Leading international experts comprehensively review all aspects of platinum anticancer drugs and their current use in treatment, as well as examining their future therapeutic prospects. Writing from a variety of disciplines, these authorities discuss the chemistry of cisplatin in aqueous solution, the molecular interaction of platinum drugs with DNA, and such exciting new areas as DNA mismatch repair and replicative bypass, apoptosis, and the transport of platinum drugs into tumor cells. The emergent platinum drugs of the future-orally active agents, the sterically hindered ZD0473, and the...

In 1998 Chinese armies conquered the state of Connecticut. Resistence was carried on by scattered outlaws hiding in the woods, among them a boy named the Rockrunner who seemed to have superpowers. Government superheros disobeyed Clinton's orders of nonengagement and helped to oust the "pirates" as they code-named themselves. Rockrunner has married now, and has children. And those children inherit his Elven blood, and the weirder blood of other natures that runs within it. He found in a cave an ancient manuscript, containing tales of a civilization in prehistoric Meriden, and of a mysterious...

TO KILL THE WORLD When the Sea Riders descend beneath Lamentation Mountain in Meriden, they are forewarned that all of them will die. Beneath the ruins of his old house, Robin discovers an armoury, and an ancient sword. When he grips it, words rise of themselves in his head as he claims it for his own. It is the SWord of the Gardun-Houldu. Ancient, few, long-lived, the fay-race of golden-haired was driven from the world ages ago by the sorceries of Men, the hated Morku. But they left behind them Eleven Rings, and the Sword. The blood of the Heir of the Rings also remained, diluted among Men,...

THE MORKU DO I HATE, AND THEM WILL I DESTROY Eldarendar, the terrible Heir of the Rings, has Ten of the Eleven that he needs. The Ring of Wisdom waits for him, beneath the Cidatel of Fairyland, guarded by the demonic Dweller in the Darkness, known only as He that Dwells Beneath. And after this is obtained, the Dark King still waits for the Heir beneath Lamentation Mountain. A mysterious archaeological dig is being carried out at Bialowieza Forest National Park, with an unusual amount of armed guards. The Guides are suspicious, and as it turns out, rightly so. Commanded by the sinister and...

Supers are persecuted. Into the woods one and another of them trickle, banding together. Two of these soon acquire new members, including Robin and Charles O'Connell, of the terrible House of Fayblood. The band decides to call themselves the Sea Riders, after their old leader Sea Horse. But the other O'Connells have superpowers too, and they are in no mind to be heros or even live in peaceful hiding. They want to be supervillains. They join a gang of supers and take it over, calling themselves the Dark Riders. All across the barren basalt hills of central Connecticut the war plays out,...

"I PLAY FOR DEATH. HE COUNTERPLAYS FOR LIFE. ARE YOU READY TO PLAY THE GAME?" 500 years after the world broke, no one knows about the Lost River, for all of Mistgard is sea, and islands of remaining land. Vond, the magic force pulsing through the World Tree, is unstable, and the Mages need careful training. They are ruled by the Cardinal, who came out of the Deluge immortal. But the school of the Mages, two brighter than average pupils are finding, deliberately discourages deep thought. Why, they wonder. What terrible secret lies concealed in the very nature of Vond, that they are not...