John Varley's unique blend of startling technology and genuinely human characters has won him every major science fiction award several times over for both his novels and his short fiction.

Blue Champagne collects eight thought-provoking stories from one of the genre's undisputed masters, including the Hugo Award-winner "The Pusher," and the Hugo and Nebula award-winner "Press Enter."

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Mike Jefferies

Once King Holbian's loyal messenger and now the leader of the Warriors of Underfall, Thane embarks on a perilous quest in search of his nightmare enemy, Krulshards.

In war-torn Elundium ancient prophecies of the enchanter-guardian Nevian begin to spring to life. Even as Thane claims his grandfather's magical sword to kill the Nightmare enemy, Krulshards eludes him and prepares a terrible revenge.

Palace of Kings

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Peace in the kingdom of Elundium is shattered when the corrupt Chancellors gather their forces, prepared to attack the rule of King Holbian, and the messenger Thane must cross enemy territory to save his people.

It has been many generations since the Battle Owls, the Warhorses and the Border Runners answered the war trumpets of the kings of Elundium, and the Krulshards, Master of Darkness, is poised to destroy Elundium. And it falls to untrained Thane, whose proud ancestry has become a laughingstock, to alert the border garrisons at distant Underfall.

Road to Underfall

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L. E. Modesitt

Professor Johan Eschbach's lovely wife, Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous vocalist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household.

Johan accompanies her, allowing him to work on the oil concession in Russian Alaska that Columbia so desperately needs and do some spying on the side. Johan's espionage is carried out against the backdrop of the famous white nights of St. Petersburg, the nearly Arctic midsummer when the sun barely dips below the horizon and the sky seems to dissolve in ivory light. But even the oil shortage will fade to insignificance when Johan discovers what new weapons technology the Russians are developing, a threat even more fearsome than the atomic bombs of Austro-Hungary.

Set in a fascinating alternative world in which ghosts are real, the United States never came into existence and Russia is still ruled by the Romanovs, this sequel to Of Tangible Ghosts and The Ghost of the Revelator continues the adventures of semi-retired spy Dr. Johan Eschbach. His lovely wife Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous novelist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household. Johan accompanies her, allowing him to work on the oil concession in Russian Alaska that Columbia so desperately needs and do some spying on the side. Johan's espionage is carried out against the backdrop of the famous white nights of St. Petersburg, the nearly Arctic midsummer when the sun barely dips below the horizon and the sky seems to dissolve in ivory light. But even the oil shortage will fade to insignificance when Johan discovers what new weapons technology the Russians are developing, a threat even more fearsome than the atomic bombs of Austro-Hungary. Working in the tradition of Gordon R. Dickson and Poul Anderson for hard-edged adventure with sophisticated social and political dimensions, Modesitt provides a unique blend of speculation and intrigue that brings the trilogy to a rousing end.

Ghost of the White Nights

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Stephen Baxter

It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death...

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Oliver Bowden

Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio Auditore embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honor, he will learn the art of the Assassins.

Along the way, Ezio will call upon the wisdom of such great minds as Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli, knowing that survival is bound to the skills by which he must live. To his allies, he will become a force for change in his fight for freedom and justice. To his enemies, he will become a threat dedicated to the destruction of the tyrants abusing the people of Italy. So begins an epic story of power, revenge, and conspiracy.

Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, Ezio vows to exact his revenge and restore his family's honor by using the skills he has learned from such great minds as Da Vinci and Macchiavelli to become a righteous assassin.

Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

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Susan R. Matthews

A promising young surgeon, Andrej Koscuikso has come, with great reluctance, to study at a military orientation center adrift in black space. Against his will, he will train here to serve as a "Ship's Inquisitor" - a vocation that runs counter to his deepest moral convictions.

Andrej Koscuisko is a surgeon, a man of healing and help. Now, bound by familial duty, he has reluctantly traveled to a military training station located in deepest space. Here, Andrej is to join the elite corps of Inquisitors, a mysterious group of men and women who are respected--and feared--for the frightening power they wield.

An Exchange of Hostages (signed)

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When the Belzec concentration camp was liberated in 1945, no one could explain how a group of Jewish captives had not only survived but thrived, appearing better fed than their Nazi captors. Thirty-five years later in New York, the youths responsible for the murder of a rabbi’s son are found hideously slain, covered in a strange gray substance. What is the connection between these events? That is the mystery that Rachel Levy and Det. Roger Hawkins must unravel, a mystery that will hold readers spellbound as terrible truths emerge from the nightmare of the past.

The Tribe

Graham Masterton

It is said that a mirror can trap a person's soul...Martin Williams is a broke, two-bit screenwriter living in Hollywood, but when he finds the very mirror that once hung in the house of a murdered 1930s child star, he happily spends all he has on it. He has long obsessed over the tragic story of Boofuls, a beautiful and successful actor who was slaughtered and dismembered by his grandmother. However, he soon discovers that this dream buy is in fact a living nightmare; the mirror was not only in Boofuls house, but witness to the death of this blond-haired and angelic child, which in turn has created a horrific and devastating portal to a hellish parallel universe. So when Martin’s landlord loses his grandson it is soon apparent that the mirror is responsible. But if a little boy has gone into the mirror, what on earth is going to come out?

Mirror

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F. Paul Wilson

Repairman Jack author F. Paul Wilson’s most daring, most erotic, most deeply terrifying novel

After vowing never to return, Kara Wade is back in New York City. She’s come to claim the body of her twin sister, Kelly, and to find out how she died. No secret as to the cause of death - a nearly nude, 12-story plunge from a room in the Plaza Hotel - but Kara is determined to learn what led to that plunge.

Enlisting the help of an old lover, now an NYPD detective, Kara delves into her sister’s life. Startling and bizarre facts begin to surface. Instead of answers, Kara finds more questions. Who was the stranger Kelly became during the months prior to her death? What was behind the perverse, decadent lifestyle she came to embrace so passionately?

Kelly’s psychiatrist hints at a terrible secret in her past. But Kara shares that past with her twin. Is the sinister influence that drove Kelly into her bizarre double life about to overtake Kara as well?

Kara Wald is shocked when the sister she knows as down-to-earth, even dull, comes down to earth from the twelfth-floor-window of a Manhattan hotel, wearing only black garter and stockings, and her search for a killer uncovers a world of sadistic sex. Reprint.

Sibs

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The Kill is Alan Peter Ryan's second novel and first horror novel, published in 1982. It is the story of Megan Todd and Jack Casey, a young couple who flee the pressures of the city to rural Deacons Kill in the Catskills. Their home becomes the target of an ancient and invisible evil that hides in the nearby deep wood. They must join with their new friends and neighbors to find and confront the monster. This is a fine example by a World Fantasy Award-winning author of a theme explored extensively by Golden Age (70s & 80s) horror writers. The prose is quick and clean and the characters finely delineated. Necon Ebooks will be publishing all of Ryan’s horror fiction.

The Kill

Frank M. Robinson

They are among us, and they've been here for a long time - waiting.
They can make you love.
They can make you die.

One ordinary man in San Francisco, Arthur Banks, begins to find them out, and immediately his life and his family are in danger. It's a paranoid's worst nightmare. But that's just where it starts. Banks may well be fighting for the survival of the entire human race.

They are among us and they've been here for a very long time--waiting. They can make you love and they can make you die. Arthur Banks, an ordinary man, begins to find them out. He may well be fighting for the survival of the entire human race.

Waiting

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The wedding party was over.
The beautiful bride was a hideously blotched and grotesquely bloated corpse. The handsome groom lay twisted on the grass, his features frozen in the awful agony of his death. The guests— the distinguished men. the gracious women, the laughing children— lifelessly littered what only a few minutes before had been a scene of joyful celebration.
Police Inspector Warren Elliot and the hastily assembled medical team had only one clue to the killer.
A name neatly written in the wedding guest book.
"Lillian Blackbird."
But they had no suspicion at all that the honeymoon of horror had only just begun... and that death by "disease" would soon reach epidemic proportions....

Blackbird

Brittain Miles becomes convinced that he is responsible for a series of grisly murders, though he has no memory of his actions.

Sleepwalker

Before the dawn of time, they came. And their unspeakable thirst lives on... — A young couple will suffer their fury. She will be trapped in a nightmare of erotic ritual and unholy murder. He will go beyond the grave to save her. — Two lovers will feel their vengeance. She has been chosen as a living sacrifice. He will plunge to the depths of hell for her eternal soul. Two brilliant scientists will defy them. One will fall victim to a slow and horrible death. The other will survive, for a final confrontation that my destroy his mind. One man will rule them all. He is older than time, the father of evil, ruled by his insatiable thirst for eternal life. Cursed with a secret that has seared his tormented soul for centuries, he prepares for the most desperate act. He is the terrifying master of... The Fellowship.

The Fellowship

He was a brilliant young physicist on the verge of a major breakthrough. Yale sweetened the offer until he couldn't re-fuse. Assistant Professor Chad Lefferts moved to New Haven with his beautiful wife, Lisa, and six-year-old Robin, into the house with the walled garden... and the sinister stone cloister...
He had everything ahead of him, but something was pulling him back... something unspeakably ancient... something unspeakably evil... something determined to vent its rage across the centuries. And one by one, across the city, the boys and girls screamed hideously - and died.

Dark Prism

Earle Wescott

Returning to Maine from California, Fran Thomas is assigned, by his newspaper editor, to investigate an apparent wolf attack.

When hard-boiled reporter Fran Thomas returns home to escape the misery of a failed marriage and a stalled career, awaiting him is not the comforts of home but nightmare visions and gripping terror. Chilling . . . gripping . . . unsettling.--Booklist.

Winter Wolves

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Terry Brooks

In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin....

Sinnissippi Park, in Hopewell, Illinois, has long hidden a mysterious evil, locked away from humankind by powers greater than most could even imagine. But now the malevolent creatures that normally skulk in the shadows of the park grow bolder, and old secrets hint at a violent explosion.

The brewing conflict draws John Ross to Hopewell. A Knight of the Word, Ross is plagued by nightmares that tell him someone evil is coming to unleash an ancient horror upon the world. Caught between them is 14-year-old Nest Freemark, who senses that something is terribly wrong but has not yet learned to wield the budding power that sets her apart from her friends.

Now the future of humanity depends upon a man haunted by his dreams and a gifted young girl - two souls who will discover what survives when hope and innocence are shattered forever....

The sequel to "Running with the Demon." John Ross inherited the daunting legacy of the first Knight of the Word eight centuries ago: to combat the demonic evil of the Void. His faith shattered by unspeakable violence, Ross tries to build a normal life. When the demons of the Void trail him to Seattle, his only hope is a college student who wields an extraordinary magic all her own.

Running with the Demon

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Sephera Giron

We barely notice them, though they are all around us, flying overhead, singing … or just watching. But lately Gabrielle has been noticing the birds. Especially the mysterious black birds that seem to call to her, to follow her, to dive at her. They stare at her with their soulless, black eyes. Soon incidents with birds begin to appear on the news. People are getting hurt. The birds are out of control. Then Gabrielle notices that bees, too, are becoming more dangerous …

Birds, bees, hornets, wasps … The city is under siege. Nature has run amok. Death hovers in the sky, then swoops down on the unsuspecting in a swarm. How can mankind fight an enemy that numbers in the billions? Could Gabrielle somehow hold the key?

Noticing how mysterious black birds seem to call to her, follow her, and dive at her, Gabrielle hears of incidents with birds appearing on the news. People are getting hurt. The birds are out of control. Then Gabrielle notices that bees, too, are becoming more dangerous. As nature runs amok, could Gabrielle hold the key so mankind can fight an enemy that numbers in the billions? Original.

The Birds and the Bees

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Near-naked, flagrantly male, the Minotaur loomed out of the dark places of Greek mythology. Roaring, the bull-headed creature advanced. The razor-sharp Cretan axe swung murderously, slicing through the air, through flesh, through bone.

One by one, its enemies died.

Out of the past, too, came the plague - long-dormant seeds awakening to destroy. The victims would be legion, their deaths horrible.

Yet, behind the killing lay a plan, a purpose. A malign 20th-century intelligence was calling up this hideous visitation.

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THE END OF THE WORLD HAS COME. BUT THE HORROR HAS ONLY BEGUN.
THE PRESIDENT A madman with his finger on the button  hes determined to bring the rapture and Armageddon to an evil world. . . .

THE SCIENTIST He accidentally discovered the cure for death  but for the newly risen its not a blessing, only eternal damnation. . . .

THE PREACHER Hes taken over the media to spread his apocalyptic message to an army of rabid listeners hell-bent on a second inquisition. . . .

THE BEAST

Hideously deformed, it stalks the ravaged land bringing promise and panic with its eerie, clairvoyant powers. . . .

Now a small band of men and women  both dead and alive  are being summoned to heartland America and the ultimate showdown between good and evil . . . to a clash of forces undreamt in their darkest nightmares . . . to an orgy of violence where not even death can end the torments of the flesh. . . .

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Fire

The people in ordinary, small-town communities find themselves in the grip of fear when a dark presence plunges them into a nightmarish world, in a gripping collection of stories.

Shadow Dreams

Convinced that his twin sister's death was murder rather than suicide, David ventures across the line between life and death to locate her, and to find out the identity of her killer.

Boundaries

The epic conclusion to Hugo & Nebula award-winning author John Varley’s “Gaea Trilogy” (beginning with Titan and Wizard).  This is the original paperback printing from June 1984.  Previous owner’s name inscribed inside the front cover; otherwise, the book is in good condition. #sciencefiction #adventure #trilogy #1980s #oversizepaperback #paperback 

Continues the saga of Gaea, the alien creature that is a living world, and its resident wizard, Cirocco Jones

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