Lacking Natural Simplicity

The Far Side of the Stars, by David Drake; Baen Books/Baen Publishing Enterprises, October 2003.

Dragon Hunter, by Charles Gallenkamp, copyright 2001; Penguin Books, 2002. A very interesting biography of Roy Chapman Andrews, the explorer and leader of the Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1922 to 1930.

East of Midnight, by Tanith Lee, copyright 1977; St. Martin's Press, 1978. An early Sword & Sorcery novel by Lee.

Subterranean, by James Rollins, copyright 1999 by Jim Czajkowski; Avon Books, Inc, June 1999.