Storyteller
by Amy Thomson, ACE
Humans have colonized the largely water-covered planet of Thalassa, settling on the many islands which dot its oceans. For centuries, news has traveled and history has been taught by storytellers, itinerants who sail the seas on harsels, which resemble intelligent telepathic whales.
One storyteller, who calls herself Teller, takes a young boy named Samad under her wing. She is very old, and Samad will be her final apprentice. As Samad grows up and travels with Teller, he learns about the world on which he lives and about the harsels which transport them. [More]
The Deal
by Timothy J. Lambert and Becky Cochrane, Alyson Publications
Aaron, fed up with his friends’ complaining about their love lives, comes up with The Deal: They all have until next New Year’s Eve to find true love or stop whining about it. And there will be monthly love sucks parties to let all the whining out, but no whining in between.
That’s a tall order. Miranda sucks the life out of every one of her romances. Can she really find love with a butch punk lesbian drummer? Alexander dabbles with men’s hearts. Will he every get a steady job and a steadier boyfriend? Will Patrick, Aaron’s straight roommate, be able to weather out the changes in his romance with Vivian, who can’t [More]
There Came Two Angels
by Julia Lieber, Alyson Publications
A certain conservative former Senator from North Carolina is discovered in a motel room with a dead naked young man, rumored to be his lover in the gay press. Loy Lombard and her partner Sam MacLean are hired to clear the senator and put the blame where it belongs, on the radical homosexual agenda. Too bad, because Loy is as big a dyke as you can find and she isn’t going to put any blame anywhere it doesn’t belong.
Loy and Sam are veteran sleuths, having honed their skills on the big city police force as homicide detectives. They dive into the mystery of the murder, namely, if the [More]
Packing Mrs. Phipps
by Anne Seale, Alyson Publications
Butchy, charismatic Jo Jacuzzo has just lost her job as a nurse’s assistant, when a friend offers her good money to pack up his mother in Florida so she can move back to New York. Jo gets as far as Georgia when her truck breaks down and, while it is being repaired, agrees to help drive an RV to Arizona with a beautiful, mysterious woman she just met.
Charity, the beautiful, mysterious woman with RV, is full of contradictions. An heiress, she drives an RV cross country. Her brother has been kidnapped by the mafia and is being held for ransom to pay off gambling debts - or maybe it’s all a ruse, and he just [More]
Zandru’s Forge
by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross, DAW
Here is Book Two of the Clingfire Trilogy, which began with The Fall of Neskaya. All you really need to know is that it’s a Darkover novel. I read the first book years ago, and didn’t need it to understand the action in this one at all.
This is the story of Carolin Hastur and Varzil Ridenow, who trained to use their laran (psychic) power at the Tower of Arilinn, and became fast friends and allies. Carolin was the heir of the [More]
