{"id":296,"date":"2010-10-14T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/10\/14\/books-received-101410-del-rey-edition\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:36","slug":"books-received-101410-del-rey-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2010\/10\/14\/books-received-101410-del-rey-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 10\/14\/10 – Del Rey edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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Catacombs: A Tale of the Barque Cats<\/span><\/a>
\nby Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Catalyst<\/span><\/a>, award-winning authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough introduced readers to the beguiling Barque Cats: spacefaring felines who serve aboard starships as full-fledged members of the crew. Highly evolved, the cats share an almost telepathic bond with their minders, or Cat Persons\u2014until, suddenly, there is no \u201calmost\u201d about it, and a particular Barque Cat, Chester, learns to exchange thoughts with his human friend, Jubal. Other cats soon gain the same ability. <\/p>\n

Behind the seeming miracle is a mysterious cat named Pshaw-Ra, who possesses knowledge and technology far beyond anything the Barque Cats\u2014or their humans\u2014have ever seen. When fear of a virulent plague leads the government first to quarantine and then to kill all animals suspected of infection, Pshaw-Ra\u2014with the help of Chester, Jubal, and the crew of the starship Ranzo\u2014activates a \u201cmousehole\u201d in space that carries the refugees to a place of safety: Pshaw-Ra\u2019s home planet of Mau, where godlike cats are worshiped by human slaves. <\/p>\n

But Pshaw-Ra\u2019s actions are less noble than they appear. The scheming cat plans to mate the Barque Cats with his own feline stock, creating a hybrid race of superior cats\u2014a race destined to conquer the universe. Yet right from the start, his plans go awry.<\/p>\n

For one thing, there\u2019s a new queen on Mau: Pshaw-Ra\u2019s daughter Nefure, a spoiled brat\u2014er, cat\u2014with a temper as short as her attention span. Pshaw-Ra\u2019s other daughter, the rightful queen Renpet, is exiled, running for her life in the only direction available to her\u2014down into the vast catacombs beneath the Mauan desert. Far from receiving the hero\u2019s welcome he expected, Pshaw-Ra must use every bit of his considerable cleverness just to survive.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as usual, Chester and Jubal stumble right into the middle of things, in the process uncovering the lost secrets of the Mauan civilization. But that\u2019s not all they uncover. In the forgotten catacombs deep below the Mauan capital, something has awakened. Something as old as the universe. Something that hungers to devour all light and life\u2014and that bears an undying hatred for cats.<\/p>\n

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Shotgun Sorceress<\/span><\/a>
\nby Lucy A. Snyder<\/span><\/p>\n

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BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE<\/p>\n

For Jessie Shimmer, everything changed when she went to hell and back to save her lover, Cooper Marron. After tangling with supernatural forces and killing an untouchable spirit lord, Jessie finds herself gifted\u2014or perhaps cursed\u2014with dark powers. And when she and Cooper make love, her pleasure throes light the whole house on fire. What is a sorceress to do?<\/p>\n

Jessie is about to find out. The circumstances of her birth, the mystery of a father she never knew, and the help of a cuddly ferret turned fearsome monster have made Jessie not just an outlaw from mundane society, but an accidental revolutionary in the magic realm. Encountering portals stitched into thin air and a fiercely sexy soul harvester, Jessie rushes headlong among enemies, horrors, wonders, and lovers into a place of self-discovery\u2014or destruction.<\/p>\n

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Star Wars: Death Troopers<\/span><\/a>
\nby Joe Schreiber<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the Imperial prison barge Purge\u2014temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy\u2019s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves\u2014breaks down in a distant part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back\u2014bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.<\/p>\n

And death is only the beginning.<\/p>\n

The Purge\u2019s half-dozen survivors will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.<\/p>\n

Star Wars and zombies?!?!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Catacombs: A Tale of the Barque Cats by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Promo copy: In Catalyst, award-winning authors Anne McCaffrey and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n