NONFICTION
Released: March 12, 1992
"Thorough, richly researched, and written with moral fire. (Photos—not seen.)"
FICTION
Released: April 1, 1993
"Though didactic (without being preachy) and uneven in places: thrilling drama, compelling dialectic."
From the author of the splendid Brain Rose (1989), another telling near/medium-future sociological probe.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 11, 1996
"Electrifying effects and a deft handling of mysteries and their explanations (some remaining tantalizingly incomplete) in an unexpectedly compelling fusion of weird science and legerdemain."
After a ten-year hiatus, Priest (The Glamour, 1985, etc.) returns in strength with a taut, twisting, prize-winning story of two magicians and their fierce fin-de-siäcle rivalry that taints successive generations of their respective families.
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FICTION
Released: March 25, 1998
"A brutal and deliberate tale, its characters rather too forgiving to be wholly human, that will challenge and sometimes shred the reader's preconceptions. (First printing of 50,000; Book- of-the-Month selection; author tour)"
Sequel to The Sparrow (1996), Russell's account of a 21st- century Jesuit-led expedition to planet Rakhat with its two intelligent, kangaroo-like alien races, the carnivorous Jana'ata and their prey, the enslaved Runa.
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FICTION
Released: March 6, 2000
"The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year."
An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house tale.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2001
"A magical mystery tour through the mythologies of all cultures, a unique and moving love story--and another winner for the phenomenally gifted, consummately reader-friendly Gaiman."
An ex-convict is the wandering knight-errant who traverses the wasteland of Middle America, in this ambitious, gloriously funny, and oddly heartwarming latest from the popular fantasist (
Stardust, 1999, etc.).
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