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Empire: The Chronicles of the Invaders

John Connolly · Atria Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Empire continues the journey of Syl and Paul as they fight to regain planet Earth from a ruthless alien species, in this next installment of a stunning new science fiction trilogy that "should not to be missed" (The Guardian) .She is the trophy of a civilization at war with itself.He...
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Roses and Rot

Kat Howard · Saga Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Publishers Weekly Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Novel of Summer 2016 "Captivating, fiercely smart (about sisters, artists) , utterly transporting. I read it so consumingly, it was more akin to swallowing it whole. Not to be missed." - Megan Abbott, Edgar-winning author of The Fever...
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Channel Blue

Jay Martel · Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback

Alien Execs are planning a disastrous finale to their Big Brother style show, in which earth is the star. Only one man can save our planet, and he's hardly a likely hero. Earth used to be Galaxy Entertainment's most lucrative show. The inhabitants of the Western Galaxy—the...
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Empire's End: Aftermath

Chuck Wendig · Del Rey
Pages: 423
Format: Print book

Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy set in the years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING.As the final showdown between the New Republic...
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Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel

Pedro Cabiya · Mandel Vilar Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including...
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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

Christopher Tolkien · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 425
Format: Hardcover

The translation of Beowulf by J. R. R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary...
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The Book of Swords

Gardner Dozois · Bantam
Pages: 524
Format: Hardcover

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition - including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock's Elric...
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Beauty Is a Wound

Eka Kurniawan · New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star. The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality,...
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Borne: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer · MCD
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Book Riot, Chicago Reader, The Week, and Publishers Weekly."Am I a person?" Borne asked me."Yes, you are a person," I told him. "But like a person, you can be a weapon, too."In...
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The Annihilation Score: A Laundry Files Novel

Charles Stross · Ace Books, 2015.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents the next case in The Laundry Files, "a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror" (Kirkus Reviews) . Dominique O'Brien - her friends call her Mo - lives a curious double life...
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The Boleyn Reckoning: A Novel

Laura Andersen · Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, The Boleyn Reckoning heralds the triumphant conclusion of Laura Andersens enthralling trilogy about the Tudor king who never was the son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn—Henry IX—who, along with his sisters and those he holds most dear,...
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Tropic of Kansas: A Novel

CHRISTOPHER BROWN · Harper Voyager
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

"Futurist as provocateur! The world is sheer batshit genius . . . a truly hallucinatorily envisioned environment." - William Gibson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author"Timely, dark, and ultimately hopeful: it might not 'make America great again,'...
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Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology

Ellen Datlow · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A dazzling anthology of avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists in the genre. Birds are usually loved for their beauty and their song. They symbolize freedom, eternal life, the soul. There's definitely a dark side...
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Not on Fire, but Burning: A Novel

Greg Hrbek · Melville House Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: Some sort of metallic object hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge just before it collapsed and a mushroom cloud lifted above the city. Like everyone, she ran, but she couldn't outrun the radiation, with her last thoughts being...
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Super Extra Grande

Yoss. · Restless Books
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

With playfulness and ingenuity in the tradition of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions with Super Extra Grande, the winner of the 20th annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011.Set in a distant future, after the invention...
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