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Susurrus on Mars

Hal Duncan · Lethe Press
Format: Paperback

This novella-length collection of Erehwynan Idylls offers readers an indulgent and weird agglomeration of randy boys and revelations, as the embodiment of a small breeze--actually the gene-spliced child of the gods Zephyros and Ares--flirts and seduces fleshlings on a terraformed future...
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The Dying Game: A Novel

Asa Avdic · Penguin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state - for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Dave Eggers' The Circle, and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Do you live to play? Or play to live?The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never fell, and much of Europe...
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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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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 Golden Princess: A Novel of the Change

S. M. Stirling · Roc; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A new generation faces its own challenges in the world the Change has made.Princess Órlaith, heir to Rudi Mackenzie, Artos the First, High King of Montival, now wields the Sword of the Lady—and faces a new enemy. Fortunately, she also has a new ally in Reiko, Empress of Japan, who has been...
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Saint Odd

Dean R Koontz; David Aaron Baker; Playaway Digital Audio.; Findaway World LLC. · Playaway
Format: Audiobook

Odd Thomas is back where it all started . . . because the time has come to finish it. Since he left his simple life in the small town of Pico Mundo, California, his journey has taken him to places strange and wonderful, mysterious and terrifying. Across the land, in the company of mortals...
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Fatal Feast

Jay Ruud · Five Star
Format: Hardcover

When an Irish knight dies mysteriously at a banquet she is hostingxA Queen Guenivere is charged with murder and faces death at the stake if found guilty Her loyal pagexA GildasxA rushes to the woods to track down Merlin and convince him to take up the investigation and save the queenFatal...
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Semiosis: A Novel

Sue Burke · Tor Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Seimosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and...
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The Abolition of Species

DIETMAR DATH · DoppelHouse Press
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently wise Cyrus Golden the Lion rules the three-city state that is now what remains of Europe. Yet, other forces stir while the king of beasts sleeps--the last...
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The High Ground: Imperials 1

Melinda Snodgrass · Titan Books
Pages: 356
Format: Paperback

Emperor's daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League's Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals--to rise to the rank of captain,...
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Charm

Sarah Pinborough · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover

The classicCinderellastory is given a sexy contemporary makeover in this wicked fairy tale featuring all the heroes and villains that we know and love: the handsome prince, the fairy godmother, the wretched sisters, and the beautiful girl. "
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The Plague of Swords

Miles Cameron · Orbit
Pages: 497
Format: Paperback

ONE ENEMY HAS FALLEN. A GREATER ONE REMAINS.
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Star Trek Prometheus - The Root of All Rage

CHRISTIAN HUMBERG · Titan Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The Federation races to discover the culprits of several terrorist attacks, sending their flagship, the USS Prometheus, to stop war breaking out in the galaxy.A dangerous evil is flourishing in the Alpha Quadrant. In the Lembatta Cluster, a curious region of space, fanatics who call themselves...
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The Long Cosmos: A Novel

Terry Pratchett · Harpercollins
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The thrilling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Long Earth series explores the greatest question of all: What is the meaning of life?2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day, a new society continues to evolve in the Long Earth. Now, a message has been received: "Join...
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Avalanche: The Secret World Chronicles

Mercedes Lackey · Baen
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book #5 in the pulse-pounding SECRET WORLD saga of modern-day humans with superpowers.Ultima Thule has been destroyed - but somehow the Thulians mounted an even bigger force to destroy...
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