Books by Sean Stewart and Complete Book Reviews
Sean Stewart, Author . Small Beer $24 (243p) ISBN 978-1-931520-07-2
Ghosts are like homeless people, we are told by DK "Dead" Kennedy, the hero of World Fantasy Award winner Stewart's latest blend of magical realism and Texas regionalism: most of us look away, but he can't. This ability to see the...
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Sean Stewart, Author Ace Books $5.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-65241-9
This tale of a futuristic sleuth who pursues criminals and her own inner demons succeeds both as science fiction and as a mystery. Although pretentious prose studs the first few pages (e.g., ``Scattered across the asphalt like murderer's footprints,
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Sean Stewart, Author Ace Books $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-441-00547-5
Fusing prophecy, pregnancy and voodoo, Stewart (The Night Watch) delivers a fanciful magic realist tale set in modern-day Houston. After her mother dies, Antoinette (""Toni"") Beauchamp receives a ""gift she can't refuse"": visitations from her...
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Sean Stewart, Author Ace Books $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-441-00445-4
In the near-future envisioned in this beautifully written novel (as well as in Stewart's Resurrection Man, 1995), magic supersedes technology, making North America a savagely interesting place. Emily Thompson, heir to Chicago's Southside, discovers...
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Sean Stewart, Author Ace Books $11 (248p) ISBN 978-0-441-00121-7
Dante Ratkay has always tried to deny his special powers--until he is confronted with his own dead body. Reading this as a sign that his death is imminent, Dante finally feels compelled to tap his psychic ``angel'' abilities, if only to aid his...
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Sean Stewart, Author Ace Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-00347-1
Stewart, whose first two novels each won Canada's Aurora Award, crafts as his fourth (after Resurrection Man) an elemental tale as deceptively simple as a Mobius strip. Brook is a young island orphan of Clouds End, which lies dangerously near the...
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Sean Stewart, Author, Jordan Weisman, Author . Running Press $17.95 (143p) ISBN 978-0-7624-2656-0
A rapid-fire, interactive text (phone numbers appear throughout) with the immediacy of instant-messaging may well make this rather familiar girl loses boy story a hit with teens. Two days after finding a small needle mark on her left arm, 17-year-old
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