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Night Without Stars: Peter F. Hamilton
After centuries trapped inside the Void, the planet
Bienvenido - along with its inhabitants, both human and
Faller - has been expelled into normal space. But the
survivors are millions of light-years from the
Commonwealth, which knows nothing of their existence. As
the two races plunge into mortal conflict for sole
possession of the planet, the humans seem destined to
lose - despite the assistance of the mysterious Warrior
Angel, who possesses forbidden Commonwealth technology.
With the Fallers' numbers growing, and their ability to
mimic humans allowing them to infiltrate all levels of
society, it's only a matter of time before they surge to
victory. Then, on a routine space flight, Major Ry Evine
inadvertently frees a captive vessel that crash-lands on
Bienvenido carrying the last, best hope for human
survival: a baby. But a far from ordinary one. The child
not only ages at a remarkable rate but demonstrates
knowledge and abilities far beyond those of Bienvenido's
humans. Hunted by Fallers and humans alike, she is a
crucial link to humanity's lost past - and a glorious
future already almost out of reach.
ORDER # S817-1 $12-95
ISBN 9780345547248
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Stranded: Bracken MacLeod
Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the
Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire
circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar
waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without
functioning navigation or communication equipment, they
are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall
prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the
only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the
ship and her crew, which does little to ease their
growing distrust of him. Dismissing Noah's warnings of
worsening conditions, the captain of the ship presses on
until the sea freezes into ice and they can go no
farther. When the men are ordered overboard in an
attempt to break the ship free by hand, the fog clears,
revealing a faint shape in the distance that may or may
not be their destination. Noah leads the last of the
able-bodied crew on a journey across the ice and into an
uncertain future where they must fight for their lives
against the elements, the ghosts of the past and,
ultimately, themselves.
ORDER # S817-2 $13-90
ISBN 9780765382443
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The
Rise of Io: Wesley Chu
Ella Patel - thief, con-artist and smuggler - is in the
wrong place at the wrong time. One night, on the border
of a demilitarized zone run by the body-swapping alien
invaders, she happens upon a man and woman being chased
by a group of assailants. The man freezes, leaving the
woman to fight off five attackers at once, before
succumbing. As she dies, to both Ella and the man's
surprise, the sparkling light that rises from the woman
enters Ella, instead of the man. She soon realizes she's
been inhabited by Io, a low-ranking Quasing who was
involved in some of the worst decisions in history. Now
Ella must now help the alien presence to complete her
mission and investigate a rash of murders in the border
states that maintain the frail peace. With the Prophus
assigned to help her seemingly wanting to stab her in
the back, and the enemy Genjix hunting her, Ella must
also deal with Io's annoying inferiority complex. To top
it all off, Ella thinks the damn alien voice in her head
is trying to get her killed. And if you can't trust the
voices in your head, who can you trust?
ORDER # S817-3 $11-95
ISBN 9780857667328
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Anackire (Wars of Vis):
Tanith Lee
Raldnor, Storm Lord and chosen hero of the goddess
Anackire, has passed into legend after bringing peace to
the land of Dorthar. But after twenty years, that
tenuous peace is threatening to dissolve. Contentious
forces are brewing, working through subterfuge and overt
war to see the new Storm Lord displaced. Kesarh, prince
of Istris, has grand ambitions. Though he is only a
lesser noble of Karmiss, his shrewdness and cunning
ensure him a stake in the tumultuous fight for
sovereignty. If he succeeds, he may yet win the power he
craves - and an empire to rule. But his plans are not
infallible - a daughter, conceived from a forbidden
union, could prove to be his downfall. Ashni is a child
not quite human, altered by the strange circumstances of
her birth and blessed by the goddess Anackire. In a
world of assassinations, concealed plots, and political
machinations, Ashni must contend with the dangerous
plans of her father if she is to fulfill the demands of
the goddess - and avoid a war that could destroy the
very empire Kesarh wishes to build.
ORDER # S817-4 $11-95
ISBN 9780756411114
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The Order of the Eternal
Sun: Jessica Leake
Lucy Sinclair's debut will be a parade of everything
opulent Edwardian London society has to offer. Most
importantly, it will be nothing like her older sister's
dangerous experience - especially if her overprotective
brother-in-law, Lord Thornewood, has his way. As if
screening her dance partners isn't enough, Thornewood
insists that his brother, James, train Lucy in
self-defense as the event nears. She wouldn't mind so
much if her treacherous mind didn't continue to replay
the kiss they once shared. But awkward defense lessons
are the least of her problems. Her arcana, a magical
talent that allows her to mentally enter any scene that
she draws, grows stronger by the day. Again and again
Lucy is compelled to draw a portal to her mother's realm
of Sylvania - and with each stroke of her pen, she risks
attracting the attention of the Order of the Eternal
Sun, the sinister brotherhood that steals the power of
Sylvani blood for their own dark ends.
ORDER # S817-5 $11-95
ISBN 9781940456867
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Arcana:
Jessica Leake
Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in
1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks
of debutantes vying for suitors. Unfortunately for
Katherine, she cannot imagine anything more loathsome -
or dangerous. To help ease her entrance into society,
Katherine's family has elicited the assistance of the
Earl of Thornewood, a friend and London's most eligible
bachelor, to be her constant companion at the endless
fetes and balls. But upon her arrival in London,
Katherine realizes there will be more to this season
than just white gowns and husband hunting. Through her
late mother's enchanted diary, Katherine receives
warning to keep hidden her otherworldly ability to
perform arcana, a magic fueled by the power of the sun.
Any misstep could mean ruin - and not just for her
family name. The Order of the Eternal Sun is everywhere
- hunting for those like her, able to feed on arcana
with only a touch of the hand.
ORDER # S817-6 $11-95
ISBN 9781945863189
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United
States of Japan: Peter Tieryas
Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans
worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes
that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but
exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George
Washingtons - a shadowy group of rebels fighting for
freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute
an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what
the world might be like if the United States had won the
war instead. Captain Beniko Ishimura's job is to censor
video games, and he's tasked with getting to the bottom
of this disturbing new development. But Ishimura's
hiding something. He's slowly been discovering that the
case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than
it seems, and the subversive videogame's origins are
even more controversial and dangerous than the censors
originally suspected.
ORDER # S817-7 $11-95
ISBN 9780857667229
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The
Exile: (Book of the Fae): C.T. Adams
Brianna Hai runs an occult shop that sells useless
trinkets to tourists - and real ritual implements and
ingredients to real witches and warlocks. Brianna is
half-Fae; she and her human mother fled the Fae world
years ago, escaping court intrigues and assassination
attempts. Brianna's mother then sealed the border
between the worlds - except for a single, secret portal.
An attack made through that portal drags Brianna back to
the Fae world and the battle over who will succeed her
father, King Liu, on the throne of Faery. Shocked to
learn that a new prophecy names her heir, Brianna is
pretty sure she doesn't want the job. She'd rather work
on her brand-new relationship with a hunky police
detective who doesn't believe in magic. With her enemies
girding for war, in Faery and on Earth. Brianna doesn't
have much choice - it looks like greatness is being
thrust upon her.
ORDER # S817-8 $11-95
ISBN 9780765370761
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A Conversation in Blood:
Paul S. Kemp
Fantasy fiction has long welcomed adventurous rogues:
Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, George R. R.
Martin's Dunk and Egg, and Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora
and Jean Tannen have all made their mark. In his Egil
& Nix series, New York Times bestselling author Paul
S. Kemp introduces a daring new duo to the ranks of
fantasy fame - or is it infamy? Nix is a nimble thief
with just enough knowledge of magic to get into serious
trouble. Egil is the only priest of a discredited god.
Together, they seek riches and renown, but somehow it is
always misadventure and mayhem that find them - even in
the dive bar they call home. And their luck has yet to
change. All Nix wants to do is cheer Egil up after a
bout of heartbreak. And, of course, strike it so rich
that they need never worry about their combined bar
bill. But when the light-fingered scoundrel plunders a
tomb and snatches mysterious golden plates covered in
runes, the treasure brings terrifying trouble. Pursued
by an abomination full of ravenous hunger and
unquenchable wrath, Egil and Nix find all they hold dear
- including their beloved tavern - in dire peril. To say
nothing of the world itself.
ORDER # S817-9 $11-95
ISBN 9780425285497
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The Dreaming Hunt:
Cindy
Dees
To defeat the tyrannical Kothite Empire, Raina of Tyrel,
a gifted mage, and Will Cobb, a young woodsman, continue
on their magical quest to wake the legendary Sleeping
King. They and their team have caught the attention of
powerful forces determined to stop them. And worse,
their visit to the Dream Plane has unleashed chaos, and
the fight is spilling over into the mortal realm. Raina
and her friends frantically outrun old enemies and pick
up new ones: imperial hunters, a secret cabal of mages,
a criminal league, and a changeling army. Are they just
pawns in larger political dramas, or are they
crystallizing into the nucleus of a rebellion? Can the
young heroes find the regalia necessary to wake the
Sleeping King before the epic battle that is to come?
ORDER # S817-10 $12-95
ISBN 9780765370310
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Ride
the Storm: Karen Chance
Cassie Palmer can see the future, talk to ghosts, and
travel through time - but nothing's prepared her for
this.
Ever since being stuck with the job of pythia, the chief
seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been
playing catch up. Catch up to the lifetime's worth of
training she missed being raised by a psychotic vampire
instead of at the fabled pythian court. Catch up to the
powerful, and sometimes seductive, forces trying to mold
her to their will. It's been a trial by fire that has
left her more than a little burned. But now she realizes
that all that was the just the warm up for the real
race. Ancient forces that once terrorized the world are
trying to return, and Cassie is the only one who can
stop them.
ORDER # S817-11 $11-95
ISBN 9781101989982
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Children
of the Divide: Patrick S. Tomlinson
A new generation comes of age eighteen years after
humanity arrived on the colony planet Gaia. Now threats
from both within and outside their Trident threaten
everything they've built. The discovery of an alien
installation inside Gaia's moon, terrorist attacks and
the kidnap of a man's daughter stretch the community to
breaking point, but only two men stand a chance of
solving all three mysteries before the makeshift
planetary government shuts everything down.
ORDER # S817-12 $11-95
ISBN 9780857666826
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Prince
of Outcasts: S. M. Stirling
John Arminger Mackenzie wanted to be a troubadour, but
fate made him the son of the King of Montival. His
sister Princess Órlaith will deservedly inherit the
throne of the High Kings, and it will pass on to him
only in the event of her death, leaving the young prince
on an unknown path to discover his true role in the
family. The opportunity to prove his mettle comes when
John's ship, the Tarshish Queen, is caught in the fierce
storm raised against the enemies of the alliance. When
the clouds recede and the skies clear, John and his crew
find themselves on the other side of the Pacific, in the
island chains of the Ceram Sea, fighting to survive
against vicious pirates and monstrous creatures of the
deep while meeting new allies and mysterious enemies of
this world and another. Now Prince John must seize his
birthright and lead his people in battle against the
darkest forces man and nature can conjure against them.
ORDER # S817-13 $13-90
ISBN 9780451417381
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Thunderlord
(Darkover): Marion Zimmer Bradley
Far in Darkover's past, the Ages of Chaos were a time of
constant warfare, when immensely powerful psychic
weapons ravaged the land and slaughtered entire armies.
Perhaps none was more dangerous and unpredictable than
the mental Gift to sense - and control - thunderstorms.
When the realm of Aldaran and their Scathfell cousins
came to blows, that Gift turned the tide of battle, and
Aldaran prevailed. A generation later, the heir to
Scathfell, Gwynn, has grown up in the shadow of that
conflict, his life shaped by the loss of his entire
family. Now he plots his revenge for his family's
humiliating defeat by seeking to marry a woman who
carries the storm control Gift, so that his sons will be
able to wield the terrible power of storms against
Aldaran.
ORDER # S817-14 $11-95
ISBN 9780756410551
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Eternity's
Mind: Kevin J. Anderson
Two decades after the devastating Elemental War, which
nearly destroyed the cosmos, the new Confederation
restored peace and profitable commerce among the peoples
and worlds of the Spiral Arm. The ambitious, innovative
Roamers went back to their traditional business of
harvesting the vital stardrive fuel ekti from the clouds
of gas giant planets, and the telepathic green priests
of Theroc provided instantaneous galaxy-wide
communication via their connection to the powerful and
sentient worldtrees. The alien Ildiran Empire rebuilt
their grand Prism Palace under the light of their seven
suns, and their Mage-Imperator declared a new age of
expansion and discover. But peace was not to last. The
malevolent Klikiss robots soon found an ally in the
ancient and near-omnipotent Shana Rei, destructive
creatures who are the personification of darkness and
chaos - awakened after millennia of slumber to destroy
all sentient life in the universe. The Confederation and
the Ildiran Empire fought in every way possible, but the
Spiral Arm itself seemed doomed.
ORDER # S817-15 $13-90
ISBN 9780765369369
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Blue
Plague: Survival: Thomas A. Watson
Bruce and Mike finally
made it home. But the battle for the future has just
begun. The Louisiana farm that Bruce and his allies had
built to survive the end of the world was everything
they could have hoped for - but no one had planned for
the endless horde of fast, smart and ravenous blue
zombies who could think, heal, and even reproduce. Now,
as they gather an armory of military weaponry from
abandoned outposts all across the countryside, Bruce and
his growing clan of survivors realize the truth - their
compound can be the beginning of a new and rebuilt world
- but only if they can confront the "blues"
and make their home safe. Pity the poor blues.
ORDER # S817-16
$13-90 ISBN 9781618687258
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On
to the Asteroid: Travis S Taylor
It's the beginning of a new golden age of space
exploration. Finally, humanity is taking the
commercialization of space to the next level - mining
asteroids. The new gold rush of the commercial space era
has begun. Another commercial venture, an attempt to put
a hotel on the Moon, is seeking the space tourism gold
of the ultra wealthy. And it seems as if the dream of
finally sending people to Mars is finally going to
happen using a ship propelled by a powerful nuclear
rocket. But space travel isn't cut and dry, and there is
nothing routine about it. In order to mine an asteroid
the goal is to bring it closer to Earth, but orbital
mechanics are tricky and close to Earth proves to be far
too close for comfort - with looming destruction from
space about to become a grim reality. Now astronauts,
scientists, engineers, and people in all the burgeoning
space businesses must team together to stop the asteroid
before it is too late for humanity and the planet it
calls home.
ORDER # S817-17 $11-95
ISBN 9781481482677
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Invasion:
Luke Rhinehart
Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from
another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun.
"Louie" follows fisherman Billy Morton home
one day and he and his family come quickly to love the
playful alien. But when Louie starts using their
computer to hack into government and corporate networks,
and steal millions from banks to give to others, they
realize that Louie and his friends mean trouble. Billy,
his wife and two sons begin a roller-coaster ride of
fame, fortune, jail, death, resurrection, and a
distinguished ranking high on the FBI's "Most
Wanted" List. The Government soon decides that all
these aliens are terrorists. They must be eliminated.
The aliens are playing games they hope will help humans
to see the insanity of the American political, economic
and military systems. But the Powers That Be don't play
games: they make war.
ORDER # S817-18 $11-95
ISBN 9781785651779
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Navigators
of Dune: Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune
is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune
trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic
Dune. The story line tells the origins of the Bene
Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the
human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing
Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of
the human race, in which reason faces off against
fanaticism. These events have far-reaching consequences
that will set the stage for Dune, millennia later.
ORDER # S817-19 $13-90
ISBN 9780765381262
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Anno
Dracula - The Bloody Red Baron: Kim Newman
It is 1918 and Graf von Dracula is commander-in-chief of
the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. The war of
the great powers in Europe is also a war between the
living and the dead. Caught up in the conflict, Charles
Beauregard, an old enemy of Dracula, his protégé Edwin
Winthrop, and intrepid vampire reporter Kate Reed go
head-to-head with the lethal vampire flying machine that
is the Bloody Red Baron.
ORDER # S817-20 $11-95
ISBN 9781785655494
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Alliance
of Equals (Liaden): Sharon Lee
Beset by the angry remnants of the Department of the
Interior, challenged at every turn by opportunists on
their new homeworld of Surebleak, and somewhat low on
funds, Clan Korval desperately needs to reestablish its
position as one of the top trading clans in known space.
To this end, Master Trader Shan yos'Galan, aboard
Korval's premier trade ship, Dutiful Passage, is on a
mission to establish new business associations and to
build a strong primary route that links well with
existing Loops and secondary routes. But reestablishing
trade and preserving the lives of the remaining members
of the clan aren't all of Korval's problems. Matters
come to a head as Dutiful Passage, accustomed to being
welcomed and feted at those ports on its call-list,
finds itself denied docking, and blacklisted, while
agents of the DOI mount armed attacks on others of
Korval's traders, under the very eyes of port security
systems.
ORDER # S817-21 $11-95
ISBN 9781481482660
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Extinction
Evolution (Extinction Cycle: 04): Nicholas Sansbury
Smith
Central Command is gone, the military is fractured, and
the surviving members of Team Ghost, led by Master
Sergeant Reed Beckham, have been pushed to the breaking
point. Betrayed by the country they swore to defend and
surrounded by enemies on all sides, Team Ghost has one
mission left: protect Dr. Kate Lovato and Dr. Pat Ellis
while they develop a weapon to defeat the Variants once
and for all. But after a grisly discovery in Atlanta,
Kate and Ellis realize their weapon might not be able to
stop the evolution of the monsters. Joined by unexpected
allies and facing a new threat none of them saw coming,
the survivors are running out of time to save the human
race from extinction.
ORDER # S817-22 $13-90
ISBN 9780316558112
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Empire's
End (Star Wars: Aftermath): Chuck Wendig
As the final showdown between the New Republic and the
Empire draws near, all eyes turn to a once-isolated
planet: Jakku. The Battle of Endor shattered the Empire,
scattering its remaining forces across the galaxy. But
the months following the Rebellion's victory have not
been easy. The fledgling New Republic has suffered a
devastating attack from the Imperial remnant, forcing
the new democracy to escalate its hunt for the hidden
enemy. For her role in the deadly ambush, Grand Admiral
Rae Sloane is the most wanted Imperial war criminal -
and one-time rebel pilot Norra Wexley, back in service
at Leia's urgent request, is leading the hunt. But more
than just loyalty to the New Republic drives Norra
forward: Her husband was turned into a murderous pawn in
Sloane's assassination plot, and now she wants vengeance
as much as justice.
ORDER # S817-23 $13-90
ISBN 9781101966983
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The
Return of Daud: Adam Christopher
Daud - traitor and assassin - has returned to Dunwall, a
city shaken by the overthrow of Empress Emily Kaldwin.
He is seeking a mythical weapon, said to have the power
to kill the Outsider, and will go to any lengths to find
it. But there are those who are watching his every move.
Travelling the Isles to complete his mission, Daud will
soon discover that old enemies have been waiting for
him, and new enemies are easy to make.
ORDER # S817-24 $11-95
ISBN 9781783293056
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Star
Wars: Rogue One: Alexander Freed
As the shadows of the
Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply
troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a
sinister Imperial plot to bring entire worlds to their
knees. Deep in Empire-dominated space, a machine of
unimaginable destructive power is nearing completion. A
weapon too terrifying to contemplate and a threat that
may be too great to overcome. If the worlds at the
Empire's mercy stand any chance, it lies with an
unlikely band of allies: Jyn Erso, a resourceful young
woman seeking vengeance; Cassian Andor, a war-weary
rebel commander; Bodhi Rook, a defector from the
Empire's military; Chirrut Imwe, a blind holy man and
his crack-shot companion, Baze Malbus; and K-2SO, a
deadly Imperial droid turned against its former masters.
In their hands rests the new hope that could turn the
tide toward a crucial Rebellion victory - if only they
can capture the plans to the Empire's new weapon. But
even as they race toward their dangerous goal, the
specter of their ultimate enemy - a monstrous world unto
itself - darkens the skies. Waiting to herald the
Empire's brutal reign with a burst of annihilation
worthy of its dreaded name: Death Star.
ORDER # S817-25 $13-90 ISBN
9780399178474
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Rise
of the Federation (Star Trek: Enterprise): Christopher
L. Bennett
The time has come to act. Following the destructive
consequences of the Ware crisis, Admiral Jonathan Archer
and Section 31 agent Trip Tucker both attempt to change
their institutions to prevent further such tragedies.
Archer pushes for a Starfleet directive of
non-interference, but he faces opposition from allies
within the fleet and unwelcome support from adversaries
who wish to drive the Federation into complete
isolationism. Meanwhile, Tucker plays a dangerous game
against the corrupt leaders of Section 31, hoping to
bring down their conspiracy once and for all. But is he
willing to jeopardize Archer's efforts - and perhaps the
fate of an entire world - in order to win?
ORDER # S817-26 $11-95
ISBN 9781501165702
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The
End of Ordinary: Edward Ashton
Drew Bergen is an
Engineer. He builds living things, one gene at a time.
He's also kind of a doofus. Six years after the Stupid
War - a bloody, inconclusive clash between the
Engineered and the UnAltered - that's a dangerous
combination. Hannah is Drew's greatest project, modified
in utero to be just a bit more than human. She's also
his daughter. Drew's working on a new project now. He
thinks his team is developing a spiffy new strain of
corn, but Hannah's classmate and her mysterious
companion disagree. They think he's cooking up the end
of the world. When one of Drew's team members
disappears, he begins to suspect that they might be
right. Soon they're all in far over their heads, with
corporate goons and government operatives hunting them,
and millions of lives in the balance.
ORDER # S817-27 $11-95 ISBN
9780062690326
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Wounded:
Rylee Adamson: Shannon Mayer
"My name is Rylee
and I am a Tracker."
When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads,
I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing
home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot.
The clock is ticking, and I can feel the weight of the
final battle with the demon hordes looming over my head.
The puzzle pieces are becoming clearer, but the casualty
list is growing. And with each name that is added to
those we've lost, my confidence cracks a little more.
Yet there is hope. A child saved. A life lost. A
prophecy fulfilled.
ORDER # S817-28 $11-95 ISBN
9781945863028
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The
Meridian Ascent (Rho Agenda Assimilation): Richard
Phillips
In their battle to save Earth from becoming another
conquest of the alien Kasari Collective, Mark and
Heather Smythe have struck crucial blows against the
enemy. But their best efforts have still failed to
derail the completion of the wormhole gateway that would
give the insidious extraterrestrial invaders access to
the planet - and doom humankind as helpless slaves of
the Kasari hive mind. The Smythes and their intrepid
allies - including the mentally altered humans, The
Enhanced - stand ready to beat back the Kasari onslaught
once and for all. Not by mortal combat, but with
scientific cunning. Still, the success of their plan
depends on a daring stealth mission into the heart of
the aliens' nerve center on Earth. And multiple threats
lie in wait - including the ruthless Kasari commander, a
brutal double agent with a deadly vendetta to settle,
and the alien entity Khal Teth, who wears a human face
but is ready to strike with monstrous force.
ORDER # S817-29 $22-90
ISBN 9781503935280
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Swarm
and Steel: Michael R. Fletcher
Zerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to
remember her past. Chased by an assassin out into the
endless wastes of the desert, she is caught, disfigured,
and left for dead. Her scabbard is empty, but the need
for answers - and the pull of her sword - will draw her
back to the city-states. When Jateko, a naďve youth,
accidentally kills a member of his own tribe, he finds
himself outcast and pursued across the desert for his
crimes. Crazed from dehydration, dying of thirst and
hunger, he stumbles across Zerfall. Hunted by assassins
and bound by mutual need, both Zerfall and Jeteko will
confront the Täuschung, an ancient and deranged
religion ruled by a broken fragment of Zerfall's mind.
Swarm, the Täuschung hell, seethes with imprisoned
souls, but where gods - real or imagined - meddle in the
affairs of man, the cost is high.
ORDER # S817-30 $23-90
ISBN 9781940456898
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The
Castle in Cassiopeia: Mike Resnick
A crisis has arisen. On their first mission as a team,
Pretorius and his Dead Enders kidnapped the real General
Michkag and substituted a clone who had been raised and
trained in the Democracy. But now they find that the
clone likes being the most powerful man in the
hundred-world Traanskei Coalititon - and having been
raised on Earth, he knows how humans think and react.
This becomes a many-layered problem for Pretorius and
what is left of his Dead Enders. As the only humans on a
totally militarized alien world, they must first find
where the best-guarded member of the enemy's military -
Michkag - is hiding and how many aliens, or regiments,
or divisions, are guarding him, and then they must find
a way past all his lines of defense to kill or capture
him.
ORDER # S817-31 $23-90
ISBN 9781633882317
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The
Iron Hound: Tim Akers
Tensions flare between north and south, and hatreds
erupt into war. Yet the conflicts of men are quickly
overshadowed by a far greater threat. Creatures long
kept confined rise from below, spreading destruction on
an unimaginable scale. The flames of war are fanned by
the Celestial Church, whose inquisitors and holy knights
seek to destroy the pagans wherever they are found. A
secret cabal creates unexpected allies, and pursues its
own dark agenda. While Malcolm Blakley seeks to end the
war before all of Tenumbra is consumed, his son Ian
searches for the huntress Gwendolyn Adair, and finds
himself shadowed by the totem of his family, the Iron
Hound. Gwen herself becomes allied with the pagans, and
wrestles with the effect of having been bound to a god.
ORDER # S817-32 $22-90
ISBN 9781783299508
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The
Medusa Chronicles: Stephen Baxter
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 in an accident as the
first human astronaut to explore the atmosphere of
Jupiter - and a combination of human ingenuity and
technical expertise brought him back. But he is no
longer himself. Instead, he has been changed into an
augmented human: part man, part machine, and
exceptionally capable. With permission from the Clarke
Estate, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds continue
this beloved writer's enduring vision and have created a
fresh story for new readers. The Medusa Chronicles
charts Falcon's journey through the centuries granted by
his new body, but always back to mysteries of Jupiter
and the changing interaction between humanity and the
universe.
ORDER # S817-33 $23-90
ISBN 9781481479684
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Starfire:
A Red Peace: Spencer Ellsworth
A Red Peace, first in Spencer Ellsworth's Starfire
trilogy, is an action-packed space opera in a universe
where the oppressed half-Jorian crosses have risen up to
supplant humanity and dominate the galaxy.
Half-breed human star navigator Jaqi, working the edges
of human-settled space on contract to whoever will hire
her, stumbles into possession of an artifact that the
leader of the Rebellion wants desperately enough to send
his personal guard after. An interstellar empire and the
fate of the remnant of humanity hang in the balance.
Spencer Ellsworth has written a classic space opera,
with space battles between giant bugs, sun-sized
spiders, planets of cyborgs and a heroine with enough
grit to bring down the galaxy's newest warlord.
ORDER # S817-34 $23-90
ISBN 9780765395733
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Ghost
Talkers: Mary Robinette Kowal
Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London
during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin
Harford, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for
the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force. Each
soldier heading for the front is conditioned to report
to the mediums of the Spirit Corps when they die so the
Corps can pass instant information about troop movements
to military intelligence. Ginger and her fellow mediums
contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as
they pass the information through appropriate channels.
While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the
presence of a traitor. Without the presence of her
fiancé to validate her findings, the top brass thinks
she's just imagining things. Even worse, it is clear
that the Spirit Corps is now being directly targeted by
the German war effort. Left to her own devices, Ginger
has to find out how the Germans are targeting the Spirit
Corps and stop them. This is a difficult and dangerous
task for a woman of that era, but this time both the
spirit and the flesh are willing.
ORDER # S817-35 $24-90
ISBN 9780765378262
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The
New Voices of Fantasy: Eugene Fisher
What would you do if a tornado wanted you to be its
Valentine? Or if a haunted spacesuit banged on your
door? When is the ideal time to turn into a tiger? Would
you post a supernatural portal on Craigslist?
In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of
fantasy have arrived. The New Voices of Fantasy captures
some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five
years, including Sofia Samatar, Maria Dahvana Headley,
Max Gladstone, Alyssa Wong, Usman T. Malik, Brooke
Bolander, E. Lily Yu, Ben Loory, Ursula Vernon, and
more. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary
Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) and genre expert
Jacob Weisman (The Treasury of the Fantastic).
So go ahead and join the Communist revolution of the
honeybees. The new kids got your back.
ORDER # S817-36 $24-90 ISBN
9781616962579
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Clarkesworld
Magazine (A 10th Anniversary Anthology): Neil Clarke
The science fiction field changed forever in October
2006, when the first issue of Clarkesworld Magazine was
published online. Since then, Clarkesworld quickly
established itself as the premiere magazine for science
fiction and fantasy. On a mission to bring both
established and new authors to readers each month, the
magazine has won four Hugo Awards, a World Fantasy
Award, and many other honors in less than a decade. To
commemorate these milestones, award-winning editors Neil
Clarke and Sean Wallace have collected the very best
fiction from the first decade of Clarkesworld in this
volume. Many of these exceptional stories have gained
critical acclaim and garnered individual nominations and
awards. From Aliette de Bodard to Yoon Ha Lee, and from
Ken Liu to Catherynne M. Valente, these fine,
cutting-edge stories are exciting, challenging, and
vibrant.
ORDER # S817-37 $27-90
ISBN 9781607014874
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Binary
System: Eric Brown
A devastating starship crash. An alien world. An
incredible adventure.
After surviving a catastrophic starship blow-out, Delia
Kemp finds herself stranded on the inhospitable,
ice-bound world of Valinda, populated by the Skelt, a
race of hostile aliens who will stop at nothing to
obtain Delia's scientific knowledge. Escaping from the
Skelt - assisted by a friendly chimpanzee-like alien and
a giant spider-crab - she travels south through a
phantasmagorical landscape as the long winter comes to
an end and the short, blistering summer approaches.
Pursued by the Skelt, she and her companions make a
death-defying dash across the planet's inimical equator
to meet up with fellow survivors from the starship, and
a final journey to the valley of Mahkanda - where
salvation just might be awaiting.
ORDER # S817-38 $22-90
ISBN 9781781085516
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Urban
Enemies: Jim Butcher
Villains have all the fun - everyone knows that - and
this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark
side! The top villains from seventeen urban fantasy
series get their own stories - including the baddies of
New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Kevin
Hearne, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan McGuire, and Jonathan
Maberry.
For every hero trying to save the world, there's a
villain trying to tear it all down.
In this can't-miss anthology edited by Joseph Nassise
(The Templar Chronicles), you get to plot world
domination with the best of the evildoers we love to
hate! This outstanding collection brings you stories
told from the villains' point of view, imparting a fresh
and unique take on the evil masterminds, wicked witches,
and infernal personalities that skulk in the pages of
today's most popular series.
ORDER # S817-39 $23-90
ISBN 9781501155086
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Infomocracy:
Malka Older
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since
Information, a powerful search engine monopoly,
pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to
global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party
Heritage has won the last two elections. With another
election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight
contention, and everything's on the line. With power
comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do
right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady
job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election
represents another staging ground in his ongoing
struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a
dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is
a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the
biggest political experiment of all time, when so many
have so much to gain?
ORDER # S817-40 $23-90
ISBN 9780765392367
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The
Best of Bova (Volume 3): Ben Bova
Selected stories from Bova's amazing career at the
center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the
creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour
science fiction series, a six time Hugo award winner,
and past president of the National Space Society.
Volume #3 of 3 of the very best of Ben Bova, a
grandmaster of science fiction storytelling. These
stories span the five decades of Bova's incandescent
career.
Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and
drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending
landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities.
Here you'll also find stories of humanity's astounding
future on Earth, on Mars and in the Solar System beyond
- stories that always get the science right. And Bova's
gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters
are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly
engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians,
and scientists who will make these futures possible -
and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow
are always linked to human values, and human failings,
that are as timeless as the stars.
ORDER # S817-41 $23-90
ISBN 9781481482592
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Blackthorne
(Malorum Gates): Stina Leicht
In this sweeping sequel to the critically acclaimed Cold
Iron - which NPR Books raved, "reminded me,
pleasurably, of Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice
series" - the Kingdom of Eledore has fallen and Nel
and Suvi lead a diaspora of their people to safety, but
the magic that has kept the demon forces away is
dwindling, and they must find a new way to protect
themselves. The Acrasian army has swept through Eledore,
nearly massacring the entire race in fear and hatred of
the magic they possess. This same magic is all that was
keeping the demon incursion at bay, but now the great
evil that was banished is seeping into the world.
Watchers are formed to warn of any sightings of the
demons, but little can be done if one encounters them in
shadow or at night. Meanwhile, Nels leads a precious few
hundred survivors of Eledore through the wilds, hoping
to find solace and rebuild their civilization while his
twin sister, Suvi, seeks allies at sea.
ORDER # S817-42 $25-90
ISBN 9781481427807
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The
Gates of Tagmeth (Kencyrath): P. C. Hodgell
Destruction is in Jame Knorth's nature. Literally. She
is the avatar of of a god known at That-Which-Destroys,
the god of chaos and ruin. Yet Jame is also a noblewoman
within an ancient race, and the designated heir of her
twin brother Torisen Knorth, High Lord of the Kencyrath.
Jame's people are fleeing, world by world, from a
terrible enemy that has pursued them through a multitude
of universes. Its name is Perimal Darkling. Obeying
instructions from her brother, Jame sets out with a
force of Southron warriors to reestablish the
long-fallen castle keep of Tagmeth. By Jame's side is
Lyra, a devious Kencyrath noble girl who is determined
not to be forced into a marriage with a man she
despises. Jame's old friends Mark and Brier Iron-thorn
stand with her, as well: Marc, steward and organizer of
Jame's household and Brier, the only captain under her
command wholly sworn to support Jame no matter the cost.
Jame finds more allies in the forest surrounding the
ancient keep where the wild people of the woodlands, the
Merikit, hold court. And Jame's adopted mother, Gran Cyd,
matriarch and queen of the Merikit, may once again
provide the voice of calm that Jame requires to survive
her own tempestuous nature.
ORDER # S817-43 $23-90
ISBN 9781481482547
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Hex-Rated:
Jason Ridler
Fall, 1970. Los Angeles has always been a den of danger
and bliss, but even darker tidings brew in the City of
Angels. Cults, magic, and the supernatural are leaking
into the worlds of glamour and dives of the gutter. To
the spectators walking down Hollywood Blvd, it's just
more proof that La La Land is over the cuckoo's nest.
But to former child magician and Korean veteran turned
newly-licensed private investigator James Brimstone, it
means business is picking up. After attending his
mentor's funeral, Brimstone signs his first client: Nico,
a beautiful actress with a face full of scars and an
unbelievable story of sex, demons, and violence on the
set of a pornographic film in the San Fernando Valley.
The cops chalk it up to a bad trip from a lost soul, but
Brimstone knows better. He takes the case, but the
investigation goes haywire as he encounters Hell's
Angels, a lost book of Japanese erotica, and a new enemy
whose powers may fill the streets of L.A. with blood.
He'll have to us his Carney wits, magic tricks, and a
whole lotta charm to make it out of a world that is
becoming.
ORDER # S817-44 $22-90
ISBN 9781597809030
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Noumenon:
Marina J. Lostetter
In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond
Earth's solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where
do we go?
Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea. He's
discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the
laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a
deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a
weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The
journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic
talent of the original crew, humankind's greatest
ambition - to explore the furthest reaches of the galaxy
- is undertaken by clones. But a clone is not a perfect
copy, and each new generation has its own quirks,
desires, and neuroses. As the centuries fly by, the
society living aboard the nine ships (designated Convoy
Seven) changes and evolves, but their mission remains
the same: to reach Reggie's mysterious star and explore
its origins - and implications.
ORDER # S817-45 $23-90
ISBN 9780062497840
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Secondborn:
Amy A. Bartol
On Transition Day, the second child in every family is
taken by the government and forced into servitude.
Roselle St. Sismode's eighteenth birthday arrives with
harsh realizations: she's to become a soldier for the
Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the
bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn
mother is happy to see her go. Televised since her early
childhood, Roselle's privileged upbringing has earned
her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Now her
decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her
as a traitor to the state. But Roselle finds an ally -
and more - in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne
Trugrave. As the consequences of her actions ripple
throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a
destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything
she fights for - even love?
ORDER # S817-46 $20-90
ISBN 9781477848357
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Gods
of Dawn: Steve White
Jason Thanou has fought for the continued existence of
humanity across the centuries. As a special operations
officer of the Temporal Regulatory Authority, he's
traveled though time to thwart the Transhumanists -
genetically and mechanically enhanced beings that seek
to destroy humanity - and their alien allies, the Teloi.
But for all his work, the Transhumanist Underground has
never been defeated. In possession of the same time
travel technology as the Temporal Regulatory Authority,
the Transhumanists have been busy planting "time
bombs" throughout recorded history. Time bombs that
are set to go off on The Day, when the secret history
the Transhumanists have planted will be revealed,
resulting in the overthrow of humanity. Now, Jason
Thanou, along with fellow TRA agents Alexandre Mondrago
and Father Julian Casinde, must travel through Earth's
bloody history to ensure the survival of the human race.
They'll find themselves in Italy, two days before the
death of Pope John Paul I. Father Casinde has reason to
believe that something much more sinister than a simple
heart attack is behind the death of the Holy Father.
ORDER # S817-47 $23-90
ISBN 9781481482578
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Crosstalk:
Connie Willis
In the not-too-distant
future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase
empathy between romantic partners has become all the
rage. And Briddey Flannigan is delighted when her
boyfriend, Trent, suggests undergoing the operation
prior to a marriage proposal - to enjoy better emotional
connection and a perfect relationship with complete
communication and understanding. But things don't quite
work out as planned, and Briddey finds herself connected
to someone else entirely - in a way far beyond what she
signed up for. It is almost more than she can handle -
especially when the stress of managing her
all-too-eager-to-communicate-at-all-times family is
already burdening her brain. But that's only the
beginning. As things go from bad to worse, she begins to
see the dark side of too much information, and to
realize that love - and communication - are far more
complicated than she ever imagined.
ORDER # S817-48 $25-90 ISBN
9780345540690
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The
Weight of the World (Amaranthine Spectrum: 02):
Tom Toner
It is the 147th century,
the turning of the Amaranthine new year.
In the provinces of the Old World, the giant Elatine's
war of liberation has come to an impasse, leaving the
wicked monarchy of the First in possession of the
throne. In the Vaulted Lands of the Firmament, acolytes
have risen up to execute their immortal masters. The
opportunistic races of the Prism, intoxicated with
greed, have arrived inside every Solar Satrapy to
scavenge what's left. In the wild Investiture, on a
forgotten water moon, a crew of shipwrecked Privateers
come face to face with their greatest terror, and with
it the most valuable treasure in all the galaxy.
Jatropha, legendary Immortal, must escort his precious
charge through the exotic Westerly Provinces, knowing
all the world would steal her if they could. Sotiris,
his mind fading fast, must set out to find his dear,
drowned sister in a land previously unglimpsed by anyone
but the dead. Lycaste, now far from home, must journey
in strange company to the edge of a tempestuous sea, to
the lair of someone so dangerous that even the legendary
Amaranthine fear his name.
ORDER # S817-49 $23-90 ISBN
9781597808989
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Ex Libris: Stories of
Librarians, Libraries, and Lore: Paula Guran
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 of speculative fiction to pen wonderful tales
woven around them. This captivating compilation of
science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases
stories of librarians-mysterious curators, heroic
bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers of very
special collections-and libraries-repositories of arcane
wisdom, storehouses of signals from other galaxies,
bastions of culture, the last outposts of civilization
in a post-apocalyptic world - grand adventures and small
sagas of the magical places we call libraries and the
wizards who staff them!
ORDER # S817-50 $23-90 ISBN
9781607014898
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Reaping
the Aurora: Joshua Palmatier
In a world torn apart by the shattering of the magical
ley lines that formerly powered all the cities and towns
of the Baronies, there are few havens left for the
survivors. The uncontrolled distortions released by the
shattering have claimed the main cities of the Baronial
Plains. And many of the Wielders who controlled the ley
died in the apocalyptic cataclysm their manipulation of
the ley created. Wielder Kara Tremain and former Dog
Allan Garrett, survivors of the city of Erenthrall's
destruction, have seized control of the new Nexus
created at the distant temple known as the Needle, the
stronghold of the White Cloaks and their leader, Father
Dalton. With Father Dalton a prisoner, Kara intends to
use the Needle's Nexus to heal the major distortions
that threaten to shake their entire world apart. But
while she and the remaining Wielders managed to
stabilize Erenthrall, they have not been able to stop
the auroral storms or the devastating earthquakes
sweeping across the lands. Now they are hoping to find a
means to heal the distortion at the city of Tumbor,
releasing the nodes captured inside. If they succeed,
the ley network should be able to stabilize itself.
ORDER # S817-51 $33-90
ISBN 9780756413286
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Seek
and Destroy (America Rising): William C. Dietz
As people fight to survive the aftereffects of more than
a dozen meteor strikes, a group of wealthy individuals
conspires to rebuild the United States as a corporate
entity called the New Confederacy, where the bottom line
is law. As a second civil war rages, with families
fighting against families on opposite sides, Union
president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep the country
whole. To help in the fight for unity, Union Army
captain Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her crew of
Stryker vehicles are sent after the ruthless
"warlord of warlords," an ex-Green Beret who
rules a large swath of the West. But defeating him will
be even more difficult than she thought. The warlord is
receiving military assistance from Mac's sister - and
rival - Confederate major Victoria Macintyre. And when
the siblings come together in the war-torn streets of
New Orleans, only one of them will walk away.
IORDER # S817-52 $34-90 ISBN 9780425278727
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The
Massacre of Mankind: Stephen Baxter
A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE
WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author
and Wells expert Stephen Baxter
It 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 menace.
Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and
war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The
Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is
prepared. So when the signs of launches on Mars are
seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you
listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of
Wells' book. He is sure that the Martians have learned,
adapted, understood their defeat. He is right. Thrust
into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist -
sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins - must survive, escape
and report on the war. The Massacre of Mankind has
begun.
ORDER # S817-53 $35-90
ISBN 9781524760120
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Monster
Hunter Siege: Larry Correia
When Monster Hunter International's top hunter, Owen
Zastava Pitt, was given a tip about some hunters who had
gone missing in action, he didn't realize their rescue
mission would snowball into the single biggest operation
in MHI's history. Their men are being held prisoner in a
horrific nightmare dimension, and the only way to reach
them is through the radioactive ruins of a
monster-infested war zone. As if that wasn't bad enough,
it's also the home base of the powerful creature behind
the devastating attacks on the Last Dragon and Copper
Lake. It turns out ancient gods of chaos really hate
trespassers. But this god picked a fight with the wrong
crew, and now MHI wants payback. Calling on their
allies, a massive expedition is formed, and with the
odds stacked against them, a legion of hunters goes to
war. It's D-Day at the City of Monsters.
ORDER # S817-54 $33-90
ISBN 9781481482554
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An
Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors: Curtis Craddock
In a world of soaring continents and bottomless skies,
where a burgeoning new science lifts skyships into the
cloud-strewn heights, and ancient blood-borne sorceries
cling to a fading glory, Princess Isabelle des Zephyrs
is about to be married to a man she has barely heard of,
the second son of a dying king in an empire collapsing
into civil war. Born without the sorcery that is her
birthright but with a perspicacious intellect, Isabelle
believes her marriage will stave off disastrous conflict
and bring her opportunity and influence. But the last
two women betrothed to this prince were murdered, and a
sorcerer-assassin is bent on making Isabelle the third.
Aided and defended by her loyal musketeer, Jean-Claude,
Isabelle plunges into a great maze of prophecy,
intrigue, and betrayal, where everyone wears masks of
glamour and lies. Step by dangerous step, she unravels
the lies of her enemies and discovers a truth more
perilous than any deception.
ORDER # S817-55 $33-90
ISBN 9780765389596
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Golden
Age and Other Stories: Naomi Novik
The Temeraire novels provide a window into an alternate
nineteenth century populated with Novik's own richly
human and unforgettably draconic characters as they
adventure alongside well-known historical figures. That
tradition continues here. Readers will delight at
appearances by fan-favorite characters from the series
and historical figures like the famed explorer Matteo
Ricci. In "Planting Season," Novik shows us an
early glimpse of American dragon John Wampanoag at
Boston Harbor. "Golden Age" finds a dragon who
believes he remembers being called Celeste hatch from a
shipwreck-tossed crate onto an island where he meets
others of his kind. But other famous fictional
characters are to be discovered here as well. Readers
will certainly recognize a certain Miss Bennet (here
Captain Bennet) and her suitor, Mr. Darcy, in
"Dragons and Decorum."
ORDER # S817-56 $33-90
ISBN 9781596068292
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