Frank M. Robinson, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author Forge $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86652-5
Veteran thriller-writer Robinson (The Towering Inferno; The Power) approaches the millennium at full strength with a truly frightening and plausible story about another species of human beings, in hiding for 35,000 years and now ready to take...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Joint Author, W. Michael Gear, Author Forge $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-85857-5
Set in northeastern North America in approximately A.D. 1000, this arresting 10th novel in the First North American series by the Gears (People of the Mist, etc.) focuses on the Earth Thunderer Clan, peaceful hunters and gatherers who move their...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author . Forge $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1438-3
The Mississippian chiefdoms of 13th-century North America rule the latest Forgotten Past novel from the Gears (People of the Wolf
, etc.). Split Sky City is the cultural and political center of a region ruled by the Chief Clan of the Sky Hand tribe&#
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author Forge $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0855-9
The Gears' 12th entry (after 2003's People of the Owl) in their richly imagined series of novels about the peoples who populated North America in the distant past follows a familiar pattern. Using their archeological backgrounds and talent for...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Joint Author . Forge $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-87742-2
In their third cleverly constructed Anasazi mystery (following The Visitant
and The Summoning God), the Gears continue the saga of Browser, Catkin, Stone Ghost and the rest of their small group as they seek to ensure their survival by ending the...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Joint Author . Forge $25.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-312-87741-5
Set in prehistoric northeastern Louisiana, this richly imagined 11th entry in the Gears' First North Americans series follows a juvenile warrior as he struggles to mature in time to save his Clan from annihilation. Free-spirited, vision-seeing...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Author, W. Michael Gear, Joint Author Forge $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86532-0
This memorable novel of the vanished Anasazi, the second in the series (following The Visitant), provides sober ecological lessons for our own civilization. The Gears, who are also collaborators on the First North Americans series, tell the brutal...
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W. Michael Gear, Author Forge $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-89039-1
Through seven novels, most recently People of the Lightning, Gear (writing with Kathleen O'Neal Gear) has re-created the life of Native Americans of 2000 years ago. In his first solo hardcover, Gear moves ahead to 1825, intending, as he states in a...
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W. Michael Gear, Author Forge $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86330-2
Richard Hamilton, the hero of this solid western, rues the day when his father sent him west. Robbed and sold into indentured servitude on a keelboat, this young student of philosophy is forced to forsake his genteel Bostonian manners and breeding....
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W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, With Forge $22.95 (425p) ISBN 978-0-312-93122-3
As they have in past works ( People of the River ; People of the Earth ), the Gears illuminate American prehistory by focusing on a personal story. Here, the setting is coastal California 12,000 years ago. Melting glaciers are causing the waters to...
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W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author . Forge $27.95 (477p) ISBN 978-0-765-31440-6
The latest installment of the Gears' popular and long-running First North Americans series (after People of the Moon
) is a timely saga of environmental catastrophe and misguided hubris. As the ice age is ending, 13,000 years ago, the Paleo-India
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W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author . Forge $25.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1439-0
Set in the 1300s largely in what is now Alabama and Mississippi, this complex novel tracks three wanderers’ quest to create peace in violent times. The Sky Hand people control their territory from Split Sky City (Moundville, Ala.), ruled by...
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W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Forge, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2016-2
The Gears, both archeologists, tack on another mostly accomplished novel to their meticulously researched North America's Forgotten Past series (after People of the Thunder), this time focusing on the northern Iroquois of the early 15th century....
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W. Michael Gear, Author, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, Author Warner Books $25.45 (592p) ISBN 978-0-446-52615-9
The veteran authors of a highly popular Native American historical fiction series (People of the Wolf; People of the Fire; etc.) offer a futuristic tale with a provocative spin on the human cloning theme. Anthropologist Scott Ferris has secretly...
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, Gallery, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5389-5
In this powerful historical tale with only the slightest gloss of the supernatural, the great Native American civilization introduced in 2010's Coming of the Storm is collapsing, beset by outside danger and riven by internal dissent, jealousy, and...
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W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Forge, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2017-9
In the second volume of their People of the Longhouse series, the Gears continue to focus on Northern Iroquois living in the early 15th century. Years of cold, dry weather has decimated food supplies and led to widespread theft among villages,...
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