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                            Basement Full of Books
 
                                 Release  6.02
 
                                October 9, 1992
 
           NEW BOOKS, AVAILABLE BY MAIL DIRECTLY FROM THEIR AUTHORS
 
Books by 
William Barton & Michael Capobianco, 
Bruce Boston, 
John Brunner, 
Jeff Carver, 
Valerie Nieman Colander, 
Gene DeWeese, 
Harlan Ellison, 
Sheila Finch, 
James Gunn, 
Joe Haldeman, 
Gwenyth Hood, 
Eileen Kernaghan, 
Edward M. Lerner, 
Vonda N. McIntyre, 
Thom Metzger, 
Hank Nuwer, 
Alexei & Cory Panshin, 
Bill Ransom, 
Robert J. Sawyer, 
Dave Smeds, 
John E. Stith, 
L.A. Taylor, 
Gene Wolfe, 
Jane Yolen, 
and George Zebrowski.  
 
Note to readers: When you order books, please be clear about 
any special requests: inscription to someone other than yourself; 
signature only; if you're a book collector and absolute perfection 
of the dust jacket is important to you.  
 
Readers interested in the following books may write (or in 
some cases send e-mail) to the individual authors for price 
information.  A stamped return envelope (SASE) or International Reply 
Coupon is very much appreciated and often allows a quicker response.  
 
                                     *****
 
                 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
 
                                     *****
 
                        BOOKS BY BRUCE BOSTON
 
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
 
                                 *******
 
                        BOOKS BY JOHN BRUNNER
 
John Brunner (Hugo Award, British Fantasy Award, British SF 
Award, Prix Apollo, Cometa d'Argento, Gilgamesh Award, 
Premio Italia, Europa Special Award, etc.) has available US, 
UK, and foreign language versions of his work, among which a 
few first editions and several o/p.  
 
Please send inquiries, giving as clear an idea as possible 
of what's wanted, with SAE in UK only, International Reply 
Coupon elsewhere, to:
 
        John Brunner
        Square House
        Palmer St.
        South Petherton TA13 5DB
        UK 
 
 
                                 *******
 
                        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 price information, please send SASE or email to: 
 
         Valerie Nieman Colander
         P.O. Box 1614
         Fairmont, W.Va. 26554
 
         CIS 70322,1441
        
 
                                     *****
 
 
                          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 to:
 
         Gene DeWeese
         2718 N. Prospect
         Milwaukee, WI 53211
         Or phone: (414) 332-7306
 
                                     *****
 
                           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.  
 
 
                                     *****
 
                     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
 
 
                                     *****
 
                              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
 
 
                                     ****
 
 
                AUTOGRAPHED NEW FIRST EDITIONS BY JOE HALDEMAN
 
 
THE HEMINGWAY HOAX, William Morrow, Inc., 1990.
 
A scholar with a taste for larceny is pursued by an 
inter-dimensional literary critic with a license to kill.
 
BUYING TIME, William Morrow, 1989.
 
In a future where you can live forever if you have the right friends and a 
fortune, Dallas Barr is running out of money, friends, and time.  Men with
guns want to make his life even shorter.
 
We have a few copies of the British first edition, with my original title --
THE LONG HABIT OF LIVING New English Library, 1989.
 
ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED.  St Martins, 1977.
 
An undercover agent travels from planet to planet, working in disguise.  
 
MINDBRIDGE.  St. Martins, 1976.
 
The first exploration team to a nearby star 
discovers an alien race that may be the salvation of 
humanity--or its destruction.  
 
TOOL OF THE TRADE.  William Morrow, 1987.
 
A Soviet agent lives quietly in the U.S. for most of his life, 
waiting to be contacted by his government.  His discovery of a 
mechanism that controls people's behavior earns him more attention 
than he bargained for.  
 
WORLDS APART.  Viking, 1983.
 
The second book in the WORLDS trilogy, this 
book follows Marianne O'Hara from her home in an orbiting 
space station to the ruins of Earth and then back to aim for 
the stars.  
 
For further information, please send SASE or email to:
 
         Joe & Gay Haldeman
         5412 NW 14th Ave.
         Gainesville, FL 32605
 
         GEnie:  J.HALDEMAN1 
 
 
                                     ****
 
                             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                         
 
 
                                     ****
 
                         BOOKS BY EILEEN KERNAGHAN
 
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
        5512 Neville Street
        Burnaby B.C.  V5J 2H7
        Canada
 
 
                                     ****
 
                          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 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.)
 
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. 
 
THE 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, whose only trait 
in common with human beings is that they too are outcasts.
 
Though TRANSITION and METAPHASE are currently available, 
STARFARERS can be difficult to find.  I'm offering 
all three books as a set, or STARFARERS may be had as the 
bonus book, instead of DREAMSNAKE (see below).
 
NAUTILUS, the fourth and final STARFARERS book, is in 
progress and nearly complete.  Look for it in 1993!
 
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 *             Buy two or more hardcovers and receive a copy of           * 
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 *                               STARFARERS                               * 
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 *                               DREAMSNAKE                               * 
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 * Snake, the healer, travels through a post-apocalyptic desert           * 
 * with her genetically engineered serpents.  When frightened people      * 
 * kill her most important tool, the rare dreamsnake Grass, Snake is      * 
 * crippled in her profession.  She must decide whether to return         * 
 * to the healers' station in defeat -- or to face the dangerous          * 
 * task of obtaining another dreamsnake.  Hugo and Nebula winner.         * 
 * (Dell Books, paperback, 319 pp.)                                       * 
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 * When you order, please be sure to mention the special offer, and to    * 
 * tell me whether you want DREAMSNAKE or STARFARERS.                     * 
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For information on prices, or 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:   mcintyre@yang.cpac.washington.edu                        
                                                                      
 
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                            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
 
                                     *****
 
                          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
 
                                     *****
 
                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 or e-mail to:
 
GEnie:  B.RANSOM1 
 
(Internet users may try b.ransom1@genie.com)
 
Real Life:  Bill Ransom
            4711 Aurora Avenue North
            Seattle, WA 98103
 
                                     *****
 
                      HARD SF NOVELS BY ROBERT J. SAWYER
 
 
                     GOLDEN FLEECE (Warner, December 1990)
 
GOLDEN FLEECE is a high-tech game of cat-and-mouse between a
murdering artificial intelligence named JASON and an engineer,
Aaron Rossman, aboard a Bussard-ramjet starship.  Winner of the
CompuServe Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum's HOMer Award for
Best First Novel of 1990; included on the LOCUS recommended
reading list; named best SF novel of 1990 by Orson Scott Card.
 
Writing in F&SF, Orson Scott Card says:  "Jason is, in my
opinion, the deepest computer character in all of science
fiction.  And Aaron is, in my opinion, one of the most
well-drawn, fallible, *human* detectives I've encountered in
mystery fiction -- in a league with, say, Rendell's Inspector
Wexford.  How good is GOLDEN FLEECE?  A friend of mine -- an
English professor -- used to ask, whenever he saw me, `Why are
you still writing that spaceship stuff?'  Now I can answer.
Because *this* is possible."
 
 
                           FAR-SEER (Ace, June 1992)
 
FAR-SEER is the first book in the Quintaglio series.  Just before 
the great extinctions of 65 million years ago, dinosaurs and 
other Earth life forms were transplanted to a distant world.  At 
the time FAR-SEER takes place, a race of intelligent dinosaurs 
has emerged.  Young Afsan, an apprentice astrologer, gets a 
chance to use the newly developed far-seer.  It enables him to 
begin to unravel the truth about the heavenly bodies, including 
the enigmatic Face of God, which covers one-quarter of the sky.  
His research leads to a discovery that threatens the dinosaurs 
with extinction once again -- but this time, if he can convince 
his people fast enough, they may be able to do something about 
it.
 
ASIMOV'S calls FAR-SEER a "tour de force; vastly enjoyable, 
beautifully realized."  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY declares "Sawyer does a 
fine job."  ANALOG says "Afsan's world and nature feel quite
real.  The reader gets involved and cheers him on, and many 
another writer must say to Sawyer just what one saurian says to a 
superior: 'I cast a shadow in your presence.'"
 
For information, please send SASE or e-mail to:
 
         Robert J. Sawyer
         7601 Bathurst St., Apt. 617
         Thornhill, Ontario
         Canada   L4J 4H5 
 
         CompuServe:  76702,747
         GEnie:  RJ.SAWYER
         Internet:  76702.747@compuserve.com
 
                                     *****
 
 
                        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
         511 Smokewood Drive
         Santa Rosa, CA 95407
 
         GEnie: D.SMEDS  
 
                                     *****
 
                            BOOKS BY JOHN E. STITH:
 
Nebula Award Nominee: REDSHIFT RENDEZVOUS, Ace pb 1990. Hard SF featuring a
ship 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
 
                                     *****
 
                            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
 
                                       
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                           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
 
 
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                             BOOKS BY JANE YOLEN: 
 
NEPTUNE RISING, hardcover story/poem collection
 
CARDS OF GRIEF, novel, paperback, US or British edition 
 
DRAGON'S BLOOD, young adult novel, British paperback
 
HEART'S BLOOD, young adult novel, British paperback
 
MINSTREL & THE MOUNTAIN, picture book, hardcover
 
ROBOT & REBECCA, children's novel, hardcover
 
ROBOT & REBECCA & THE MISSING OWSER, children's novel, paperback
 
UNCLE LEMON'S SPRING, tall tale, hardcover
 
TOUCH MAGIC, essays on fantasy/faerie, hardcover
 
MERLIN'S BOOKE, story collection, paperback
 
BROTHERS OF THE WIND, children's book, illustrated, hardcover
 
HOBO TOAD & THE MOTORCYCLE GANG, children's novel, hardcover
 
SHAPE SHIFTERS, ed. Yolen, anthology, hardcover
 
DRAGON NIGHT & OTHER LULLABIES, poetry, illustrated, hardcover
 
TALES OF WONDER, story collection, hardcover
 
For further information, or queries about other titles, 
send SASE or email to: 
 
         Jane Yolen
         Phoenix Farm
         31 School Street
         P.O. Box 27
         Hatfield, MA 01038 
 
         GEnie: J.YOLEN
 
 
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                           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.  
 
 For further information, send SASE to:
 
         George Zebrowski
         Box 486
         Johnson City NY 13709 
 
 
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