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Grand Masters of Sci Fi & Fantasy


Cover art for THE STONEHENGE GATE
FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2005

"Low-key but inventive adventure."
A new adventure by one of the surviving giants of the pulp era (Terraforming Earth, 2001, etc.). Read full book review >
Cover art for FOR US, THE LIVING
FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2004

"Though you can occasionally see the pulp SF guy lurking behind the narrative's stoic face here, this is definitely more academic exercise than worthy fiction."
The world as it should be--according to the late Heinlein (d. 1988). Read full book review >
Cover art for BEAST MASTER’S MARK
FICTION
Released: July 1, 2002

"Old fans will dance and howl for more."
Volume three of the Beast Master series begun with 1959's The Beast Master and 1962's Lord of Thunder. Read full book review >
Cover art for TERRAFORMING EARTH
FICTION
Released: July 1, 2001

"Sweeping, imaginative, and captivating: As good as, perhaps better than, anything Williamson has written in his long and astonishing career."
Why would Earth need terraforming? Read full book review >
Cover art for ECHOES IN TIME
FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1999

"A much-improved, if more thoughtful re-revival, with believable aliens, a reasonable time-travel rationale, and properly worked-out consequences."
In 1994's Firehand, Norton joined forces with P.M. Griffin to launch a revival of her 30-year-old Time Traders series; now, to continue it, she's taken on a fresh collaborator, Sherwood Smith, who worked with Norton on two Solar Queen yarns. Read full book review >
Cover art for SCENT OF MAGIC
FICTION
Released: Sept. 9, 1998

"Sturdily constructed, fetchingly rendered: a top-notch outing for the grandmasterly author of The Mirror of Destiny (1995), among countless others."
Young Willadene of the city Kronengred, having lost her parents in the recent plague, toils as a scullery maid in the disreputable Wanderers Inn. Read full book review >