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@3BASEMENT FULL OF BOOKS

@1Release  6.14

March 1, 1993

@3NEW BOOKS, AVAILABLE BY MAIL DIRECTLY FROM THEIR AUTHORS


@1Books by
William Barton & Michael Capobianco,
Bruce Boston,
David Brin,
John Brunner,
Jeff Carver,
Valerie Nieman Colander,
Joel Davis,
Dayle A. Dermatis,
Gene DeWeese,
Harlan Ellison,
M.J. Engh,
Sheila Finch,
Colin Greenland,
James Gunn,
Joe Haldeman,
Gwenyth Hood,
Norman F. Joly,
Eileen Kernaghan,
Victor Koman,
David Kopaska-Merkel,
Edward M. Lerner,
Vonda N. McIntyre,
Thom Metzger,
Hank Nuwer,
Alexei & Cory Panshin,
Bill Ransom,
Robert J. Sawyer,
J. Neil Schulman,
Richard Seltzer,
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 more
information.  A stamped return envelope (SASE) or International Reply
Coupon is very much appreciated and often allows a quicker response.

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@2NOVEL BY WILLIAM BARTON & MICHAEL CAPOBIANCO

@1IRIS, 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

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@3BOOKS BY BRUCE BOSTON

@1NIGHT EYES, previously uncollected sf/fantasy/horror stories,
1993, paper, 64 pp., includes reprints from Amazing,
Asimov's, Masques, Pulphouse, Honorable Mentions from Year's
Best Science Fiction and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
(signed limited edition includes original poetry broadside, "The
Last Existentialist"), Chris Drumm Books, Polk City, Iowa

ACCURSED WIVES, dark fantasy poetry, illustrated by Ree Young,
1993, paper, 28 pp., Night Visions, Troy, North Carolina.
A portion of profits donated to the Montgomery County Women's
Crisis Council.

CHRONICLES OF THE MUTANT RAIN FOREST, by Bruce Boston &
Robert Frazier.  Story-introduction by Lucius Shepard,
photo-collage by Robert Frazier.  In the depths of the
mutant rain forest where the water falls each afternoon in a
light filtered to vermilion, a feline stone idol stands
against the opaque foliage.  On the screen of the monitor it
rises up from nowhere, upon its hind legs, both taller and
thicker than a man.  See how the cellular accretion has
distended its skull, how the naturally sleek architecture of
the countenance has evolved to a distorted and angular
grotesquerie, how the taloned forepaws now possess opposable
digits.  In the humid caves and tunnels carved from living
vines, where leprous anacondas coil, a virulent faith calls
us.  A sudden species fashions godhood in its own
apotheosis.  Trade paper, 1992, 80pp, Horror's Head Press.

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

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@3NOVEL BY DAVID BRIN

@1
EARTH (Bantam Books, hardcover, 1990, 600pp).

EARTH by David Brin is the author's biggest and most important book, delving
into everything from ecology to computer networks to destiny and the Gaia
Hypothesis, all while spinning a plot around the problem of saving the planet
from a truly ultimate and final type of "pollution." EARTH belongs to that
special sub-genre, the 50 year projection, in which the writer drops all
crutches and makes a bold stab at actually predicting... if not THE
future, then A future which might actually come true.

Runner up for the 1991 Hugo (by 10 votes out of a thousand) EARTH also
received kudos from the environmental and computer-net communities, for its
depiction of both problems and solutions in a near tomorrow.  This
particular hardcover edition is a bargain, since it was
printed on acid-free recycled paper, and bound with Smith Sewn signatures.
A real book-lovers' book which will last a lifetime.   Limited supply.

For more information, send SASE or email to:

    David Brin
    PO Box 7568
    San Diego CA  92192-7568.

    Internet: [e-mail]

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@3BOOKS BY JOHN BRUNNER
@1
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


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@3NOVELS BY JEFFREY A. CARVER
@1

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)

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@3NOVEL BY VALERIE NIEMAN COLANDER
@1
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


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@3BOOKS BY JOEL DAVIS
 @1
FLYBY: THE INTERPLANETARY ODYSSEY OF VOYAGER 2. New York:
Atheneum, 1987. (Introduction by Isaac Asimov.) Hardcover 1st
edition. Signed by author.

Voyager 2 and its sister spacecraft Voyager 1 are the most
successful space probes ever launched by the human species.
Voyager 2, in particular, has carried out a near-"Grand Tour" of
the outer solar system, visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune.  FLYBY is the behind-the-scenes story of the Uranus
flyby in 1986--the people, the machines, the near-catastrophes,
and the final triumph.

"With a scientist's knowledge and appreciation and a journalist's
eye for detail and the human element, the author supplies solid
information on the mission and spices the account with tidbits on
what working scientists are really like."

--Booklist

DEFENDING THE BODY: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF IMMUNOLOGY. New
York: Atheneum, 1989.  Hardcover first edition. Signed by author.

From the front lines of medical research across the country,
DEFENDING THE BODY looks at the practice and progress of
immunology--one of the hottest fields of medical research today.
DEFENDING THE BODY includes chapters on the genetics of the
immune system, the new generation of vaccines, cancer, autoimmune
diseases, and the battle against AIDS.

". . . Joel Davis is among the best science writers we have."

--Poul Anderson

For price information, please send SASE or email to:

    Joel Davis
    1201 W. 12th Avenue
    Spokane, WA 99204-3907

    VOICE: 509 624-4176 (day) 509 747-2620 (nite)
      FAX: [phone]
    EMAIL: [e-mail]



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@3BOOKS BY DAYLE A. DERMATIS
@1
Where can you find a publication chock full of hints and tips from editors,
agents and writers?

Okay, okay, besides WRITERS' DIGEST...

The answer is the League of Vermont Writers' first annual conference summary
booklet.  This 32-page tome is loaded with workshop notes from the past two
annual conferences the LVW has held.  You can find information from people such
as:

 * John Brady, former editor of WRITERS' DIGEST and BOSTON, on "The Craft of
Interviewing."

 * Stephen Sterns, former science fiction editor for Del Rey, on "The Science
Fiction and Fantasy Market."

 * Dawn Raffel, Books and Fiction Editor for REDBOOK, on "Magazine Fiction."

 * Damaris Rowland, Associate Publisher at Dell Publishing, on "Women's
Fiction."

 * Sue Protter, head of her own literary agency for 21 years, on "Writing
Effective Query Letters."

 * David Goodman, Assistant National Grievance Officer for the National Writers'
Union, on "Writers' Rights."

 * And much more!

 The book was written and designed by Writers' Forum and LVW member Dayle
Dermatis.  How can you get your hands on this informational goldmine?  Send a
SASE to...

 Dayle Dermatis
 4265 Baywood Dr.
 Redding, CA 96003-2542

 ...or Email her on GEnie at D.DERMATIS


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@3BOOKS BY GENE/JEAN DEWEESE.
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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 or email to:

     Gene DeWeese
     2718 N. Prospect
     Milwaukee, WI 53211
     Or phone: [phone]

    GEnie: G.DEWEESE

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@3BOOKS BY HARLAN ELLISON:
@1
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.


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@3NOVELS BY M.J. ENGH
@1
THE HOUSE IN THE SNOW (Orchard, 1987, 132 pp, hardcover, illustrated
by Leslie Bowman).

Kids from 3rd through 7th grade write me fan letters about this.  Nine boys
fight twenty vicious robbers for control of the mysterious House and the
secret of invisibility.

WHEEL OF THE WINDS (Grafton, 1988, 352 pages, British paperback).

On a cloud-shrouded planet that always turns the same face to its sun, two
natives, a dog, and an off-world exile with a mission begin a voyage to the
darkside and beyond.

For price and ordering information, please send SASE to:

 M.J. Engh
 NE 720 Illinois St.
 Pullman WA 99163



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@3SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY SHEILA FINCH
@1
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


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@3NOVELS BY COLIN GREENLAND
@1
DAYBREAK ON A DIFFERENT MOUNTAIN

Fantasy quest novel. Two men set out together from the
decaying walled city of Thryn to cross the wastelands in
search of a vanished god.  For the sake of everyone Dubilier
needs to find Him; while Lupio is most determined they will
not.  (Allen & Unwin, 1984, 248 pp., hardcover, signed.)

THE HOUR OF THE THIN OX

First of two linked fantasy novels.  In a world poised on
the brink of industrial change, three cultures collide, with
violent and paradoxical consequences.  In the feverish
jungles of Belanesi a young heiress from tranquil,
prosperous Bryland and a child of imperial Escaly find that
nothing they have been taught to expect is true.  'Could be
a classic'  --  THE GUARDIAN.  (Unwin Hyman, 1987, 186 pp,
paperback, signed.)

OTHER VOICES

Second of two linked fantasy novels.  The Eschalan Empire
spreads its benign, suffocating rule across the little
mountain principality of Luscany.  While experimenters shift
the boundary between life and death, the careers of Princess
Nette and Serin Guille, most lowly of her subjects, become
unexpectedly entwined.  'Court intrigues, mannerly disputes,
sudden violence and at least two strange seductions...
Greenland continues to stake out his unique fictional
territory.'  -- City Limits  (Unwin Hyman, 1988, 182 pp,
paperback, signed.)

Order from:

    Colin Greenland
    2a Ortygia House
    6 Lower Road
    Harrow HA2 0DA UK

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@3BOOKS BY JAMES GUNN
@1
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


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@3AUTOGRAPHED NEW FIRST EDITIONS BY JOE HALDEMAN
@1

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


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@3NOVEL BY GWENYTH HOOD
@1
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


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@3NON-FICTION by NORMAN F. JOLY
@1
The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece : A Personal View
(London : Joly, 1990. 151pp. ISBN 0-9515628-0-0)

                            C O N T E N T S

            0. PROLOGUE.............................

            1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICITY.......

            2. THE BIRTH OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS....

            3. WHAT IS A RADIO AMATEUR?.............

            4. THE 1921 AMATEUR TRANSATLANTIC TESTS.

            5. THE FIRST GREEK RADIO AMATEURS.......

            6. WORLD WAR II AND AFTER IN GREECE.....

            7. PIONEERS IN GREECE...................

            8. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES & ANECDOTES...

            9. MISCELLANY...........................

           10. GLOSSARY FOR NON-TECHNICAL READERS...

``A unique history book which traces Amateur Radio back to its
original source 2,500 years ago. It describes the intervening steps
which led to the mass generation and distribution of mains electricity,
and claims that the true father of our hobby was James Clewrk Maxwell,
who formulated mathematically the existence of electromagnetic waves
about 150 yeasr ago.

The book also contains reminiscences and anecdotes of the early days
and is profusely illustrated with diagrams and original photographs
taken by the author a long time ago.''

Available in paperback from the author.

Norman F. Joly,
28 Oakington Avenue
HARROW, Middlesex,
HA2 7JJ.

Or email Gordon Joly for more information.

Internet: [e-mail]        UUCP: ...!{uunet,uknet}!ucl-cs!G.Joly

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@3BOOKS BY EILEEN KERNAGHAN
@1
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


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@3
BOOKS BY VICTOR KOMAN
@1

THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT, Franklin Watts 1st,
1987, OP, new, hardback, autographed. A dying assassin is given
one last hit--on God Almighty. With the aid of a telepathic
hooker, a beautiful gambler, and an ancient Hollywood witch, he
battles the forces of Heaven and Hell to pull the Cosmic Trigger.
Prometheus Award Winner (1988)

SOLOMON'S KNIFE, Franklin Watts 1st, 1989, OP, new,
Hardback, autographed. Valerie Dalton thought she'd had an
abortion until she discovers that her child lives as the result of
a secret medical experiment. Prometheus Award Winner (1990)

SPACEWAYS #13: JONUTA RISING!  Berkley 1st, 1983, Mint
Paperback, Autographed, OP. Mindrunner Marekallian Eks smuggles
brainboosters to cultures "protected" by a Prime Directive-style
law enforced by TransGalactic Organization. (Written as "John
Cleve" w/ Andrew J. Offutt) [Mature Readers Only]

SPACEWAYS #17: THE CARNADYNE HORDE, Berkley 1st, 1984,
Mint Paperback, Autographed, OP. Marekallian Eks returns to
assemble a fleet of dreadnoughts leading to an epic space battle
between the forces of slavery and freedom. (Written as "John
Cleve" w/ Andrew J. Offutt) [Mature Readers Only]

SAUCER SLUTS, Impulse (Newspaper), 1978, VG set of 13-
issue serial, limited to 92 numbered sets. Rare! Signed; wrapper
illo by author. Four lovely green women kidnap two Earthmen to
repopulate their dying planet, a world in which pockets of sex,
anarchy, and free commerce survive, surrounded by the chaos of
anti-sex government and religion. SF-porn satire classic. Koman's
first published novel. [Very Mature Readers Only]

PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK FOR UNDER $50! (Written with J. Neil Schulman)
KoPubCo 1991, New. Low-tech/Hi-tech self-publishing strategies. Good
overview of microfiche and electronic publishing: benefits and
pitfalls.

For further information, please send SASE or email to:

    Victor Koman
    P.O. Box 94
    Long Beach, CA  90801-0094

    GEnie: V.KOMAN


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@3MAGAZINES EDITED BY DAVID KOPASKA-MERKEL
@1
DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES is one of the most prolific fantastic poetry
magazines in existence, having published 39 issues since January, 1986.
DN includes SF, fantasy, and horror poetry, as well as illustrations and
occasional short-short fiction.  Issues 34-39 are currently available.

CWM, the magazine of possibilities, publishes material the form and
content of which is limited only by the authors'/artists' imaginations.
CWM publishes theme issues.  The theme of issue #1 was "water in all its
forms."  The theme of issue #2 is "what lies beneath the surface"
and of issue #3 "the archaeology of the soul."

EDITED BY MORGAN KOPASKA-MERKEL

KID'S WORLD is a literary magazine that publishes art, fiction, poetry,
essays, jokes, puzzles, brain teasers, and cartoons by children under
the age of 18.  The editor is Morgan Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Rd.,
Tuscaloosa AL 35404, and payment is one copy per published piece.

POETRY BY DAVID KOPASKA-MERKEL

UNDERFOOT is the first poetry collection by David C. Kopaska-Merkel, with
artwork by Sheila Kopaska-Merkel.  Underfoot contains a wide range of
material, and was published by Runaway Spoon Press.

For further information, please send SASE or email to:

    David C. Kopaska-Merkel
    1300 Kicker Rd.
    Tuscaloosa AL 35404

    GEnie: D.KOPASKS-ME

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@3NOVEL BY EDWARD M. LERNER
@1

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


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@3BOOKS BY VONDA N. McINTYRE
@1
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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 *                              SPECIAL OFFER                             *
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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.)                                       *
 *                                                                        *
 * 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:   [e-mail]


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@3BOOKS BY THOM METZGER
@1
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

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@3NON-FICTION BY HANK NUWER
@1
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

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@3FICTION & NON-FICTION BY ALEXEI & CORY PANSHIN
@1
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


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@3SCIENCE FICTION AND POETRY by BILL RANSOM
@1
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 [e-mail])

Real Life:  Bill Ransom
        4711 Aurora Avenue North
            Seattle, WA 98103

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@3HARD SF NOVELS BY ROBERT J. SAWYER
@1
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:  [e-mail]


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@3BOOKS BY J. NEIL SCHULMAN
@1
PUBLISH YOUR OWN BOOK FOR UNDER $50! (Written with Victor Koman.)
KoPubCo 1991, New. Low-tech/Hi-tech self-publishing strategies. Good
overview of microfiche and electronic publishing: benefits and
pitfalls.

ALONGSIDE NIGHT.  Crown 1st, 1979, Mint Autographed Slipsheet
Edition limited to 526 copies, signed and numbered by the author!
America faces destruction and tyranny during hyperinflationary crackup.
Young Elliot Vreeland must rescue his imprisoned family and help
topple the government. Prometheus Award Hall of Fame winner!

For further information, please send SASE or email to:

    J. Neil Schulman
    P.O. Box 94
    Long Beach, CA  90801-0094

    GEnie: SOFTSERV

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@3BOOKS BY RICHARD SELTZER
@1
THE NAME OF HERO, an historical novel (hardcover, Tarcher/Houghton
Mifflin, 1981, 290 pp., first edition, autographed on request)

Alexander Bulatovich is impelled by a need to prove himself:
first to others, then to himself, and finally to God.
This historical figure (1870-1919) was, at various times, a
soldier, an explorer, a monk, and a religious leader.  His field
of action ranged from Tsarist Russia to Ethiopia to Manchuria to
Mount Athos to the Eastern Front in World War I.

In 1896, a young officer in the most elite cavalry regiment in
Saint Petersburg, he is a champion rider and fencer.  Expected
soon to be betrothed to Sonya, the daughter of his commanding
officer, Alex is on a smooth track toward conventional success.
But he hungers for adventure, fame, and fortune.  When the
opportunity arise, he volunteers for duty in Ethiopia.
In three expeditions over four years, Alex battles desert and
jungle, explores uncharted lands, learns the languages, and comes
to respect the Ethiopian people.  He rises to every challenge and
danger and becomes Russia's expert on this area and also a
trusted military adviser of the Ethiopian emperor.

England, with armies in neighboring Sudan, looms as a threat to
continued Ethiopian independence.  Bulatovich has elaborate plans
for defenses on the western frontier, with himself as
prince-governor of that province, and an Ethiopian princess at
his side.  But the international climate changes abruptly.
Alliances are shifting.  England is no longer an "enemy" of
Russia.  Asia, not Africa, is where the action lies.  Alex is
recalled to Saint Petersburg, where his hard-gained knowledge of
Africa is now useless.

Rather than start up again with Sonya and play the games of
regimental politics, he volunteers for duty in Manchuria, where
Russians are fighting the Chinese Boxers for control of the
Trans-Siberian Railway.  Disillusioned, he no longer craves fame
and official recognition, but he still has to prove himself to
himself -- pushing himself to the limits of physical endurance
and danger.  Decisive and bold, he inspires the devotion of a
motley group of undisciplined frontiersmen and Cossacks, who call
him "Mazeppa" and themselves "Mazeppy."  Due to his amazing luck,
some of his men come to believe he has extraordinary powers.

Alex continually comes into conflict with his superior officers,
who consider his initiative insubordination.  Disobeying orders,
he leads his Mazeppy to rescue a French missionary.  On the way
back, he is badly wounded and also contracts typhus.  His
superior officers leave him to die.  His friends stay with him.
In a coma, drifting in and out of consciousness, he realizes his
"luck" has run out.  But what was the source of this luck, and
why has it ended?  Did God have a purpose for him?  He must live
so he can find out and prove himself before God.

The main story takes place in 1900 in the frontier/plains of
Manchuria, with flashbacks to the jungles of Ethiopia, and Russia
and the Ukraine.

The novel was thoroughly researched -- based in part on writings
of Bulatovich himself and his commanding officer in Manchuria, as
well as interviews with his hundred-year-old sister.


THE LIZARD OF OZ, a satiric fable for adults and children
(paperback, B&R Samizdat Express, 1974, 126 pages, illustrated
by Christin Couture, third printing; a few first edition
copies with hand-silkscreened covers available, autographed
on request)

(The story is also available in the form of a stageplay
intended for elementary school, and as a multi-part radio play.)

When an elementary school class sets out on a quest to save the
world from disenchantment, their adventures reveal paradoxes of
the human mind and ways of awakening the magic within us.

Meet Lewis Carroll in the Underworld:
"I don't understand everything.  I just stand under the world.
There are others much lower who stand under us.  There are many
levels of understanding."

Meet Prince Frog, the frog who turned himself into a prince to
make himself lovable:
"It's so good to be loved, but then it's so comfortable being a
frog.  I think I'll go down to the river and croak."

Meet Miss Fortune, one of the Mothers of Fact:
"That'll be the emperor's new clothes.  There's a very special
fiber for making it visible.  Yes, moral fiber.  The emperor has
to supply that himself."

Meet Humpty and the little blue wallflower he fell for, Sir Real,
Francis Bacon, the Redcoats, the Mothers of Fact, Joan of Noah's
Ark, Mr. Charon, Mr. Plato, the Witch, the Physicist, King
Arthur, the Knights of the Merry-Go-Round table, Shakespeare,
Daniel Boone, Mr. Marx, Crazy Horse, the Weatherman, Mr. Shermin,
Mrs. O'Rourke, and many more characters.


NOW AND THEN AND OTHER TALES FROM OME, a short collection of
children's stories. (paperback or hardcover first edition,
B&R Samizdat Express, 1976, 63 pages, autographed on request).

The book consists of four stories:

Now and Then -- "Once upon a space there was a time, a cute
little time.  Her name was Now.  Her Father was Yesterday, and
her mother was Tomorrow..."

Princess Julie -- "Here she was an ordinary princess with a
mother who loved her, and she was never miserable, and Prince
Charming would never come to rescue her... unless she made
herself miserable."

The Little Oops Named Ker Plop -- "Once beneath a space there was
an oops named Ker Plop.  She had fallen through that vast empty
space and landed in the middle of nowhere."

Mary Jane's Book:  the Book of Animals -- "It was summer
vacation, and everything was different:  Mary Jane didn't have to
go to school, and everything she just loved turned into a car,
all the animals, that is; and May Jane just loved all sorts of
animals."

No charge for shipping on pre-paid orders.

For ordering & price information, please send SASE or email to:

By the way, I have all of the above on-line as well, and could
transmit one or more over the Internet if someone wished.

 Richard Seltzer
 PO Box 161
 West Roxbury, MA 02132

Internet: [e-mail]
          !decwrl!ics.dec.com!seltzer
          seltzer%ics.enet.dec.com
or        [e-mail]

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@3FANTASY NOVEL BY DAVE SMEDS
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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

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@3BOOKS BY JOHN E. STITH:
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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

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@3BOOKS BY L. A. TAYLOR.
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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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@3COLLECTION BY GENE WOLFE
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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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@3BOOKS BY JANE YOLEN:
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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

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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@3NOVEL BY GEORGE ZEBROWSKI
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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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