Sarah Zettel, Author . Warner $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-52491-9
Nothing is the least bit forced or overly clever in this winning coming-of-age story, a seamless blend of concept, plot and characterization. Chena Trust grows up on an overcrowded space station where her family has had to toil endlessly to make...
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Sarah Zettel, Author . Tor $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-312-87442-1
The second, tragedy-tinged Isavalta novel (after 2002's A Sorcerer's Treason) from Zettel (Reclamation) crosses a number of genres, moving from Lake Superior in 1872 through the fairy-tale Land of Death and Spirit to the high-fantasy court...
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Sarah Zettel, Author . Tor $27.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-765-30422-3
Zettel's satisfying conclusion to her Isavalta series (after 2004's The Firebird's Vengeance
) illuminates the inner workings of the royal court of the Hastinapura Empire through the eyes of 19-year-old Princess Natharie of Sindhu, taken
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Sarah Zettel, Author Aspect $23 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-60292-1
Zettel's debut novel breaks little new ground, but SF fans will still enjoy it. Her heroes, telekinetic Eric Born and mysterious pariah Arla Stone, must save their home planet from factions trying to tear it apart. This quest places them directly in
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Sarah Zettel, Author Aspect $33.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-52489-6
Zettel (Fool's War, etc.) has a gift for creating fascinating aliens with rich cultures and radically different, though still comprehensible, mindsets. She's somewhat less successful at portraying intergalactic politics, though in this novel she...
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Sarah Zettel, Author Aspect $5.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-60293-8
In ""alien contact"" science fiction, the aliens come from far off, light-years away. But what if the aliens were closer to home? What if the next great life-form with which we must contend isn't from the stars but from our hard drives? In Zettel's...
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Sarah Zettel, Author Aspect $21.5 (417p) ISBN 978-0-446-52322-6
In the future, the Dedelphi, a race ravaged by eons of warfare, contracts with Earth's Bioverse Corporation to save their planet from ecological disaster. Dr. Lynn Nussbaumer spearheads the massive effort, which involves relocating the planet's...
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Sarah Zettel, Author Tor Books $27.95 (414p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0812-2
In Sarah Zeitel's absorbing The Firebird's Vengeance: A Novel of Isavalta, the third in this well-received fantasy series, Bridget Lederle, now a court sorcerer, seeks her daughter, Anna, while the Firebird seeks revenge for its 30-year confinement...
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Sarah Zettel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-544-07411-8
Sixteen-year old Peggy Fitzroy becomes a spy in the 18th-century English court in the first book in a planned series from Zettel (the American Fairy trilogy). An orphan, Peggy has been raised by her aunt and uncle, who plan to marry her to a...
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Sarah Zettel. Grand Central, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6090-1
This uneven fairy tale–tinged mystery from Zettel (Let Them Eat Stake) features two sisters—one good, one bad. Troubled Geraldine Monroe left her hometown of Whitestone Harbor, Mich., soon after their mother’s death, which she blamed on herself,...
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Sarah Zettel, Author, Steve Alten, Author . Tor $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-312-87441-4
Alternating between her lighthouse-keeper heroine's native Wisconsin and the magic-ridden world of Isavalta, SF author Zettel's (Playing God) first fantasy novel, despite a plodding plot, should please readers eager to leave this dull world...
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Sarah Zettel. Grand Central, $16.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6092-5
A dysfunctional family drama plays out in this half-baked thriller from Zettel (The Other Sister). Single mother Beth Fraser, a vice president at a successful Chicago tech company, requires her spunky 15-year-old daughter, Dana, to send check-in...
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