Updated 6.30.04
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- The Darkness That Comes Before
Author: Bakker, R. Scott
Publisher: Overlook $ 25.95 ISBN: 1585675598LJPW
Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates the kind of all-embracing universe Tolkien and Herbert created in The Lord of the Rings and Dune.
Updated 4.20.04 - Weapons of
Choice: Book One of the Axis of Time Trilogy
Author: Birmingham, John
Publisher: Del Rey $ 15.95 (paper) ISBN: 0345457129 Date: 2004PW
This explosive new alternative history novel plunges a 21st-century naval fleet into the middle of the Pacific during combat in World War II--an event that disrupts the course of history.
Updated 5.24.04 - Forge of Heaven
Author: Cherryh, C.J.
Publisher: Eos $ 24.95 ISBN: 0380979039Booklist
From the Hugo Award-winning author of Hammerfall comes the second volume in the Gene Wars epic, which further explores this captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 3.11.04 - Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Author: King, Stephen
Publisher: Donald Grant $ 30 ISBN: 1880418592PW
The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, Song of Susannah is a pivotal installment in the most anticipated series of publications in Stephen King's legendary career.
Suggested Reading: Scary Stars | Adult Books for Young Adults
Updated 4.19.04 - Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories
Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
Publisher: Subterranean $ 40 ISBN: 1931081298PW
Updated 4.19.04 - Firethorn
Author: Micklem, Sarah
Publisher: Scribner $ 25 ISBN: 0743247949PWBooklist
A fantasy in the tradition of The Mists of Avalon, Firethorn is an extraordinary tale--at once magical and violent, beautiful and frightening--about a bold young woman and her journey to the brink of war.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 4.15.04 - Thinner Than Thou
Author: Reed, Kit
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765307626 Date: 2004PWBooklist
In the tomorrow of Thinner Than Thou, the cult of the body has become the one true religion. The Dedicated Sisters are a religious order sworn to help anorexic, bulimic, and morbidly obese youth. Throughout the land, houses of worship have been replaced by the health clubs of the Crossed Triceps. And through hypnotically powerful evangelical infomercials, the Reverend Earl preaches the heaven of the Afterfat, where you will look like a Greek god and can eat anything you want. Just sign over your life savings and come to Sylphania, the most luxurious weight-loss spa in the world, where the Reverend himself will personally supervise your attainment of physical perfection.
But the glory of youth and thinness that America worships conceals a hidden world where teens train for the competitive eating circuit, where fat porn and obese strippers feed people's dark desires, and where an underground railroad of rebellious religions remember when people worshipped God instead of the Afterfat. - Publisher Marketing
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens | Dystopias
Updated 6.15.04 - Absolution Gap
Author: Reynolds, Alastair
Publisher: Ace $ 24.95 ISBN: 0441011586 Date: 2004PW
Widely hailed as the new leader of cutting-edge hard-science fiction, Reynolds concludes his popular saga with Clavain and his ragtag companions considering forging an unholy alliance in order to save humanity from recently reawakened ancient killing machines.
Updated 6.1.04 - Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy
Author: Sarrantonio, Al (ed)
Publisher: Roc $ 24.95 ISBN: 0451459776 Date: 2004PW
This daring, all-new anthology showcases some of the genre's biggest names and best newcomers--and sets the standard for fantasy in the 21st century. Included are new stories by Neil Gaiman, Harry Turtledove, and more.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 5.17.04 - Innocents Aboard: New Fantasy Stories
Author: Wolfe, Gene
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765307901 Date: 2004PW
Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF today. His quotes and reviews certainly support that contention, and so does his impressive short fiction oeuvre. "Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection. Highlights from the twenty-two stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story, "The Walking Sticks," a darkly humorous tale of a supernatural inheritance, and "Houston, 1943," lurid adventures in a dream that has no end. This is fantastic fiction at its best. - Publisher Marketing.
Updated 6.14.04
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- Triads
Author: Brite, Poppy Z. & Christa Faust
Publisher: Subterranean $ 40 ISBN: 1931081409PWKirkus
Updated 4.12.04 - Alone
With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991
Author: Campbell, Ramsey
Publisher: Tor $ 26.95 ISBN: 0765307677 Date: 2004PW
Suggested Reading: Scary Stars
Updated 6.1.04 - The Ordinary
Author: Grimsley, Jim
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765305283Booklist
Science and magic collide in this story of two realms marching inevitably towards war, as a young linguist finds herself at the center of events that will challenge everything she has ever believed about the world--and herself.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 4.21.04 - Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades
Author: Silverberg, Robert
Publisher: Subterranean $ 40 ISBN: 1931081999 Date: 2004PW
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 5.3.04 - Heaven
Author: Stewart, Ian and Jack Cohen
Publisher: Aspect $ 24.95 ISBN: 0446529834 Date: 2004PW
Following the success of their previous collaboration, Wheelers, Cohen--a biologist and consultant on science fiction alien design--and Stewart--a professor of mathematics--join forces on another highly-anticipated science fiction novel.
Updated 4.26.04 - Use Once, Then Destroy
Author: Williams, Conrad
Publisher: Nightshade $ 27 ISBN: 1892389673PW
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- The Skinner
Author: Asher, Neal
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765307375Kirkus
Neal Asher, whom Tor introduced to the American audience with Gridlinked, takes us deeper into his unique universe with an even more remarkable second novel, The Skinner.
On the planet Spatterjay arrive three travelers: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind, on a mission not yet revealed to him; Erlin, searching for Ambel -- the ancient sea captain who can teach her how to live; and Sable Keech, on a vendetta he cannot abandon, though he himself has been dead for 700 years. As the visitors' paths converge, major hell is about to erupt in a chaotic waterscape where minor hell is already a remorseless fact of everyday life . . . and death. - Publisher Marketing.
Updated 12.10.03 - The Chernagor Pirates: Book Two of the Scepter of Mercy
Author: Cherneko, Dale
Publisher: Roc $ 14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0451459563PW
The longer the Kings go without acting on their dream of retaking the Scepter of Mercy, the greater the advantage the Banished One gains. King Grus will have to act quickly--before his people realize just how formidable an enemy the Banished One truly is...
Updated 3.22.04 - Mystic Warrior: Book One of the Bronze Canticles
Author: Hickman, Tracy and Laura
Publisher: Aspect $ 24 ISBN: 0446531057PW
Bestselling fantasy master Tracy Hickman is joined by his wife, Laura, in offering the first book in a major, new, dragon-laden epic fantasy.
Updated 3.15.04 - Glass Dragons
Author: McMullen, Sean
Publisher: Tor $ 27.95 ISBN: 0765307979PW
One of Australia's leading genre writers delivers the second novel in his Moonworlds Saga, a fantasy epic of daunting skill and scope.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 2.16.04 - Mistress of the Pearl
Author: Van Lustbader, Eric
Publisher: Tor $ 27.95 ISBN: 0312872372Booklist
This sequel to The Ring of Five Dragons and The Veil of a Thousand Tears is the third volume of the towering fantasy epic, The Pearl.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 3.11.04 - Midnight Mass
Author: Wilson, F. Paul
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765307057Booklist
A new vampire thriller is penned by the bestselling author of The Tomb and the creator of Repairman Jack.
Suggested Reading: Scary Stars | Adult Books for Teens
Updated 4.21.04
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- The Swords of Night and Day
Author: Gemmell, David
Publisher: Del Rey $ 24.95 ISBN: 0345458338PW
A thousand years after he fought alongside Druss the Legend, Skilgannon the Damned has been resurrected to face the ruthless evil of the Eternal.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 3.11.04 - Pandora's Star
Author: Hamilton, Peter F.
Publisher: Del Rey $ 26.95 ISBN: 0345461622PW
From the bestselling author of The Reality Dysfunction and Fallen Dragon comes a stunning new work of epic science fiction.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 2.23.04 - The Last Light of the Sun
Author: Kay, Guy Gavriel
Publisher: Roc $ 24.95 ISBN: 0451459652PW
The multiple award-winning author of the three-book Fionavar Tapestry that "can only be compared to Tolkien's masterpiece" ("Star-Phoenix") leaves behind the decadent, sophisticated courts of his most recent works to shape a powerful, moving saga evoking the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse cultures of a thousand years ago.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 2.10.04 - Earth Logic: Elemental Logic, Book 2
Author: Marks, Laurie J.
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765309521Booklist
The sweeping drama that began in Fire Logic continues. "Full of love and humor as well as war and intrigue, this well-crafted epic fantasy will delight existing fans as surely as it will win new ones."--"Publishers Weekly."
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 2.5.04 - The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Author: Rankin, Robert
Publisher: Gollancz $ 9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0575074019 Date: 2004PW
Toy Town...now older, bigger, and certainly not wiser. The Old Rich, who have made their millions from the royalties on their world-famous nursery rhymes, are being murdered. One by one. Horribly. A psychopath is on the loose. He must be stopped at any cost. It's a job for toy Town's only detective--but he's missing, leaving only Eddie Bear, and his bestest friend Jack, to track down the mad killer. A hilarious, very irreverent fantasy from the cult creator of Web Site Story, The Sprouts of Wrath, and the five-book Brentford Trilogy. - Publisher Marketing
Suggested Reading: If You Like Douglas Adams | Rhyming Stars | Adult Books for Teens
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- The Stone of the Stars: Dragon Throne Book 1
Author: Baird, Alison
Publisher: Aspect $ 13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0446690988PW
The quest is on to find the coveted Stone of the Stars on the mystical isle of Trynisia, once a place where humans dwelt side by side with dragons. Four have set off on their journey to reach it. But can they reach the isle and the Stone of the Stars before the tyrannical God-King Khalazar finds it and uses it to rule the world?
Updated 1.5.04 - Fool's Fate: Book 3 of the Tawney Man
Author: Hobb, Robin
Publisher: Spectra $ 24.95 ISBN: 0553801546PW
Combining epic vision, intricate plotting, and seamless interweaving of characters and worlds, Hobb has emerged as one of the most popular and acclaimed authors of "big book" fantasy. Now, she concludes her third spectacular trilogy with a novel of breathtaking imagination.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 12.8.03 - The Iron Grail
Author: Holdstock, Robert
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 076530726xPW
After long travels, Merlin has returned to the future England. Likewise, Urtha, High King of the Cornovidi, is coming home, and Jason is sailing in to seek his son. But Urtha's stronghold has been taken by warriors from Ghostland. Now there will be war--against the Otherworld.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens | Legendary Characters
Updated 5.19.05 - White Devils
Author: McAuley, Paul J.
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765307618 Date: 2004Kirkus
In a futuristic Congo, where plague, civil war, and uncontrolled experiments in genetic engineering have spawned chaos and devastation throughout Africa, forensic pathologist Nick Hyde is determined to uncover the origins of a band of mysterious creatures.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 12.20.05 - Alphabet of Thorn
Author: McKillip, Patricia A.
Publisher: Ace $ 22.95 ISBN: 0441011306 Date: 2004PW
The latest fantasy epic form McKillip whose last book, In the Forests of Serre, was praised as "A mystical, eerie fantasy about the flight from love--and the haphazard progress toward love . . . A skillfully told adult fairy tale."--"Publishers Weekly".
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
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- The Boys Are Back in Town
Author: Golden, Christopher
Publisher: Bantam $ 12 (paper) ISBN: 0553382071 Date: 2004Booklist
Will James isn't looking forward to his tenth high school reunion. But what Will finds is a sort of alternative universe in which realities fade and "new" memories begin to block them out. This changed world of ever-shifting certainties threatens to remake the whole of the world--unless he can find a way to stop it.
Suggested Reading: Contemporary Fantasy Stars | Adult Books for Teens
Updated 2.23.04 - New Spring
Author: Jordan, Robert
Publisher: Tor $ 22.95 ISBN: 0765306298PW
This is the prequel to the Wheel of Time series from America's premier fantasy writer, and New York Times and USA Today #1 bestselling author of Crossroads of Twilight. In this book, it is prophesied that an infant will change the world--an infant that has been born with enemies.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 12.29.03 - Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
Author: Silverberg, Robert (ed)
Publisher: Del Rey $ 28.95 ISBN: 0345465440PW
This anthology gathers all-new short novels by 11 major fantasy authors writing in their bestselling universes, from Diana Gabaldon to Neil Gaiman to Terry Brooks.
Updated 11.3.03 - The Knight: Book One of the Wizard Knight
Author: Wolfe, Gene
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765309890PW
This is Wolfe's first book in a two-volume epic fantasy, written in the Tolkien tradition, that is an original and morally complex heroic fantasy.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
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