IROSF Recently Received Materials

The Pacification of Earth

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:39:13 +0000

The Pacification of Earth
By: Dean Warren
ISBN-13: 9781436355926
Pages: 767
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Date Received: January 2009

Note: Xlibris is a self-publishing operation, rather than a traditional publisher.

The end of this century finds humanity in trouble. The population has doubled to 12 billion, resources like oil, food, and water prove inadequate, and desperate populations are on the move. Ben Bjorn, a blond youngster from a California ghetto cons his way into the Marines. He vows to "fix" somehow the world's ugliness. By the time he's through he conquers North America, Europe, the Moslems, and the Chinese. A stirring, heroic tale, it ends with the promise of a just and unified world finally reducing its population.

Eclipse Two

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:34:35 +0000

Eclipse Two
By: Jonathan Strahan
ISBN-13: 9781597801362
Pages: 287
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Date Received: January 2009

Featuring stories by: Alastair Reynolds, Karl Schroeder, Margo Lanagan, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang, and many others.

To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true...

In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stoires where strange and wonderful things happen—where reality is exlipsed by something magical and new.

The Stowaway

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:30:15 +0000

The Stowaway
By: R. A. and Geno Salvatore
ISBN-13: 9780786950942
Pages: 287
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Date Received: January 2009

Twelve years old and already guarding a secret that could jeopardize his young life, Maimun is marked for death. With a demon called Asbeel tracking his every move through Baldur's Gate, the orphaned boy flees out to sea, stowing away on the pirate hunting ship, Sea Sprite, where he comes across a most unlikely ally: the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden. As the ship careens through the Sea of Swords, fighting pirates and agents of Asbeel, Maimun must come to terms with the secret he carries and find out what his family really means.

Rowan of the Wood

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:19:59 +0000

Rowan of the Wood
By: Christine Rose and Ethan Rose
ISBN-13: 9780981744315
Pages: 240
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Date Received: January 2009

A young adult novel.

Rowan of the Wood tells the story of Cullen, a 12-year-old outcast who lives with an unbearable foster family in California. He travels through a redwood forest every day on his way to school, losing himself in books and a fantasy world of elves, fairies, and wizards. Cullen's life changes incredibly one day when he uncovers an ancient magic wand that is inhabited by a powerful wizard, Rowan. Inadvertently, the wizard possesses Cullen and emerges from him in times of crisis. Rowan and Cullentry to understand what has happened to them, only to discover a deeper problem.

Looking Glass

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:47:17 +0000

Looking Glass
By: James R. Strickland
ISBN-13: 9780979588907
Pages: 303
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Date Received: December 2008

2025 A.D. In a not so distant future...

Dr. Catherin Farro, or "Shroud," as she is known online, is a 40-year-old paraplegic. She works in a virtual reality tank on the security team for a large discount store chain. Friday, payday, she is attacked in the virtual world where violent hackers run rampant. Her team is brutally murdered. She will not stop until she finds their killers. Suspended from her job in a corporate cover-up, she travels through a politically fractured North America, finding clues and tracking down friends. Every virtual connection she makes brings her closer to the killers, and she must use all of her technical skill to be the hunter rather than the hunted. A thrilling world of a dangerous future. Shroud's quest for justice and revenge will force her from her quiet, virtual life into a maelstrom of intrigue, death, and a journey to the most terrifying place... the real world.

Talebones #37

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:41:49 +0000

Talebones #37
By: Patrick Swenson, Ed.
ISBN: 1084-7197
Pages: 111
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Date Received: December 2008

<cite>Talebones</cite> number 37, the "Winter 2008" issue. Fiction in the table of contents consists of: <ul> <li>"Floaters" by James Van Pelt <li>"To Be With Amy" by William F. Nolan <li>"What We Love" by Mark Rich <li>"The Serpent Who Sleeps Beneath the Shards" by M.K. Jobson <li>"Firelight" by Eric Del Carlo <li>"The Corsair and the Lady" by Edd Vick <li>"A Road Like This, At Night" by Lon Prater <li>"Persephone Eats Winter" by Julie McGalliard <li>"Turquoise Morning" by Rebecca Tester <li>"All That Glitters" by William Mingin </ul> There's also poetry, letters, and an editorial.

Realms of Fantasy, February 09

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:37:29 +0000

Realms of Fantasy, February 09
By: Shawna McCarthy
ISBN: 1078 1951
Pages: 90
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Date Received: December 2008

Realms of Fantasy, Volume 15, Number 3.

Fiction in the Table of Contents consists of:

"The Radio Magician" by James Van Pelt
"The Happiest Place" by Carrie Vaughn
"Joy is the Serious Business of Heaven" by David D. Levine
"The River of Three Crossings" by Richard Parks
"Fossil Fuels" by Alan Smale

Other departments include Movies by Resa Nelson, Books by Paul Witcover and Jeff VanderMeer, Folkroots by Stephen D. Winick, Gallery by Karen Kaber (featured artist is Daniel Merriam), Authors by Jeff VanderMeer, and Games by Eric T. Baker.

Weird Tales #351

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:31:41 +0000

Weird Tales #351
By: Stephen H. Segal
Pages: 95
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Date Received: December 2008

Weird Tales #351! Table of contents: First Photograph by Zoran Zivkovic The Gong by Sara Genge The Dream of the Blue Man by Nir Yaniv The Wordeaters by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz Out of Sacred Water by Juraj Cervenak Time and the Orpheus by chiles samaniego Bleakwarrior Meets the Sons of Brawl Plus: Novel Excerpts, Features, Poetry, and Departments.

After the Downfall

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:29:22 +0000

After the Downfall
By: Harry Turtledove
ISBN-13: 9781597801300
Pages: 324
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Date Received: October 2008

1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge... Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns. There he allies himself with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli, and Velona, their goddess in human form, offering them his knowledge of warfare and weaponry in their genocidal struggle against a race of diminutive, swarthy barbarians known as Grenye. But soon, the savagery of the Lenelli begins to eat at Hasso Pemsel's soul, causing him to question everything he has long believed about race and Reich, right and wrong, Uebermenschen and Untermenschen. Hasso Pemsel will learn the difference between following orders... and following his conscience.

The Living Dead

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:24:58 +0000

The Living Dead
By: John Joseph Adams, ed.
ISBN-13: 9781597801430
Pages: 486
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Date Received: October 2008

From <cite>White Zombie</cite> to <cite>Dawn of the Dead</cite>; from <cite>Resident Evil</cite> to <cite>World War Z</cite>, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern West. The ultimate consumers, zombies rise from the dead and feed upon the living, their teeming masses ever hungry, ever seeking to devour or convert... mindless, faceless eating machines. Zombies have been depicted as mind-controlled minions, the shambling infected, the disintegrating dead, and the ultimate lumpenpropletariat, but in all cases they reflect us, mere mortals afraid of death in a society on the verge of collapse. Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, <cite>The Living Dead</cite> covers a broad spectrum of zombie fiction: from Romero-style zombies to reanimated corpses to voodoo zombies and beyond.

Space Magic

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:20:36 +0000

Space Magic
By: David D. Levine
ISBN-13: 9780979405433
Pages: 271
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Date Received: October 2008

Space Magic is the first short story collection from David D. Levine. His "Tk'Tk'Tk" won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" was a previous Hugo nominee; it also appeared on the Nebula preliminaryt ballot and was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award and Locus Award. Levine was a John W. Campbell Award nominee (2004 and 2003), Writers of the Future Contest winner (2002), James White Award winner (2001), and Clarion West graduate (2000). His stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, and anthologies including Mike Resnick's New Voices in SF and four Year's Best volumes (two Fantasy, two SF). David lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Kate Yule.

Kaleidotrope: #5

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:14:20 +0000

Kaleidotrope: #5
By: Fred Coppersmith
Pages: 75
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Date Received: October 2008

A zine containing fiction by Bill Ward, Therese Arkenberg, Barkley Burke, Mark Rich, Ralph Sevush, Eric Del Carlo, Brendan Connell, Marshall Payne, Barbara A. Barnett, Sean Ruane, Daniel Braum, and P.D. Allen.

Also, poetry and horoscopes. Horoscopes?

Homeless Moon

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:11:13 +0000

Homeless Moon
By: Various
ISBN: N/A
Pages: 43
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Date Received: October 2008

A self-proclaimed chapbook with short fiction by Michael DeLuca, Jason S. Ridler, Scott H. Andrews, Erin Hoffman, and Justin Howe.

Realms of Fantasy, October 2008

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:04:40 +0000

Realms of Fantasy, October 2008
By: Shawna McCarthy
ISBN: 1078-1951
Pages: 90
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Date Received: October 2008

The Purple Basil by M.K. Hobson

The Luckiest Street in Georgia by Vylar Kaftan

Under the Skin by Greg O. Weatherford

The Horned Toad in the Hubcap by Joe Murphy

All Beautiful Things by Sharon Mock

The Claw Unseen by Evan Harvey

Plus: Movies by Resa Nelson, Books by Paul Witcover and Jeff VanderMeer, Folkroots by Terri Windling, James A. Owen's art by Mia Nutick, and Games by Eric T. Baker.

Electric Velocipede #14

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:11:48 +0000

Electric Velocipede #14
By: John Klima
Pages: 104
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Date Received: August 2008

Table of Contents

FICTION

Hermit Crabs by Elissa Malcohn
Waiting at the Window by Ezrebet Yellowboy
Them by Michelle Scott
The Last Tiger by Tracie McBride
The Artificial Sunlight of Memory by D. E. Wadsen
Recipe for Survival by Sandra Mcdonald
Sashenka Redux by Jennifer Pelland
Your Blood by Leslie Claire Walker
No Bubblewrap for Little Guys by Sara Saab
Bull by Sharon E. Woods
#1 by Leslie What
Perfect Tense by Lisa Mantchev
Stepsister by Melissa Mead

POETRY

Evighed by Sonya Taaffe
Asylum by Lida Broadhurst
Hyldegarde Speaks to Jacqueline by Erin Hoffman

NONFICTION

Sampling the Aspic: Al Dente by Penelope O'Shea

Incandescence

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:25:38 +0000

Incandescence
By: Greg Egan
ISBN-13: 9781597801287
Pages: 250
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Date Received: August 2008

The Amalgam spans nearly the entire galaxy, and is composed of innumerable beings from a wild variety of races, some human or near-human, some entirely other. The one place they cannot go is the bulge, the bright, hot center of the galaxy. There dwell the Aloof, who for millions of years have deflected any and all attempts at communication or physical contact. o when Rakesh is offered an opportunity to travel within their sphere in search of a lost race, he cannot turn it down.

Roi is a member of that lost race, which is not only lost to the Amalgam, but to itself. In their world, there is but toil, and history and science are luxuries that they can ill afford. When she meets Zak, the male who will become her teacher and mentor, everything starts to change. Their strange world is under threat, and it will take an unprecedented flowering of science to save it.

Rakesh's journey will take him across millennia and light years. Roi's will take her across vistas of learning and discovery just as vast.

White Flames

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:20:46 +0000

White Flames
By: Ceclia Tan
ISBN-13: 9780786720804
Pages: 286
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Date Received: August 2008

The 21 inspired stories within reveal the breadth of what's possible in the human erotic imagination. Ranging from the mildly titillating to the wholly transformative, they travel from familiar bedrooms to faraway planets and magical realms. From a lonely woman who finds her perfect lover lurking in a bookstore, to a college student who discovers her own hidden magic, and from the erotic awakening of a goddess to the sexual adventures of goth girls with attitude, Cecilia Tan mixes the sexual and sensual with a daring array of intriguing plots and settings. The follow-up to the groundbreaking collection Black Feathers, White Flames celebrates sexuality through body and mind in a collection of both never-before-published tales and stories reprinted from a wide range of sources.

Other Worlds, Better Lives

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:16:43 +0000

Other Worlds, Better Lives
By: Howard Waldrop
ISBN-13: 9781882968381
Pages: 260
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Date Received: August 2008

A Howard Waldrop Reader Selected Long Fiction, 1989-2003 Howard Waldrop has spent over three decades writing some of the finest short stories in America, leading <cite>Locus</cite> magazine to call him a "National Treasure," and the <cite>Washington Post Book World</cite> to describe him as "The resident Weird Mind of his generation, he writes like a honky-tonk angel."

Shadow of the Scorpion

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:11:53 +0000

Shadow of the Scorpion
By: Neal Asher
ISBN-13: 9781597801393
Pages: 250
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Date Received: August 2008

The true story of Ian Cormac's early years. Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by the childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn't remember.

In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security, and is sent out to help either restore or maintain order on worlds devastated by Prador bombardment. There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like.

Amidst the ruins left by war-time genocides, he discovers in himself a cold capacity for violence, learns some horrible truths about his own past and, set upon a course of vengeance, tries to stay alive.

Ian Cormac is the protagonist featured in Neal Asher's earlier novels, Gridlinked, Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, and Line War.

Mars Life

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:02:09 +0000

Mars Life
By: Ben Bova
ISBN-13: 9780765317872
Pages: 432
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Date Received: August 2008

Jamie Waterman's discovery of cliff dwellings on Mars opened up a whole new scientific frontier, prompting a series of excavations that revealed that an intelligent race had lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant metory. One of the people who continued Jamie's work is Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who was driven from his university post by unproven charges of rape. Whether or not he wanted to go to Mars, he became the planet's star scientist when he uncovered the remains of a Martian village. But as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off funding for the Mars program, the future of exploration on the red planet faces an extinction as grave as the one that felled the Martians themselves. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and to uncover as much information as possible about the fate of the vanished Martians... before no one is left on the planet to study them.

The New Space Opera

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:57:53 +0000

The New Space Opera
By: Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan, Eds.
ISBN-13: 9780060846756
Pages: 514
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Date Received: August 2008

The brightest names in science fiction pen all-new tales of space and wonder: Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Tony Daniel, Greg Egan, Peter F. Hamilton, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Ken Macleod, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Robert Silverberg, Dan Simmons, Walter Jon Williams.

Implied Spaces

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:57:26 +0000

Implied Spaces
By: Walter Jon Williams
ISBN-13: 9781597801256
Pages: 265
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Date Received: August 2008

When mankind's every need is serviced by artificial intelligence, and death itself is only a minor inconvenience, what does it mean to be human? The answer lies hidden, deep within the Implied Spaces.

Newton's Sleep

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:57:05 +0000

Newton's Sleep
By: Daniel O'Mahony
ISBN-13: 9780473124984
Pages: 276
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Date Received: August 2008

Lately cannonballs have flown their arcs, leaving the crystal sky unbroken, while on Earth their traces are all too visible. Yet though Heaven has never seemed so far away, the divine is terribly closer. War on Earth presages War in Heaven; the struggle between the holy houses of Christ and their eternal Adversary has erupted among the living.

The Lion's Eye

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:56:33 +0000

The Lion's Eye
By: Mary Gentle
ISBN: 0060821833
ISBN-13: 9780060821838
Pages: 303
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Date Received: August 2008

For the young Ilario, life has not been predictable or easy. Born with a terrible secret, abandoned on the steps of a chapel, Ilario is found by Federico, an impoverished Iberian noble who plans to offer the foundling to King Roderigo to curry favor. Years later, the teenaged Ilario joins the court as the King's Freak, where another surprise awaits� Rosamunda, wife of the king's most powerful advisor, has arrived, and is determined to keep the mystery of her child's shameful birth hidden at all costs--even murder.

The Dragon Never Sleeps

bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:56:17 +0000

The Dragon Never Sleeps
By: Glen Cook
ISBN-13: 9781597800990
Pages: 290
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Date Received: August 2008

For four thousand years, the guardships ruled canon space with an iron fist. Immortal ships with an immortal crew roamed the Galaxy, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threatened the status quo.