Tom Holt, Author . Orbit $7.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-84149-110-3
Lonely computer programmer David Perkins has spent his life obsessed with Philippa Levens, a witch who was burned for heresy hundreds of years ago and immortalized in a painting. When he impulsively purchases a lock of her hair at an auction—t
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Tom Holt, Author . Orbit UK $24.95 (345p) ISBN 978-1-84149-503-3
In this witty, highly amusing tale, British comic fantasist Holt (Barking
) describes a modern-day England where magical creatures and sorcerers are commonplace. Mild-mannered Frank Carpenter uses his Acme Portable Door to travel anywhere in time...
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Tom Holt, Author Orbit $13.99 (393p) ISBN 978-0-316-08699-8
Driven mad by the “lethally insidious... toxic aural garbage” that is Terran music, the canine inhabitants of the planet Ostar send Mark Two, a bomb so smart it composes violin sonatas, to blow up Earth. Insatiably curious, Mark Two...
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Tom Holt, Author New England Science Fiction Association $22.22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-886778-36-8
Novelist, Englishman and admittedly incompetent amateur blacksmith Tom Holt offers readers two previously published comic fantasies under one cover in Expecting Beowulf (with a bonus of a very funny bio: Holt identifies himself, for instance, as
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Tom Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-312-06975-9
Alive for more than 450 years, doomed to ply the seas endlessly (except for shore leave), Capt. Cornelius Vanderdecker is the Flying Dutchman immortalized in legend and Wagner's opera. In a sophisticated fantasy that is occasionally hilarious but...
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Tom Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-312-02669-1
Part slapstick, part fantasy, this tale of a Viking king and his band of 12 warriors coming back to life in 20th century Scotland is all entertainment. Hrolf Earthstar was engaged in battle with a wicked sorcerer-king when his wizard advised him to...
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Tom Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-03838-0
Holt, whose fantasy, Expecting Someone Taller , earned fine reviews, now offers an impeccable historical novel about classical Athens as seen through the eyes of a comic playwright--Eupolis of Pallene. Born 38 years after the battle of Salamis...
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Tom Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-05990-3
Poor comic dramatist Eupolis has promised the god Dionysus that he'll look after his arch-rival and fellow soldier, the playwright Aristophanes. As they embark on the invasion of Sicily, the Peloponnesian War turns into a ``fever-stricken...
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Tom Holt, Orbit, $13.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-08002-6
Holt's latest comic fantasy gently twists the reader's mind like a wet dishrag. Polly Mayer thinks she's going crazy: her coffee keeps disappearing, someone else is doing her work, and a dry cleaner vanishes without a trace. Her brother, Don,...
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Tom Holt. Orbit, $15 trade paper (450p) ISBN 978-1-84149-782-2
Maurice Katz is content to be a perfectly ordinary fellow, but after a chance meeting with three strange knitters on the London Underground, his life becomes inordinately full of dragons to be slain, best friends to be rescued, strange men in...
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Tom Holt. Orbit (www.orbitbooks.net), $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-31622-610-3
Holt's (Blonde Bombshell) unsatisfying science fantasy caper starts off entertaining, when genius physicist Theo Bernstein is unable to find work in his field after blowing up the VVLHC (Very Very Large Hadron Collider). Bernstein is left penniless...
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Tom Holt. Orbit, $15 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-36881-0
Holt (The Outsorcerer’s Apprentice) achieves near-perfection in his new comic fantasy. The complicated multiverse setting requires some nimble reading, but the three central narratives unfold and combine into a cerebral yet slapstick comedy. Mordak,
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Tom Holt, Author, Tim Holt, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-312-08927-6
In Holt's ( Flying Dutch ) latest wacky mythological comedy, the Greek gods have been dethroned by Christianity, ``the Great Leg Pull.'' Apollo, Minerva et al. brood on Mount Olympus, change shape at will, intervene in current human affairs and...
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Tom Holt. Orbit, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-27082-3
This extremely entertaining standalone from Holt (The Good, the Bad and the Smug) is a fine example of his signature brand of adventure-farce, trolling his favorite targets of Christianity and capitalism. God, aka Dad, has been working since the...
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Tom Holt. Orbit, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-27085-4
J.R.R. Tolkien gets what’s coming to him in this hilarious fifth YouSpace novel (after The Good, the Bad, and the Smug), a witty parody of high fantasy. A few contemporary humans travel to an alternate reality known as the Hidden Realms and...
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