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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

MARLON JAMES · Riverhead Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

"A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman"Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning...
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The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction

Dave Golder · Flame Tree Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie stills, book covers, and more, this amazing new book propels us into the well of modern...
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Blackwing

Ed McDonald · Ace
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Set on a postapocalyptic frontier, Blackwing is a gritty fantasy debut about a man's desperate battle to survive his own dark destiny... Hope, reason, humanity: the Misery breaks them all. Under its cracked and wailing sky, the Misery is a vast and blighted expanse, the arcane remnant...
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City of Broken Magic

Mirah Bolender · Tor Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Mirah Bolender's fast-paced, adventure fantasy debut, City of Broken Magic, features a bomb squad that defuses magic weapons.Five hundred years ago, magi created a weapon they couldn't control. An infestation that ate magic -- and anything else it came into contact with. Enemies and allies...
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The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

Jeff VanderMeer · MCD
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

The Strange Bird -- from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer -- expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel"* of a novel, Borne.The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory -- she is part bird, part human, part many other...
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Night Shift

Charlaine Harris · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 481
Format: Large Print Hardcover

"At Midnight's local pawnshop, weapons are flying off the shelves--only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is being spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, discovers what...
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MEM

BETHANY C MORROW · The Unnamed Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

MEM is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished reading it.Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people...
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Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

HUGH HOWEY · John Joseph Adams/Mariner Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling...
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The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome

Serge Brussolo · Melville House
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

An undisputed French master of the fantastic - as prolific as Stephen King; as original as Philip K. Dick - now in English for the first time In The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome, lucid dreamers called mediums dive into their dreams to retrieve ectoplasms - sticky blobs with curiously...
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The Will to Battle

ADA PALMER · Tor Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The Will to Battle -- the third book of 2017 John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series -- a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity"A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite,...
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Born of Vengeance

Sherrilyn Kenyon · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 406
Format: Print book

A fate worse than death . . . Bastien Cabarro survived the brutal slaughter of his entire family only to have his wife pin their murders on him. Made Ravin by The League, he is now a target for their assassins-in-training to hunt and kill. The average life expectancy for such beings is six weeks....
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An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon · Akashic Books
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback

"Harrowing and beautiful, this is SF at its best: showing the possible future but warning of the danger of bringing old prejudices and cruelties to that new world. While a story about enslaved people in space could be a one-note polemic, the fully rounded characters bring nuance and genuine...
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Though Hell Should Bar the Way

David Drake · Baen
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING RCN MILITARY SF SERIES. David Drake, Dean of Military Science Fiction, returns with another entry in his best-selling RCN series.FROM WEALTH AND POWER, TO POVERTY AND INSULTS! Roy Olfetrie planned to be an officer in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy,...
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018

John Joseph Adams · Mariner Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology...
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The Kingdom of Copper

S A CHAKRABORTY · Harper Voyager
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass - "the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir) - conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters...
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