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The Lost Time Accidents: A Novel

John Wray · Farrar
Pages: 490
Format: Print book

In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumors about Einstein's radical new theory to the death camps of World War Two, from the golden age of postwar pulp science fiction to a startling...
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Shadowed Souls

Jim Butcher · Roc
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil..Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.In #1 New York...
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Tomorrow's Kin: Book 1 of the Yesterday's Kin Trilogy

NANCY KRESS · TOR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Tomorrow's Kin is the first volume in and all new hard science fiction trilogy by Nancy Kress based on the Nebula Award-winning Yesterday's Kin.The aliens have arrived... they've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only speak with the United Nations. They...
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Arabella and the Battle of Venus

DAVID D LEVINE · Tor Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The swashbuckling Arabella Ashby is back for brand new adventure in the ongoing story of her life among the stars. Arabella's wedding plans to marry Captain Singh of the Honorable Mars Trading Company are interrupted when her fiancé is captured by the French and sent to a prisoner-of-war...
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Magician's End: Book Three of the Chaoswar Saga

Raymond E. Feist · Harper Voyager; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Three decades...Five Riftwars...One magnificent saga: Magician's End is the final book in New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's science fiction epic Riftwar Cycle.Thirty years ago, Feist's first novel, Magician, introduced us to an orphan boy named Pug, who rises...
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Crown of Renewal

Elizabeth Moon · Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSAcclaimed author Elizabeth Moon spins gripping, richly imagined epic fantasy novels that have earned comparisons to the work of such authors as Robin Hobb and Lois McMaster Bujold. In this volume, Moon's brilliant masterwork reaches...
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The Sword of Midras: A Shroud of the Avatar Novel

Tracy Hickman · Tor
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The thrilling prequel to Shroud of the Avatar from Portalarium!The world died during the Fall. Abandoned by the mighty Avatars and their Virtues, the people who remained were left defenseless in an untamed land. That is, until the Obsidians came. Through dark sorcery and overwhelming force...
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The Best of Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress · Subterranean Press, 2015.
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

Nancy Kress, winner of multiple awards for her science fiction and fantasy, ranges through space and time in this stunning collection. Anne Boleyn is snatched from her time stream--with unexpected consequences for two worlds. A far-future spaceship brings religion to a planet that already...
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Stolen Crown: A Novel of Mithgar

Dennis L. McKiernan · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 512
Format: Book

"For classic fantasy, there is no better author" (Jennifer Roberson) than Dennis L. McKiernan, who created the legendary realm of Mithgar. Now the national bestselling author of Dragondoom returns to his most beloved fictional world to reveal the untold history of the rightful...
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The Just City

Jo Walton · Tor
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult...
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1636: The Ottoman Onslaught

Eric Flint · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Book #21 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power.The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared...
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Bannerless

Carrie Vaughn · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she's learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society. Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn't...
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Babylon's Ashes

James S.A. Corey · Orbit
Pages: 538
Format: Print book

The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled...
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The Midnight Queen

Sylvia Izzo Hunter · Ace
Format: Paperback

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's Merlin College, the most talented - and highest born - sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover ... Gray's deep talent for magick has won him a place...
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