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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.178 Archive-name: books/basement-full Version: 6.02 Last-modified: 9 October 1992 Periodicity: 30 days Copies of this list may be obtained by anonymous ftp to pit-manager.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) under /pub/usenet/news.answers/books/basement-full. Or, send email to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with the subject line "send usenet/news.answers/books/basement-full", leaving the body of the message empty. Basement Full of Books Release 6.02 October 9, 1992 NEW BOOKS, AVAILABLE BY MAIL DIRECTLY FROM THEIR AUTHORS Books by William Barton & Michael Capobianco, Bruce Boston, John Brunner, Jeff Carver, Valerie Nieman Colander, Gene DeWeese, Harlan Ellison, Sheila Finch, James Gunn, Joe Haldeman, Gwenyth Hood, Eileen Kernaghan, Edward M. Lerner, Vonda N. McIntyre, Thom Metzger, Hank Nuwer, Alexei & Cory Panshin, Bill Ransom, Robert J. Sawyer, Dave Smeds, John E. Stith, L.A. Taylor, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, and George Zebrowski. Note to readers: When you order books, please be clear about any special requests: inscription to someone other than yourself; signature only; if you're a book collector and absolute perfection of the dust jacket is important to you. Readers interested in the following books may write (or in some cases send e-mail) to the individual authors for price information. A stamped return envelope (SASE) or International Reply Coupon is very much appreciated and often allows a quicker response. ***** NOVEL BY WILLIAM BARTON & MICHAEL CAPOBIANCO Iris, Doubleday, 1990, hardcover signed by both authors. From a future Earth ravaged by economic collapse to a rogue planet and its three enigmatic moons, from the familiarity of a colony ship to the heart -- and mind -- of a totally alien world, William Barton and Michael Capobianco take both the reader and the crew of the Deepstar on a daring odyssey of extraterrestrial exploration and dazzling alien contact. For further information, send SASE to: Horus Associates P.O. Box 4443 Woodbridge, VA 22194 ***** BOOKS BY BRUCE BOSTON JACKBIRD, short stories, magic realism, 1976, trade paper, 80 pp., Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, Berkeley, California. Also available rebound as hard cover, 1991, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California). SHE COMES WHEN YOU'RE LEAVING, short stories, magic realism, 1982, trade paper, 64 pp., Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, Berkeley, California Also available rebound as hard cover, 1991, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California). Includes "Broken Portraiture" (Pushcart Prize for Fiction) and "Interview With a Gentleman Farmer" (selected by Asimov, Carr and Greenberg for 100 Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories). NUCLEAR FUTURES, science fiction poetry, collages by Robert Frazier, 1987, paper, 18 pp., Velocities, Berkeley, California THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTOR, dark fantasy poetry, illustrated by Gregorio Montejo, 1988, paper, 36 pp., 2 AM Publications, Rockford, Illinois. Includes 1989 and 1990 Rhysling winners for Best SF Poem of the Year. SKIN TRADES, sf/fantasy/horror stories, illustrated by Allen Koszowski, 1988, paper, 64 pp., Chris Drumm Books, Polk City, Iowa. Also available rebound as hard cover, 1990, Borgo Press, San Bernardino, California) FACES OF THE BEAST, dark fantasy poetry, illustrated by Allen Koszowski, 1990, trade paper, 60 pp., or hard cover, Starmont House, Mercer Island, Washington THE NEW BRUCE BOSTON OMNIBUS, five volumes as boxed set (includes Jackbird, She Comes When You're Leaving, Nuclear Futures, Titan Press Magazine #5: Time, and The Nightmare Collector), 1990, 218 pp., Ocean View Books, Mountain View, California AFTER MAGIC, fantasy novelet, illustrated by Lari Davidson, 1990, paper, 56 pp., The Eotu Group, Boise, Idaho HYPERTALES & METAFICTIONS, fantasy/horror stories, collages by t. winter-damon, 1990, paper, 64 pp. Also available in signed limited edition including poetry tape with music by Jack Poley. Chris Drumm Books, Polk City, Iowa SHORT CIRCUITS, prose poems and short-short stories, collages by t.winter-damon, bound in double format with Bad News From the Stars by Steve Sneyd, 1991, trade paper, 84 pp., Also available in hard cover. Ocean View Books, Mountain View, California ALL THE CLOCKS ARE MELTING, short story booklet, 1991, paper, 40 pp., Pulphouse, Eugene, Oregon (included in Hypertales & Metafictions) HOUSES & OTHER STORIES, mainstream novelet and stories, 1991, paper, 52 pp., Talisman, Beech Grove, Indiana CYBERTEXTS, science fiction poetry, 1992, paper, illustrated by Alan Giana, 40 pp., Talisman, Beech Grove, Indiana. Includes winning poems from both the Asimov and Aboriginal SF Reader Polls. For further information, send SASE to: Bruce Boston P.O. Box 6398 Albany CA 94706 510-524-9797 ******* BOOKS BY JOHN BRUNNER John Brunner (Hugo Award, British Fantasy Award, British SF Award, Prix Apollo, Cometa d'Argento, Gilgamesh Award, Premio Italia, Europa Special Award, etc.) has available US, UK, and foreign language versions of his work, among which a few first editions and several o/p. Please send inquiries, giving as clear an idea as possible of what's wanted, with SAE in UK only, International Reply Coupon elsewhere, to: John Brunner Square House Palmer St. South Petherton TA13 5DB UK ******* NOVELS BY JEFFREY A. CARVER THE INFINITY LINK (hardcover, Bluejay, 1984, 540 pages) STAR RIGGER'S WAY (Dell, pb, 1978, 237 pages) STAR RIGGER'S WAY (Arrow U.K., pb, 237 pages) PANGLOR (Dell, pb, 1980, 268 pages) THE INFINITY LINK (Tor, pb, 1985, 540 pages) THE INFINITY LINK (Tor, pb, 2nd ed. , 540 pages) THE RAPTURE EFFECT (Tor, pb, 1987, 371 pages) ALIEN SPEEDWAY: CLYPSIS (Bantam, pb, 1987, 163 pages) FROM A CHANGELING STAR (Bantam, pb, 1989, 355 pages) DOWN THE STREAM OF STARS (Bantam, pb, 1990, 355 pages) DRAGONS IN THE STARS, (Tor, pb, 1992, 313 pages) For further information, send SASE to: Jeffrey A. Carver 102 Melrose St. Arlington, MA 02174 (GEnie: JEFF.CARVER) ***** NOVEL BY VALERIE NIEMAN COLANDER NEENA GATHERING (Pageant Books, July 1988, pb, 270 pgs.) Lead SF title in debut of the short-lived Pageant line (Crown Publishers). Now out-of-print. Set in West Virginia, near future, following biochemical warfare and sectional division. Coming-of-age story. "Unlike many postholocaust stories that offer Huck Finns wandering the wasteland, this charming, unpretentious novel delves into a different form of the pastoral, modeling itself on Thoreauvian attention to a person's place and moral actions in the spheres of nature, society, intellect and the like." -- Publishers Weekly For price information, please send SASE or email to: Valerie Nieman Colander P.O. Box 1614 Fairmont, W.Va. 26554 CIS 70322,1441 ***** BOOKS BY GENE/JEAN DEWEESE. JEREMY CASE. Paperback sf. An alien something-or-other gives a borderline retarded young man the power to heal himself and others. Original title before editorial simplification: THE THREE DEATHS OF JEREMY CASE. BLACK SUITS FROM OUTER SPACE THE DANDELION CAPER THE CALVIN NULLIFIER Hardcover juvenile sf series about 12-year-old Calvin Willeford and Kathy Entsminger and the outer space denizens they bump into, including some klutzy dinosaur types and a small yellow cat with retractable fingers who's a sort of feline lensman (interstellar cop, for non-Doc Smith fans). In BLACK SUITS, they find out why Grey Barker's UFO aliens always wore black suits. In DANDELION, Calvin finds out why some people, including himself, can never get a VCR to work properly. In NULLIFIER, they use chocolate chip cookies and a couple of Newton's laws to save a Voyager-type spacecraft during its Uranus flyby. ADVENTURES OF A TWO-MINUTE WEREWOLF. Hardcover juvenile sf/fantasy, depending on your criteria. It was watered down a bit when it was made into an ABC Weekend Special in '85. And it's no relation to TEEN WOLF, unless whoever wrote the TW screenplay had read TWO-MINUTE and decided to really screw it up. THE WANTING FACTOR and SOMETHING ANSWERED The Salman Rushdie Special. In WANTING FACTOR, the Man in Half Moon Street turns out to be Christ. Bob Briney once said, "If you could get Jerry Falwell to burn a polyester suit on your lawn, you'd have a bestseller." Fortunately or unfortunately, it never happened. In SOMETHING ANSWERED, someone finds what may or may not be God and, in the end, answers Her/His/Its prayer. Both are in "occult" format but are sf under the surface, if you consider psi powers sf. Both are paperbacks, 1980 and 1983, respectively. A DIFFERENT DARKNESS. 1982 paperback, closer to a "standard" occult than either of the above, but still with a more or less science fictional rationale. Reincarnation, dimensional doors, etc. GATES OF THE UNIVERSE and NIGHTMARE UNIVERSE. Paperback collaborations with Robert Coulson. GATES was about a hack writer who bumbles through a dimensional door on his employer's bulldozer and gets involved with aliens from various other universes. One is a scholarly dinosaur, another a six-foot-plus female warrior who tends to pick the protagonist up and throw him away when she gets annoyed with him. NIGHTMARE is an "interactive" version of the same story, with some new twists added. Read in the right order, it consists of three separate novelettes, each revealing a bit more of what is really going on. If desired, a map can be included so you can pick the right branches. MAKING AMERICAN FOLK ART DOLLS. Trade paperback. So far as I know, it's the only doll making book that tells you how to make a papier mache' mummy and a dried apple shrunken head. And a gourd George Washington. Illustrated, of course. NIGHTMARE IN PEWTER. Hardcover. Occult/romantic suspense format, but actually it's about a spaceship buried under a midwest Indian mound. For King fans, think of it as a cheapie version of THE TOMMYKNOCKERS, written ten years earlier. HOUR OF THE CAT. Hardcover. Straight mystery in which one of our cats (Fahfrd, renamed Muldoon for the book) is a major character and gets to help do in the villain at the end. GINGER'S WISH. Hardcover. A squeaky clean "romance" with some mystery elements involving what Ginger, a recently deceased small town newspaper owner and one-time vaudeville performer, really did with the money everyone thought she had. Written with Connie Kugi of West Allis, WI. For further information, send SASE to: Gene DeWeese 2718 N. Prospect Milwaukee, WI 53211 Or phone: (414) 332-7306 ***** BOOKS BY HARLAN ELLISON: ANGRY CANDY (Houghton Mifflin, 1988, hardcover) THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON, ed. Terry Dowling with Richard Delap & Gil Lamont (Morpheus International, hc or trade pb). The best of Harlan Ellison has been assembled in this massive volume of more than 1000 pages, encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, reviews, photos, and even a full-length teleplay. AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS (Doubleday, 1972, 1st edition/2nd state, hardcover) NIGHT AND THE ENEMY (Comico, 1987, graphic novel; artist: Ken Steacy) STRANGE WINE (Harper & Row, 1978, first edition, hardcover) SHATTERDAY (Houghton Mifflin, 1980, third edition, hardcover) APPROACHING OBLIVION (Walker, 1974, first edition, hardcover) ALONE AGAINST TOMORROW (Macmillan, 1971, first edition, hardcover) MEMOS FROM PURGATORY (Jove paperback) I HAVE NO MOUTH & I MUST SCREAM (Ace, 1983, 2nd printing, paperback) PAINGOD AND OTHER DELUSIONS (Ace, 1983, 1st printing, paperback) STALKING THE NIGHTMARE, foreword by Stephen King (Berkley, 1985, 2nd printing, paperback) HITLER PEIGNAIT DES ROSES (French trade paperback) LES BARONS DE BROOKLYN (French trade paperback) GENTLEMAN JUNKIE (French trade paperback) LA BETE QUI CRIAIT AMOUR (French trade paperback) LA CHANSON DU ZOMBIE (French trade paperback) All books are in mint condition. If you wish any of the books signed, please indicate to whom. For further information, send SASE ("Self-addressed stamped envelope") to THE HARLAN ELLISON RECORD COLLECTION P.O. Box 55548 Sherman Oaks, CA 91413-0548. ***** SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS BY SHEILA FINCH THE GARDEN OF THE SHAPED (The Shaper Exile, Vol.I), 1987, Bantam pb, 217pp. Banished because of their renegade experimentation with human genetics, a handful of scientists from the infamous Venn Labs settle on the uninhabited planet of Ilia. What their enemies do not know is that the first subject of their experiments is the group itself: they have vastly extended their lifetimes. On Ilia, they are free to pursue their research, molding two races to possess talents unknown to mankind, and -- since the scientists have time on their hands to watch results -- giving them widely different social structures and theologies as well. The Lianis are hedonistic shapeshifters, matriarchal, beloved children (they have been given to believe) of their holy spirit, the Great Shaper. They inhabit a gentle, fruitful area of the planet, and their heart is the beautiful old city of Tia-ta- pel. The Rhodarus, who have been set down in harsh, desert country to the north, are fierce, warlike clans with exaggerated strength and skill. Their God, He-Who-Rules, is fierce and cruel to those who break his rules. Between these two races lives the third race, the Ganus, who were supposed to be standard human-stock controls. They are industrious farmers and artisans, family-oriented, and since they weren't given a deity they never found the need to invent one. This is the story of a young Liani princess, Sivell, ascending the throne in a time of an unprecedented Ganu uprising. Since her people value shapeshifting more than anything, and she is oddly awkward for one so royally bred, she feels inadequate to the task. But she does possess an uncommon curiosity and wisdom. Sivell stumbles on the horrifying secret of her people's creation, and as a result must deal with the social upheaval of war, discredited myths and her people's lost hope all at once. She has the chance to defy the powerful Venn scientists and forge a union among the races that the creators never dreamed possible. SHAPER'S LEGACY (The Shaper Exile, Vol II), 1989, Bantam pb, 279pp. Sivell's twin grandchildren, Col and Beryt, have grown up in a time of peace and prosperity between Ganu and Liani. There is one race now, instead of two, and they call themselves Ilian. Given access to the riches of the south, the Ganu craftsmen have inaugurated a period of high technical invention and comfort. Headstrong Beryt, who will one day be queen under the old Liani law, actually prefers to spend her time in the Ganu capital, hunting with her uncle in the dense forests that form Ilia's northern border. One day, separated from her uncle's hunters, she meets a fugitive Rhodaru chieftain. Opposites attract, they say, and Beryt and ReAth are alternately lovers and enemies, for their union can never be accepted by either nation. Their relationship plays out against the growing threat of Rhodaru invasion of Ilia, and the desperate attempts of Col and other wiser heads to defend the old Liani capital of Tia- ta-pel against the overwhelming power of the invaders. The Venn scientists, in the meantime, who discovered guilt in Sivell's time for their experiments, are now learning the limits of their longevity. One by one, they are dying out. But not before one of them manages to further complicate the lives and affairs of their former creations. SHAPING THE DAWN (The Shaper Exile, Book III), 1989, Bantam pb, 309pp. The Rhodarus rule all of Ilia, and the former Ganus and Lianis are subject races. But none of this matters to Rivi, a young orphaned Rhodaru girl of rather mixed parentage. Forced to leave her poor village, she makes her way to a settlement of free Ilians in the hills. But her new-found friends cannot protect her from the strange desire of the High Priest to hunt her down. She flees again, this time to the capital city of Kerratash where she becomes involved in clan intrigues and hostilities that she understands little of. The invalid and ineffectual Crown Prince helps her escape into the fabled country of Ilia to the south. Along the stages of this journey through a landscape torn by war and rebellion, she learns the secrets of her heritage; a visit to an old Liani queen, living in self-imposed exile, reveals Rivi's role in the destinies of the Ilian and Rhodaru peoples. She alone has the chance to unite all the races on Ilia -- if she is wise enough to find her way through the thickets of intrigue and danger and betrayal. Against this violent backdrop, the last of the Venn scientists, Kory Venn -- a child when the group first landed on Ilia -- learns of the coming of an unusual starship, and finds that his destiny is to answer for the deeds of the Shapers, and to face justice at the hands of their creations. For further information, please send SASE or email to: Sheila Finch Humanities Division El Camino College 16007 Crenshaw Blvd Torrance CA 90506 GEnie: S.FINCH4 ***** BOOKS BY JAMES GUNN ALTERNATE WORLDS: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION (Prentice Hall, 1975). The lavishly illustrated (32 pages of color photos) and much praised hardcover history of SF from the beginnings of imaginative writing to the mid- 1970s. (Very limited supply.) THE DREAMERS (Methuen, English paperback, 1982). A novel about a future shaped by the use of chemical memory to experience other people's lives -- and dreams. THE JOY MAKERS (Crown hardcover of 1961 Bantam paperback, 1984). A novel about the creation of a science of happiness and a world torn between philosophies of "getting what you want" and "wanting what you get." NEBULA AWARD STORIES TEN (Harper & Row, hardcover, 1975), ed. James Gunn. The award-winning stories of 1974 plus stories by Zelazny, Reamy, Farmer, and Grant, essays by Dickson and Scholes, and an introduction by Gunn. SOME DREAMS ARE NIGHTMARES (Scribners, hardcover, 1974). Gunn argues in an introduction that the novelette is the ideal form for science fiction and illustrates with novelettes -- "The Cave of Night," "Name Your Pleasure," "New Blood," and "Not So Great an Enemy" -- that became parts of three novels: STATION IN SPACE, THE JOY MAKERS, and THE IMMORTALS. For further information, please send SASE to: James Gunn Department of English 3116 Wescoe Hall Lawrence, KS 66045-2115 **** AUTOGRAPHED NEW FIRST EDITIONS BY JOE HALDEMAN THE HEMINGWAY HOAX, William Morrow, Inc., 1990. A scholar with a taste for larceny is pursued by an inter-dimensional literary critic with a license to kill. BUYING TIME, William Morrow, 1989. In a future where you can live forever if you have the right friends and a fortune, Dallas Barr is running out of money, friends, and time. Men with guns want to make his life even shorter. We have a few copies of the British first edition, with my original title -- THE LONG HABIT OF LIVING New English Library, 1989. ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED. St Martins, 1977. An undercover agent travels from planet to planet, working in disguise. MINDBRIDGE. St. Martins, 1976. The first exploration team to a nearby star discovers an alien race that may be the salvation of humanity--or its destruction. TOOL OF THE TRADE. William Morrow, 1987. A Soviet agent lives quietly in the U.S. for most of his life, waiting to be contacted by his government. His discovery of a mechanism that controls people's behavior earns him more attention than he bargained for. WORLDS APART. Viking, 1983. The second book in the WORLDS trilogy, this book follows Marianne O'Hara from her home in an orbiting space station to the ruins of Earth and then back to aim for the stars. For further information, please send SASE or email to: Joe & Gay Haldeman 5412 NW 14th Ave. Gainesville, FL 32605 GEnie: J.HALDEMAN1 **** NOVEL BY GWENYTH HOOD THE COMING OF THE DEMONS (William Morrow, 1982, hardcover, 288 pp). Generations ago, the technologically advanced Pelezitereans fled tyranny and disaster on their own planet, Urith, to seek a new home. Only after centuries of wandering, during which they form a complex ingrown culture within their colony ship, do they stumble upon a suitable planet. Unfortunately, it is inhabited, and their strict rules forbid them to interfere with its vibrant civilization. Unable, however, to resist the temptation, a small band of Pelezitereans mutiny and land. Then another party, including the young, untried, but brilliant Natheless yi-Induran, must hunt them down. In the process, they encounter a civilization indistinguishable from Medieval Terran Italy (circa 1268 A.D.) and find themselves, to their amazement, drawn into its political struggles." Autograph on request. For further information, send SASE or email to: Gwenyth Hood c/o Department of English, Marshall University Huntington WV 25755. GEnie: G.HOOD2 **** BOOKS BY EILEEN KERNAGHAN THE SARSEN WITCH is a tale of earth-magic, megaliths and high adventure in the bronze-age world of the Wessex warrior chieftains. Apprenticed to a bronze-smith, trapped into a political marriage with the Great Chief Ricca, the earth-witch Naeri uses her geomantic powers in a plot to overthrow the horse-tribes and restore the Earth-Mother's people to their ancestral lands. Continues the chronicles of the Grey Isles that began with JOURNEY TO APRILIOTH and SONGS FROM THE DROWNED LANDS (winner of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award for 1983-1984) Ace, 1989, pb. 218 pp. Based on a critically acclaimed documentary film by Jonathon Kay, WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT is a wide-ranging, in-depth look at the emotional and spiritual dimensions of reincarnation. Included are interviews with the Dalai Lama of Tibet and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross; the personal experience of Martin Sheen, Rae Dawn Chong and other entertainment figures; interviews with Australian aboriginal people on their concept of the "dream time"; chapters on channeling, spontaneous recollection of past lives, past-life regression and child prodigies; and a history of reincarnation as reflected in western art, literature and music.Berkley Non- fiction pb, 1990, 217 pp. LIGHT LIKE A SUMMONS, edited by J. Michael Yates. This anthology of five B.C. women poets includes speculative poetry by Rhysling Award nominees Eileen Kernaghan and Mary E. Choo. Cacanadadada Press, 1989. Trade pb, 77 pp. Please send SASE or International Reply Coupon to: Eileen Kernaghan 5512 Neville Street Burnaby B.C. V5J 2H7 Canada **** NOVEL BY EDWARD M. LERNER PROBE (Warner Books, 1991, 314 pages, paperback) "Hold-on-to-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller" -- Illinois Quarterly "Good old-fashioned flight and chase and murder" -- Fairfax Journal "A fast-paced thriller sure to please" -- Pete Earley _Prospector_, a privately owned space probe, has apparently stumbled upon the wreckage of an alien spaceship in the Asteroid Belt. Then researcher Bob Hanson uncovers proof that the discovery has been cleverly faked -- evidence that neither the hidden plotters nor the true believers want revealed. Hanson's only hope is to penetrate and expose the conspiracy... before the conspirators find him. For further information, please send SASE to: Edward M. Lerner 13018 Grey Friars Place Herndon VA 22071 **** BOOKS BY VONDA N. McINTYRE BARBARY Twelve-year-old Barbary emigrates to space, to the research station _Einstein_. Researchers and diplomats on board the station are preparing to meet the first alien spacecraft to visit the solar system. Barbary wants to stay with her new sister Heather and Heather's father Yoshi, but Barbary is keeping a secret. If her secret is discovered, she could be sent back to Earth. (Houghton Mifflin, 192 pp. Hardcover, first edition, autographed; or Ace paperback.) THE EXILE WAITING The rulers of the last city on earth exile Mischa (a young empath), and Jan Hikaru (an offworld poet) to the deep underground. They find a world of crystalline caverns, strange, isolated people, and rebellion. (Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 255 pp. Hardcover, first trade edition, autographed.) FIREFLOOD & OTHER STORIES A collection of eleven stories, including "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," the Nebula award-winning novelet that formed the basis of DREAMSNAKE; "Fireflood," in which Dark, a genetically engineered human being who can live in the most extreme environments, fights for her right to live and work; and "Wings" and "The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn," in which a species of winged people escape their dying planet on spaceships that they navigate by instinct. (Houghton Mifflin, 281 pp. Hardcover, first edition, autographed.) SUPERLUMINAL Laenea Trevelyan, a starship pilot, has her heart replaced with a machine so she can survive faster-than-light travel. Orca, a diver, divides her time between starships and the Strait of Georgia, where her relatives include a family of killer whales and a group of other divers, human beings who can exist underwater, and who are, technically, at war with the United States. Radu Dracul, a colonist from the alien world Twilight, having chosen to leave his home and become a starship crew member, discovers he has abilities he never dreamed of. (Houghton Mifflin, 298 pp. Hardcover, first trade edition, autographed.) A few copies of the numbered & boxed limited first edition of SUPERLUMINAL are available. These are signed and in the original shrink-wrap, but I will open and inscribe copies on request. THE STARFARERS SERIES: STARFARERS The starship STARFARER prepares for Earth's first interstellar voyage. Its diverse faculty includes J.D. Sauvage, the alien contact specialist; the other members of the alien contact department: Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, Satoshi Lono, and Stephen Thomas Gregory; J.D.'s friend Zev, the diver; a world-famous sensory artist; Crimson Ng, paleontologist and performance artist; Miensaem Thanthavong, Nobel laureate; General Nikolai Petrovich Cherenkov, cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union and (in the eyes of the political entity that swallowed up his homeland) war criminal; Griffith, the man from the GAO who says he's an accountant; Infinity Kenjiro Yanagihara y Mendoza, the gardener, among other things; and Florrie Brown, the first member of Grandparents in Space. But political conditions on Earth are shaky and delicate. As J.D. her colleagues eagerly anticipate their departure... ... EarthSpace cancels the deep space expedition. So what do they do? They do what any red-blooded multi- national starship faculty would do. They steal the starship. TRANSITION The starship STARFARER plunges into the Tau Ceti system, its computer web crashed and its surface penetrated by a nuclear missile. J.D. Sauvage finds evidence of an interstellar community... but will it welcome STARFARER, or drive human beings away?