Jean Johnson, Author . Berkley $15 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-23086-2
Johnson's fluffy prequel to the Sons of Destiny romantic fantasy series (The Sword
, etc.) focuses on Tava Ell Var, child of a human woman raped by were-tigers. Orphaned when her adoptive father is killed by bandits, shunned by the people of...
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Jean Johnson, Berkley Sensation, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-23862-2
Four interconnected novellas, each named after a place, create a captivating fantasy world in this work by Johnson (Sons of Destiny). Although haunted by his abusive past, former war slave Eduor is relishing his freedom in "Sundara" and learning to...
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Jean Johnson. Ace, $7.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-441-02063-8%E2%80%A8
Reminiscent of both Starship Troopers and Dune, this first of a projected series successfully balances its military and science fiction elements. As a teenager, Ia (a colonist from a heavy-gravity world) discovers that she is a precog and...
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Jean Johnson, Author Seventy-Sixth Avenue Press $16.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-9815271-0-9
This odd recipe collection from culinary historian Johnson feels more like a conversation with a quirky cooking enthusiast than a full-fledged cookbook. Instead of using the traditional recipe format-lists of ingredients followed by detailed...
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Jean Johnson. Berkley Sensation, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-26222-1
In Eastern Aiar, a tower containing a flow of magical power is a destination for adventurers eager to risk life and limb. On the one day of the year when the tower’s master, Kerric Vo Mos, plays hooky, a rogue mage makes a play to take over the...
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Jean Johnson. Ace, $7.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-0-425-25650-3
The third book in Johnson's Theirs Not to Reason Why series (after An Officer's Duty) continues the odd but enjoyable military science fiction tales of Ia, a human-alien hybrid whose precognitive talents allow her to plan hundreds of years in...
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