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Joan D Vinge Books In Order

Heaven Chronicles Books In Order

  1. The Outcasts of Heavens Belt (1978)

Snow Queen Books In Order

  1. The Snowqueen (1980)
  2. World’s End (1984)
  3. The Summer Queen (1991)
  4. Tangled Up in Blue (2000)

Cat Books In Order

  1. Psion (1982)
  2. Catspaw (1988)
  3. Dreamfall (1996)

Novels

  1. Return of the Jedi: The Storybook Based on the Movie (1983)
  2. Tarzan, King of the Apes (1983)
  3. The Dune Storybook (1984)
  4. Ladyhawke (1985)
  5. Return to Oz (1985)
  6. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
  7. Santa Claus the Movie (1985)
  8. Willow (1988)
  9. Lost in Space (1998)
  10. Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
  11. Ladysmith (2012)
  12. 47 Ronin (2012)

Omnibus

  1. Binary Star 4 (1980)
  2. Riding the Torch / Tin Soldier (1990)

Collections

  1. Fireship (1978)
  2. Eyes of Amber (1979)
  3. Phoenix in the Ashes (1985)

Non fiction

  1. The Random House Book of Greek Myths (1999)

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Joan D Vinge Books Overview

The Snowqueen

The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150 year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. All is not lost if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space.

World’s End

Hot on the heels of The Summer Queen, this novel is a must read for fans of Vinge’s Hugo Award winning series. BZ Gundhalinu, a policeman who became an outcast after saving the future Summer Queen, quits his job to follow his ne’er do well brothers into the godforsaken waste, World’s End, to prospect. BZ’s odyssey will set the stage for The Summer Queen. Reissue.

The Summer Queen

Sequel To The Hugo Award Winning Bestseller The Snow QueenThe Summer Queen is the extraordinary sequel to one of science fiction’s most celebrated novels, The Snow Queen. Set in a fully realized universe of wonders, this spectacular space epic, itself a finalist for the Hugo Award, is one of the most remarkable novels in the field. A story that spans millennia, from the ruins of an ancient interstellar empire to the planets of the Hegemony that rules human space, The Summer Queen is the multi layered story of Tiamat, a world where the dolphin like mers are harvested for the youth prolonging serum extracted from their blood. But Tiamat is much more, for beneath Carbuncle, its capital, lies the old empire’s greatest secret: an enormous forgotten technology which, though decaying, continues to affect the fates of the fallen empire’s remnant cultures via the sybil network a data bank that binds the past and the future in its web of knowledge, As the Smith, genius mastermind of the hidden interstellar Brotherhood, tries feverishly to unlock its secrets, BZ Gundhalinu desperately strives to save the Hegemony, while The Summer Queen herself dares to create a new future for her people and her planet. And though each is acting alone, their fates will entwine in an astonishing climax that will change the universe forever.

Tangled Up in Blue

Joan D. Vinge returns to Tiamat, the world of her Hugo Award winning novel The Snow Queen and its bestselling sequel The Summer Queen.. Set during the time of The Snow Queen, BZ Gundhalinu is a by the book ‘Blue’ on the trail of high corruption within the force. When a police raid goes horribly awry, BZ finds himself teamed up with Nyx LaisTree, a hard nosed cop with no respect for the rules, and Devony Seaward, a beautiful hooker with a heart of gold. Together these three must fight the corruption of Tiamat and try to expose it before they all end up dead. This novel marks the exciting return to the much loved Snow Queen Universe. While taking place during events in The Snow Queen, this novel is a stand alone masterpiece of noir suspense taking a story you think you know, and showing you just how deep and vast the waters really run.

Psion

When first published, readers young and old eagerly devoured the tale of a street hardened survivor named Cat, a half human, half alien orphan telepath. Named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Cat’s story has been continued by Hugo award winning and international best selling author Joan D. Vinge with the very popular Catspaw and Dreamfall. Now, 25 years later, this special anniversary edition of Psion contains a new introduction by the author and ‘Psiren,’ a story never before included in any trade edition of Psion. This tough, gritty tale of an outsider whose only chance for redemption is as an undercover agent for an interstellar government that by turns punishes and helps him, is as fresh and powerful today as it was in 1982.

Catspaw

CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor…
Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him…
. The taMings. A cyber augmented, DNA incestuous clan of such wealth and power that their family arguments change the destiny of worlds. Now one taMing is a killer’s target. But which? And who would dare?Seeking answers, Cat finds lies and savagery, passion and atrocity trails that lead from crystal valleys to clubs for silver skinned beauties. From the homicidal enclaves of drug kings to a fanatic’s pulpit. From the halls of the Assembly to a cyberspace hell. Seeking assassins, Cat discovers a mystery that could cost him his future. His sanity. His life. Because Cat is no longer a bodyguard…
He’s bait.

Dreamfall

Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother’s people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers. The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak ‘homeland,’ by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge’s one unique natural resource, ‘Dreamfall.’ The tangible residue of cast off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic ‘cloud whales,’ Dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau. Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau’s brutality to save his people and himself.

Return of the Jedi: The Storybook Based on the Movie

In a sequel to ‘The Star Wars Storybook’ and ‘The Empire Strikes Back Storybook’, Luke Skywalker and his friends in the Rebel Alliance formulate a daring plan to battle with the Empire and its evil leaders, Darth Vader and the Emperor.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

A story of flaming revenge, the search for petrol, and it it doesn’t hurt if you have a shotgun, either. Max is a cop, doing his best in a seriously failing society when he runs into a crazed gangster called the Night Rider. This ends up with his family dead, quite a lot of car wrecking and loud noises in this future decaying Australia. A pretty decent novelisation.

Santa Claus the Movie

When one of Santa’s elves goes to work for an unscrupulous toy manufacturer, Santa’s own life is ultimately changed forever.

Willow

A poor farmer undertakes a mission to find safety for a baby destined to be a great queen, but now in danger from an evil sorceress.

Cowboys and Aliens

Blockbuster filmmaker Jon Favreau directs Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in an event film for summer 2011 that crosses the classic Western with the alien invasion movie in a blazingly original way: Cowboys & Aliens. Joined by an arsenal of top moviemakers Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci he brings an all new action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1875. New Mexico Territory. A stranger Craig with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron fisted Colonel Dolarhyde Ford. It’s a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella Olivia Wilde, he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.. The script for Cowboys & Aliens is by Star Trek s Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof television s Lost and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby, screen story by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Steve Oedekerk, based on Platinum Studios Cowboys & Aliens created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Grazer, Howard, Rosenberg, Kurtzman and Orci produce. Spielberg, Favreau, Denis L. Stewart, Bobby Cohen, Randy Greenberg and Ryan Kavanaugh executive produce. This novelization is an exciting, action packed story that starts with an amnesiac stranger and ends in a blaze of glory. Absolution, New Mexico, a town that lives in fear of its powerful benefactor, cattle baron Col. Woodrow Dolarhyde, is full of unhappy people from the colonel’s spoiled, directionless son who tries to drink it dry, to the doctor turned saloon keeper stuck in the remains of what was once a gold rush boom town, to the preacher who struggles to find meaning in a place that seems as lifeless as the arid desert around it. But when a mysterious stranger with an odd bit of hardware on his wrist arrives, he brings with him a new kind of trouble that nobody could imagine in their wildest dreams. It’s bad enough that the stranger is a wanted outlaw. But he’s followed by murderous demons from the sky that attack the town and snatch away a bunch of townsfolk, including Dolarhyde’s son. The posse that rides out to reclaim the abducted people encounters a series of obstacles that make the stranger’s ominous presence seem almost like a good thing. Attacked by a murderous outlaw band, besieged by Apaches with no love for any white man, and terrorized by the demons themselves and their terrible death machines, no posse has ever had an adventure as strange as this one…
Alive with the color and spirit of the Old West and the sense of wonder of the most entertaining science fiction, this enthralling adventure is a unique and memorable experience readers won’t want to miss.

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