Orbit 14

URSULA K. LE GUIN

JOAN D. VINGE

Kate Wilhelm

Gary K. WolF

R.A. Lafferty

Joanna Russ

Harper&Row

In a spoof of hard-boiled detective novels, private eye Eddie Valiant seeks the killer of Roger Rabbit, the famous cartoon character, and finds his chief suspects are Roger's wife and her lover Rocco De Greasy

Who Censored Roger Rabbit

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ballantine Books

It’s thirty years in the future. In the Boston Minutemen locker room, Street Football League quarterback T.K. Mann prepares himself for the biggest, riskiest, most dangerous game of his life. At the age of thirty-four, T.K. is the oldest player in the ultraviolent sport of Professional Street Football, a phenomenally popular twenty-four-hour-long athletic event combining pro football with mixed martial arts and armed combat. From its outlaw beginnings as a gang game played on urban streets, the SFL has rapidly risen to become the nation’s most popular spectator sport. On every Sunday, armed and deadly players on SFL teams main and murder one another in front of huge television audiences. The International Broadcasting Company, the network that owns exclusive telecasting rights to SFL games, is not satisfied. The network wants more viewers, more team merchandise sales, more advertisers, more profits. To get that, they need to give the fans what they want, -- more violence and more death. Even at his relatively advanced age, T.K. is still mentally sharp, still quick, still able to play the game at the highest level. But he’s old school, inclined to show mercy to injured and vanquished foes. He’s not bloodthirsty enough to please IBC. He’s not the modern-day stone cold killer IBC wants for a marquee SFL player. Pierce Spencer, arrogant, autocratic, ruthless IBC President, dreams up an ingenious scheme. He manufactures a season-long personal rivalry between T.K. and Harv Matision, the San Francisco Prospectors’ young, tough, inner-city-bred quarterback. Matision is heartless, mean, and viciously murderous, IBC’s ideal star athlete. IBC’s manipulations have all been designed to lead up to this final championship game, Mann against Matision, may the better man live. Pierce Spencer and his IBC cronies aren’t taking chances. They know the game’s outcome even before it begins. IBC plans to insure that this is T.K.’s final game. In the locker room, T.K. and his teammates go through the intensely personal rituals of men preparing to face death. Some listen to jarring rock music. Some shoot themselves up with painkillers or speed. Some, like T.K., operating under the theory that you can never be too prepared, go over their playbooks one last time. The time comes to suit up. Each player dons his lightweight body armor. Player by player they pass by the team armourer who gives each player his standard equipment, a long knife, a club, a bolo, a javelin, and to one player, a rifle. The players head for the street. The league’s championship game is being played this year In Boston, on a six block by eight block section of the downtown city. Everybody who lives there has been temporarily relocated. The two teams come out onto the eerily silent street. The Minutemen, with T.K. at the helm, and their opponents, the Harv Matision-led Prospectors, line up at the intersection of Myrtle and Garden. At the stroke of twelve midnight, the Minutemen kick off. The season’s championship game begins; the game known by street football fans around the country simply and accurately as……Killerbowl! This is the first novel by Gary K. Wolf, famed creator of Roger Rabbit.

Killerbowl

DOUBLEDAY

Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages—and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world’s most celebrated mythological beasts—mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs—were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black’s magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray’s Anatomy for mythological beasts—dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus—all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.

The Resurrectionist

It's a hoot. Wolf obviously gets as big a kick out of the convoluted plotting and the exaggerated private-eye lingo as he does the interactions between humans and Toons. The ingredients make a rich confection for anyone addicted to pop culture. Wichita Eagle A marvelous adventure in Toontown, a hare-sute tour de farce. In this latest cotton-tale, Roger is back with the same madcap characterizations we loved in the film. Ottawa Citizen Wolf has managed to take a potential one-joke premise and milk it for all it's worth. Wilmington Sunday News Journal Those thespian Toons are back. Readers are going to love it. And the film is going to be great. Washington Times Murder and mayhem in Hollywood's shady underworld. A humorous and intelligent mystery. Staten Island Sunday Advance

Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? A Hare-Raising Mystery

United States

Villard

SPHERE

Who hasn’t thrilled to the wonders of the carousel, with its wind-blown manes and fanciful steeds? From glistening white unicorns to winged elephants and roaring tigers, this celebration of carousel animals takes a colorful look at an art form that’s one part fantasy and two parts exceptional craftsmanship. More than 100 photographs display the work of the most prolific and skillful woodcarvers of the carousel heyday and examine the loving detail they poured into each of their creations. Collectors, preservationists, and all who have been mesmerized by the undulations of the carousel menagerie will find themselves caught up in the magic on view in these pages.

Carousel Animals: Artistry in Motion

Arts & Photography

Tobin Fraley

Photography & Video

Chronicle Books+

The Best Short Stories of award winning Roger Rabbit creator Gary K. Wolf. These stories were all published in well known, prestigious science fiction and fantasy magazines and anthologies. As you read through them you'll see the Roger Rabbit characters come alive and take shape. Until finally they emerge as the whacko, bizarre, lovable and endearing goofballs who inhabit a unique place in fantasy literature. Wolf's stories experiment with unusual formats, fantastically curious places, and finally with creatures that exist in a world where cartoon characters are real, an original concept of Wolf's that turned out to be a bona fide doozy of the first magnitude. As a special treat, the book includes a brand new, never-before-published Jessica Rabbit story. It's a thrilling journey, this one to Toontown, full of fun-filled twists and turns. Start your engine and navigate the creative high roads, low roads, back roads, twisty roads, dirt roads, and dark alleys that eventually lead to Toontown. You'll enjoy the ride.

The Road To Toontown

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Independently published

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