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Defiant: Volume Three of the Lightship Chronicles

Dave Bara · Daw Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

With his critically acclaimed military science fiction debut series, Dave Bara launched readers on a star-spanning journey of discovery, diplomacy, and danger. Peter Cochrane and his new wife, Karina, have been married less than a year. And although things have been quiet in relation to the old Empire...
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The Peripheral

William Gibson · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History.Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during...
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Tacky Goblin

STEELE T. SEAN. · The Unnamed Press
Format: Paperback

"A sublimely contemporary study of a universal truth: Growing up is weird to do. Inventive, funny, grotesque, and ribald -- a book with something for everyone as long as no one demands that it makes sense." - Kirkus Reviews Tacky Goblin is the diary of a young man's journey...
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Behind the Throne

K B Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

"Excellent SF adventure debut. " -- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place...
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Shipstar: A Science Fiction Novel

Gregory Benford · Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping...
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Rituals: The Cainsville Series

KELLEY ARMSTRONG · Random House Canada
Pages: 471
Format: Hardcover

The fifth book and the exciting conclusion to bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's "impossible-to-put-down" Cainsville series, in which she mixes hard-hitting crime writing with phenomenal world-building to create a brand of fiction all her own.

When Olivia Taylor-Jones...
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Elementary

Mercedes Lackey · DAW
Format: Book

In March 1987, Mercedes Lackey, a young author from Oklahoma, published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. No one could have envisioned that this modest book would be the beginning of a fantasy career that would span decades and more than a hundred novels, with no signs of slowing yet.And...
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The Land Across

Gene Wolfe · Tor Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having...
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Roses and Rot

Kat Howard · Saga Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Publishers Weekly Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Novel of Summer 2016

"Captivating, fiercely smart (about sisters, artists) , utterly transporting. I read it so consumingly, it was more akin to swallowing it whole. Not to be missed." - Megan Abbott, Edgar-winning...
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Red Sky, Blue Moon

Bruce Golden · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; !st Edition edition
Format: Book

Ancient aliens seed the primordial oceans of Earth with protoplasmic material found on other worlds, then return millennia later to see what they have wrought. They not only observe the human civilizations they find, they contact some of them, conducting investigative studies. When they...
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The Last Dark: The climax of the entire Thomas Covenant Chronicles

Stephen R. Donaldson · G.P. Putnam's Sons; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"It will take a long time for fans or critics to digest and appreciate Donaldson's almost 40-year achievement. But in time "T he Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" will be seen as one of the self-defining works of the third millennium, our equivalent in scope and ambition...
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So I Married a Sorcerer

KERRELYN SPARKS · St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages: 480
Format: Mass Market Paperback

DESTINED FOR DOOM -- OR DESIRE?

Growing up on the Isle of Moon, Brigitta knew that she was born with the magical powers of the Embraced -- even if she did not know how to wield them. But she has finally learned the truth: Brigitta is the lost princess of the kingdom of Tourin....

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Cobra Outlaw

Timothy Zahn · Baen ,
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK. SEQUEL TO COBRA SLAVE. New York Times #1 best-selling author Timothy Zahn continues his Cobra SF adventure series with book #2 of a new Cobra saga, Cobra Rebellion. Cobra warriors: technologically enhanced and implanted with an arsenal of covert weaponry fight...
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Strange Music: A Pip & Flinx Adventure

ALAN DEAN FOSTER · Del Rey
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover

Unlikely duo Pip and Flinx return to right another wrong in this all-new sci-fi adventure from one of the genre's living legends.

Fans of fun, fast-paced, imaginative science fiction adventure, rejoice! #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his much-loved...
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Joe Steele

Harry Turtledove · Ace
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove's thought-provoking forays into the past have produced such intriguing "what-if" novels as Ruled Britannia, Days of Infamy, and Opening Atlantis. Now "the maven of alternate history" (The...
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