Stone of Tymora
Forgotten Realms
Written by R.A. Salvatore and Geno Salvatore

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-7869-6224-2 (0-7869-6224-0)

Meet Maimun–an orphan who couldn’t imagine how unfortunate it would be to discover a stone that makes him forever lucky. Fleeing a powerful demon named Asbeel, Maimun stows away aboard the ship Sea Sprite, where he encounters a cast of characters well-known to Salvatore fans: Captain Deudermont, Drizzt Do’Urden, Wulfgar, Catti-brie... Read more >

Store of the Worlds
The Stories of Robert Sheckley
Written by Robert Sheckley
Edited by Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-494-4 (1-59017-494-1)

Robert Sheckley was science fiction’s in-house reply to the black humorists of the 1950s and 60s: Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his none too-distant relatives; Mort Sahl’s comedy, Charles Schultz’s cartoons, and Tom Lehrer’s songs all mined similar veins. Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism... Read more >

The Original Frankenstein

Written by Mary Shelley

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47442-1 (0-307-47442-9)

Working from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel—as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley’s amendments and contributions.

For the first time we can hear Mary’s sole voice, which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds more modern... Read more >

American Vampire Vol. 1

Written by Scott Snyder and Stephen King
Illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque

Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2830-9 (1-4012-2830-5)

This volume follows two stories: one written by Snyder and one written by King. Snyder’s story is set in 1920's LA, we follow Pearl, a young woman who is turned into a vampire and sets out on a path of righteous revenge against the European Vampires who tortured and abused her... Read more >

Superman: Earth One

Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Illustrated by Shane Davis

Format: Hardcover, 136 pages
Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-2468-4 (1-4012-2468-7)

A 2011 Great Graphic Novel for Teens (YALSA)

Clark Kent, fresh out of school, moves from small town Smallville to big city Metropolis to find his place in the world. Isolated and alone, an orphaned alien with super powers that keep him apart from the rest of the world, he struggles to... Read more >

The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady

Written by Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3486-4 (1-4000-3486-8)

Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs. In 1953, the good doctor gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent, and Marylou has been plotting her revenge ever since. When she discovers his whereabouts in Florida, she hightails it to Tallahassee, moves in down the block from where he... Read more >

The Dreaming Jewels

Written by Theodore Sturgeon

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70373-7 (0-375-70373-X)

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards

"One of the masters of modern science fiction."
—The Washington Post Book World

Eight-year-old Horty Bluett has never known love. His adoptive parents are violent; his classmates are cruel. So he runs away from home and joins a carnival. Performing alongside the... Read more >

To Marry Medusa

Written by Theodore Sturgeon

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70372-0 (0-375-70372-1)

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More Than Human

Written by Theodore Sturgeon

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 29, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70371-3 (0-375-70371-3)

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Selected Stories

Written by Theodore Sturgeon

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 17, 2000
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70375-1 (0-375-70375-6)

Theodore Sturgeon was a genuine American master. Praised, revered, and even envied by the likes of Bradbury, Vonnegut, and King, his short stories contain some of his best work.

In "Thunder and Roses," soon after a nuclear Holocaust, a starlet gives one final performance during which she makes an odd request of... Read more >

Venus Plus X

Written by Theodore Sturgeon

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70374-4 (0-375-70374-8)

Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, even time and space. But there is a change Charlie finds even more shocking... Read more >

Exegesis

Written by Astro Teller

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 19, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70051-4 (0-375-70051-X)

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The Tolkien Reader

Written by J.R.R. Tolkien

Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: November 12, 1986
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-34506-6 (0-345-34506-1)

This rich treasury includes Tolkien's most beloved short fiction plus his essay on fantasy.

CONTENTS:

Publisher's Note: Tolkien's Magic Ring by Peter Beagle

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorthelm's Son

Tree and Leaf

Farmer Giles of Ham

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil Read more >

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

Written by Yasutaka Tsutsui

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38915-2 (0-307-38915-4)

An irresistible mix of imagination, satire, and humor, these stories by acclaimed Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui imagine the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide.

The opening story, “The Dabba Dabba Tree,” details the hilarious side effects of a small conical tree that, when placed at the foot... Read more >

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century

Edited by Harry Turtledove

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-43990-1 (0-345-43990-2)

In this definitive anthology of alternate history stories-each presenting chilling “what if” scenarios from the last one hundred years­-science fiction’s most visionary writers offer fourteen of the most mind-bending tales imaginable. Including alternate versions of the American Civil War, World War II, and Vietnam by such authors as Poul Anderson, Greg... Read more >

The Best Military Science Fiction of the 20th Century

Edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-43989-5 (0-345-43989-9)

A collection of thirteen of the finest military science tales of the 20th century-the only definitive anthology of its kind-this spellbinding work presents science fiction’s best talents and their most powerful stories about warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. This must-read collection is sure to shed new light on the... Read more >

The Castle in Transylvania

Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Charlotte Mandell

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-08-0 (1-935554-08-5)

This long-forgotten work of Jules Verne, the master of science fiction, is one of his few writings about the supernatural. This eerie gothic story set in a forgotten valley in the mountains of Transylvania, where demons and vampires menace the populace, pits a young stranger against the forces of evil and... Read more >

The Mysterious Island

Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr

Format: Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 27, 2004
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7212-2 (0-8129-7212-0)

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >

The Mysterious Island

Written by Jules Verne
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Caleb Carr

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6642-8 (0-8129-6642-2)

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here... Read more >

Paris in the Twentieth Century

Written by Jules Verne

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: October 21, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42039-8 (0-345-42039-X)

In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript... Read more >

The Invisible Man
A Grotesque Romance
Written by H.G. Wells
Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6645-9 (0-8129-6645-7)

A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and... Read more >

The Invisible Man

Written by H.G. Wells

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: August 1, 1983
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21353-9 (0-553-21353-9)

A terrifying story from the author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. An obscure scientist invents a way to render skin, bones, and blood invisible, and tries the formula on himself. Now he can go anywhere, menace anyone--sight unseen. He has only two problems: he cannot become... Read more >

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Written by H.G. Wells
Foreword by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76096-9 (0-375-76096-2)

Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau, who conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a remote... Read more >

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Written by H.G. Wells

Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: May 1, 1994
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21432-1 (0-553-21432-2)

Modern day practices such as gene-splicing and bioengineering are foretold in H.G. Well's haunting visionary fable. After a collision between two ships in rough seas, Edward Prendick survived only to be stranded on the island of the infamous Dr. Moreau. The book created a sensation when it first appeared in 1896... Read more >

The Time Machine
An Invention
Written by H.G. Wells
Illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin

Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76118-8 (0-375-76118-7)

When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond... Read more >