James Davis Nicoll Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Mythras
Pete Nash
Mythras by Pete Nash & Lawrence Whitaker Design Mechanism’s foray into a setting-free Basic Roleplaying-based fantasy roleplaying game. https://t.co/zqMLFC4E8z
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois https://t.co/0RYomSPLzy
Paperback, 2014
$49.99$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Velvet Was the Night
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://t.co/T5PspWYS8l
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa
The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel by Yoko Ogawa (Translated by Stephen Snyder) A housekeeper, her son, and a brilliant, cognitively impaired professor bond over math. https://t.co/OydrbHae9G
Paperback, 2009
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silver Nitrate
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia A never-finished film offers two struggling entertainment workers the golden ticket out of precarity... and into an early grave. https://t.co/M6sN5692ri
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel (Alex Award Winner)
Quan Barry
We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel by Quan Barry A desperate field hockey team turns to an infernal ally to improve their game. Will they be willing to pay its final price? https://t.co/2mfAV69goo
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Journey in Other Worlds
John Jacob Astor
A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor IV A crew of plucky Americans take time off from altering Earth's axial tilt to travel to Jupiter and Saturn, to shoot an inordinate number of animals and commune with the dead. https://t.co/icR02WKe1L
Paperback, 2015
$6.89$3.44 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tales from the Loop
Simon Stålenhag
Tales from the Loop by Simon Stålenhag, Nils Hintze & Tomas Härenstam A Swedish roleplaying game set in a weirder 1980s. No need to fear death but there’s plenty of trauma. https://t.co/S0GJjMToBk
Hardcover, 2020
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flight from Tomorrow: Science Fiction Stories
H. Beam Piper
Federation by H. Beam Piper A collection of science fiction stories set in the Federation... but not _that_ Federation. https://t.co/Fs5QYVnxBF
Paperback, 2024
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Colony
Ben Bova
Funny story: Ben Bova was still banging the population bomb drum in the 2000s. In one of his novels the heroes secretly install fertility limits on all human women. Among other things, it means interstellar colony populations can at best stay steady but will probably shrink.
Paperback, 2016
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book