Frank M. Robinson, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86652-5
Veteran thriller-writer Robinson (The Towering Inferno; The Power) approaches the millennium at full strength with a truly frightening and plausible story about another species of human beings, in hiding for 35,000 years and now ready to take...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author Forge $14.99 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1167-2
Archaeologist and novelist Gear concludes her provocative Black Falcon Nation trilogy (It Sleeps in Me; It Wakes in Me) with this erotic and violent historic thriller. Chieftess Sora of the Black Falcon Nation-a confederation of Native American...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author Forge $22.95 (380p) ISBN 978-0-312-85701-1
This enlightening novel kicks off the publisher's ``Women of the West'' series, featuring fictional accounts of extraordinary real-life women who lived in the American West before 1880. It is May 1864, and Robin Walkingstick Heatherton, a beautiful...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author Tor Books $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85464-5
The coauthor of the Prehistoric America series ( People of the River ) pens an absorbing if uneven tale about Jesuit missionaries who set their single, jealous god against the animal spirit guides and gods worshiped by the Huron Indians. Gear...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, With Forge $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-85854-4
The eighth in a series of popular novels about precolonial North America (People of the Wolf; People of the Fire; etc.) concerns the Algonquins who inhabited the Chesapeake Bay area 600 years ago. Once the villagers of Flat Pearl decide to seek an...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, With Forge $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85853-7
In this vigorous eighth entry (after People of the Lightning) in their First North Americans series, the Gears present both an exciting tale about the age-old quest for power and a fictionalized solution to the riddle of the sudden dissolution of...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, With Forge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85852-0
In the Gears' latest epic about pre-Columbian North Americans (after People of the Lakes), a wealth of rich historical detail once again bolsters a pulsing narrative set in a turbulent time. Here, the Gears vivify the Windover people, who-as...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, With Tor Books $21.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-85235-1
Following their three bestselling paperbacks ( People of the Earth , etc.), the Gears cross over to hardcover with this absorbing addition to their First North Americans series. Here they cover the culture of the so-called Mississippians, who,...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author . Forge $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1438-3
The Mississippian chiefdoms of 13th-century North America rule the latest Forgotten Past novel from the Gears (People of the Wolf
, etc.). Split Sky City is the cultural and political center of a region ruled by the Chief Clan of the Sky Hand tribe&#
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author Forge $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0855-9
The Gears' 12th entry (after 2003's People of the Owl) in their richly imagined series of novels about the peoples who populated North America in the distant past follows a familiar pattern. Using their archeological backgrounds and talent for...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Joint Author . Forge $25.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-312-87741-5
Set in prehistoric northeastern Louisiana, this richly imagined 11th entry in the Gears' First North Americans series follows a juvenile warrior as he struggles to mature in time to save his Clan from annihilation. Free-spirited, vision-seeing...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Joint Author Forge $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86532-0
This memorable novel of the vanished Anasazi, the second in the series (following The Visitant), provides sober ecological lessons for our own civilization. The Gears, who are also collaborators on the First North Americans series, tell the brutal...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Joint Author . Forge $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-87742-2
In their third cleverly constructed Anasazi mystery (following The Visitant
and The Summoning God), the Gears continue the saga of Browser, Catkin, Stone Ghost and the rest of their small group as they seek to ensure their survival by ending the...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Joint Author, Miguel Roces, Illustrator Forge $19.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-312-86531-3
In the upper Sonoran desert of present-day New Mexico, a charismatic yet troubled archeologist named Dusty Stewart is unearthing a mystery that began about A.D. 1200. While excavating a site of the Chaco Anasazi Indians, Stewart and his team...
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W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Forge, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2016-2
The Gears, both archeologists, tack on another mostly accomplished novel to their meticulously researched North America's Forgotten Past series (after People of the Thunder), this time focusing on the northern Iroquois of the early 15th century....
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W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author . Forge $25.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1439-0
Set in the 1300s largely in what is now Alabama and Mississippi, this complex novel tracks three wanderers’ quest to create peace in violent times. The Sky Hand people control their territory from Split Sky City (Moundville, Ala.), ruled by...
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W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author . Forge $27.95 (477p) ISBN 978-0-765-31440-6
The latest installment of the Gears' popular and long-running First North Americans series (after People of the Moon
) is a timely saga of environmental catastrophe and misguided hubris. As the ice age is ending, 13,000 years ago, the Paleo-India
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W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author Warner Books $25.45 (592p) ISBN 978-0-446-52615-9
The veteran authors of a highly popular Native American historical fiction series (People of the Wolf; People of the Fire; etc.) offer a futuristic tale with a provocative spin on the human cloning theme. Anthropologist Scott Ferris has secretly...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, Gallery, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5389-5
In this powerful historical tale with only the slightest gloss of the supernatural, the great Native American civilization introduced in 2010's Coming of the Storm is collapsing, beset by outside danger and riven by internal dissent, jealousy, and...
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W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Forge, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2017-9
In the second volume of their People of the Longhouse series, the Gears continue to focus on Northern Iroquois living in the early 15th century. Years of cold, dry weather has decimated food supplies and led to widespread theft among villages,...
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Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author . Pocket $26 (484p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5388-8
In their first book of a planned epic series about the European explorers’ conquest of the Native Americans, the archeologist husband-and-wife bestselling writing team (People of the Thunder
) follow Black Shell, a wandering, mystical trader...
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Kathleen O’Neal Gear. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-12199-8
University of Virginia archeology professor Martin Nadai, the hero of this uninspired Da Vinci Code knockoff from bestseller Gear (The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus, with W. Michael Gear), is the world’s leading expert on the Marham-i-
Isa, “the...
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Kathleen O’Neal Gear. DAW, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1578-5
O’Neal Gear (Maze Master) delivers an entertaining central mystery, but plays fast and loose with the supernatural in this romantic coming-of-age fantasy. In a slightly confusing alternate present where teenage witches and Satanists practicing the...
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Kathleen O’Neal Gear. DAW, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1584-6
With this engrossing series launch, Gear (Cries from the Lost Island) conjures a vivid postapocalyptic world. It’s been almost 1,000 years since glowing green zyme covered the oceans and Earth iced over. Now the world is divided between the Sealion...
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Kathleen O’Neal Gear. DAW, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1586-0
Gear continues her inventive postapocalyptic trilogy featuring revived ancient hominids, with this jam-packed sequel to The Ice Lion. Sea lion clan member Quiller reluctantly agrees to lead Trogon, a visionary Neanderthal, to a cave he claims houses
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