C.J. CHERRYH

Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Modred, Lynette and Vivien, but they were not characters from legend.  They were made people, clone servants designed to suit the fancy of their opulent owner, the Lady Dela Kim.  And they worked aboard the Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship, decorated with swords, heraldic banners, old-looking beams masking the structural joinings, and lamps that mimicked live flame.

They lived in a kind of dream, and had no idea of their origins, their prototypes in those old, old story tapes of romance, chivalry, heroism and betrayal.

Until a wandering instability, a knot in time, a ripple in the between sucked them into a spatial no-man's-land from where there seemed to be no escape.  And they were left alone, with the borrowed personas of their ancient namesakes, to face a crisis those venerable spirits were never designed to master!

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

Distinctively well fleshed-out characters lift this one, and the series, above the supernatural average."
- Kirkus Review

Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died - for two minutes.  Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm.  And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases.

When a comatose woman suddenly wakes up and starts painting scenes she’s never witnessed, with a skill she’s never had, medical science has no explanation. As more bizarre phenomena manifest, even her doctors start to wonder if the woman may be possessed. Frustrated and frightened, the patient’s sister reluctantly turns to Greywalker Harper Blaine to discover who—or what—is occupying her sister’s body.

As Harper digs into the case of apparent possession, she discovers other patients struck with the same mystifying afflictions and a disturbing connection to one of the most gruesome stories in Washington’s history…

PRAISE FOR THE GREYWALKER NOVELS

"Lots of action, a complex plot, and meaty characters."
- Booklist

"Crisp writing, engaging story lines, and a champion and cast of characters you can root for."
- Suspense Magazine

DANGEROUS DIVAS

When the female population of Sunnydale starts strutting its girl power, the push for gender equality seems like a normal expression of '90's feminism.  After all, a girl trying out for the football team isn't usually a sign of imminent danger.  But when the guys start acting like powerless pawns and a few even turn up dead, Buffy Summers notices that the local womyn's movement has reached a feverish - and probably unnatural - pitch.

The Slayer is the only on who can see straight during the ultimate battle of the sexes.  Her friends - including Giles - are spellbound by the malignant muses permeating the school.  Even the local vampires are acting strange.  Alone in her search for answers, Buffy must figure out who's behind the sinister sisterhood... and close the gender gap before the feminist revolution goes too far.

THE FINAL CHALLENGE

Twice before, Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the Land, the strange other-world where magic worked.  Twice he had been forced to join with the Lords of Ravelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land.  Thomas Covenant, pariah on Earth, was a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero, armed with the wild magic of White Gold - and without knowledge of its power!

Now he was back - to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul.  The Lords were besieged and helpless.  No place was safe for men.  Foul's victory seemed certain.  Only Covenant could avert it.

Desperately and without hope, he set out to confront the might of the Enemy.  With him went a Giant, a Bloodguard and the madwoman he had wronged.  And in Foul's Creche, Lord Foul grew in power with each new defeat for the Land.

THE CHRONICLES OF
THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER

Book One LORD FOUL'S BANE
Book Two THE ILLEARTH WAR
Book Three THE POWER THAT PRESERVES

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THE
PRACTICE
EFFECT
by David Brin

Physicist Dennis Nuel's career has taken a sudden and startling turn.  After being denied access to the Zievatron Project through the political machinations of his chief rival, the self-righteous, priggish Bernald Brady, Dennis is needed back - badly.  The zievatron, a device created to provide access to parallel worlds, has indeed made contact.  But now the return mechanism is malfunctioning, and the only way to repair it is for someone to go through to this alien world where no human has yet ventured.  That some-one is to be Dennis Nuel.  He will also take with him the tiny, flying, pig-like creature he's dubbed a "pixolet" (because it looks like a cross between a pixie and a piglet) to return the little alien to its homeland.

Only after Dennis has stepped into the air lock, with the door about to close, does Brady mysteriously hint that they've discovered something strange on the other side, something
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different about the other world's physical laws. But before Dennis can question Brady, the door swings shut.

Stepping through the door into this new world, Dennis discovers to his horror that the return mechanism isn't malfunctioning - it's been vandalized.  Instead of mere repairs, he has a complete job of reconstruction on his hands!

The search for the materials and technology he needs to make the repairs takes Dennis on a journey that will introduce him to the Coylians, people who are quite human and speak a recognizable form of English, but whose culture is disconcertingly different from any on Earth.  Coylian society is based on "The Practice Effect," the anomalous physics Brady hinted at.  The Coylians need not make implements and clothes.  Rather, they "practice" goods into perfection.  Primitive instruments of flint and twigs are practiced into gleaming tools; rough garments are worn and practiced into silks and brocades; huts are practiced into the soaring buildings of a tiered city.

Dennis wants only to return home, but he soon finds himself entangled with the ruthless political schemer, Kremer, in his plot to take over. Dennis is to be Kremer's secret weapon in his conquest of the world.

Aided by a clever thief, a plucky little exploration robot, the irrepressible pixolet, and the beautiful L'Toff Princess Linnora, Dennis must combine the science of Earth with his still nascent ability to "practice" if he is to vanquish the formidable Kremer and repair the zievatron in order to return home.

Ye fathers... bring [your children] up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
EPHESIANS 6:4

Fathers face many special chellenges in life - challenges that call for specific prayer.  What better basis for those prayers than God's own perfect Word?

Prayers and Promises for Dads is a powerful collection of contemporary prayers, each based on a carefully-selected Bible promise.  It will help you seek God's blessing in the practical, day-to-day issues of your life as a father.

INTO SPACE...

Over three years have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix - the same ship which two centuries before left an isolated colony of humans to fend for themselves on the world of the volatile atevi.

Since that time, humans have lived in exile on the island of Mospheira, using a single diplomat, the paidhi, to trade advanced technology for the continued peace and safety of its people.

But the unexpected return of the Phoenix has shattered forever the fragile, carefully maintained political balance of these two nearly incompatible races.  For the captains of the Phoenix offer the atevi something the Mospheiran humans never could - access to the stars.

For three breakneck years the atevi labor to build a space shuttle which will bear their representatives to the Phoenix, to strengthen connections with their new human allies and retain their bid for control of their world.  But as soon as the shuttle proves spaceworthy, the captains of the Phoenix suddenly recall their planetary delegates, breaking diplomatic contact and initiating a vicious bid for political dominance.

But the powerful head of the atevi's Western Association is not to be outmaneuvered, and he sends his own paidhi, Bren Cameron, into space to negotiate.

Thrust into a political maelstrom with almost no preparation, Bren is empowered to use any means at his disposal to achieve the atevi's aim.  But can Bren gain control of the station and political supremacy for the atevi without sparking a three-sided interspecies war?

FOUNDATION - THE BEGINNING

Wisdom, wit, and an uncanny sense of wonder have become the trademarks of grand master Isaac Asimov.  Now, in an eagerly awaited publishing event, Asimov once again fashions the future of science fiction by going back to the beginning - presenting the overture to the greatest SF series of all time....

PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION

Is is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor.  Here in the great multidomed capitol of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technology and cultural complexity.  Yet Cleon knowns there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.

Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction.  Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity.  For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire... the man who holds the key to the future - an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.

PRAISE FOR
THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER

"A tribute in the art of storytelling... highly recommended." - Library Journal

"Card has uncovered a rich vein of folklore and magic here, to which his assured handling of old time religion and manifest love of children is admirably suited: an appealing and intriguing effort." - Publishers Weekly

"Card is one of the most important writers in the field." - Ben Bova

"[Card's] versatility of style, subject, and approach makes him unique in the SF field!' - Anne McCaffrey

"With the third installment in his Tales of Alvin Maker eries, Card's alternate frontier America epic continues to be a significant event in fantasy publishing." - Booklist

"The best fantasy series now in progress." - Publishers Weekly

IF YOU READ ONLY ONE FANTASY
THIS YEAR, THIS IS THE ONE.

THE HUMAN TARGET

Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and aiji, its forceful leader, is missing and may be dead.

In a desperate move, Bren Cameron - brilliant human paidi to Tabini-aiji - and Tabini's grandmother Ilisidi, the aiji-dowager, along with Cajeiri, Tabini's eight-year-old heir, make planeffall and succeed in reaching the mainland.

Ancient, but still brilliant and forceful, Ilisidi seeks refuge at the estate of an old ally.  As llisidi's and Bren's bodyguards struggle to upate the manor's antiquated defense systems, Tabini-aiji arrives at the door.

As word of Tabini's whereabouts circulates, clans allied with Tabini descend upon the esrate, providing a huge civilian presence that everyone involved hopes will deter impending attack by the usurpers.

But as more and more supporting clans arrive, Bren finds himself increasingly isolated, and it becomes clear that both his extremely important report of alien contact in space, and even his life, rest on the shoulders of only two allies: Ilisidi and Cajeiri.

Can one elderly ateva and an eight-year-old boy - himself a prime target for assassination - protect Bren, a lone human involved in a civil war  that most atevi believe he caused?

AN ORIGINAL STAR TREK ADVENTURE

CAPTAIN KIRK IS DEAD -
LONG LIVE CAPTAIN KIRK!

Spock, Doctor McCoy and the other crewmen of the Starship Enterprise experience a stunning double shock.  The first, painful blow is Captain Kirk's tragic death.  Then, Captain Kirk's miraculous rebirth reveals the most awesome force the Enterprise has ever encountered.  Spock is forced into a desperate gamble for Kirk's human soul against Omne - the ultrahuman emperor of the life beyond life, and death beyond hell...

THE PRICE OF
THE PHOENIX

A nerve-shattering voyage into unknown terror with the Starship Enterprise

C.J. CHERRYH

No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company - a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown - and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship THE PRIDE OF CHANUR.

Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of THE PRIDE and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station.

A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
- NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK -

DAW BOOKS 10
Our tenth year
leading the sf field

From audible.com:

When a British princess falls in love with a Roman officer destined for imperial greatness, their forbidden desire exacts an unexpected price: banishment from Avalon. Journeying outside the enchanted isle, Helena grows from maiden to mother to wisewoman, experiencing both joy---with the birth of her child---and loss, when politics forces her lover to choose between the Empire and her. Then Helena's son, Constantine, becomes Emperor, and her position as Empress-Mother propels her to prominence at a crucial turning point in Western history. Seeking a way to bridge the pagan world of the Goddess and the new Christian Empire, Helena embarks on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to find the truth that transcends both the old religion and the new.

INTO THE
MOUNTAINS
OF
TERROR

Once Tarl Cabot had been the mightiest warrior of Gor, the strange world of Counter-Earth.  But now on all the planet, he had no friends except the tarn, the mighty bird on which he flew.

He was an outcast, with every hand against him.  His home city had been destroyed, his loved ones scattered or killed.  And that was at the orders of the Priest-Kings, those mysterious beings who ruled absolutely over Gor.

No man had ever seen a Priest-King.  They were said to dwell somewhere in the Mountains of Sardar.  And none who entered that forbidden land ever returned alive.

Nonetheless, Tarl Cabot headed into the Mountains of Sardar!

'Coming up after the break, the start of a new series of programmes featuring the mysterious traveller in Time and Space known only as - The Doctor.'

Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar.  They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programmes of the dangerously powerful Channel 400.  As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.

Why is the Director-General of Channel 400 so interested in the Doctor?  Who are the mysterious aliens who watch from the shadows of the Brago nebula?  And why is a pack of Zzinbriizi Jackals stalking the streets of Blinni Gaar?

As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally of the most dangerous kind.

The Chronicles of
NARNIA

The four Pevensies help
Caspian battle Miraz and
ascend his rightfull throne.

NARNIA... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen... and where the adventure begins.

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia - the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed.

Enter this enchanting world countless times in The Chronicles of Narnia.  There are seven books in all:

THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
THE HORSE AND HIS BOY
PRINCE CASPIAN
THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER
THE SILVER CHAIR
THE LAST BATTLE

DEATH'S
CHAMPION

When Prince Pwyll recognized the Grey Horseman who accosted him in the strange wood as King Arawn, whose other name was Death, he resigned himself to follow him to the drear kingdom of Annwn, where there souls of the departed dwelled.  But Arawn had not sought Pwyll to end his life, rather to set him a task - to fight the one enemy death himself could not  oversome... and, for the combat, Pwyll would have to assume Arawn's own form.  Pwyll, valiant and steadfast, prepared to meet his foe - but was unready for the greatest test he faced... the temptation of the love offered him by the lady whose humband's guise he wore!

"THESE BOOKS ARE NOT ONLY THE BEST FANTASIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY, BUT ALSO GREAT WORKS OF FICTION."
- THE SATURDAY REVIEW

FOR
DELIA-OR DEATH!

Dray Prescot hod fought long and hard through perilous lands to claim the hand of the heiress of mighty Vallia.  Yet, when finally he set foot in that long-sought empire, it was not as hero or noble... it was as on unknown, a mendicant, and finally as a condemned slave.  For the combatant fates that had interfered continually with his quest on the planet of the twin suns of Antares had yet more tests for the man they had selected as their agent.  But for Dray there could be but one goal - already in sight - and he would not be turned aside any longer no matter what dangers Vallian intrigues and quasi-human mysteries might have in store for him.

This, the fifth novel of Alan Burt Akers' enthusiastically acclaimed series, is fully illustrated and contains a special bonus in the form of maps and a glossary.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

"[Prince of the Blood]" has humor and tears and romance, just what most people want in a nice fat novel....  This is a book to read, whether or not you have read the earlier trilogy." - UPI

BROTHERS IN ARMS

For twenty years, since the end of the Riftwar, the kindgom of Midkemia has enjoyed peace and tranquility.  But now that peace is suddenly in jeopardy.  Prince Arutha, the heir apparent, has renounces his claim to the throne, and his twin sons, Borric and Erland, are ill prepared for the succession.  To train the princes in the responsibilities they must soon assume, Arutha sends them on a diplomatic mission to Kesh, little knowing that rebellion seethes in the Eastern provinces.  But when an assassination attempt is made on the twins' lives, the two are hurtled into a deadly adventure that will take them into the darkest regions of Kesh, where grave danger and dark magics lie in wait for them at every turn.

"This is the continuation of The Reiftwar Saga... [is a] lively tale, where engaging characters inhabit a well-rounded fantasy land."
- Publishers Weekly

In the acclaimed Codex Alera novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the people of Alera use their unique bond with the elemental forces of nature for protection. But even nature may not be enough to stave off the coming storm…

Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera’s oldest foes: the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim to their lands, his worst fears are realized.  The dreaded Vord - the enemy of Aleran and Cane alike - have laid waste to the Canim homeland.  And the Alerans find themselves trapped alongside their former adversaries.

Meanwhile, war-torn Alera rebuilds while politicians and nobles vie for power. But from the south comes the news: the Vord have come to Alera. For a thousand years, Alera and her furies have withstood every enemy, and survived every foe.

The thousand years are over...

"AN EXCITING FANTASY THRILLER." - Midwest Book Review

"ROUSING." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivors - her heart is broken. But her charms draw the attention of the relentless Prince Humperdinck who wants a wife and will go to any lengths to have Buttercup. So starts a fairytale like no other, of fencing, fighting, torture, poison, true love, hate, revenge, giants, hunters, bad men, good men, beautifulest ladies, snakes, spiders, beasts, chases, escapes, lies, truths, passion and miracles.

' A wonderful fairy tale'  THE TIMES

'One of the most laconic, tightly plotted tales of mythical morality you'll ever read, and anti-establishment satire disguised as a love story, more of a scary tale than a faity tale.' UNCUT

'There's nothing fluffy about The Princess Bride.  The rocket-powered narrative tricks you without being merely tricksy, and is both modern and timeless.'  NEON

'A spoof fairy tale... terrific'  DAILY TELEGRAPH

'As brilliant and funny as its screen version'  OBSERVER

'Classic... fearfully comic'  TOTAL FILM

From epubbooks.com:

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most exciting saga, known as The Martian Series. It’s the beginning of an incredible odyssey in which John Carter, a gentleman from Virginia and a Civil War veteran, unexpectedly finds himself on to the red planet, scene of continuing combat among rival tribes. Captured by a band of six-limbed, green-skinned savage giants called Tharks, Carter soon is accorded all the honor of a chieftain after it’s discovered that his muscles, accustomed to Earth’s greater gravity, now give him a decided advantage in strength. And when his captors take as prisoner Dejah Thoris, the lovely human-looking princess of the city of Helium, Carter must call upon every ounce of strength, courage, and ingenuity to rescue her-before Dejah becomes the slave of the depraved Thark leader, Tal Hajus!

SEIKAI
CREST OF THE STARS
PRINCESS OF THE EMPIRE

Planet Martine is suddenly attacked!  The alien invaders are known as the Abh.  They are of human origin, but have been genetically modified so that each Abh has superior talent, skill, beauty, and longevity.

In the face of the Abh's awesome military power, Martine's president surrenders without any resistance.  Through a bizarre twist of fate, his son Jinto becomes a nobleman in the Abh's vast, intergalactic empire.  His new status thrusts him into a world of turmoil, political intrigue, and high-speed adventure.

This pulse-pounding space opera is the first novel in the Seikai: Crest of the Stars series.

A Mighty
Fortress

When the Nazis overran Holland Corrie ten Boom, her father and sister, chose to risk death by making their quietly respectable home a haven for refugees much like Anne Frank's family.

Finally, the Gestapo came - and during months in concentration camps that followed, Corrie ten Boom shared suffering and torture, watched her father and sister die.

Yet she survived, mind intact, soul still free.

Where did this gentle, undemanding woman find the courage to resist... to suffer... yet to endure?

This book contains the answer.  It reveals a belief in Christ that carried an innocent woman through some of the worst agonies man can devise.  Here is one of the most tragic, yet finally most inspiring and faith-giving true stories of modern times!

A
PRIVATE
COSMOS

The prize-winning science-fiction writer Roger Zelazny writes:

"Philip Jose Farmer... can be stark, dark, smoky, bright, and any color of the emotional spectrum.  He has a fascinating sense of the Sacred and the Profane.  Put quite simply, he arouses awe.  He has the talent and the skill to handle the sacred objects every writer must touch in order to convert the reader, in that timeless, spaceless place called Imagination."

In A PRIVATE COSMOS, the third book about the World of Tiers, that other space-time continuum manufactured by THE MAKER OF UNIVERSES (Ace Book F- 367), Farmer takes up the adventures of the heroic rogue Kickaha.  It takes place shortly after the astonishing events of THE GATES OF CREATION (Ace Book F-412), but is an unique science-fiction experience on its own.  As Zelazny says in his introduction:

"Philip José Farmer is special. . . . Read his story and see what I mean."

From audible.com:

One of the genre's favorite pairs returns in a classic fantasy short for both Riyria veterans and first-time readers.

Several years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start their thieves-for-hire organization better known as Riyria. Things have gone well enough for the team as they do "jobs" for various nobles throughout Elan. Usually that means stealing something, but when a young heiress asks them to steal her…well, that's a first for the pair. All is not as it seems, but Royce is determined to get the bottom of what's actually going on. After all, he has his professional integrity at stake.

Originally released in the Blackguards anthology published by Ragnarok Publications, this is a standalone short story of 10,800 words. No prior knowledge of The Riyria Revelations or The Riyria Chronicles is required to enjoy it to its fullest, making this a perfect introduction for new readers or a chance for existing fans to spend a little more time with old friends.

From audible.com:

Winner of the 2022 Audie Awards' Audiobook of the Year

Number-One Audible and New York Times Audio Best Seller

More than one million audiobooks sold

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.

Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian - while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

PLEASE NOTE: To accommodate this audio edition, some changes to the original text have been made with the approval of author Andy Weir.

++Transmission Begins++

From: Deputy Director, Forge Alpha Facility
F.A.O: Director, Department C4, Whitehall
Re: Project: Valhalla

Rogue xenotech crash-site located in Lapland.

Suspected negative environment effect. Local communications network down. Total satellite whiteout.

Senior Field Agent Nimrod dispatched with full extraction team for assessment and harvest. Primary reports indicate total disappearance of local Sámi community. Possible zombie infestation. Crash-site protected by forcefield.

No further communication.

Current status of extraction team: unknown.

Nature of xenotech: unknown.

Threat level: unknown.

++Transmission Ends++

CAN THE GALAXY'S GROWING
VIOLENCE BE STOPPED?

Captain Kirk and his crew are on a mission to investigate the mysterious wave of violence that has overtaken the Helvans - revolutions, mass riots, horrible tortures.  But this chaos is all part of an experiment by an unimaginable power that soon grips even the crew of the Enterprise...
Captain Kirk is plagued by violent hallucinations and removed from command.  Spock takes charge but his orders seem irrational - even cruel.
Unless this terrible power can be stopped, not only the Enterprise, but an entire galaxy will be ensnared in the deadly grip of the...
PROMETHEUS DESIGN

GRANGER OF
THE HOODED SWAN

They had set out from Earth in search of the promised land - and after centuries in flight they believed they had found it.  It was already inhabited, but by a primitive and peaceful humanoid race that gave them no opposition.

This was the situation when the HOODED SWAN landed on its information-seeking mission for the vast interstellar libraries of New Alexandria.  Grainger, man of the double-mind, realized early that there was something wrong about the truce between the xenophobic colonists and the docile natives.

It took a fleeing wide-eyed native child to bring the Promised Land suddenly to critical mass.  What was there about this little girl that could so take an entire planet to the edge of Kingdom Come?  That was what Grainger's minds had to find out - and quickly.

A DAW BOOK ORIGINAL

- NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK -

Ruin follows in the wake of Torrlond's victorious army and the beasts its priests enslave, leaving no corner of Eormenlond untouched by the inferno of its war.

Kingdoms and tribes line up on opposing sides as the conflict rages, rekindling ancient hatreds and avenging old wrongs.

As Dayraven struggles to contain the vast power of his curse, he Sequara confront the destruction of all they hold dear.  To salvage their world, they must sacrifice what most makes it precious.

With twists as wrenching as they are unexpected, The Prophet of Edan reveals the War of the Way's culmination.

Phssthpok the Pak has been travelling for most of his 32,000 years - his mission, to save, develop and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before...

Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around the outer asteroid belt.  The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler.  The Belt worlds has been tracking the Pak ship for days - Brennan figured to meet that ship first...

He was never seen again - at least not by those alive at the time.

Civil war on the world of the atevi is finally over.  Even the complex shifts of power that inevitably follow any war are mostly sorted out.  Bren Cameron, brilliant human diplomat allied with the dominant Western Association, has finally returned to the capital from the southern coast, where he negotiated a daring redistribution of the atevi legislature - one that grants certain of the remaining rebel provinces political stature.  But Bren's official duties have undergone a critical change.

Since the War of the Landing, hundreds of years before, when the atevi nearly eradicated the humans on their planet and exiled those who survived to the island of Mospheira, Bren's post had been held by solitary translators between the endangered, but technologically advanced, human society and the atevi of the mainland.  But in the years that Bren has held that position, the world has changed.

Humans and atevi now interface daily on a shared space station and have traveled to the stars together.  But rather than becoming extraneous, Bren's stature in the atevi world has only increased.  He still wears the white ribbon that represents his office, but now he performs the duties of that office in the ancient manner originally intended, objectively negotiating between atevi adversaries.  It was in this capacity that he had achieved a reformation of congress that ended the bloodshed of civil war.

Now, back in his old apartments in the capital, Bren has settled into the home he knew prior to the war.  But life at the atevi court is never easy.  Though his position has changed, Bren's political affiliations remain - he is still allied with Tabini-aiji, head of the Western Association.  And Bren has also developed a close relationship with Tabini's young son Cajeiri, who was with Bren in space.

Cajeiri is within a few days of his fortunate ninth birthday, and his father has firmly promised that his son's young human associates from the space station can come down to the planet for his birthday celebration.

But things are not going well within the aiji's own household.  For Tabini's political marriage seems to be splintering, and Cajeiri's mother may be less than trustworthy.

Can Bren protect Cajeiri and the unsuspecting human children who are to be his guests in an atevi household that is on the brink of political explosion?

Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.

Harry has no friends on the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined (and they may have a point). However, now vampire wars have thinned out the wizards a little, they need him. So before he can blink, he's assigned to investigate rumours of black magic.

Harry's other problem is an old friend's daughter - all grown-up and in trouble already. Her boyfriend insists he's innocent of something resembling a crime straight out of a horror film. This first impression turns out to be... well, pretty accurate, as Harry discovers malevolent entities feeding on fear. All in a day's work for a wizard, his dog and a talking skull named Bob.

MAGIC - IT CAN GET A GUY KILLED

'The body count from the magical mêlées would do any hard-boiled gumshoe proud'
Publishers Weekly

'This imaginative series continues to surprise and delight'
Boolist

ROUGH
ROAD TO MANHOOD
Young Kearney McRaven had already traveled some rough trails, but tracking his father's killer was a man-size task.  Especially since he himself was being hunted by mysteri-ous gunmen in long, black coats.  From the desert to the Spanish Peaks, they followed his every move until Kearney stopped running and started shooting.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
with the three stars playing the Sackett brothers in THE SACKETTS, a major NBC-TV drama.  L'Amour, with over 80 million copies of his books in print worldwide, is "the most prolific, bestselling and most highly rated Western writer in the country today."
- The New York Times

It's Reading Week at the University of East Wessex, but not everything comes to a stop.

The wood is still haunted.  Experiments in telepathy, remote viewing, precognition and other paranormal phenomena continue in the Parapsychology Department.  The department deads still think the Kellerfield Research Fellow is out for publicity rather than psychic results.  A grizzly murder remains unsolved by local police.  The students are still holding seances in the graveyard.

When the TARDIS arrives in Norswood, the Doctor and Leela are caught up in events that are spiralling out of control.  Leela is chased by a phantom, and the Doctor takes the waters.  But soon it isn't just the Parapsychology Department's funding that's in question - it's the whole of existence.