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Brian Allen Carr · Soho Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survivalIt started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure light of the moon.Gangs...
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The Bones of the Earth

RACHEL DUNNE · Harper Voyager
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

A mismatched band of mortals and their violent, secretive leader must stand against a pair of resentful gods to save their world in this second volume in the breathtaking dark epic fantasy trilogy, The Bound Gods, begun with In the Shadow of the Gods.To win the coming battle for control...
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The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K Le Guin · Saga Pr
Pages: 816
Format: Print book

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume.Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters...
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The Witch of Painted Sorrows

M. J. Rose · Atria Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape...
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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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Fall of Light: Book Two of the Kharkanas Trilogy

Steven Erikson · Tor
Pages: 704
Format: Print book

Steven Erikson returns to the Malazan world with the second book in a dark and revelatory new epic fantasy trilogy, one that takes place a millennium before the events in his New York Times bestselling Malazan Book of the Fallen. Fall of Light continues to tell the tragic story of the downfall...
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Brimstone

Cherie Priest · Ace
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A new dark historical fantasy from the "supremely gifted"* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker.In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tomás Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector that doused the enemy in liquid fire....
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Assassin's Price

L E JR MODESITT · Tor Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Assassin's Price is the eleventh book in the bestselling, epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. and the third book in a story arc which began with Madness in Solidar and Treachery's Tools.Six years have passed since the failed uprising of the High Holders, and the man behind...
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The Death House

Sarah Pinborough · Titan Books
Format: Print book

Toby's life was perfectly normal ... until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he, and the others who live there, are studied by Matron and her team...
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Zeroes: A Novel

Chuck Wendig · Voyager
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Five iconoclastic hackers, recruited against their will to serve the U.S. government by working as cyberspies, discover an NSA artificial intelligence program that is rapidly growing out of control.
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Everfair: A Novel

Nisi Shawl · Tor
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces...
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The Providence of Fire

Brian Staveley · Tor
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover

Brian Staveley's The Providence of Fire, the second novel in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, a gripping new epic fantasy series.The conspiracy to destroy the ruling family of the Annurian Empire is far from over.Having learned the identity of her father's assassin, Adare flees...
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Swarm and Steel

Michael R Fletcher · Talos
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

To escape the hell she created, a woman must team up with a novice warrior and return to her homeland in this gritty epic fantasy where delusions are literally made real. Zerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to remember her past. Chased by an assassin out into the endless wastes...
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The Song of the Orphans: The Silvers Book Two

Daniel Price · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

The second book in the genre-bending Silvers series - an io9 "can't miss" sci-fi pick - about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from our own. The end of the world was just the beginning for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from apocalypse...
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