The Novels of Tiger and Del, Volume I


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He was Tiger, born of the desert winds, raised as a slave and winning his freedom by weaving a special kind of magic with a warrior's skill. She was Del, born of ice and storm, trained by the greatest of Northern sword masters. Together, they discover a kinship and friendship that grows to love while facing dangers of both sword and sorcery.




What Do I Read Next?


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Sword-Bound


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After years of deadly quests and dangerous enemies,Tiger and Del have finally found relative saftey in a secluded desert canyon. They enjoy a settled, if somewhay less exciting, life raising their daughter, Sula, and training Tiger's son, Neesha. They also train all those who manage to find them, thus forming their own school of sword-dancing. But the manhunt for Tiger has not ended, for he is still an outcast from the brotherhood of sword-dancers for breaking the oaths of honor codes of Alimat, and his deadly brethren seek to kill him. To add to the threats, an old enemy, Umir the Ruthless, has offered substantial bounty for anyone bringing Tiger to him alive. Umir possesses a powerful grimoire--a book of spells that Tiger had locked by magic--and he is determined to use any means at his disposal to force Tiger to unlock this deadly book.







Sword-Maker


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The third book in the Sword-Dancer saga continues the legendary adventures of Tiger and Del, magic wielders and skilled warriors Sword-sworn to track down the hounds of hoolies, yet inescapably haunted by his memories of Del, Tiger, now master of Northern and Southron sword skills, is relentlessly following the trail that will lead him to Ysaa-den. Yet before him wait perils far deadlier than any hounds. For in Ysaa-den, he is hailed as a champion come to stop the force that has been wreaking destruction upon the villagers, a force which many claim is a dragon of unimaginable strength. As the trail of hounds and “dragon” now seem intertwined, Tiger has no choice but to climb the mountain to the place known as Dragon’s Lair. And it is here that he comes face to face with a challenge that may prove beyond even the mastery of Northern and Southron sword magic—the challenge of Chosa Dei, a wizard out of legend with the power to unmake all that opposes him....




A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction


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Why are so many people attracted to narrative fiction? How do authors in this genre reframe experiences, people, and environments anchored to the real world without duplicating "real life"? In which ways does fiction differ from reality? What might fictional narrative and reality have in common—if anything? By analyzing novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Zadie Smith's White Teeth, and Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, along with selected Latino comic books and short fiction, this book explores the peculiarities of the production and reception of postcolonial and Latino borderland fiction. Frederick Luis Aldama uses tools from disciplines such as film studies and cognitive science that allow the reader to establish how a fictional narrative is built, how it functions, and how it defines the boundaries of concepts that appear susceptible to limitless interpretations. Aldama emphasizes how postcolonial and Latino borderland narrative fiction authors and artists use narrative devices to create their aesthetic blueprints in ways that loosely guide their readers' imagination and emotion. In A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction, he argues that the study of ethnic-identified narrative fiction must acknowledge its active engagement with world narrative fictional genres, storytelling modes, and techniques, as well as the way such fictions work to move their audiences.







The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13


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Number 13 - lucky for horror fans! This award-winning anthology series has now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Steve Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of the horror genre. Contributors to this volume include: Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Charles Grant, Glen Hirshberg, Chico Kidd, Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul J. McAuley, Conrad Williams. Also featuring the most comprehensive overview of the year, a fascinating necrology and a list of useful contacts, this is the one book that all lovers of the supernatural and psychological terror will want on their shelves.




The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy


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“Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America.”—Peter Straub With original stories by Jeffrey Ford, Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, Margo Lanagan, and others From Del Rey Books and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, two of the most respected names in science fiction and fantasy, comes a collection of fifteen all-new short stories, plus a science fiction novella, that could count as a virtual “best of the year” anthology. Here you will find slyly twisted alternate histories, fractured fairy tales, topical science fiction, and edgy urban fantasy. In “Daltharee,” World Fantasy Award–winning author Jeffrey Ford spins a chilling tale of a city in a bottle—and the demented genius who put it there. In “Sonny Liston Takes the Fall,” John W. Campbell Award–winning author Elizabeth Bear pens a poignant and eerie requiem for the heavyweight forever associated with his controversial loss to Cassius Clay. From hot new writer Margo Lanagan comes “The Goosle,” a dark, astonishing take on Hansel and Gretel. In the novella “Prisoners of the Action,” Paul McAuley and Kim Newman take a trip down a rabbit hole that leads to a Guantanamo-like prison whose inmates are not just illegal but extraterrestrial. Many of the writers you’ll recognize. Others you may not. But one thing is certain: These stars of today and tomorrow demonstrate that the field of speculative fiction is not only alive and well—it’s better than ever. PLUS TWELVE MORE STORIES “The Elephant Ironclads” by Jason Stoddard “Ardent Clouds” by Lucy Sussex “Gather” by Christopher Rowe “North American Lake Monsters” by Nathan Ballingrud “All Washed Up While Looking for a Better World” by Carol Emshwiller “Special Economics” by Maureen F. McHugh “Aka St. Mark’s Place” by Richard Bowes “Shira” by Lavie Tidhar “The Passion of Azazel” by Barry N. Malzberg “The Lagerstätte” by Laird Barron “Gladiolus Exposed” by Anna Tambour “Jimmy” by Pat Cadigan




100 Classic Science Fiction Stories: Volume Three


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100 science fiction stories make up this massive collection. Works and authors include: Four-Day Planet by Henry Beam Piper The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley The House from Nowhere by Arthur G. Stangland The Huddlers by William Campbell Gault Human Error by Raymond F. Jones The Hunted Heroes by Robert Silverberg I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon by Richard Sabia I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber A Stranger Here Myself by Dallas McCord Reynolds If at First You Don't... by John Brudy Impossible Voyage Home by Floyd L. Wallace In Case of Fire by Gordon Randall Garrett In the Cards by Alan Cogan In the Control Tower by Will Mohler The Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl The Year 2889 by Jules Verne and Michel Verne An Incident on Route 12 by James H. Schmitz Revolution by Poul William Anderson Infinite Intruder by Alan Edward Nourse The Infra-Medians by Sewell Peaslee Wright Inside John Barth by William W. Stuart Insidekick by Jesse Franklin Bone Instant of Decision by Gordon Randall Garrett The Instant of Now by Irving E. Cox, Jr. Irresistible Weapon by Horace Brown Fyfe Islands in the Air by Lowell Howard Morrow The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse Franklin Bone It's a Small Solar System by Allan Howard It's All Yours by Sam Merwin The Jameson Satellite by Neil Ronald Jones Jimsy and the Monsters by Walt Sheldon Join Our Gang? by Sterling E. Lanier Joy Ride by Mark Meadows The Judas Valley by Gerald Vance Junior Achievement by William Lee The Junkmakers by Albert R. Teichner The Jupiter Weapon by Charles Louis Fontenay The K-Factor by Harry Harrison The Keeper by Henry Beam Piper Keep Out by Fredric Brown The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl Know Thy Neighbor by Elisabeth R. Lewis A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young Larson's Luck by Gerald Vance THE LAST DAYS OF EARTH by GEORGE C. WALLIS The Last Evolution by John Wood Campbell The Last Gentleman by Rory Magill Last Resort by Stephen Bartholomew The Last Straw by William J. Smith The Last Supper by T. D. Hamm Lease to Doomsday by Lee Archer Let'em Breathe Space by Lester del Rey Letter of the Law by Alan Edward Nourse The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster The Machine That Saved The World by William Fitzgerald Jenkins Man Who Hated Mars by Gordon Randall Garrett The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton A Matter of Magnitude by Al Sevcik The Measure of a Man by Randall Garrett The Memory of Mars by Raymond F. Jones 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces by James McKimmey The Mightiest Man by Patrick Fahy Millennium by Everett B. Cole The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison Missing Link by Frank Patrick Herbert The Montezuma Emerald by Rodrigues Ottolengui Mr. President by Stephen Arr Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick The Native Soil by Alan Edward Nourse Navy Day by Harry Harrison Next Logical Step by Benjamin William Bova No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin Old Rambling House by Frank Patrick Herbert One-Shot by James Benjamin Blish Oomphel in the Sky by Henry Beam Piper Operation Haystack by Frank Patrick Herbert Your Money Back by Gordon Randall Garrett An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse The Penal Cluster by Ivar Jorgensen Piper in the Woods by Philip K. Dick Planetoid 127 by Edgar Wallace Police Operation by H. Beam Piper Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg Project Mastodon by Clifford Donald Simak Proteus Island by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks The Radiant Shell by Paul Ernst The Red Room by H. G. Wells The Risk Profession by Donald Edwin Westlake Scrimshaw by William Fitzgerald Jenkins Second Variety by Philip Kindred Dick Shock Absorber by E.G. von Wald Sjambak by John Holbrook Vance Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty This World Must Die! by Horace Brown Fyfe Toy Shop by Henry Maxwell Dempsey Darkness by H. P. Lovecraft