Chaos erupts in the magical land of Ethshar of the Spices after a mysterious object falls from the skies, creating a wave of magic in all directions that ignites an uncontrollable madness among Ethshar's inhabitants.

Night of Madness

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lawrence Watt-Evans

Fantasy

Tor Books

The overman named Garth sought immortal fame. The oracle told him to serve the Forgotten King to get that fame. But this King sent Garth after a basilisk whose gaze could turn men to stone. What sane use could anyone have for a monster like that?

The Lure of the Basilisk

Del Rey

The cyborg code-named "Slant" was sent out as an Independent Reconnaissance Unit during an interstellar war between Earth and its colonies. The fighting ended three hundred years ago, but Slant's computer does not admit this -- he is compelled to carry on as if the war were still raging. Then he comes across a planet where his sensors register ''gravitational anomalies.'' The computer interprets these as enemy weapons research. The local inhabitants call the anomalies ''magic.''

The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

Science Fiction

With his master dead, apprentice wizard Tobas, knowing only an elementary spell for starting a fire, sets out to seek his fortune in the faraway, magical realm of Old Ethshar

With A Single Spell

MARS ATTACKS(c): Cards, comics . . . and now brand-new, all-original novels of unthinkable terror! MURDER MANSION The invasion was quick and merciless. Nothing on Earth could counter the superior technology of the interplanetary aggressors. Their first strike left worldwide defenses utterly useless. The unbeatable Martian war machine swept the countryside, spreading a reign of terror in every direction. And one small group of humans sought safety in bizarre Gelman mansion built by an eccentric millionaire. MARTIAN DEATHTRAP pits a desperate band of human defenders against a merciless Martian Death Squad. The battleground is a huge mansion filled with a labyrinth of secret passages with giant insects--and certain death-- lurking outside. For the Martians, the mission is to secure the captured ground by whatever means necessary. For the humans, the goal is to beat the odds and simply survive . . .

Mars Attacks #1: Martian Deathtrap

A sudden ice age has driven Earth's population into the tropics, except for a few die-hards eking out a tenuous existence scavenging the snow-covered ruins of civilization. One such straggler is John Starkman, making his home in the frozen wastes of western Pennsylvania. Already an outcast because of a certain physical peculiarity, he saw no reason to join his neighbors in fleeing south.  Then one day a spaceship comes to collect him and the other stragglers, and Starkman discovers there have been other changes besides the ice age. Aliens have landed on Earth. They say they've come to help -- but what do they really want?  And why are they interested in him?  A science fiction novel by Hugo-winner Lawrence Watt-Evans, back in print for the first time in over twenty years.

The Chromosomal Code

Literature & Fiction

United States

Avon/Books

On Godsworld, a colony planet governed by Biblical law, the righteous John Mercy-of-Christ swings his sword against heretic tribes, but the holy battle between rival sects is irrevocably altered when machine guns reappear

Shining Steel

With his master dead, apprentice wizard Tobas, knowing only an elementary spell for starting a fire, sets out to seek his fortune in the faraway, magical realm of Old Ethshar

With a Single Spell

Contemporary

GRAFTON

After renting his small-town theater to an odd-looking theater troupe, Art Dunham begins to question his decision when he finds a door in the floor of the stage that was not there before

The Rebirth of Wonder

Split Heirs

To Gudge's bride, Queen Artemisia of Hydrangea, are born a set of royal triplets. But traditional Gorgorian belief holds that triplets are a sure sign of the mother's adultery--for which the tradition Gorgorian punishment is death. And Gudge is nothing is not a traditionalist. So in secret the Queen sends her faithful servant Ludmilla on a desperate mission, to bear the girl and the younger boy to the secret forest redoubt of the last Hydrangean resistance. The oldest boy will remain, to be raised as the heir. Unfortunately, Ludmilla takes both boys instead...

Esther M. Friesner

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