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Phoenix Pick primarily publishes SF & fantasy reprint books born from the ashes of other publishing houses, with some new titles
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Halfway Human
Tedla is a "bland," an asexual class of people who exist only to serve their fellow beings. Val is an expert on alien cultures but has never seen a bland before. They come together after Tedla is found light-years away from its home planet—alone, isolated and suicidal. Val's mission is to help Tedla recover. But the more she learns about the beautiful alien being, the more she discovers about the torment Tedla and its kind suffer on their planet. Halfway Human is a mesmerizing look at an intricately created alien world that is strange and distant, yet hauntingly familiar.
Carolyn Ives Gilman
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Mother Grimm
Twila Grimm has lived her whole life inside the sterile limits of the Biodome, an isolated domed oasis in the middle of a ravaged Earth. The outside is world of mystery and disease: where those infected by the deadly CM virus are sent to die. This is a land of disease and death; of warring tribes and half-crazed factions that live on the edge of sanity. But the outside is also where Twila Grimm’s destiny lies. For she is much more than what she appears, and the secrets about her own origins may prove to be the world’s salvation or its ultimate ...
Godspeed
Jay Hara is an ordinary young man growing up on the isolated planet of Erin. But Jay dreams of adventure and escapades and the legend of the lost "Godspeed " drive, which allowed humans to travel at faster-than-light speeds. His life changes when he joins up with the seedy spacer Paddy Enderton and Captain Daniel Shaker. Captain Shaker is a charming but ruthless adventurer who inspires both fear and admiration in equal measure. Jay joins him and his questionable crew as they race to find the legendary drive Jay Hara used to dream about. Godspee...
The Cyborg From Earth
Jefferson Kopal, the privileged son of a wealthy family, knows he is a coward and a failure. He dreads appearing for and then barely passes the Space Navy test to qualify for service as an officer-something that has been an integral part of his family's tradition. He is assigned to the remote Border Command by the Navy and eventually to a ship commanded by Captain Dufferin, who hates everything that the Kopal family stands for. But when he is abandoned by his Captain and the rest of the crew, left for dead and possibly framed as a traitor, he m...
The Billion Dollar Boy
Shelby Cheever is a spoiled brat. He is also the richest kid in the country. Actually, make that the universe. Bored with his all-the-amusements-money-can-buy life, he decides on a bit of interstellar action, Shelby-style. But it turns out life on a starship is not all fun and games. As part of a crew, Shelby has a few things to learn. Such as how to follow orders instead of simply giving orders. Can Shelby learn how to cooperate with his crewmates? He may not have a choice. When Shelby becomes the target of a hostage-for-ransom scheme, he'll n...
Putting Up Roots
Scheming to get rid of obstacles, Josh Kerrigan's step-aunt ships him and her autistic step-daughter to Solferino to work for Foodlines. Josh and Dawn join a small training group that is ostensibly doing scientific research and exploration under the company's watchful eye. But as the days go by and strange occurrences and mysterious happenings continue, it becomes apparent that something is very wrong and that someone has very different plans for the planet. Even more importantly, Josh and the other members of the training team realize that the...
Dancing With Myself
This collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable author, Charles Sheffield. The stories range in length from being barely a page (“The Seventeen-Year Locusts”) to long novelettes (“The Courts of Xanadu”). They also range in mood from the “very silly to very somber.” Each of them provides a unique and highly imaginative look at the impact of technology on the human condition from one of the most innovative minds in science fiction. Charles Sheffield was a mathematician and a theoretical physicist who had that rare ...
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Ana is the love of Drake Merlin’s life. The woman he wants to grow old with, share every experience. But there is a hitch that is preventing them from obtaining their happily ever after…. Ana might be perfect for him, but she is dying. Diagnosed with a rare disease, there is no cure for what ails her. At least, not in the 21st century. The only thing Drake can do—the one gamble that might, eventually, bring her back—is have Ana frozen and join her in cryogenic sleep until, one day, technology will have advanced enough be able to cure her. Eons ...
The Warlock Unlocked (Book III of the Gramarye Series)
A scientist from Earth at heart, Rod Gallowglass has come to terms with the “magic” of Gramarye, and is just beginning to understand his own powers. But when his family accidentally goes through a portal to what appears to be an alternate universe, he must follow them into a world where magic really does seem to work and where the laws of the universe seem to have been rewritten. Bringing his renowned blend of science fiction and fantasy back to the world of Gramarye, Christopher Stasheff once again redefines what is real and what is “magic.”...
King Kobold Revived (Book II of the Gramarye Series)
Christopher Stasheff wrote the original King Kobold in 1971. Twelve years later, based on feedback from readers and his own personal dissatisfaction with the book, he decided to rewrite the story. While King Kobold Revived follows the same basic outline as the original 1971 edition, the book has been totally redone. The author had twelve years between the two writings to mull things over, and it shows. The plot is much tighter, the characters much more developed, and the writing more fluid. Enter the fantastic world of Gramarye once again, wher...
The Warlock in Spite of Himself (Book I of the Gramarye Series)
Rod Gallowglass is a man of science who does not believe in magic. Gramarye is a world of witches and warlocks. Of strange abilities and phenomena. A world where society mirrors Earth's own Middle Ages, and a world headed for doom. Rod Gallowglass must become a part of the local fabric to save the world from both itself and external forces that threaten its existence. But to do so, he must put aside his own convictions and beliefs, and become a warlock, in spite of himself. A grand adventure mixing science fiction with elements of fantasy, this...
The Best of Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith was one of the original visionaries to think of humanity in terms of thousands of years in the future, spread out across the universe. This brilliant collection, often cited as the first of its kind, explores fundamental questions about ourselves and our treatment of the universe (and other beings) around us and ultimately what it means to be human. In “Scanners Live in Vain” we meet Martel, a human altered to be part machine—a scanner—to be able withstand the trauma space travel has on the body. Despite the stigma placed on hi...
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