A leading cultural historian of premodern Japan draws a rich portrait of the emerging samurai culture as it is portrayed in gunki-mono, or war tales, examining eight major works spanning the mid-tenth
“An old-fashioned novel, in the best sense of that phrase, elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.”—Michael Chabon on A Company of Three“A first novel that soars.”—The New York Times on Like
Katrina is still haunted by her encounter with the Headless Horseman - the night he beckoned to her. Now he has risen again, slashing heads and terrorizing the quiet countryside. Her only joy during t
Praise for the Previous Novels of Varley O’Connor“Thoroughly researched and lively.” —Vogue“Elegantly wrought, hardheaded, and tenderhearted.” —Michael Chabon“Honesty and compassion inform every page,
He was there again…just below. I awoke as always to the power of his presence. My bare feet hit the cold floor. One peek—just one—out the window. It’d been three years since I’d seen this horseman. Th
The son of one of the first men to fly to Mars and back, Ray Garcia-Strickland is now a disgruntled Martian, tired of the Red Planet's overdevelopment and the gravity-dependent tourist Earthies. But
Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland-otherwise known as Podkayne-has joined the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy, passing the audition with a little help from some higher
Known for ?superior science fiction” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), author John Varley returns to his Thunder and Lightning series with a novel of how one man’s volatile genius could alter a starship’s
From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times ov
Seven suburban misfits are constructing a spaceship out of old tanker cars. The plan is to beat the Chinese to Mars--in under four days at three million miles an hour. It would be history in the maki
Not content with investing his fortune and watching it grow, multibillionaire Howard Christian buys rare cars that he actually drives, acquires collectible toys that he actually plays with, and builds
