Forget about Grisham, Turow and all those other scribbling ex-lawyers. The best writer of legal mysteries working today is Kate Wilhelm of Eugene, Oregon. Her first two books about Barbara Holloway -- The Best Defense and Death Qualified -- were sleeper s
Someone is setting fire to abandoned hotels, restaurants and schools around the country, at erratic intervals, in apparently arbitrary locations. Worse, each arson is accompanied by murder and mutilation. Unlikely detective team Charlie Meiklejohn and Con
Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe,
Contents xiii • Introduction: Summation: 1987 • essay by Gardner Dozois1 • Rachel in Love • (1987) • novelette by Pat Murphy28 • Dream Baby • (1987) • novelette by Bruce McAllister57 • Flowers of Edo • (1987) • novelette by Bruce Ste
Presents 23 of the finest science-fiction works of 1992, including stories by such diverse writers as Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Maureen F. McHugh, Mike Resnick, and others.Contents xi • Summation: 1992 •
Kate Wilhelm, a master of psychological fiction in America, delivers a legal thriller in which Barbara Holloway takes on the devil himself in her toughest case yet.When Barbara Holloway agrees to represent Maggie Folsum, she assumes it will be a case of s
A superb story of death, love and deception. -- starred, "Library Journal" A wrenching masterpiece about love, loyalty, and lies that will lodge itself in readers' psyches long after they've finished the last, stunning chapter. -- starred, "Booklist" When
Again, Dangerous Visions, first published in 1972, is the sequel to the sf short story anthology Dangerous Visions. It was edited by Harlan Ellison, illustrated by Ed Emshwiller. Like its predecessor, Again, Dangerous Visions and the 46 stories within it
