Titanby
Stephen Baxter
Newly discovered life on Saturn's moon,
Titan, could mean renewal for NASA. What
risks is Paula Benacerraf willing to take
in the name of exploration? Could a one-way
trip through our solar system be human kind's
greatest adventure?
Stardustby
Neil Gaiman
Tristan lives in Wall, a Victorian village
at the boundary between the English countryside
and the land of Faerie. Once every nine
years humans may enter Faerie to attend
an enchanted fair. Tristan is slipped through
the gate to retrieve for his love a star
he saw tumble from the sky and is propelled
into a world strange beyond imagination.
Dark Cities Underground
by Lisa Goldstein
Ruth Berry's assignment is to interview
Jeremy Jones, who as a child, was featured
in a series of children's books written
by his mother. The adventures of Jeremy
in Neverwas, although considered classic
fantasy, were in fact true. Ruth and Jeremy
embark on a mysterious and exotic adventure
revisiting the dangerous underworld.
Second Angelby
Philip Kerr
In the year 2069, a virus known as P2 has
infected most of the population. The only
cure is "clean blood" that has become more
valuable than gold. Dana Dallas's infant
daughter becomes critically infected with
P2. In his quest for "clean blood," Dana
becomes the enemy of very dangerous people.
A Fisherman of the Inland
Sea: Science Fiction Stories by
Ursula LeGuin
In this collection of short stories, LeGuin
once more manifests the influence of her
parent's folkloric and anthropological scholarship.
This is a collection for the science fiction
reader who enjoys variety, wit, intelligence,
and subtlety in writing.
Nimisha's Shipby
Anne McCaffrey
Nimisha grows up on the planet, Vega, in
a stultifying atmosphere of First Families
and social stratification. As engineer on
her father's spaceship enterprise, her first
voyage finds her ship caught in a wormhole
that thrusts them into an entirely different
realm.
Winter Roseby
Patricia McKillip
A romantic fantasy about a young woman's
strong "otherworldly" pull that is intensified
by the arrival of handsome, unattached Corbet
(long lost heir of the cursed Lynn Hall)
and the intense, isolating and seemingly
endless winter.
Shadow of Albionby Andre
Norton
Orphaned Sarah Cunningham leaves Baltimore
in 1805 for England and distant relatives.
Lady Sarah Roxbury works powerful magic
on her deathbed resulting in Sarah finding
herself in a universe-next-door where America
is still a colony. Court intrigue, scandal,
romance and magic makes this historical
fantasy.
To Say Nothing of the
Dogby Connie
Willis
Ned Henry has been charged with the task
of finding the Bishop's Bird Stump to provide
an air of authenticity to the rebuilding
of Coventry Cathedral. Ned "jumps" back
and forth through time and spends a delightful
summer in 1888 England.