Stephen R. Donaldson, Author Spectra Books $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-11034-0
Collecting one SF and seven fantasy stories and novellas, this volume presents the short fiction Donaldson has written in the 14 years since the publication of Daughter of Regals and Other Tales. The best pieces are the novellas ""The Woman Who...
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Stephen R. Donaldson. Putnam, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17697-5
Donaldson’s first book since The Last Dark (2013) features two standalone secondary-world fantasy novellas that crackle with intrigues and subterfuges. In the title tale, a mysterious man who calls himself Black investigates a brutal murder in the...
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Stephen R. Donaldson. Putnam, $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-399-15920-6
The long-awaited 10th and concluding episode in Donaldson’s sprawling epic of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (after Against All Things Ending) opens with Thomas gravely injured but cured of the malady of mind that had impeded his ability to save the
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (440p) ISBN 978-1-59606-367-9
Editor Bill Sheehan selects 11 short works by Donaldson, best known for his long-running Thomas Covenant series, for this retrospective, which is uncluttered by commentary from the author or editor. Published between 1978 and 1999, these fantasy and
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07180-1
Drawing on a rich vein of science fiction, Donaldson brings to a resounding, though not triumphant, conclusion his Gap series, begun with The Gap into Conflict (1992) and continued through The Gap into Madness (1994). The struggle between Warden...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07179-5
This fourth installment of Donaldson's Gap series may at first confuse even those who have read the previous volumes, since there's no summary of what has gone before and the plot is extremely convoluted. Once it gets going, though, the action moves
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author Spectra Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07176-4
Although this third volume of Donaldson's projected five-volume space epic doesn't answer the questions raised in the first two books ( The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge ), it brings many new, if unsatisfying, twists to the various plots and...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author Spectra Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07173-3
Donaldson ( The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant ) launches his new five-book series with a short futurist novel of almost no substance. The plot is presented in its entirety in the first chapter: Robin Hoodish space pirate Nick Succorso cleverly...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author Del Rey Books $19.95 (642p) ISBN 978-0-345-33298-1
As a followup to his bestselling Thomas Covenant trilogies, Donaldson presents another lengthy, dense fantasy adventure in the first of the two-book sequence Mordant's Need. This first volume introduces the land of Mordant, beset from without by...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author . Forge $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0202-1
The fourth book in bestseller Donaldson's "The Man Who..." mystery series (previously written under the pseudonym Reed Stephens) continues the story of ex-PI Mick ("Brew") Axbrewder and his search for redemption after the...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author Spectra Books $125 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07387-4
The second novel in the Gap Cycle (begun with The Real Story ) continues the story of Morn Hyland, security cop for the vast United Mining Companies, and her travails among space pirates. Having escaped the clutches of tormentor Angus Thermopyle,...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Putnam, $29.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-399-15678-6
The unreservedly emo penultimate installment in the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (after 2007's Fatal Revenant) follows Linden Avery as she struggles to rescue her adopted son, Jeremiah, from the Despiser and forestall the Worm at the World's...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author . Putnam $27.95 (610p) ISBN 978-0-399-15446-1
This thought-provoking sequel to 2004's The Runes of Earth
opens with a bang. Watching from the battlements of Revelstone, a keep besieged by the power-hungry Demondim, battle-weary healer Linden Avery can see both Thomas Covenant and her son,
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0205-2
At the start of fantasy author Donaldson's tense "and-then-there-was-none" whodunit, PI "Brew" Axbrewder is recovering from a gunshot wound when he learns that crime kingpin el Señor has put a bounty on him. At the urging...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author . Putnam $26.95 (532p) ISBN 978-0-399-15232-0
Six fantasy novels featuring Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever appeared between 1977 and 1983, but Donaldson shows that his epic series still has the power to surprise in this richly imagined start of a final quartet. Covenant died at the end of White...
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author . Forge $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0204-5
With 2001's The Man Who Fought Alone
, Donaldson picked up the story line of an earlier series of original paperbacks (The Man Who Killed His Brother
; The Man Who Risked His Partner
; The Man Who Tried to Get Away
) he wrote in the mid-'80s
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Stephen R. Donaldson, Author . Forge $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0203-8
The author of the bestselling Chronicles of Thomas Covenant SF series delivers a pretty good tough guy yarn in this minimally revised reissue, the first of Donaldson's mysteries to feature alcoholic ex-PI "Brew" Axbrewder, who dries out...
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