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Seascape tattoo.

Larry Niven · Tor
Pages: 432
Format:  Print book : English

The Seascape Tattoo: the latest spellbinding adventure in Larry Niven's acclaimed collaborations with Steven Barnes!Aros of Azteca and Neoloth-Pteor are the deadliest of enemies: Swordsman and Sorcerer, locked in mortal combat, who have tried to kill each other more times than either can count....
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The Mad Scientist's Daughter

Cassandra Rose Clarke · Saga Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award, a science fiction fairy tale set in a collapsing future America about a girl and the android she falls in love with.When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar construct,...
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We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories

Clare Beams · Lookout Books
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

Joyce Carol Oates calls debut author Clare Beams "wickedly sharp-eyed, wholly unpredictable ... a female /feminist voice for the twenty-first century."The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school...
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Bounty: A Novel

Michael Byrnes · Ballantine
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Relentlessly suspenseful and disturbingly timely, Bounty summons a chilling vision of our Internet culture gone mad, where freedom, privacy, and the rule of law are demolished by a crisis of nightmare proportions - and the future of justice lies in the hands not of the bravest but the most...
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The Facefaker's Game

Chandler J Birch · Simon451
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

For fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Scott Lynch, a picaresque fantasy about a clever young beggar who bargains his way into an apprenticeship with a company of thieving magicians and uses his newfound skills in a vendetta against a ruthless crime lord.Ashes lives in Burroughside - the dirtiest,...
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Seven surrenders

Ada Palmer · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent." -- Ken Liu, author of The Grace of KingsIn a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs...
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Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One: The Legends of Aman

J.R.R. Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth and the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the legends of the Elder Days, as they were evolved and transformed by his father in the years before he completed The Lord of the Rings....
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A Symphony of Echoes: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book Two

Jodi Taylor · Night Shade Books
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

The second book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't...
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Etched in Bone

Anne Bishop · Roc
Pages: 397
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders - a primitive and lethal form of the Others...
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The Waking Engine

David Edison · Tor Books
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die.Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again,...
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Fallout: The Hot War

Harry Turtledove · Del Rey, 2016.
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments. In his astounding new novel, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot - and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals...
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Red Tide: The Chronicles of the Exile, Book Three

Marc Turner · Tor
Pages: 544
Format: Print book

Red Tide, the third volume in Marc Turner's The Chronicles of the Exile, following When the Heavens Fall and Dragon Hunters
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The Shadow of What Was Lost

James Islington · Orbit
Pages: 693
Format: Print book

"Love The Wheel of Time? This is about to become your new favorite series. " - B&N SF & Fantasy Blog"Storytelling assurance rare for a debut . . . Fans of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson will find much to admire. " - Guardian "Islington has built a world with...
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Certain Dark Things

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

Welcome to Mexico City ... An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires ... Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eeking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks...
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Knife Fight and Other Struggles

David Nickle · ChiZine Publications
Format: Print book

A young man at loose ends finds he cannot look away from his new lover's alien gaze. A young woman out of time seeks her old lover in the cold spaces between the stars. The fleeing worshippers of an ancient and jealous deity seek solace in an unsuspecting New World congregation. In a suburban...
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