Ballantine Books

Book Reviews

• Arms of Nemesis (Steven Saylor)
  - a murder mystery set during the Spartacist revolt in 70 BC
• The Cold Hard Fax (Leslie O'Kane)
  - a frivolously light-hearted mystery
• Figures of Earth (James Branch Cabell)
• **Woman on the Edge of Time (Marge Piercy)
  - parallel conflicts in a far-future utopia and a present mental hospital