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NULL-A CONTINUUM by John C. Wright — Grandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the Golden Age of classic SF, the 1940s. Of his masterpieces, THE WORLD OF NULL-A is perhaps most influential. And so John C. Wright was inspired to write a sequel to the two novels of Null-A. To do this, he trained himself to write in the pulp style and manner of van Vogt. So return again to the Null-A future, in which the superhuman amnesiac with a double brain, Gilbert Gosseyn, must pit his wits once more against the remorseless galactic dictator Enro the Red and the mysterious shadow-being known as The Follower, while he is hurled headlong through unimaginable distances in space and in time and through alternate eternities to fend off the death, and complete the rebirth, of the Universe itself!
HIDE by Lisa Gardner — It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day — the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried. Bobby’s only lead is wrapped around a dead woman’s neck. Annabelle Granger has been in hiding for as long as she can remember. Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities. But what — or who — her family was running from, she never knew. Now a body is unearthed from a grave, wearing a necklace bearing Annabelle’s name, and the danger is too close to escape. This time, she’s not going to run. You know he will find you …
THE REAPERS by John Connolly — As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, Southern community. He grows up and moves on, but he is forever changed by the cruel and brutal nature of the act. Years later, someone is hunting him, targeting his home, his businesses, and his partner, Angel. The instrument of revenge is Bliss, a killer of killers, the most feared of assassins. Bliss is a Reaper, a lethal tool to be applied toward the ultimate end. Hardened by their pasts, Louis and Angel decide to strike back. While they form a camaraderie that brings them solace, it offers them no shelter from the fate that stalks them. When they mysteriously disappear, their friends are forced to band together to find them. They are led by private detective Charlie Parker, a killer himself, a Reaper in waiting.
BLUE SMOKE AND MURDER by Elizabeth Lowell — Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. Kilda Consulting’s premier operators. But when a string of ominous events — including a mysterious fire that kills her great-aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintings — culminates in a threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls in a favor. Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. Kilda. His expertise is gathering and analyzing information from unlikely and often dangerous sources. Though he’s got the skills to be a highly effective bodyguard, being a bullet catcher isn’t his preferred way to spend time. Protecting Jill will take him into familiar territory — among a strange, savagely competitive bunch of collectors who’ll do anything to stay at the top.
ROLLING THUNDER by John Varley — Lt. Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland — otherwise known as Podkayne — is a third-generation Martian. Her grandfather, Manny, was one of the first men to set foot on Mars. So Poddy has some planet-sized shoes to fill. That’s why she’s joined the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy. Though some may say her voice is a weapon in itself, Poddy passed the audition. And now she’s going to Europa, one of Jupiter’s many moons, to be an entertainer. But she’s about to learn that there’s plenty of danger to go around in the Martian Navy, even if you’ve just signed on to sing.
BLACK OUT by Lisa Unger — On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely; together, they dote on their beautiful young daughter. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pricked when she senses that the demons of her past have resurfaced and, to her horror, are now creeping up on her. These are demons she can’t fully recall because of a highly dissociative state that allowed her to forget the tragic and violent episodes of her earlier life as Ophelia March and to start over, under the loving and protective eye of Gray, as Annie Powers. Disturbing events — the appearance of a familiar dark figure on the beach, the mysterious murder of her psychologist — trigger strange and confusing memories for Annie, who realizes she has to quickly piece them together before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter.
BIND, TORTURE, KILL: THE INSIDE STORY OF BTK, THE SERIAL KILLER NEXT DOOR by Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, L. Kelly and Hurst Laviana — For 31 years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kan. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named “BTK” — for “bind them, torture them, kill them” — he slaughtered men, women and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media. The nation was shocked when the fiend who was finally apprehended turned out to be Dennis Rader, a friendly neighbor, devoted husband, helpful Boy Scout dad, the respected president of his church. With newly released documents, evidence, and information — and with the full cooperation, for the very first time, of the Wichita Police Department’s BTK Task Force — the authors have put all the pieces of the grisly puzzle into place, thanks to their unparalleled access to the families of the killer and his victims.
UP TILL NOW: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by William Shatner — After almost 60 years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. He has always been willing to take risks for his art. What other actor would star in history’s first — and probably only — all-Esperanto-language film? Who else would share the screen with thousands of tarantulas, release an album called HAS BEEN, or film a racially incendiary movie in the Deep South during the height of the civil rights era? And who else would willingly paramotor into a field of waiting fans armed with paintball guns, all waiting for a chance to stun Captain … er, Shatner? In UP TILL NOW, Shatner sits down with readers and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere.
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There are 3 books written by A.E. Van Vogt set in the Null-A world. Null-a Three was published in 1984.