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Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida...
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Master & Apprentice

Claudia Gray · Del Rey
Pages: 400
Format: Book

A Jedi must be a fearless warrior, a guardian of justice, and a scholar in the ways of the Force. But perhaps a Jedi's most essential duty is to pass on what they have learned. Master Yoda trained Dooku; Dooku trained Qui-Gon Jinn; and now Qui-Gon has a Padawan of his own. But while...
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Exhalation: Stories

Ted Chiang · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival) , the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short storiesThis much-anticipated second...
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The Gordian Protocol

David Weber · Baen
Pages: 464
Format: Book

A Man of Two Worlds Doctor Benjamin Schroder was far from a man of action. In fact, he was a history teacher - Chairman of the Castle Rock University history department - and if his life wasn't perfect, it was close. Until, that is the discussion of his star student Elzbietá...
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Cruel Fate

Kelley Armstrong · Subterranean
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover

Three years after discovering that her biological parents are convicted serial killers, Olivia finally has her life back, and it's better than ever. She loves her new job, as investigator for notorious defense attorney Gabriel Walsh. She has Gabriel, too, as they settle in together,...
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American Gods : shadows

Neil Gaiman · Dark Horse Books
Format: Print book

"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve...
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The Praxis: Dread Empire's Fall

Walter Jon Williams · Harper Voyager
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

"Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams." -- George R.R. MartinThe first book in the completed Dread Empire's Fall trilogy, followed by The Sundering and Conventions...
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A Brightness Long Ago

Guy Gavriel Kay · Berkley
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city,...
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Mahimata

Rati Mehrotra · Harper Voyager
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman in this thrilling fantasy from the author of Markswoman.Kyra has returned to the caves of Kali, but her homecoming is bittersweet. She no longer...
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Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH · HarperVoyager
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback

An unpredictable, poignant, and captivating tale for readers of all ages, by the critically acclaimed author of Only Forward.There are a million stories in the world. Most are perfectly ordinary.This one ... isn't.Hannah Green actually thinks her story is more mundane than most. But she's...
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The Storm

DAVID DRAKE · Baen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

THE THRILLING RE-TELLING OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND FROM MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY DAVID DRAKE CONTINUES! A young Champion must rescue a friend and battle an enemy at the heart of a chaotic world.The universe has shattered into chaos and monsters. Jon, the Leader, is dedicating his life...
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Pariah

W. Michael Gear · DAW
Pages: 432
Format: Book

The third book in the thrilling Donovan series, a sci-fi action adventure set on a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Corporate assassin Tamarland Benteen's last hope is the survey ship Vixen. With a load of scientists...
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One Word Kill

Mark Lawrence · 47North
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by the bestselling author who George RR Martin describes as "an excellent writer."In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that...
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Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Orbit
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Adrian Tchaikovksy's award-winning novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Who will inherit this new Earth?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps...
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Middlegame

Seanan McGuire · Tor.com
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame.Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively...
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Children of Ruin

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Orbit
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their...
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Storm Cursed

PATRICIA BRIGGS · Ace
Pages: 384
Format: Book

In this powerful entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Mercy Thompson must face a deadly enemy to defend all she loves ... My name is Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman, and I am a car mechanic. And a coyote shapeshifter. And the mate of the Alpha of the Columbia Basin werewolf...
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No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell

Delilah S. Dawson · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Go big or go gnome. The New York Times bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy return to the world of Pell, the irreverent fantasy universe that recalls Monty Python and Terry Pratchett. War is coming, and it's gonna be Pell. On one side stand the gnomes: smol, cheerful, possessing tidy...
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The Unbound Empire

Melissa Caruso · Orbit
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback

The final volume of the Gemmell Morningstar Award-shortlisted Swords and Fire fantasy trilogy, in which political scion Amalia and her bound fire warlock Zaira must save the Empire from a ruthless, magical enemy. Perfect for fans of Tamora Pierce, The Queen of the Tearling, and Uprooted.While...
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The Light Brigade

Kameron Hurley · Saga Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the Hugo Award­­-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted...
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Upon a Burning Throne

Ashok K. Banker · John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

Two princes, Shvate and Adri, are born in Hastinaga, capital of the vast Krushan empire - one blind, the other albino. Though one cannot see, and the other cannot face sunlight, the Dowager Empress Jilana and Prince Regent Vrath assure their people and allies that all will be well. Any rumblings...
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The Luminous Dead: A Novel

Caitlin Starling · Harper Voyager
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition,...
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Holy Sister

Mark Lawrence · Ace
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The third book in the thrilling and epic Book of the Ancestor trilogy from international bestselling author Mark Lawrence.Powerful novice Nona Grey must fight to survive in "a fantastic world in which religion and politics are dark and sharp as swords, with magic and might held in the hands...
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Sorcerer Royal

ZEN CHO · Ace
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

In the follow-up to the "delightful" Regency fantasy novel (NPR.org) Sorcerer to the Crown, a young woman with no memories of her past finds herself embroiled in dangerous politics in England and the land of the fae.When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach...
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