Frank Herbert, Author, Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author Tor Books $25.95 (489p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1295-2
This companion volume to Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction classic collects manuscript material, correspondence and cut chapters related to Dune as well as previously published Dune-related short stories coauthored by his son Brian and Kevin J....
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Tor, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8125-5
In this campy finale to Herbert and Anderson's prequel trilogy, set 10,000 years before the start of Frank Herbert's Dune, the players clash in battle over control of the galaxy-wide Imperium. The authors set up a power-play scenario that now feels...
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Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author Tor $27.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0159-8
Dune addicts will happily devour Herbert and Anderson's spicy conclusion (after 2003's Dune: The Machine Crusade) to their second prequel trilogy, Legends of Dune. A fearsome robot-engineered plague opens the tumultuous Battle of Corrin, climaxing...
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Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author Tor $27.95 (524p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1292-1
After two prequel trilogies to the legendary SF epic (the Legends of Dune and Prelude to Dune series), Frank Herbert's son Brian, in collaboration with Anderson, launch a new trilogy that takes up where Herbert Sr. left off with Chapterhouse: Dune (1
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Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Tor $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1293-8
Longtime collaborators Herbert and Anderson set themselves a steep challenge—and, in the end, fail to meet it—in this much anticipated wrapup of the original Dune cycle (after 2006’s Hunters of Dune
). A large cast scattered across
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Tor, $25.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2269-2
Bestselling authors Herbert and Anderson (The Winds of Dune) start a space opera series with a tale quite similar to Frank Herbert's Dune in setting, theme, and conflict. On the dangerous frontier planet Hellhole, defeated and exiled rebel Gen....
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Tor, $27.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2273-9
This shallow but fun blend of space opera and dynastic soap opera, the latest wing on the sprawling edifice that Frank Herbert’s son and Anderson have built on the foundation of the original Dune novels, zips along faster than light. Humans have...
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Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Tor $27.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0158-1
SF space opera titans Herbert and Anderson continue to investigate the tantalizing origins of Frank Herbert's Dune universe, this time achieving mixed results in their fifth action-packed collaboration, the bloated but occasionally brilliant...
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Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Joint Author . Tor $27.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0157-4
The sands of time have not diminished the impact Dune
has had on the evolution of SF, and this new prequel by Frank Herbert's son and bestseller Anderson, following 2001's Dune: House Corrino
(the concluding volume of their "House"...
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F. Paul Wilson, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Matthew J. Costello, Author . Forge $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0063-8
Given the formidable talents of the writers involved, this first adventure of a club of professional thrillseekers is a surprisingly unfulfilling affair. The six male members of the Daredevils Club meet every New Year's Eve to swap stories about
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Dean R. Koontz, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Contribution by . Bantam $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-58788-3
In this grisly thriller, the first in a new series by bestsellers Koontz and Anderson, Dr. Frankenstein has survived into the 21st century, masquerading as biotech tycoon Victor Helios. Helios wants to replace flawed humanity with his New Race,...
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A. E. Van Vogt, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Tor $24.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-765-31675-2
Working fluently from an incomplete draft and outline by the late van Vogt, Anderson picks up where the classic pulp predecessor, Slan
(1940), left off, with the true mutant (or slan) Jommy Cross trying to head off the impending invasion of Earth...
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Kevin J. Anderson. Kensington, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-7734-3
Anderson (Night of the Living Trekkies) attempts a satire of urban fantasy but never quite finds solid ground, and a bare and predictable plot undercuts the lazy attempts at humor. Since the Big Uneasy, when supernatural creatures of all sorts were...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author Spectra Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-29798-0
Princess Leia and Han Solo have three kids and live as a respectable political couple in the capital of the New Republic. Luke Skywalker has returned to the Jedi fold after having given in to the dark side of the Force. C3P0 and R2D2 remain faithful
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Kevin J. Anderson. Tor, $26.99 (672p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3299-8
At the start of this follow-up to Anderson’s epic Saga of the Seven Suns series, the Elemental War has just ended, the Confederation has replaced the corrupt Terran Hanseatic League, and an era of amity between human and the alien Ildirans seems...
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Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart. ECW (Legato Publishers Group, U.S. dist.; Jaguar Book Group, Canadian dist.), $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-77041-294-1
After the success of Anderson and Peart’s diverting first fantasy novel, Clockwork Angels, they return to expand the mythology of their steampunk world. Forgoing a recap of the previous novel, this book instead introduces Marinda Peake, a woman...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09974-4
Anderson, whose Jedi Academy trilogy of Star Wars paperbacks were all bestsellers, makes his Star Wars hardcover debut with this novel. Unlike many of the previous series hardcovers, Darksaber often harkens back to the time of the Star Wars movies,...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Morrow $26.99 (326p) ISBN 978-0-06-166255-3
Anderson's latest is a hokey, contrived imagining of the first meeting between Batman and Superman, set during the thick of the cold war and hobbled by flat characters and flatter dialogue (“My source was murdered shortly after she spoke...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Golden Gryphon $25.95 (305p) ISBN 978-1-930846-03-6
Bestseller Anderson, author of various Star Wars
and X-Files
novels, shows unexpected breadth in his first short-story collection. A couple of SF tales, "Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas" (a rehash of the Herbert novel) and "Prisoner of
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Bantam Spectra $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-10474-5
Bestseller Anderson, author of numerous novels set in the Star Wars and X-Files universes, offers a dizzying, body-swapping plot that interlocks four central characters in a constantly shifting maze of confused identities and even more confusing...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Pocket $23 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4406-4
Prolific bestseller Anderson (Hopscotch; the original Star Wars
anthologies) pays dashing homage here to Jules Verne (1828–1905), one of the genre's founding fathers and creator of the brooding captain of the Nautilus, hero of 20,000...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Warner Aspect $23.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-52862-7
In this stellar launch of a new series, bestseller Anderson (Dune
spinoffs with Brian Herbert; X-Files
and Star Wars
books) delivers action, engaging characters and credible fantastic worlds in spades—or ekti, the fuel vital for spaceships...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Warner $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-446-52871-9
Bestseller Anderson turns up the heat in his second Saga of the Seven Suns installment (after 2002's Hidden Empire), proving he has firepower to burn. He weaves action, romance and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Warner Aspect
, 24.95 (464p) ISBN (469p) ISBN 978-0-446-52872-6
The interstellar conflict between hydrogues (aliens that live at the core of gas-giant planets) and faeros (fire entities that dwell within stars) and its impact on a dazzling array of alien and human species propel bestseller Anderson's third...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Warner Aspect $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-446-57717-5
Bestseller Anderson delivers more on-the-edge-of-your-seat SF thrills in the fourth installment of his Seven Suns saga (after 2004's Horizon Storms
). Moments of extreme tenderness temper the relentless and often graphic descriptions of a brutal,
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Warner Aspect $25.99 (526p) ISBN 978-0-446-57718-2
Bestseller Anderson's fabulous fifth volume in his Seven Suns saga (after 2005's Scattered Suns
) combines glitzy space-opera flash with witty, character-driven action on a cosmic scale. In retaliation for the destruction of a gas planet'
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Harper Entertainment $25.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-06-134074-1
As seen on film and TV, the Phantom Zone where Superman’s enemies are exiled is insubstantial and two-dimensional, much like this chronicle of the death of the cape-clad hero’s home planet. Best known for sweeping space opera (the Seven...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Orbit $25.99 (461p) ISBN 978-0-316-02174-6
Bestseller Anderson’s super-size mosaic of intergalactic, Darwinian conflict has been compared to some of the genre’s grandest epics with good reason, but the breakneck sixth book (after 2006’s Of Fire and Night
) of this shelf-bend
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Onyx $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-40943-0
Anderson's sizzling sci-fi thriller resurrects the technology of miniaturization introduced in the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage. This time, however, the body through which shrunken crew members maneuver is alien rather than human. When Russian MiG
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Neil Peart, Introduction by . Five Star $25.95 (436p) ISBN 978-1-59414-476-9
The 22 stories and two essays in this collection by bestseller Anderson (Star Wars: Jedi Search
) showcase his competence at shorter length. The idea of landscapes informs his SF tales in particular. In "Music Played on the Strings of Time,"
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Edited by Kevin J. Anderson, read by MacLeod Andres. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hours $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4805-3635-7
In this collection, a host of authors—including Janet Berliner, Mike Resnick, Daniel Marcus, and Robert Silverberg—offer up renditions of H.G. Wells’s classic tale of Martian invasion, as seen by the likes of Albert Einstein, Jules Verne, and Teddy...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Robert Teranishi, Illustrator . WildStorm/DC Comics $24.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-56389-902-7
Anderson has written bestselling Star Wars
and Star Trek
books and coauthored the expanded Dune series, so he's adept at handling big settings and complicated plots. Now, he's created a space opera saga, with the first three novels either...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Doug Beason, With Forge $23.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-312-85760-8
A promising disaster scenario fizzles as Anderson and Beason (coauthors of Assemblers of Infinity and The Trinity Paradox) succumb to lightweight plotting, facile characterization and an apparent need to allude to as many pop-cultural artifacts as...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Doug Beason, With Forge $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86270-1
Space shuttle Atlantis, with its team of Russian and American astronauts, is 20 minutes from lift-off when the psychotic Mr. Phillips and his gang of sadistic young terrorists stage a clockwork takeover of NASA's Cape Canaveral shuttle launch center
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Doug Beason, With Ace Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-00308-2
Anderson and Beason have teamed up once again, but this time the results are less inspiring than their Nebula nominee, Assemblers of Infinity. Perhaps the biggest problem with this near-future thriller is that it doesn't stick to its authors'...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author, William Dufris, Read by , read by William Dufris. Tantor Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0544-1
Leading up to Superman being jettisoned in a capsule to Earth, Anderson reveals the political and private world of Krypton as it descends into chaos and eventual destruction. Superman's father, Jor-El, strives to restore stability to the decaying...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Doug Beason, Author, Doug Beason, Joint Author Ace Books $5.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-00536-9
Anderson and Beason are both physicists, which gives their latest plenty of scientific authenticity. So if you know the difference between Feynman diagrams and scattering matrices and don't mind two-dimensional characters, this should be your...
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Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Tor $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2272-2
Set immediately after Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah
(1969), this satisfying tale from Herbert’s son and Anderson (Paul of Dune
) follows Jessica, the mother of galactic emperor Paul Atreides, as she returns to the desert planet Dune for...
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Brian Herbert, Author, Kevin J. Anderson, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Macmillan Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0484-4
This epic science fiction tale fills in the time gap between Frank Herbert’s Dune
and Dune Messiah
. Told by modern-day sci-fi legends Anderson and Brian Herbert (Frank’s son), this story packs all the punch that the originals did and...
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Kevin J. Anderson, Author . Orbit $14.99 (593p) ISBN 978-0-316-00418-3
Having wound up his seven-volume space opera, the Saga of Seven Suns, bestseller Anderson moves hesitantly into fantasy with this uninspired series opener. A promising attempt to end a long history of war between the followers of Aiden and Urec, two
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