Date: Sun, 11 Jan 87 20:29:32 EST From: "Keith F. Lynch" Subject: Re: Man-Machine Interfaces. To: OC.TREI@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU From: Peter G. Trei >PS: I must mention _Marooned_in_Realtime_ the sequel to >_The_Peace_War_ by Vernor Vinge, which inspired me to enter this >submission. If you liked that, you will love _Tom_Paine_Maru_ by L. Neil Smith, another story which includes a mind-computer interface. Keith Date: 13 Jan 87 23:02:21 GMT From: unisoft!jef@rutgers.edu (Jef Poskanzer) Subject: Re: Man-Machine Interfaces. From: Peter G. Trei >>PS: I must mention _Marooned_in_Realtime_ the sequel to >>_The_Peace_War_ by Vernor Vinge, which inspired me to enter this >>submission. > If you liked that, you will love _Tom_Paine_Maru_ by L. Neil >Smith, another story which includes a mind-computer interface. This is like saying "If you liked _Moby_Dick_, you'll love _Jaws_, because it also is about a big fish." _Tom_Paine_Maru_ was ok, but _Marooned_in_Realtime_ was one of the best SF books I've read in years. My previous favorite was _True_Names. Vernor Vinge is on a first-name basis with God. Jef Poskanzer unisoft!jef@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu ucbvax!unisoft!jef Date: 10 Jan 87 21:48:44 GMT From: duke!crm@rutgers.rutgers.edu (Charlie Martin) Subject: Re: Image of Businessmen in SF From: Joe Brenner >So I throw the question open to the net: can we come up with some >names of "pro-business" SF stories? L.Neil Smith, all his books. Neil Shulman ditto. Charlie Martin ...mcnc!duke!crm Date: 12 Jan 87 20:31:39 GMT From: dg_rtp!throopw@rutgers.rutgers.edu (Wayne Throop) Subject: Re: Image of Businessmen in SF > Joe Brenner > I throw the question open to the net: can we come up with some > names of "pro-business" SF stories? Wheels Within Wheels (or anything else by F. Paul Wilson) The Probability Broach (or anything else by L. Neil Smith) These are what you might call "libertarian authors". There are many others, of course, though I can't call any to mind strongly just now. Also, I think the problem of business taking a bad rap in SF is exaggerated. Mostly, the question of "is Big Business a Bad Idea, or what" never comes up at all. Wayne Throop !mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw Date: 12 Jan 87 20:00:32 GMT From: carole@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Carole Ashmore) Subject: Re: Image of Businessmen in SF From: Joe Brenner > So I throw the question open to the net: can we come up with some > names of "pro-business" SF stories? Well, Heinlein did more than just the one short story with a pro business, pro free enterprise theme. Remember "Delilah and the Space Rigger" from about the same period as "The Man Who Sold the Moon"? Look at the characters of Tiny Larsen and the narrator. How about "We also Walk Dogs" from the same period that shows entrepeneur-out- to-make-a-buck as a major force for technological improvement? More recently Heinlein has given us the libertarian/anarchist/ free-enterprise society in THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, and the description of the invention of the Shipstone power pack in FRIDAY. Also, Anderson did a whole series of novels about Nicolas van Rijn, the hero of THE MAN WHO COUNTS; all were heavily oriented toward businessman-as-hero. C.J. Cherryh has written a series of books extolling the virtues of the merchant/adventurer type. They include the Merchant ship culture that shows up as background in novels like DOWNBELOW STATION, MERCHANTER'S LUCK, AND VOYAGER IN NIGHT, and the Series of novels about the Non-human merchant adventurers in PRIDE OF CHANUR, CHANUR'S HOMECOMING, THE KIF STRIKE BACK, etc. Niven and Pournelle, in the recent OATH OF FEALTY, show business people, and in particular one businesswoman, in a very good light. Niven shows non-human 'commercial' empires in his "Known Space" series, and both the Puppeteers and the Outsiders are seen as benefitting other species with their commercial motivations. There was THE SYNDIC, by C.M. Kornbluth, with its Mafia-becomes- legitimate-business-becomes-government-and-does-it-better theme. Also there are some science fiction authors who write utopian novels specifically pushing libertarian notions of government and business. L. Neil Smith is probably the most popular, with THE PROBABILITY BROACH, THE VENUS BELT, THE NAGASAKI VECTOR, AND THE TOM PAINE MARU. I remember a novel of this type called ALONGSIDE NIGHT with a youthful hero who is an obvious takeoff on David Friedman, but I can't remember the author. Hope this helps some. Carole Ashmore Date: 16 Mar 87 21:37:48 GMT From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) Subject: Crystal Empire The Crystal Empire, by L Neil Smith **** mild spoilers **** So, the Islamic Caliph in Rome decides to send his daughter Ayesha to marry the King of the mysterious Crystal Empire on the west coast of the New World, in the hope of getting an ally against the Mughal hoards... ... and we are in the midst of another alternative history novel. The premise is that a very virulent form of the Black Death removed Christian Europe from the world stage by depopulation. The rest follows. I found this a readable piece of speculation; fairly lightweight mostly. A big plus point is that the plot and narrative move along quite well, and there are enough historical jokes to keep one amused. Two minus points (as ever, in my opinion). First, the novel (at 450 pages) is too short. That's because it tries to describe four quite different societies, and build up several major characters, all the while keeping the action going. At times, things become very terse. Secondly, the ending is terrible - like something out of the 40's when our handful of intrepid heroes defeat the bad guys in a cataclysm of stupifying unlikelihood. Wait for the paperback. Date: 13 May 87 18:27:03 GMT From: kayuucee@cvl.umd.edu (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) Subject: Alternate Worlds Book list Well, since I haven't received any replies in the past few days, I figure that I have all that are going to come in. I would like to thank Kris Stephens, Jed Hartman, Robert Firth and Evelyn C. Leeper for responding to my request. I appreciate it. Here is the list of books and authors I have gotten. Titles in `""' are short stories and I included the magazines or collections they appear in when possible. Castaways in Time Robert Adams Of Quest and Kings Robert Adams Seven Magical Jewels of Ireland Robert Adams "Danger: Religion!" (Neanderthal Planet) Brian W. Aldiss Eighty-Minute Hour Brian W. Aldiss Frankenstein Unbound Brian W. Aldiss Malacia Tapestry Brian W. Aldiss "If I Had Been H. Tojo in 1941" (Snowman--If I Had Been) Louis Allen Alteration Kingsley Amis Guardians of Time Poul Anderson High Crusade Poul Anderson Midsummer Tempest Poul Anderson Time After Time Allen Appel When The Bells Rang Anthony Armstrong "Earth Is Room Enough" Isaac Asimov End of Eternity Isaac Asimov "Fall of Frenchy Steiner" v (Moorcock--Best from New Worlds) Hillary Bailey Young Adolf Beryl Bainbridge Twilight Man Otto Basil "Through Road No Whither" (Benford--Hitler Victorious) Greg Bear Hitler Victorious (anthology) Gregory Benford "Valhalla" (Hitler Victorious) Gregory Benford "Father and Son" (Hole in the Lead Apron) Jesse Bier "Sound of Thunder" (R Is for Rocket) Ray Bradbury "Thor Meets Captain America" (Benford--Hitler Victorious) David Brin How It Happened Here Kevin Brownlow Quicksand John Brunner Times Without Number John Brunner "Never Meet Again" (Benford--Hitler Victorious) Algis Budrys "Battle of Dorking" (Moorcock--Before Armageddon) George Chesney Bomb That Failed Roland Clark England under Hitler Comer Clarke Matter of Time Glen Cook Burning Mountain Alfred Coppel Hubert's Arthur Baron Corvo Operation Sealion Richard Cox "Branches of Time" David R. Daniels Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague De Camp Wheels of If L. Sprague De Camp "Passage in Italics" (F&SF 5/72) William Dean SS-GB Len Deighton Emperor of If Guy Dent Wrack & Rule Bradley Denton "Jon's World" (Derleth--Times to Come) Philip K. Dick Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick Moscow Option David Downing Second Front Now: 1943 Walter S. Dunn Relatives Geo. Alec Effinger "Target: Berlin!" (Silverberg--New Dimensions 6) Geo. Alec Effinger "Red Skins" (F&SF 1/81) Gordon Eklund "Sail On, Sail On" (Knight--Century of SF) Philip Jose Farmer Gate of Time (Two Hawks from Earth) Philip Jose Farmer Infinity's Web Sheila Finch "Reichs-Peace" (Benford--Hitler Victorious) Sheila Finch Dragon Waiting John M. Ford "Intersections" (IASFM 10/26/81) John M. Ford "Mandalay" (IASFM 10/79) John M. Ford "Out of Service" (IASFM 7/80) John M. Ford "Slowly By, Lorena" (IASFM 11/80) John M. Ford "If Hitler Had Invaded England" (Post 4/16-30/60) C. S. Forester "What If Hitler Got the Bomb?" (Polsey--What If?) Robert C. Fried "The Forest of Time" Michael F. Flynn Lord Darcy Investigates Randall Garrett Too Many Magicians Randall Garrett "Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping?" (Benford--Hitler Vict.) Howard Goldsmith Great Kings' War Roland Green The Third World War Sir John Hackett Rebel in Time Harry Harrison A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! Harry Harrison Ivanhoe Gambit Simon Hawke Khyber Connection Simon Hawke Nautilus Sanction Simon Hawke Pimpernel Plot Simon Hawke Timekeeper Conspiracy Simon Hawke Zenda Vendetta Simon Hawke When Adolf Came Martin Hawkin Job: A Comedy of Justice Robert Heinlein The Number of the Beast Robert Heinlein White Lotus John Hersey Proteus Operation James P. Hogan October the First Is Too Late Fred Hoyle "Flight That Failed" (Conklin--SF Adventures in Dimension) E. M. Hull Times-Square Samuria Robert B. Johnson If the South Had Won Civil War MacKinlay Kantor Different Drummer William M. Kelley Unfought Battle Jon Kimche "Two Dooms" (Kornbluth--Best of C. M. Kornbluth) C.M. Kornbluth Whenabouts of Burr Michael Kurland Lammas Night Katherine Kurtz Assignment in Nowhere Keith Laumer Beyond the Imperium Keith Laumer Other Side of Time Keith Laumer Worlds of the Imperium Keith Laumer It May Happen Yet Edmund Lawrence Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin The Big Time Fritz Leiber "Catch that Zeppelin" (F&SF 3/75) Fritz Leiber Change War Fritz Leiber Destiny Times Three Fritz Leiber "Sidewise in Time" (Asimov--Before the Golden Age) Murray Leinster Last Years Oscar Lewis "Moon of Ice" (Amazing 3/82; Benford--Hitler Victorious) Brad Linaweaver If Britain Had Fallen Norman Longmate Circumpolar Richard Lupoff "Country of the Mind" (Analog 5/75) W. MacFarlane "Heart's Desire and Other Simple Wants (Analog 4/71) W. MacFarlane "Meet a Crazy Lady Week" (Analog 8/70) W. MacFarlane "One-Generation New World" (If 3/71) W. MacFarlane "Ravenshaw of WBY, Inc." (Analog 3/70) W. MacFarlane Englishman's Castle Philip Mackie Invasion: The German Invasion of England, July 1940 Kenneth Macksey Emerald Elephant Gambit Larry Maddock Flying Saucer Gambit Larry Maddock Golden Goddess Gambit Larry Maddock Time Trap Gambit Larry Maddock Wild Cards I George R. R. Martin Wild Cards II: Aces High George R. R. Martin Haigerloch Project Ib Melchior At the Narrow Passage Richard C. Meredith No Brother, No Friend Richard C. Meredith Vestiges of Time Richard C. Meredith House of Many Worlds Sam Merwin New Barbarians Kirk Mitchell Procurator Kirk Mitchell Behold the Man Michael Moorcock Land Leviathan Michael Moorcock Steel Tsar Michael Moorcock Warlord of the Air Michael Moorcock "A Class with Dr. Chang" (Willy Ley -- Beyond Time) Ward Moore Bring the Jubilee Ward Moore Hitler Has Won Frederic Mullally "What If Peter Had Been Pope WWII" (Polsey--What If?) Walter F. Murphy Ada Vladmir Nabokov If the South Had Won Gettysburg Mark Nesbitt "All the Myriad Ways" (in the collection of the same name) Larry Niven Flight of the Horse Larry Niven "Worlds of Monty Wilson" (Alien Horizons) William F. Nolan Ultimate Solution Eric Norden The Crossroads of Time Andre Norton "Many Rubicons" (Willy Ley -- Beyond Time) Michael Orgill Divide William Overgard Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen H. Beam Piper Paratime H. Beam Piper Tunnel War Joe Poyer Other Time Mack Reynolds Pavane Keith Roberts "Weihnachtsabend" (Passing of Dragons) Keith Roberts No Clear and Present Danger Bruce M. Russett Sound of His Horn Sarban "Back to the Stone Age" (Proctor--Lone Star Universe) Jake Saunders Choice of Destinies Melissa Scott "What Time Do You Call This?" (Tomorrow Lies in Ambush) Bob Shaw "Deaths of Ben Baxter" (Store of Infinity) Robert Sheckley "Enemy Transmissions" (Benford--Hitler Victorious) Tom Shippey "If Hitler Had Won World War II" (Look 12/15/61) William Shirer "Trips" (Feast of Dionysius) Robert Silverberg Gate of Worlds Robert Silverberg Up the Line Robert Silverberg The Gallatin Divergence L. Neil Smith The Indians Won Martin Smith For Want of a Nail Robert Sobel Iron Dream Norman Spinrad If It Had Happened Otherwise Sir John C. Squire More Perfect Union Robert Stapp Heads of Cerberus Francis Stevens Aquiliad Somtow Sucharitkul Time Stream John Taine "Oracle" W.R. Thompson Raven of Destiny Peter Tremayne "If Mao Had Come to Washington" (Foreign Affairs 10/72) Barbara Tuchman Misplaced Legion Harry Turtledove Trial of Adolf Hitler Phillipe Van Rjndt "Custer's Last Jump" (Universe 6) Howard Waldrop "Ike at the Mike" (Datlow, Ellen--1st Omni Book of SF) Howard Waldrop Them Bones Howard Waldrop Alternative Histories C. Waugh "Circle of Zero" (Martian Odyssey) Stanley G. Weinbaum "Worlds of If" (Best of S. G. Weinbaum) Stanley G. Weinbaum Lighter than a Feather David Westheimer Sideslip Ted White Legion of Time Jack Williamson Spaceache Snoo Wilson "How I Lost the Second World War..." (Analog 5/73) Gene Wolfe "Random Quest" (Infinite Moment) John Wyndham Elleander Morning Jerry Yulsman "Cliometricon" (Amazing 5/75) George Zebrowski The Coming of the Quantum Cats In the Barn ("Dangerous Visions" ed. Harlan Ellison) Worlds of Maybe Date: 15 Jul 87 20:47:42 GMT From: lll-lcc!unisoft!jef@RUTGERS.EDU (Jef Poskanzer) Subject: Re: Alternate forms of democracy. OC.TREI@cu20b.columbia.edu wrote: >I'm wondering if anyone could provide references to SF stories >involving participatory democracy (as opposed to the >'representative' form the (for example) US Government provides). >The only one I can think of is a minor vignette in 'Exiles of the >Heaven Belt' (one of the Vinges I think). That's "Outcasts of Heaven Belt" by Joan Vinge. Another example can be found in "The Probability Broach" by L. Neil Smith. >I am particularly interested in the effects of modern, high-speed >communications and computers on systems of government. Try reading "Marooned in Realtime" by Vernor Vinge. One of its most interesting points is that as technology gets better and better, we will need governments less and less. Also, I recall a wonderful short story along the same lines a few years back by Kevin O'Donnell, called "Judo and the Art of Self-Government". It appeared in Analog, and as far as I know has not been anthologized anywhere. Jef Poskanzer unisoft!jef@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu ...ucbvax!unisoft!jef Date: Fri, 24 Jul 87 01:08:44 EDT From: "Keith F. Lynch" Subject: Alternate universe in Colorado To: steve@NCSC.ARPA The book you are looking for is L. Neil Smith's _The Probability Broach_, which is set mostly in a free market alternate universe. It is set in July 1987! The sequels are _The Nagasaki Vector_, _The Venus Belt_, _The Gallatin Divergence_, _Her Majesty's Bucketeers_, and _Tom Paine Maru_, in that order. Keith Date: 24 Jul 87 19:11:51 GMT From: lindsay@K.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) Subject: Re: Alternate universe in Colorado L. Neil Smith's "The Probability Broach" won a libertarian award as best book of the year (a few years ago). They must have been awfully hard up: it's got bad writing, bad science, bad plotting, and bad polical theory going for it. Other than that I suppose it was (at most) OK. Date: 30 Jul 87 04:05:16 GMT From: lindsay@K.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) Subject: Re: Alternate universe in Colorado >>L. Neil Smith's "The Probability Broach" won a libertarian award >>as best book of the year (a few years ago). They must have been >>awfully hard up: it's got bad writing, bad science, bad plotting, >>and bad polical theory going for it. Other than that I suppose it >>was (at most) OK. > Maybe you consider anarcho-libertarianism "bad political theory", >but you can hardly expect the promoters of an award specifically >for libertarian writing to agree. It could be, you know, that they >consider YOUR politics "bad". AHA! Someone bit ! Actually, for me, the interesting aspect of the book was the depiction of a libertarian society. Now, there is certainly a trend in the world towards "privatisation". Clearly, the existence of prisons, and the existence of fire departments, and so on, no longer necessarily implies the existence of what we now understand as "government". Unfortunately, the author wanted a story where there was NO government. But, in certain places, he couldn't find a convincing way to eliminate government. One solution is to have brilliant new ideas. (It would of course be my solution - and yours too no doubt -:) ). Another solution would be to just wave my arms, or just slide around the trouble spots. A third solution was used: just present an unconvincing and unworkable solution. Well, you know, that's bad for my suspension of disbelief. And, Bad Political Theory. I'm going to take this opportunity to complain about some generic Bad Science. I call it the Phaser Effect. You know - Captain Kirk zaps somebody, and the body vanishes, and the clothes vanish, but the deck is unmarked. Now, just how did the phaser bolt know where to stop ? Can it tell the difference between a boot and a carpet ? What technology would Spock logically infer if he ever noticed the Phaser Effect ? Subject: new books on the horizon From: jhunix!ecf_ejf@RUTGERS.EDU (Juan Faidley) Date: 30 Dec 87 15:10:46 GMT First off let me begin by apologizing for any spelling or titling mistakes I might have made when I wrote that suggested list for fantasy books. With a list that long it is easy to make mistakes and I am sorry if I confused anybody out there. So right off let me apologize for any mistakes that I make in the following list below. I got the December issue of Locus and included (possibly every month, I don't usually get the magazine) was a list of upcoming books for the next few months and I thought I'd post the interesting ones to let you all know what to expect. There are some good ones coming out as well as some bad ones. I will list them by publisher since that is how they are listed in Locus. They will all be paperbacks unless listed otherwise (hc for hardcover and tr for trade paperback). Sit back and weep people for the amount of money you will have to spend in the next 5 months alone! Oh boy! Here we go!!!! ACE January: M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link by Robert Asprin Dayworld Rebel by Philip Jose Farmer Asimov's Robot City #4:Prodigy by Arthur Byron The Asutra by Jack Vance The World Wreckers by Marion Zimmer Bradley February: Maori by Alan Dean Foster Greymantle by Charles de Lint The Serpent's Egg by Caroline Stevermer March: Asimov's Robot City #5:Refuge by Ron Chilson Taltos by Steven Brust Castle Perilous by John DeChancie Ten Little Wizards by Michael Kurland April: Out of Phaze by Piers Anthony Dagger by David Drake The Omega Cage by Steve Perry and Michael Reaves Remscela by Gregory Frost Eye of the Sun by Mike Conner May: Riders of the Wind by Jack Chalker (A sequel to Where the Change Winds Blow?) The Fleet by David Drake and Bill Fawcett Final Circuit by Melinda Snodgrass June: To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert Heinlein Barbary by Vonda McIntyre Asimov's Robot City #6:Perihelion by William F.Wu The Sorcerer's Heir by Paula Volsky Realm of the Gods by Catherine Cooke Colors of Chaos by Robert Vardeman Stormwarden by Janny Wurts ACE/PUTMAN January: The Ascension Factor by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom (hc) AVON January: Sea of Galss by Barry Longyear Crystal Sword by Adrienne Martine-Barnes Cryptozoic! by Brain Aldiss February: The Legacy of Lehr by Katherine Kurtz The Blind Archer by John Gregory Betancourt March: Brightsuit MacBear by L. Neil Smith The Shadow of His Wings by Bruce Fergusson All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak Trillion Year Spree by Brain Aldiss (tr) April: Wetware by Rudy Rucker Denner's Wreck by Lawrence Watt-Evans The Hunger by Whitley Strieber May: Xorandor by Christine Brooke-Rose Nightreaver by Michael Weaver They Walked Like Men by Clifford D. Simak BAEN January: David's Sling by Marc Stiegler Sideshow by W.R. Thompson February: Cobra Bargain by Timothy Zahn The General's President by John Dalmas Orphan of Creation by Roger MacBride Allen March: The Hex Witch of Seldom by Nancy Springer (hc) After the Fact by Fred Saberhagen Between the Stars by Eric Kotani and Phillip Jennings April: Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold Planet of the Dead by Donald Wismer Three Corners to Nowhere by Martin Caidin May: The Ragged Astronauts by Bob Shaw Speaker to Heaven by Atanielle Annyn Noel Manfac by Martin Caidin June: Things Hunting Man by David Drake Demon of Undoing by Andrea Alton Killers by David Drake and Karl Wagner BALLANTINE DEL REY January: The Folk of the Air by Peter S Beagle (available now) Noninterferince by Harry Turtledove Their Mster's War by Mick Farren February: Willow by Wayland Drew (novelization of Lucas and Howard film) Masks of the Martyrs by Jack Chalker Agent of Change by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee March: Narabedla by Frederick Pohl (hc) Guardians of the West by David Eddings The Vang by Christopher Rowley Yaril's Children by Marcia J. Bennett Tesseact by Joseph Addison Shadow Singer by Marcia J. Bennett April: King of the Murgos by David Eddings (hc) (book two, ya!) The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven Fleet of the Damned by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch Sight of Proteus by Charles Sheffield The Silicon Mage by Barbara Hambly May: The Annals of the Heechee by Frederick Pohl The Reluctant Swordsman by Dave Duncan Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul McAuley June: Highway to Eternity by Clifford Simak Riddel of the Seven Realms by Lyndon Hardy Conflict of Honors by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee BANTAM SPECTRA January: Forging the Darksword by Weis and Kickman (new trilogy from Dragonlance authors) When Gravity Falls by George Alec Memory Wire by Robert Charles Wilson February: A Truce With Time by Parke Godwin (hc) Desolation Road by Ian MacDonald True Jaguar by Warren Norwood March: The Center of the Circle by Jonathan Wylie Marlborough Street by Richard Bowker The Breeds of Man by F.M. Busby April: Cherlnobyl by Frederick Pohl Neon Lotus by Marc Laidlaw Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran May: Doom of the Darksword by Wies and Hickman (#2 of Darksword trilogy) Lincoln's Dream by Connie Willis Runors of Spring by Richard Grant Brother to the Lion by Rose Estes June: Daughter of the Empire by Raymind Feist and Janny Wurts Wild Cards IV:Aces Abroad edited by George R.R. Martin Shrine of the Desrt Mage by Stephen Golden Minds, Machines and Evolution by James P. Hogan DAW January: Exile's Gate by C.J. Cherryh (final novel of Morgaine, out now) Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey February: A Pride of Princes by Jennifer Roberson Callipygia by Lin Carter March: The Warrior Victorious by Sharon Green Mind Hopper by James Johnson April: The White Serpent by Tanith Lee Warlord of Antares by Dray Prescot May: Blue Magic by Jo Clayton Merovingen Nights #3: Troubled Waters edited by C.J. Cherryh Child of the Grove by Tanya Huff June: Magicians of Gor by John Norman The Name of the Sun by B.W. Clough DOUBLEDAY January: The Bones of the Wizard by Alan Ryan (hc) March: Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist (hc) April: Rabelaisian Reprise by Jayge Carr (hc) Death Chant by Craig Strete (hc) DOUBLEDAY FOUNDATION May: Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov (hc) (YAY!YAY!YAY!YAY!YAY!) Waiting for the Galactic Bus by Parke Godwin (hc) June: Paradox Planet by Stephen Spruill (hc) POCKET January: Star Trek: Fianl Frontier by Diane Carey (available now) February: Star Trek #38: The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah April: Star Trek #39: Time for Yesterday by A.C. Crispin (sequal to Yesterdays Son, YAY) June: Star Trek #40: Timetrap by David Dvorkin POPULAR LIBRARY QUESTAR January: The Starwolves by Thorarinn Gunnarson Bright and Shining Tiger by Claudia Edwards February: Fool's Run by Patricia A. McKillip Ghoster by Dixie Lee McKeone March: The Questing Hero by Hugh Cook The Leeshore by Robert Reed April: Star of Gypsies by Robert Silverberg The Fortress and the Fire by Michael Jan Friedmann May: Eclipse Penumbra by John Shirley Queensblade by Susan Shwartz June: Dawn by Octavia Butler Goblin Market by Richard Bowes TOR January: Red Prophet:The Tales of Alvin Maker II by Orson Scott Card (hc) (out now) The Atheling by Grace Chetwin (hc) The Gaunlet of Malice by Deborah Turner Harris (tr) The Winds of Altar by Ben Bova The First Book of Lost Swords: Woundhealer's Story by Fred Saberhagen In Alien Flesh by Gregory Benford February: Araminta Station by Jack Vance (hc) The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson (hc) Starfire by Paul Preuss (hc) Fortress by David Drake Inner Eclipse by Richard Paul Russo Guilded Tour by Gordon Dickson Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card March: Vengeance of Orion by Ben Bova (hc) Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter JOn Williams In Endless Twilight by L.E. Modesitt April: Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card The Awakeners 1: Northshore by Sheri S Tepper The Rapture Effect by Jeffery Carver May: Keepers of Edenvant by Carole Nelson Douglas Tweedlioop by Stanley Schmidt Key of Ice and Steel by Robert Vardeman and Danial Moran The Awakwners 2: Southshore by Sheri S Tepper Final Planet by Andrew Greeley June: The Forge of God by Gerg Bear Mirage by Louise Cooper The Sea Star by Diana L. Paxson Starcrossed by Ben Bova The Buring Stone by Deborah Turner Harris I left out anthologies and books that are being reprinted (unless it's their first time in paperback). Not being familiar with every book put out some might have slipped through. As you can see it will be quite a good and expensive six months with such books as: Prelude to Foundation King of the Murgos Red Prophet The Ascension Factor Hart's Hope Narabedla Exile's Gate Faerie Tale Time for Yesterday Vengeance of Orion That's all for now. Hope this doesn't leave you too exasperated but yet aglow with joy for months to come. Bye!! juan