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Aeson: Blue The Atlantis Grail Novella Series
by Vera Nazarian
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Aeson's secrets revealed at last!
Before Gwen won Aeson's heart…
Before they joined forces to protect two planets and humanity itself…
Aeson faced death on his own.
And lost.
Young Imperial Crown Prince Aeson Kassiopei. Intelligent, well-educated, perfectly isolated in his lofty rank, responsibilities, and privilege of the divine Imperial Dynasty. He's the most powerful boy on Atlantis and he's going into the real world for the very first time....
Now just another student in Fleet Cadet School, Aeson must learn everything other people take for granted—including the basics of how to look after himself, how to interact with others his age, how to laugh, and how to make friends.
As if that wasn't enough to boggle the mind of a confident but shy boy who's never had a real conversation with anyone but his mother, Aeson has one more lesson ahead... what it's like to fall in love.
Get inside Aeson's mind and learn his story from the inside out as he forms the bonds that will change him forever—with Elikara, Xelio, Oalla, Keruvat, Erita, and other favorite Atlantean characters, long before they took to the stars as astra daimon!
AESON: BLUE is the first in The Atlantis Grail Novella Series.
Official website: http://www.TheAtlantisGrail.com
Survive: The Atlantis Grail, Book Four
by Vera Nazarian
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The End is Here, in a Fiery Cosmic Apocalypse!
Gwen Lark knows how to Qualify, Compete, and Win...
The time has come to Survive.
The Games of the Atlantis Grail have come to a ground-shaking halt and Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, survived the remarkable ordeal, for the time being.
But the worst is yet to come!
Now, both the colony planet Atlantis and Earth are under a threat of annihilation, and everything is up in the air, including dire and stunning wonders in the Atlantean skies.
Will there be a Wedding? Will there be a future for Gwen Lark, her beloved, and all their families, friends, and loved ones?
Is Gwen’s rare and powerful talent, the Logos voice of creation, enough to resolve the greatest mystery of the Kassiopei Imperial Dynasty and its role in the events of deepest antiquity since the dawn of time?
The fate of the entire human species is at stake, and now there can be no respite, not a moment to lose. The final battle is here, and Gwen, and everyone she knows and loves, are in for the greatest fight of their lives.
It is time to survive.
SURVIVE is the fourth and final book in The Atlantis Grail series, now an international cross-genre phenomenon, optioned for film.
Official website: http://www.TheAtlantisGrail.com
Win: The Atlantis Grail, Book Three
by Vera Nazarian
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The Games are Forever!
It's one thing to Qualify and Compete…
Now she must Win.
Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, is among the lucky ones. She’s one of several million teenage refugees to escape the extinction-level asteroid barreling towards Earth and reach the ancient colony planet of Atlantis.
But Atlantis is a strange new world with higher gravity and a blazing white sun, where nothing is as expected. The new arrivals from Earth will now belong to the majority class of non-citizens who face a lifetime of hard work and limited rights.
To make matters worse, Gwen’s rare and powerful talent, her Logos voice, is viewed as a potential weapon to be exploited by the Imperator, as well as a threat to the Kassiopei Imperial Dynasty and its uncompromising control over the people of Atlantis.
A last-minute heartbreak prior to arrival turns to joy, when Gwen receives a declaration of love from an unexpected source. The Wedding date is set, but before she can be joined with her true love, she is forced to compete in the brutal and deadly Games of the Atlantis Grail to save herself, her family, friends, and everything she cares about. Once again, her intelligence, quick thinking skills, resilience, and creativity are challenged to the breaking point.
The Games are monumental, intricate, lethal . . . and the Games are Forever.
This time Gwen must fight and figure her way through the most difficult and sophisticated contest she has ever faced. Terrifying Ordeals and impossible Challenges, ruthless skilled Competitors, vicious secret assassins, and dubious teammates she must work with but cannot trust, are just the beginning. . . .
Meanwhile, as the Games rage, the fate of two worlds is at stake as a new alien threat looms over Earth and Atlantis.
But Gwen Lark has a secret weapon of her own. It’s not her Logos voice and its untapped power to control orichalcum technology and perpetuate change.
It is Gwen herself.
WIN is the third book in The Atlantis Grail series.
Official website: http://www.TheAtlantisGrail.com
Compete: The Atlantis Grail, Book Two
by Vera Nazarian
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It’s one thing to Qualify...
But do you have what it takes to Compete?
With Earth about to be destroyed by an extinction level asteroid, teenage nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark, and a few of her friends and loved ones, barely Qualified for rescue onboard one of the thousands of ark-ships headed to the ancient colony planet Atlantis.
Now faced with a year-long journey in space, life in a wondrously alien environment, and many tough life choices, Gwen must decide who or what she will become. Fleet Cadet or Civilian? Friend or lover? Average or extraordinary?
Can she make new friends? Can she trust the old ones, such as Logan Sangre, her sexy high school crush and an Earth special operative?
Time and time again, Gwen's uncanny ability to come up with the best answer in a crisis saves her life and others. And now, her unique Logos voice makes her an extremely valuable commodity to the Atlanteans -- so much so that her enigmatic commanding officer Aeson Kassiopei, who is also the Imperial Prince of Atlantis, has taken an increasingly personal interest in her.
Before the end of the journey, Gwen must convince him that she has what it takes to compete in the deadly Games of the Atlantis Grail.
It's becoming apparent -- the life of her family and all of Earth depends on it.
COMPETE is the second book in The Atlantis Grail series.
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Qualify: The Atlantis Grail, Book One
by Vera Nazarian
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You have two options. You die, or you Qualify.
The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.
But there's a catch.
They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth’s population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.
Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.
Because there’s a loophole.
If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted… Such as curing your mother’s cancer.
There is only one problem.
Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she’s a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she’s come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.
This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition—including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she’s been crushing on, and who doesn’t seem to know she exists.
Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.
You Qualify or you die.
Vera Nazarian immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as a kid, sold her first story at the age of 17, and since then has published numerous works in anthologies and magazines, and has seen her fiction translated into eight languages.
She made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed novel Dreams of the Compass Rose, followed by epic fantasy about a world without color, Lords of Rainbow. Her novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass with an introduction by Charles de Lint made the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2005. This first collection Salt of the Air, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe, contains the 2007 Nebula Award-nominated "The Story of Love." Recent work includes the 2008 Nebula Award-nominated, baroque novella The Duke in His Castle, three hilarious parodies in her Supernatural Jane Austen Series, and the Renaissance epic fantasy Cobweb Bride Trilogy.
Ancient myth, moral fables, eclectic philosophy, and her Armenian and Russian ethnic heritage play a strong part in all her work, combining the essences of things and places long gone into a rich evocation of wonder.
In addition to being a writer and award-winning artist, she is also the publisher of Norilana Books.
Official website: www.veranazarian.com
After the Sundial by Vera Nazarian
After the Sundial by Vera Nazarian is the author's first short fiction collection that focuses specifically on science fiction works, and can be viewed as a companion volume to her earlier collection, Salt of the Air which focused on fable, myth, and fantasy.
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Bound by the common theme of time and temporal exploration, the ten selections here range widely from traditional speculative fiction to the surreal literary to poetry to bawdy adventure humor to space opera and far future speculation.
Includes an introduction by the author, two previously unpublished works and a full-length critically acclaimed novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass.
Vera Nazarian immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as a kid, sold her first story at the age of 17, and since then has published numerous works in anthologies and magazines, and has seen her fiction translated into eight languages.
She made her novelist debut with the critically acclaimed novel Dreams of the Compass Rose, followed by epic fantasy about a world without color, Lords of Rainbow. Her novella The Clock King and the Queen of the Hourglass with an introduction by Charles de Lint made the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2005. This first collection Salt of the Air, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe, contains the 2007 Nebula Award-nominated "The Story of Love." Recent work includes the 2008 Nebula Award-nominated, baroque novella The Duke in His Castle.
Ancient myth, moral fables, eclectic philosophy, and her Armenian and Russian ethnic heritage play a strong part in all her work, combining the essences of things and places long gone into a rich evocation of wonder.
In addition to being a writer and award-winning artist, she is also the publisher of Norilana Books.
Official website: www.veranazarian.com
Warrior Wisewoman 3 edited by Roby James
This title is no longer published by Norilana Books and has been transferred to another publisher.
Norilana Books presents the third volume of an exciting new annual anthology series of science fiction featuring powerful and remarkable women.
Explore the truth of what it means to be female, and discover the wisdom and the strength of a woman in a grand universe without limits. Far-ranging scientific speculation meets action and adventure, grand space opera, thrilling discovery, and intelligent protagonists...
"The overall vibe is thought-provoking without being preachy, and easily accessible..."
—Publishers Weekly
"Editor Roby James has done readers a service in bringing together this anthology; let's hope she'll continue for many years to come."
—Analog SF
"The stories are austere, lyrical, and fuse science with ethics and emotion in a way that is very rare."
—Susan Shwartz
"Inventive, unusual, these are stories to ponder over time...whether the reader agrees that the women are warriors, or wise, or that anyone can be both."
—Elizabeth Moon
Table of Contents
Introduction by Roby James
"Driving X" by Gwendolyn Clare
"Heart of Stone" by Joel Richards
"Tourist Trap" by Aimee C. Amodio
"Dinner For One" by Bruce Golden
"The Race" by Jennifer R. Povey
"The Envoy" by Al Onia
"Bearer of Burdens" by Melissa Mead
"What Lies Dormant" by Swapna Kishore
"Katyusha's First Time Out" by Susanne Martin
"Natural Law" by Alfred D. Byrd
"Baby, Be Mine" by Susan Tsui
"Mayfly" by Gary Kloster
"To the Altar" by Therese Arkenberg
"Sustain Nothing" by Paul Abbamondi
"The Truth One Sees" by Kathy Hurley
"Mater Luna" by William Highsmith
"A Pearl of Great Price" by Leslie Brown
"Dark Mirrors" by John Walters
"A Bird In the Hand" by Douglas Smith
About the Authors
Submission Guidelines
(Guidelines will be updated once the reading period for the new vvolume begins.)
Warrior Wisewoman 2 edited by Roby James
This title is no longer published by Norilana Books and has been transferred to another publisher.
Norilana Books presents the second volume of an exciting new annual anthology series of science fiction featuring powerful and remarkable women.
Explore the truth of what it means to be female, and discover the wisdom and the strength of a woman in a grand universe without limits. Far-ranging scientific speculation meets action and adventure, grand space opera, thrilling discovery, and intelligent protagonists...
"James has done a good job of assembling a lineup that satisfies more than it disappoints and is a properly varied representation of feminist science fiction."
—Publishers Weekly
"...The 15 original stories in this theme collection explore the many roles of women in the future, as warrior, nurturer, or sometimes both. A good selection for larger sf collections."
—Library Journal
"The stories are austere, lyrical, and fuse science with ethics and emotion in a way that is very rare."
—Susan Shwartz
Table of Contents
Introduction by Roby James
"The Executioner" by Jennifer Brissett
"Shop Talk" by Ian Whates
"Working the High Steel" by Jennifer R. Povey
"Changer" by Ardath Mayhar
"The Last Nice Afternoon in October" by Leslie Brown
"Lady Blaze" by Lee Martindale
"The Making of Her" by Sarah Ellender & Michael O'Connor
"Sister Grass" by Deborah Walker
"Heart Bowed Down" by Jeff Crook
"Peacock Dancer" by Catherine Mintz
"Bloody Albatross" by David Bartell
"Gardens of Wind" by Kate MacLeod
"Silent Whispers" by Karen Elizabeth Rigley & Ann Miller House
"Beneath the Alien Shield" by Z. S. Adani
"Rainfire by Night" by DJ Cockburn
About the Authors
Submission Guidelines
(Guidelines will be updated once the reading period for the new volume begins.)
Business Secrets from the Stars by David Dvorkin
This title has been cancelled.
Malcolm Erskine is a moderately successful writer who hits the big time with a book of nonsensical business advice that he claims was telepathically beamed into his mind by a top business executive living in a faraway galaxy.
It's Business Secrets From The Stars!
Malcolm succeeds in making a bundle. But he also attracts the attention of loopy politicians, dangerous televangelists, senile assassins, and even stranger and creepier types. The only way Malcolm can escape disaster is to change the world.
"A broad and bitter political satire. I was laughing out loud."
—The Denver Post
David Dvorkin was born in England, lived in South Africa, and attended high school and college in the United States. He has been an aerospace engineer, software developer, and technical writer. He lives in Denver, Colorado, where he works in the software industry.
He has published 17 novels—science fiction, horror, mystery, and three Star Trek novels—and one non-fiction book. He has collaborated with his son, Daniel, on two novels. His wife, Leonore, is also an author. For much more information, links, seriousness, and silliness, please visit his and Leonore's website: www.dvorkin.com.
Original Press Release (8-11-08)
East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith by William Sanders
This title has been cancelled.
East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith by award-winning author William Sanders is the definitive story collection from one of speculative fiction's most original and controversial authors. Includes an introduction by Rick Bowes.
"William Sanders is wickedly funny, a great storyteller, and a writer with peculiar ideas."
—Claude Lalumičre in Locus
"Sanders is witty, caustic, clever, cynical, and not very PC at all."
—Tom Easton in Analog
William Sanders was born in Arkansas in 1942 and served with the US Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War. He is the author of more than 20 published books and many stories and articles; his short fiction has been nominated for major awards, including the Hugo and Nebula, and has twice won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He lives in Oklahoma with his motorcycle and his dog.
Original Press Release (3-25-08)
Warrior Wisewoman edited by Roby James
This title is no longer published by Norilana Books and has been transferred to another publisher.
Norilana Books presents the first volume of an exciting new annual anthology series of science fiction featuring powerful and remarkable women.
Explore the truth of what it means to be female, and discover the wisdom and the strength of a woman in a grand universe without limits. Far-ranging scientific speculation meets action and adventure, grand space opera, thrilling discovery, and intelligent protagonists...
"Warrior Wisewoman combines stories of women in struggles that range across political, biological, social, and even military lines in a future variably far away...women who may or may not fight with weapons, but always strive for something beyond the fight. Inventive, unusual, these are stories to ponder over time...whether the reader agrees that the women are warriors, or wise, or that anyone can be both."
—Elizabeth Moon, author of The Speed of Dark, Remnant Population, and The Deed of Paksenarrion
"The stories in Warrior Wisewoman create new ways of looking at ideas, science fiction, and living itself at a time when we are all hungry for new thoughts expressed in new ways. The stories are austere, lyrical, and fuse science with ethics and emotion in a way that is very rare. If Le Guin’s people who walked away from Omelas told us their stories, they would write like this."
—Susan Shwartz, author of Hostile Takeover, Second Chances and Grail of Hearts; editor of Sisters in Fantasy
"The 12 stories in this collection, intended as an sf companion of the late Marion Zimmer Bradley's classic "Sword and Sorceress" series, feature women protagonists as they take on the roles of either warrior or wisewoman-or both-to cope with their surroundings and find their inner truths... Suitable for most sf or short story collections."
—Library Journal
Table of Contents
Introduction by Roby James
"Ungraceful Cliff Dwellers" by Douglas A. Van Belle
"To Find Home Again" by Rose Lemberg
"Heaven Shed Tears" by Catherine Mintz
"An Ashwini Apart" by Bhaskar Dutt
"A New Kind of Sunrise" by Nancy Fulda
"Faith" by Fran LaPlaca
"Among The Wastes of Time" by Mary Catelli
"Keepers of The Corn" by Anna Sykora
"As Darwin Decreed" by Peg Robinson
"Christmas Wedding" by Vylar Kaftan
"Ice Queen" by Colleen Anderson
"Only a Personal Tragedy" by Sally Kuntz
About the Authors
Publisher's Note
Submission Guidelines
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J. by William Sanders
This title has been cancelled.
"Girl meets girl meets girl, and she is them. J. is a high-energy sprint across parallel realities. Did I mention that I'm in love with Mad Jack?"
—Susan R. Matthews, author of Prisoner of Conscience and Colony Fleet
Three women in three worlds:.
Dr. Ann Lucas, former NASA scientist and now a drugged and helpless mental patient, in a reality almost but not quite our own.
Mad Jack, one eyed gunwoman and lover of women, in a ruined and lawless wasteland world.
Jay Younger, living in the here and now, known to her readers simply as Jay—a science fiction writer whose literary career is on the brink of disaster, an alcoholic and emotional wreck.
When the impossible becomes real and boundaries between worlds start to dissolve, the fates of these three tormented, brave and intense women come together in a remarkable and daring story that examines the basic nature of reality and of human identity.
William Sanders was born in Arkansas in 1942 and served with the US Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War. He is the author of more than 20 published books and many stories and articles; his short fiction has been nominated for major awards, including the Hugo and Nebula, and has twice won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He lives in Oklahoma with his motorcycle and his dog.
Original Press Release (6-25-07)
