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This sweeping historical fantasy follows two immortals from the 1300s onward, as they chase one another across timeAn immortal Muse whose very survival depends on the creativity she nurtures within her lovers....Another immortal who feeds not on artistry but on pain and torment....A chase through time from 1300s Paris to contemporary New York, with two people bound together in enmity and fury....When magic and science are melded together, an a...

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Originally Published as 'Thunder Rift.' *** "Replete with adventure, mystery, and sociological conflict."-Publishers Weekly *** First contact was never supposed to be like this. * A sudden rift appears in near-earth space, causing electronic components to permanently fail and cause total chaos. As Earth's fragile technological society disintegrates, no one can answer the obvious question-what is the rift, and who or what has created it. ...

Carlos Theopelli had been dead for years, and no one cared about his life's work: the so-called "Destiny Matrices." As far as most people were concerned, Theopelli was just another crackpot scientist, and pretty much a jerk, to boot. But not to Angela. And not to the mage-dwarf Caleb Mundo and his pet mindbeast Alice. To them, Theopelli's notebook -- and his corpse -- might be the key to survival. Everything swirled around the confused mind o...

There is a certain magic growing up with life-long friends. The charmed existence became almost dream-like with two young boys growing up in a small neighborhood surrounded by an old, dense forest. **** But what happens when fantasies start becoming all too real? Grotesque and bloody rites give rise to a fey and magical girl who threatens to destroy the last remnants of the boys' idyllic childhood existence...whose mere presence may set the ...

This sweeping historical fantasy follows two immortals from the 1300s onward, as they chase one another across timeAn immortal Muse whose very survival depends on the creativity she nurtures within her lovers....Another immortal who feeds not on artistry but on pain and torment....A chase through time from 1300s Paris to contemporary New York, with two people bound together in enmity and fury....When magic and science are melded together, an a...

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Set in Ireland and Chicago, The Crow of Connemara is the spellbinding tale of Colin Doyle, a young Irish-American musician drawn to his grandfather's homeland. Entranced by the music and legends of the island, gifted with his grandfather's journal and a mysterious jewel, and bespelled by dreamlike images of a woman calling to him, Colin feels his inescapable destiny lies across the waters. On the west coast of Ireland, in the Connemara region,...

Winner of the Specturm Award. Often compared to Ursula Le Guinn's ground-breaking "The Left Hand of Darkness, " "Dark Water's Embrace" is a fascinating look at issues of human (and alien) sexuality. Stephen Leigh creates a rich world with elaborate care and uses this alien backdrop to delve into issues of survival, sexuality and the meaning of life itself. *****"The fact is that Stephen Leigh's new novel is a fine piece of work and one that de...

The descendants of humans marooned on the strange planet known as Mictlan have survived against almost impossible odds and have reached a tentative peace with themselves and the native inhabitants. **** Perhaps the most terrifying change has been the development of a third human gender-the mid-male 'Sa' fundamentally changing the meaning of relationships and social structures humans have known for thousands of years. **** Adjustments to th...