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Serpentine
(Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter): Laurell K. Hamilton
A remote Florida island is the perfect wedding
destination for the upcoming nuptials of Anita's fellow
U.S. Marshal and best friend, Edward. For Anita, the
vacation is a welcome break, as it's the first trip she
gets to take with just wereleopards Micah and Nathaniel.
But it's not all fun and games and bachelor parties. In
this tropical paradise, Micah discovers a horrific new
form of lycanthropy, one that has afflicted a single
family for generations. Believed to be the result of an
ancient Greek curse, it turns human bodies into a mass
of snakes. When long-simmering resentment leads to a big
blowp within the wedding party, the last thing Anita
needs is more drama. But it finds her anyway when women
start disappearing from the hotel, and worse, her own
friends and lovers are considered the prime suspects.
ORDER # S819-1 $12-90 ISBN 9781101989005
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Worldshaper (Worldshapers):
Edward Willett
For Shawna Keys, the world is almost perfect. She's just
opened a pottery studio in a beautiful city. She's in
love with a wonderful man. She has good friends. But one
shattering moment of violence changes everything.
Mysterious attackers kill her best friend. They're about
to kill Shawna. She can't believe it's happening - and
just like that, it isn't. It hasn't. No one else
remembers the attack, or her friend. To everyone else,
Shawna's friend never existed. Everyone, that is, except
the mysterious stranger who shows up in Shawna's shop.
He claims her world has been perfect because she Shaped
it to be perfect; that it is only one of uncounted
Shaped worlds in a great Labyrinth; and that all those
worlds are under threat from the Adversary who has now
invaded hers.
ORDER # S819-2 $11-95
ISBN 9780756413477
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Into
the Hourglass (Evermore): Emily R. King
Everley Donovan's mission: retrieve the hallowed sword
of Avelyn stolen by the wicked Prince Killian, who
slayed her family and left her for dead. Should she
fail, the seven worlds will come to an end, as could
time itself. And no one treasures time more than
Everley, whose lifesaving clock heart cannot beat
forever. She has set sail with a rogue crew for the
otherworlds, where the key to dethroning the prince lies
deep within the Land Under the Wave. But passage through
these unknown seas - where horrors lurk and pirates rove
- proves a treacherous gamble. The Land Under the Wave
was not made for humans, particularly one with a fragile
clock heart. Here, Everley's tragic past resurfaces
unsolved questions. Here, too, the prince has hidden
secrets more precious than pearls, secrets that could
fracture the future forevermore. Everley must take back
her sword and break free from this watery world before
her time runs out - or so will everyone else's.
ORDER # S819-3 $13-90
ISBN 9781542043946
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Alternate Routes: Tim Powers
Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways
- phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes
unmarked offramps that give glimpses of a desolate
desert highway. Sebastian Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret
Service agent, is a driver for a covert
supernatural-evasion car service. But another government
agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway
anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery
killed because of something he learned years ago at a
halted Presidential motorcade. Reluctantly aided by
Ingrid Castine, a member of that agency, a homeless
Mexican boy, and a woman who makes her living costumed
as Supergirl on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese
Theater, Vickery learns what legendary hell it is that
the desert highway leads to. When Castine deliberately
drives into it to save him from capture, he must enter
it himself to get her out.
ORDER # S819-4 $11-95
ISBN 9781481484275
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The Haunting of Drearcliff
Grange School: Kim Newman
Amy Thomsett - the girl who flies on moth wings - is
confident she can solve any mystery, sleuth out any
secret and defy any dark force. With her friends in the
Moth Club she travels to London to take part in the
Great Game, a contest of skill against other institutes
of learning. In a nightmare, and in the cellars of a
house in Piccadilly, Amy glimpses a spectre who might
have dogged her all her life, the Broken Doll. Wherever
the limping ghost is seen, terror strikes. And the
lopsided, cracked-face, glass-eyed creature might well
be the most serious threat the Moth Club have ever
faced.
ORDER # S819-5 $11-95
ISBN 9781785658853
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Restless
Lightning (Breaker of Empires: 02): Richard Baker
Lieutenant Sikander North has avoided an outright court
martial and finds himself assigned to a remote outpost
in the crumbling, alien Tzoru Empire - where the navy
sends trouble-makers to be forgotten. When Sikander
finds himself in the middle of an alien uprising, he,
once again, must do the impossible: smuggle an alien
ambassador off-world, break a siege, and fight the
irrational prejudice of his superior officers. The odds
are against his success, and his choices could mean
disgrace - or redemption.
ORDER # S819-6 $11-95
ISBN 9781250303868
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Her
Majesty's American: Steve White
In an alternate future where the British empire never
crumbled, the space ships of Her Majesty's Navy work to
keep the spaceways safe. Commander Robert Rogers of the
Royal Space Navy is a defense intelligence officer known
for his unconventional ways. Rogers is American
born-and-raised, a loyal citizen of the Viceroyalty of
North America. He's a descendant of the founder of the
highly effective, pro-British Rogers' Rangers during the
Colonial unpleasantries of 1776, and he's inherited his
ancestor's intelligence and drive in spades. But there
are those among the stars who are not so happy being
subjects of the British Empire. In the Tau Ceti system,
a cauldron of trouble brews as a terrorist faction of
the rebellious Sons of Arnold attacks the empire from
within, and warships of the theocratic Caliphate enters
the system, prepared to do their worse to destroy the
hated empire head on. Yet standing against the coming
anarchy and tyranny is one intrepid spy prepared to risk
all for queen and empire.
ORDER # S819-7 $11-95
ISBN 9781481484299
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Twelve
Kings in Sharakhai: Bradley P. Beaulieu
Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of
commerce and culture, has been ruled from time
immemorial by twelve kings - cruel, ruthless, powerful,
and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their
elite company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders,
the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions
as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is
no hope of freedom for any under their rule. Or so it
seems, until Ceda, a brave young woman from the west end
slums, defies the Kings' laws by going outside on the
holy night of Beht Zha'ir. What she learns that night
sets her on a path that winds through both the terrible
truths of the Kings' mysterious history and the hidden
riddles of her own heritage. Together, these secrets
could finally break the iron grip of the Kings' power -
if the nigh-omnipotent Kings don't find her first.
ORDER # S819-8 $12-90
ISBN 9780756409739
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Night and Silence (October
Daye): Seanan McGuire
In the aftermath of Amandine's latest betrayal, October
"Toby" Daye's fragile self-made family is on
the verge of coming apart at the seams. Jazz can't
sleep, Sylvester doesn't want to see her, and worst of
all, Tybalt has withdrawn from her entirely, retreating
into the Court of Cats as he tries to recover from his
abduction. Toby is floundering, unable to help the
people she loves most heal. She needs a distraction. She
needs a quest. What she doesn't need is the abduction of
her estranged human daughter, Gillian. What she doesn't
need is to be accused of kidnapping her own child by her
ex-boyfriend and his new wife, who seems to be harboring
secrets of her own. There's no question of whether
she'll take the case. The only question is whether she's
emotionally prepared to survive it.
ORDER # S819-9 $11-95
ISBN 9780756410384
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Target Rich Environment:
Larry Correia
Hard-hitting Stories from the Creator of Monster Hunter
International. The first short story collection from
nationally best-selling author Larry Correia.
Larry Correia, the New York Times best-selling author of
the wildly popular Monster Hunter International and
Grimnoir Chronicles series of no-holds-barred urban
fantasy and the Dead Six trilogy of military adventure
novels, now sets his sights on the short story form.
Together for the first time, fourteen action-packed
tales of demons, monster, vampires, and cosmic horrors
too terrible to name - and the men and women who take
them all down. Oh, and toss in an interdimensional
insurance salesman for good measure.
ORDER # S819-10 $12-90
ISBN 9781481484282
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Oathbringer
(Stormlight Archive:03): Brandon Sanderson
Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at
a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the
violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with
destruction, and in its passing awakens the once
peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their
millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a
desperate flight to warn his family of the threat,
Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact
that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be
wholly justified. Nestled in the mountains high above
the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar
investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of
the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in
its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission
to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in
scope.
ORDER # S819-11 $14-90
ISBN 9780765365293
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Spaceside
(Planetside): Michael Mammay
Following his mission on Cappa, Colonel Carl Butler
returns to a mixed reception. To some he is a do-or-die
war hero. To the other half of the galaxy he's a pariah.
Forced into retirement, he has resettled on Talca Four
where he's now Deputy VP of Corporate Security,
protecting a high-tech military company on the corporate
battlefield - at least, that's what the job description
says. Really, he's just there to impress clients and
investors. It's all relatively low risk - until he's
entrusted with new orders. A breach of a competitor's
computer network has Butler's superiors feeling every
bit as vulnerable. They need Butler to find who did it,
how, and why no one's taken credit for the ingenious
attack.
ORDER # S819-12 $11-95
ISBN 9780062694683
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Blood
Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat: Anne Rice
In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw,
addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately,
and passionately, telling the mesmerizing story of the
formation of the Blood Communion and how he became
prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast
realm, and how his vision for all the Children of the
Universe to thrive as one came to be. The story spills
from Lestat's heart, as he speaks first of his new
existence as reigning monarch - and then of his fierce
battle of wits and words with the mysterious
Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the Millennia, reviled
outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary
ancient vampire Maharet, avowed enemy of Queen Akasha.
ORDER # S819-13 $24-90
ISBN 9780525433927
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Best
of British Science Fiction 2018: Alastair Reynolds
Twenty-six stories, selected by editor Donna Scott from
disparate places, that represent some of the best SF
published anywhere in 2018; dreamlike glimpses of
pristine worlds that will destroy us before we destroy
them; stories of work-based friendships, mistrust and
isolation; of alienation and othering; stories of
slavery given an acceptable face through beautiful voice
and the ever-present need to keep fighting injustice;
stories of bodily choice being made a crime; stories of
rebellions we thought we'd already had but need to have
again. We have another end to childhood. And we have the
murder of story itself, involving an AI.
ORDER # S819-14 $24-90
ISBN 9781912950362
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Terra
Nova: The Wars of Liberation: Tom Kratman
"Send us your tired, your poor," says the
inscription at the base of the great statue, "your
huddled masses yearning to be free."
But the future of the colony planet, Terra Nova, and its
relations with Old Earth is far more a case of
"boot out your tired, your poor, your dissidents
and troublemakers. Use us for a dumping ground for all
your problems. Go ahead and abandon these here."
This may have been fine, too, but for the UN and its
corrupt bureaucracy insisting on maintaining control and
milking the new world and its settlers, willing and
unwilling both, bone dry.
Contained herein are tales of the history of Mankind's
future first colony, from the first failed attempt at
colonization, to the rise in crime, to the rise in
terrorism, to its descent into widespread civil war and
rebellion - and ultimately liberation. As with most of
human history, this history is messy, with good men and
women turning bad, bad men and women inadvertently doing
good, and blood flowing in the streets.
ORDER # S819-15 $24-90
ISBN 9781481484169
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Here
and Now and Then: Mike Chen
Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT,
trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to
connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his
current life is a far cry from his previous career - as
a time-traveling secret agent from 2142. Stranded in
suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched
mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone
around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory
loss affecting his time-traveler's brain. Until one
afternoon, his "rescue" team arrives -
eighteen years too late. Their mission: return Kin to
2142, where he's been gone only weeks, not years, and
where another family is waiting for him. A family he
can't remember.
ORDER # S819-16 $24-90
ISBN 9780778308980
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Jumpship
Hope: Adria Laycraft
Humanity has fled the planet, establishing bases
off-world. But disaster has struck the food crops of
Luna Base, leaving the Orbitals starving, and Mars
Colony ignores their pleas for aid.
Hot-headed pilot Janlin Kavanagh will do anything to
save her friends, so when SpaceOp captain Stepper Jordan
proposes a sketchy plan to save their people, she
immediately volunteers. Anything is better than slow
starvation, even a risky voyage to an alien solar system
in a ship with unproven Jump technology. The mission
faces unexpected dangers, and the mettle of Janlin and
her crew is tested, against each other and the strange,
new species they encounter. Can Janlin overcome mistrust
and betrayal to salvage the mission and restore hope to
her friends and herself?
ORDER # S819-17 $26-90
ISBN 9781989407035
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Vallista
(Vlad): Steven Brust
Vlad Taltos is an Easterner - an underprivileged human
in an Empire of tall, powerful, long-lived Dragaerans.
He made a career for himself in House Jhereg, the
Dragaeran clan in charge of the Empire's organized
crime. But the day came when the Jhereg wanted Vlad
dead, and he's been on the run ever since. He has plenty
of friends among the Dragaeran highborn, including an
undead wizard and a god or two. But as long as the
Jhereg have a price on his head, Vlad's life is - messy.
Meanwhile, for years, Vlad's path has been repeatedly
crossed by Devera, a small Dragaeran girl of
indeterminate powers who turns up at the oddest moments
in his life.
ORDER # S819-18 $27-90
ISBN 9781250208491
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The
Hole in the Moon and Other Tales by Margaret St. Clair:
St. Clair
American science fiction author Margaret St. Clair (1911
- 95) wrote more than 100 short stories as well as eight
novels. Many of her stories appeared in such pulp
magazines as Fantastic Adventures and Startling Stories,
some under her own name and some under the pseudonyms
Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazard. Introduced and edited
by horror fiction great Ramsey Campbell, this newly
assembled anthology is the only collection in print
featuring short stories by the pioneering science
fiction writer.
Seventeen tales showcase St. Clair's ironic sense of
humor and explore social and philosophical themes.
ORDER # S819-19 $23-90
ISBN 9780486805627
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The
Girls With Kaleidoscope Eyes: Analog Stories for a
Digital Age: Howard V Hendrix
Ranging from flash to full novella lengths, the ten
pieces featured here include stories about time travel
and the 1939 World's Fair, a tendentious man/dog
relationship on Mars, a spam-blocker program that
incidentally shuts down the universe, giant artworks
among the nearly immortal, Einstein channeled by a
fortune teller, Big Data meets March Madness, and
enhanced bonobos trying to re-create Shakespeare's lost
play Cardenio. Hendrix's stories transcend time and show
us the futures the human race yet may face, in the
digital age and beyond.
ORDER # S819-20 $27-90
ISBN 9781933846774
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Echoes: Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories:
Ellen Datlow
The essential collection of beloved ghost stories,
compiled by the editor who helped define the genre -
including stories from award-winning, bestselling
authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan
McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.
Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen
Datlow - the most lauded editor in short works of
supernatural suspense and dark fantasy. The Saga
Anthology of Ghost Stories is her definitive collection
of ghost stories.
These twenty-nine stories, including all new works from
New York Times bestselling authors Joyce Carol Oates,
Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay, span
from the traditional to the eclectic, from the
mainstream to the literary, from pure fantasy to the
bizarrely supernatural. Whether you're reading alone
under the covers with a flashlight, or around a campfire
with a circle of friends, there's something here to
please - and spook - everyone.
ORDER # S819-21 $31-90
ISBN 9781534413474
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The
Antares Maelstrom (Star Trek): Greg Cox
The final frontier erupts into chaos as vast quantities
of a rare energy source are discovered beneath the
surface of Baldur-3, a remote planet beyond the outer
fringes of Federation space. Now an old-fashioned
"gold rush" is underway as a flood of would-be
prospectors, from countless worlds and species, races
toward the planet to stake their claim. The galactic
stampede threatens the stability of neighboring planets
and space stations, as widespread strife and sabotage
and all-around pandemonium result in a desperate need
for Starfleet assistance. Captain James T. Kirk and the
crew of the Starship Enterprise are dispatched to deal
with the escalating crisis - which lies on the other
side of a famously perilous region of space known as the
Antares Maelstrom.
ORDER # S819-22 $24-90
ISBN 9781982113209
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Mage
Against the Machine: Shaun Barger
The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have
retreated from the world after a madman blew up
civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe
within domes that protect them from the nuclear
wasteland on the other side, the mages have spent the
last century putting their lives back together.
Nikolai is obsessed with artifacts from
twentieth-century human life: mage-crafted replica Chuck
Taylors on his feet, Schwarzenegger posters on his
walls, Beatlemania still alive and well in his head. But
he's also tasked with a higher calling - to maintain the
Veils that protect mage-kind from the hazards of the
wastes beyond. As a cadet in the Mage King's army, Nik
has finally found what he always wanted - a purpose. But
when confronted by one of his former instructors gone
rogue, Nik tumbles into a dark secret. The humans
weren't nuked into oblivion - they're still alive. Not
only that, outside the domes a war rages between the
last enclaves of free humans and vast machine
intelligences.
ORDER # S819-23 $27-90
ISBN 9781534403055
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The
Emperor's Fist: Jay Allan
When the Far Stars came under imperial attack, Astra
Lucerne - the daughter and successor of the Far Stars'
greatest conqueror - Marshal Augustin Lucerne - rallied
her father's confederation forces to defend their
worlds. They were joined in the fight by former imperial
general Arkarin Blackhawk, a warrior whose skills and
brutality made him infamous, and who has, for two
decades, sought the redemption he knows is unreachable.
Now, with the imperial foothold in the sector
eliminated, the Far Stars is free and almost united.
While Astra's forces continue to depose local tyrants
and warlords, Ark and his crew have slipped back into
the shadows. Though his heart belongs to Astra, Ark
cannot get too close. His imperial conditioning remains
under control, but it is still volatile, and the
temptation of power threatens to unleash the dark
compulsions that made him the most merciless of the
emperor's servants. He cannot risk allowing Astra to see
the darkness inside him.
ORDER # S819-24 $27-90
ISBN 9780062566867
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The
Hound of Justice: Claire O'Dell
Dr. Janet Watson and former covert agent Sarah Holmes,
introduced in the acclaimed A Study in Honor, continue
their dangerous investigation into the new American
Civil War with the help of fresh allies, advanced
technology, and brilliant deduction in this superb
reimagining of Sherlock Holmes. It's been two months
since Dr. Janet Watson accepted an offer from Georgetown
University Hospital. The training for her new high-tech
arm is taking longer than expected, however, leaving her
in limbo. Meanwhile, her brilliant friend and
compatriot, Sara Holmes, has been placed on leave -
punishment forgoing rogue during their previous
adventure. Neither is taking their situation very well.
Then an extremist faction called the Brotherhood of
Redemption launches an assassination attempt on the
president. The attempt fails but causes mass destruction
- fifty dead and hundreds more injured, and Holmes takes
on the task of investigating the Brotherhood.
ORDER # S819-25 $27-90
ISBN 9780062699336
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Relics
- The Edge: Tim Lebbon
There exists a secret and highly illegal trade in
mythological creatures and their artifacts. Certain
individuals pay fortunes for a sliver of a satyr's hoof,
a gryphon's claw, a basilisk's scale, or an angel's
wing. Embroiled in the hidden world of the Relics,
creatures known as the Kin, Angela Gough is now on the
run in the United States. Forty years ago the town of
Longford was the site of a deadly disease outbreak that
wiped out the entire population. The infection was
contained, the town isolated, and the valley in which it
sits flooded and turned into a reservoir. The truth -
that the outbreak was intentional, and not every
resident of Longford died - disappeared beneath the
waves. Now the town is revealed again. The Kin have an
interest in the ruins, and soon the fairy Grace and the
Nephilim leader Mallian are also drawn to them. The
infection has risen from beneath silent waters, and this
forgotten town becomes the focus of the looming battle
between humankind and the Kin.
ORDER # S819-26 $23-90
ISBN 9781785650321
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Star
Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War: John Miller
Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the
United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire,
Captain Christopher Pike attempts to bring the U.S.S.
Enterprise home to join in the fight. But in the hellish
nebula known as the Pergamum, the stalwart commander
instead finds an epic battle of his own, pitting ancient
enemies against one another - with not just the
Enterprise, but her crew as the spoils of war. Lost and
out of contact with Earth for an entire year, Pike and
his trusted first officer, Number One, struggle to find
and reunite the ship's crew - all while Science Officer
Spock confronts a mystery that puts even his exceptional
skills to the test - with more than their own survival
possibly riding on the outcome.
ORDER # S819-27 $24-90
ISBN 9781982113315
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Gears
of War: Ascendance: Jason M. Hough
Following Reyna Diaz's death at the hands of the Swarm
(in Gears of War 4), Kait seals her mother's tomb and
swears revenge. As she, JD, Del, Marcus, Cole, Samantha,
and Baird lick their wounds and resupply, First Minister
Jinn summons them to New Ephyra, promising that the
"crimes" they committed will be forgiven.
Before they can rejoin the Coalition, however, Jinn
demands proof of their loyalty, and of the threat of the
Swarm. Promised a new command, JD and Del agree. Plagued
by nightmares, Kait rebels and refuses. When she
discovers that two teens from her devastated village
have survived, she goes rogue and strikes out to rescue
them, accompanied by Marcus Fenix.
ORDER # S819-28 $23-90
ISBN 9781789092615
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An
Absolutely Remarkable Thing: Hank Green
Roaming through New York City at three a.m.,
twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant
sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship
- like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of
samurai armor - April and her best friend, Andy, make a
video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next
day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life.
News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of
cities around the world - from Beijing to Buenos Aires -
and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself
at the center of an intense international media
spotlight. Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on
the world, April now has to deal with the consequences
her new particular brand of fame has on her
relationships, her safety, and her own identity. And all
eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls
are, but what they want from us.
ORDER # S819-29 $24-90
ISBN 9781524743468
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They're
Raping Our Moon And Other Tales Of A Near Future: B. B.
Irvine
THEY'RE RAPING OUR MOON: Two weeks before the American
inauguration in January 2017, a flash of light in the
distant Kuiper Belt heralds the approach of an
"Anomalous Natural Object" heading toward
Earth, setting off a crisis in America and across the
globe. Astronomer Pauline Theodorakis, PhD, is one of
the first to see it, using a 1.2 meter telescope at a
very small observatory in southwestern New York state.
Deciphering its intent is critical, but is a response
possible? Or does the world stand by even as the new
incoming president-elect tweets, "They're raping
our Moon."The question on everyone's mind: Where
will the Object go next?
THE ZIPPER ZAPPER: An Almighty Widgets Corp product
tester must outwit the latest "smartjacket" he
wears before it kills him. RENEWALSA man's brain keeps
getting new bodies to live in as decades pass.
ORDER # S819-30 $29-90
ISBN 9781543975147
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Xeelee:
Redemption: Stephen Baxter
Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape.
This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history
without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to
built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a
radius ten thousand times Earth's orbital distance. It
is a light year in circumference. If it was set in the
solar system it would be out in the Oort Cloud, among
the comets - but circling the sun. If it was at rest it
would have a surface area equivalent to about thirty
billion Earths. But it is not at rest: it rotates at
near lightspeed. And because of relativistic effects,
distances are compressed for inhabitants of the Belt,
and time drastically slowed. The purpose of the Belt is
to preserve a community of Xeelee into the very far
future, when they will be able to tap dark energy, a
universe-spanning antigravity field, for their own
purposes. But with time the Belt has attracted
populations of lesser species, here for the immense
surface area, the unending energy flows. Poole, Miriam
and their party, having followed the Ghosts, must
explore the artefact and survive encounters with its
strange inhabitants - before Poole, at last, finds the
Xeelee who led the destruction of Earth.
ORDER # S819-31 $24-90
ISBN 9781473217232
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The
Shattered Trident: Richard Phillips
What chance does a young woman stand against the world's
supreme evil? Lorness Carol Rafel was prophesied to
destroy the unfathomably dangerous Kragan. But as the
magic wielder's monstrous horde marches on Endar Pass,
razing everything in its wake, Carol fears that Kragan
is not only unstoppable but that he has risen from his
tomb more powerful than ever. For Kragan, knowing the
millennia-old prophecy is his greatest weapon. He has
shielded himself from attack with primordial and
insidious magics that serve him well, and if he finds
the fragments of an ancient trident, it will grant him
godhood. Only one thing stands in his way: the woman
foreordained to destroy him. Now, stirred by visions of
a doomed future, Carol and her companions must risk
their very souls and sanity to defeat the tyrant mage.
However, in the face of Kragan's machinations, their
seeming triumph over the enemy might seal the land's
catastrophic fate.
ORDER # S819-32 $24-90
ISBN 9781542007337
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Cry
Pilot: Joel Dane
A devastated Earth. Rogue bio-weapons. And a recruit
with secrets. In this explosive new military science
fiction novel, a tight-knit infantry squad is thrown
into battle against a mysterious enemy that appears
without warning and strikes without mercy.
There's only one way for a man with Maseo Kaytu's
secrets to join the military: by volunteering for a
suicide mission as a 'cry pilot'. He cheats the system
to survive, but you can't fake basic training. Assigned
to a squad of misfits, Kaytu learns how to fight, how to
obey, and how to trust. Yet the more he bonds with his
fellow recruits, the more he risks exposure of his
criminal past. Keeping his secret is about to become the
least of his problems. Kaytu discovers that his platoon
is being deployed against a new kind of rogue
bio-weapon. One that has torn apart every military force
it's ever faced.
ORDER # S819-33 $26-90
ISBN 9781984802521
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Hour
of the Horde: Gordon R. Dickson
The ravenous aliens known as the Horde make their way
across the Universe like locusts, stripping bare entire
galaxies and leaving death and destruction in their
wake. Now, they stand on the edge of the Milky Way. It
seems all is lost, but the denizens of our galaxy are
not content to give up without a fight. To that end, a
galaxy-wide defense force has been assembled, with each
star system contributing their greatest warrior to the
battle. Enter Miles Vander, the best a tiny backwater
like Earth has to offer. Vander may be the key to
destroying the Horde. But first he'll have to prove his
worthiness to his alien compatriots.
A classic of military sf from Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning master of science fiction Gordon R.
Dickson.
ORDER # S819-34 $24-90
ISBN 9781481484176
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Wourism
And Other Stories (Harvester): Ian Whates
A war-zone theme park; sentient suns; an intelligent car
AI with ulterior motives; an enigmatic scent heralding
imminent death.
These are just some of the intriguing themes explored in
this collection from Ian Whates. Bringing together for
the first time a decade-spanning selection of Whates'
heralded short stories, including three all-new tales,
this is a must-read for fans of intelligent speculative
fiction.
ORDER # S819-35 $17-90
ISBN 9781911143758
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After:
Prescott, John
Alex heard the reports on
the nightly news. Threats of nuclear Armageddon were
becoming ominously commonplace. Still, he never thought
he'd live to see the day that the rhetoric became
reality. He thought wrong. Now Alex ventures into a
world he does not know. He will try to find his father,
who might yet live, and his mother, who surely couldn't
have survived, in the After.
ORDER # S819-36 $23-90 ISBN
9781949645651
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Meet
Me in the Future: Stories: Hurley,
Kameron
When renegade author
Kameron Hurley ( The Light Brigade; The Stars Are
Legion) takes you to the future, be prepared for the
unexpected. Yes, it will be dangerous, frequently
brutal, and often devastating. But it's also savagely
funny, deliriously strange, and absolutely brimming with
adventure.
In these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping
mercenary avenges his pet elephant, and an orphan falls
in love with a sentient starship. Fighters ally to power
a reality-bending engine, and a swamp-dwelling introvert
tries to save the world - from her plague-casting former
wife. So come meet Kameron Hurley in the future. The
version she's created here is weirder - and far more
hopeful - than you could ever imagine.
ORDER # S819-37 $27-90 ISBN
9781616962968
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Do
You Dream of Terra-Two?: Oh, Temi
(Author)
A century ago, an
astronomer discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a
nearby star. She predicted that one day humans would
travel there to build a utopia. Today, ten astronauts
are leaving everything behind to find it. Four are
veterans of the twentieth century's space-race. And six
are teenagers who've trained for this mission most of
their lives. It will take the team twenty-three years to
reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years locked in close
quarters. Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but
each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible,
should something go wrong.
And something always goes wrong.
ORDER # S819-38 $27-90 ISBN
9781534437401
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Jaunt
( Jauntworld #1): Kreffel, Erik J
Three caches of enigmatic
jewels are discovered in Asia, artifacts from an
extraterrestrial crash that bear a disturbing capability
to alter time. Special Agent James Gilmour must overcome
his distrust of his assignment and travel through space
and time to prevent the Russian-led Confederation of
Independent States from assembling a temporal
superweapon from these jewels to conquer not just the
world, but history itself.
Deep in the Pacific Ocean, the alien spacecraft has been
waiting two centuries for this moment, when humanity
finally awakens to a greater destiny. But the
Confederation has an evil scheme of its own: Strela,
continent-destorying supermissiles that can bring the
spacecraft's secrets home to Russia. A new World War -
and World Order - is imminent. If Gilmour succeeds, no
one will know. If he fails, no one will be around to
know.
ORDER # S819-39 $28-90 ISBN
9780983331735
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Bursts
of Fire (Addicted to Heaven): Susan Forest
The Falkyn sisters bear a burden and a legacy. Their
mother, the imperial magiel of the kingdom of Orumon,
protects her people from the horrors of the afterlife by
calling upon the Gods with a precious Prayer Stone. But
war among the kingdoms has brought fire and destruction
to their sheltered world. When a mad king's desire to
destroy the Prayer Stones shatters their family, the
three girls are scattered to the wilderness, relying on
their wits and powers they don't yet master. Assassin.
Battle tactician. Magic wielder. Driven by different
ambitions, Meg, Janat, and Rennika are destined to
become all these and more. To reclaim their birth right,
they must overcome doubtful loyalties within a rising
rebellion; more, they must challenge a dogma-driven
chancellor's influence on the prince raised to inherit
his father's war: a prince struggling to unravel the
mystery of his brother's addiction to Heaven.
To survive. To fight. To restore balance.
ORDER # S819-40 $35-90
ISBN 9781988140117
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The
Gossamer Mage: Julie E. Czerneda
Only in Tananen do people worship a single deity: the
Deathless Goddess. Only in this small, forbidden realm
are there those haunted by words of no language known to
woman or man. The words are Her Gift, and they summon
magic. Mage scribes learn to write Her words as
intentions: spells to make beasts or plants, designed to
any purpose. If an intention is flawed, what the mage
creates is a gossamer: a magical creature as wild and
free as it is costly for the mage. For Her Gift comes at
a steep price. Each successful intention ages a mage
until they dare no more. But her magic demands to be
used; the Deathless Goddess will take her fee, and mages
will die. To end this terrible toll, the greatest mage
in Tananen vows to find and destroy Her. He has yet to
learn She is all that protects Tananen from what waits
outside. And all that keeps magic alive.
ORDER # S819-41 $35-90
ISBN 9780756408909
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Monster
Hunter Guardian: Larry Correia & Sarah A. Hoyt
When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter
International crew are called away to mount a
month's-long rescue mission in a monster-infested
nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford - Owen's wife and
descendant of MHI founder Bubba Shackleford - is left
behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of
her new baby son Ray. Julie's devoted to the little guy,
but the slow pace of office work and maternity leave are
starting to get to her. But when a routine field call
brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling
itself Brother Death, she'll get more excitement than
she ever hoped for. Julie is the Guardian of a powerful
ancient artifact known as the Kamaresh Yar, and Brother
Death wants it. In the wrong hands, it could destroy
reality as we know it. Julie would die before giving it
up. Then Ray goes missing, taken by Brother Death. The
price for his safe return: the Kamaresh Yar. If Julie
doesn't hand over the artifact it means death - or worse
- for baby Ray. With no other choice left to her, Julie
agrees to Brother Death's demands. But when you're
dealing with an ancient evil, the devil is in the
details.
ORDER # S819-42 $33-90
ISBN 9781481484145
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The
Cruel Stars: John Birmingham
The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a group of
"species purists" intent on destroying any
human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements.
Fashioning themselves as the one true "Human
Republic," the Sturm cut a bloody swath across the
stars, killing billions before finally being defeated
and driven into the far reaches of Dark Space. Centuries
of peace bred complacency. Everyone believed the Sturm
had died out in the Dark. They were wrong. The enemy has
returned and, with a brutal and decisive attack, knocks
out almost all of humanity's defenses. Now on the brink
of annihilation, humankind's only hope is a few brave
souls who survived the initial attack: Commander Lucinda
Hardy, thrust into uncertain command of the Royal
Armadalen Navy's only surviving warship. Booker3, a
soldier of Earth, sentenced to die for treason, whose
time on death row is cut short when the Sturm attack his
prison compound.
ORDER # S819-43 $35-90
ISBN 9780399593314
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The
Autobiography of Mr. Spock: David A. Goodman
"The Autobiography of Mr. Spock" tells the
story of one of Starfleet's finest officers, and one the
Federations most celebrated citizens. Half human and
half Vulcan, the book, written in Spock's own words,
follows his difficult childhood on the planet Vulcan;
his controversial enrollment at Starfleet Academy; his
adventures with Captain Kirk and the crew of the
Starship Enterprise; his diplomatic triumphs with the
Klingons and Romulans; and his death and amazing
resurrection on the Genesis Planet. We meet the friends
he's made, the women he loved, and experience the
triumphs and tragedies of a life and career that spanned
a century. Despite his alien blood, his struggle to find
his place in the universe is one we can all relate to.
ORDER # S819-44 $33-90
ISBN 9781785654664
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William
Gibson's Alien 3: William Gibson
This is the official adaptation of the original
screenplay for Alien 3, written by William Gibson, the
award-winning science fiction author of the cyberpunk
cult classic Neuromancer. You'll see familiar characters
and places - but not all is the same in this horrifying
Cold War thriller!
After the deadly events of the film Aliens, the
spaceship Sulaco carrying the sleeping bodies of Ripley,
Hicks, Newt, and Bishop are intercepted by the Union of
Progressive Peoples. What the U.P.P forces don't expect
is another deadly passenger that is about to unleash
chaos between two governmental titans intent on
developing the ultimate cold war weapon of mass
destruction.
ORDER # S819-45 $29-90
ISBN 9781506708119
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The
Mage-Fire War (Saga of Recluce): Modesitt L. E.
Once again, prejudices against the use of chaos magic
force Beltur and his companions to flee their refuge in
Axalt. The rulers of nearby Montgren have offered them
sanctuary and the opportunity to become the Councilors
of the run-down and disintegrating town of Haven.
Montegren lacks any mages - white or black - making this
seem like the perfect opportunity to start again.
However, Beltur and the others must reinstitute law and
order, rebuild parts of the town, deal with brigands -
and thwart an invading army.
ORDER # S819-46 $39-90
ISBN 9781250207821
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