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St Martin's Press Mentats of Dune
£16.99
Tor Publishing Group Through Fiery Trials
£18.99
Tor Publishing Group Chaos
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St Martin's Press When the Moon Hits Your Eye
£13.86
St Martin's Press The Forest on the Edge of Time
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£17.00
Flatiron Books Saltcrop
£24.75
Tor Nightfire Crawlspace
£10.54
St Martin's Press RoseHouse
£13.59
St Martin's Press Dune The Battle of Corrin
£20.79
Tor Publishing Group Dune The Butlerian Jihad
£22.00
St. Martins Press-3PL Pillar to the Sky
£12.34
Tor Publishing Group Lost Ark Dreaming
£9.99
Tor Publishing Group The Past Is Red
£8.99
Tor Publishing Group Company Town
£13.60
Tor Publishing Group Out of the Dark
£12.34
St. Martins Press-3PL Into the Light
£15.19
St. Martins Press-3PL How Firm a Foundation
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Tor Publishing Group Burning Paradise
£11.39
St. Martins Press-3PL Unnatural Life
Book SynopsisAn A.I. battles through a tense legal drama in this interplanetary tale of identity and responsibility.
£11.39
Tor Books To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Book SynopsisNow a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! Winner of Best Science Fiction in the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards!To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.Now she''s awakened a nightmare.During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she''s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn''t at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity''s
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Tor Publishing Group The Expert Systems Champion
Book SynopsisIn Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Expert System's Champion, sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save you.
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St Martin's Press Wild Massive
Book SynopsisScotto Moore''s Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty.Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person.But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the
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Tor Nightfire Overgrowth
Book SynopsisInvasion of the Body Snatchers meets Day of the Triffids in this full-on body horror/alien invasion apocalypse. This is just a story. It can''t hurt you anymore. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she''s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her. Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it''s already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia''s biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child. What happens when you know what?s coming, and just refuse to listen?
£22.49
Tor Publishing Group Light Chaser
£10.44
Tor Books Ender in Exile
Book SynopsisAfter twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed bestselling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender''s Game.In Ender''s Game, the world''s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training academy. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.After the life-changing events of those years, these childrennow teenagersmust leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world.Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for yearswhere do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he''s ever known to beg
£16.19
Tor Books Sword Citadel
Book SynopsisA major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping. The New York Times on The Book of the New SunThis new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning.Gene Wolfe has been called the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced by the Washington Post.THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis by Publishers Weekly and one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s
£17.99
St Martin's Press Sisters of the Forsaken Stars
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St Martin's Press Hard Reboot
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£10.44
St. Martins Press-3PL In the Watchful City
£9.99
Tor Publishing Group Exo
£18.99
Tor Books The Wandering Earth
Book SynopsisFrom New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix.These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu''s fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger fates than we could have ever imagined.With a melancholic and keen understanding of human nature, Liu''s stories show humanity''s attempts to reason, navigate, and above all, survive in a desolate cosmos.
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St Martin's Press Axioms End
Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe alternate history first contact adventure Axiom''s End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis. Truth is a human right.It's fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government might have engaged in first contact. Cora Sabino is doing everything she can to avoid the whole mess, since the force driving the controversy is her whistleblower father. Even though Cora hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the governmentand with him in hiding, that attention is on her. She neither knows nor cares whether her father's leaks are a hoax, and wants nothing to do with himuntil she learns just how deeply entrenched her family is in the cover-up, and that an extraterrestrial presence has been on Earth for decades. Realizing the extent to which both she and
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St Martin's Press Will Do Magic for Small Change
Book Synopsis[A] beautifully multifaceted story... Highly recommended. The New York TimesAndrea Hairston''s historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other.Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she's always been theatrically challenged. That won't necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth.Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderera tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World''s Fair. They are a story of magic or alien science, but the connection to Cinnamon''s past is unmistakable.When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theatre squad determine to sol
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Tor Publishing Group Usurpation
£15.38
St. Martins Press-3PL Stealing Worlds
£11.39
Tor Books Shadow Claw
Book SynopsisA major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping. The New York Times on The Book of the New SunThis new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning.Gene Wolfe has been called the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced by the Washington Post.THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis by Publishers Weekly and one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s
£25.59
St Martin's Press The World of Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time
Book SynopsisThe Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The World of Robert Jordan''s The Wheel of Time is bursting with full-color art, legends, and stories from the iconic series.In this series companion book, over eighty full color paintings include maps of the world, portraits of the central characters, landscapes, objects of Power, and national flags. The reader will learn about the exotic beasts used by the Seanchan, witness the rise and fall of Artur Hawking, peruse the deeper story of the War of the Shadow, and discover the tale of the founding of the White Tower, and the creation of the Ajahs.The inner workings of the closed country, Shara, are revealed, as is the existence of a hitherto unknown continent called The Land of th
£33.99
Tor Publishing Group Rakesfall
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St Martin's Press Nothing but the Rain
Book SynopsisA sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman''s debut novella, Nothing but the Rain. The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There's not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you'll lose everything you used to be.By the time Laverne begins keeping a journal, the small town she calls home has been irreparably changed. Every drop of water is dangerous, from leaky faucets to the near-constant rainfall, and a careless trip outside can mean a life down the drain. With mysterious forces preventing escape, calls for rebellion seem to be on every resident's lips. But Laverne has no interest in fighting. She has no interest in rebellion. She just wants to survive.
£12.59
St. Martins Press-3PL Tyrannosaur Canyon
£18.99
Picador USA Civilizations
Book SynopsisAn ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet's Civilizations is nothing less than a strangely believable counterfactual history of the modern world, fizzing with ideas about colonization, empire building, and the eternal human quest for domination. It is an electrifying novel by one of Europe's most exciting writers.C. 1000 CE: Erik the Red's daughter heads south from Greenland1492: Columbus does not discover America1531: The Incas invade EuropeFreydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. Nobody knows what became of them . . .Five hundred years later, Christopher Columbus is sailing for the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. Even after he is captured by the Taínos, his faith in his superiority and his mission is unshaken.Thirty-nine years after that, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, arrives
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St Martin's Press The Mimicking of Known Successes
Book SynopsisEvery once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph.Charlie Jane AndersA Hugo Award nominee for Best NovellaA Nebula Award nominee for Best NovellaAn Ignyte Award nominee for Best NovellaA Locus Award nominee for Best NovellaA Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction of the Year PickA Library Journal Best SF/F of the Year PickA Book Riot Best Mystery and Science Fiction of the Year PickAn Autostraddle Best Science Fiction of the Year PickA Most Anticipated in 2023 Pick for Today.com Buzzfeed Polygon Book Riot Ms. MagazineThe Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older
£999.99
Picador USA Veniss Underground
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer's first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn. This paperback edition features the bonus novella Balzac's War.In a dark and decadent far future, the city of Veniss persists beside a dead ocean. Earth has become a desert wasteland ravaged by climate change. Veniss endures on the strength of its innovative tech of almost Boschian intensity, but at what cost? Where does the line between made creature and person lie?Against this backdrop, Veniss Underground spins the tale of Nicholas, an aspiring, struggling Artist; his twin sister, Nicola; and Shadrach, Nicola's former lover. A fateful trip by Nicholas to the maverick biotech Quin will have far-reaching consequences for all threeand for the fate of Veniss itself, as insurrection stirs and the oppressed begin to r
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St Martin's Press Stations of the Tide
Book SynopsisTor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.From author Michael Swanwickone of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fictioncomes the Nebula award-winning masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. A man from the Bureau of Proscribed Technologies has been sent to investigate. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and charismatic bush wizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rotting dying world in his own evil image-and to force whom or whatever rema
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St Martin's Press Red Team Blues
Book SynopsisNew York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow''s Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.Martin Hench is sixty-seven years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He's acontain your excitementself-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long war between people who want to hide their money and people who want to find it. He knows the ins and outs of financial records that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He's as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he's a fingertip-level expert in the techniques of money laundering and shell-company games practiced by Fortune 500 companies, extremely-divorced billionaires, and international crime lords alike. He also knows all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs, because he was there at all of their be
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St Martin's Press Cascade Failure
Book SynopsisL. M. Sagas''s debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes''s Divide series with Firefly. It features a fierce, messy, chaotic space family, vibrant worlds, and an exploration of the many ways to beand not to behuman.Most Anticipated Books of 2024Goodreads, Polygon, The Nerd DailyBest SFF Novels of 2024 (so far)BookpageThere are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union''s labor''s leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone''s hands above the table. It ain''t easy.Branded a Guild deserter, Jal accidentally lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship''s engineer/medic who doesn''t see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a don''t make me shoot you XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is a little . . . different.They''re also in over their heads. Responding to a distr
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St Martin's Press Mickey7
Book SynopsisA wildly entertaining mix of action and big ideas peppered with humor and a bizarre love story. NPRA brisk, spirited sci-fi romphugely enjoyable. Max Barry, author of Providence*Soon to be the major motion picture Mickey17*Dying isn't any funbut at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerouseven suicidalthe crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. On a routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, his fate has been sealed. There's a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties. The idea of duplicate Expendables is universally loathed, and if caught, they face being recycled into protein to feed a hun
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St Martin's Press 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 careless
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