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In a mad frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce. Vonnegut attacks the entire spectrum of American society via aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. It's murderously funny satire to the max as Vonnegut covers war, sex, racism, success, politics and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. -
Book IV of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. After a kidnapping, Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to join the rebellion against the oppressive Council, using their extraordinary mind powers. But Elspeth must also seek out clues left by the long-dead seer, Kasanda, vital to her quest to destroy the Beforetime weaponmachines. One clue is lost in the past, forcing Elspeth to travel the Dreamtrails, stalked by a terrifying winged beast, with the cat, Maruman, as her guide and guardian. Only there can she learn more of the Beforetimer Misfits and their enemy, Govamen. Gradually Elspeth realises her quest is intimately linked to the Misfits' refuge, Obernewtyn - its past and its future...Cover art by Miles Lowry. -
Kosa Saag casts its tremendous shadow over half the world. It is the Wall, an immense and solitary mountain, dominating the lowland landscape of teeming humanity. Strange and bewildering gods live at the summit, on the roof of the world: the First Climber brought back the gift of fire from them, and the secrets of hunting and growing food. Poilar Crookleg has the blood of the First Climber in his veins. His father was a Pilgrim and his father before him - but thousands of years have passed since the time of He Who Climbed and many thousands of Pilgrims have disappeared as Poilar's father did, or died, or gone mad, following His footsteps to the summit. Poilar's journey, through dreamlike new realms of danger and seduction, in a diminishing company of other young Pilgrims, is an epic journey of discovery. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Deep Blue: Jennifer Donnelly
$20.00Book I of The Waterfire Saga. Serafina, daughter of Isabella, Queen of Miromara, has been raised with the expectation - and burden - that she will someday become ruler of the oldest civilization of the merfolk. On the eve of the Dokimí ceremony, which will determine if she is worthy of the crown, Sera is haunted by a strange dream that foretells the return of an ancient evil. But her nightmare is forgotten the next day as she diligently practices her songspell; eagerly anticipates a reunion with her best friend, Neela; and anxiously worries about Mahdi, the crown prince of Matali, and whether his feelings toward her and their future betrothal have changed. Most of all, she worries about not living up to her mother's hopes. The Dokimí proceeds, a dazzling display of majesty and might, until a shocking turn of events interrupts an assassin's arrow wounds Isabella. The realm falls into chaos, and Serafina's darkest premonitions are confirmed. Now she and Neela must embark on a quest to find the assassin's master and prevent a war between the mer nations. Their search will lead them to other mermaid heroines scattered across the six seas. Together they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood as they uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world's very existence. Cover art by Shane Rebenschied. -
Book I of Tristan And Isolde. Only daughter of Ireland's ruling queen, Isolde has always known that she will take over the rule of the sacred Island of the West when her time comes. Until then she practises her skills as a healer and struggles to hold back her mother, a passionate, headstrong woman under the sway of her champion, Sir Marhaus, who is determined to make war. Attacking Cornwall, Sir Marhaus wounds the king's nephew, Sir Tristan of Lyonesse, so badly that he can only be saved by Isolde, the most noted healer of the isles. And when the King of Cornwall decides to marry Isolde, unaware of the young couple's growing love, the stage is set for the mythic tale of star-crossed lovers that the world knows so well. Like Arthur's queen Guenevere, her friend from their girlhood days on Avalon, Isolde is fated to a lifelong struggle between duty and desire before finding peace. Tristan too relies on his dearest friend at the Round Table, Sir Lancelot of the Lake, as he strives to balance his loyalty to his king against the dictates of his heart. -
Book II of Sun Wolf and Starhawk. Every female of the House of Wenshar was possessed of a powerful magic: but their line is long dead and the desert city is a ruin. Yet Lady Kaletha has some gift for it and will train her neophytes to free their talents. Sun Wolf, the mercenary seeks her out to train his own new-found magic. But after his arrival, a series of horrific supernatural killings turns Wenshar into a snakepit of superstition, fear and loathing, and vicious tongues begin to wag about Sun Wolf. Cover art by Mark Salwoski. -
Colonel Pyat dreams and schemes his way from New York to Hollywood, from Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the ultimate limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of destruction, both human and mechanical, in his wake as he crashes toward an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century. An epic and hilariously comic adventure in which Pyat is sustained by his dreams, and profligate inventions, his determination to turn his back on the realities of his own origins and runs from crisis to crisis creating ever more links in a chain of deceit, suppression and betrayal...yet this thoroughly unreliable narrator becomes a lens for focusing on an uneasy brand of truth. The third book in the Pyat series, which began with Byzantium Endures and The Laughter of Carthage. Cover art by Peter Dyer. -
Leir, chieftain of the Quiritani people from the Great Land, conquers the Painted People of Iron Age Britain. He fathers a daughter with each of three major queens, his favorite child being the youngest, Cridilla. She is trained, like her sisters, to join a long line of women warriors. When famine overtakes the land in Lier's old age, his older daughters Gunarduilla and Rigana plot to overthrow him and return to the rule of the Goddess. Cridilla refuses to join her sisters when they make their false promises to the king and is banished when they discover she is pregnant to a Quiritani chieftain. Realising the old ways cannot return, Cridilla determines to battle her sisters and save her father. Cover art by Thomas Canty. -
In this volume of the best of the original Horror-meister: MS. Found In A Bottle; Berenice; Morella; Some Passages In The Life Of A Lion; The Assignation: Bon-Bon; King Pest; Metzengerstein; Silence; A Descent Into The Maelstrom; Ligeia; The Fall Of The House Of Usher; William Wilson; The Man Of The Crowd; The Murders in The Rue Morgue; The Mystery Of Marie Roget; The Colloquies Of Monos And Una; The Masque Of The Red Death; The Pit And The Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold Bug; The Black Cat; The Spectacles; The Premature Burial; The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar; The Oblong Box; The Cask Of Amontillado; Landor's Cottage. With fantastical colour and line illustrations by Harry Clarke (1889 - 1931)
