INCOMING

I am so weak.  Thus, when I came across a sale with paperbacks for ten cents and hardcovers for twenty, well...Did I mention that I am weak?

• Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat:  The Remarkable journeys of Jason and Gareth.  Juvenile fantasy.
• Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World.  Collection of nine short stories.
• Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1993, May 1993, October 1999, and January 2000.
• [anonymously edited], Thrillers.  Instant remainder with 32 mystery and horror stories.  Althoug there is no indication in the book, this is an abridged edition of The World's Best Mystery Stories (Melbourne:  United Press, 1935), which contained 43 stories, and of Second Century of Thrillers  (London:  Daily Express, ca. 1936), which contained two stories less than the Austalian edition.  Mostly familiar tales.
• Roderick Anscombe, The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula.  Horror novel.  A psychological approach to the Dracula mythos.
• Robert Arthur, The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy.  Juvenile mystery in The Three Investigators series Arthur created for Alfred Hitchcock.
• Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye, Myth-Told Tales.  Collection of nine fantasy stories in the Skeeve and Aahz saga.
• Otto Binder, Planets:  Other Worlds of Our Solar System bound with Lester del Rey, Space Flight:  The Coming Exploration of the Universe.  Juvenile nonfiction.
• David Bischoff, Star Fall.  SF.
• Cara Black, Murder in Belleville.  An Aimee Leduc mystery.
• Carter Brown, A Good Year for Dwarfs?  I thought I had read every Carter Brown that Signet published but this one passed right by me.  In this one, Rick Holman tangles with the porn film world.
• Algis Budrys, editor, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XVIII.  Seventeen illustrated stories and five articles in this 2002 editionfrom the contest that will not end.
• Michael Cadnum, Ghostwright.  Horror.
• Martin Caidin, Cyborg.  SF.  This book was the basis of The Six Million Dollar Man television series.  Times have changed.  Today it would be:  "We have six million dollars.  We can rebuild him...or we could buy a cup of coffee."
• Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow, The Hard Way, and One Shot.  Jack Reacher novels.  I picked them up now because I fear that soon the paperbacks will have Tom Cruise on the covers.
• Dale Colter, The Regulator:  Payback.  Number ten in the Western series.
• Susan Rogers Cooper, The Man in the Green Chevy.  A Milt Kovac mystery.
• Richard Cowper, The Road to Corlay.  Fantasy containing a novella and the title novel.
• Lonnie Cruise, Fifty-Seven Heaven.  A Kitty Bloodworth mystery.
• Elizabeth Daly, Unexpected Night.  A Henry Gamage mystery.  I've always liked Henry.
• Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, editors, A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales.  YA fantasy anthology with thirteen stories.
• Jeffrey Deaver, editor, A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime.  MWA anthology with 20 stories.
• Gordon R. Dickson, Mission to Universe.  SF.  This is the revised 1977 edition.
• Gordon Eklund, The Starless World.  Star Trek novel.
• Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1, 1981 and April 1999.
• James Ellroy, Destination:  Morgue.  Collection of twelve articles and stories.
• Ellen Erlanger, Isaac Asimov:  Scientist and Storyteller.  Brief juvenile biography of Asimov, about forty-pages long with almost thirty photographs.  This one is part of "The Achievers" series of biographies.
• Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2007.
• Philip Jose Farmer, Dayworld.  SF.
• Bill Fawcett, editor.  Bolos Book 5:  Old Guard and Bolos 6:  Cold Steel.  Two anthologies in a series created by Keith Laumer.  The first has four novellas; the second, two novels.  Fawcett goes uncredited on the covers.
• Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears, Orphan Star and Shadowkeep.  The first is an SF novel of the human-Thranx Commonwealth, the second is a Flinx and Pip adventure, and the third is a fantasy gaming tie-in.
• Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, editors, Hottest Blood.  Horror anthology, third in the Hot Blood series.  Twenty stories.
• Nick Gevers, editor, Extraordinary Engines.  According to the cover, "The Definitive Steampunk Anthology."  Who am I to argue?  Twelve stories.
• Michael Gilbert, The Empty House.  Mystery.
• Donald Goines, Inner City Hoodlum.  Black crime novel.
• Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer:  The Lost Slayer, Part Two:  Dark Times, Part Three:  King of the Dead, and Part Four:  Original Sins.  Alkternate world Buffy.  Noe I have to find Part One.
• Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer:  Child of the Hunt.  Buffy v. the dark faerie.
• Roland Green, Wandor's Journey.  Sword and Sorcery, sequel to Wandor's Ride.
• Joel Hammil, Trident.  Horror.
• Jack Hanson, Wildgun:  Oregon Trail.  Number eight in the western series.
• Joseph Hanson, Jack of Hearts.  Novel.
• David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, editors, Year's Best SF 7.  Nineteen stories.  Why did they drop Cramer's name from the coer and the spine?
• Rick Hautala, Little Brothers.  Another one from that well-known horror writer from Maine...uh, the other one.
• Nancy Holder, Daughter of the Flames and Saving Grace:  Cry Me a River.  The first is a fantasy/romance.  Perhaps a bit steamy:  it's from Silhouette Bombshell.  The second is a TV tie-in.
• Fred Hoyle & Geoffrey Hoyle, The Inferno.  SF.
• John H. Ingram, True Ghost Stories.  Reprint of the 1886 edition, covering haunted houses and castles in Great Britain.
• Ruby Jean Jenson, Smoke. Horror.
• William W. Johnstone, Blood Bond:  San Angelo Showdown, Blood Valley, and Wolfsbane.  The first two are westerns; the third, horror.
• William W. Johnstone with Fred Austin, Revenge of Eagles and Vengeance Is Mine.  The first is Book Ten in the MacCallister Saga.  The second appears to be a thriller with a radical right-wing bent about the dangers of illegal immigration.
• Stuart M. Kaminsky, Denial.  A Lew Fonesca mystery.
• Colin Kapp, Search for the Sun.  SF.  The first in the Cageworld series.
• William H. Keith, Jr., Bolo Strike.  Sf novel in a series created by Keith Laumer.
• Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile.  A Kenzie and Gennero mystery.
• Donna Leon, Uniform Justice.  A Commissario Brunetti mystery.
• Bentley Little, The Return.  Horror.
• Frances and Richard Lockridge, The Judge Is Reversed and The Long Skeleton.  Mr. and Mrs. North solve two more.
• Jake Logan, Slocum and the Bad-News Brothers (#302), Slocum and the Teton Temptress (#310), Slocum and the Deadwood Deal (#314), Slocum and the Sulfer Valley Widows (#320), and The Gunman and the Greenhorn (a Slocum Giant Novel).  Adult westerns.
• John Lutz, Urge to Kill.  A Frank Quinn mystery.
• John Lutz and David August, Final Seconds.  Mystery.  August is a pseudonym for David Linzee.
• T. J. MacGregor, Kill Flash.  A Quin and McCleary mystery.
• Henning Mankill, Firewall.  A Wallander mystery.
• Graham Masterton, A Terrible Beauty.  Horror.
• Sandra Miesel, Dreamrider.  Fantasy.
• Elizabeth E. and Thomas F. Monteleone, editors, From the Borderlands:  Stories of Madness and Terror (Borderlands 5).  Horror anthology.  Twenty-five stories.
• David Morrell, The Spy Who Came for Christmas.  Holiday thriller.
• Warren Murphy, The Destroyer #49:  Skin Deep.  Adult adventure.  Although not list on the cover, Richard Sapir is also named in the copyright notice.
• Francis M. Nevins, Jr., Publish and Perish.  A Loren Mensing mystery.
• Andre Norton, Red Hart Magic.  YA fantasy
• Andre Norton & Jean Rabe, editors, Renaissance Faire.  Fantasy anthology with 15 stories.  Martin H. Greenberg's Techno Books is included in the copyright.
• Peter O'Donnell, The Night of the Morningstar.  Modesty Blaise!
• Andrew J. Offutt, The Galctic Rejects.  YA SF.
• Ellis Peters, Flight of a Witch and A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs.  Both Inspector Felse mysteries.
• Caleb Pirtle III, Last Deadly Lie.  Horror.
• E. Hoffman Price, Operation Misfit.  SF.
• Kathryn Ptacek, editor, Women of Darkness.  Twenty horror stories from women writers chosen by the Gila Queen.
• Robert Rankin, They Came and Ate Us -- Armageddon II:  The B-Movie.  Humorous SF.
• Marilyn Ross, Ghost Ship of Fog Island.  Gothic.  Yes, the cover has a beautiful young woman in a nightgown fleeing a dark castle-like house with only one light coming from the stone turrett.
• John Saul, The God Project and The Unwanted.  Horror novels.
• "Andrew Shaw", The Unashamed.  Sixties sleeze from William Hamling's Corinth Publishing.  This one is copyrighted 1973, so the chances of the author being Lawrence Block are practically nil.
• Luke Short, Paper Sheriff.  Western.
• Guy N. Smith, Entombed.   Horror novel from the prolific British writer.  No giant crabs this time.
• L. Neil Smith, The Lando Calrissian Adventures.  Onibus of three novels in the Star Wars universe:  Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu, Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon, and Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thonboka.
• S. M. Sterling and David Drake, The Steel:  Book IV of The General.  Military SF.
• Dan Streib, Hark #5:  California Shakedown.  Men's adventure.
• David Thompson, Wilderness #26:  Blood Feud.  Western.
• John Tigges, Kiss Not the Child.  Horror (and probably good advice).
• Jack Webb (not the TV guy), The Naked Angel.  A Father Shanley and Sammy Golden mystery.
• Jack Williamson, Mazeway.  SF.
• Robert Charles Wilson, A Hidden Place and Spin.  SF novels.  Spin took the Hugo for best SF novel.
• Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains:  New Science Fiction Stories.  Twenty-five stories from 1985 to 2004.
• T. M. Wright, Sleepeasy.  Horror
• Sharon Zukowski, Dancing in the Dark.  A Blaine Stewart mystery.

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