Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-607013-15-0
This collection of 24 stories, ranging from new works to decades-old Hugo nominees, unevenly evokes rock music’s legacy of pushing boundaries and railing against the establishment ethos. In Lawrence C. Connolly’s evocative “Mercenary,” sniper and...
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Marc Laidlaw, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-684-82245-7
The newest novel by Laidlaw (Daddy's Nuke) is also the most recent contribution to the burgeoning subgenre of literary adventures based on CD-ROM games. Aside from the author's obvious craftsmanship, that is the novel's only other distinctive...
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Marc Laidlaw, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-312-08830-9
With a breakneck pace and a wonk's sense of humor, Laidlaw ( Neon Lotus ) neatly satirizes our postmodern society in this wild, almost hallucinatory novel. In the future U.S.A. that is the book's setting, flat-screen entertainment has evolved into...
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Marc Laidlaw, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13021-3
Attempts to achieve a genuine sense of awe are rare in contemporary horror. So Laidlaw (The Orchid Eater) is to be complimented for making the effort in his new novel, even though it falls short of its visionary ambitions. The titular mandalas,...
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Marc Laidlaw, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-312-10515-0
With unusual insights into the cruel extremism and vulnerability of adolescence, this suspenseful thriller of psychosis and serial killing follows the parallel stories of a young murderer and the boy he might have been in the quiet Southern...
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Marc Laidlaw, Author, Stewart Ed. Laidlaw, Other Dutton Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-917657-52-8
This dark comedy of surburban paranoia envisions 1998, when communities are armed camps, walling out the world and walling in their families. With no jobs and with automation rampant, people spend much of their time plugged in to computer...
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