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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Ken Liu · Tor
Pages: 383
Format: Print book

Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China. Some stories have won awards (including Hao Jingfang's Hugo-winning novella, Folding Beijing) ; some have been included in various 'Year's Best' anthologies; some have been well...
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Child of a Mad God

R. A. Salvatore · Tor Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

As the Blood Moon rises high upon the mountain of the Usgar a demon hunts. But this is not the demon's story. This is the story of a young woman, the daughter of a witch, born under the Blood Moon, how she finds herself alone in a tribe of vicious barbarians, and how she came to know the world.From...
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Pirate Utopia

Bruce Sterling · Tachyon Publications
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Original introduction by Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan and Gun MachineWho are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian pirate warriors of the diminutive Regency of Carnaro, scourge of the Adriatic Sea. Mortal enemies...
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City of Endless Night

Milo M. Hastings · Hesperus Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A fascinating and disturbing dystopian vision from a neglected sci-fi master, imagining an all too terrifying alternate ending to World War I and its implications for the human race The year is 2041. Since the end of WWI, Berlin has been an enormous subterranean city, home to 300 million...
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Dark Run

Mike Brooks · Saga Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this debut space epic, a crew of thieves and con artists take on a job that could pay off a lot of debts in a corrupt galaxy where life is cheap and criminals are the best people in it.The Keiko is a ship of smugglers, soldiers of fortune, and adventurers travelling Earth's colony planets...
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The Burning Page

Genevieve Cogman · ROC
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

Librarian spy Irene and her apprentice Kai return for another "tremendously fun, rip-roaring adventure," (A Fantastical Librarian) third in the bibliophilic fantasy series from the author of The Masked City. Never judge a book by its cover... Due to her involvement in an unfortunate...
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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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Tomorrow: A Novel

Damian Dibben · Hanover Square
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A wise old dog travels through the courts and battlefields of Europe and through the centuries in search of the master who granted him immortality "Ornate, vivid, deeply colored, and so precise I could smell and taste the world€¦ The story of a dog crossing continents and centuries...
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Age of Assassins

R J BAKER · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

IT'S A GAME OF ASSASSIN VERSUS ASSASSINGirton Club-foot has no family, a crippled leg, and is apprenticed to the best assassin in the land. He's learning the art of taking lives, but his latest mission tasks him with a far more difficult challenge: to save a life. Someone is trying...
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Dark State

CHARLES STROSS · Tor Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verseDark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek...
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Persepolis Rising

James S. A. Corey · Orbit
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series.AN OLD ENEMY RETURNSIn the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse...
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Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore

PAULA GURAN · Prime Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both inspire writers...
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Not So Much, Said the Cat

Michael Swanwick · Tachyon
Pages: 285
Format: Paperback

The master of short science-fiction follows up his acclaimed collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow with feline grace, precision, and total impertinence. Michael Swanwick takes us on a whirlwind journey across the globe and across time and space, where magic and science exist in possibilities...
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

Theodora Goss · Saga Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders - and the bigger mystery of their own origins.Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents'...
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Martians Abroad

Carrie Vaughn · Tor
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Well known for her Kitty Norville bestselling series, Carrie Vaughn has written Martians Abroad, a novel with great crossover appeal. Polly Newton has one single-minded dream, to be a starship pilot and travel the galaxy. Her mother, the Director of the Mars Colony, derails Polly's plans...
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