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<li><p><em>Night Life</em>, by Caitlin Kittredge, copyright 2008; St. Martin's
Paperbacks/St. Martin's Books, March 2008. “A Nocturne City
Novel”. A supernatural action/romance featuring a packless werewolf
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<li><p><em>The Sharpest Edge</em>, by S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier, copyright
1968; Signet/New American Library, March 1986. Post-apocalyptic
fantasy, 30 centuries or so after some unspecified cataclysm.</p></li>
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Publishing Group, March 1986. Interesting non-European setting
fantasy.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Issola</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 2001; Tor/Tom Doherty
Associates, LLC, July 2001. I've got the first edition of this, in
hardback, but I have the rest of the series in paperback. When I
looked at the prices for the paperback version of this in March 2007
at Amazon they were all above 30$US, which is absurd.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Orca</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1996; Ace Books/the Berkley
Publishing Group, March 1996, 5th printing. Interesting to find out
more about Kiera. The interstitial letters and meetings between Cawti
and Kiera are interesting, as is the back and forth between Kiera and
Vlad's viewpoints, and it's typical that we'd find out about Vlad
Norathar practically off-stage.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Dragon</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1998; Tor/Tom Doherty
Associates, LLC, first mass market edition November 1999. Vlad in an
army? Unthinkable!</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Teckla</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1987; Ace/The Berkley
Publishing Group, January 1987. Revolutions. Things get complicated
for Vlad and Cawti.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Taltos</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1988; Ace/The Berkley
Publishing Group, March 1988. Taltos meets Morrolan, Sethra Lavode,
Aliera, Spellbreaker, visits Verra on the Paths of the Dead, and
starts working for the Jhereg, although not necessarily in that order.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Phoenix</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1990; Ace/The Berkley
Publishing Group, November 1990. Vlad meets Aibynn, starts and ends a
war, finds out about Phoenix stones, and leaves the Jhereg
organization.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Athyra</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1993; Ace/the Berkley
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good.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Jhereg</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1983; Ace/The Berkley
Publishing Group, April 1983; my copy is the 4th printing, July 1984.
The 1st book in Brust's series about Vlad Taltos, Jhereg crimelord
and assassin. Reading these books again after 20 years is like talking
with an old friend, just like rereading Dumas's <em>Musketeer</em> novels,
which is amusing, considing the connection between the <em>Vlad Taltos</em>
books and Brust's <em>Khaavren Romances</em> books, which are explicitly
modeled on Dumas's <em>Musketeer</em> books.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Yendi</em>, by Steven Brust, copyright 1984; Ace Books/The Berkley
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<li><p><em>On the Oceans of Eternity</em>, by S.M. Stirling, copyright 2000;
Roc/New American Library/Penguin Puntam Inc./Pengiun Books Ltd, April
2000. The 3rd and so far final book in the <em>Nantucket</em> series.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Against the Tide of Years</em>, by S.M. Stirling, copyright 1999;
Roc/Penguin Putnam Inc./The Penguin Group; May, 1999. The 2nd of the
<em>Nantucket</em> series.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Island in the Sea of time</em>, by S.M. Stirling, copyright 1998;
Roc/Penguin Putnam Inc/The Penguin Group, March 1998. This is the
first of Stirlings <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._Stirling#Nantucket_series">Nantucket</a>
series, and is apparently connected to his <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._Stirling#The_Emberverse_series">Emberverse</a>
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<li><p><em>Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them</em>, by Rolfe Cobleigh; first
published 1909 by Orange Judd Company; forward copyright 1996 by James
R. Babb; The Lyons Press, 1996.</p></li>
<li><p><em>Imaro</em>, by Charles Saunders, copyright 2006; Nightshade Books,
2005. An interesting sword and sorcery novel set in a fantasy version
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