Timothy Zahn, Author Spectra Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-09542-5
Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine are long dead and the Empire, on its last legs, has shrunk to a mere handful of star systems. Admiral Pellaeon, supreme commander of the Empire's military forces, is ready to ask the New Republic for peace, but a...
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Timothy Zahn. Tor, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2967-7
In this passable continuation of the Sybil’s War series (after Pawn), Nicole Hammond, kidnapped by the alien Shipmasters and forced to serve on the starship Fyrantha, must lead her fellow humans in a deception plot in order to save all of humankind...
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Timothy Zahn. Baen, $16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8280-6
Zahn fans will enjoy the variety of small-unit combat scenes in the action-packed third and final Cobra Rebellion military SF adventure (after Cobra Outlaw), but newcomers may have difficulty picking up the story. Cobras are elite human warriors...
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Timothy Zahn. Tor, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2966-0
Space opera fans are sure to enjoy this fast-paced, pulpy introduction to veteran Zahn’s new trilogy. Nicole Hammond, a 19-year-old alcoholic, is living the hard life in Philadelphia. She’s suffering from an atrocious hangover and attempting a...
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Timothy Zahn. Open Road, $14.99 ISBN 978-1-5040-1622-3
Hard SF readers and long-time fans of Zahn will appreciate this collection of 15 short fiction works from his early writing career. Like many other hard SF writers, Zahn (Cobra Outlaw) excels at old-school puzzle stories in which a technological...
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Timothy Zahn. Open Road, $14.99 trade paper (283p) ISBN 978-1-4976-4620-9
Zahn, best known for his Star Wars tie-in novels, weaves a near-future narrative about a machine that can trap the souls of patients hovering at death’s door. According to Dr. Sommer, the soul definitely
exists, and it can be made to obey the will...
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Tor $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-87828-3
Hugo winner Zahn (Conquerors' Legacy
and numerous Star Wars novels) offers a satisfyingly complicated story of an alien force, Angelmass, that has for decades been spewing off particles called Angels, which have power over human behavior....
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Timothy Zahn, Author Bluejay Books $0 (339p) ISBN 978-0-312-94411-7
The vision of an enlightened technocracy in this novel typifies the attitudes that have won both fans and detractors for Analog magazine, where this and many of Zahn's other works have appeared. If that vision seems a throwback to another era, with...
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Timothy Zahn, Author Starscape Books $17.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0125-3
Dragon and Soldier by Timothy Zahn, the second Dragonback Adventure, is the follow-up to Dragon and Thief, which PW said ""mov[es] at a breakneck pace."" Here, Jack enlists in a juvenile mercenary group. With his dragon warrior companion, Draycos,
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Tor $24.95 (379p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1733-9
Mysterious deaths, encounters with oddly named aliens, chases and shootouts form a skeleton of a story that never quite gets fleshed out in Zahn's weak third Frank Compton adventure. Former spy and planet-hopping PI Compton, worn out by the...
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Tor $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-87829-0
What if James Dean were a twin-tailed manta ray swimming in Jupiter's atmosphere? Bestselling Star Wars
novelist Zahn (Angelmass) gives us a tale of teen coming-of-age angst set in the herd society of the Qanska, intelligent herbivores who...
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Tor $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0124-6
Less complex than such recent novels as Manta's Gift
and Angelmass, this start to a new SF adventure series from Hugo Award-winner Zahn will appeal largely to younger readers. Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan, former small-time thief, is on...
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-45916-9
Hugo winner Zahn, author of five previous Star Wars novels (Heir to the Empire
, etc.), serves up another G-rated crowd-pleaser in the bestselling franchise series. Regulars will recognize the cast, but newcomers may raise an eyebrow to learn that...
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Tor $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0717-0
Like its title, Zahn's urban drama of a New York City couple fighting to save both their beloved city and an odd child thrust into their care is understated yet compelling. What starts out for Roger and Caroline Whittier as another evening full...
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Tor $24.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0716-3
Hang on! Hugo-winner Zahn (Cascade Point
) takes off on a rip-roaring interstellar train ride with hard-boiled hero Frank Compton, recently fired from Earth's Western Alliance Intelligence for whistle-blowing on the costly Yandro colony...
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Tor $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1732-2
This gripping sequel to 2006's Night Train to Rigel
takes hardboiled intelligence operative Frank Compton and his winsome assistant, Bayta, in search of an archeological relic. They hope to protect it from the Modhri, an alien group mind who...
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Timothy Zahn, Author Del Rey $25.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-345-47738-5
Five idealistic but fed-up Imperial storm troopers led by Daric LaRone share the stage with young Rebel Alliance crusaders Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca in this politically fraught but still rollicking early years Star
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Timothy Zahn, Author . Baen $24 (280p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3306-4
Zahn's Cobras (last seen in 1988's Cobra Bargain
) deliver superb action and jolting interplanetary plots that almost compensate for conventional characters and well-worn motivations. The alien Trofts have been docile for decades, and the...
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Timothy Zahn, Author Bantam Books $18.5 (376p) ISBN 978-0-553-08574-7
Hugo Award winner Zahn follows up Heir to the Empire with still more adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Hansp ok Solo and their merry band, adroitly juggling an abundance of plot lines to produce skillfully paced entertainment. The...
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Timothy Zahn, Author Del Rey $26.95 (453p) ISBN 978-0-345-45683-0
Another puzzle piece in the Star Wars universe falls into place with this action-packed prequel to Hugo-winner Zahn's Star Wars: Survivor's Quest (2004). Familiar characters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, young Anakin Skywalker and the evil Lord Palpatine (
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Timothy Zahn, read by Marc Thompson. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-451-48624-0
Nearly three decades after debuting the character of Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn in the first Star Wars inspired trilogy, Zahn crafts the origin story of his fan-favorite villain, tracing Thrawn’s rise through the imperial ranks as he proves to...
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David Weber and Timothy Zahn. Baen, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-3684-6
A new series set in the universe of Weber’s popular heroine Honor Harrington gets off to a solid start. Travis Long’s life is aimless until he opts to join Manticore’s dying Navy. Soon he and his half-brother Gavin, a low-level lord, are drawn into...
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David Weber, Timothy Zahn, and Thomas Pope. Baen, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8085-6
A plot to overthrow Manticore’s government brings brilliant but insufferable Lt. Travis Long and his former shipmates together against a common foe in the second book of the Manticore Ascendant series (after A Call to Duty), set in the early years...
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Timothy Zahn. Tor, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2968-4
The muddled third space opera in Zahn’s Sybil’s War series (after Knight) continues the struggle for control over the Fyrantha, an immense psychic former warship. The self-appointed Shipmasters force the many alien species that have been thrown...
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