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Search and Destroy

Nancy A. Collins

Sonja Blue is back! In a world full of sparkling vampires, it's time someone finally brought the hurt! Before there was Sookie Stackhouse, Anita Blake, or even Buffy, there was Sonja Blue, the Stoker Award-winning tough-as-nails, wisecracking vampire/vampire slayer. Just as Iggy Pop set the tone for the Punk Revolution, Sonja Blue blazed the trail for the multitude of urban fantasy heroines that would follow her. And now she's back with a vengeance in
Search and Destroy
, her first original short   story in 10 years. Homeless people are disappearing from the suburban No Man's   Land known as The Scrub, and Sonja Blue is there to find out why--and put an end to it as only she can.

Knuckles and Tales

Nancy A. Collins

Knuckles and Tales is a collection of atmospheric, disturbing, spooky, and downright weird Southern Gothic short stories by award-winning author Nancy A Collins, best known for her edgy novels featuring the punk vampire/vampire slayer Sonja Blue. The original hardback edition of Knuckles and Tales was nominated by both the Horror Writers Association and the International Horror Guild for Best Collection of 2002.  The stories on display in Knuckles and Tales range from suspense and psychological horror to dark fantasy and black comedy, with the occasional weird love story thrown in for good measure. Knuckles and Tales features two never before published novelettes in the Seven Devils Cycle: "Junior Teeter And The Bad Shine" and "the Pumpkin Child", as well as the previously unpublished short story "Big Easy".

Aldair in Albion

Neal Barrett Jr.

On the day that Aldair found that his world had abruptly turned upside down, his history- changing quest began. And he did not even then know that it was to be a quest.

Aldair had been a true acolyte of the Faith when it happened. And then he found himself an accursed outcast, the one against whom all hands were raised.

His only friends were those who had been his most vicious enemies. His only course led to the lands of horror. And his final goal had to be—that most forbidden of all lands, the dwelling place of the dead, that island of total terror known as Albion.

Neal Barrett's novel is an adventure in an unexpected futurity equal in inventive surprises to his highly praised —STRESS PATTERN.

Aldair, Master of Ships

Neal Barrett Jr.

To Find Man

"I have done more than my share of wandering.

In a few short years, I have been slave, scholar and master of ships. I have played no small part in the death of two great empires. I have nearly been eaten whole by the shapeless thing that guards the Great River. I have even soared above the earth like a large ungainly bird….

"Finally, I have come to know the handiwork of Man, in the sad and fearful land of Merrkia, across the Misty Sea. The terrible secret of that race has come to light at last, though it is a thing I can scarcely fathom even now. And if I have learned nothing more in my travels, I can say in all truth that I am proud to be the beast I am….

—Aidair, late of the Venicii.

The Earth was still green and fully populated — its "men" were the products of a science that might have begun with the Dr. Moreau of Wellsian legend.

Fate had chosen Aldair to seek the truth about Man. Why had Man created these new beast-races — and above all where had man gone? Truly, an astonishing adventure in future projection.

Aldair, Across the Misty Sea

Neal Barrett Jr.

"Highly recommended,” was the verdict of the

Science Fiction Review on the first Aldair novel, which brought a young not-quite-man into exploration of a world strikingly similar to ours yet different. The comparison made then with Clifford Simak's

City holds true for this new account of Aldair and his world.

For his world and ours are the same ...but his lies in the future and seems destined to parallel the history of our own. Where is humanity? What legacy has true mankind left to its manlike descendants that they must relive our past?

For Aldair has been forced into the role of a future

Magellan, who must travel down the coasts of unmapped continents, facing monsters, winged wizards and great dangers, to find a knowledge older than the history of his entire race.

Aldair: The Legion of Beasts

Neal Barrett Jr.

"One of the strangest adventurers in the history of science fiction. It is millennia from now and mankind has vanished from the Earth, under mysterious circumstances...

But he has left a legacy behind him: a host of intelligent species artificially enhanced by means of humanity's genetic science. Aldair is one such product, an intelligent, upright pig.

Serious intriguing adventure, with some of the most carefully crafted settings I've read in years.Barrett seems to have surpassed himself in this series:' —SE Chronicle

Through Darkest America

Neal Barrett Jr.

Post Apocalypse America: Bluevale was about all Howie had seen of the world. Even his Pa, who knew everything, didn’t know much about the way it was before the war. Scriptures said all of the unclean animals had been wiped out. Howie didn’t know what that meant exactly. He’d seen horses. And stock of course. Stock looked like humans. ‘Cept stock had no soul. That’s why they was meat. Contains Bonus Chapter!

Dawn’s Uncertain Light

Neal Barrett Jr.

After The Fall...

America's Great Dream is over. Centuries ago it was devastated by the ultimate war. The effects still linger. Food is scarce, water even scarcer and human compassion nowhere to be found. Even so, society is slowly rebuilding itself. But is it a society whose thirst for success is built on an enormous, barbaric lie: