Fantasy Titles 1999

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New Fantasy Titles 1999

James Barclay Dawnthief Pbk published July 99 by Gollancz at Ł9.99 ISBN: 185798594X
The Chronicles of The Raven: Book I
The Raven have fought together for years, six men and an elf carving out a living as swords for hire in the wars that have torn Balaia apart, loyal only to themselves and their code.
But when they agree to escort a Xeteskian mage on a sinister mission they are pulled into a nightmare web of politics and ancient secrets that will change their lives forever. How is it that they are fighting for the Dark College of magic? Searching for the location of Dawnthief; a spell to end the world, a spell that must be cast.
Isolated, betrayed, in a land on the brink of catastrophe, The Raven are given no choice but to believe in a man who, cloaked by deceit and with a demon as a familiar, spins a wild story of a mortal threat so old it has passed into folklore.
'Dawnthief is a greathearted book written on a grand scale, and with The Raven, a close knit fellowship of veteran mercenaries, a new fantasy legend is born. An enthralling novel: gritty, down-to-earth and delightful, invoking tears and laughter by turn. This is the best new fantasy I’ve read in years’ Maggie Furey

Clive Barker Galilee Pbk published September 99 by HarperCollins at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-00-617805-7
Every family has its secrets
The Gearys are no exception. As rich as the Rockefellers, as glamorous as the Kennedys, the Geary dynasty has held subtle sway over American life since the Civil War, brilliantly concealing the depths of its corruption and its bitter feud with the ethereal Barbarossas. All that is about to change. When the prodigal prince of the Barbarossa clan, Galilee, falls in love with newly wedded Rachel Geary, the pent-up loathing between the families erupts in a mutually destructive frenzy.
Galilee is a massive tale that delves into America's dark heart with the grand metaphysical vision which has become Clive Barker's trademark.
'Galilee leaps through time and space to reveal an impressively majestic vision told in beautiful prose. Bottom line: a fantastic, engrossing war of the worlds.' People Magazine
'A powerful and fascinating writer with a brilliant imagination... an outstanding storyteller.' JG Ballard
About The Author
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He is the worldwide bestselling author of numerous novels including Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, Sacrament and Galilee. In addition to his work as a novelist and short story writer he also illustrates, writes, directs and produces for stage and screen. Clive Barker lives in Los Angeles.

Alice Borchardt The Silver Wolf Pbk published May 99 by Voyager at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0002247151
"I was born of darkness. My father's eyes closed before mine opened, l am not of this world or the other, and l have the right to be what lam ... "
Rome is mired in crumbling grandeur. Into the Eternal City comes Regeane, a young woman distantly related to Charlemagne, and as such an unwilling pawn in the struggle for political power. But unknown to all, she is a shapeshifter: woman and wolf.
Betrothed to a barbarian lord she has never seen, she is surrounded by enemies, the most notorious of whom is her depraved uncle and guardian, who will betray her to the Church unless she aids him in his sinister schemes. If they discover her secret she will burn at the stake.
Outside the gates of the city roams a mysterious dark wolf who seems to offer Regeane a wildly seductive new life, yet as her marriage looms, plots and deadly counterplots tighten like a noose around her neck.
Fast-paced, sensual and rich with historical detail, The Silver Wolf places Alice Borchardt squarely in the front rank of contemporary women writers. Her intricate plot and hypnotic voice will cast a spell few will be able to resist.
'A daring and vibrant new voice on the female literary frontier - a writer with the vision and scope to conjure up her own thrilling, mythos and the craftsmanship to render it in breathtaking, shimmering prose... The Silver Wolf is a stunning initiation into a dark and dazzling realm' Anne Rice
'Borchardt reaches descriptive and dramatic peaks with Regeane's vulpine supersenses as she noses about Rome by night, reading the dead city's skin and air. Top-flight fantasy' Kirkus Reviews

Terry Brooks Myths & Magic Pbk published April 99 by Titan Books at Ł12.99
Introduction by Terry Brooks
The Complete Fantasy Reference
Do you know where in a castle to find a merlon?
Can you tell elves apart from goblins
Would you know where to wear a tasset?
Do you know the symbolic meaning of a spider?
Can you tell the difference between dendromancy and hippomancy?
You'll find these answers, and many more, in Myths & Magic: a comprehensive, all-in-one guide to the mythical, the mystical and the medieval for writers and readers of fantasy and historical fiction. From costume to castles, dwarves to Druids, it's packed with information to help you understand the real-life backgrounds behind your favourite fiction.
Arms, Armor and Armies, Creatures of Myths and Legends, Fantasy Races, World Cultures, Witchcraft and Pagan Paths and more. Whether you're a budding writer, a fantasy fiction fan, or a role-playing gamer, you'll find plenty of fascinating facts.

About The Author
Terry Brooks published his first novel The Sword of Shannara in 1977, and has published fifteen consecutive bestselling novels since. He lives with his wife in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.

Mark Chadbourn Worlds End Published August 99 by Gollancz at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-57506-6806
Book One of the Age of Misrule
The ages-old prophecy said: 'In Britain’s darkest hour, a hero shall arise…
When Jack Churchill and Ruth Gallagher encounter a terrifying, misshapen giant beneath a London bridge they are plunged into a mystery which threatens the end of the world as we know it. All over the country, the ancient gods of Celtic myth are returning to the land from which they were banished millennia ago. Following in their footsteps are creatures of folklore: the Fabulous Beasts, wonders and dark terrors - there are dragons buzzing jet planes and shapeshifters on industrial estates, but their existence threatens the very fabric of the modern world. For the first time in many years, the lonely places and the high places of the once-peaceful countryside have become a no-man's land.
As technology starts to fail, Church and Ruth are forced to embark on a desperate quest for four magickal items from the barely remembered days when the myths first walked the world the last chance for humanity in the face of powers barely comprehended. Three other companions join Church and Ruth on their arduous journey to Britain's most mysterious ancient sites, but these are not the heroes of old: some of the biggest obstacles they must overcome spring from their own human nature: jealousy, mistrust and deceit.
With time drawing short and the modern world falling into twilight, can the five terribly flawed companions find it within themselves to be heroes - or will humanity be swept aside in the dawning of a dark new age?
World's End draws on Celtic myth, Arthurian legend and British folklore to tell an epic fantasy of wonder, terror, awe and magick.

About The Author
Born in 1960, Mark Chadbourn was raised in the mining communities of South Derbyshire. After studying Economic History at Leeds University, he became a journalist, covering riots, murders and natural disasters in the provinces, before moving to London where his bylines appeared in most of the national newspapers. As an investigative journalist, he was shot at in the desert in California, set on fire with NATO troops in the Arctic and attacked by gangsters in Brighton. Following a brief spell working for an American magazine in Los Angeles, he became Music Editor and Senior Feature Writer at the now-defunct Today newspaper. He turned freelance in 1992 to write for a range of national newspapers and magazines, and to work as a journalist for BBC TV.
Away from journalism, Chadbourn has laboured as a fitter's mate at a power station, toilet cleaner and a Marmite production line worker, as well as running the independent record company Faith, and managing bands, including one top five chart act.
His writing career began in 1990 when his first published short story won the Best New Author award in Fear magazine. His first novel, Underground, was followed by Nocturne, which was nominated for Best Novel in the prestigious British Fantasy Society Awards, The Eternal and Scissorman, all published by Gollancz, and the non-fiction study of the paranormal, Testimony.

Vera Chapman The Enchantresses Pbk published February 99 by Vista at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-575-60325-9
Ygraine, the beautiful Duchess of Cornwall, once inflamed the lust of Luther Pendragon, and so was born Arthur, the Once and Future King. But Ygraine's husband had given her three daughters, Arthur's half-sisters: blonde, blue-eyed Morgause, sensuous and lazy; red-headed, green-eyed Vivian, quick and lively; and Morgan, as dark as her hair and eyes.
All three are born into witchcraft, and it falls to Merlin to educate them in the crafts of healing and magic - and to try to intercede in the future he foresees for Arthur. ..
Vera Chapman was born in 1898 in Bournemouth and was one of the first women to be granted full membership of Oxford University in 1920, when she attended Lady Margaret Hall. She married a clergyman and moved to Lourenco Marques in Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) before returning to England and a job as a student welfare officer in the Colonial Office. In 1969 she became one of the founder members of the Tolkien Society. Her first three novels, The Green Knight, The King's Damosel - which is now a full-length animated movie - and King Arthur's Daughter, together making up The Three Damosels, were originally published in 1975-6. They were followed by Blaedud the Birdman, The Wife of Bath, The Notorious Abbess and The Enchantresses (both published posthumously), and two children's books, Judy and Julia and Miranty and the Alchemist. Vera Chapman died in 1996 at the age of 98.
'A light but intelligent re-telling of this timeless myth' Historical Novels Society
'This is a gem' SFX
'Chapman's style is clear and pacy, her scholarship unobtrusive… These great stories could well be the foundation for an Arthurian renaissance' British Fantasy Society Newsletter
'If you thought everything possible had already been said about Arthur, it's time to rethink and pick up a copy of The Enchantress' Science Fiction Chronicle

Michael Crichton Timeline Published November 99 by Century at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-7126-7825-5
Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualised - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not since Jurassic Park has Michael Crichton given us such a magnificent adventure. Here, he combines a science of the future - the emerging field of quantum technology - with the complex realities of the medieval past. In a heart-stopping narrative, Timeline carries us into a realm of unexpected suspense and danger, overturning our most basic ideas of what is possible.
For more information on Timeline and other books by Michael Crichton, visit http://www.crichton-official.com
Praise for Airframe:
'A first rate thriller' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times
'This is the first book in ages which I can honestly say I read at a single sitting' Peter Millar, The Times
'He has a knack for anticipating the saleable which, had it not made him impossibly rich as a novelist, might have earned him millions as a stockbroker' Mark Lawson, The Guardian
About The Author
Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942. He took his first degree at Harvard in anthropology, and then qualified as a medical doctor in 1969. His latest book will be his sixteenth, following the worldwide bestsellers Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, and most recently, Airframe. Crichton has also been a screenwriter and producer/ director. His successes include Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Coma and Twister and he is the creator of the smash hit TV Drama ER. He now lives and works in Los Angeles and is married with one daughter.

Charles de Lint Someplace To Be Flying Pbk published March 99 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-330-36870-2
'They're supposed to live on the edges of society - sort of a society unto themselves'
At the beginning of the world there were only the animal people: Raven, guardian of the pot that contains all of life and its mystical forces; the unpredictable crow girls; Coyote, the trickster who cannot resist an urge to stir the pot ... and a vast assortment of secondary animal people. Prominent among them are the corbae, akin to crows and the rest of the corvid family.
One wet August night, while driving his cab through Newford's notorious Combat Zone, Hank Walker witnesses Lily Carson being brutally attacked and goes to her rescue. The attacker shoots Hank, but in turn is dispatched by two punky teenage girls who seem to appear out of nowhere, and just as suddenly vanish in a flutter of black wings.
Questioned as to why an uptown professional woman should be wandering the most dangerous streets in the city, Lily confesses that she was 'looking for animal people'. Hank has heard tales of animal people from his friend Jack Daw, an aging storyteller whose mysterious, lyrical accounts revolve around wild crow girls, foxes, raven and coyote - as well as cuckoos, the deadly enemies of the crow family. Now something has summoned the cuckoos, and the whole city is about to turn into a war zone.
The wild and whimsical crow girls, Maida and Zia, live in a tree outside a large Victorian house on Stanton Street. This house, called The Bookery, is inhabited by Rory Crowther (a silversmith friend of Lily Carson's), Annie Blue (an alternative singer-songwriter), the immense and elusive Lucius Portsmouth and his companion Chloe Grain. Into this strange household moves Kerry Madan, a vulnerable young woman recently discharged from psychiatric hospital. Finally, Kerry seems to have found her chance of happiness - for, since her birth in the remote wooded hills near the little town of Hazard, she has carried a mixed legacy of love, beauty, pain and appalling loss.
Instead, Kerry is destined to become a catalyst in the unfolding drama. It's a drama where the ultimate prize is Raven's pot which, if the wrong hand gets to stir it, could pour out catastrophe and oblivion on animal people and humankind alike.
'There is no better writer now than Charles de Lint at bringing out the magic in contemporary life' ORSON SCOTT CARD
Poet, artist and musician as well as novelist, Charles de Lint is one of the most influential fantasy writers of his generation - a true master of imaginative writing.
He lives in Canada with his wife, the artist Mary-Ann Harris.
'Buy it, read it and treat yourself to a few hours of indulgence in pure fantasy at its best. I can say no more' Jan Edwards, British Fantasy League
'An enthralling blend of European and Native American mythology, seamlessly worked into a modern setting and situation. De Lint's best work so far' Kirkus Reviews
'Refreshing… an author who can successfully combine fantasy with the appeal of the 20th century urban life… fascinating.' SFX
'De Lint 's elegant prose and effective storytelling continue to transform the mundane into the magical at every turn. Highly recommended' Library Journal
'A reliable cocktail of likeable characters, myth, folklore, and music... Charles de Lint's greatest strength is his obvious love for his characters' Locus'
'De Lint shows us that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time' Fantasy and Science Fiction
About The Author
Poet, artist and musician as well as novelist, Charles de Lint is one of the most influential fantasy writers of his generation - a true master of imaginative writing. He lives in Canada with his wife, the artist Mary-Ann Harris.

Sara Douglass Starman Pbk published April 99 by Voyager at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-00-651108-2
Book Three of The Axis Trilogy
Following BattleAxe and Enchanter, StarMan concludes the trilogy with an unexpected and glorious climax.
Weakened by their terrible encounter with Borneheld's men, Axis and his army are forced to march north as Gorgrael breaks through Jervois Landing and invades Tencendor with ice and terror. But under a sky black with Gryphon, Axis discovers that he's confronting a seemingly invincible enemy.
As the Prophecy of the Destroyer hurtles towards fulfilment, Azhure and StarDrifter unravel the mysteries of the Island of Mist and Memory, where they finally confront WolfStar; Faraday moves east to replant the ancient forests of Tencendor; and the Sentinels begin a lonely journey planned for them thousands of years ago.
Enveloping all looms the promise of treachery - treachery that threatens to strike into the very heart of Axis and Azhure's family.
Praise for previous books in the Axis Trilogy
'BattleAxe is the best Australian fantasy novel I've experienced to date' Martin Livings, Eidolon
'Enchanter is utterly enthralling and unputdownable' Karen Brooks, Ozlit
About The Author
Sara Douglass was born in Penola, South Australia, and spent her early working life as a nurse. Rapidly growing tired of starched veils, mitred corners and irascible anaesthetists, she worked her way through three degrees at the University of Adelaide, culminating in a PhD in early modern English history. Sara currently teaches medieval history at La Trobe University, Bendigo and escapes academia through her writing.
Sara Douglass' homepage can be found at http: //www.bendigo.net.au/~douglass

David Drake Queen of Demons Pbk published December 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-85798-823-X
'An epic ... with rousing action and characters to cheer for' Terry Goodkind 'I saw Robert Jordan come on the heroic fantasy scene as a master player, and then Terry Goodkind with phenomenal imagination and power, and now here is David Drake in the same league' Piers Anthony The great saga begun in Lord of the Isles continues with Queen of Demons, which follows the travels and adventures of the same memorable characters: the young shepherd Garric, his sister Sharina, their friends Cashel and Ilna, and the sorceress Tenoctris. The thousand-year-old sorcerer, the Hooded One, has been defeated after a great supernatural battle, but forces of evil remain bent on seizing control of the known world. This is a great epic of magical conflict, set in a world full of rich and varied marvels.

David Drake Lord of the Isles Pbk published January 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-591-5
Lord of the Isles begins a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure, filled with passion and magic, and set in an extraordinary world where the elemental forces which make magic possible are rising to a thousand-year peak. Into this world appear survivors from the last such peak: Tenoctris, a sorceress swept out of the past as her civilization sank catastrophically beneath the sea; the ghost of the greatest ruler, King Carus of the Isles; and the magician known only as the Hooded One, who actually caused that ancient catastrophe.
'An enchanting masterpiece of epic fantasy' Dragon
'I saw Robert Jordan come on the heroic fantasy scene as a master player, and then Terry Goodkind with phenomenal imagination and power, and now here is David Drake in the same league ... Certainly one of the finest epic fantasies of the decade' Piers Anthony
'Original, engrossing and instantly credible ... Quite wonderful' Stephen Donaldson
"Unlike most modern fantasy, David Drake's Lord of the Isles is an epic with the texture of the legends of yore, with rousing action and characters to cheer for. 'Terry Goodkind
"Lord of the Isles has it all - treacherous queens, faithful and faithless courtiers, peasants and shepherds who are more than they seem, wizardry fair and most foul, quests, love beyond the grave, and all manner of despicable plotting and unabashed heroics ... A fast-reading and complex fantasy adventure." L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
"True brilliance is as rare a, a perfect diamond or a supernova. Lord of the Isles is truly brilliant. Plot, pace, excitement, characterization, but most of all the finely honed and superb use of language mark this as one of those exceptional books you will want to have bound in leather and pass on to your grandchildren" Morgan Llywelyn
"Some authors are powerful storytellers. Others evoke images that we did not believe existed. When the two are combined you have a powerful writer. Lord of the Isles is a magnificent example." Gordon R. Dickson
"A genre fantasy with more suspense, action, and horror than most ... Drake's magic is more complex than fantasy magic, and the dangers of uncontrollable power form an important theme here. His settings and magical creatures provide surprise and drama as well as plenty of color. This substantial fantasy, in which moral and physical threats are serious and the actions of the characters have real consequences, will appeal to those tired of watered-down myth." Publishers Weekly

David Eddings The Rivan Codex Pbk published July 99 by Voyager at Ł6.99
Ancient texts of the Belgariad and the Malloreon
Illustrated by Geoff Taylor
The Rivan Codex is a book full of wonders. In its pages can be found the origin and the birth of the greatest fantasy epic of modern times which began with The Belgariad and continued with The Malloreon. Here for the very first time David and Leigh Eddings present the seminal texts on which they built their worldwide bestselling masterpiece. Its undeniable air of authenticity was forged in the beautiful writings that make up The Rivan Codex.
'The Rivan Codex is the definitive handbook to his fantasy domains by Eddings and his wife Leigh' Weekend Telegraph
About The Author
David Eddings was born in Washington State in 1931 and grew up near Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington and went on to serve in the US Army. Subsequently he worked as a buyer for the Boeing Company and taught college level English. High Hunt, his first novel, was a contemporary adventure story, but he soon began a spectacular career as a fantasy writer with his bestselling series The Belgariad. He consolidated his immediate success with two further enormously popular series, The Malloreon and The Elenium.

David Eddings The Tamuli Omnibus Pbk published July 99 by Voyager at Ł12.99
The Tamuli complete in one volume: Domes of Fire, The Shining Ones, The Hidden City
Trouble sweeps westward from the Tamuli Empire to disrupt not only the living of Eosia but the dead. Prince Sparhawk is called upon to help the Tamuli nations defeat horrific armies raised from the dust of the long-past Age of Heroes. Trolls, vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghouls and Ogres form a vast conspiracy to take over the Tamuli Empire. Most disturbing of all are reported sightings of Shining Ones amongst the hordes. Perhaps Cyrgon, the sinister god of the Cyrgai, has turned to the unspeakable arts of Zemoch magic in his war against the Tamuli Empire. Sparhawk and his queen Ehlana, with their extraordinary daughter Danae and a company of Pandion Knights, need all the skill, cunning, bravery and strength they can muster to turn the tide of evil...
'Sparhawk is the best-realised hero in modern fantasy' Daily Telegraph
'What separates the grown-up authors from the boys is the quality of the writing and David Eddings is one of the best' Western Mail
'A graceful, fluid style of storytelling rare in fantasy writers' Publishers Weekly
'Nobody writes modern fantasy like Eddings or as well... Eddings is at the top with the very best' Vector
About The Author
David Eddings was born in Washington State in 1931 and grew up near Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington and went on to serve in the US Army. Subsequently he worked as a buyer for the Boeing Company and taught college level English. High Hunt, his first novel, was a contemporary adventure story, but he soon began a spectacular career as a fantasy writer with his bestselling series The Belgariad. He consolidated his immediate success with two further enormously popular series, The Malloreon and The Elenium.

Graham Edwards Stone & Sky Pbk published April 99 by Voyager at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-00-651070-1
Trapped in an iceberg, Archan, the sole surviving dragon in the world, is on the move - the iceberg sails mysteriously into the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. The balance of nature shifts. The eruption of Krakatoa, 1883, is the result.
Jonah Lightfoot, journeying in the East Indies in search of the Cradle of Mankind, is hurled between worlds. With him is Annie West, an adventurous American on the run from her violent husband. They find themselves stranded in the strange other-world of Stone, an endless Wall with exotic foliage crammed between vast squares of rock, air that is alive and flowing... and it is populated by stone-age humans and the strangest of creatures, the Ypoth, whose task it is to repair the Wall whenever it is breached, Archan may be pleased to see there are dragons in the unsettling sky. But Jonah and Annie face the gravest dangers and have little chance of escape.
Graham Edwards was born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in 1965, and brought up in Bournemouth. He attended art school in London and now works in a special effects design studio. He lives in Nottingham with his wife Helen and their two children. Stone and Sky is his fourth novel.

Barbara Hambly Dragonshadow Pbk published June 99 by Voyager at Ł6.99
The follow-up to Hambly's classic novel, Dragonsbane.
John Aversin is still at large fighting dragons, and also studying their ways. After one such battle he witnesses a truly disturbing scene: a wounded dragon being resurrected by a wizard driving a jewelled glass spike through its skull.
Dismayed by this unnerving sight, John journeys far to seek the advice of Morkeleb, the great Black Dragon. But he finds Morkeleb now living in self-imposed exile, trying to come to terms with his doomed love for Jenny, the powerful mage and mother of John's son, who has chosen the life of a human rather than that of a dragon.
Unless they can find a way to stop the wizards, the continued use of this dark magic will disrupt the natural links between Man and dragon, and threaten the balance of the world itself.
'An enviable and intricate talent' Janny Wurts
About The Author
At various times in her life, Barbara Hambly has been a high-school teacher, a model, a waitress, a technical editor, a professional graduate student, an all-night clerk at a liquor store and a karate instructor. Born in San Diego, she grew up in southern California, with the exception of one high-school semester spent in New South Wales, Australia. Her interest in fantasy began with reading The Wizard of Oz at an early age and it has continued ever since.
She attended the university of California, Riverside, specializing in medieval history. In connection with this, she spent a year at the University of Bordeaux in southern France and worked as a teaching and research assistant at UC Riverside, eventually earning a master's degree in the subject. While there, she also became involved in karate, making Black Belt in 1978 and competing in several national level tournaments. She now lives in Los Angeles.

Robin Hobb Ship of Magic: The Liveship Traders Pbk published March 99 by Voyager at Ł6.99
Wizardwood. A sentient wood.
The most precious commodity in the world.
Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.
But how can one trade with the Rain River Traders, when only a liveship, fashioned from wizardwood, can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable, a liveship will quicken only when three family members, from successive generations, have died on board. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening, as Althea Vestrit's father is carried to her deck in his death-throes. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything in the world to awaken. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father's will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven...
Others plot to win, or steal, a liveship. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle and drowned his crews. Now he lies, blind, lonely and broken on a deserted beach. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain River once more.
Robin Hobb was born in California in 1952 and majored in Communications at Denver University, Colorado.
She is the author of the hugely successful Farseer Trilogy, which is set in the same world as The Liveship Traders. She is currently at work on the second book in this new series.
'Robin Hood writes achingly well' SFX
'Promises to be a truly extraordinary saga' Booklist

Dick Jude Fantasy Art of the Millennium Published September 99 by Voyager at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-00-413374-9
Empress - the Anthropomorphik Calendar by Dave McKean

Empress - the Anthropomorphik Calendar by Dave McKean

A superbly illustrated showcase of the best in fantasy and SF art demonstrates the wealth and diversity of talent in this popular art form.
Dick Jude explores the range of fantasy, horror and SF art with 10 of the leading practitioners of the genre. Some of the brightest talents in the business give us a behind-the-scenes view of the creative processes involved, discuss their inspirations, frustrations and joys, and reveal how they bring their ideas to fruition. Whether created in watercolour or acrylics, with an airbrush or digitally with a computer, the results are stunning.
Fantasy Art of the New Millennium illustrates a broad spectrum of subject matter and technique - from the lyrical Tolkien landscapes of John Howe and Alan Lee, to the digitally created art of Steve Stone and Fred Gambino, and the spectacular SF images of Jim Burns.
Artists featured:
Rick Berry
Brom
Jim Burns
Fred Gambino
John Howe
Alan Lee
Dave McKean
Don Maitz
Chris Moore
Steve Stone
Front jacket: Steve Stone, Gold

About The Author
Dick Jude has been a drummer for 27 years, worked at Forbidden Planet in London (the world's greatest SF store) for 20 years and managed it for 15 of them. During that time he has fathered two children and married their mum. He has a dog that doesn't like him, a family that does, and a cat that doesn't care one way or the other.
Dick Jude is also Art Director of Fantasia Online, an Internet gallery dedicated to the best in fantasy and SF art, and he occasionally reviews SF, horror and fantasy for the Sci Fi TV Channel. He is grateful to the publishers and the artists involved for giving him the opportunity finally to sell a book with his name on the cover.

Guy Gavriel Kay Sailing to Sarantium Pbk published October 99 by Earthlight at Ł6.99
Book One of The Sarantine Mosaic
The Sarantine Empire is beset by enemies, but the Emperor Valerius II is determined to win Rhodias, Western cradle of the empire, back from the barbarians who overran it - and also to build the greatest Sanctuary to the god Jad ever created. Into this maelstrom steps Crispin, a master mosaicist who observes the power of the older gods at first hand, even as he journeys to fulfil the emperor's command. He will find colour, death and deadly politics at his elbow…
Guy Gavriel Kay continues to marry history with high fantasy in a setting that evokes - and vividly recaptures - the glamour, danger and decadence of the Byzantine Empire.
'Reality transformed to sparkling fantasy: buy, read, learn and enjoy' SFX
'... needs nothing hut the must urgent commendation' News International Online Reviews
'Kay deftly bring all his characters to vivid life ... Can't wait for the conclusion!' Starburst
'An enchanting, colourful fantasy adventure' Time Out
'The complexity... gives a depth to his imagined version that many fantasies lack' Vector (British SF Association)
'Lovingly reflects the intrigue and splendour of the Byzantine empire... intensely imagined' amazon.com
'Sailing to Sarantium confirms, yet again, Kay's status as one of our most accomplished and engaging storytellers' Toronto Star
'An intricate, richly imagined work that reinforces Kay's position as one of the finest contemporary practitioners of classical high fantasy ... Sailing to Sarantium is both absorbing and satisfying' Barnes And Noble Review
'Sailing to Sarantium is definitely going to land on science fiction and fantasy fans' top book lists of the year... a fabulous adventure' Bookbrowser Online Review
'A rare gem for fantasy lovers... Kay aspires to genius and Sailing to Sarantium does not fall short of the mark' Darkmoon Rising Online Magazine
About The Author
Guy Gavriel Kay was born and raised in Canada, although he does most of his writing in Europe. He worked with Christopher Tolkien on J.R.R. Tolkien's great posthumous work, The Simarillion. Since then he has written seven world-wide best-selling novels. Kay lives in Toronto, Canada where he is a Number One best-seller.

Katharine Kerr The Black Raven Published July 99 by Voyager at Ł16.99
The second in The Dragon Mage series and the tenth in the Deverry cycle, continues the tales begun in The Red Wyveryn.
At the end of the Civil Wars, Prince Maryn stands on the brink of bringing peace at last to the torn kingdom, but powerful magics threaten his reign and his life. Only Nevyn's young apprentice, Lilli, can see the horrifying power of the curse, her dead mother's legacy of evil, that could bring disaster upon them all. But she has only untried magic for a weapon as she fights to save her beloved prince.
Centuries later, this ancient evil rises again, threatening a raging tide of war that could destroy Deverry forever. Out in the lonely Northlands the savage Horsekin are gathering their armies to march west and conquer the kingdom promised them by their blood-maddened goddess, Alshandra, and her human priestess, Raena. Directly in their path lies the peaceful city of Cerr Cawnen, trembling in anticipation of war.
Yet Cerr Cawnen has powerful allies rushing to its aid: the elven sorceress Dallandra, the half-mad beserker Rhodry Maelwaedd, and his dangerous friend Arzosah, a black dragon of the fire mountains. With them comes another prince, Daralanteriel of the Westfolk, to offer an alliance against the ancient enemies of his people. What few understand, however, is the chain of evil Wyrd that binds Raena and Rhodry together, the result of many lives of malice and violence. Little do they know that the fate of the city and of a kingdom - lies balanced on the knife's edge of their hatreds, so well honed over the long years...
'An unusually scholarly writer of fantasy' The Telegraph
'Much as I dislike comparing anything to The Lord of the Rings, I have to admit that on this occasion it's justified' Interzone
'An extensive and complete world, whose endlessly fascinating details grow book by book' Starlog
About The Author
Katherine Kerr was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1944 to a family which considered itself British-in-exile far more than American. In 1962, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, and has lived there ever since. After leaving Stanford University she worked in a number of low-paying jobs while she read extensively in the fields of classical archaeology and literature, medieval and Dark Ages history, and modern fiction Eventually she met up with an old friend from school, Howard Kerr, who loved cats, books and baseball as much as she did, they were married in 1973. In 1979 a friend gave Katharine her first fantasy role-playing game. She became so intrigued with gaming and with the fantasy field that she began writing articles for gaming magazines, and for some time was a contributing editor to Dragon magazine, as well as devising gaming modules. Now, however, she is devoting herself exclusively to fiction, for the simple reason that there are only twenty-four hours in a day.

John Kessel Corrupting Dr Nice Pbk published September 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-85798-893-0
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
August Faison and his gorgeous young daughter Genevieve are rogues of the first water - seasoned swindlers who rove across time in search of new victims to fleece. Now the most precious pigeon of them all has fallen into their laps, in Jerusalem, at the time of Jesus Christ.
Dr Owen Vannice is far too innocent and far too rich for his own good. A fabulously wealthy paleobiologist who has just spent the last year, not to mention billions of the family fortune, doing research in the Cretaceous period, he now finds himself stranded in the Holy City with a rapidly growing baby dinosaur in tow.
Simon is a disillusioned disciple whose master has been kidnapped uptime by colonists from the future. Now he works for the exploitative crosstime corporation which has turned his timeline into a tourist trap, complete with luxury hotels and junkets to the Crucifixion.
When a desperate act of sabotage brings them all together, their lives are drastically transformed, for Genevieve is falling in love with 'Dr Nice' against her better judgment, and is even willing to double-cross her father to get him. But even that isn't enough, for Dr Nice is losing his innocence, joining with Simon and his revolutionary zealots to drive out the invaders from the future and return Christ to his proper fateline.
Skilfully interweaving heart-stopping suspense, brilliant satiric social commentary and romantic Comedy, Corrupting Dr Nice is sophisticated speculative fiction by an award-winning modern master.
'Brilliantly intelligent, light-handed and warmhearted - a dazzler' Ursula K. Le Guin
'Delightful, dizzily but ruthlessly plotted, it is a time-travel novel like no other, and highly recommended' Paul J. McAuley
'The best time-travel novel ever written. It combines the serious issues of cultural imperialism with the many hilarities of Compound Anachronism Syndrome in a Kessel-perfect portrait of our time' Kim Stanley Robinson
'Lucid, humane and mercilessly funny, Corrupting Dr Nice is a peach. If there could great date books like there are great date movies, this would be one' Jonathan Lethem
Corrupting Dr Nice affectionately appropriates the spirit and conventions of vintage screwball comedy and successfully transmutes them into a wide-screen, twenty-first century saga of time travel, cultural exploitation and moral accountability. It is also, in the best tradition of its Hollywood forbears, a love story, one that is simultaneously serious and funny, sweet-natured and cynical...’ New York Review of Science Fiction
‘Hilarious’ Spectator
About The Author
John Kessel was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1950. He holds a BA in English and Physics and an MA and Ph.D. in English. A former editor of economic newsletters, he is currently Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University, where he teaches American literature and fiction writing. He has won the Nebula and Sturgeon Memorial Awards for short stories, as well as a Paul Green Playwright's Prize.

Valery Leith The Company of Glass Pbk published August 99 by Gollancz at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1-85798-547-8
Everien: Book One
Everien
A high civilisation, long vanished but for the enigmatic Knowledge left sleeping in its very stones.
The Sekk
Beautiful. Terrifying. Enemies to the Clans who settle in Everien. Only the Knowledge can defeat them.
The Company
Queen Ysse's elite warrior cadre, lost on a quest for Knowledge in the floating city of Jai Pendu.
Tarquin the Free
Leader of the Company and its sole survivor. Once he knelt broken-hearted at the feet of Queen Ysse, vowing to leave Everien - forever.
But the Queen is dead, and forever is a long time.
18 years later...
Queen Ysse's successor cannot control the Clans, or the Sekk. The Pharician Empire threatens to invade. The orphan, Istar, is grown and wields her father's sword. And soon the tide will carry Jai Pendu, and the Company, home. Valery Leith is the pseudonym of a critically acclaimed young science fiction writer.

Holly Lisle Diplomacy of Wolves Published January 99 by Millenium at Ł16.99 ISBN: 1-85798-584-2
The wolves within
For four hundred years, the great Houses of Sabir and Galweigh have battled For control of Calimekka - while each clan's wizards, the Wolves, plot in shadows to revive the hellish necromancies that once destroyed the world. Now at her cousin's royal wedding to the decadent House Dokteerak, a young diplomat named Kait Galweigh discovers a Sabir plot to ambush the entire House Galweigh. Suddenly Kait must escape an alien citadel pursued by mortal and demonic assassins. Her only hope is a secret weapon she dares not use: For Kait was born with a power so cursed that her own people will kill her if her nature is discovered. But unless Kait's deadly magic is unleashed, her mortal enemies will crush Calimekka in a reign of unholy horror…
Diplomacy of Wolves is the first volume of The Secret Texts - a fantastic epic adventure in a world of ancient curses, dark conspiracies, and arcane sorceries which establishes Holly Lisle as a major new voice in Fantasy.
Holly Lilse is the author of a number of novels, including collaborations with Mercedes Lackey and Marion Zimmer Bradley. She lives in Florida.
'Full of imagination, subterfuge, terror, and surprise… Holly Lisle's work has grown beyond my wildest expectations' Mercedes Lackey
'A tough, bold new epic fantasy that you'll never forget' Kate Elliot, author of King's Dragon
'Holly Lisle's characters defy easy classification as 'heroes' or 'villains'. Instead these richly realized people are the complex products of their convoluted environments, and each is true to himself. Diplomacy of Wolves is a tantalizing introduction to a detailed world that will definitely lure me back for the next installment. This was my first experience of holly Lisle's work. It will definitely not be my last.' Robin Hobbs

James Lovegrove The Guardians: Berserker Pbk published June 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1857985567
TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES
They are the enemies of promise. They are our only hope.
The Guardians, a world-wide secret cabal. Outsiders, walking in the shadows, yet dedicated to the cause of stability. Dedicated to preserving science from the world and the world from science.
In a rotting decommissioned nuclear power station on the English south coast, a sinister experiment is taking place. Meanwhile, in Japan, a hacker genius called Emperor Dragon is threatening to tear down the cyber-empire of Kawai Kim, the Guardians' intelligence co-ordinator.
The Guardians are divided, scattered across the world. Pursuing their own agendas, their own loyalties, they little suspect the danger that is building within their number.
Is this the end for the Guardians? For us all?

Elizabeth A. Lynn Dragon's Winter Pbk published March 99 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-330-35557-0
Few twins could turn out more unalike than the sons of Kojiro Atani, the dread Dragon Lord of Ippa. The elder of the two, Karadur, is a changeling, who inherits his father's power of changing from human to dragon form at will. The younger, Tenjiro, is a sorcerer. Torn with bitterness, resentful that he has not inherited their father's gift, Tenjiro secretly devises a way to steal his brother's magic. He flees the kingdom and rides into the ice: the vast nameless country to the north of Dragon Keep.
There he builds a massive castle, the Black Citadel, a place of misery and horror. From the safety of his stronghold, he sends malignant creatures to attack and kill the people of his brother's realm. Roused from despair to fury by the brutal murders of his people, Karadur raises the dragon banner. As spring comes at last to Ippa, he leads his war band north to challenge his wizard brother, and regain the power that is rightfully his.
This brilliant fantasy represents the long-awaited return of award-winning author Elizabeth A. Lynn. Loyal fans and new readers alike will be entranced by the sharp-paced action and haunting imagery of this gripping, unsettling tale.
'Utterly engrossing. Lynn's first novel in 13 years demonstrates the command of her genre that has earned her two World Fantasy Awards… this is a fantasy that readers will cherish' Publishers Weekly
'Welcome back the intelligent, tough but lyrical, writing of Elizabeth Lynn, who brings her fantasy world very much alive' Locus
'A fine example of spare writing, taut plotting, and succinct characterization… an emotional rollercoaster ride is guaranteed… Terrific stuff' Starburst
'It is a rare and precious thing when an author rises above the slushpile of mediocrity that's usually found in the fantasy genre. Lynn does it with style and flair, however, delivering a story fraught with tension, plot detail and, above all, originality' SFX
About The Author
Elizabeth A. Lynn is the author ofA Different Light and a fantasy trilogy 'The Chronicles of Tornor. Its first volume, Watchtower, won her the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1980, and was followed by The Dancers of Arun and The Northern Girl.
Elizabeth A. Lynn has lived in New York, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco, and is now settled in northern California.

John Marco The Jackal of Nar Published March 99 by Millenium at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1-85798-568-0
To his enemies he is known simply as 'the Jackal', a fearsome warrior in the battle for the frozen borderland of Lucel-Lor. They taunt him with the name as they come sweeping out of the woods to fall yet again on the battered ranks of the soldiers of Nar.
But Prince Richius is a reluctant hero in a war he doesn't believe in, fought for an Emperor he doesn't trust. And when he falls in love with a woman of Lucel-Lor, 'the Jackal' is torn between his kingdom, his loyalty and his heart.
No matter what he chooses, the result will be at best bloodshed and shame, at worst the deaths of everyone he holds dear. Yet as the Emperor and the enemy are about to discover, there is nothing so dangerous as a desperate man …
Prior to writing this, his first novel, John Marco worked in various industries including aviation, computer technology and home security. He now writes full time. He lives in Long Island in the USA.
'The Jackal of Nar is a stunning first novel and I eagerly await the next book in the Tyrants and Kings series' Allan Cole
'Marco has written a well-crafted fantasy, fast-paced, and underscored with believable characters and politics' J.V.Jones

Kim Newman Life's Lottery Published October 99 by Simon Schuster at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-684-84016-2
My friend, you have a choice. Of course, you have a choice. You can go this way or that. You can call heads or tails. You can have coffee or tea.
And a decision will change your life. Any decision.
Life's Lottery is an entirely new kind of novel, an interactive fiction which invites the reader to become the central character - Keith Marion, an ordinary Englishman - and make choices with him, from childhood through adolescence to maturity and beyond. You may choose your friends, education, partners, job, habits, obsessions, family, future, life.
You may follow your own instincts, choosing as you the reader would choose faced with the possibilities offered Keith; or you may pull back and make decisions for him on the basis of what would be the most interesting (if not comfortable) turn of the plot. You may experiment with options you would not wish for in your own life or you can try to always do the right thing.
It is a novel you can play like a game, read like a book or live like. a life. An advantage you have over Keith is that you can always turn back and follow a different path, traveling each fork of every road.
It is a novel you can explore like a jungle, cultivate like a garden or live in like a house. Each reader's experience of Life's Lottery will be unique and personal. Once you open the book, Keith Marion's story becomes yours.

About The Author
Kim Newman is a highly respected film writer and broadcaster, well known for his regular appearances on television and radio. He is the author of The BFI Companion to Horror (ed), and is also a multi award-winning, best-selling horror novelist (his novels include Anno Dracula, Jago and The Quorum).

Stan Nicholls Legion of Thunder Pbk published October 99 by Gollancz at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0-57506-871-X
'My name is Stryke.
Orc. Renegade. Monster. Murderer. I have led my warband through blood and fire. I have fought for Jennesta in the wars that have torn our world, Maras-Dantia, apart. And yes, I have killed your kind. More than I can remember.
But hear me. There is another way. There is a place for ore, dwarf, elf, even human. I have seen our destiny. And I will grasp it. Though you hunt me down, though Jennesta turn my own kind against me. Though my warriors fall in droves. I will prevail. I must. There is no choice, for a war is coming that will take us all.
In the reckoning to come, either you are for me or against me. And if you are against me, beware.'
Legion of Thunder follows on from the acclaimed Bodyguard of Lightning; the first of Stan Nicholls' epic fantasy series, taking you to a world full of wonder, magic and encroaching dark. You will never look at an ore the same way.

Stan Nicholls Bodyguard of Lightning Pbk published October 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-557-5
'Look at me. Look at the Orc.
There is fear and hatred in your eyes. To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with. A creature to be hunted down and slaughtered like a beast in the fields.
It is time to pay heed to the beast. And see the beast in yourself. I have your fear. But I have earned your respect.
Maras-Dantia was our home, and home to the dwarves, elves and all the other old races long before your kind spilled into our lives. Long before you ate our magic and raped the soul of our world.
Hear my story. Feel the flow of my blood and be thankful. Thankful that it was me, not you, who bore the sword. Thankful to the ores; born to fight, destined to win peace for all.'
Stan Nicholls has created a new fantasy world full of wonders and on the brink of disaster. Bodyguard of Lightning is only the beginning of an epic quest that will change the way you look at ores for ever.
'Wall to wall action, undercurrents of dark humour ... gritty, fast paced' David Gemmell
'Fast moving and freaky ... Weirdly charming, fast moving and freaky… the most fun you're ever likely to have with a warband of orcs… Buy now or beg for mercy later' Tad Williams
'Excellent fantasy with a twist' SFX

Nick Nielsen Elv 2: Times Square Pbk published May 99 by Voyager at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-00-649889-2
'It is almost always extremely unwise to rely too heavily on logic where time travel is concerned'
Trafalgar Hurlock, time-travel pioneer of the post-Sleep world, needs to go back in time with his team from the Evolution Limitation Volunteers to sort out some unfortunate effects generated by the last time they went back, when they were trying to sort out… well, time travel is a complicated business. Or it was. Or it will be, depending on how you look at it.
Bounding around between the Stone Age, Florence in 1506 and the Roman amphitheater, every correction the team tries to make seems to make matters worse than they were. Or will be. Or won't be, or….

Darren O'Shaugnessy Ayuanarca: Procession of the Dead Pbk published February 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99
The City: Book 1
The Cardinal is the City and the City is the Cardinal. They are joined at the soul. Nothing moves on the streets, or below them without the Cardinal knowing about it. His rule is absolute.
But for a young man like Capac Raimi it still seems possible that he can make his way in the underworld; there's always room for another gangster. But what Capac cannot know is that his past, present and future is already tied to the Cardinal. And he is a jealous master.
Darren O'Shaughnessy is 24, a full time writer, and lives in County Limerick in Ireland. His first novel is an extraordinary evocation of a fantastic parallel world of ancient mysteries and violence reminiscent of the best of Clive Barker and lain Banks. It marks the debut of a prodigious writing talent.

Terry Pratchett City Watch Trilogy Published December 99 by Gollancz at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-57506-798-5
Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! (Or dwarves or trolls or gargoyles or werewolves ...)
The City Watch is a bumper volume containing three of Terry Pratchett's celebrated novels in which those noble defenders of Ankh-Morpork, the greatest city of the Discworld*, come face to face with some of the most heinous crimes in history.
GUARDS! GUARDS!
Some night-time prowler is turning the (mostly) honest citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries.
MEN AT ARMS
There's evil in the air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets. And it'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married.
FEET OF CLAY
Someone is murdering harmless old men and poisoning the Patrician. As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen, and the golems, who may know something, have started committing suicide. Who can you trust when there are mobs on the street and plotters in the dark and all the clues are pointing the wrong way!
*Which is flat and rides through space on the back of four elephants who stand on the shell of an enormous turtle, as everyone knows.
'Has the energy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland ... an intelligent wit and a truly grim and comic grasp of the nature of things ... I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett' A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize-winning author
'If he is not a Booker author, that is all the worse for Booker ... his books fizz with ideas' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph
'One of the best and funniest English authors alive' The Independent
About The Author
Terry Pratchett is 51 and lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in. He feels it may be time to get a life, since apparently they're terribly useful.

Terry Pratchett Discworld Diary 2000 Published August 99 by Millenium at Ł8.50
with Stephen Briggs

About The Author
Terry Pratchett is 51 and lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in. He feels it may be time to get a life, since apparently they're terribly useful.

Robert Silverberg Legends Pbk published June 99 by Voyager at Ł11.99
A landmark collection - Eleven new works by the masters of modern Fantasy
Only the most talented storytellers create worlds that are beyond fantasy, worlds that become realities. In Legends, edited by the legendary Robert Silverberg, the reader can visit eleven of the most fabulous worlds ever created. Eleven new works by the world's most famous fantasy authors in a single magnificent volume: eleven worlds!
Stephen King: A new Dark Tower quest by the last of the gunslingers, Roland of Gilead. Dark fantasy and icy realism in King's most visionary mix of magic and horror.
Terry Pratchett: A new Discworld story of fruit, vegetables and deadly rivalry between Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg.
Terry Goodkind: A new story set in the world of The Sword of Truth, a blood-curdling battle of green fire and black magic between the First Wizard and Panis Rahl.
Orson Scott Card: An addition to The Tales of Alvin Maker and a step closer to the ultimate confrontation between Alvin and the Unmaker.
Robert Silverberg: A new Majipoor story by the master storyteller himself returns us to the time of the most famous Pontifex of all, Lord Valentine.
Ursula K. LeGuin: A new Earthsea story takes a woman for the first time to the mage's Isle of Roke.
Tad Williams: A new story in the world of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is haunted by Prester John, dragon's blood and ancient hatreds on the Road of Dreams.
George R.R. Martin: A new story in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire follows the fortunes of a self-made knight, his honour, his horse, his squire, his luck.
Anne McCaffrey: A new Pern story sets a young Runner on her journey through life dreaming of dragons and glory.
Raymond E. Feist: A new story in The Riftwar Saga set in the early days of the Riftwar, when the Kingdom had just been invaded by the Tsurani.
Robert Jordan: A new Wheel of Time story bears witness to storm and battle in the shadow of the Blight... as the Wheel turns.

About The Author
Robert Silverberg was born in 1935. He began to write while studying for his BA. By 1956 he was publishing prolifically and he was given the Hugo Award for Most Promising New Author in that year. For the next three years Silverberg turned out short stories under numerous pseudonyms for Amazing Stories, Fantastic, Science Fiction Adventures and Super-Science Fiction. While continuing a prodigious output of SF novels (usually re-written short stories), Silverberg branched out into non fiction during the 60's with such titles as The Golden Dream (1967) and Mound-Builders of Ancient America (1968). In the late 60's Silverberg started writing more stylized and intense work, such as Thorns (1967) and The Man in the Maze (1969). A Time of Changes (1971) won the Nebula Award, as did several of his novellas. He was awarded a Hugo in 1969 for the novella Nightwings which was later expanded into a novel of the same name. Having written solidly for so long, Silverberg quit for four years after Shadrach in the Furnace (1976), disenchanted and exhausted. He resumed his work with Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) and has continued to write ever since. Throughout his career he has also contributed to the field of SF with the many original anthologies he has compiled. The most highly regarded of these was New Dimensions, which ran to 12 volumes, finally finishing in 1981.

Alison Sinclair Cavalcade Pbk published December 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-564-8
Just as the aliens promised, a ship has landed and taken away those who took up their invitation to a new life, a better brighter future. But when the pioneers wake aboard the alien vessel there is no welcoming committee to be seen. Everyone's watches have stopped, only one ancient pocket watch records the two and a quarter hours that have passed unawares to all.
And then a scream rends the air of the cathedral-like area the soldiers, the trekkies, the young and the old have been transported to. A battery-powered pacemaker has stopped and there's nothing anyone can do to restart the ailing heart. When the US Special Forces squad radio also malfunctions it becomes clear that something aboard the alien ship is decommissioning anything electronic no matter how mundane. Every silicon chip has turned to dust. Now the pioneers are truly alone: no one is going to be able to 'phone home'.
If they're to survive in this alien environment, someone is going to have to find a way to communicate with the being or beings that has taken them prisoner…
Alison Sinclair is the author of two earlier novels, Legacies and Blueheart. She is at present studying medicine at the University of Calgary in Canada. She was previously a research fellow at the University of Leeds, having studied first Chemistry and Physics and then taken a PhD in Biochemistry. Her particular interests are Structural Molecular Biology and neuroscience.
'Sinclair is an influential and fast-rising voice' The Express
'An intriguing slant on first contact' New Scientist

Alison Spedding The Streets of the City Pbk published April 99 by Voyager at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-04-440148-5
The Alexander legend - as you've never heard it before
The Lord Regent, Sulakon, is trying to draw the rebel lords to his standard in order to raise an army against 'the witch' Aleizon Ailix Ayndra.
Meanwhile, Ayndra, attempting to reunite the empire, must face a multitude of hazards and adversities: she is kidnapped by the evil Lord Sandar, who has developed an unhealthy lust for her; there are plots against her life at every turn; and the ghost of Ailixond seems to have returned to haunt those who haunted him when he was alive.
The Streets of the City is the dazzling finale to Alison Spedding's unique historical fantasy featuring one of the most powerful and charismatic female heroines you'll ever come across.
Alison Spedding studied Social Anthropology at King's College, Cambridge where she wrote The Road and the Hills. Always a restless traveller, she finally settled down - in Bolivia - where she remains today.
'As bold and subversive as it is sweeping and romantic... interweaving the politics of sex and power into a canvas of ancient history, Spedding's fantasy is vivid and turbulent' New Statesman
'Spedding brilliantly conveys the complex, flawed, driven personalities of a heroine and hero who share the same restless genius. The depth and richness recalls Mary Renault, while the clear-eyed toughness merits comparison with Cecilia Holland' Locus

Sheri S. Tepper Six Moon Dance Pbk published April 99 by Voyager at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-00-651187-2
EARTH is a remote ancestral memory, or a theme park exhibit. On behalf of the Council of Worlds an artificial intelligence named the Questioner examines and punishes bad behaviour towards both nonhuman species and ethnic minorities in far flung human settlements.
THE QUESTIONER'S attention is drawn to the small, barely industrialized world of Newholme. This is scary for the people of Newholme, especially the women who run it, who keep very big bad secrets... which will be revealed, though the Questioner is not there to uncover Newholme's crimes. Rather, the Questioner is haunted by a story she heard of an interstellar creature, older than life on Earth, surviving, though mutilated, on one of the six moons of Newholme...
Sheri Stewart Tepper was born in Colorado, where she lived until recently. For many years she worked for various non-profit-making organizations, and was a writer of children's stories. She sold her first adult novel in 1982. As well as science fiction and fantasy novels, Sheri Tepper has written crime and horror novels under her own name and various pseudonyms. She now lives in New Mexico. Her fantasy novel Beauty was voted best novel of the year by readers of Locus, and her recent science fiction novels, Gibbon's Decline and Fall and The Family Tree, were shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
'A shining, bravura performance.' Publishers Weekly
'A marvellously complex book, filled with humanity seen, and felt, at its best and its worst ...a genuine page-turner.' Locus

Paul Ware Beyond Freedom Pbk published January 99 by NEL at Ł5.99
David Shaw, transported for the second time to the world of the Vinh, has a desperate quest: to be reunited with Kate Catlin, the woman he loves and was forced to leave behind in Shushuan during his exile on Earth. Rut the Thirteen Gods have other plans for David. And, in the midst of the fighting, he faces the greatest challenge of all: to convince Shushuan's thirteen Gods that he has finally earned a permanent place in their world. Beyond Freedom is a gripping fantasy adventure in a richly detailed Otherworld, in the finest tradition of imaginative fiction.
Praise for Flight of the Mariner
'Adventure, a dash of romance, plenty of cliffhangers in wobbly places.. A sprightly debut' Time Out
'This is a superb debut novel. Paul Ware… will be a name to watch out for in the future' Huddersfield Daily Examiner
'Freeflowing adventure at its most enjoyable' Dorset Evening Echo
Paul Bradley was born in 1960 in Bradley, Yorkshire, and lives today in the same West Yorkshire farmhouse where he grew up. He attended Rastrick Grammar School and Huddersfield Technical College and trained as an engineer before taking up work in the motor trade. His interests include fencing, weight training and motorcycling.