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Seven surrenders

Ada Palmer · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"A cornucopia of dazzling, sharp ideas set in rich, wry prose that rewards rumination with layers of delight. Provocative, erudite, inventive, resplendent." -- Ken Liu, author of The Grace of KingsIn a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs...
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Dark Reflections

Samuel R Delany · Dover Pubns
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

"One of the most profound and courageous writers at work today. " Michael Cunningham ("The Hours") . This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a homosexual African-American poet. Beautifully written in reverse chronological order,...
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Alien Nation

Gini Koch · Daw Books
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

Sci-fi action meets steamy paranormal in Gini Koch's Alien novels, as Katherine "Kitty" Katt faces off against aliens, conspiracies, and deadly secrets. * "Futuristic high-jinks and gripping adventure." - RT Reviews It's a typical day of bureaucracy and stress...
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The Jane Austen Project: A Novel

Kathleen Flynn · Harper Perennial
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.London, 1815: Two travelers...
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Section 31: Control

David Mack · Star Trek
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author David Mack comes an original, thrilling Section 31 novel set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe!No law ... no conscience ... no mercy. Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, and answering to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations...
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The Time Traveler's Almanac

Ann VanderMeer · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's...
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The Dead Mountaineer's Inn : (one more last rite for the detective genre)

Arkadii? Strugat?s?kii?; Boris Strugat?s?kii?; Josh Billings; Jeff VanderMeer · Melville House Publishing
Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats

A hilarious spoof on the classic country-house murder mystery, from the Russian masters of sci-fi - never before translated When Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at the remote ski chalet on vacation, the last thing he intends to do is get involved in any police work. He's there to ski,...
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The Silent Corner: A Novel

Dean R Koontz · Bantam
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A dazzling new series, a pure adrenaline rush, debuts with Jane Hawk, a remarkable heroine certain to become an icon of suspense "I very much need to be dead."These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for - but took...
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The Widow's House

Daniel Abraham · Orbit
Format: Paperback

THE RISE OF THE DRAGON AND THE FALL OF KINGSLord Regent Geder Palliakos war has led his nation and the priests of the spider goddess to victory after victory. No power has withstood him, except for the heart of the one woman he desires. As the violence builds and the cracks in his rule...
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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 Tiger and the Wolf

Adrian Tchaikovsky · Pan MacMillan
Pages: 589
Format: Print book

Maniye's father is the Wolf clan's chieftain, but she's an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan's animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs

Ursula K Le Guin · Library Of America
Pages: 700
Format: Print book

The inaugural volume of Library of America's Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty...
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The Dinosaur Knights

Victor Miln · Tor
Pages: 444
Format: Print book

Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often cruel world. There are humans on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden, and of war. Armored knights ride dinosaurs to battle legions of war-trained Triceratops and their upstart peasant crews. Karyl Bogomirsky...
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Jack of Shadows

Roger Zelazny · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

In a world half of light, half of darkness, where science and magic strive for dominance, there dwells a magical being who is friendly with neither side. Jack, of the realm of shadows, is a thief who is unjustly punished. So he embarks on a vendetta. He wanders through strange realms, encountering...
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Archangel

Marguerite Reed · Arche Press
Format: Print book

The Earth is dying, and our hopes are pinned on Ubastis, an untamed paradise at the edge of colonized space. But such an influx of people threatens the planet's unstudied ecosystem - a tenuous research colony must complete its analysis, lest humanity abandon one planet only to die on another.The...
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