Science fiction
Love Books Publishing Finis: The War To End All Wars
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£11.13
Brain Jar Press Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions
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£7.99
Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd Children of Zone
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£10.45
Lost Plot Press Cowboys and Aliens: An Alien Scifi Romance
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£11.39
Matthew Hughes Passengers & Perils: A Novel of the Archonate
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£11.68
Brain Lag Cloning Freedom
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£13.99
Small Beer Press Stranger Things Happen: Stories
Book Synopsis"An alchemical mix of Borges, Raymond Chandler and Buffy the Vampire Slayer."-Salon.com (Best of the Year) "A delightful collection."-Cleveland Plain Dealer "My favorite fantasy writer."-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered "Link's stories defy explanation, or at least, brief summary, instead working on the plane between dream and cognitive dissonance. They are true to themselves: witty, beautiful, funny, and startling."-Rain Taxi "Link uses the nonsensical to illuminate truth, blurring the distinctions between the mundane and the fantastic to tease out the underlying meanings of modern life."-Booklist "The 11 fantasies in this first collection from rising star Link are so quirky and exuberantly imagined that one is easily distracted from their surprisingly serious underpinnings of private pain and emotional estrangement." -Publishers Weekly Kelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen, really scores. -Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine "A tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy." -Washington Post Book World "Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch." -Kirkus Reviews "A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen." -Karen Joy Fowler "Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines." -Neil Gaiman "Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book." -Jonathan Lethem The eleven stories in Kelly Link's debut collection are funny, spooky, and smart. They all have happy endings. They were all especially written for you. A Best of the Year pick from Salon.com, Locus, The Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle. Includes Nebula, World Fantasy, and Tiptree award-winning stories. Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question "Why do you want to go through the world?" ("Because you can't go through it.") Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they startd the occasional zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.Trade Review"Pity the poor librarians who have to slap a sticker on Kelly Link's genre-bending, mind-blowing masterpiece of the imagination, Stranger Things Happen.” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, for NPR's You Must Read This "My favorite fantasy writer, Miss Kelly Link" —Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered"Kelly Link's collection of stories, Stranger Things Happen, really scores." — Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine "Stranger Things Happen is a tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy." — Washington Post Book World "I love that book! Her imagination goes beyond any known boundaries. She is like Magritte: the eye, the regard, ‘behind every visible object lies another object, an invisible one.’" — Angélica Gorodischer "A set of stories that are by turns dazzling, funny, scary, and sexy, but only when they're not all of these at once. Kelly Link has strangeness, charm and spin to spare. Writers better than this don't happen." — Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club "Link's writing is gorgeous, mischievous, sexy and unsettling. Unexpected images burst on your brain like soap bubbles on a dog's tongue. I've been trying to imitate her since I first read one of her stories. It's impossible. Instead I find myself curling up with a satisfied sigh and enjoying once more." — Nalo Hopkinson, author of Midnight Robber "Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book." —Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn "If Kelly Link is not the "future of horror," a ridiculous phrase, she ought to be. To have a future at all, horror in general, by which I might as well mean fiction in general, requires precisely her freshness, courage, intelligence, and resistance to received forms and values. Kelly Link seems always to speak from a deep, deeply personal, and unexpected standpoint. Story by story, she is creating new worlds, new frameworks for perception, right in front of our eyes. I think she is the most impressive writer of her generation." — Peter Straub, author of Magic Terror "I've been impatiently awaiting a collection of Kelly Link's stories. Now that it's here, it will sit in my library on that very short shelf of books I read again and again. For those who think Fantasy tired, Stranger Things Happen is a wake-up call." — Jeffrey Ford "Finally, Kelly Link's wonderful stories have been collected. My only complaint is the brevity of her oeuvre to date; as an avid reader of her work , I want her to continue to create more gems for me to read. I predict that "The Specialist's Hat," winner of the World Fantasy Award, will become part of the canon of classic supernatural tales." — Ellen Datlow "Kelly Link is a brilliant writer. Her stories seem to come right out of your own dreams, the nice ones and the nightmares both. These stories will burrow right into your subconscious and stay with you forever." — Tim Powers, author of On Stranger Tides "Of all the books you'll read this year, this is the one you'll remember. Kelly Link's stories are like gorgeous tattoos; they get under your skin and stay forever and change your life. Buy this book, read it, read it again, congratulate yourself, and then start buying Stranger Things Happen for your friends." — Sarah Smith, author of A Citizen of the Country "Kelly Link makes spells, not stories. She is the carrier of an eerie, tender sorcery; each enchantment takes you like a curse, leaving you dizzy, wounded, and elated at once. Her vision is always compassionate, and frequently very funny—but don't let that fool you. This book, like all real magic, is terribly dangerous. You open it at your peril." — Sean Stewart, author of Galveston "It is the tradition of the dust-jacket "blurb" to exaggerate the excellences of a book in hopes of enticing readers between its covers. But I do not follow that custom when I say that Stranger Things Happen is one of the very best books I have ever read. These stories will amaze, provoke, and intrigue. Best of all, they will delight. Kelly Link is terrific! This is not blurbese. It is the living truth." — Fred Chappell, author of Family Gathering "Kelly Link is probably the best short story writer currently out there, in any genre or none. She puts one word after another and makes real magic with them-funny, moving, tender, brave and dangerous. She is unique, and should be declared a national treasure, and possibly surrounded at all times by a cordon of armed marines.” — Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods "Quirky and exuberantly imagined....the best shed a warm, weird light on their worlds, illuminating fresh perspectives and fantastic possibilities." — Publisher's Weekly "Stylistic pyrotechnics light up a bizarre but emotionally truthful landscape. Link's a writer to watch." — Kirkus Reviews Table of ContentsCarnation, Lily, Lily, Rose Water Off a Black Dog’s Back The Specialist’s Hat Flying Lessons Travels with the Snow Queen Vanishing Act Survivor’s Ball, or, The Donner Party Shoe and Marriage Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water Louise’s Ghost The Girl Detective
£12.34
Thinking Ink Press Thirty Days Later: Steaming Forward: 30
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£10.41
Phoneme After the Flare: A Novel
Book SynopsisAfter a solar flare upended the world order, Kwesi Brackett's life disintegrated. His wife took up with a millionaire in the heavily armed Silicon territories and his daughter's university, Yale, relocated to the Caribbean. After being laid off by NASA, Brackett finds himself in Africa, as one of the head engineers for the newly formed Nigerian Space Program. Suddenly, the NSP's goal of getting astronauts into space is more important than ever. With most of Europe, Asia, and North America knocked off-line, thousands of satellites about to plummet to Earth, and the political minefield that is the rescue of an international group of astronauts trapped on the international station, time is of the essence. The deranged and violent militant group Boko Haram is steadily approaching, and the last surviving members of the Fulani tribe, an ancient matriarchal nomadic society, have found refuge in the abandoned caves of the Saon people. Accessible only by sonic vibrations, the sophisticated cave system contains messages from the past in a series of astrolabes, powerful amulets whose destructive force is harnessed by the Fulani tribeswomen. The astrolabes, it turns out, hold the secret to the Saon people's extinction, and clues about a different flare that rocked Earth thousands of years ago. When a mysterious creature breaks into Brackett's quarters, the engineer is not sure whether it was a rival space program or the government as they race to complete the Naijapool--an anti-gravity simulation to train the Naijanuats. In over his head, Bracket is distracted only by his favorite reality show Mrs. N Fires the Help and his affair with scientist and music enthusiast, Seeta. Increasingly, however, Nigeria's past and present are threatening to collide in a battle over its own future, and Bracket and Seeta seem to be the only ones who suspect it is all connected. Enter Wale Olufunmi, the original protagonist of Nigerians in Space. A former lunar geologist who continues to dream of participating directly in a space mission, Wale lands at the Nigerian Space Program facility, on a private jet. When Brackett, Wale, and Seeta discover the Fulani women's hideout, and the power of the astrolabes, they band together to outmaneuver Boko Haram, save Nigeria from a sinister government conspiracy, and finally launch a spacecraft.Trade ReviewA Kirkus Starred Review "The entire novel is spectacularly imagined, well-written, and a pleasure to read. An absorbing novel that explores a compelling, African-centered future world." —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Deji Bryce Olukotun: An exquisite blend of unpredictable twists and lightning-speed plot.” The Guardian "A madcap first novel that unravels like a spy thriller." Mark Haskell Smith, Flavorwire "Deji Olukotun's novel Nigerians in Space is an impressive debut, a literary thriller that also deftly explores themes of the African diaspora." David Gutowski, Largehearted Boy "Fast-paced, well-written and packed with insight and humor. Olukotun is a very talented storyteller. " Charles Yu, National Book Award 5-Under-35 winner and author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "A deft mingling of satirical humor, Noirish twists and a keen-eyed yet accessible take on cultural displacement in contemporary times. " Olufemi Terry, winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing "You can taste Cape Town, you can hear it in the dialogue, see its beauty in the descriptions. Deji Olukotun has my city's number: especially its nasty underbelly, the dangerous dealing of abalone poachers. " Mike Nicol, author of the Revenge Trilogy "A transnational mystery novel replete with assassins, abalone poaching and an international fashion model who exudes light from her skin." Matt McGregor, Warscapes "A crime thriller that is out of this world." Samantha Lim, The Brooklyn Paper "Nigerians in Space captures the cocksure attitude and dignified clip of the 1950s radio play, with more mischievous and macabre elements that reflect the frustration of anti-colonial and Pan-African politics." Megan Eardley, Africa is a Country "The book is a must read." Dianah Ninsiima, Africa Book Club
£999.99
Epsilon Books Pace
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£23.74
Blizzard Entertainment Diablo: The Black Road
Book SynopsisDarrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the wide world as a soldier of fortune and champion of the realm. But Bramwell is not as he left it. Something dark and terrifying has ensnared the townsfolk, something very old and very patient, tangling innocents in a web of malice and profaning the very earth itself. Now that same power calls to Darrick and his only hope may be to walk the same perilous path of damnation. Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the wide world as a soldier of fortune and champion of the realm. But Bramwell is not as he left it. Something dark and terrifying has ensnared the townsfolk, something very old and very patient, tangling innocents in a web of malice and profaning the very earth itself. Now that same power calls to Darrick and his only hope may be to walk the same perilous path of damnation.
£10.44
Jessie Kwak Creative Durga System: Boxed Set One
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£15.29
Virtualbookworm.com Publishing The Basker Twins in the 31st Century: The Return
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£16.00
Fresh Ink Group Daedalus Combat: SWIC Combat Drop from Low Earth
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£6.61
Not a Pipe Publishing GhostCityGirl
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£11.24
Spiral Publishing, Ltd. Plurapod Pathogen
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£999.99
Broadmoor Rogue
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£8.99
Aethon Books, LLC The Bar at the End of the World: The Watchers
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£17.09
Aethon Books, LLC Aftershock
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£18.99
Atomic Alchemist Productions LLC The Time Traveler Professor, Book Three: A War in
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£10.90
Sardis County Sentinel Press Ochi Goi
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£16.46
R.F. Hurteau Antiquity's Gate: Whisper of Echoes
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£19.62
Tony Bertauski Halfskin: A Technothriller
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£19.94
Tony Bertauski Bricks: A Technothriller
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£19.94
Dark Owl Publishing The Last Star Warden Volume II - The Un Quan Saga
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£8.39
Three Ravens Publishing Starflight: Tales From The Starport Lounge
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£20.89
Montanye Arts Madison Kleigh and the Onyx Stone
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£16.10
Kitsap Publishing Running with Motorcycles
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£13.99
Stasheff Literary Enterprises A Wizard in Absentia
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£14.24
Warner Trail Press Elthea's Realm
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£17.99
Polyester Press Fly Me to the Moon (Large Print): A Sylvia
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£999.99
Mixed Berry Press LLC Shard: Book One of The Shard Trilogy (A YA Sci-fi
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£9.46
MG Publishing The Auriga Project
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£14.24
Splinter Press The Dissection and Reassembly of Cohen Hoard
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£11.39
Feral Cat Publishers Chasing Eleven
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£9.41
Little, Brown & Company The Asterisk War, Vol. 9 (light novel)
Book SynopsisTeam Enfield is preparing for the next battle, but just as they start planning to build their teamwork, Claudia disappears! Claudia has some information that only the upper echelons of Galaxy should know, and they're not going to let her get away with it...
£11.39
Little, Brown & Company Durarara!! SH, Vol. 1 (light novel)
Book SynopsisIn the sequel series to the urban fantasy Durarara!!, Yahiro Mizuchi has come to Tokyo in the hopes of starting a new life (and maybe seeing the Headless Rider), but the famous Dullahan hasn't been seen in half a year-and neither has anyone who's gone to find her!
£12.34
Little, Brown & Company If the RPG World Had Social Media..., Vol. 1
Book SynopsisWhen a fantasy world has fully functioning internet and smartphones (for somereason), it’s only natural for its sixteen year-old Hero to declare war on the DemonLord via text message. But is it natural for that Demon Lord to be an innocentsnowflake who hates conflict...!? Take a peek into this unfortunate Hero’s chatlog witha...unique group of RPG characters, like an overly pure Demon Lord, her cheerfulGenerals (who all adore her), and the kidnapped princess who seems to bedeveloping a major crush on her captor!
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Little, Brown & Company Accel World, Vol. 23 (light novel)
Book SynopsisAt long last, Haruyuki and the others have exposed the White Legion as the villains they've always been! Sadly, their celebration is short-lived. Kuroyukihime and the other Kings soon find themselves in a deadly trap laid by White Cosmos herself! And to save them, Haruyuki will have to face his toughest opponent yet: the Sun Goddess, Inti...
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Little, Brown & Company Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 20
Book SynopsisThe Archbishops of Greed and Wrath have fallen, but the war to reclaim Watergate Citycontinues. The royal selection candidates each face their own crisis as they fightagainst the insatiable Gluttony, ardent Lust, infallible Eight Arms, and the superhumanSword Saint. But the candidates’ strong bonds, and dedication to keep their promisesand oaths, may well turn the losing battle in their favor!
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Little, Brown & Company Accel World, Vol. 26 (light novel)
Book SynopsisThe Deity of Demise, Tezcatlipoca, brings chaos to the Accelerated World and shocks Haruyuki into withdrawing from Nega Nebulous. After leaving Kuroyukihime and conceding to the White King, Haruyuki visits Eternal Girls' Academy, where seven powerful enemies and a special trial await him. Could this spell a turning point for Haruyuki and Kurohime, now that they're no longer connected by the Black Legion?
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Little, Brown & Company The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of
Book SynopsisMetalia ambushes Kaito just after he completes his latest feat of vengeance, forcing him through a portal back to present-day Japan. Stripped of his memories, Kaito comes to terms with his tragic new reality—a world where almost everyone he knows is dead and the police surveil him around the clock on suspicion of committing a heinous crime. Even this fragile status quo is disrupted when an assassin nearly succeeds in taking his life. But the brush with death restores Kaito of his memories and powers, giving him the perfect opportunity to take revenge on his assailant and chart a course back to his partners in crime…
£12.34
Little, Brown & Company 86EightySix Operation High School
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£16.40
Outskirts Press T N T: Thru Eyes of REM... Fourth Narrative
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£14.20
Baen Books 1636: Calabar's War
Book SynopsisDomingos Fernandes Calabar started out as a military advisor for the Portuguese in Brazil. But to his superiors, he was still nothing more than a mameluco, a man of mixed blood. Until, that is, the Dutch arrived and he switched sides. Then the Portuguese had a new label for him: “traitorous dog.” But when Dutch admiral Maarten Tromp arrives, having barely survived the disastrous Battle of Dunkirk, Calabar’s job changes again. Now he has to help engineer a swift Dutch exodus to a safer place before word of Tromp’s defeat reaches Spanish ears. Partnered with the Sephardic pirate Moses Cohen Henriques, the two aid the battered Dutch fleet by striking at the Portuguese and Spanish, both on land and sea. Until, that is, Calabar learns that bitter personal enemies have grabbed his family, put them in chains, and sold them to a slaveship bound for the Spanish Main. Calabar must now choose: continue to help the Dutch, or save his wife and children? Tromp and other strong allies want to put an end to slavery, too, but their strategies and timetable are measured in months and years. Calabar doesn’t have that kind of time and can’t rely on their methods. The struggle to recover his family, and to free the millions more suffering in shackles, is one he must win in his own way and on his own terms. Because ultimately, this is not just Calabar’s fight. This is Calabar’s war. About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues: "The 20th volume in this popular, fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War, picking up with the protagonists in London, including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles."—Library Journal About 1634: The Galileo Affair: "A rich, complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book."—David Drake "Gripping . . . depicted with power!"—Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: “This alternate history series is . . . a landmark . . .”—Booklist “[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist “ . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . ”—Publishers Weekly
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Baen Books Godel Operation
Book SynopsisA DROID AND HIS BOY, ON A SEARCH FOR A LEGENDARY WEAPON Daslakh is an AI with a problem. Its favorite human, a young man named Zee, is in love with a woman who never existed — and he will scour the Solar System to find her. But in the Tenth Millennium a billion worlds circle the Sun—everything from terraformed planets to artificial habitats, home to a quadrillion beings. Daslakh's nicely settled life gets more complicated when Zee helps a woman named Adya escape a gang of crooks. This gets the pair caught up in the hunt for the Godel Trigger, a legendary weapon left over from an ancient war between humans and machines—which could spell the end of civilization. In their search, they face a criminal cat and her henchmen, a paranoid supermind with a giant laser, the greatest thief in history, and a woman who might actually be Zee's lost love. It's up to Daslakh to save civilization, keep Zee's love life on the right track—and make sure that nobody discovers the real secret of the Godel Trigger. Praise for Arkad's World: “Far-flung adventure . . . Cambias offers up an entertaining coming-of-age novel filled with action and surprises. His aliens are suitably non-human in mannerisms, attitudes, and objectives, and his worldbuilding suggests a vast universe ready for further exploration. Readers . . . will find this hits the spot.”—Publishers Weekly “. . . a classic quest story, a well-paced series of encounters with different folk along the way, building momentum toward a final confrontation with Arkad's past . . . [with] a delicious twist to the end.”—ALA Booklist “Cambias has achieved a feat of world-building: an expansive, believable setting with fascinating aliens, compelling mysteries, and a rich sense of history.”—Bookpage “Drop a teenage boy into a distant planet chock full of colorful aliens—with troubles all their own. Stir, flavor, apply heat. A tour de force in the field, and great, quick fun.”—Gregory Benford Praise for the work of James L. Cambias: “Beautifully written, with a story that captures the imagination the way SF should.”—Booklist, starred review “An engaging nail-biter that is exciting, fun and a satisfying read.”—The Qwillery '“An impressive debut by a gifted writer.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “An exceptionally thoughtful, searching and intriguing debut.”—Kirkus, starred review “James Cambias will be one of the century's major names in hard science fiction.”—Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award–winning author of Red Planet Blues “Fast-paced, pure quill hard science fiction. . . . Cambias delivers adroit plot pivots that keep the suspense coming.”—Gregory Benford, Nebula Award-winning author of Timescape
£999.99
Balboa Press Gaia 2045
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£9.95
Ghillinnein Books The Man from Taured
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£16.10
