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The Severed Streets

Paul Cornell · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Desperate to find a case to justify the team's existence, with budget cuts and a police strike on the horizon, Quill thinks he's struck gold when a cabinet minister is murdered by an assailant who wasn't seen getting in or out of his limo. A second murder, that of the Commissioner...
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We Are All Completely Fine

Daryl Gregory · Tachyon Publications

Harrison was the Monster Detective, a storybook hero. Now hes in his mid-thirties and spends most of his time popping pills and not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by unreadable messages carved upon her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass-murdering...
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The Skaar Invasion

TERRY BROOKS · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Following The Black Elfstone, the second book of the epic four-part conclusion to the Shannara series from one of the acknowledged masters of the fantasy genre.Tensions in the Four Lands are high. The mysterious force that laid waste to Paranor has revealed a more human face. While some...
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Two Serpents Rise

Max Gladstone · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc--casual gambler and professional risk manager--to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene of the crime, Caleb finds...
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Quintessence

David Walton · Tor Books
Format: Book

Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers...
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The Minority Report

Philip K. Dick · Subterranean; Deluxe Hardcover edition
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. His many stories and novels, which include such classics as Ubik and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, reflect a deeply personal world view, exploring the fragile, multifarious nature of reality...
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Luna: Wolf Moon

Ian Mcdonald · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A Dragon is dead. Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed . The remaining Helio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful...
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The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia

Jaymee Goh · Rosarium Publishing
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback

Steampunk takes on Southeast Asia in this anthology The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday. Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. Large fish lumber across the skies, while boat people...
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Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart

Harry Turtledove · Roc Hardcover; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere forever altering the climate of the entire continent Nothing grows from the tainted soil Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuaryPeople have been...
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River of Stars

Guy Gavriel Kay · Roc; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by Chinas Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling...
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A Cure for Suicide: A Novel

Jesse Ball · Pantheon Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory.A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an "examiner,"...
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Siren's Call

Jayne Castle · Jove Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

In the mysterious world of Harmony, there are places filled with unexplored marvels. But Rainshadow Island isn't about to give up its secrets ... In the alien catacombs of Rainshadow, there are creatures whose compelling songs lure the unwary to their death. That's why Rafe Coppersmith,...
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A Murder in Time: A Novel

Julie Mcelwain · Pegasus Books
Pages: 498
Format: Hardcover

When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life -- 200 years before she was even born. Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan...
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The Regional Office is Under Attack!: A Novel

Manuel Gonzales · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization - the Regional Office - and its coterie of super-powered female assassins protects the globe from annihilation. At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy...
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The Tethered Mage

Melissa Caruso · Orbit
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

In the Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled -- taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army. Zaira has lived her life on the streets to avoid this fate, hiding her mage-mark and thieving to survive. But hers is a rare and dangerous...
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