SF NOVELS BY MARY ROSENBLUM THE DRYLANDS Nita Montoya, mother of an infant daughter, empath, wanders into a town on the brink of a water war in the drought-stricken Northwest. Carter Voltaire, Colonel in the Corps of Engineers, the man who controls the water, finds himself standing between Army and farmers, trying to keep the war from happening. Together, he and Nita may be able to stop it, but only if Nita is willing to expose her unusual talent, and risk alienating the people she loves. (Del-Rey, paperback, 271 pages, autographed.) CHIMERA David Chen was a VR artist in the Net and he was one of the best. Jewel Martina had escaped the violent, dirt-poor `burbs by becoming a medical aide. But she was determined to make it as a VR broker in the global economic network. They might never have met if Jewel hadn't saved the life of David's partner -- only to find that someone very powerful wanted him dead. Trouble was brewing in the Net, and Jewel and David were caught in the middle. So they searched for answers -- in the Net, in the flesh world, and in their own troubled pasts. (Del-Rey, paperback, 324 pages, autographed.) For more information, please send SASE or email to: Mary Rosenblum 9100 SE 152nd Portland, OR 97236 GEnie: M.ROSENBLUM3