James D Macdonald: 41 books

The Queen has a mirror in her bed chamber, a mirror covered with a thick velvet drape. By royal command, none may look into it.A fantasy story that first appeared A Wizard's Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns.Praise for A Wizard's Dozen:"...page turning action ... a high-quality...

This story first appeared in A Starfarer's Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns, Jane Yolen Books, Harcourt Brace, 1995.

Contains: Bad Blood (short story) Nobody Has to Know Up the Airy Mountain Ecdysis Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita

A new adventure of Peter Crossman, special agent of the Knights Templar — a man prepared to administer last rites with one hand while wielding a flamethrower with the other. Now an ancient manuscript of peculiar power has surfaced, and Crossman's assignment is simple: Get it for the Temple at all...

"On Suivi Point" first appeared in Cosmic Tales: Adventures in the Far Future, T. K. F. Weisskopf, ed. Baen Books, 2005. +++ "A Death in the Working" first appeared in Murder by Magic, Rosemary Edghill, ed., Warner/Aspect, October 2004.

"Remailer" first appeared in Not Of Woman Born, edited by Constance Ash, Roc, 1999. ISBN: 0451-45681-5

Contains:The Queen's MirrorHolly and IvyJenny NettlesA Tremble in the AirWitch Garden

Contains:"The Last Real New Yorker in the World"It's the future. New York City is an amusement park. And the guy who calls himself The Last Real New Yorker in the World is about to get an offer he can't refuse."Dies Irae"First time in print! A military SF story in the Groogleman/Land...

"In the First Year came the Plague, and in the Tenth Year the Burning, and afterwards came the Grooglemen out of the Dead Lands...."—A History of the New World From the Beginning to the Present Day, by Absolom Steerforth, Speaker of the Amity Crossroads Assembly.

"Up the Airy Mountain" is a short young adult horror story that originally appeared in A Nightmare's Dozen edited by Michael Stearns.

"Foreshadowing of impending doom and a bit of dark humor woven into the story kept me waiting in suspense for what what was to come." -- Sift Book Reviews +++ This story originally appeared in Newer York, edited by Lawrence Watt Evans, Roc, 1991. +++

Mageworlds Book Two: Blockaded, restricted, and forgotten--the Mageworlds would never threaten the Republic again. A broken and drifting ship, it's long-dead captain still strapped in the command seat: that's what free-spacers call a starpilot's grave. When one of these derelict craft...

The Fifth Book of Mageworlds: Welcome to Khesat, glittering jewel of the Central Worlds. Khesat, where decadence is an art form and intrigue is a way of life--and where, more than twenty years after the end of the Second Magewar, power struggles within the ruling family threaten both the Mageworlds...

Galcen has fallen. The Space Force is broken and scattered. the planets of the former Republic are rushing to make peace with the victorious Mages. All that remains is mopping up. Minor details. A privateer or two, a few Adepts who remain alive and on the run, and the hereditary ruler of a...