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YEAR’S BEST SF 13 by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer — The 13th annual collection of the previous year’s finest short-form SF is at hand. Once again, award-winning editors and anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have gathered together a stunning array of science fiction that spans a veritable universe of astonishing visions and bold ideas. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the field — while well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality. The stars are closer and more breathtaking than ever before — and a miraculous future now rests in your hands.
DAEMONS ARE FOREVER by Simon R. Green — Secret agent Eddie Drood’s clan has been watching mankind’s back for ages. And now he’s in charge of the whole kit and caboodle. But it’s not going to be an easy gig. During World War II, the Droods made a pact with some nasty buggers from another dimension known as the Loathly Ones, which they needed to fight the Nazis. But once the war was over, the Loathly Ones decided that they liked this world too much to leave. Now it’s up to Eddie to make things very uncomfortable for them — or watch everything humanity holds dear go up in smoke.
DEATH AND HONOR by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth — The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer and military official imaginable. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot, to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using “loaned” Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two interwoven German operations. The first is a government scheme for Jews to purchase the freedom of their relatives in concentration camps. The second has to do with where that money is going: a plan called Operation Phoenix, which will establish safe havens for senior Nazi officials. Needless to say, the OSS is very interested in both of them.
THE SPIES OF WARSAW by Alan Furst — War is coming to Europe. At the French embassy, new military attaché Col. Jean-Francois Mercier is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations. Mercier must work in the shadows, amid an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous characters. And there are many more, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to be revealed.
JESSICA Z. by Shawn Klomparens — When Jessica Zorich met a tall, charismatic artist at a San Francisco party, her life had been all about coping. But Josh Hadden doesn’t cope: he’s a man of action, certain of his passions and desire. And what Josh desires most is Jessica — at a time when being desired might be the most desirable thing of all. Jessica gives herself over to an erotic, reckless relationship with a man guarding deep secrets — and to a perfect storm of lust, doubt, joy, and fear. Now, against her better judgment, she is following Josh into his mystifying life and brilliant, dizzying work — where she will find out how much she has been missing, how far she has yet to go, and what the price of this intoxicating adventure will be.
THE AMNESIAC by Sam Taylor — With his debut, Taylor incorporates a murder mystery and a forgotten manuscript. When 29-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it is to discover what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. What he finds, in an old house with a tragic history, is a 19th-century manuscript that begins to seem less and less like a work of fiction — and more like the key to his own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, destiny and randomness, heaven and hell — all converge to form an engrossing gothic story that is sure to appeal to fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.
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