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The Medusa Chronicles

STEPHEN BAXTER · Saga Press
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke's Nebula Award-winning novella "A Meeting with Medusa," this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity's first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science fiction masters.Howard Falcon almost lost his life...
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Call of Fire

BETH CATO · Harper Voyager
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

A resourceful young heroine must protect the world from her enemies - and her own power - in this thrilling sequel to the acclaimed Breath of Earth, an imaginative blend of alternative history, fantasy, science, magic, and adventure.When an earthquake devastates San Francisco in an alternate...
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Swarm and Steel

Michael R Fletcher · Talos
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

To escape the hell she created, a woman must team up with a novice warrior and return to her homeland in this gritty epic fantasy where delusions are literally made real. Zerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to remember her past. Chased by an assassin out into the endless wastes...
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The Iron Hound: The Hallowed War 2

Tim Akers · Titan Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Ruling with an iron hand, the Church has eliminated the ancient pagan ways. Yet demonic gheists terrorize the land, hunted by the Inquisition, while age-old hatreds rage between the north and the south. Three heroes - Malcolm and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair - must end the bloodshed...
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An Echo of Things to Come

James Islington · Orbit
Pages: 752
Format: Hardcover

"Love The Wheel of Time? This is about to become your new favorite series." - B&N SF & Fantasy Blog
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Reincarnation Blues: A Novel

MICHAEL POORE · Del Rey
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Cloud Atlas comes a wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try? Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to "get...
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The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds

STEPHEN BAXTER · Crown
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian...
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The Rat Catchers' Olympics

Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The boycotting of the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow has given the Democratic People's Republic of Laos the chance they needed to field their first-ever team. It's also just the sort of opportunity the now retired, and therefore very bored, ex-National Coroner of Laos, the venerable...
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Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore

PAULA GURAN · Prime Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both inspire writers...
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War for the Planet of the Apes: Official Movie Novelization

GREG COX · Titan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face,...
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