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    The
    New York Times Ultimate Crossword Omnibus
    1,001 Puzzles from The New York Times

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      <div>America's Favorite: <i>The New York Times</i> Crosswords<br><br>The biggest book of crossword puzzles-ever!  From<i> The New York Times</i>, the gold standard of crossword puzzles, comes this new collection containing a stunning 1,001 puzzles of all levels of difficulty, enough for even the most determined crossword fanatic.<br><br>Old fans and new alike will find that the puzzles within are sure to excite, delight, confound, amaze, amuse and enlighten.  So lay in a supply of food, unplug the phone, bar the door and get ready to dive into the biggest collection of <i>New York Times</i> crosswords that has ever been published. <br><br>- Over three years' worth of puzzles from Monday to Saturday editions of <i>The New York Times</i><br>- Edited and with an introduction by legendary <i>Times</i> crossword editor Will Shortz<br></div>

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      <div><b>Will Shortz</b> has been the crossword puzzle editor of <i>The New York Times</i> since 1993. Mr. Shortz founded both the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, where he serves as director, and the World Puzzle Championship, where he is the captain of the U.S. team. He is the current Puzzlemaster for "Weekend Edition Sunday"on National Public Radio.<br></div>
    St. Martin's Griffin

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      St. Martin's Griffin
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      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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    Operation Roswell
    The Novel

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      Randle, Kevin D.
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    Kevin D. Randle
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      <div>From the bestselling author of UFO: Crash at Roswell<br><br>Roswell, New Mexico-1947<br><br>It is the troubled period just after World War II, and America has asserted its power across the globe, but problems still remain. With the ever-present threat of atomic weapons in enemy hands, the country has begun a race for military supremacy. Every inch of sky is monitored by radar, and every eye is open.<br><br>The face of America's enemy seemed very clear, until reports of an unidentified aircraft flying over the New Mexico desert arrived in Washington. The reports state that the ship is impossibly light, with the ability to hover in place, then speed away at more than one thousand miles an hour-and it looks like no other aircraft the country has ever seen.<br><br>While President Truman does his best to maintain plausible denials, the situation is placed in the hands of Major General Curtis LeMay, a military zealot whose only concern is securing America's dominance in the arms race. When his men shoot the craft down, it becomes obvious that this was no Russian vessel-and that it may not be from this planet at all. An examination of the crew proves this to be all too true . . . and one of them has survived.<br><br>As the army rushes to defend the country, as the government attempts to erase an event from public view, humanity prepares to witness an event so powerful that it could mean a change in life as we know it.<br><br>Nothing you believe will ever be the same . . . .<br></div>

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      <div>"Makes you feel on every page . . . THIS IS THE WAY IT REALLY HAPPENED!"-Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist<br></div>

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      <div><b>Kevin D. Randle</b> is a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and an authority on alien abduction. He has been a guest on many televisions programs focusing on extraterrestrial activity including, Unsolved Mysteries, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Alien Autopsy and Maury Povich. He co-authored the bestselling <i>UFO: Crash at Roswell</i>, which later became a popular Showtime movie, and <i>The Abduction Enigma</i>.<br></div>
    <div>"Makes you feel on every page . . . THIS IS THE WAY IT REALLY HAPPENED!"-Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist<br></div>
    Forge Books

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      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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    The
    Odyssey

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      Homer

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      Fitzgerald, Robert
      Robert
      Fitzgerald

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      Carne-Ross, D. S.
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      <div>The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback.  <br><br>Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's <i>Odyssey</i> is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this<i> Odyssey</i> has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. The Noonday Press is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work.Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.<br><br>Of the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition.<br><br>The Noonday Press edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald's Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem.<br><br> Winner of the Bollingen Prize<br></div>

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      <div>"A masterpiece . . . An <i>Odyssey</i> worthy of the original."--William Arrowsmith, <i>The Nation</i><br><br>"Here there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand."--Seamus Heaney<br></div>

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      <div><b>Robert Fitzgerald's</b> versions of the <i>Iliad, the Aeneid,</i> and the <i>Oedipus</i> cycle of Sophocles (with Dudley Fitts) are also classics. At his death, in 1988, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard.<br></div>
    <div>"A masterpiece . . . An <i>Odyssey</i> worthy of the original."--William Arrowsmith, <i>The Nation</i><br><br>"Here there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand."--Seamus Heaney<br></div>
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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        20040709

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    The
    Modern Temper
    American Culture and Society in the 1920s

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      Dumenil, Lynn
      Lynn
      Dumenil
    Lynn Dumenil
    eng
    352
    Bibliography, index
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      <div>When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. <br><br>But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. <i>The Modern Temper </i>brings these many developments into sharp focus.<br></div>

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      <div>"<i>The Modern Temper </i>is an engaging, stimulating, and thoughtful re-creation of one of our most interesting and complex decades. A wonderful accomplishment."--Lawrence W. Levine, George Mason University<br><br>"Lynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides an exciting and original synthesis of a crucial decade that few of us really understand. She makes the insights and confusions of the women and the men of the twenties come alive. This is an important book."--Ellen Dubois, University of California at Los Angeles<br><br>"Dumenil offers wealth of fresh insights on a fascinating decade. This illuminating study subtly recasts our understanding of an era whose tensions and stresses often uncannily parallel those of our own day."--Paul Boyer, University of  Wisconsin<br></div>

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      <div><b>Lynn Dumenil</b>, professor of history at Occidental College, earned her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of <i>Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930</i>. She lives in Venice, California <br></div>
    <div>"<i>The Modern Temper </i>is an engaging, stimulating, and thoughtful re-creation of one of our most interesting and complex decades. A wonderful accomplishment."--Lawrence W. Levine, George Mason University<br><br>"Lynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides an exciting and original synthesis of a crucial decade that few of us really understand. She makes the insights and confusions of the women and the men of the twenties come alive. This is an important book."--Ellen Dubois, University of California at Los Angeles<br><br>"Dumenil offers wealth of fresh insights on a fascinating decade. This illuminating study subtly recasts our understanding of an era whose tensions and stresses often uncannily parallel those of our own day."--Paul Boyer, University of  Wisconsin<br></div>
    Hill and Wang

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      Hill and Wang
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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        20040709

    2479210
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      The Roman Mysteries
    The
    Secret of Vesuvius
    The Roman Mysteries, Book II

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      Lawrence, Caroline
      Caroline
      Lawrence
    Caroline Lawrence
    eng
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    from 6 to 9
    from 11 to 14
    Roaring Brook Press

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    Roaring Brook Press
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      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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        20040709

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    0812565258
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    Damage Them All You Can

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      A01
      Walsh, George
      George
      Walsh
    eng
    624
    HIS036050
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      <div>&#8220;Damage them all you can,&#8221; the patrician Lee exhorts, and his Southern army, ragtag in uniform and elite in spirit, responds ferociously in one battle after another against their Northern enemies&#8212;from the Seven Days and the Valley Campaign through Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania to the final siege of Richmond and Petersburg. Lee knows that the South&#8217;s five-and-a-half million white population will be worn down in any protracted struggle by the North&#8217;s twenty-two million. He is ever offensive-minded, ever seeking the victory that will destroy his enemies&#8217; will to fight. He uses his much shorter interior lines to rush troops to trouble spots by forced marches and by rail. His cavalry rides on raids around the entire union army. Lee divides his own force time and again, defying military custom by bluffing one wing of the enemy while striking furiously elsewhere.<br><br>But this book is more than military history. Walsh&#8217;s narrative digs deeper, revealing the humanity of Lee and his lieutenants as never before&#8212;their nobility and their flaws, their chilling acceptance of death, their tender relations with wives and sweethearts in the midst of carnage.<br><br>Here we encounter in depth the men who still stir the imagination. The dutiful Robert E. Lee, haunted by his father&#8217;s failures; stern and unbending Stonewall Jackson, cut down at the moment of his greatest triumph; stolid James Longstreet, who came to believe he was Lee&#8217;s equal as a strategist, the enigmatic George Pickett.<br><br>These men and scores of others, enlisted men as well as officers, carry the ultimately tragic story of the Army of Northern Virginia forward with heart rending force and bloody impact. <br>As the war progresses we wonder above all else, had orders been strictly obeyed here or daylight lasted an extra hour there, what might have been. Only Appomattox brings an end to such speculation, when the tattered remnants of Lee&#8217;s army, both the still living and the shadowy dead, stack their arms at last.<br></div>

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      <div><b>George Walsh</b> is the former editor-in-chief of the General Books Division of the Macmillan Publishing Company and a longtime journalist. Walsh has been a Civil War buff since he published the mass market edition of <i>The Killer Angels</i>, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1975.<i> Damage Them All You Can</i> is the culmination of eight years of research and study.<br></div>
    Forge Books

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      Forge Books
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      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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      20040801

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    2588286
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      Dune
    Dune: The Machine Crusade

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      <div>The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's <i>Dune: The Butlerian Jihad</i>, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic <i>Dune</i>, propelled it to the ranks of  speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes <i>Dune: The Machine Crusade.</i><br>.   <br>More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in <i>The Butlerian Jihad</i>. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat.<br> <br>The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius--as their numbers dwindle and time begins to run out. The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the machine-dominated worlds. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the verge of the most important discovery in human history-a way to "fold" space and travel instantaneously to any place in the galaxy.<br> <br>And on the faraway, nearly worthless planet of Arrakis, Selim Wormrider and his band of outlaws take the first steps to making themselves the feared fighters who will change the course of history: the Fremen.<br><br>Here is the unrivaled imaginative power that has put Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson on  bestseller lists everywhere and earned them the high regard of readers around the globe. The fantastic saga of <i>Dune </i>continues in <i>Dune: The Machine Crusade.</i><br></div>

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      <div><b>Brian Herbert</b>, the son of Frank Herbert, is a multiple<i> New York Times</i> bestseller in his own right. He is the winner of several literary honors and has been nominated for the Nebula Award. His critically acclaimed science fiction novels include <i>Sidney's Comet, Sudanna Sudanna, The Race for God, </i>and <i>Man of Two Worlds</i> (written with Frank Herbert). In 2003, he published <i>Dreamer of Dune</i>, a biography of his illustrious father.<br><br><b>Kevin J. Anderson</b> has written dozens of national bestsellers and has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include <i>Captain Nemo, Hopscotch, </i>and <i>Hidden Empire</i>. He also set the Guinness-certified world record for the largest single-author book signing.<br></div>
    Tor Books

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      Tor Books
    Tom Doherty Associates
    20040801

      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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      20040801

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      Sword of Shadows
    A
    Fortress of Grey Ice
    Book Two of Sword of Shadows

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      Jones, J. V.
      J. V.
      Jones
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    <div>In a world being overwhelmed by ice, the forces of evil are released into the world, and characters are forced to make incredible sacrifices to defend the land. Relying on magical powers as well as divine intervention, the woman partly responsible for allowing the evil to be freed sacrifices even her humanity in order to hunt the darkness.<br></div>

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      <div>"Wonderful . . . J.V. Jones is a striking writer." So says Robert Jordan, the author of The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series. And Jones lives up to that praise in the highly charged epic adventure of Ash March and Raif Sevrance, two outcasts whose fates are entwined by fate and by need, in the cold, dark world that threatens to be torn asunder by a war to end all wars. They are but two of many who fight the dreaded Endlords, but both Ash and Raif are special in unique ways that isolate them, yet which also enable them to perform heroic acts that might save their world.<br><br>Raif, wrongly accused and cut off from his clan by the treachery of their new headsman, has a talent for killing that is part of his curse and his burden. But he bears another burden of greater weight. Ash is a sacred warrior to the Sull, an ancient race whose numbers have declined.Raised as a foundling, she never knew her true heritage, she must learn to accept the terrible gifts of her heritage.<br><br>But as Ash learns more of her greater fate, Raif's task looms dark and desperate, for he must journey through the nightmare realm of the Want, a place where even the Sull now fear to tread. For deep within the Want is the Fortress of Grey Ice, and there he must heal the breach in the Blindwall that already threatens the world. Should he fail, not even Ash's powers can save them...<br></div>

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      <div><b>J. V. Jones</b> is the author of the bestselling Book of Words trilogy, <i>The Barbed Coi</i>, and <i>A Cavern of Black Ice</i>, the first  book of the Sword of Shadows series. Born in England, she now makes her home in San Diego, California, where she's working on the third Sword of Shadows novel, <i>A Sword from Red Ice</i>.<br></div>
    Tor Fantasy

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      Tor Fantasy
    Tom Doherty Associates
    20040801

      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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      Dark Wing
    The
    Dark Path

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      Hunt, Walter H.
      Walter H.
      Hunt
    Walter H. Hunt
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    FIC009000
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      <div>Walter Hunt's debut novel, <i>The Dark Wing</i> was favorably compared to <i>Ender's Game, Babylon 5,</i> Honor Harrington, and C. S. Forester . . . and the story isn't over yet! <br><br>Man and zor, once sworn enemies engaged in a mutual campaign of xenocide, now live side by side.                                     <br><br>The war is over, and Admiral Marais, the legendary "Dark Wing"--both Angel of Death and Species Savior--is long dead, though some of his companions and participants in that great war still survive and have even chosen to live among the zor.<br><br>Now a mystery from the past has become a threat to the present when an unholy menace jeopardizes both humans and zor alike.<br><br>Whole space fleets have disappeared, with survivors stricken mad.<br><br>And now man and zor alike must join forces to meet this adversary head on. . . .<br></div>

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      <div>"Walter H. Hunt is the new master of military SF. - Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer<br></div>

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      <div><b>Walter Hunt</b> lives in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. <i>The Dark Path</i> is the sequel to <i>The Dark Wing</i>, his first novel.<br></div>
    <div>"Walter H. Hunt is the new master of military SF. - Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer<br></div>
    Tor Science Fiction

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      Tor Science Fiction
    Tom Doherty Associates
    20040801

      Holtzbrinck Publishers
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      20040801

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    The
    Risen Empire
    The Risen Empire #1

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      A01
      Westerfeld, Scott
      Scott
      Westerfeld
    352
    FIC028000
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      <div>From the acclaimed author of <i>Fine Prey</i>, <i>Polymorph</i>, and <i>Evolution's Darling </i>(Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic, <i>The Risen Empire</i>, Scott Westerfeld's dazzling hardcover debut.<br><br>The undead Emperor ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. No one could touch them. <br><br>Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one, and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue.<br><br>Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must each, in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, as they hold the fate of the empire in their hands. <i>The Risen Empire</i> is the first great space opera of the 21st century.<br></div>

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      <div>"Literate space opera in the tradition of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and Frank Herbert's Dune books. With a light touch all his own, Westerfeld illumines the clash of mighty galactic empires by focusing on individuals who, despite the distractions of war and politics, cannot help falling in love."-<i>The New York Times</i>, a "Summer Reading" selection <br><br>"<i>The Risen Empire</i> is full of relentless and addictive action which is supported by some truly wild ideas.  Westerfeld's blend of traditional space opera and cutting-edge speculation makes this a truly 21st century SF novel."-Karl Schroeder<br><br>"Westerfeld's exceptionally smart and empathetic novel, the first of two in a series, confirms the buzz that space opera is one of the most exciting branches of current SF. . . . Keeping the reader constantly off-balance, Westerfeld skillfully integrates extreme technologies with human characters."-<i>Publishers Weekly </i>[Starred Review]<br><br>"<i>The Risen Empire</i> is proof that space opera can be as complex and sophisticated as any other form of literature. Doc Smith would barely recognize it."-- Mike Resnick<br><br>"Westerfeld spins a dramatic tale that never flags in pace or imagination, nor in its abundance of original vision abandons narrative in favor of didactic digressions . . . a strong and vibrant story, as engaging and innovative in its scope as his mechanical inventions or cultural constructs. In my opinion this novel represents a balance that much contemporary science fiction lacks. And just when you thought that the author has exhausted the possibilities for further invention, he takes the reader down entirely new and delightfully unexpected paths . . . the richness of imagination present in the author's world-building, as well as the febrile and vivid description that accompanies his settings and the novel's cultural and social infrastructure, easily set the book apart, not only from the common space opera but from most other science fiction as well. Westerfeld's characterizations . . . possess both depth and a poignant and compassionate humanity. . . . this recalls some of the best of Asimov but written with a more concise and breathless speed. It's been quite a while since I've read science fiction I've enjoyed  more or that combines narrative action with imagination as intelligently. Heartily recommended."--<i>Interzone</i><br><br>"There's always been something almost soothing about space opera: no matter how many starships explode, planetary rulers topple, and sinister aliens slither, the almost gleeful sense of wonder warms and comforts the reader. This space opera is so much more than that. <i>The Risen Empire</i> glows with sense of wonder, but it's stuffed with ideas, quirky technologies, nuances of moral choices, and sees conflicts from all sides. I loved it, I heartily recommend it, and I hope Scott Westerfeld pens many more books like it---quickly!"-Ed Greenwood<br><br>"Recent writers in [the space opera] sub-genre include the likes of Vernor Vinge, David Brin, Peter Hamilton, Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds, and Karl Schroeder. Indeed, many of the most popular writers in the science fiction field today are writing space operas. Scott Westerfeld is the latest author to throw his hat into the ring with his new novel <i>The Risen Empire</i> . . . [a] baroque space opera. The novel contains a great story with interesting sub-plots, cool technology, and engaging characters. I found Risen a fun read full of intriguing ideas and  reminiscent of Iain Banks' Culture novels in breadth and scope."-SFRevu.com<br><br>"In Westerfeld's hands, science fiction's cutting edge is wielded with both the precision of a surgeon's scalpel and the wild abandon of a machete."-Wil McCarthy<br><br>"This is the start of an ambitious saga that delivers that good old science fiction "sense of wonder" combined with a thoroughly modern -- and even post-modern -- information age sensibility.  Westerfeld creates an incredibly rich, consistently imagined far-future milieu packed with inspired transhuman civilization-building, technological foresight, and the fine attention to details both large and small that marks this as visionary science fiction of the highest quality. Westerfeld's got creativity out the yin yang!"-Tony Daniel<br></div>

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      <div><b>Scott Westerfeld</b> is a software designer, a composer of music for modern dance, and the author of four previous novels. He lives in New York City and Sydney, Australia.<br></div>

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      <div><i>The Risen Empire</i> is the first great space opera of the 21st century.<br><br>"The action moves with the pace of a well-executed military operation; a fascinating clash of supertechnologies. This story has everything: combat, intrigue, politics, and even an undead cat collection." -John C. Wright<br><br>The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He is worshipped as a living god. No one can touch him. <br><br>Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship AI minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, whose only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end the Emperor's tyranny, and replace it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty. They begin by taking hostage the Child Empress, his sister, who is eternally a little girl. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue.<br><br>Separated by light years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist Senator Nara Oxham must each, in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, as they hold the fate of the empire in their hands. <br><br>From the acclaimed author of <i>Fine Prey</i>, <i>Polymorph</i>, and <i>Evolution's Darling</i> (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic, Succession, which begins in <i>The Risen Empire</i>.<br></div>
    <div>"Literate space opera in the tradition of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and Frank Herbert's Dune books. With a light touch all his own, Westerfeld illumines the clash of mighty galactic empires by focusing on individuals who, despite the distractions of war and politics, cannot help falling in love."-<i>The New York Times</i>, a "Summer Reading" selection <br><br>"<i>The Risen Empire</i> is full of relentless and addictive action which is supported by some truly wild ideas.  Westerfeld's blend of traditional space opera and cutting-edge speculation makes this a truly 21st century SF novel."-Karl Schroeder<br><br>"Westerfeld's exceptionally smart and empathetic novel, the first of two in a series, confirms the buzz that space opera is one of the most exciting branches of current SF. . . . Keeping the reader constantly off-balance, Westerfeld skillfully integrates extreme technologies with human characters."-<i>Publishers Weekly </i>[Starred Review]<br><br>"<i>The Risen Empire</i> is proof that space opera can be as complex and sophisticated as any other form of literature. Doc Smith would barely recognize it."-- Mike Resnick<br><br>"Westerfeld spins a dramatic tale that never flags in pace or imagination, nor in its abundance of original vision abandons narrative in favor of didactic digressions . . . a strong and vibrant story, as engaging and innovative in its scope as his mechanical inventions or cultural constructs. In my opinion this novel represents a balance that much contemporary science fiction lacks. And just when you thought that the author has exhausted the possibilities for further invention, he takes the reader down entirely new and delightfully unexpected paths . . . the richness of imagination present in the author's world-building, as well as the febrile and vivid description that accompanies his settings and the novel's cultural and social infrastructure, easily set the book apart, not only from the common space opera but from most other science fiction as well. Westerfeld's characterizations . . . possess both depth and a poignant and compassionate humanity. . . . this recalls some of the best of Asimov but written with a more concise and breathless speed. It's been quite a while since I've read science fiction I've enjoyed  more or that combines narrative action with imagination as intelligently. Heartily recommended."--<i>Interzone</i><br><br>"There's always been something almost soothing about space opera: no matter how many starships explode, planetary rulers topple, and sinister aliens slither, the almost gleeful sense of wonder warms and comforts the reader. This space opera is so much more than that. <i>The Risen Empire</i> glows with sense of wonder, but it's stuffed with ideas, quirky technologies, nuances of moral choices, and sees conflicts from all sides. I loved it, I heartily recommend it, and I hope Scott Westerfeld pens many more books like it---quickly!"-Ed Greenwood<br><br>"Recent writers in [the space opera] sub-genre include the likes of Vernor Vinge, David Brin, Peter Hamilton, Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds, and Karl Schroeder. Indeed, many of the most popular writers in the science fiction field today are writing space operas. Scott Westerfeld is the latest author to throw his hat into the ring with his new novel <i>The Risen Empire</i> . . . [a] baroque space opera. The novel contains a great story with interesting sub-plots, cool technology, and engaging characters. I found Risen a fun read full of intriguing ideas and  reminiscent of Iain Banks' Culture novels in breadth and scope."-SFRevu.com<br><br>"In Westerfeld's hands, science fiction's cutting edge is wielded with both the precision of a surgeon's scalpel and the wild abandon of a machete."-Wil McCarthy<br><br>"This is the start of an ambitious saga that delivers that good old science fiction "sense of wonder" combined with a thoroughly modern -- and even post-modern -- information age sensibility.  Westerfeld creates an incredibly rich, consistently imagined far-future milieu packed with inspired transhuman civilization-building, technological foresight, and the fine attention to details both large and small that marks this as visionary science fiction of the highest quality. Westerfeld's got creativity out the yin yang!"-Tony Daniel<br></div>
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      Eloquence Unique Code
      345443
      Tor Books
    Tom Doherty Associates
    20040801

      Holtzbrinck Publishers
      NP
      20040801

      48

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        54 - Mass Market
        7.99
        USD
        20040709