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The Big Sheep

Robert Kroese · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper...
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Gingerbread: A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi · Riverhead Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories - equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's...
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All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Anders · TOR Books
Pages: 316
Format: Print book

From the former editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world -- and the beginning of our futureChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school....
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Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel

Neal Stephenson · William Morrow
Pages: 880
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller - Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick - that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard "Dodge"...
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The War Within

Stephen R. Donaldson · Berkley
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Stephen R. Donaldson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, returns to the world of his Great God's War fantasy epic as two kingdoms - united by force - prepare to be challenged by a merciless enemy ... It has been twenty years since Prince Bifalt...
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Authority: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · FSG Originals
Format: Paperback

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X--a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization--has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten:...
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Like a Mighty Army

David Weber · Tor Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new-no new inventions, no new understandings of the world.What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech...
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Memory of Water: A Novel

Emmi Itäranta · Harper Voyager; 1st edition
Format: Book

An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin.Global warming has changed the worlds geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power...
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The Peripheral

William Gibson · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History.Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during...
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The Mechanical

Ian Tregillis · Orbit Us
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

My name is Jax.That is the name granted to me by my human masters.I am a slave.But I shall be free.Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams, the new novel from Ian Tregillis confirms his place as one of the most original new voices in speculative fiction.PRAISE...
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The Venusian Gambit: Book Three of the Daedalus Series

Michael J Martinez · Night Shade Books
Format: Print book

The last chapter of the dimension-spanning Daedalus series brings the 19th and 22nd centuries together for an explosive finale in the jungles of Venus!In the year 2135, dangerous alien life forms freed in the destruction of Saturn's moon Enceladus are making their way towards Earth....
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Hellhole Inferno

Brian Herbert · Tor
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover

The planet HELLHOLE, devastated by an ancient asteroid impact, is inhabited by only the hardiest and most desperate colonists. It is one of 54 remote frontier worlds forced to pay tribute to the corrupt Constellation, which is ruled by decadent nobles. An exiled rebel general, Tiber Adolphus,...
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Thrawn: Alliances

TIMOTHY ZAHN · Del Rey
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader ally against a threat to the Empire in this new novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. The sequel to New York Times bestseller Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances will continue to follow the rise of Grand Admiral Thrawn to the heights of Imperial power...
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The Raft: A Novel

Fred Strydom · Talos Press
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

" The day every person on earth lost his and her memory was not a day at all. In people's minds there was no actual event. . . and thus it could be followed by no period of shock or mourning. There could be no catharsis. Everyone was simply reset to zero. " On Day Zero, the collapse...
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The Chaos Function

Jack Skillingstead · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

For readers of the best‑selling novels Sleeping Giants and Dark Matter, an intense, high‑stakes thriller with a science‑fiction twist that asks: If technology enabled you to save the life of someone you love, would you do so even if it might doom millions? Olivia...
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