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All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries

Martha Wells - Tor.com
Format: Book

Thursday, June 3, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM Now available in hardcover, All Systems Red is the first entry in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Alex and Nebula Award-winning science fiction series, The Murderbot Diaries. "As...
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Geek Love: A Novel

Katherine Dunn - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Thursday, July 1, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers...
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Robopocalypse: A Novel

Daniel H. Wilson - Doubleday
Format: Book

Thursday, August 5, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies ... Now they're coming for you.

In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn...
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The Long Earth

Terry Pratchett - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Thursday, September 2, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM An unmissable milestone for fans of Sir Terry Pratchett: the first SF novel in over three decades in which the visionary inventor of Discworld has created a new universe of tantalizing possibilities - a series of parallel "Earths"...
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The Echo Wife

Sarah Gailey
Format: Book

Thursday, October 7, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair -- with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with Martine, a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn's own award-winning research.But that wasn't even the worst...
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The Midnight Library: A Novel

Matt Haig - Viking
Format: Book

Thursday, November 4, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM 'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would...
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Thursday, December 2, 2021 ~ 7:00 PM A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic...
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison - Open Road Integrated Media
Format: Book

Thursday, January 6, 2022 ~ 7:00 PM Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as his very best ever are the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning, postapocalyptic title story of this collection of seven shorts and the volume's concluding story, the Nebula...
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Foundation (Foundation Novels)

Isaac Asimov - Spectra; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Thursday, February 3, 2022 ~ 7:00 PM For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare...
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A Dirty Job: A Novel

Christopher Moore - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Thursday, March 3, 2022 ~ 7:00 PM Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know,...
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The Goblin Emperor

Katherine Addison - Tor Books; 1st edition
Format: Book

Thursday, April 7, 2022 ~ 7:00 PM The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an "accident,"...
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel

Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Hanover Square Press
Format: Book

Thursday, May 5, 2022 ~ 7:00 PM If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else...
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Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel - Del Rey, 2016.
Format: Book

Thursday, June 2, 2022 ~ 7:00 PM An inventive debut in the tradition of World War Z and The Martian, told in interviews, journal entries, transcripts, and news articles, Sleeping Giants is a literary thriller fueled by a quest for truth - and a fight for control of earthshaking...
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