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Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Lost Slayer
by Christopher Golden check out website(s): www.simonsays.co.uk She's fallen behind with her work and has already made a disastrous choice of bedfellow, being humiliated by the philandering Parker. There is a new breed of vampire in town and just like the unions, they're organised. Bigger evil is afoot than is usual even for Sunnydale. Buffy feels unable to work with her usual team and this makes it likely that mistakes will happen. Stranded in a nightmarish world where vampires rule, she has to track back her fateful moves to make things right. Before she can do that she must tidy house here and now. 'The Lost Slayer' is made up of four books previously released individually. The competent transcriber of the Buffy world is Chris Golden who is perfectly at home in these mean streets. To some extent, the compilation shows and could have been tidied before issuing as a complete novel. The unnecessary repetitions do slow the tale down but I can live with it. It's not to give too much away that this deals with a time-line and we are straying into Voyager territory playing with realities. Taking Buffy at a point before Season 4 throws up its own issues means he can play around with the realities a little. The bonus is that the toys can be seriously broken but won't affect either future novels or the series on the television. It also makes it unnecessary to introduce characters simply to have them be sacrificed although this happens, too. Something to keep you going for an enjoyable couple of hours when Buffy's gone forever from our screens, apart from the reruns ... . Sue Davies
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OTHER REVIEWS - June 2003
The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror edited by Stephen Jones Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton The History Of The Runestaff by Michael Moorcock The Mammoth Book Of 20th Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Eye In The Sky by Philip K. Dick Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel: Monster Island by Christopher Golden Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Lost Slayer by Christopher Golden Children Of Dune/God Emperor Of Dune by Frank Herbert Exploring The Matrix: Visions Of The Cyber Present edited by Karen Haber The Tomorrow People 3: 1: Secret Weapon The Wreck Of The River Of Stars by Michael Flynn The Weavers Of Saramyr by Chris Wooding Pure Dead Brilliant by Debi Gliori Felaheen: The Third Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood The Usurper's Crown by Sarah Zettel Prince Of Ayodhya by Ashok K. Banker HARDBACK TO PAPERBACK The Praxis (Book One of Dread Empire's Fall) by Walter Jon Williams Shadow Puppets (Book 3 of The Shadow Saga) by Orson Scott Card
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College
is Hell for Buffy. It's the first term and she is already struggling.
Her two lives as Buffy Summers - Cheerleader retired and the Chosen
One are definitely conflicting. 
It
doesn't help that Buffy can see her very best friend Willow is right
at home in the serious worky atmosphere. Something's got to give
and Buffy makes an emotional decision that has dire consequences
for herself and all her friends. 
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