Jack Dann
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The author of The Age #1 bestselling novel The Memory Cathedral returns to Renaissance Italy with a transcendent vision of the ultimate battle between good and evil. In Shadows in the Stone Jack Dann creates a fully-realized, living, breathing universe, a universe where the Vatican is in Venice, Jehovah is really a lesser god known as the Demiurge, and the magus John Dee's experiments with angels are true and repeatable. Here you'll discover a nun...
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With The Rebel, acclaimed award-winning author Jack Dann pulls James Dean from the twisted wreckage and offers him a second chance to make an indelible mark on his art, his culture, and his time in an era of profound change and devastating social upheaval.
Surviving the horrific crash that leaves him permanently scarred, both physically and emotionally, the haunted, brooding, and complex young star finds himself charged with a feeling of responsibility...
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This is the story of a Nazi hunter's journey to find the man who tortured him and murdered his family, as he penetrates the depths of the Amazon jungle to experience an extraordinary "dream time. It is a magnificent depiction of a modern descent into hell...and the frightening-and profoundly surprising-consequences of redemption.
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Charlie Sarris is a "fix-it" man in Binghamton, New York, with a younger wife and a child and no prospects. John Stone is an alcoholic Indian medicine man on the road. In some unlikely manner they have discovered a bond between themselves. And they are on the biggest binge ever recorded-a joyous, wild, tender, heart-stopping quest to find the very meaning of life. They steal cars, rob stores, drink whiskey, smoke dope, seduce girls; and discover the...
5) Jubilee
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Peter Lindsay lives in Melbourne, Australia. Charles Blackford is an American trying to relive a happier time in Athens. Both men have lost their wives. And now they must decide how to cope with the overwhelming changes being wrought by transcendent emergences from the sea. This is the quintessential "First Contact" story, a mind-bendingly brilliant exploration into what is alien...and what it means to be human.
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Long before their award-nominated and awarded stories and novels, these two writers word-jammed together, learning the music of story writing and the blood and bones of distinctive prose. And all these early efforts were published! Here they are again, together in one place-ten riveting stories of science fiction-as entertaining as they were fun to write-including the previously unpublished tale, "The Standard Crisis Scenario"!
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Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear!
Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts in the machine, fateful revelations, gaslit streets scarcely keeping the dark at bay, and other twisted variations on the immortal classics that frighten us still.
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In "The Quills of Henry Thomas," W. C. and Aja Bamberger give us a glimpse of a future in which music is composed through DNA computing. "The Gizzard Wizard" is Rory Barnes's delightful sequel to his young adult SF novel, Space Junk. John Gregory Betancourt's engaging "The Darkfishers" envisions a shanghaied Earth colony stranded on the back of a huge crustacean on an ocean planet. Sydney J. Bounds, in "Guinea Pigs," portrays a future dominated by...
11) The dragon book
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A collection of fantasy tales about fire-breathing reptiles includes contributions by Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, and Tamora Pierce.
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An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction, BAGGAGE presents some of the finest new work by Aussie writers, including Jack Dann, Monica Carroll, K. J. Bishop, Kaaron Warren, and many more. Included:
VISION SPLENDID, by K. J. Bishop
TELESCOPE, by Jack Dann
HIVE OF GLASS, by Kaaron Warren
KUNMANARA-SOMEBODY SOMEBODY, by Yaritji Green
MANIFEST DESTINY, by Janeen Webb
ALBERT & VICTORIA/SLOW DREAMS, by Lucy Sussex
MACREADIE V. THE LOVE MACHINE,...
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Resurrected corpses, voodoo conjuring, black magic (and blacker science) ...these are all well known to cause zombie breakouts. Here are classic and modern tales, full of thrills and chills and the living dead...tales of zombies! These stories don't (well, mostly don't!) go for the gross-out. Great writing, lots of atmosphere and suspense (and the occasional laugh) - if you want more than just extreme horror and gross-out scares, this is the zombie...