Laldasa: Beloved Slave

A Tale from the Asok Tree

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

When one sees eternity in things that pass away and infinity in finite things, then one has pure knowledge. — Krishna, Bhagavad Gita 18:20

Anala Nadim is a free woman until she travels to the planet Mehtar to procure supplies for her father's mining operation on Mehtar's impoverished sister world—the colony planet Avasa. When a twist of fate enslaves Anala to the Lord Prince Jaya Sarojin, Anala is engaged in a battle to free herself from slavery and her world from subjugation to a corrupt Mehtaran consortium. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal, political intrigue and love that introduces both Jaya and Anala to lives they had never before imagined.

Warning: There are elements of mystery and romance in this work of science fiction!

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Revise the World

Brenda Clough

On March 16, 1912, British polar explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out of his tent into an Antarctic blizzard, to save Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the English exploration team. His body is never found — because he was snatched away into the year 2045 by scientists experimenting with a new faster-than-light drive. Arriving in the future, Oates stubbornly sticks to his old explorer job and sets off on an intergalactic adventure that leads to both knowledge and self-knowledge. The first section of this novel appeared as a novella in Analog Science Fiction magazine (April 2001) under the title “May Be Some Time.” It was a finalist for both the Nebula and the Hugo awards.

Resonance

Chris Dolley

Graham Smith is an obsessive-compulsive who believes that any change to his daily routine can cause the world to slip out of kilter. He'd seen the evidence - roads change course, people disappear, office blocks migrate across town. All at night when no one’s looking.

Annalise Mercado hears voices, all from girls calling themselves Annalise. She tries to block them out but then they tell her about Graham Smith, the men who want him dead, and how only she can save him.

“Resonance is a tremendously accomplished book ... and immediately raises Dolley into the ranks of writers to watch. It's a head-over-heels romp through ever-changing realities, crammed with great set-pieces, excellent hooks and some nice one-liners,” Keith Brooke, Infinity Plus.

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Dreamer

Steven Harper

A Novel of The Silent Empire

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Nightmare

Steven Harper

A novel of The Silent Empire

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Polar City Blues

Katharine Kerr

“In some ways Polar City Blues is my tribute to the classic SF I read as a teenager. In other ways, it’s a heavily Revisionist book, where the Hero is female and the Object of Desire is male. Mostly, however, it’s a fast-paced adventure story complete with dead bodies, hookers, drugs, mysterious aliens, and several high-speed chases both on the ground and elsewhere.”

— Katharine Kerr

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Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls

ed. Phyllis Irene Radford

“Fasten your seatbelts and brace your tentacles. These all-star tales of epic wonder from the genre’s masters will sizzle through your mind like a spaceship on re-entry burn.”

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Aliens, technology, humanity, exploration, loss, transformation, and a title only the Internet’s original author’s cooperative could imagine.

An anthology of classic and favorite science fiction stories by the BVC authors, never before gathered in a single collection, Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls is the premier title from Book View Press.

Vonda N. McIntyre - Brenda W. Clough - Katharine Kerr

Judith Tarr - P.R. Frost - Pati Nagle - Madeleine Robins

Nancy Jane Moore - Sarah Zettel - Amy Sterling Casil

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - Jennifer Stevenson - Sylvia Kelso

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Dreamsnake

Serialized

Vonda N. McIntyre

Book View Cafe serializes Dreamsnake, one chapter each Sunday.

Chapter 1 of Dreamsnake was originally published as “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand.” and won the Nebula Award.

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The Moon and the Sun

Vonda N. McIntyre

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“Inspired by tales of ancient sea-monsters, McIntyre spins a marvelous alternative-history fable about greed and goodness, power and pathos set at the 17th century court of Louis XIV, France’s glittering Sun King... McIntyre vividly re-creates a Versailles poised on the cusp between alchemy and modern science. Her imaginings enliven her history with wonder, but, as in the best fantasy, they serve less to dazzle by their inventiveness than to illuminate brilliantly real-world truths — here, humanity’s responses, base and noble, when confronting the unknown.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The Moon and the Sun is, quite simply, a breathtaking novel. Vonda N. McIntyre, best known for her science-fiction/fantasy tales, here weaves a story of love, betrayal, and redemption that will enthrall readers across the genres. This belongs on a shelf labeled ‘The Best of the Best’.” — The Romance Reader

Starfarers

Vonda N. McIntyre

The first book of The Starfarers Quartet: Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus.

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Transition

Book 2 of The Starfarers Quartet

Vonda N. McIntyre

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Metaphase

Vonda N. McIntyre

The third book of The Starfarers Quartet: Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus.

Abandoned by the interstellar civilization and the alien humans, Starfarer and its faculty and staff meet the mysterious squidmoth, Nemo.

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Superluminal

Vonda N. McIntyre

She gave up her heart quite willingly...

Jaydium

Deborah J. Ross

writing as Deborah Wheeler

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Accidental Creatures

Anne Harris

In a near-future Detroit, the living polymer industry has the city in its grip. While vat-divers struggle to organize, the GeneSys Corporation works on making human workers obsolete. An escaped mutant, a con-artist  and a techno-geek team up to unravel corporate blackmail, deceit and murder.  One thing is certain:  the city and the world will never be the same once the latest R&D development is unleashed.

Imago

Amy Sterling Casil

“Amy Sterling Casil is a rising star, joining the brightest new constellation of science fiction”

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Slave Trade

Susan Wright  

Human slaves can never defy their alien masters — or can they?

Rose Rico never believed the rumors that the government was secretly selling human beings to the Alphas in exchange for advanced alien technology. The idea that human sex slaves were a luxury item throughout the galaxy was just too ridiculous to take seriously – until Rose found herself, along with hundreds of other human captives, bound for the far reaches of space, and compelled to cater to the depraved desires of her new alien masters. As a rule, pleasure slaves don’t live very long, especially the stubborn ones. But Rose refuses to give up. Someday, somehow, she'll win back her freedom – or die trying!

Look for a free chapter every Tuesday on Book View Cafe. Originally published by Pocket Books (2003) as part of the Slave Trade trilogy including Slave Masters (2004) and Slaves Unchained (2005). www.susanwright.info

Squatter’s Rights

A Rhys Llewellyn story

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.

Negotiations might go much more smoothly if we could only see things from the other party’s point of view. This can be difficult — especially if the other party is alien.

This is the second in a series of stories about Rhys Llewellyn xenoanthropologist/archaeologist and was serialized in Analog magazine.

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All the Colors of Love

Anne Harris

Antonin’s warm, quirky, criminal family are a revelation to Harry, who grew up on an isolated island with his abusive, wealthy father. Harry’s unquestioning acceptance of Antonin and his loved ones is a refreshing change from the disbelief and scorn Antonin is accustomed to from classmates. The two teenagers become friends and soon fall in love, but Harry’s father has plans to manipulate their relationship for his own gain, and Antonin’s aunt harbors a secret that may destroy them all.

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Fool’s War

Sarah Zettel

Original artwork by Donato Giancola

It takes all kinds to save a world.

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