A collection of short stories by author Zelazny, including the 1965 Nebula Award winner, "He Who Shapes" and "The Stainless Steel Leech", Zelazny's parody of Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" series.

Guy Gavriel Kay creates yet another inspired mix of history and fantasy in this epic novel based on the events from the ninth-century reign of Anglo-Saxon king Alfred of Wessex. For years, the internecine squabbling between the various Cyngael and Angelcyn peoples has made them easy prey for Erling raiders. But the Angelcyn King Aeldred has devoted his reign to consolidating his hold on his lands, and his work is put to the test when a large force of Erlings invades. As always, the author provides readers with sympathetic characters on both sides of the conflict. This is a stand-alone novel, but fans of Kay will enjoy the brief references he makes to his two-book SARANTINE MOSAIC series, which is set 300 years before THE LAST LIGHT OF THE SUN. Those references help to accentuate one of the main points of the book: that the crushing weight of history has a tendency to obliterate the small--but telling--details that are so vital to people actually experiencing important events.

This is another collection of Tolkien's previously unpublished tales that depict events leading up to and during those described in "The Silmarillion".

This prequel to "Eon", the fluid nature of time is stretched in a tunnel through time and space, called the Way, that has exits to a million different worlds. Olmy Ap Sennon has been ordered to follow a group of dissenters who have illegally colonized Lamarkia, a forbidden world, and to investigate this beautiful but perilous planet.

This prequel to "Eon", the fluid nature of time is stretched in a tunnel through time and space, called the Way, that has exits to a million different worlds. Olmy Ap Sennon has been ordered to follow a group of dissenters who have illegally colonized Lamarkia, a forbidden world, and to investigate this beautiful but perilous planet.

A collection of short stories by some of the best writers in the fantasy field. Many of the authors used this collection to write pieces about their ongoing series characters. For example, Orson Scott Card's contribution is a previously unpublished story in his popular "Alvin Maker" series.

A collection of short stories by some of the best writers in the fantasy field. Many of the authors used this collection to write pieces about their ongoing series characters. For example, Orson Scott Card's contribution is a previously unpublished story in his popular "Alvin Maker" series.

In a Central America in the near future, a soldier finds reality becoming more and more fluid around him, the direct result of the blood- and drug-soaked conflict in which he is involved, but doesn't understand.

Pi, the precocious animal-loving son of an Indian zookeeper, loses his family in a shipwreck en route to North America--and is left alone in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he manages (thanks to his zoo background) to strike up an ingenious truce. When they finally reach land and the tiger disappears, Pi finds that no one will believe his story--and so he creates an alternative tale, one that is false but sounds true. This whimsical fantasy was short-listed for Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and won the Booker Prize in 2002. Also a New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Pi, the precocious animal-loving son of an Indian zookeeper, loses his family in a shipwreck en route to North America--and is left alone in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he manages (thanks to his zoo background) to strike up an ingenious truce. When they finally reach land and the tiger disappears, Pi finds that no one will believe his story--and so he creates an alternative tale, one that is false but sounds true. This whimsical fantasy was short-listed for Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and won the Booker Prize in 2002. Also a New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Pi, the precocious animal-loving son of an Indian zookeeper, loses his family in a shipwreck en route to North America--and is left alone in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he manages (thanks to his zoo background) to strike up an ingenious truce. When they finally reach land and the tiger disappears, Pi finds that no one will believe his story--and so he creates an alternative tale, one that is false but sounds true. This whimsical fantasy was short-listed for Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and won the Booker Prize in 2002. Also a New York Times Notable Book for 2002.