Books published by publisher Bluejay Books

When belief in a god dies, the god dies. When the last acolyte renounces his faith and his lost continent sinks beneath the waves, the gods he feared become mere mist and memory. Then new lands and new beliefs hold sway. And new, powerful gods rule the world. These are stories of the gods we worship today. The grimoires and Necronomicons of the gods of the freeway, of the ghetto blacks, of the coaxial cable; the paingod and the rock god and the god of neon--gods that live in city streets and slot machines. The god of Smog and the God of Freudian Guilt. The Machine God. Know them here, know them now. They rule the nights through which we move. They control your destiny.

Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection. Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979). When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction. His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat...as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience. -Gallery "Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing." -Richmond Times-Dispatch

Midlam is at war.The lives of the royal heirs are on the line.The First Minister of Florida wants Kansas, and wants Prince Andrew dead.The Queen of Pacifica’s deepest secret is revealed.Oz is abducted, and Drew will stop at nothing to find her. Fearing for the lives of the royal heirs, the Emperor takes them into hiding. He wants to protect them, but also wants to prepare them for battle. He trains them into finely honed athletes, not realizing that the time when they’ll need to test their strength is closing in on them.When Oz goes missing, Drew, Zed, and the Emperor set out to walk across Colorado and Kansas during winter and war, a journey that will propel the Emperor to become William Blackshear, and will bring him closer to the man who, if they get to Oz in time, will become the other half of Ozoo.

Pacifica, 2415As told by Wick, royal cat of the House of BlackshearOn a plaza at the edge of downtown San Francisco, Finn--arriving with a broken down, burned out egg-shaped ship--steps out of a time portal and is found by teen royals Oz and Drew. With no memory of who or from which When he is, Finn becomes a puzzle that time-traveler Oz wants to solve, with the help of Drew, a cat named Wick, and the extremely touch-phobic Emperor.As they come closer to the answers Finn needs, Oz realizes that the question isn't who Finn might be and When he's from, but about who the Emperor is. He saved her father's life when he was a little boy, but while her father aged the Emperor did not, and no one knows where he came from or why he refuses to be touched.Oz has described him as an icon of the city and protector of all, but now she wonders: where did he come from, and who is the Emperor, really? She has the ability to move through time, and she's willing to go back and find out.

THIS IS THE HARDCOVER BOOK CLUB EDITION. This "preferred text" was published as a trade paperback by Bluejay in 1983. Updates the original collection of stories first published in 1975, by one of the most award-winning living fantasists. Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars (1975) by Harlan Ellison. STORIES: The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1973); Along the Scenic Route (1969); On the Downhill Side (1972); O Ye of Little Faith (1968); Neon (1973); Basilisk (1972); Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967); Corpse (1972); Shattered Like a Glass Goblin (1968); Delusion for a Dragon Slayer (1966); The Face of Helene Bournouw (1960); Bleeding Stones (1973); At the Mouse Circus (1971); The Place with No Name (1969); Paingod (1964); Ernest and the Machine God (1968); Rock God (1969); Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W (1974); The Deathbird (1973).

What would you do to get out of here? I mean, if you had to trade, what would you give?”“Anything.”Vega’s trapped. Exiled with her family to Coalridge, Vega knows she doesn’t belong in the town, or the mine she’s doomed to work in - but she’s never getting out.The only person who understands is her brother, Rigel. But when their plan to escape backfires Vega must learn to stand on her own two feet; because there’s no one left for her to lean on.

'I flinch. I know she's not going to hit me, we've got in arguments a hundred times before and she's raised her hand - she's never hit me in the face. But I flinch anyway.'I put that because whenever you pick up a book at the shop there's always a quote on the back, and because I'm trying to put off writing the blurb. I don't know what to put.This is just a book about me, Iris, and the things that I do, the friends I make, well, try to make, and everything else that happens to me - good, bad and, uh, very bad.That sounds really boring but I promise, it's much more extraordinary. I might seem normal, (well, not normal, a bit weird really), little Iris, but there's so much more to it than that, more than most people can even begin to understand.

Bluejay Books, 1983. Trade paperback, 1st printing. A publisher's note explains that several corrections have been made to the previous editions of this book, making it the "preferred text." Collection of stories first published in 1975, by one of the most award-winning living fantasists. Introduction (Deathbird Stories) by Terry Dowling; Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars (1975) by Harlan Ellison. STORIES: The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1973); Along the Scenic Route (1969); On the Downhill Side (1972); O Ye of Little Faith (1968); Neon (1973); Basilisk (1972); Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967); Corpse (1972); Shattered Like a Glass Goblin (1968); Delusion for a Dragon Slayer (1966); The Face of Helene Bournouw (1960); Bleeding Stones (1973); At the Mouse Circus (1971); The Place with No Name (1969); Paingod (1964); Ernest and the Machine God (1968); Rock God (1969); Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W (1974); The Deathbird (1973).