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The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library of America Special Publication

Lisa Yaszek · Library of America
Pages: 475
Format: Hardcover

Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960sSF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest...
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I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land

CONNIE WILLIS · Subterranean
Pages: 88
Format: Hardcover

Jim is in New York City at Christmastime shopping a book based on his blog ... Gone for Good ... premised on the fact that "being nostalgic for things that have disappeared is ridiculous." Progress decides for people what they need and what's obsolete. It's that simple....
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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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The Long Mars: A Novel

Terry Pratchett · Harper
Format: Hardcover

The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration."2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum...
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The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin · Orbit
Pages: 433
Format: Paperback

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season
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Black Tide Rising

GARY POOLE · Baen
Pages: 416
Format: Mass Market Paperback

RESIST THE ZOMBIE PLAGUE! Top authors bring new perspectives to John Ringo's Black Tide Rising universe, in which humanity fights back against the hordes of infected.The news that humanity had been dreading for ages had come true. Zombies are real. Worst of all, we created them. The apocalypse...
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The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

Mark Haddon · Doubleday
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short storiesIn the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty...
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Brother's Ruin

EMMA NEWMAN · Tor.com
Pages: 187
Format: Paperback

The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice. Talented mages are bought from their families at a tremendous price, while weak mages...
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Sustenance: A Saint-Germain novel

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · Tor Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The vampire Count Saint-Germain protects Americans fleeing persecution—and becomes trapped in a web of betrayal, deceit, and murder in post-WWII Europe in Chelsea Quinn Yarbros SUSTENANCE The powerful House Un-American Activities Committee hunted communists both at home and abroad. ...
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Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories

JOE R LANSDALE · Subterranean
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the Dusty Great Depression to the far future, to the wild west, to the era of big fin automobiles, soda shops and double features, as well as dark journey on an icy ocean full of ravenous sharks and a fantastic shipwreck that leads its survivors into a nightmarish Lovecraftian world...
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The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Volume 4

David Afsharirad · Baen
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series continues! Selected from the top print and online markets, these stories represent the best in modern military sf, space opera, and adventure sf.The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fourth year, with more...
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All the Names They Used for God: Stories

Anjali Sachdeva · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our livesAnjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's...
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Secondhand Souls: A Novel

Christopher Moore · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Audiobook

Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone -- or something -- is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie...
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The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds

STEPHEN BAXTER · Crown
Pages: 486
Format: Hardcover

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian...
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Beautiful You: A Novel

Chuck Palahniuk · Anchor
Format: Hardcover

"A billion husbands are about to be replaced."From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help."...
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