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Starscape Three
Book SynopsisKristen Simmons'' fast-paced, gripping YA dystopian series continues in Three.Ember Miller and Chase Jennings are ready to stop running. After weeks spent in hiding as two of the Bureau of Reformation''s most wanted criminals, they have finally arrived at the safe house, where they hope to live a safe and quiet existence.And all that''s left is smoking ruins. Devastated by the demolition of their last hope, Ember and Chase follow the only thing left to themtracks leading away from the wreckage. The only sign that there may have been survivors. With their high profile, they know they can''t stay out in the open for long. They take shelter in the wilderness and amidst the ruins of abandoned cities as they follow the tracks down the coast, eventually finding refugees from the destroyed safe house. Among them is someone from Chase''s pastsomeone he never thought he''d see again.Banding together, they search for a place to hide, aiming for a
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Tor Publishing Group SHADOWS OF THE NEW SUN
Book SynopsisPerhaps no living author of imaginative fiction has earned the awards, accolades, respect, and literary reputation of Gene Wolfe. In this volume, a select group of Wolfe's fellow authors pay tribute to the award-winning creator of The Book of the New Sun, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Soldier of the Mist, The Wizard Knight and many others.
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Tor Publishing Group Metatropolis
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St Martin's Press Of Tangible Ghosts Ghost Trilogy 1
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Tor Books Fractal Prince
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Tor Publishing Group Hunters of Dune
Book SynopsisBook One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert''s worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert''s classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert''s final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades.At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune--Frank Herbert''s final novel--a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As designed by the creative genius of Frank Herbert, the primary story of Hunters and Sandworms is the exotic odyssey of Duncan''s no-ship as it is forced to elude the diabolical traps set by the ferocious, unknown Enemy. To strengthen their forces, the fugitives have used genetic technology from Scytale, the last Tleilaxu Master, to revive key figures from Dune''s pastincluding Paul Muad''Dib and his beloved Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat, and even Dr. Wellington Yueh. Each of these characters will use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.Failure is unthinkable--not only is their survival at stake, but they hold the fate of the entire human race in their hands.
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Tor Publishing Group Sandworms of Dune
Book SynopsisBook Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert''s worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles At the end of Frank Herbert''s final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune''s past--including Paul Muad''Dib and Lady Jessica--to use their special talents to meet the challenges thrown at them.Based directly on Frank Herbert''s final outline, which lay hidden in two safe-deposit boxes for a decade, Sandworms of Dune will answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades: the origin of the Honored Matres, the tantalizing future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between Man and Machine. This breathtaking new novel in Frank Herbert''s Dune series has enough surprises and plot twists to plea
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Tor Publishing Group Out of the Dark
Book SynopsisThe launch of a new science fiction adventure series--by the New York Times-best selling author of the Safehold series and the Honor Harrington series The Galactic Hegemony has been around a long time, and it likes stability--the kind of stability that member species like the aggressive, carnivorous Shongairi tend to disturb. So when the Hegemony Survey Force encountered a world whose so-called sentients--humans, they called themselves--were almost as bad as the Shongairi themselves, it seemed reasonable to use the Shongairi to neutralize them before they could become a second threat to galactic peace. And if the Shongairi took a few knocks in the process, all the better.Now, Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity''s cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, more than half the human race has died.Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour in Afghanistan,
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Tor Publishing Group The Human Division Old Mans War 5
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Tor Books The Time Travelers Almanac
Book SynopsisThe Time Traveler''s Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century''s worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations.This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu''s Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers).In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth''s history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange an
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Tor Publishing Group Quantum Thief
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Forge One Year After
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Tom Doherty Associates The Final Day
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Tor Publishing Group The Dark Forest
Book SynopsisThe inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North AmericaPRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: A mind-bending epic.The New York Times War of the Worlds for the 21st century.The Wall Street Journal Fascinating.TIME Extraordinary.The New Yorker Wildly imaginative.Barack Obama Provocative.Slate A breakthrough book.George R. R. Martin Impossible to put down.GQ Absolutely mind-unfolding.NPR You should be reading Liu Cixin.The Washington PostThe Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China''s most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries'' time. The aliens'' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth''s defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he''s the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath''s EndOther Books by Cixin LiuBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the SkyThe Wandering EarthA View from the Stars
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St Martin's Press LAST PLANE TO HEAVEN The Final Collection
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Tor Books Too Like the Lightning
Book SynopsisFrom the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer''s 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originalityMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labelling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in mo
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Tor Trade Jumper
Book SynopsisSteven Gould''s sci-fi classic, Jumper--now a major motion picture film starring film Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, and Rachel Bilson. Davy can teleport. He first discovers his talent during a savage beating delivered by his abusive father, when Davy jumps instantaneously to the safest place he knows, his small-town public library. As his mother did so many years before, Davy vows never to go home again. Instead, he sets off, young and inexperienced, for New York City.Davy gradually learns to use and control his powers, first for sheer survival in an environment more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But mere survival is not enough for Davy. He wants to know if his mother disappeared so completely from his life because she, too, could Jump. And as he searches for a trace of anyone else with powers like his own, he learns to use his abilities for more than escape and theft. A young man with nothing to lose, and the ability to go
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Starscape Calculating Stars The A Lady Astronaut Novel 1
Book SynopsisMary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut explores the premise behind her award-winning 'Lady Astronaut of Mars'
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Tor Books GREEN BRAIN
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Tor Books Eternity Eon 2
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Starscape A Borrowed Man
Book SynopsisIn the 22nd century, our civilization has retained many familiar characteristics, but the population is smaller. Technology has made significant advances, and there are robots - and clones. One such is E.A. Smithe, a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library. His personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer.
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Tor Books Lock In
Book SynopsisA blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes Lock In: Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what''s now known as Haden''s syndrome, rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an integrator - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, th
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Tor Books Invisible Planets
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St. Martins Press-3PL The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
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St. Martin's Press Impersonations A Story of the Praxis
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Tor Books Collapsing Empire
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Tor Books The Consuming Fire
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Tor Publishing Group When the Moon Hits Your Eye
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Tor Books The Kaiju Preservation Society
Book SynopsisThe Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi''s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls an animal rights organization. Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.What Tom doesn''t tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm, human-free world. They''re the universe''s largest and most dangerous panda and they''re in trouble. It''s not just the Kaiju Preservation Society who have found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.
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Tor Books The Last Emperox
Book SynopsisThe Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi.The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systemsand billions of peopleare becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through scientific prediction . . . and yet, even as the evidence is obvious and insurmountable, many still try to rationalize, delay and profit from, these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known. Emperox Grayland II has finally wrested control of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of this collapse. But control is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people form impoverished isolation, the forces opposing her
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Tor Publishing Group Starter Villain
Book SynopsisNow a New York Times bestseller!Inheriting your uncle''s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who''s running the place.Charlie''s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn''t all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they''re coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital. It''s up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins,
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Tor Publishing Group Runtime
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St. Martins Press-3PL Emperors Railroad 1 Dreaming Cities 1
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St Martin's Press Binti
Book SynopsisThe concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor''s Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.Far from her village when the conflicts start, Binti hurries home, but anger and resentment has already claimed the lives of many close to her.Once again it is up to Binti, and her intriguing new friend Mwinyi, to intervene--though the elders of her people do not entirely trust her motives--and try to prevent a war that could wipe out her people, once and for all.Don''t miss this essential concluding volume in the Binti trilogy.The Binti SeriesBook 1: BintiBook 2: Binti: HomeBook 3: Binti: T
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Tor Publishing Group Agents of Dreamland
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St Martin's Press Fated Sky The A Lady Astronaut Novel
Book SynopsisThe thrilling continuation of The Calculating Stars.
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Tor.Com The Undefeated
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Destiny Image Pilgrims Progress Part 2 Part II Christiana
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Mira Books Here and Now and Then
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Argo-Navis US The Greatship
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RosettaBooks Against the Fall of Night
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp TV Future
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Wildside Press Brigands of the Moon
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Wildside Press Heavy Planet and Other Science Fiction Stories
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Wildside Press The Lance of Kanana
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Wildside Press The Prince of Graustark
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