title: Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy - Immune Response
author:  Steve Perry 
description: In this sexy medical thriller, Perry (<i>Windowpane</i>) pursues the cure for cancer and AIDS and everything else. Rick "Doc" Scales, an attractive but aging physician's assistant, lives a solitary life in Washington State near the Makah reservation, facing middle-aged ennui with an obsessive fitness regime and quiet resignation. Things begin to look up for Rick when several terminally ill patients make miracle recoveries. First, an AIDS patient, then advanced cancer and leukemia patients go into spontaneous remission. However, as required by the genre, the cure turns out worse than the disease, and soon Rick finds himself helping "tough, drop-dead gorgeous" Tribal Deputy Jasmine "Jay" Hughes investigate the death of one of his miracle patients, discovered in the trunk of a wrecked Cadillac. After other newly recovered patients turn up dead, Rick and Jay hit the road to save their own skins and find out what's behind the deadly miracle cure. Perry's hot-blooded combo of action, romance and speculative science excites, though the abrupt endingheavy on speechifying and sequel preparationproves frustrating at best. <i>(Feb.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Perry Rhodan
  
  
  # The Third Power #25
  
  
  # Snowman in Flames
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Springers are cruel, cunning and ruthless aliens who will stop at nothing
  in their mission to take over new planetary sectors and monopolise galactic
  trade. Earth is an obvious target and when Etztak, Patriarch of the Springers,
  gives the order to 'Destroy That Planet,' an emergency message is sent out.
  Can Perry and his mutants save the solar system? Find out in the stirring
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  ## SNOWMAN IN FLAMES
  
  
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  1/ THE SEMI-SLEEPERS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Universe was his domain, his home the gigantic spaceship—2100 feet in
  length—which was the longest armed craft of his clan.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  He was old. Ancient.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A mighty mane of ice-grey hair framed his tanned face with its hard, pitiless
  eyes which had looked upon thousands of suns. He looked like a human being but
  he was not born on 