Kate Wilhelm Books In Order

Constance and Charlie Books In Publication Order

  1. The Hamlet Trap (1987)
  2. The Dark Door (1988)
  3. Smart House (1989)
  4. Sweet, Sweet Poison (1990)
  5. Seven Kinds of Death (1992)
  6. A Flush of Shadows (1995)
  7. The Gorgon Fields (2012)
  8. All For One (2012)
  9. Sister Angel (2012)
  10. Torch Song (2012)
  11. With Thimbles, With Forks, and Hope (2012)
  12. Whisper Her Name (2012)

Barbara Holloway Books In Publication Order

  1. Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos (1991)
  2. The Best Defense (1994)
  3. Malice Prepense (1995)
  4. For the Defense (1996)
  5. Defense for the Devil (1999)
  6. No Defense (2000)
  7. Desperate Measures (2001)
  8. Clear and Convincing Proof (2003)
  9. The Unbidden Truth (2004)
  10. Sleight of Hand (2006)
  11. A Wrongful Death (2007)
  12. Cold Case (2008)
  13. Heaven is High (2011)
  14. By Stone By Blade By Fire (2012)
  15. Mirror, Mirror (2017)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Mile-Long Spaceship (1963)
  2. More Bitter Than Death (1963)
  3. The Clone (With: Theodore L. Thomas) (1965)
  4. Andover and the Android (1966)
  5. The Nevermore Affair (1966)
  6. The Killer Thing / The Killing Thing (1967)
  7. Let the Fire Fall (1969)
  8. Margaret and I (1971)
  9. City of Cain (1974)
  10. The Infinity Box (1975)
  11. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1975)
  12. The Clewiston Test (1976)
  13. Fault Lines (1977)
  14. Juniper Time (1979)
  15. A Sense of Shadow (1981)
  16. The Winter Beach (1981)
  17. Oh, Susannah! (1982)
  18. Welcome, Chaos (1983)
  19. Huysman’s Pets (1985)
  20. Crazy Time (1988)
  21. Cambio Bay (1990)
  22. Justice for Some (1993)
  23. The Good Children (1998)
  24. The Deepest Water (2000)
  25. Skeletons (2002)
  26. The Price of Silence (2005)
  27. Death of an Artist (2012)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky (1986)
  2. Naming the Flowers (1992)
  3. Moongate (2000)
  4. In Between (2014)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Downstairs Room, The (1970)
  2. Abyss (1973)
  3. Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions (1978)
  4. Better Than One (With: Damon Knight) (1980)
  5. Listen, Listen (1981)
  6. Children of the Wind (1989)
  7. And the Angels Sing (1992)
  8. Fear is a Cold Black (2010)
  9. The Bird Cage (2012)
  10. Music Makers (2012)
  11. Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume One (2015)
  12. Kate Wilhelm in Orbit, Volume Two (2015)
  13. Yesterday’s Tomorrows (2015)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Hills Are Dancing (1986)
  2. Storyteller (2005)

Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. Best New Horror 2 (1991)
  2. Best New Horror 3 (1992)
  3. Best New Horror 4 (1993)
  4. Best New Horror 5 (1994)
  5. Best New Horror 6 (1995)
  6. Best New Horror #26 (2015)

Nebula Awards Books In Publication Order

  1. Nebula Awards 1 (By:Damon Knight) (1966)
  2. Nebula Awards 2 (By:Brian W. Aldiss,Harry Harrison) (1966)
  3. Nebula Awards 3 (By:Roger Zelazny) (1968)
  4. Nebula Awards 4 (By:Karen Anderson) (1968)
  5. Nebula Awards 5 (By:Alexei Panshin) (1969)
  6. Nebula Awards 6 (By:Thomas D. Clareson) (1971)
  7. Nebula Awards 7 (By:Theodore Sturgeon,Lloyd Biggle Jr.) (1972)
  8. Nebula Awards 8 (By:Isaac Asimov) (1973)
  9. Nebula Awards 9 (1974)
  10. Nebula Awards 10 (By:James Gunn) (1975)
  11. Nebula Awards 11 (By:Ursula K. Le Guin,Craig Kee Strete) (1976)
  12. Nebula Awards 14 (By:Robin Malkin) (1980)
  13. Nebula Awards 15 (By:Frank Herbert) (1981)
  14. Nebula Awards 16 (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (1982)
  15. Nebula Awards 17 (By:Joe Haldeman) (1983)
  16. Nebula Awards 19 (By:Marta Randall) (1984)
  17. Nebula Awards 20 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  18. Nebula Awards 21 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  19. Nebula Awards 22 (By:George Zebrowski) (1988)
  20. Nebula Awards 23 (By:Michael Bishop) (1989)
  21. Nebula Awards 24 (By:Michael Bishop) (1990)
  22. Nebula Awards 25 (By:Michael Bishop) (1991)
  23. Nebula Awards 26 (By:James K. Morrow) (1992)
  24. Nebula Awards 27 (By:James K. Morrow) (1993)
  25. Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow) (1994)
  26. Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1995)
  27. Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1996)
  28. Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1997)
  29. Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress) (1999)
  30. Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford) (2000)
  31. Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2002)
  32. Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress) (2003)
  33. Nebula Awards 38 (2004) (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (2004)
  34. Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman) (2005)
  35. Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe) (2006)
  36. Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman) (2008)
  37. Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow) (2009)
  38. Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett) (2010)
  39. Nebula Awards 45 (2011) (By:Kevin J. Anderson) (2011)
  40. Nebula Awards 46 (2012) (By:John Kessel) (2012)
  41. Nebula Awards 47 (2013) (By:Catherine Asaro) (2013)
  42. Nebula Awards 48 (2014) (By:Kij Johnson) (2014)
  43. Nebula Awards 50 (2016) (By:Mercedes Lackey) (2016)
  44. Nebula Awards 51 (2017) (By:Julie E. Czerneda) (2017)
  45. Nebula Awards 52 (2018) (By:Jane Yolen) (2018)
  46. Nebula Awards 53 (2019) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2019)

Isaac Asimov’s Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. Isaac Asimov’s Space of Her Own (By:Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,,Mary Gentle) (1983)
  2. Isaac Asimov’s Aliens & Outworlders (With: Isaac Asimov,,Larry Niven,Lisa Tuttle,Garry Douglas Kilworth,Jack C. Haldeman II,Barry N. Malzberg,William F. Wu,Steve Perry,Bob Shaw,,,,Madeleine E. Robins) (1983)
  3. Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (By:) (1985)
  4. Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (By:Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard) (1989)
  5. Isaac Asimov’s Aliens (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)
  6. Isaac Asimov’s Robots (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)
  7. Isaac Asimov’s SF-Lite (By:Isaac Asimov) (1993)
  8. Isaac Asimov’s War (By:Isaac Asimov) (1993)
  9. Isaac Asimov’s Cyberdreams (By:Isaac Asimov) (1994)
  10. Isaac Asimov’s Skin Deep (By:Isaac Asimov) (1995)
  11. Isaac Asimov’s Ghosts (By:Isaac Asimov) (1995)
  12. Isaac Asimov’s Christmas (By:Isaac Asimov) (1997)
  13. Isaac Asimov’s Camelot (By:Isaac Asimov) (1998)
  14. Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov) (1998)
  15. Isaac Asimov’s Valentines (By:Isaac Asimov) (1999)
  16. Isaac Asimov’s Werewolves (By:Isaac Asimov) (1999)
  17. Isaac Asimov’s Solar System (By:Gardner R. Dozois) (1999)
  18. Isaac Asimov’s Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov) (2000)
  19. Isaac Asimov’s Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov) (2001)
  20. Isaac Asimov’s Halloween (By:Isaac Asimov) (2001)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973)
  2. Clarion SF (1977)
  3. Isaac Asimov’s Aliens & Outworlders (1983)
  4. The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985)
  5. Terry’s Universe: Science fiction’s finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987)
  6. The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989)
  7. Best New Horror 4 (1993)
  8. Angels! (1995)
  9. The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999)
  10. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)

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Kate Wilhelm Books Overview

The Hamlet Trap

A beautiful set designer with a background of methodical madness is accused of murdering a member of an Oregon repertory theater company, and psychologist Constance Liedl and her husband, private detective Charlie Meiklejohn, investigate. Reissue.

The Dark Door

Charlie and Constance must figure out who has been setting fire to abandoned hotels, restaurants, and schools around the country. PW.

Seven Kinds of Death

Seven Kinds of Death is a famous sculpture, but the name takes on new meaning when bodies start turning up at the creator’s art colony. Husband and wife detectives Charlie and Constance are called on to investigate.

A Flush of Shadows

‘SUSPENSEFUL GEMS…
Nothing is as it first seems in these stories. They unfold at a spellbinding pace.’ The Seattle Times’CHARLIE AND CONSTANCE ARE A WONDERFULLY REAL COUPLE…
. These stories are marked by Wilhelm’s magic as a tale spinner and her ability to make us care deeply about her characters.’ Minneapolis Star TribuneIn five riveting short novels, those gentle seekers after justice, Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn, resolve haunting conundrums in which the cheerful face of American life no longer quite conceals underlying evil. From the suburban Northeast to a beautiful hidden valley in the Rockies, from a luxury resort in Florida to Constance and Charlie’s own backyard, Kate Wilhelm takes us on a chilling expedition through realms of psychological unease where even angels might fear to tread. Readers with a taste for the mysterious, the unusual, the unexplained, or the truth will find this collection sublime.’PROVOCATIVE AND RIVETING…
Wilhelm knows what readers like.’ Booklist

Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos

Five years ago Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: ‘I need you.’

Nell Kendrick’s husband disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning his young family. Nell hasn’t seen him since until the day Lucas Kendricks arrives at the edge of her property and is shot, instantly killed.

Accused of his murder, Nell turns to lawyer Frank Holloway for help. But Frank knows he cannot win this case alone. He calls upon his daughter, Barbara, who remains ‘death qualified’ legally able to defend clients who face the death penalty if convicted.

Barbara is determined to stay distanced from the case, but the more she learns, the more questions she finds herself asking. Is Nell innocent, as Frank attests? Where has Lucas Kendricks been for the past seven years? Despite her vow, Barbara finds herself drawn to the case…
and reclaims the search for truth that first led her to the law.

The Best Defense

In a bold sequel to Death Qualified, attorney Barbara Holloway takes ”Baby Killer” Kemmerman’s case, but even The Best Defense may not be enough to combat incompetent lawyers and a right wing press smear campaign. Tour.

Malice Prepense

Attorney Barbara Holloway defends a twenty eight year old man with the mental capacity of a young child, who is accused of murdering one of Oregon’s senators. By the author of Death Qualified. Tour. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Forget about Grisham, Turow and all those other scribbling ex lawyers. The best writer of legal mysteries working today is Kate Wilhelm of Eugene, Oregon. Her first two books about Barbara Holloway The Best Defense and Death Qualified were sleeper successes. Holloway is a marvelously dense and thorn*y character, and her father and legal colleague is equally interesting. ‘He resolutely denied himself awareness of the time clock ticking away, and while denying it, he tried to remember if she was thirty nine or forty,’ Wilhem writes of father Frank thinking about his daughter. ‘In his head, she was sometimes a very young girl, and then a woman older and wiser than he was; he no longer knew which image was more accurate. He suspected she was both, and then a few others, too.’

For the Defense

Attorney Barbara Holloway defends a twenty eight year old man with the mental capacity of a young child, who is accused of murdering one of Oregon’s senators. By the author of Death Qualified. Tour. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Forget about Grisham, Turow and all those other scribbling ex lawyers. The best writer of legal mysteries working today is Kate Wilhelm of Eugene, Oregon. Her first two books about Barbara Holloway The Best Defense and Death Qualified were sleeper successes. Holloway is a marvelously dense and thorn*y character, and her father and legal colleague is equally interesting. ‘He resolutely denied himself awareness of the time clock ticking away, and while denying it, he tried to remember if she was thirty nine or forty,’ Wilhem writes of father Frank thinking about his daughter. ‘In his head, she was sometimes a very young girl, and then a woman older and wiser than he was; he no longer knew which image was more accurate. He suspected she was both, and then a few others, too.’

Defense for the Devil

In her three previous novel appearances, attorney Barbara Holloway has taken on the sort of cases no one else wants hopeless messes, all of them and with the help of her father, Frank, she has pulled through each time.

But even from the start, this new case is different. In order to clear up the murder of Mitch Arno, she’s going to face a worthy opponent: herself.

Mitch Arno always meant bad news for the coastal town of Folsum, Oregon. When they ran him out of town seventeen years ago, he left behind a wife with two daughters and a family that never wanted to see him again.

When he returns, he brings trouble in the form of a lot of suspicious money. As Barbara attempts to counsel Mitch’s wife about the money, a second form of trouble arrives: a corpse. Mitch’s. And now Barbara is in a morass of conflicting interests, and the only way out could lead her straight into the arms of the devil.

Defense for the Devil is another page turning delight from the queen of courtroom drama. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Can this marriage be saved? Oregon’s take no prisoners defense attorney Barbara Holloway wed geologist John Mureau in her last book, and already things are looking bad. The problem isn’t Barbara’s lack of cooking skills: her father, Frank, has enough of those to spare and will whip up a gourmet meal for everyone in sight at the slightest pretext. Nor is it the crush of living and office space renting two adjoining apartments in a new building in Eugene takes care of that. What really bothers John is the constant danger that Barbara’s work conjures up for her, for her family, and now for his children, if they should be around when a case explodes.

Barbara Holloway is using every slick legal arrow in her quiver to make sure that her client, Maggie Folsum, gets to keep a large lump of cash that her career criminal husband left behind when he trashed Maggie’s bed and breakfast and then was found beaten to death. The danger to Holloway begins when Maggie’s brother in law is charged with the murder, even though the most obvious candidate is the crime boss who employed and was double crossed by the late husband. Will Barbara fight off the IRS in time to defend the innocent brother in law? Will the mysterious mobster powerful enough to make witnesses perjure themselves actually give up his minions if pressed hard enough? Will John and Barbara stay together in those two terrific apartments, and will her white sauce ever work? Unlike most writers of legal thrillers, Wilhelm cares as much about her characters as she does about her courtrooms which is why her books including The Best Defense, For the Defense, The Good Children, and Justice for Some are such genuine pleasures. Dick Adler

No Defense

Barbara Holloway’s a trial lawyer who tends to take on difficult cases. One involved a woman accused of killing her own child, another involved a mentally handicapped man, and her last one found her entangled in such a mess that it’s a wonder she lived through it at all. But in every previous case she has had some fragment with which she could build an argument. This time out, it seems there’s No Defense at all. Lara and Vinny Jessup had a lovely May December marriage. It renewed his lease on life after a battle with cancer, and it rescued her from a bad first marriage. Initially, the sheriff out in Loomis County thinks that Vinny died when his car rolled over on a bad curve on Lookout Mountain. Then he finds the gunshot wound. Was it suicide or was it murder? With a large insurance policy as her motive, Lara could have staged the death or so it appears to the sheriff. Barbara Holloway finds herself drawn to the Oregon desert to take on this case, accompanied by her associates: her colleague Shelley with her Barbie doll looks, the inimitable detective Bailey Novell, and her father Frank who’s soon to be a published writer!. But the case itself is as dead as the desert. Is there any defense at all? Compelling and distinctive, this drama demonstrates anew why Kate Wilhelm is considered a master of the form.

Desperate Measures

Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the toughest cases in the Pacific Northwest…
and winning them. But this time it looks as though she’s up against an unbeatable opponent. The trial involves the murder of Gus Marchand, a hard working, God fearing man who was found dead on his kitchen floor. Without any real evidence linking him to the crime, the locals cast their suspicions towards Alex Feldman, Marchand’s hideously deformed neighbor. At the request of a fellow attorney, Barbara agrees to defend him. But another suspect is the high school principal, Hilde Franz, who’d had a contretemps with the dead man earlier that week. He had threatened to have her investigated and Hilde was seen near Marchand’s property around the time of his death, giving police both a motive and an opportunity for murder. Hilde also happens to be an old friend of Barbara’s father, Frank, so naturally, he’s going to defend her. Will Barbara have to square off against the man who taught her all she knows?Desperate Measures is vintage Kate Wilhelm…
which is to say, it’s a page turning delight. AUTHORBIO: Kate Wilhelm is the author of dozens of novels and short story collections. Among them are the science fiction classic Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, the Constance and Charlie mysteries, and The Good Children, which was optioned for film by DreamWorks SKG. The recipient of many honors the Prix Apollo, the Hugo Award, three Nebula Awards, and the Kurd Lasswitz Award Ms. Wilhelm, along with her husband, Damon Knight, received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Michigan State University in recognition of their many years as instructors for the Clarion Workshop in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Born in Ohio and raised in Kentucky, Ms. Wilhelm now lives in Eugene, Oregon, her home of many years.

Clear and Convincing Proof

The Kelso/McIvey rehab center is a place of hope and healing for its patients and for the dedicated staff who volunteer there. For lonely newcomer Erica Castle, its’ a place to make new friends. For brilliant physical therapist Darren Halvord, it’s a chance to showcase his unusual gift. For beautiful Annie McIvey it’s a sanctuary from a cruel husband. And for directors Naomi and Greg Boardman, it’s a lifelong dram about to be destroyed if Annie’s husband, David, has his way. A brilliant surgeon, an implacable misogynist, a man whose ego rivals his skill with a scalpel, David McIvey now has controlling shares in what has always been a non profit clinic. His plan to close the clinic and replace it with a massive new surgery center with himself at the helm means that the rehab center, with all its good work and good people, will be forced to close its doors. Since he is poised to desecrate the dreams of so many, it’s not surprising to anyone, especially Barbara Holloway, that somebody dares to stop him in cold blood. When David McIvey is murdered outside the clinic’s doors early one morning, Barbara once again uses her razor sharp instincts and take no prisoners attitude to create a defense for the two members of the clinic accused of his murder. Though police suspect Darren Halvord and Annie McIvey of not only having an affair, but plotting to murder David, Barbra believes a more complex motive lies at the heart of the crime. In her most perplexing case yet, she is forced to explore the darkest places where people can hide the soul beneath the skin.

The Unbidden Truth

Oregon lawyer Babara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases and winning them. But even she can’t begin to anticipate the bizarre twists waiting ahead.

The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete anonymity is not the only thing that intrigues Barbara Holloway. The defendant, Carol Fredricks, is a gifted young pianist charged with killing the manager of a piano bar. But Carol is as much of a mystery as the details of the murder for which she is accused. She can’t remember anything about her life before the age of eight, and she has been having haunting nightmares about a woman she cannot identify.

Before long Barbara becomes convinced that her client is not only innocent, but is being framed by an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried. And as she unravels the stunning trail of deception, hatred and a remarkable abiding love that holds the key to the mystery of Carol Fredricks, Barbara discovers that The Unbidden Truth may just damn them both.

Sleight of Hand

When a seemingly simple case quickly turns complicated, respected attorney Barbara Holloway must rethink her game plan. The route to justice is paved with nothing but lies, and Barbara must make a judgment call that leaves her with no option. Gregarious Vegas entertainer Wally Lederer hasn’t always enjoyed the attention of center stage something he learned about himself over thirty years ago when he was in the slammer serving time for picking pockets. He claims he’s turned his life around, and his lucrative and legitimate showbiz career seems to support this. But will the police believe he’s a changed man now that Jay Wilkins, a childhood friend, is accusing him of stealing a valuable artifact? More important, does Barbara believe him when he pleads his case to her? Wally swears he’s innocent. There’s no way he would jeopardize years of hard work for the fleeting thrill of minor deception. But when Jay is found murdered, Barbara knows Wally is in serious trouble the police have named him as their prime suspect. Barbara begins to ‘dig up the dirt’ and is shocked to learn that Jay’s wife is now missing and that Jay himself was far from being the upstanding businessman he claimed to be. Before long, new evidence points toward an unlikely killer, and Barbara must decide is protecting her client by revealing the truth will destroy another life she means to save.

A Wrongful Death

Who knew that being a Good Samaritan would lead Barbara Holloway to face her biggest challenge ever: being named prime suspect in a high profile kidnapping? The peace and quiet of Barbara’s retreat on the Oregon coast is shattered when a terrified young boy calls to her as she walks along a deserted beach. Frantically he leads her to a cabin deep in the woods where his mother lies senseless and battered clearly left for dead. Barbara runs for help, but by the time she returns with the police and medics both mother and son are gone. The puzzle only deepens when, back in the city, Barbara learns that the boy she met is the grandson of a wealthy and prominent family…
and that they have accused her of aiding and abetting his disappearance. With the help of her father, Frank, Barbara delves into the mystery of the missing child, only to realize that the kidnapping is a ruse for a more sinister plan a plan that pits the meaning of family against cold hard cash. But the more she learns, the more questions she has, and troubling obstacles continue to thwart her every move from the justice system that employs her, to the false identities of those around her. Yet none of these things compares to the shocking murder scene that awaits her.

Cold Case

With no strong evidence, attorney Barbara Holloway’s legal instincts are all she has. If they can’t lead her to the truth, her client will die. But if she succeeds, her own life will be on the line.

Controversial author and scholar David Etheridge is not the kind of company an aspiring politician wants to keep. But ambitious state senator Robert McCrutchen has a history with Etheridge a history he’s desperately trying to keep under wraps.

Twenty two years ago, while attending the University of Oregon, both men were investigated in the death of a young coed, but the case was never solved. A circle of secrecy guaranteed it. But the old stories resurface when Etheridge returns to Eugene, Oregon. Tied to their past, McCrutchen is his grudging host until the senator is found shot dead.

Now Etheridge is back where he was more than two decades ago suspected of murder. Only this time, with the Cold Case reopened, he’s facing a double charge. And Etheridge might not be so lucky again.

Barbara must battle the prosecution and the court of public opinion, which has already tried and convicted Etheridge for both murders. As the pressure mounts, Barbara ties the past and present together, risking her own life to protect a client and preserve justice.

Heaven is High

In the latest from bestselling author Kate Wilhelm, attorney Barbara Holloway tackles one of her most complex, compelling, and dangerous cases yet.

Barbara Holloway is a low-key attorney in Eugene, Oregon, who left her father’s high-powered firm to handle small legal problems for local residents and ponder her next move. But while trying to sort out her own future, two people, desperate for help, show up on her doorstep: former pro football player Martin Owens and his wife, Binnie. Binnie, who is mute, met her husband when she sneaked aboard his boat while it was docked in Haiti and smuggled herself into the U.S. Now Immigration is seeking to deport her back to Haiti, which would be a death sentence. Born to a woman from Belize who was kidnapped and enslaved by pirates, Binnie’s only hope is to prove her and her mother’s real identity. With only days to find the truth and protect Binnie, Holloway sets off for Belize. But what she knows is only the tip of the iceberg in what turns out to be one of her most complex, compelling, and dangerous cases yet.

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Before becoming one of today’s most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and ‘hard’ SF, and won SF’s Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is the winner of the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Welcome, Chaos

What would happen to the precarious balance of power if scientists could extend life for centuries? If one power bloc had biological protection against radiation and the other did not? Whose thumb would press the button first? When Lyle Taney took leave from her teaching job to live high in the mountains, researching the ways of eagles, she was just planning to write her next book. Lasater was an unscrupulous, skilled operative who thought he could maneuver her as he pleased. He believed women were incapable of making ethical or moral decisions and he was wrong. When the obscure government agent from an anonymous department tried to force Lyle to spy on her mysterious neighbors, she resisted. But the first step had been taken, involving her in a life and death struggle.

Justice for Some

‘First rate…
Accomplished…
A welcome change from the expected.’PUBLISHERS WEEKLYJudge Sarah Drexler is still trying to recover from her husband’s death, when she is asked to run for Oregon State judge. She leaves for her father’s California home to think about it, and reunite with her moody son and pregnant daughter. Then her father dies suddenly. A private detective is killed. And one of her own children is a murder suspect. Suddenly, everything she holds dear is at stake. She’s desperatetly trapped between her unrelenting love for her familiy and her staunch loyalty to the law. Whose justice should she serve?

The Good Children

It started with a promise, a pact. It became a secret that no one must tell that their parents were dead and gone, including the one they’d buried in the backyard. Now the McNair children are growing older, discovering love, college, and careers. But their lie haunts them. Their home holds them captive. Only the horrifying truth of their mother’s death can set the children free. And only the truth can destroy them all.

The Deepest Water

Considered ‘one of the masters of psychological fiction in America’ San Francisco Chronicle, Kate Wilhelm serves up an irresistably chilling puzzle that will keep readers captivated until the very end.

When Jud Connors, a successful writer, is found murdered in his isolated cabin in the woods of Oregon, his daughter Abby’s world starts to fall apart. Who wanted her father dead and why? More puzzling is how anyone could have gotten to the cabin undetected. Was the murderer someone Jud knew? As Abby embarks on her own investigation, she soon realizes that the clue to the murderer’s identity is buried in her father’s latest novel, finished just weeks before his death. But will she be able to see through the fiction in time before the killer comes after her?

Skeletons

Lee Donne’s family is gifted. Her mother has three doctorates, her father is an economics genius, and her grandfather is a world renowned Shakespearean scholar. Lee’s own gift, if you could call it that, is an eidetic memory that seems to maintain a visual representation of everything she’s ever seen. For the most part, this gift is useless; it certainly hasn’t helped Lee in college, where she’s just spent four years drifting from major to major, with no degree in sight.

Without a job or prospects, Lee is relieved to be housesitting her grandfather’s isolated Oregon home. But her stay soon becomes a nightmare when she is tormented by strange and menacing noises at night. Emboldened by a visit from her friend Casey, Lee finds that the source of these haunting sounds is an all too human force a young and well respected man.

He knew that Lee’s grandfather would be away, but what could he have been looking for? The search for answers takes Lee from the Pacific Northwest to the streets of New Orleans.

Using her strange gift as she probes into her family’s past, Lee uncovers secrets more far reaching and sinister than she ever could imagine.

The Price of Silence

In a small town, everyone knows everyone else’s business. But in Brindle, Oregon, there’s a secret nobody wants to see. Brindle is a dying town, each generation smaller than the last. But Ruth Ann Colonna, who has run the local paper for almost sixty years, is determined to keep the past alive with a special edition of The Brindle Times, to celebrate the town’s centennial. Photos, letters and newspaper articles trace the town’s inhabitants back to its founding members. But the relics of the past hold more than a record of marriages and deaths; they also hide a secret too dark to acknowledge. Todd Fielding needs a job, and the offer to provide her computer expertise to The Brindle Times seems like the perfect opportunity. The only downside to small town life is the potential for boredom, she suspects. But soon after her arrival in Brindle, Todd realizes she was very wrong. A young girl disappears…
and no one in the town appears particularly concerned. Looking deeper into the story, Todd uncovers a shocking fact: five other girls have ‘run away’ from Brindle under strange circumstances over the past twenty years and no one seems interested in finding them. With Ruth Ann’s help, she begins to understand the history of a town steeped in evil, manipulation and cold blooded murder. This town has cloaked itself in secrecy far too long. And innocents are paying the deadly price of silence.

Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions

A woman returns to her small town roots to conduct a study of the meaning of dreams.

Better Than One (With: Damon Knight)

A collection containing two short stories ‘Semper Fi’ and ‘Baby, You Were Great’, seven poems, and autobiographical introductions.

Storyteller

The Clarion Writing Workshop, established by author Kate Wilhelm with her husband, writer Damon Knight, is regarded as one of the finest creative incubators in the country. For the first time, Wilhelm gracefully and humorously tells the inside story of the program and includes a healthy dose of writing tips. More than a memoir or writing guide, Wilhelm discusses how the workshop began, the inside tricks of teaching writing, what she learned and how she passed a love of the written word on to generations of writers. Storyteller is a gift to all writers from this generous acclaimed writer.

Best New Horror 4

A collection of short horror stories features the work of Peter Atkins, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Peter Straub, Karl Edward Wagner, and others.

Best New Horror #26

The first annual collection of the world’s best horror stories and short novels showcases fiction from every part of the field from terror to supernatural chills and features the talents of Ian Watson, Stephen Gallagher, Ramsey Campbell, and others.

Nebula Awards 2 (By:Brian W. Aldiss,Harry Harrison)

These stories, first published in 1966, represent an exciting and important time in the history of science fiction the era when SF became true literature. Editors for this volume are BRIAN W. ALDISS and HARRY HARRISON. ALDISS is a prolific award winning author of over two dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, several critical works, and poetry. His latest novels are THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE: OR MY LIFE AS AN ENGLISHMAN and SUPERTOYS. The multiple award winning author of dozens of novels of speculative fiction, HARRISON is best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series, MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! the basis for the film SOYLENT GREEN, and the alternate history novels STARS & STRIPES FOREVER and STARS & STRIPES IN PERIL. He lives in Ireland. The Secret Place by Richard McKenna ‘ A sensitive piece of writing, a perfect example of second generation science fiction, the retelling and reexamination of a theme that originated in the pulp years…
‘ Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw The memorable classic featuring ‘slow glass’ through which light takes a very long time to travel. Who Needs Insurance? by Robin S. Scott If one can be accident prone, then perhaps one can be ‘safety prone’ but why? Among the Hairy Earthmen by R.A. Lafferty Earth is nothing more than a bloody playground for the children of the gods. The Last Castle by Jack Vance A prime example of one of Vance’s ‘haunting mood possessed visions of the distant future, written in a style that stirs the reader to reaction and response.’ Day Million by Frederik Pohl A very short story ‘jewel like conciseness’ of future love, life, and romance. When I Was Miss Dow by Sonya Dorman ‘ A sense of strangeness, more than a bit of human warmth, as well as a good strong whiff of alien strangeness.’ Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson Earth proves to be a testing ground for the son of an emperor of a hundred worlds. In the Imagicon by George Henry Smith ‘What good was paradise without something to compare it to? Without a taste of hell from time to time, how could a man appreciate heaven?’ We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick Now better know as the story on which film Total Recall was based, the original is a far more subtle questioning of reality. Man In His Time by Brian W. Aldiss The sole survivor of crash landing on Mars returns to Earth, but is 3. 3077 minutes ahead of the rest of the world.

Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow)

Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own often highly idiosyncratic excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.

Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Excellent in all departments Kirkus Reviews, Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best of the year anthologies.

Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent)

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best of year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, ‘essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction.’

Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress)

A perfect match the all time top Nebula Award winner edits this year’s volume of the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards. The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Each Nebula Awards collection showcases the year’s Nebula winning fiction, top selections from the ballot including work not collected in other best of the year anthologies and intriguing essays written expressly for each volume. Nebula Awards 33 features prizewinning fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre, Jerry Oltion, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen; the Rhysling Award winners for best SF poetry; classic stories by Grand Master Poul Anderson and Author Emeritus Nelson Bond; and original essays by Jack Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Cynthia Felice, Michael Cassutt, Geoffrey Landis, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy, and Christie Golden. This excellent compendium is, as was said of last year’s volume, ‘a must read for both serious and casual SF fans alike.’

Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford)

The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction: the finest works in the genre each year as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 is a thought provoking and entertaining volume of and about science fiction. Editor Gregory Benford speaks of the interaction between science fiction and science over the past century; editors and authors Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Van Gelder, George Zebrowski, David Hartwell, and Bill Warren discuss and disagree about science fiction’s place in the larger literary scene; authors William Tenn and Hal Clement are honored; and award winning stories are presented by Sheila Finch, Jane Yolen, Bruce Holland Rogers, Joe Haldeman an excerpt from his novel Forever Peace, Geoffrey A. Landis, Walter Jon Williams, and Mark J. McGarry.

Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson)

Selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 presents the finest award winning fiction of the year and includes insightful commentary about the current state of science fiction. ‘Invaluable, not just for the splendid fiction and lively nonfiction, but as another annual snapshot, complete with grins and scowls.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Would serve well as a one volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction.’ New York Review of Science Fiction

Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress)

Here is the ssential index of one year in SF and fantasy, full of winners and nominees of the prestigious Nebula Award. For groundbreaking works in the genre, the Nebula is perhaps the highest honor in the field and a beacon for readers looking for the best quality science fiction and fantasy around.

Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman)

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year’s most astounding fiction compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe)

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americar bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year’s most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year’s winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman)

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more. This year’s award winning authors include Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, and more. The anthology also features essays from celebrated science fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Mike Resnick.

Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow)

Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: The pulse of modern science fiction. New York Times Book Review

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year s award winning authors include Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, and Nancy Kress, plus 2008 Grand Master Michael Moorcock.

Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett)

The year’s best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcase represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection. This year’s compilation includes stories by: Ursula K. LeGuin Catherine Asaro John Kessel Nina Kiriki Hoffman Harry Harrison, this year’s Grandmaster

Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov)

Uncover a unique collection of mysterious science fiction that goes beyond the mean streets and hard boiled hideouts of traditional tales of dead eye dicks that are out of this world! From the files of Isaac Asimov’s Science FIction Magazine stories from Gregg Egan, Lisa Goldstein, Isaac Asimov, John Varley, Kate Wilhelm, and Nancy Kress.

Isaac Asimov’s Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov)

Acclaimed science fiction writers present their own provocative visions of what an ideal world is really like…

Isaac Asimov’s Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov)

From the award winning pages of Asimov’s Science Fiction today’s most creative minds explore the fierce, fragile bond between fathers and their children.

Clarion SF

Contains: ‘Landscape with Aliens’, by Larry W. Martin; ‘A Matter of Honor’, by Pat P.C. Hodgell; ‘Closed Circuit’, by Carter Scholz; ‘The Leader of the Club’, by Marc Scott Zicree; ‘The Bellman’s Wonder Ring’, by Gene Wolfe; ‘The Enemy You Killed, My Friend’, by Ricahrd S. Bready; ‘Stormfall’, by Bill Johnston; ‘Can Anything Be Taught?’, by Vonda N. McIntyre; ‘The Thing Itself’, by Kim Stanely Robinson; ‘Poppin’ Fresh’, by Michael West; ‘With Crooked Hands’, by Robert Crais; ‘Brian in the Dreaming Seat’, by Alan Brennert; ‘Something That Works’, by Damon Knight; ‘No Specific Time Mentioned’, by Vic Webb; and ‘The Traders’, by Kathleen M. Sidney.

The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology

Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as ‘F&SF’ celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a spectacular anthology of the best recent work from the magazine. Included are stories from major writers like Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, and Harlan Ellison. Also here are award winners like Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nebula winning ‘Solitude,’ Maureen F. McHugh’s Hugo winning ‘The Lincoln Train,’ and Elizabeth Hand’s Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning ‘Last Summer at Mars Hill.’The fiftieth anniversary collection for the most distinguished magazine of the science fiction and fantasy world. Contributors include:Dale BaileyTerry BissonMichael BlumleinRay BradburyJohn CrowleyBradley DentonPaul Di FilippoS.N. DyerHarlan EllisonEsther M. FriesnerElizabeth HandTanith LeeUrsula K. Le GuinMaureen F. McHughRachel PollackRobert ReedBruce Holland RogersBruce SterlingRay VukcevichKate WilhelmGene Wolfe

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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