Patricia Anthony, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $21.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-15-114422-8
By cleverly spinning an intricate plot that draws on tabloid tales of UFOs, alien abductions and conspiracy theories, the author of Cold Allies has created an occasionally farcical but essentially poignant story. An alien race called the Cousins...
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Patricia Anthony, Author Ace Books $22.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-441-00407-2
In the village of Quintas in Portugal, they tell tales of spirits and mysterious lights in the sky. One young woman claims to have been impregnated by an angel. Another has seen a vision of the Blessed Virgin. A potato field is found to have grown...
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Patricia Anthony, Author Ace Books $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-441-00528-4
In Flanders Fields, where so many died so horribly during WWI, an American volunteer named Travis Lee Stanhope finds terror, death, forgiveness and, ultimately, an odd sort of salvation. Anthony (God's Fires), one of speculative fiction's brightest...
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Patricia Anthony, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-118503-0
This erratic first novel by the author of many SF short stories takes place in the near future during a European war fought entirely with non-nuclear weapons. The greenhouse effect has led to crop failure and famine across the world and especially...
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Patricia Anthony, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-138478-5
Anthony's fourth novel (after Cold Allies) details a half year in the life of DeWitt Dawson, the 40-ish police chief of Coomey, Tex. Though a one-stoplight town, Coomey is remarkable because, for six years, it's been circled by ``the Line''-a...
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Patricia Anthony, Author Ace Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-00301-3
Like her Cold Allies, which won Locus's Best First Novel award, Anthony's breakneck fifth book is set in a near-future roiling with intrigue and rumors of UFO activity. When the first Brazilian space shot manages to achieve orbit without booster...
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Patricia Anthony, Author Old Earth Books $25 (0p) ISBN 978-1-882968-16-9
Anthony's SF novels (God's Fires; Forecasts, March 24) have earned her a well-deserved reputation for plainly told yet evocative tales. Here, readers have the chance to enjoy her earlier, shorter fiction and also to observe how she has honed her...
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