Jane Yolen Books In Order

Isabel the Witch Books In Publication Order

  1. The Witch Who Wasn’t (1964)

Robot and Rebecca Books In Publication Order

  1. The Case of the Code-Carrying Kids (1980)
  2. Robot and Rebecca and the Missing Owner (1981)

Commander Toad Books In Publication Order

  1. Commander Toad in Space (1980)
  2. Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes (1982)
  3. Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole (1983)
  4. Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid (1985)
  5. Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy (1986)
  6. Commander Toad and the Space Pirates (1987)
  7. Commander Toad and the Voyage Home (1998)

Pit Dragons Books In Publication Order

  1. Dragon’s Blood (1982)
  2. Heart’s Blood (1984)
  3. A Sending of Dragons (1987)
  4. Dragon’s Heart (2009)

Books of the Great Alta Books In Publication Order

  1. Sister Light, Sister Dark (1988)
  2. White Jenna (1989)
  3. The One-Armed Queen (1998)

Here There Be… Books In Publication Order

  1. Here There Be Dragons (1993)
  2. Here There Be Unicorns (1994)
  3. Here There Be Witches (1995)
  4. Here There Be Angels (1996)
  5. Here There Be Ghosts (1998)

The Young Merlin Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. Passager (1996)
  2. Hobby (1996)
  3. Merlin (1997)

Tartan Magic Books In Publication Order

  1. The Wizard’s Map (1999)
  2. The Pictish Child (1999)
  3. The Bagpiper’s Ghost (2002)

Stuart Quartet Books In Publication Order

  1. Queen’s Own Fool (2000)
  2. Girl in a Cage (2002)
  3. Prince Across the Water (2004)
  4. The Rogues (2007)

Young Heroes Books In Publication Order

  1. Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (2001)
  2. Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons (2002)
  3. Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast (2003)
  4. Jason and the Gorgon’s Blood (2004)

Rock’n’ Roll Fairy Tale Books In Publication Order

  1. Pay the Piper (By:Adam Stemple) (2005)
  2. The Troll Bridge (2006)

Foiled Books In Publication Order

  1. Foiled (2010)
  2. Curses! Foiled Again (2013)

The Seelie Wars Books In Publication Order

  1. The Hostage Prince (2013)
  2. The Last Changeling (2014)
  3. The Seelie King’s War (2016)

The Stone Man Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Stone Cold (2016)
  2. Sanctuary (2018)
  3. Breaking Out the Devil (2019)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Trust a City Kid (With: Anne Huston) (1970)
  2. The Inway Investigators (1970)
  3. The Transfigured Hart (1975)
  4. The Mermaid’s Three Wisdoms (1978)
  5. The Boy Who Spoke Chimp (1981)
  6. The Gift of Sarah Barker (1981)
  7. Cards Of Grief (1984)
  8. Children of the Wolf (1984)
  9. Stone Silenus (1984)
  10. Briar Rose (1988)
  11. The Devil’s Arithmetic (1988)
  12. The Dragon’s Boy (1990)
  13. Wizard’s Hall (1991)
  14. The Wild Hunt (1995)
  15. Armageddon Summer (With: Bruce Coville) (1998)
  16. Boots and the Seven Leaguers (2000)
  17. Sword of the Rightful King (2003)
  18. Except the Queen (2010)
  19. The Last Dragon (2011)
  20. Snow in Summer (2011)
  21. Curse of the Thirteenth Fey (2012)
  22. B.U.G. (2013)
  23. Trash Mountain (2014)
  24. Centaur Rising (2014)
  25. A Plague of Unicorns (2014)
  26. Mapping the Bones (2018)
  27. Finding Baba Yaga (2018)
  28. The Last Tsar’s Dragons (2019)
  29. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye? (2021)
  30. Arch of Bone (2021)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales (1974)
  2. The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales (1977)
  3. Dream Weaver (1979)
  4. Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985)
  5. Merlin’s Booke (1986)
  6. Tales of Wonder (1987)
  7. The Faery Flag (1989)
  8. Storyteller (1992)
  9. Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast (1997)
  10. Sister Emily’s Lightship and Other Stories (1997)
  11. The Fish Prince and Other Stories (2001)
  12. The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories (2004)
  13. Animal Stories (2014)
  14. The Emerald Circus (2017)
  15. Once There Was a Story (2017)
  16. Meet Me at the Well (2018)
  17. How to Fracture a Fairy Tale (2018)
  18. The Midnight Circus (2020)
  19. Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After (2021)

Nebula Awards Books In Publication Order

  1. Nebula Awards 1 (By:Damon Knight) (1966)
  2. Nebula Awards 2 (By:Brian W. Aldiss,Harry Harrison) (1966)
  3. Nebula Awards 3 (By:Roger Zelazny) (1968)
  4. Nebula Awards 4 (By:Karen Anderson) (1968)
  5. Nebula Awards 5 (By:Alexei Panshin) (1969)
  6. Nebula Awards 6 (By:Thomas D. Clareson) (1971)
  7. Nebula Awards 7 (By:Theodore Sturgeon,Lloyd Biggle Jr.) (1972)
  8. Nebula Awards 8 (By:Isaac Asimov) (1973)
  9. Nebula Awards 9 (By:Kate Wilhelm) (1974)
  10. Nebula Awards 10 (By:James Gunn) (1975)
  11. Nebula Awards 11 (By:Ursula K. Le Guin,Craig Kee Strete) (1976)
  12. Nebula Awards 14 (By:Robin Malkin) (1980)
  13. Nebula Awards 15 (By:Frank Herbert) (1981)
  14. Nebula Awards 16 (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (1982)
  15. Nebula Awards 17 (By:Joe Haldeman) (1983)
  16. Nebula Awards 19 (By:Marta Randall) (1984)
  17. Nebula Awards 20 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  18. Nebula Awards 21 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  19. Nebula Awards 22 (By:George Zebrowski) (1988)
  20. Nebula Awards 23 (By:Michael Bishop) (1989)
  21. Nebula Awards 24 (By:Michael Bishop) (1990)
  22. Nebula Awards 25 (By:Michael Bishop) (1991)
  23. Nebula Awards 26 (By:James K. Morrow) (1992)
  24. Nebula Awards 27 (By:James K. Morrow) (1993)
  25. Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow) (1994)
  26. Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1995)
  27. Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1996)
  28. Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1997)
  29. Nebula Awards 33 (With: Connie Willis,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress) (1999)
  30. Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford) (2000)
  31. Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2002)
  32. Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress) (2003)
  33. Nebula Awards 38 (2004) (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (2004)
  34. Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman) (2005)
  35. Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe) (2006)
  36. Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman) (2008)
  37. Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow) (2009)
  38. Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett) (2010)
  39. Nebula Awards 45 (2011) (By:Kevin J. Anderson) (2011)
  40. Nebula Awards 46 (2012) (By:John Kessel) (2012)
  41. Nebula Awards 47 (2013) (By:Catherine Asaro) (2013)
  42. Nebula Awards 48 (2014) (By:Kij Johnson) (2014)
  43. Nebula Awards 50 (2016) (By:Mercedes Lackey) (2016)
  44. Nebula Awards 51 (2017) (By:Julie E. Czerneda) (2017)
  45. Nebula Awards 52 (2018) (2018)
  46. Nebula Awards 53 (2019) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2019)

Oz Reimagined Books In Publication Order

  1. Dorothy Dreams (By:Simon R. Green) (2013)
  2. Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (By:Seanan McGuire) (2013)
  3. The Boy Detective of Oz (By:Tad Williams) (2013)
  4. A Meeting in Oz (By:Jeffrey Ford) (2013)
  5. Off to See the Emperor (By:Orson Scott Card) (2013)
  6. The Cobbler of Oz (By:Jonathan Maberry) (2013)
  7. Lost Girls of Oz (By:Theodora Goss) (2013)
  8. Blown Away (2013)
  9. A Tornado of Dorothys (By:Kat Howard) (2013)
  10. The Veiled Shanghai (By:Ken Liu) (2013)
  11. Dead Blue (By:David Farland) (2013)
  12. The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz (By:C.C. Finlay,Rae Carson) (2013)
  13. Beyond the Naked Eye (By:Rachel Swirsky) (2013)
  14. City So Bright (By:Dale Bailey) (2013)
  15. One Flew Over the Rainbow (By:Robin Wasserman) (2013)

The Diogenes Club Books In Publication Order

  1. White of the Moon (By:Stephen Jones) (1999)
  2. Where The Bodies Are Buried (By:Kim Newman) (2000)
  3. Infinity Plus One (By:Keith Brooke) (2001)
  4. Embrace the Mutation (By:William Schafer) (2002)
  5. Best New Horror 14 (By:Stephen Jones) (2003)
  6. Adventure (By:Chris Roberson) (2005)
  7. Best New Horror 18 (By:Stephen Jones) (2007)
  8. Best New Horror 19 (By:Stephen Jones) (2007)
  9. Summer Chills (By:Stephen Jones) (2007)
  10. Infinity Plus (By:Keith Brooke) (2007)
  11. The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman) (2007)
  12. The Fair Folk (By:Marvin Kaye) (2008)
  13. The Fair Folk (With: Megan Lindholm,Tanith Lee,Marvin Kaye,Kim Newman,Patricia A. McKillip,Craig Shaw Gardner) (2008)
  14. Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (By:Ellen Datlow) (2010)
  15. Mysteries of the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman) (2010)
  16. Best New Horror 16 (By:Stephen Jones) (2012)
  17. The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (By:) (2015)
  18. The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (By:) (2015)
  19. The Man from the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman) (2017)

Snow White, Blood Red Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. Snow White, Blood Red (1993)
  2. Black Thorn, White Rose (1994)
  3. Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995)
  4. Black Swan, White Raven (1997)
  5. Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
  6. Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000)

The Mythic Fiction Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2002)
  2. The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (2004)
  3. The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People (2009)

Laksa Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts (2016)
  2. The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound (2017)
  3. Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy (2017)
  4. Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders (2018)
  5. Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories (2021)

Skolian Empire Books In Publication Order

  1. Primary Inversion (By:Catherine Asaro) (1995)
  2. Catch the Lightning (By:Catherine Asaro) (1996)
  3. The Last Hawk (By:Catherine Asaro) (1997)
  4. The Radiant Seas (By:Catherine Asaro) (1998)
  5. Ascendant Sun (By:Catherine Asaro) (2000)
  6. The Quantum Rose (By:Catherine Asaro) (2000)
  7. Spherical Harmonic (By:Catherine Asaro) (2001)
  8. Sextopia (By:Catherine Asaro) (2001)
  9. The Moon’s Shadow (By:Catherine Asaro) (2003)
  10. Skyfall (By:Catherine Asaro) (2003)
  11. Schism (By:Catherine Asaro) (2004)
  12. The Final Key (By:Catherine Asaro) (2005)
  13. Best New Paranormal Romance (With: Rebecca York,Elizabeth Hand,Elizabeth Bear,Delia Sherman,Catherine Asaro,,,,John Grant,,,Sarah Prineas) (2006)
  14. The Ruby Dice (By:Catherine Asaro) (2008)
  15. Diamond Star (By:Catherine Asaro) (2009)
  16. Carnelians (By:Catherine Asaro) (2011)

Skolian Empire Books In Chronological Order

  1. Skyfall (By:Catherine Asaro) (2003)
  2. Schism (By:Catherine Asaro) (2004)
  3. The Final Key (By:Catherine Asaro) (2005)
  4. The Last Hawk (By:Catherine Asaro) (1997)
  5. Primary Inversion (By:Catherine Asaro) (1995)
  6. The Radiant Seas (By:Catherine Asaro) (1998)
  7. Ascendant Sun (By:Catherine Asaro) (2000)
  8. The Quantum Rose (By:Catherine Asaro) (2000)
  9. Spherical Harmonic (By:Catherine Asaro) (2001)
  10. The Moon’s Shadow (By:Catherine Asaro) (2003)
  11. Diamond Star (By:Catherine Asaro) (2009)
  12. The Ruby Dice (By:Catherine Asaro) (2008)
  13. Carnelians (By:Catherine Asaro) (2011)
  14. Catch the Lightning (By:Catherine Asaro) (1996)
  15. Sextopia (By:Catherine Asaro) (2001)
  16. Best New Paranormal Romance (With: Rebecca York,Elizabeth Hand,Elizabeth Bear,Delia Sherman,Catherine Asaro,,,,John Grant,,,Sarah Prineas) (2006)

Liavek Books In Publication Order

  1. Liavek (By:Will Shetterly) (1985)
  2. The Players of Luck (By:Will Shetterly) (1986)
  3. Wizard’s Row (By:Will Shetterly) (1987)
  4. Spells of Binding (By:Will Shetterly) (1988)
  5. Festival Week (By:Will Shetterly) (1990)
  6. Double Feature (By:Emma Bull,Will Shetterly) (1999)
  7. Points of Departure (By:Patricia C. Wrede) (2015)
  8. Liavek 1 (By:Will Shetterly) (2015)
  9. Liavek 2 (By:Will Shetterly) (2015)
  10. Liavek 3 (By:Will Shetterly) (2015)
  11. Liavek 4 (By:Will Shetterly) (2016)
  12. Liavek 6 (By:Will Shetterly) (2016)
  13. Liavek 7: Spells of Binding (With: Robin Hobb,Megan Lindholm,Charles de Lint,Emma Bull,Will Shetterly,,Steven Brust,Kara Dalkey) (2016)
  14. Liavek 8 (By:Will Shetterly) (2017)

The Books of Magic Books In Publication Order

  1. The Books of Magic, Volume 1: Bindings (1995)
  2. The Books of Magic, Volume 2: Summonings (1995)
  3. The Books of Magic, Volume 3: Reckonings (1997)
  4. The Books of Magic, Volume 4: Transformations (1997)
  5. The Books of Magic, Volume 5: Girl in the Box (1999)
  6. The Books of Magic, Volume 6: The Burning Girl (2000)
  7. The Books of Magic, Volume 7: Death After Death (2001)

Rhysling Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The 2017 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2016 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (2017)
  2. The 2019 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2018 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (2019)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Moonsinger’s Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton (1985)
  2. The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories 12 (1986)
  3. The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1988)
  4. Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 (1988)
  5. Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991)
  6. After the King (1991)
  7. Inside the Funhouse (1992)
  8. Xanadu (1994)
  9. The Armless Maiden (1995)
  10. Angels! (1995)
  11. Blood Muse (1995)
  12. Women at War (1995)
  13. Starlight 1 (1996)
  14. Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
  15. The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997)
  16. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
  17. In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998)
  18. Nebula Awards 33 (1999)
  19. Ribbiting Tales (2000)
  20. Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance (2000)
  21. Starlight 3 (2001)
  22. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002)
  23. New Skies: An Anthology of Today’s Science Fiction (2003)
  24. Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian (2003)
  25. Best New Paranormal Romance (2006)
  26. The Fair Folk (2008)
  27. What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011)
  28. Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (2012)
  29. After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia (2012)
  30. Oz Reimagined (2013)
  31. Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales (2013)
  32. Beyond the Pale: A Fantasy Anthology (2014)
  33. Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep (2015)
  34. Wonderland: An Anthology (2019)
  35. Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas (2021)
  36. The Reinvented Heart (2022)

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Jane Yolen Books Overview

Commander Toad in Space

Brave Commander Toad and the crew of the spaceship Star Warts have a mission: to go where no spaceship has gone before and to bring a little bit of Earth back to the alien stars. But Deep Wader is not pleased at being disturbed and it looks as though the crew of the Star Warts might become the monster’s lunch. A Reading Rainbow review title.

Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes

In search of new worlds to explore, Commander Toad and his crew land their space ship ‘Star Warts’ on the strange Planet of the Grapes.

Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole

When Commander Toad and the intrepid crew of the spaceship Star Warts encounter a black hole while leapfrogging across the galaxy, Commander Toad must resort to a secret weapon from his past to save the Star Warts from ‘toad al’ destruction.

Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid

Commander Toad and his spaceship Star Warts answer a mysterious call for help from a flooded asteroid.

Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy

The Star Warts is being sent on a dangerous mission to an intergalactic spy convention to find Agent 007 1/2. Not only is he Space Fleet’s greatest spy and a master of disguise, but he’s also Commander Toad’s cousin. But Commander Toad hasn’t seen his cousin since they were tadpoles. How will he be able to tell which spy is Agent 007 1/2?.

Commander Toad and the Space Pirates

‘Any fan of Star Wars, Star Trek, or other books in this series will enjoy Yolen’s snappy space adventure…
. will keep new readers, especially boys, going.’ Booklist.

Commander Toad and the Voyage Home

After many long days in the dark of space, the crew of the Star Warts is thinking longingly of home. But when Mr. Hop sets a course for HOME, the spaceship zeroes in on an uncharted planet. The intrepid crew sets out to explore, and Commander Toad stumbles into an extraordinary discovery one that gives a new meaning to home. Join these much loved characters in a toadally new adventure, full of groan worthy puns and visual jokes.

Dragon’s Blood

Dragons are trained to fight to the death, and two determined teens help free them in this spellbinding saga.

Training a dragon to be a fighting champion is the only way to freedom for fifteen year old Jakkin.

Heart’s Blood

Jakkin risks everything his freedom, his dragon, even his life to rescue his beloved in this stirring sequel to Dragon’s Blood. Eloquent…
rich in symbolism. The Horn Book

A Sending of Dragons

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Falsely accused of sabotage, Jakkin and Akki are left to certain death in the wilderness of the planet Austar IV. With the aid of five baby dragons, they manage not only to survive, but also to gain unusual powers and insights.

Dragon’s Heart

Austar IV isn’t the planet it once was, and when Jakkin and Akki finally return to the dragon nursery, their homecoming arouses mixed emotions. Together they’ve survived the insurmountable, and now they can weather the brutal conditions of Dark After and communicate with the dragons they love. But with this knowledge comes responsibility. What they’ve learned about survival could transform the planet or, if entrusted to the wrong hands, bring about its destruction. Akki’s insistence that she return to the Rokk to finish her training and begin new experiments drives a chasm between her and Jakkin. Suddenly she finds herself in the midst of a political battle that could claim her life. Only Jakkin can save her. If only he could reach her…
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Sister Light, Sister Dark

‘Lovers of fantasy will appreciate this title,’ raved Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly called it a ‘fine novel.’ It is the story of Jenna. Raised on a mountainside, she learned the arts of the warrior, and from the mountain women the magic of the ancient lore. But the greatest magic of all was her ability to call forth her dark sister from the depths of the mirror of the land of light and shadow. Skada was the dark one, able to exist only when the moonlight cast a shadow or lamplight flickered in a darkened room. This is the story of Jenna and Skada. Sister Light and Sister Dark.

White Jenna

World Fantasy Award for Best NovelALA Best Books for Young AdultsBook Two of the Great Alta SagaJenna was the White Queen. Skada was the Dark Queen. She is bound to Jenna the other half of Jenna’s self. Drawn out of a mirror by a rite of magic, a dark sister is confined to the dark. She vanishes in daylight. It is in this other world the dark sisters wait for moonlight or lamplight to call them forth again. This is their story: of myths turned real, ordinary people turned heroes, a land turned inside out by the coming of White Jenna.

The One-Armed Queen

The Queen of the Dales, White Jenna, had three children: two boys of her body, Jemson and Corrie, and one daughter, the eldest, Scillia. Scillia was adopted by the Queen in the way of her people, the Warrior Priestesses of the Hames, and Scillia is the heir, destined to rule the Dales when Jenna dies. But the king of Garun over the Sea, a nation that has been at war with the Dales for a generation, cannot believe that an adopted daughter could take precedence over a natural born son. The Garuns will use every wile to convince Jemson, the eldest boy, to rebel against his mother and sister, and take the throne for his own, weakening the Dales and leaving the land open for a new Garun invasion.

Here There Be Dragons

In Here There Be Dragons, dragons appear in every guise ghastly, ghoulish, gentle, gargantuan always endowed with the author’s ingenious touches. Each piece is introduced with the fascinating, and often revealing, story of its making and is illustrated with the intricate, moody pencil drawings of David Wilgus.

Passager

A boy is abandoned in the woods of medieval England. A year pas*ses a year of terror and hunger, of sleeping in trees and foraging for food, of outrunning packs of wild dogs until one day a falconer captures and tames the boy as he would any Passager, a young bird caught in the wild and trained. The falconer adopts the boy and teaches him all of the things he’s forgotten, including the boy s true name and the legacy of magic that will be his when he comes of age. This first book of the Young Merlin Trilogy will have readers awaiting the sequels. The Horn Book

Hobby

When young Merlin falls into the company of traveling performers, they rename him Hobby, after a small falcon. Nightmarish trouble lies ahead on the path that will lead him to greatness.

Merlin

In flight from the magic visions that plague him, Merlin falls into the hands of the wodewose wild folk who, according to legend, live in the company of wolves and devour children. But far from being wild, the wodewose are an enormous family of the unwanted, the abandoned, and the homeless. For once Merlin has found a place where an orphan like himself belongs. The triumphant conclusion to the Young Merlin Trilogy.

The Wizard’s Map

Three American children, while visiting relatives in Scotland, come upon exactly what their mother has always said they lack: patience. Only this Patience is an old card game one that summons sinister magic from the past: an ancient map that when altered, alters the world. And worse still, the children call forth the map’s owner the wickedest of Scotland s dark wizards, the bloody minded Michael Scot. Can the children foil Michael Scot before he gets hold of his map and rewrites the world in his own image?

The Pictish Child

Even witches have to retire from magic sometime. When Peter, Jennifer, and their four year old sister, Molly, visit the Eventide Home, they find just what their gran promised: a coven of kindhearted, retired old witches. But on the heels of their visit, the children themselves are visited by a Pictish girl fleeing a massacre more than a thousand years earlier. Evil forces are hunting The Pictish Child, forces that have tracked her across centuries, bent on fulfilling the dark designs of a single mysterious person in the Eventide Home.

The Bagpiper’s Ghost

‘Paperback: 156 pages Publisher: Magic Carpet Books October 1, 2003 ISBN: 0152049134 Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches This is the third book in Jane Yolen’s Tartan Magic trilogy, and picks up soon after the events in The Pictish Child. In this book, Jennifer and Peter, two American children on vacation in Scotland, head off to visit a local graveyard. Peter is rather jealous of Jennifer’s newfound magical ability, and wants to find some magic himself. However, when they meet three ghosts, Peter gets more than he bargained for! Now Jennifer is in a race against time to get Peter un possessed, and put some poor souls to rest.’

Queen’s Own Fool

Called La Jardiniere, a resourceful and clever jester to the queen’s court, Nicola was a most unlikely person to end up ‘fool’ and friend to Mary, Queen of Scots. But Nicola isn’t an ordinary comedian clowning before the court; her sharp tongue is rare amongst the fawning nobles. As fate takes Mary from France to Scotland, and into confrontations with rebellious lords and devious advisors, Nicola remains deep in the queen’s inner circle. But when the Scots start to turn on Queen Mary, Nicola struggles to find something anything that she, just a fool, can do to save her friend. ‘Rich and involving…
Readers are treated to a fascinating look at royal politics through the eyes of Nicola.’ School Library Journal, starred review

Girl in a Cage

From the authors of Queen’s Own Fool comes another historical young adult novel from a thrilling period in Scottish history featuring an indomitable young hero*ine: the daughter of Robert the Bruce. Marjorie Bruce is overjoyed when she learns that her father has proclaimed himself king of Scotland. What 11 year old girl hasn’t dreamed of being a princess? But her father’s claim to the Scottish throne also means that she and all her family are now the targets of ruthless King Edward Longshanks of England. And when she is captured, Longshanks imprisons her in a cage in a small English village square. Exposed to taunts and missiles, and the scorn of the king himself, Marjorie is determined to survive. After all, she reasons, a princess is a princess, whether in a castle or a cage.

Prince Across the Water

When Scotland calls on all its able bodied clans to join Prince Charlie in the march against England’s tyranny, young Duncan McDonald is as ready as anyone to fight. He’s grown up on Granda’s stories of glory in battle, and his heart is stirred by what he knows of the young prince. But when he and his cousin Ewan run away to join the great battle at Culloden, they find themselves caught in a nightmare: not the glorious field of heroes they expected. As much as he loves his country and his prince, Duncan has to ask himself: Can anything good really come of Culloden? Following their much acclaimed The Queen’s Own Fool and Girl in a Cage, Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris have crafted their most chilling and affecting story yet.

The Rogues

During one of the stormiest chapters in Scottish history the Highland Clearances young Roddy Macallan battles to keep his family’s land. Scottish lairds are clearing the lands in order to raise English sheep. Families are fleeing and farms are being burned. But some Scots are fighting back including Roddy. In the midst of this turmoil is the quest to recapture a brooch, given to Roddy s family by Prince Charlie, which was stolen by the laird. But will Roddy be able to save his family s treasure, as well as his family and their land from the horrific upheaval happening around him?

Odysseus in the Serpent Maze

Before they were heroes…
‘Rescue? Is that what you call it? Throw a rock and then run? And I bet that’s as far ahead as you’d planned.’ Penelope made a face. ‘Boys! Always thinking about heroics and never about what needs to happen day to day.’ Odysseus, Prince of Ithaca, has always been safe, sheltered, protected and bored! The Age of Heroes is past. The wars are over. The monsters have all been slain. Or so he believes. Are there any adventures left for a thirteen year old boy who wants, more than anything, to be a hero? His time comes when Odysseus, his best friend Mentor, a spoiled princess named Helen and her outspoken cousin Penelope are kidnapped by pirates. It is the start of an adventure filled journey that leads them to the ancient island of Crete. There, Odysseus must face the deadly secret in the Labyrinth, where the Minotaur once devoured all who were unfortunate enough to enter. Now another, more deadly monster roams the maze. There the boy destined to fight in the Trojan War and survive the perilous voyage of the Odyssey discovers the hardest part of being a hero: living long enough to tell the tale.

Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast

Atalanta’s life has always been filled with danger, adventure, and mystery. Abandoned as a baby, she was raised in the woods by bears until she was four years old. Atalanta has never had or wanted a place in society. The woods, her animal friends, and her life outdoors are the things she prizes. Then disaster strikes when a vicious creature unlike any other terrorizes the Arcadian countryside and destroys everything Atalanta holds dear. Her desire for revenge drives her out of the woods and on the beast’s trail with the king’s hunting party. Led by the arrogant hunter Orion, the expedition puts all of Atalanta’s skills to the test. But assisted by her bear ‘brother’ Urso, Atalanta proves she is as good a hunter as any man. She is not prepared, however, for the startling truths she will discover about justice, mercy, and her own destiny. This third entry in the Young Heroes series by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris is an adventure story from beginning to end, portraying the dramatic events that transform a girl into a legend, and a huntress into a hero.

Jason and the Gorgon’s Blood

Jason is a young warrior in training and yet there’s more to him than his simple appearance might suggest. Raised by the wise centaur Chiron and believing himself an orphan, Jason discovers that his true identity is not the only secret his guardian has been keeping. What he learns sends Jason and five of Chiron’s other apprentices on a dangerous journey to save the kingdom of Iolcus from a horrible fate. In a daring race against time, Jason and his companions must bridge yawning chasms, battle vicious harpies, navigate their way down treacherous rapids, and outsmart marauding centaurs. Surpris ingly, Jason’s greatest challenge comes from within, for becoming a great leader proves to be the most difficult task of all. In another thrilling adventure that imagines Greek heroes as young men and women, Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris explore the early years of Jason, before he led the Argonauts on one of the most famous quests in Greek mythology.

Pay the Piper (By:Adam Stemple)

A rock ‘n’ roll band to die for? Callie is about to find out…
. Not much happens in fourteen year old Callie McCallan’s sleepy Massachusetts town. So when the famous rock ‘n’ roll band, Brass Rat, schedules a concert in the Valley, it’s big news. As a reporter for her school paper, Callie scores the scoop of a lifetime a backstage pass to interview the lead singer of Brass Rat! Her friends are so jealous. But Callie isn’t sure what the fuss is all about…
until she meets the band. Lead singer Peter Gringras and his band mates are so cool. Especially Peter. When he plays his flute, it’s as if he has some kind of hypnotic power. But there is something strange about the band, something Callie can’t quite put her finger on. Maybe she’s just being weird, but it’s as if they’re from here but not from here at the same time. It’s when, on Halloween night, Callie’s little brother Nicky disappears along with all the other children of Northampton that she begins to wonder if her suspicions are so weird after all. It’s crazy, but Callie thinks she knows why the children have disappeared and who took them. To prove it and to rescue Nicky and the other children Callie will be forced down a road that will lead to her to a mythical world filled with fantastical creatures. A world from which there may be no return…
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The Troll Bridge

A wicked adventure or deadly trollble For sixteen year old harpist prodigy Moira, the annual Dairy Princess event in Vanderby is just another lame publicity op. Moira a dairy princess? Get real. Twelve girls have been selected to have their likeness carved in butter and displayed on the Trollholm Bridge. It’s a Vanderby State Fair tradition that has been going on for, like, ever. As far as Moira is concerned, the sooner it s over with the butter er better. About the same time and not far away, three brothers members of the sensationally popular teen boy band The Griffsons are in the middle of a much needed road trip to relax from the pressures of their latest tour. In a flash, however, the kids are suddenly transported to a strange and mystical wilderness where they find themselves in the middle of a deadly tug of war struggle between a magical fox named Fossegrim and the monstrous troll Aenmarr of Austraegir. At the heart of the feud is a battle for possession of a mysterious magical fiddle and an ancient compact between Trollholm and the outer world. Whatever. All Moira cares about is that eleven of her fellow princesses have been enchanted into a slumber and Moira needs to figure out a way to awaken them and get home. Unfortunately for Moira and the Griffsons, nothing in Trollholm is as it seems. Finding a way out of Trollholm may be a lot more difficult than they think.

The Boy Who Spoke Chimp

Stranded in the coastal mountains following a devastating California earthquake, a 12 year old boy and the chimpanzee he rescues from a wrecked van communicate through sign language as they struggle to survive.

Children of the Wolf

Two young girls who have been raised by wolves are brought to Mohandas’s orphanage, and Mohandas tries to teach them the ways of humans. By the author of The Devil’s Arithmetic. Reprint. C.

Briar Rose

A powerful retelling of Sleeping Beauty that is ‘heartbreaking and heartwarming.’An American Library Association ‘100 Best Books for Teens’An American Library Association ‘Best Books for Young Adults’Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma’s stories about Briar Rose. But a promise Rebecca makes to her dying grandmother will lead her on a remarkable journey to uncover the truth of Gemma’s astonishing claim: I am Briar Rose. A journey that will lead her to unspeakable brutality and horror. But also to redemption and hope.

The Devil’s Arithmetic

Hannah is tired of hearing about the Na*zis during the Holocaust, but when she opens the door for Elijah at the Passover Seder, she is transported in time to 1940s Poland, where she is captured and put in a death camp. A girl named Rivka befriends her, teaching her how to fight the dehumanization of the camp and hold onto her identity.

The Dragon’s Boy

‘In order to gain wisdom, you must learn to read inter linea, between the lines.’Artos doesn’t know who his parents are, just that kindly Sir Ector and Lady Marion took him into their castle when he was a baby. Though Sir Ector raises him as one of his sons, Artos never feels he truly belongs. The other boys of the castle Cai, Bedvere, and Lancot make fun of him and never invite him to join in their games. One day, while searching for Sir Ector’s missing brachet hound in the fens around the castle, Artos stumbles across a musty cave in a hill where a very old dragon lives. Though he is afraid, he is drawn to the beast by both the dragon’s knowledge and his promise to teach Artos the game of wisdom. With the dragon’s guidance, Artos begins the slow journey to his destiny one that he never dreamed could belong to him. Notable 1990 Children’s Trade Books in Social Studies NCSS/CBC

Wizard’s Hall

Poor Henry. It’s not enough that his mother has sent him away from home to learn magic. It s not enough that everyone at his new school calls him Thornmallow because he s prickly on the outside, squishy within. It s not enough that the only talent he shows at Wizard s Hall is an ability to make messes of even the simplest spells. Now, when Wizard s Hall is threatened by a cruel sorcerer s fearsome beast, it is up to Henry er, Thornmallow to figure out how to save not only his new friends but also the entire school for wizards.

The Wild Hunt

Jerold and Gerund live in the same house but in parallel times. A talking white cat living in all times brings the two boys to her home to prepare them for The Hunt, a bizarre adventure in which one of them will become prey to a huntman with an evil plan.

Armageddon Summer (With: Bruce Coville)

The world will end on Thursday, July 27, 2000. At least, that’s what Reverend Beelson has told his congregation. Marina’s mom believes him. So does Jed’s dad. That’s why they drag Marina and Jed to join the reverend’s flock at a mountain retreat. From the mountaintop they will all watch the Righteous Conflagration that will end this world and then they will descend and begin the world anew. But this world has only just begun for Jed and Marina, two teenagers with more attitude than faith. Why should the world end now, when they’ve just fallen in love? Told in alternating chapters from both Jed’s and Marina’s points of view, this first ever collaboration between two masters of children’s literature is a story about faith and friendship, love and loss…
and the things that matter most at the End of the World.

Boots and the Seven Leaguers

Gog is just your average teenager. Sure, he’s a troll, but he’s got typical teen problems: an irritating little brother, a best friend who’s nothing but trouble, and no tickets to his favorite band’s sold out concert.
There just might be a way to get into that concert, though.
Magic. Now that’s a sure way to get into trouble…
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/Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Gog is a teen troll with a problem. Boots and the Seven Leaguers the best rock and troll band in the Kingdom is coming to jam under Rhymer’s Bridge during the next full moon and Gog is ticketless! But he concocts a plan by putting his slow troll head together with that of his quick witted friend Pook. With a little glamour magic, Gog and Pook manage to convince Boots and crew that they are experienced roadies. But just as soon as they finish their hefting and hauling, Gog notices that his little brother, Magog, who he was forced to bring along, is missing. And Pook’s sensitive nose confirms their worst suspicions that Magog has been taken into the depths of the New Forest, an ‘untrammeled place…
where wild magic still rules. Where the laws of eat or be eaten still apply.’ To find Magog, Gog will have to outsmart the Weed King, face the horrible Huntsman, and walk into the lair of the Great White Wyrm. But Gog wants to save his little brother even more than he wants to see Boots play! And with a little luck, maybe he’ll still get to do both.

Veteran fantasy author Jane Yolen does not disappoint with her latest whimsical offering for younger teens. The helpful ‘Traveler’s Guide to the Kingdom’ that follows the story provides more information about the F ry folk and their enchanting ways. Charming and straightforward, Boots will serve as a humorous segue into some of Yolen’s more complex fantasies like the Pit Dragons series or the Young Merlin trilogy. Ages 10 to 13 Jennifer Hubert

Sword of the Rightful King

The newly crowned King Arthur is unsure of himself; worse, the people are unsure of him. Too many people want the throne, and treachery is everywhere. Merlin must do something before the king is betrayed, or murdered, or worst of all gets married. So Merlin magically places a sword into a slab of rock, lets it be known that whosoever removes the blade will rule all of England, and invites any man who would dare, to try to pull out the sword. After a bit of showmanship, Arthur will draw the blade with a little magical help, of course, and the people will rally around the young king. Except someone else pulls the sword out first…
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Except the Queen

From award winning authors Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder comes a tale of two worlds and one destiny…
Sisters Serena and Meteora were once proud members of the high court of the Fairy Queen until they played a prank that angered her highness. Separated and banished to the mortal realm of Earth, they must find a way to survive in a strange world in which they have no power. But there is more to their new home than they first suspect…
A sympathetic Meteora bonds with a troubled young girl with an ornate tattoo on her neck. Meteora recognizes it as a magic symbol that will surely bring danger down on them all. Serena, meanwhile, takes in a tortured homeless boy whose mind is plagued by dark visions. The signs point to a rising power that threatens to tear asunder both fairy and human worlds. And the sisters realize that perhaps the queen cast them from their homes not out of anger or spite but because they were the only ones who could do what must be done…

Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Features the Nebula Award winning novella ‘Lost Girls.’
In these modern myths and tales for the young and the young at hear, Jane Yolen transforms the impossible into the familiar and real. Among the outlandish wonders are an Alice grown tough in Wonderland, a dear but dead mother’s homecoming, a bridge that longs for a goat eating troll, and a mutiny among Peter Pan’s troops.

Sister Emily’s Lightship and Other Stories

Sister Emily’s Lightship and Other Stories is Jane Yolen’s first collection of short stories written for adults. It includes the award winning title story, as well as three new, never before published, works.

The Fish Prince and Other Stories

Mermen? Yes. Long before mermaids emerged to people our inner seas, long before they established their restless, inviting niche in human fantasy, there was the merman. Born of the human need to dominate the great fruitful oceans, to control the vast destructive seas, to regulate the healing rains, to understand the tides, the merman emerged. The merman was water personified. The imposing water gods could be wheedled, cozened, implored, but in the end they were never fooled. How often were Poseidon or Neptune, Lir, Njord and the rest pictured riding the waves along inhospitable shores, shaking their magical tridents or spears or fists at the weak, imploring humans on land? The sea gods called up storms or quieted waves. They flooded the lands. They drowned the unwary. Yet despite the importance of early fish tailed gods such as Ea Enki and Dagon; despite the preponderance of mermen in the mythologies of Babylon, Greece, the British Isles, the Scandinavian peninsula, Germany; despite the mermen ranging along Slavic shores and inland seas; despite the mermen found in Chinese and Japanese lakes, along Polynesian island coasts, and in the lore and literature of the Middle East, the merman has become Legend’s Forgotten Man. With its 27 stories from around the world, this volume reconstructs the unnatural history of the Merman. AUTHOR BIO: Jane Yolen is the author of over 200 books for children, young adults, and adults. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for her folk collection Favorite Folktales from around the World, she has authored a dozen other folklore collections, including Gray Heroes, Mirror, Mirror, Not One Damsel in Distress, and The Fairies’ Ring. Her work has won the Nebula Award, the Caldecott Medal, three Mythopoeic Society Awards, the Jewish Book Award, five bodies of work awards, and been nominated for the National Book Award. She lives in Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland. Among Shulamith Oppenheim’s many books are two fantasies, The Selchie’s Seed and for adults, The World Invisible. Iblis, the retelling of the Islamic version of the Fall from Eden, was an ALA Notable for older children, 1994.

The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories

Let yourself be drawn into the magical world of the dance with this sumptuous anthology. Love, laughter, betrayal, adventure and tragedy intertwine to create stories that will reach deep into the heart and dreams of the reader. The story of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ will whisk you away to the thorn*y castle where Princess Aurora awaits her prince; the comedy and confusion of ‘Copp lia’ will delight you, and the magical adventures of Clara in ‘The Nutcracker’ will entrance you. Featuring a brief history of classical ballet, as well as historical details of each dance, composition, choreography and early performances, this book will captivate anyone with a love of this awe inspiring art.

Nebula Awards 2 (By:Brian W. Aldiss,Harry Harrison)

These stories, first published in 1966, represent an exciting and important time in the history of science fiction the era when SF became true literature. Editors for this volume are BRIAN W. ALDISS and HARRY HARRISON. ALDISS is a prolific award winning author of over two dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, several critical works, and poetry. His latest novels are THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE: OR MY LIFE AS AN ENGLISHMAN and SUPERTOYS. The multiple award winning author of dozens of novels of speculative fiction, HARRISON is best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series, MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! the basis for the film SOYLENT GREEN, and the alternate history novels STARS & STRIPES FOREVER and STARS & STRIPES IN PERIL. He lives in Ireland. The Secret Place by Richard McKenna ‘ A sensitive piece of writing, a perfect example of second generation science fiction, the retelling and reexamination of a theme that originated in the pulp years…
‘ Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw The memorable classic featuring ‘slow glass’ through which light takes a very long time to travel. Who Needs Insurance? by Robin S. Scott If one can be accident prone, then perhaps one can be ‘safety prone’ but why? Among the Hairy Earthmen by R.A. Lafferty Earth is nothing more than a bloody playground for the children of the gods. The Last Castle by Jack Vance A prime example of one of Vance’s ‘haunting mood possessed visions of the distant future, written in a style that stirs the reader to reaction and response.’ Day Million by Frederik Pohl A very short story ‘jewel like conciseness’ of future love, life, and romance. When I Was Miss Dow by Sonya Dorman ‘ A sense of strangeness, more than a bit of human warmth, as well as a good strong whiff of alien strangeness.’ Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson Earth proves to be a testing ground for the son of an emperor of a hundred worlds. In the Imagicon by George Henry Smith ‘What good was paradise without something to compare it to? Without a taste of hell from time to time, how could a man appreciate heaven?’ We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick Now better know as the story on which film Total Recall was based, the original is a far more subtle questioning of reality. Man In His Time by Brian W. Aldiss The sole survivor of crash landing on Mars returns to Earth, but is 3. 3077 minutes ahead of the rest of the world.

Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow)

Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own often highly idiosyncratic excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.

Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Excellent in all departments Kirkus Reviews, Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best of the year anthologies.

Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent)

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best of year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, ‘essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction.’

Nebula Awards 33 (With: Connie Willis,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress)

A perfect match the all time top Nebula Award winner edits this year’s volume of the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards. The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Each Nebula Awards collection showcases the year’s Nebula winning fiction, top selections from the ballot including work not collected in other best of the year anthologies and intriguing essays written expressly for each volume. Nebula Awards 33 features prizewinning fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre, Jerry Oltion, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen; the Rhysling Award winners for best SF poetry; classic stories by Grand Master Poul Anderson and Author Emeritus Nelson Bond; and original essays by Jack Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Cynthia Felice, Michael Cassutt, Geoffrey Landis, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy, and Christie Golden. This excellent compendium is, as was said of last year’s volume, ‘a must read for both serious and casual SF fans alike.’

Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford)

The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction: the finest works in the genre each year as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 is a thought provoking and entertaining volume of and about science fiction. Editor Gregory Benford speaks of the interaction between science fiction and science over the past century; editors and authors Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Van Gelder, George Zebrowski, David Hartwell, and Bill Warren discuss and disagree about science fiction’s place in the larger literary scene; authors William Tenn and Hal Clement are honored; and award winning stories are presented by Sheila Finch, Jane Yolen, Bruce Holland Rogers, Joe Haldeman an excerpt from his novel Forever Peace, Geoffrey A. Landis, Walter Jon Williams, and Mark J. McGarry.

Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson)

Selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 presents the finest award winning fiction of the year and includes insightful commentary about the current state of science fiction. ‘Invaluable, not just for the splendid fiction and lively nonfiction, but as another annual snapshot, complete with grins and scowls.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Would serve well as a one volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction.’ New York Review of Science Fiction

Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress)

Here is the ssential index of one year in SF and fantasy, full of winners and nominees of the prestigious Nebula Award. For groundbreaking works in the genre, the Nebula is perhaps the highest honor in the field and a beacon for readers looking for the best quality science fiction and fantasy around.

Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman)

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year’s most astounding fiction compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe)

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americar bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year’s most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year’s winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman)

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more. This year’s award winning authors include Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, and more. The anthology also features essays from celebrated science fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Mike Resnick.

Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow)

Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: The pulse of modern science fiction. New York Times Book Review

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year s award winning authors include Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, and Nancy Kress, plus 2008 Grand Master Michael Moorcock.

Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett)

The year’s best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcase represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection. This year’s compilation includes stories by: Ursula K. LeGuin Catherine Asaro John Kessel Nina Kiriki Hoffman Harry Harrison, this year’s Grandmaster

Best New Horror 14 (By:Stephen Jones)

The fourteenth volume in this series is going strong, and with another generous sampling of the past year’s best horror fiction, it again earns ‘merits’ from Publishers Weekly. With contributions from such favorites as Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, along with the talented likes of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jay Russell, Glen Hirshberg and many more, the hairraising tales in this edition hold nightmares for travelers in alien lands, unveil the mystery and menace lurking in our everyday reality, explore the terrors of the supernatural, and honor horror s classic tradition. As always, editor Stephen Jones provides an illuminating and engaging overview of the past year in horror fiction, as well as an affecting necrology and a guide to contacts among publishers, organizations, booksellers, and magazines in the eerier fields of fiction.

Adventure (By:Chris Roberson)

ADVENTURE, the first volume of an annual anthology of original fiction in the spirit of early twentieth-century pulp fiction magazines, features stories from all genres, promising both literary sophistication and pulse-pounding action. Contributors to the first volume, among them leading lights and award-winners in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and western, include John Edward Ames, Lou Anders, Neal Asher, Kage Baker, Barry Baldwin, O’Neil De Noux, Paul Di Filippo, Mark Finn, Michael Kurland, John Meaney, Michael Moorcock, Chris Nakashima-Brown, Kim Newman, Mike Resnick, Chris Roberson, Matthew Rossi, and Marc Singer.

Best New Horror 18 (By:Stephen Jones)

Here is the latest edition of the world’s premier annual showcase of horror and dark, fantasy fiction, from a series that has won the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today’s masters of the macabre including Neil Gaiman, Glen Hirshberg, Tanith Lee, Ramsey Campbell, and Charles Coleman Finlay.

Best New Horror 19 (By:Stephen Jones)

This collection features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations, an impressively researched necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated reader and budding writer alike. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today’s masters of the macabre. Contributors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Brian Keene, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins, and Tanith Lee. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction.

Summer Chills (By:Stephen Jones)

A collection of horror stories in exotic locale by the likes of Dennis Etchinson, Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley, and Christopher Fowler.

The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman)

From the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain’s police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman continues the series began in The Man From the Diogenes Club, revealing more of the secrets of the British Empire’s most secret service.

The Fair Folk (By:Marvin Kaye)

Six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy all with one commonthreat ‘the fair folk.’ From blithe fairies to sinister fey, some are fair, some are foul, all are fantastic. In ‘The Kelpie,’ by Patricia A. McKillip, a carefree circle of bohemian artists is confronted by a being more powerful than any muse. Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder weave a tale of two sisters long exiled from their magical realm who must survive in ours, in ‘Except the Queen.’ In Tanith Lee’s ‘UOUS,’ a young woman with a rotten family is granted three wishes by a handsome elf and learns that nothing good comes free of charge. A hapless slob finds his world turned upside down when an eager brownie moves in and proceeds to clean house, in Megan Lindholm’s ‘Grace Notes.’ Kim Newman introduces an intrepid government investigator whose latest case pits him against a sinister brood of fairy folk known as ‘The Gypsies in the Wood.’ And the serenity of the Elves is tested in a wry fable of a long suffering magical apprentice who can’t catch a break, in Craig Shaw Gardner’s ‘The Embarrassment of Elves.

The Fair Folk (With: Megan Lindholm,Tanith Lee,Marvin Kaye,Kim Newman,Patricia A. McKillip,Craig Shaw Gardner)

Six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy all with one commonthreat ‘the fair folk.’ From blithe fairies to sinister fey, some are fair, some are foul, all are fantastic. In ‘The Kelpie,’ by Patricia A. McKillip, a carefree circle of bohemian artists is confronted by a being more powerful than any muse. Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder weave a tale of two sisters long exiled from their magical realm who must survive in ours, in ‘Except the Queen.’ In Tanith Lee’s ‘UOUS,’ a young woman with a rotten family is granted three wishes by a handsome elf and learns that nothing good comes free of charge. A hapless slob finds his world turned upside down when an eager brownie moves in and proceeds to clean house, in Megan Lindholm’s ‘Grace Notes.’ Kim Newman introduces an intrepid government investigator whose latest case pits him against a sinister brood of fairy folk known as ‘The Gypsies in the Wood.’ And the serenity of the Elves is tested in a wry fable of a long suffering magical apprentice who can’t catch a break, in Craig Shaw Gardner’s ‘The Embarrassment of Elves.

Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (By:Ellen Datlow)

A girl who eats dreams, a woman who chooses the apes, and a barbarian hero rendered as a collage. These are just a few of the people readers first met online thanks to the explosion of Webzines. Ellen Datlow, editor of Omni Online, Event Horizon, and SciFiction, led the charge into the brave new world of science fiction. Digital Domains collects some of the best, and most controversial, works in print well, except for your home printer for the first time.

Best New Horror 16 (By:Stephen Jones)

This is the latest edition of the world’s foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Here are some of the very best short stories and novellas by today’s finest exponents of horror fiction including Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell and Tanith Lee.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 also contains the most comprehensive overview of horror around the world during the year, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

The Man from the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman)

In the swinging seventies, Richard Jeperson secret agent of the Diogenes Club solves crimes too strange for Britain’s police. His fashion sense is gaudy, his enemies deadly, his associates glamorous.

Snow White, Blood Red

Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children…
But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite lush and erotic, often dark and disturbing mystical journeys through a phantasmagoric landscape of distinctly adult sensibilities…
where there is no such thing as ‘happily ever after.’

Black Thorn, White Rose

Once Upon A Time…
A seduced prince willingly fell prey to a sensuous usurper’s erotic treacheries…
a flesh eating ogre gamboled in the footlights…
a gingerbread man fled in terror from the baking pan to the fire…
The award winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red return us to distinctly adult realms of myth and the fantastic with eighteen wondorous works that cloak the magical fictions we heard at Grandma’s knee in mantles of darkness and dread. From Roger Zelansky’s delightful tale of Death’s disobedient godson to Peter Straub’s blood chilling examination of a gargantuan Cinderella and her terrible twisted ‘art,’ here are stories strange and miraculous remarkable modern storytelling that remold our most cherished childhood fables into things sexier, more sinister…
and more appealing to grown up tastes and sensiblilities.

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

‘Once upon a time…
‘ So begin the classic fairy tales that enthralled and terrified us as children. Now, in their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring us twenty one new stories by some of the top names in literature today. Joyce Carol Oates, Gahan Wilson, Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman these are but a few of the accomplished literary sorcerers who have gathered here to remold our timeless myths into more sensuous and disturbing forms. Like the fabled ruby slippers, there is powerful magic here. Rich witches in trendy resorts cast evil spells…
beautiful princesses age and wither in sleeping worlds…
terrible beasts reside beneath flawless skin. Dark, disturbing, delightful, each story was written expressly for this superb collection of distinctly grown up fantasy a brilliant companion volume to Datlow and Windling’s acclaimed anthologies, Snow White, Blood Red and Black Thorn, White Rose.

Black Swan, White Raven

A stellar assymbly of many of today’s most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by 21 superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the world’s best known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind ‘happily ever after.’

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

The four previous volumes in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s anthology series of fairly tales retold with a distinctively modern edge have been hailded by reviewers as ‘brilliant,’ ‘provocative,’ and ‘disturbing.’ In this triumphant new collection of original fiction, twenty one of today’s leading writers spin the cherished fables of childhood into glittering gold offering magical tales for adults, as seductive as they are sophisticated.A jealous prince plots the destruction of his hated brother’s wedding by inventing a ‘magic’ suit of clothing visible only to the pure at heart…
A young girl’s strange fairy tale obsession results in a brutal murder…
An embittered mother cares for her dying son who is trapped in a thicket that guards a sleeping beauty…
In a bleak and desolate industrial wasteland, a group of violent outcasts lays the tattered myths of one Millenium to rest, and gives terrifying birth to those of the next. Erotic, compelling, witty, and altogether extraordinary, these stories lay bare our innermost demons and desires imaginatively transforming our youthful fantasies into things darker, slyer, and more delightfully subversive.

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Hair bright as gold…
Lips red as blood…
Heart black as sin…
Truth sharp as bone…
As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew.’ Black Heart, Ivory Bones‘ showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child that was and the adult that is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.’ A lovelorn prince seeking his father’s blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair…
A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride…
A troll killing, princess rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries’ point of view…
In a blistering tell all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear…
‘Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional anew treasures as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft told tales. As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual,and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew. Black Heart, Ivory Bones showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child that was and the adult that is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.’A lovelorn prince seeking his father’s blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair…
A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride…
A troll killing, princess rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries’ point of view…
In a blistering tell all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear…
Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional new treasures as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds, and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft told tales. As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew. Black Heart, Ivory Bones showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child that was and the adult that is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists incontemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.’A lovelorn prince seeking his father’s blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair…
A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride…
A troll killing, princess rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries’ point of view…
In a blistering tell all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear…
Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional new treasures as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds, and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft told tales.

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

One of our most enduring, universal myths is that of the Green Man the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form, a man with leaves for hair who dwells deep within the mythic forest. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Now Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, the acclaimed editors of over twenty anthologies, have gathered some of today’s finest writers of magical fiction to interpret the spirits of nature in short stories and poetry. Charles Vess Stardust brings his stellar eye and brush to the decorations, and Windling provides an introduction exploring Green Man symbolism and forest myth. The Green Man will become required reading for teenagers and adults alike not only for fans of fantasy fiction, but for anyone interested in mythology and the mysteries of the wilderness.

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some of today’s finest writers of fantastic fiction for short stories and poems that draw on the great wealth of world faery lore and classic faery literature. This companion to the World Fantasy Award winner and Locus bestseller The Green Man is edgy, provocative, and thoroughly magical. Like the faeries themselves.

The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People

What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In The Beastly Bride, acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors including Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Jane Yolen, Lucius Shepard, and Tanith Lee, as well as many new, diverse voices. Terri Windling provides a scholarly, yet accessible introduction, and Charles Vess’s decorations open each story. From Finland to India, the Pacific Northwest to the Hamptons, shapechangers are part of our magical landscape and The Beastly Bride is sure to be one of the most acclaimed anthologies of the year.

Primary Inversion (By:Catherine Asaro)

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster than light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred. A desperate attempt must be made to avert total disaster.

Catch the Lightning (By:Catherine Asaro)

In the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across the interstellar space. but their most determined enemy, the traders, who thrive on human pain, need to interbreed with a Skolian to gain their powers. And now they have her.

The Last Hawk (By:Catherine Asaro)

Catherine Asaro, a physicist who combines believable hard science with first rate storytelling, exploded onto the science fiction scene with her stellar debut novel, Primary Inversion. Now she brings us the third tale of the Skolian Empire, which AudioFile calls a classic tale of power and conflict, with a twist. When Kelric, a scion of the imperial family of Skolia, crash lands his fighter on the off limits planet of Coba, he figures it will be only a short time before he makes his way home. But he fails to account for the powerful matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates who do not want the Empire to know about their recent cultural advances. First they take him prisoner. Then, one by one, the most powerful women on the planet fall in love with him!

The Radiant Seas (By:Catherine Asaro)

Catherine Asaro’s novels showcase her unique ability to weave a fine web of adventure, hard science and romance. The Radiant Seas continues the story begun in Primary Inversion, the tale of Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, as their lives become entangled again in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. As they begin to pick up what’s left of their lives, the fate of much of the known universe comes to rest on the shoulders of their fragile young family. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to become the unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must lead an invading space fleet to rescue Jaibriol from his own empire without revealing that they are married. The Radiant Seas is an ambitious romantic epic that will further establish Catherine Asaro as a new force in the sf field.

Ascendant Sun (By:Catherine Asaro)

Ascendant Sun is a stand alone novel in the same universe as the Nebula Award finalist The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, a prince of Imperial Skolia, crashed on the planet Coba. Now eighteen years later he has escaped Coba and returned home only to find Skolia in chaos. In the aftermath of the Radiance War, all surviving members of his family are prisoners of Earth or the Trader empire. Only Kelric remains free. With no more than his clothes to his name and no one he dares trust, he must find a way to claim his title before his enemies discover his identity. His devotion to his family sustains him as he launches a silent, one man battle against the Trader empire, initially as a weapons officer. Kidnapped and sold as a pleasure slave, he must overcome ever greater obstacles in his quest. So begins a journey that crosses three empires, as he strives to save his people.

The Quantum Rose (By:Catherine Asaro)

The sixth volume in the Saga of the Skolian Empire Primary Inversion; The Radiant Seas; etc. is a freestanding page turner as a romance, with a hard science framework. It begins in an idyllic forest bathing pool on the backwater world of Balumil. Kamoj Quanta Argali, attractive young female governor of a poor province with decaying traces of millennia old technology, notices the mysterious off worlder, Havyrl Lionstar, watching her dress. Retreating in consternation, she also attempts to hide fromDand thus offendsDher lifelong fianc , Jax Ironbridge, overbearing governor of a wealthier neighboring province. Soon Havyrl brother of previous protagonists in the series blunders into outbidding Jax for marriage with Kamoj. Jax objects violently and reclaims Kamoj by force, puzzling the off worlder, whose presence by then is entangling the provincial governors in the imperial politics of the wider universe. The gender role elaboration in the maneuvers that follow will seem overdetailed to some readers, but fascinating to others. To Havyrl and his staff, Balumil is a rediscovered colony; hence they spend a lot of time explaining to Kamoj the significance of the quasimagical remnants of technology in her culture. Desperate for clues to understanding the wider universe as her planet’s isolation ends, Kamoj proves to be as brainy as she is beautiful.

Spherical Harmonic (By:Catherine Asaro)

Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Skolia, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet Dyhianna, the Ruby Pharaoh, must move quickly if they are reassume their rightful place as rulers of the Skolian Empire.

The Moon’s Shadow (By:Catherine Asaro)

Catherine Asaro exploded on to the science fiction scene in 1995 with the publication of her widely acclaimed debut novel, Primary Inversion, which introduced readers to the vast and intricate future Saga of the Skolian Empire. She won wide acclaim for her innovative blend of cutting edge physics, interstellar intrigue, and passionate romance. Booklist praised Primary Inversion as ‘an unusually masterful first novel combining hard speculative science and first rate storytelling to look at the galaxy’s distant future. This is one of the best SF first novels in years, a likely candidate for the genre’s major awards.’ And Romantic Times called Catherine Asaro ‘a formidable new talent. Primary Inversion is a stunning, fast paced novel of a future war between two human empires. Asaro’s elegant scientific concepts of space and time play an exciting role in this absolutely nifty space drama.’Asaro continued the saga of the Skolian Empire in six subsequent volumes Catch the Lightning, The Last Hawk, The Radiant Seas, Ascendant Sun, The Quantum Rose, and Spherical Harmonic gaining a legion of devoted readers and regularly garnering nominations for the field’s highest awards, culminating in her winning the 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Quantum Rose in addition to winning the two most recent Romantic Times Awards for Best SF Novel. With The Moon’s Shadow, Catherine Asaro begins a thrilling new chapter in this galaxy spanning epic, as the titanic conflicts which have raged across the cosmos at last come to a climax. At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox becomes ruler of a vast galactic empire and loses everything he has ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware of the powers that coursed through his noble blood. In the waning days of the bloody Radiance War that ravaged the galaxy, Jai was captured and returned to the Traders to play a role as a puppet Emperor in their scheme to consolidate their domination of space. Now Jai must walk a razor’s edge, to seize the power that is his by birthright without succumbing to its dark seduction and wield it for the good of all, and to avert a conflagration that threatens to engulf a thousand worlds.

Skyfall (By:Catherine Asaro)

ast year, Catherine Asaro won the Nebula Award for The Quantum Rose, the sixth novel in her Saga of the Skolian Empire. This very same novel was also named Best SF Novel by Romantic Times Bookclub. She is an author who’s truly hitting her stride. Skyfall takes us back to the start of the newest generation of the Skolian Empire, showing us how it all be gan with a chance meeting on a backwater planet. Kurj, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. When he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat. But a chance storm strands them in the mountains, inadvertently causing a great interstellar war, and birthing the next generation of rulers for the Sklolian Empire. Revel in the latest adventure of this Nebula Award winning series.

Schism (By:Catherine Asaro)

In 2002, Catherine Asaro won the Nebula Award for The Quantum Rose, the sixth novel in her Saga of the Skolian Empire. This very same novel was also named Best SF Novel by the Romantic Times. Schism: Part One of Triad is the tenth novel in this multiple award winning series, and represents an excellent entry point into the series.

For Schism harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders. Twenty three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed in Skyfall. It created the first open hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened over the ensuing years.

Now, Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has riven the first family of the Skolian Empire. Sauscony, the daughter of Roca and Eldrinson, is ready to seek her fortune as an officer in training in the Skolian military. When her father forbids her to undertake such a dangerous path, a wedge is formed as Soz chooses duty over family. Eube hopes to make this permanent, a divide that will leave the Skolian Empire ripe for conquest. And they’re willing to kill anyone to make it happen.

Revel in the latest adventure of this Nebula Award winning series.

The Final Key (By:Catherine Asaro)

Catherine Asaro has won numerous awards for her Saga of the Skolian Empire novels, including the Nebula Award and two Romantic Times awards for Best SF Novel. Combining cutting edge scientific theory with grand romantic adventure, this series represents space opera at its finest.
The Final Key is the second half of the story arc known as Triad, which began in Schism. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict within the royal family. With The Final Key, the Skolian Empire comes under all out assault from its nemesis, the Euban Concord, who have undermined the Empire via subterfuge and assassination, leaving it ripe for conquest. The Skolian Empire’s only hope? A young woman barely out of her teens who hasn’t even complete her training as a cadet.

Best New Paranormal Romance (With: Rebecca York,Elizabeth Hand,Elizabeth Bear,Delia Sherman,Catherine Asaro,,,,John Grant,,,Sarah Prineas)

Enchanting and enchanted lovers, magical romance, dark desires, otherworldly sensations, ethereal encounters, paranormal thrills, sensual spells, supernatural suspense, sizzling speculations…
Highly imaginative short fiction and novellas from the best fantasy romance writers both bestselling authors and new talent of 2005. Edited by award winning editor Paula Guran. Juno is a new imprint from Wildside Press.

The Ruby Dice (By:Catherine Asaro)

Two men, two empires. Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord: over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats. Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate. War had come before ten years ago, Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War between the Concord and the Imperialate and it might come again, devastating vast swathes of the galaxy. Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric wanted war, but neither was complete master of his realm. And each hid a secret that, if revealed, might be his downfall. Jaibriol was a secret psion, with telepathic abilities, and to be a psion in the Eubian Concord was to be a contemptible slave, eventually to be tortured for the pleasure of the slave’s owner. Kelric, years ago, had disappeared for nearly two decades. He had been a prisoner and slave on the planet Coban, part of neither empire, until he had managed to escape. And if the Skolian Imperialate knew of his captivity, there would be demands for vengeance, ravaging Coban and killing the wife and children Kelric had left behind when he escaped. Neither man knew how much longer he could keep his secret nor how much longer they could hold back the threat of a war that could incinerate hundreds of inhabited worlds.

Diamond Star (By:Catherine Asaro)

Del Valdoria was an heir of the Ruby Dynasty, rulers of the interstellar empire called the Skolian Imperialate. But he had no interest in being associated with the draconian measures his brothers used to maintain power. He just wanted to sing holo rock not a respectable activity for a Ruby prince. To make things more complicated, he was on Earth, far from home, and the Earth government wasn’t willing to let such a potential source of information and valuable bargaining chip leave. And then a major entertainment corporation took an interest in his music. Del’s mix of unsophisticated innocence and sensual wickedness was dynamite. Singing as Del Arden, he became a major hit almost overnight, the hottest thing in holo rock. And that was a nightmare for the Earth government, because it put a spotlight on him, inviting the attention of assassins, kidnappers, and who knew what other dangers. If anything happened to Del, Allied Space Command might as well just walk up to Skolian Space Command and say, ‘Hey, let’s have a war. Then there was a third interstellar empire, the Eubian Concord, warlike enemy of the Skolian Imperialate. His millions of fans on Earth might not know that their idol was a Ruby prince, but the Concord knew just who he was. And certain songs, if sung by a son of the Ruby Dynasty, might be considered an act of war…

Double Feature (By:Emma Bull,Will Shetterly)

This trade paperback reprint of the Boskone 31 Book contains 13 pieces of fiction, non fiction, and poetry plus brief biographies and bibligoraphies of each author and an introduction by Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Cover Art by Nick Jainschigg.

The Books of Magic, Volume 1: Bindings

This graphic novel, a companion volume to the first ‘Books of Magic’ series, collects the first four issues of the series and also features the character of Death, from ‘The Sandman’. Tim Hunter may become the greatest magician the world has ever known, but that depends on the choices he makes now.

The Books of Magic, Volume 2: Summonings

Timothy Hunter, age 13, may become one of the most powerful magicians of all time. But that’s only one of his problems. In this trade paperback followup to the popular Neil Gaiman story, Tim must contend with a heartless sorcerer, tea in hell, a murderous Victorian cyborg, a whirlwind family reunion with an insanely jealous Faerie Queen and…
a first date.

The Books of Magic, Volume 3: Reckonings

The saga of Timothy Hunter, master Mage in training, continues in this fourth collection of sorcery, spells and sprites. The demon Barbatosis up to his old tricks, doing his best to frustrate Tim’s noble intentions. This time it seems he might succeed.

The Books of Magic, Volume 5: Girl in the Box

The saga of Timothy Hunter, master Mage in training, continues in this sixth collection of the popular series. Originally created by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton, the Eisner award nominated The Books of Magic continue to unlock new, previously unexplored, realms of fantasy and mysticism. It’s the beginning of a new chapter in Tim’s life as he bids farewell to rainy England and sets out on an odyssey of discovery in the United States. Prepare yourself for a mermaid in the desert, Molly in the Faerie, ghosts in a ghost town and Zatana in a whole heap of trouble. A story that will appeal to all lovers of magic and mystery.

The Books of Magic, Volume 6: The Burning Girl

In the epic tradition of The Sandman, the saga of Timothy Hunter, master Mage in training, continues in this seventh collection. Originally created by Neil Gaiman and John Bolton, the Eisner award nominated The Books of Magic continue to unlock new realms of fantasy and mysticism. Tim Hunter’s voyage of discovery across America’s mystical landscape and beyond continues, with a way out trip to the wild, Wild West, and a pioneering leap into the unknown. And as Tim’s coming of age nears its conclusion, so his girlfriend, Molly, must adapt to life in Faerie. But the price she must pay for saving the mystical realm and its inhabitants may be the one thing she fears losing most of all…
Tim Hunter.

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Zipes brings together the best literary fairy tales ever written, giving readers a sense of the history of the genre and its evolution. Includes more than 60 tales by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Grimm, Voltaire, Goethe, Hawthorne, Yeats, Hesse, Thurber, Jane Yolen, Angela Carter, and more. Illustrated.

After the King

After the King presents an outstanding collection of new fantasy stories by an extraordinary assemblage of some of the very best writers to ever continue the tradition Tolkien began with The Lord of the Rings. Stephen R. Donaldson, Peter S. Beagle, Andrew Nortong, Terry Pratchett, Robert Silverberg, Judith Tarr, Gregory Benford, Jane Yolen, Poul and Karen Anderson, Mike Resnick, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, John Brunner, Harrr Turtledove, Dennis L. McKiernan, Karen Haber, Barry M. Malzberg, and Charles de Lint contribute to a dazzling anthology that captures the spirit and originality of Tolkien’s great work. The millions whose lives have been touched by J.R.R. Tolkien will find the same primal storytelling magic here, undiluted an running ever on.

Inside the Funhouse

A collection of seventeen tales of science fiction features works by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Frederik Pohl, George Alec Effinger, Jane Yolen, Ian Watson, Barry N. Malzberg, Patricia Nurse, and others.

The Armless Maiden

The Armless Maiden is more than an extraordinary collection of original fiction and essays by many of fantasy’s finest writers. A groundbreaking work in the tradition of Joseph Campbell, Bruno Bettelheim and Robert Bly, this book explores the darker side of childhood loss, betrayal, oppression, and abuse.

Women at War

A collection of original military science fiction stories written by women ranges from the horrors of contemporary Bosnia, to high tech peacekeepers in the distant future, to female mercenaries seeking war. LJ. ‘

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Gathers original stories that explore the excitement, invention, and sense of play that were once an integral part of science fiction.

Modern Classics of Fantasy

This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy’s heydey with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H. L. Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, JaneYolen, and Roger Zelazny. Just as Gardner Dozois’s anthology Modern Classics of Science Fiction SMP, 1992 has helped new generations of readers and old fans discover the genre’s finest short stories, so too shall this volume allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy.

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection

Culled from the best of a wide variety of sources, this eleventh annual collection of fantasy fiction features contributions by Kim Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Kushner, Jack Womack, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.

In the Shadow of the Gargoyle

For centuries, they have watched over us. Leering from the arches and peaks of ancient cathedrals. Spreading their wings across hallowed doorways. Even decorating our homes in stony, silent elegance. Are they angels or demons? Sacred or profane? In the Shadow of the Gargoyle features fifteen original stories and two classic tales of the legendary gargoyle. The contributors range from bestselling masters to the hottest newcomers award winners, artists, musicians, and, yes, gargoyle collectors. Each of them experts at drawing blood from a stone…
Contributors include: Harlan Ellison Neil Gaiman Katherine Kurtz Brian Lumley Jane Yolen Charles L. Grant John Mason Skipp Nancy Holder Alan Rodgers Lucy Taylor Jo Clayton Don D’Ammassa Christa Faust Robert J. Harris Brian Hodge Caitlin R. Kiernan Marc Levinthal Melanie Tem Wendy Webb

Ribbiting Tales

Who doesn’t like frogs? So they’re green and well, slimy. Frogs have charisma, charm, and even a few stories to tell. With the help of eight of today’s most fanciful writers, frogs finally have their day. From New York Times best selling author Brian Jacques’s tale of a menacing frogbeast, to Janet Taylor Lisle’s story of the frog people of Quicksand Pond, to Jane Yolen’s Pied Piper take on our froggy green friends, these hilarious fables and touching fairy tales are for every reader who has ever rooted for the underfrog. ‘Release your inner frog with this kickin’ collection.’ Kirkus Reviews

Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance

Think all heroes have washboard abs? Think all hero*ines wear Size 3 Junior Petite? Think again! Come join Gene Wolfe, Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, Jane Yolen, Jody Lynn Nye, and Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, who along with nineteen other authors, introduce you to some of the funniest, wildest, sexiest, most powerful, and normal considering these are science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories fat people on earth and a few other planets. Meet a pirate named ‘Valkyrie’ and a cardsharp named ‘Fat Moriah’. Meet a xeno fitness instructor and an earth mage who don’t apologize for taking up space. Meet fat cats on a mission and a very different kind of vampire. Meet characters for whom ‘plus size’ is about body size and heart. Brought together in this first of its kind collection are stories that raise the set point on adventure and redraw the picture of ‘the hero’ along the way. Tales of power and abundance that prove that heroes and hero*ines come in all sizes.

Starlight 3

Since its debut in 1996, Starlight has been recognized as the preeminent original anthology of science fiction and fantasy. Its stories have won the Nebula Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Tiptree Award. Starlight 1 itself won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. The series represents the best new short fiction in fantasy and SF. Now, with Starlight 3, award winning editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden offers a new serving of powerful, original stories. Some are playful, some rigorous, or exuberant, or melancholy; some are set in the world of today, and some amidst the farthest stars or in worlds that never were. Stephen Baxter Terry BissonTed ChiangSusanna ClarkeBrenda W. CloughD. G. ComptonCory DoctorowAndy DuncanColin GreenlandAlex IrvineGeoffrey A. LandisMaureen F. McHughSusan PalwickMadeleine E. RobinsGreg van EekhoutJane Yolen

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors’ invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, a new Year’s Best section, on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

New Skies: An Anthology of Today’s Science Fiction

New Skies…
imaginative stories for a new generation of science fiction fans. Here are writers such as Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robinson, and many more. Here is a careening adventure along the outside of a tower looming miles above the ground, and a tale of desperate survival on the deadly surface of the Moon. Here is a world in which children divorce their parents, and the story of a four dimensional boy in a three dimensional world. Here are future young people rebuilding after terrible disasters, and here is a story of the future development of baseball on Mars.

Nightmarish or whimsical, irreverent or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.

Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian

Janis Ian has inspired fans for years with her lyrical and evocative music. Now, this popular music legend has invited her favorite science fiction and fantasy writers to interpret her songs using their own unique voices. The result is the most unusual and exciting collaboration in the worlds of both science fiction fantasy and music.

What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur

A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugeesWith contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, What You Wish For is a compelling collection of affecting, inspiring, creepy, and oft times funny short stories and poems all linked by the universal power of a wish the abstract things we all wish for home, family, safety and love. From the exchange of letters between two girls who have never met but are both struggling with the unexpected curves of life, to the stunning sacrifice one dying girl makes for another, to the mermaid who trades her tail for legs, to the boy who unwittingly steals an imp’s house, and to the chilling retelling of Cinderella, What You Wish For brings together a potent international roster of authors of note to remember and celebrate the Darfuri refugees and their incredible story of survival and hope.

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