Pat Murphy, Author . Tor $24.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-312-86643-3
In this cerebral equivalent of a roller-coaster ride from Nebula-winner Murphy (Wild Angel), Susan Galina, a quiet librarian with a repressed imagination, faces all sorts of amusing, thought-provoking challenges on a cruise through the Bermuda...
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Pat Murphy, Author Spectra Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28615-1
Although infused with a gentle sort of magic, the stories in Murphy's ( The City, Not Long After ) enjoyable collection are also tinged with barbed humor, alternating between hope and despair. Nebula Award-winner ``Rachel in Love'' portrays a...
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Pat Murphy, Author Tor Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-86626-6
Murphy's previous novel, There and Back Again, paid homage to Frank L. Baum's Oz books. Her latest volume continues the tradition, this time looking back to Edgar Rice Burroughs's legendary Tarzan series (plus a good dash of Mark Twain). Rachel and...
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Pat Murphy, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-385-24925-6
The intersecting spheres of dreams and earthly passions that marked Murphy's recent novel The Falling Woman and her novelette ``Rachel in Love'' (both Nebula Award winners in 1988) continue in this story of a depopulated San Francisco. In the wake...
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Pat Murphy, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86226-8
A female werewolf roams the Old West in this deeply absorbing dark fantasy from Murphy (The City, Not Long After), whose The Falling Woman won the 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novel. While the story kicks off in rural Poland, it soon moves to the...
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Pat Murphy, Author Tor Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86644-0
Purporting to be a space opera by the prolific hack ""Max Merriwell,"" this latest and disappointing novel from top fantasist Murphy (Nadya, etc.) is a transparent translation of Tolkien's The Hobbit and Carroll's ""The Hunting of the Snark"" into...
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Pat Murphy, Author, Schlein, Author, Graham Percy, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1587-5
The old motif about a creature who is ""different"" is taken to semi-mythic proportions in this tale about high-flying Pigasus, a winged piglet. Pig Mama teaches her other children to curl their tails; she worries about Pigasus doing back-flips and...
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