1) Timeline - Michael Crichton
"In an
Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no
sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly
cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world
archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site.
Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive
multinational corporation that has developed an astounding
technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study
the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present,
the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find
themselves fighting for their very survival–six hundred years ago.
. . . "
2) Star Trek - Invasion! (Bumper Edition)
"The ultimate Star Trek® saga, spanning four thrilling
adventures! The bestselling Star Trek epic of all time!
Long ago, even before the days of myth and legend, our worlds
belonged to them. Now, across time and space, comes a fury that
will test every one of Starfleet's greatest heroes.... "
3) Dalglish - Stephen F. Kelly (Biography of Kenny
Dalglish)
"This updated edition of the 1992 biography tells the story of
Kenny Dalglish, and takes his story up to March 1997, covering his
appointment as manager of Newcastle United."
4) Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
When a U.S. president decides that drug smuggling has become a
"clear and present danger" to national security, the response is a
complex and covert military campaign against the "Colombian
Cartel."
5) Dragonlance : The Second Generation - Margaret Weis
& Tracy Hickman
Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The
people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their
families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their
homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds
behind them.
But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are
ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and
take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile
peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all
the races. The time has come to pass the sword -- or the staff --
to the children of the Lance.
They are the Second Generation.
6) Needful Things - Stephen King
Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful
Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her
lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing
amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each
person perform a little "deed," usually a seemingly innocent prank
played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out
of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself.
Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the
population's increasingly violent behavior.
7) Forgotten Realms : Darkwater on Moonshae - Douglas
Niles
8) The TommyKnockers - Stephen King
Writer Bobbi Anderson becomes obsessed with digging up
something she's found buried in the woods near her home. With the
help of her friend, Jim Gardener, she uncovers an alien spaceship.
Though exposure to the Tommyknockers who piloted the alien craft
has detrimental effects on residents' health, the people of Haven
develop a talent for creating innovative devices under its
increasingly malignant influence.
9) Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons
The second novel by World Fantasy Award-winner Simmons ( The
Song of Kali ) is a 636-page epic that draws on a variety of
genres--horror, science fiction, political thriller, Hollywood
roman a clef. It centers around a small number of "mind vampires"
who can subjugate other people to their wills, read their minds,
experience through their senses. The immensely powerful vampires
use others, often bloodily, and often in frivolous "games" (hunting
human prey, chess games with human pieces, and so on). Opposing
them are Saul Laski, a psychologist and concentration-camp
survivor, who is devoted to tracking down the Nazi vampire von
Borchert; Natalie Preston, whose father inadvertently and fatally
crossed the path of a pawn of the ancient, dotty vampire Melanie
Fuller; Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, dragged in while investigating
the multiple murders that marked the departure of Melanie Fuller
from Charleston; and a host of other normals and vampires whose
lives impinge on those of the principals. While he could profitably
have trimmed the novel by a third, Simmons has produced, overall, a
compelling thriller.
10) Encounter with Tiber - Buzz Aldrin & John
Barnes
Buzz Aldrin, one of manned space flight's pioneers, has helped
create a stunning, possibly prophetic novel of the future of space
exploration. A radio beacon from an unknown world leads an
astronaut to disaster on the Moon -- and his son far beyond that as
he searches for the key to the mystery of Tiber, a civilization who
left artifacts in the solar system some 9,000 years ago, with
sufficient impact on human affairs to explain some odd references
in the Bible. The villains of the book are not the aliens, but the
benighted politicians with the minds of accountants who won't fund
the necessary scientific derring-do to save the world -- apparently
an affliction which alien astronauts also have to bear.
11) Frontiers II - Isaac & Janet Asimov
In this second collection of their weekly science columns for
the Los Angeles Times syndicate, Isaac Asimov is joined by his
wife, Janet, who coauthored a number of the essays and
independently wrote about a quarter of them. Apparently, Isaac was
ill during the winter before his death in April 1992, and Janet
therefore became involved in his work. This collection is as
far-ranging as the first ( Frontiers , LJ 1/90), dealing with
proteins in the first paper, then advancing to "What Teeth Can Tell
Us," an analysis of the dodo, and a discussion of the spread of
landfills. The book is arranged in four parts: "Life: Past,
Present, and Future"; "Our Planet and Our Neighbors"; "Science and
Technology"; and "The Universe from Quarks to the Cosmos." As
educational and entertaining as the first volume, this is
recommended for popular science collections.
12) The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
(Hardcover)
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