The End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas - A graduate student named Ariel finds a mysterious book called The End of Mr Y, which supposedly kills all who read it. Her professor has disappeared, and so has the author. She discovers that through the book you can enter into other dimensions through the minds and consciousnesses of other people, and that others have also tried to tap into this mysterious ‘Troposphere’ only to be lost…
The Safety of Unknown Cities - Lucy Taylor - The graphic, violent and sexual story of Val, whose mother gouged her eyes out with a spoon when she was a child. Val seeks intense stimulation and experiences, especially sexual, and when she hears about “The City”, a fabled place full of excitement and sexual depravity, she tries to find it and lose herself. Meanwhile, someone is trying to kill her…look out, Val!
July 20 - The Lady of the Terraces - E. Charles Vivian - A “lost race” novel. Colvin Barr and his lovesick comedic sidekick find a lost race in the Ecuadorian forest, and a birthmark places Colvin as the savior of the ancient race. Also he has to do some lovin’ and fightin’. Just pretend they came from space and this would fit in a little better.
The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces - Ray Vukcevich - Skylight Howells is a detective who is also brilliant at disguising himself. So brilliant that he sometimes forgets who he really is. He’s also addicted to tap-dancing. Bad. Can he solve the mystery of the missing brother of the beautiful woman who’s also wanted for the murder of several software documentation specialists? Should he even bother?
The Grand Ellipse - Paula Volsky - A Female academic, author and explorer named Luzelle Devaire participates in a world tour race called The Grand Ellipse. The prize for winning this race is a private audience with the King. The world is threatened with war and the neutral King, although he may have the means to stop invading armies, prefers to stay neutral. Will the beautiful and intelligent Luzelle win the race and convince the King that he can and should protect his people?
Opalite Moon - Denise Vitola - in the future, life is cripplingly beurocratic, the world is a poverty stricken metropolitan nightmare where everyone is looking for new-agey answers and people can only be convicted of a crime if they’re caught in the act. Detective Ty Merrick and her partner Detective LaRue are tasked with investigating the triple homicide of members of a religious sect. Oh, and also, Ty is a ‘psychological werewolf’. Take that!
July 16 - The Witling - Vernor Vinge - Several ‘Novamerikans’ become stranded on the planet Giri, where most people have telepathic powers. They are taken for Wizards from a foreign land, and must try to escape before it is discovered that they are aliens…but the Crown Prince of the Summerkingdom falls in love with one of them. Will it be a boon, or a boner?
The Atrocity Shop - Kurt Von Trojan - Mr. Bonus Adulator works in ‘The Atrocity Shop’, where he sells films, photos and other documentation of atrocities to the well-to do. Originally banned, and the cover artist withdrew illustration the night before publication, so the cover shows…the author’s butt!?
High Times: An Alien Paradise - Mark R. Viliborghi - The author claims that this book is fiction in movie form from a very lucid dream. It involves the house band at ‘High Times”, a group of quirky characters leading a pseudo-hippy lifestyle who eventually discover that aliens have been living in the basement and stealing their power. Includes terrible-sounding sex scenes and ample snacking.
Stardoc - S.L. Viehl - An earth doctor escapes her stressful life and overbearing father and moves to a Free Clinic on another planet, populated by aliens and only a few humans. She struggles with her own family issues, a pushy and telepathic co-worker, her lack of knowledge of alien physiology, and her father pressuring her to return home. Then the planet is struck by an epidemic that throws her life further into chaos, and challenges her abilities as a STARDOC!
