Science fiction
Titan Books Ltd Re-Coil
Book SynopsisThe Expanse meets Altered Carbon in this breakneck science fiction thriller where immortality is theoretically achievable, yet identity, gender and selfhood are very much in jeopardy... Carter Langston is murdered whilst salvaging a derelict vessel-a major inconvenience as he's downloaded into a brand-new body on the space station where he backed up, several weeks' journey away. But events quickly slip out of control when an assassin breaks into the medbay and tries to finish the job. Death no longer holds sway over a humanity that has spread across the solar system: consciousness can be placed in a new body, or coil, straight after death, giving people the potential for immortality. Yet Carter's backups-supposedly secure-have been damaged, his crew are missing, and everything points back to the derelict that should have been a simple salvage mission. With enemies in hot pursuit, Carter tracks down his last crewmate-re-coiled after death into a body she cannot stand-to delve deeper into a mystery that threatens humanity and identity as they have come to know it.Trade Review"A fascinating take on life extension treatments that goes beyond 'nifty idea' to deal with the consequences, combined with a vividly written action-adventure.” Elizabeth Moon"Re-Coil is a slow-burn thriller that heats up to an intriguing set up of a transhumanist future and corporate skulduggery.” Glynn Stewart"Perfect for fans of Altered Carbon.” Gareth L. Powell"Re-Coil is an intriguing and fast-moving mix of bio-tech and space opera." L. E. Modesitt, Jr.“A thriller and a thinker that’s as much sci-fun as sci-fi.” The Sunday Sport Review“This non-stop action thriller pits workers against corporations and knows which side it’s on.” Morning Star"A classic story of a cover-up, told in a fun, fast-paced way... Fans of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse series will enjoy this tale of high-tech mystery and shifting loyalties." Booklist Review"Readers will be drawn in by the compassionate characters and captivating premise." Publishers Weekly“This is a story that kicks off at breakneck speed... A compelling, multi-layered sci-fi tale.” Culturefly
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Little, Brown Book Group Defenders
Book SynopsisOUR DARKEST HOUR. OUR ONLY HOPE.The invaders came to claim Earth as their own, overwhelming us with superior weapons and the ability to read our minds like open books.Our only chance for survival was to engineer a new race of perfect soldiers to combat them. Seventeen feet tall, knowing and loving nothing but war, their minds closed to the aliens.But these saviors could never be our servants. And what has been done cannot be undone.A new epic of alien invasion and human resistance by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh.Trade ReviewSF of the highest quality . . . Defenders works as a morality tale of mistrust and betrayal on an epic scale * SUN *Vividly cinematic, at times uncomfortably brutal, and it reads like a runaway train . . . Will McIntosh is one of the brightest stars in science fiction right now . . . If you're not reading him yet, you're missing out * TOR.COM *McIntosh is without a doubt one of the most underrated science fiction authors writing today. Defenders is an emotional, action-packed story . . . McIntosh's cautionary near-future tale, told from multiple perspectives, serves as a brutally honest portrayal of how humans carelessly exploit, destroy - and in this case create - other species * RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) *What makes Defenders such an incredible novel is McIntosh's pure elegance, the beauty of its simplicity. Each element of the novel, the characters, the situations, the world, the results of the world's actions, organically feed into each other as the novel progresses * SFFWorld *This military science fiction novel offers fast paced action * Publishers Weekly *McIntosh's novels often blend unlikely scenarios and genre tropes in ways that make you rethink them. Here he's brought together the classic veterans' "coming home" story with telepathic alien invasion and issues around what it means to have been genetically engineered for one purpose. It's a posthuman scenario that McIntosh is exploring in all its messy complexity * io9.com *A fascinating take on how political alliances shift over time: One's bosom friend today can be one's deadly enemy tomorrow, and vice versa. McIntosh has his finger on the pulse, again * Kirkus *When the characters scream "run", you will want to run. When Lila's fear paralyzes her, you won't be able to move. As the story continues the writing only gets better, the plotting only gets tighter, the tension ratchets up again and again and again. Every book I read by McIntosh, the guy just gets more and more amazing in his ability to absolutely shatter me * Little Red Reviewer *
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Tor Books A Fire Upon The Deep
Book SynopsisNow in a new trade paperback edition for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge''s award-winning works.A Hugo Award-winning Novel!Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.-David BrinThousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind''s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these regions of thought, but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing this galactic threat,
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Dark Horse Comics Planetes Deluxe Edition Book 1
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Simon & Schuster Halo: The Flood
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Marvel THOR MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION THE SIEGE OF
Book SynopsisOne of Thor's most acclaimed runs ever reaches a climax in a massive siege of Asgard!Cataclysmic events have rocked Thor’s world! So what will his friends do to help him? Meanwhile, Loki has woven his intricate scheming throughout every level of Thor's existence. From Asgard to Oklahoma, from Latveria to Hell, the Trickster has involved the likes of Doctor Doom, Hela, Norman Osborn and even Mephisto to meet his sinister goals. But when his plans spiral out of control — culminating in the Siege of Asgard and the return of an ancient evil so terrible it means certain disaster to even speak its name — it's up to Thor and his fellow Asgardians to save the day! But who, if anyone, will save Loki? And what part does Dani Moonstar of the New Mutants have to play?COLLECTING: Thor (2007) 601-614, Thor Annual (2009) 1, Thor Giant-Size Finale (2009), Siege: Loki (2010) 1, New Mutants (2009) 11
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DC Comics Frank Millers Ronin
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Baen Books The Icarus Job
Book SynopsisFor years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye.Usually, those hunts are long and tedious. But Roarke has now been handed an intriguing offer. A criminal boss, Robertine Cherno, will hand over a hitherto unknown portal to the Icarus Group in exchange for Roarke and Selene agreeing to transport a passenger named Nikki across the Spiral.There's only one catch. Nikki is a professional, high-priced, highly feared assassin. And she's on the job.That would have been bad enough. But when the alien Patth also move to gain possession of the portal, bad quickly promises to go to worse.Especially when it becomes clear that Nikki herself is being hunted by someone.It's up to Roarke and Selene to untangle the mysteries and get to the truth before they become someone's collateral damage.
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Doherty (Tom) Associates,U.S. I Am Legend. Movie TieIn
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Starscape BioShock Rapture
Book SynopsisThe prequel story to the award-winning and bestselling video game franchise. How the majesty of Rapture, the shining city below the sea, became an instant dystopia It''s the end of World War II. FDR''s New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America''s sense of freedom is diminishingand many are desperate to take that freedom back. Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better. And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on sciencewhere what you give is what you get. He created Rapturethe shining city below the sea. But as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. This is the story of how it all came to beand how it all ended.
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Tor Books Vicious 1 Villains
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Spatterlight Press Rhialto the Marvellous
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WW Norton & Co Time Shelter A Novel
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE New Yorker • Best Books of 2022 An award-winning international sensation—with a second-act dystopian twist—Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets.Trade Review"In this antic fantasy of European politics, narrated by a fictionalized version of the author, an enigmatic friend of his designs 'a clinic of the past,' which soothes Alzheimer’s patients with environments from a time they can still remember.... 'History is still news,' Gospodinov writes, cunningly drawing attention to the violence that the past wreaks on the present." -- New Yorker, "Best Books of 2022""The morality of artificially returning people to the past, and the broader question of whether this truly brings solace — whether indulgence in nostalgia is curative or pernicious — is the central question of Georgi Gospodinov’s newly translated novel… Adroit execution of such wordplay is a testament to the talent of the novel’s translator, Angela Rodel. [Gospodinov] is sympathetic to the poignancy of things from before — obsolete objects, old brands of coffee, the skipping of antique records — but rebuffs the scapegoats of globalism, immigration and modernization that supposedly killed them off; we are all complicit in the destruction of history, and going backward can only mean intolerance and the exaltation of traditionalist kitsch. It’s impossible, when reading all this, not to think of the reactionary sentiments behind Brexit and MAGA and even Putin’s Greater Russia irredentism, but Gospodinov is too delicate to resort to crude political satire.… Touching and intelligent." -- Adrian Nathan West - New York Times Book Review"Mr. Gospodinov, one of Bulgaria’s most popular contemporary writers, is a nostalgia artist. In the manner of Orhan Pamuk and Andreï Makine, his books are preoccupied with memory, its ambiguous pleasures and its wistful, melancholy attraction....This difficult but rewarding novel concludes with an image of Europe brought to the brink of renewed conflict—an abstraction that recent events have imbued with the terrible force of reality." -- Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal"A chronicle of time itself: this is the ambitious task undertaken by Georgi Gospodinov, Bulgaria’s greatest living writer and annalist of an entire nation’s endless complaints and missed chances, in his Strega Prize–winning novel Time Shelter.... Finished in Berlin just as COVID was on the verge of sweeping through Europe, the novel is at times unnervingly prescient as it issues warnings against the perils of infection — physical, political, even metaphysical.... A poet at heart, Gospodinov can also write a novel in a single sentence: ‘The past is my home country….’ He uses the absurdities of the very specific universe of Bulgarian pain, of Bulgarian provincial poverty, to unveil deep wounds…. Angela Rodel, the most prolific and accomplished translator of Bulgarian literature into English, carries over Gospodinov’s grand, flowing Bulgarian sentences… into vivid English…. Rodel is part of a grouping of extraordinary women translators working to preserve linguistic diversity.... who are today producing and exporting some of the most compelling and interesting contemporary literature from Bulgaria." -- Isadora Angel - Astra"[An] antic fantasy of European politics.... 'History is still news,' Gospodinov writes, cunningly drawing attention to the violence that the past wreaks on the present." -- The New Yorker"Gospodinov’s digressive, philosophical novel is less a work of realist literature than an allegory about the perils of looking backward and attempting to make Switzerland (or Sweden or Germany...) great again . . . translator Rodel keeps the narrator’s wry voice consistent . . . And in its brisker latter chapters, the story achieves a pleasurably Borges-ian strangeness while sending a warning signal about how memory can be glitch-y and dangerous . . . An ambitious, quirky, time-folding yarn." -- Kirkus Reviews"A radical new therapy tests the power of nostalgia in the electric and fantastical latest from Gospodinov (The Physics of Sorrow).The clever prose sells the zany premise and imbues it with poignant longing: 'Everything happens years after it has happened.... Most likely 1939 did not exist in 1939, there were just mornings when you woke up with a headache, uncertain and afraid.' Thought-provoking and laced with potent satire, this deserves a spot next to Kafka." -- Publishers Weekly"The elegant translation and the short, lyrical chapters in this dystopian tale offer a poignant ode to the dual tragedies of personal and universal memory loss." -- Lucy Lockley - Booklist
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St Martin's Press Calamity
Book SynopsisWinter''s Orbit meets Ilona Andrews in this sexy enemies-to-lovers romance. Constance Fay...wildly combines heart-stirring romance with a high-stakes adventure in a wonderfully deep space odyssey. This passionate story is a heady mix of suspense, romance, and intrigue, all set within an intricate and intriguing new world!--Rebecca Zanetti, New York Times bestselling author of You Can HideThe captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can''t refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She''ll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward.She's got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest memberTemperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her crew together after their feckless captain ran off with the intern. But she's drowning in debt an
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Random House USA Inc Into the Void Star Wars Legends Dawn of the Jedi
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Random House USA Inc Star Wars Convergence The High Republic
Book SynopsisThe next adventure in the High Republic begins expanding the new era of Star Wars, with a story set generations before Light of the Jedi.It is an age of exploration. Jedi travel the galaxy, expanding their understanding of the Force and all the worlds and beings connected by it. Meanwhile, the Republic, led by its two chancellors, works to unite worlds in an ever-growing community among near and distant stars. On the close-orbiting planets of Eiram and E?ronoh, the growing pains of a galaxy with limited resources but unlimited ambition are felt keenly. The two worlds? hatred for each other has fueled half a decade of escalating conflict and now threatens to consume surrounding systems. The last hope for peace emerges when heirs from the planets? royal families plan to marry. Before lasting peace can be established, an assassination attempt targeting the couple tilts Eiram and E?ronoh back into all-out war. To save both worlds, Jedi Knight Gella Nattai volunteers to uncover the culprit, while Chancellor Kyong appoints her own son, Axel Greylark, to represent the Republic?s interests in the investigation. But Axel?s deep distrust of the Jedi sparks against Gella?s faith in the Force. She?s never met such a puffed-up, privileged party boy, and he?s never met a more self-serious, relentless do-gooder. The harder they work to untangle the shadowy web of the investigation, the more complicated the conspiracy appears to be. With accusations flying and potential enemies in every shadow, the pair will have to work together to have any hope of bringing the truth to light and saving both worlds.
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Orion Publishing Co Dreamer of Dune
Book SynopsisThe insightful and illuminating biography of one of science fiction's most imaginative minds, written by Frank Herbert's son Brian Herbert.Trade ReviewA fascinating picture of this furiously energetic, driven, determined, sometimes childlike genius * Kirkus Reviews *
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S&S/Saga Press Village in the Sky
Book SynopsisIn Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevitt’s ninth installment in the beloved Alex Benedict science fiction mystery series, humanity discovers new intelligent life lightyears away—only for it to disappear without a trace.Centuries after the war with the Mutes, the first aliens to be encountered by humankind, a startling new discovery in the far reaches of the Orion Nebula appears. On a planet with conditions favorable to life, explorer vessel The Columbia comes across a small town seemingly inhabited by an intelligent species not yet discovered. But when a highly publicized follow-up mission is sent to make contact mere months later, the entire town has vanished, leaving no trace—or such is presumed to be the case until Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew show up to investigate. Officially, their mission is to find concealed artifacts that may have been left behind, but the team’s real goal is to solve the mystery of how the
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Random House USA Inc Order 66 Star Wars Legends Republic Commando
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St Martin's Press The Fortunate Fall
Book SynopsisA debut novel of remarkable beauty and invention, The Fortunate Fall is back in print for the first time in almost three decades as a Tor Essential, with a new introduction by Jo Walton Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. On its first publication in 1996, The Fortunate Fall was hailed as an SF novel of a wired future on par with the debuts of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Now it returns to print, as one of the great underground classics of the last several decades in SF. Maya Andreyeva is a camera, a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share.And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes up
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Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Vivy Prototype (Light Novel) Vol. 1
Book SynopsisIn this world, AIs have become integral to human life and exist to carry out their missions. One day, out of the blue, an AI claiming to be from the future approaches her, revealing that in one hundred years, advanced AIs will turn on the humans they once served, sparking a violent war to annihilate humankind! When he asks for her help in preventing the conflict, Vivy agrees to ditch the stage and take up the century-long mission against her kind in order to save humanity.
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Little, Brown Book Group Accelerando
Book SynopsisHis most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change is accelerating dizzyingly. Manfred makes his living from spreading ideas around, putting people in touch with one another and leaving a spray of technologies in his wake. He lives at the cutting edge of intelligence amplification technology, but even Manfred can take on too much. And when his pet robot cat picks up some interesting information from the SETI data, his world - and the world of his descendants - is turned on its head.Trade ReviewStretches the limits of narrative to make us see how wonderful ideas can be TIME OUT Stross's most accomplished and strikingly imaginative SF book so far STARBURST Utterly original, gripping the reader with the power of its ideas DREAMWATCH Intelligent future history grounded by terrific characters DREAMWATCH
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Orion Publishing Co Grass
Book SynopsisWhat could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again ...
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Orion Publishing Co Keeping It Real
Book SynopsisA heroine who's half robot and all attitude, a world of quantum strangeness; SF that has remembered how to have fun from the UK's most successful female SF writer.
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Outland Entertainment The All Father Paradox
Book SynopsisWhat if an ancient god escaped his fate and history was thrown to the wolves? Churchwarden Michaels thought it was just a run-of-the-mill crazy old man who stood in the graveyard, hellbent on studying the 1,000-year-old Viking memorial there. But when things start changing and outright disappearing, Michaels realizes there is more to this old man than meets the eye. Now, Michaels finds himself swept up in an ancient god’s quest to escape his destiny by reworking reality, putting history—and to Michaels’s dismay, Christianity itself—to the Viking sword. In this new Vikingverse novel, storied heroes of mankind emerge in new and brutal guises drawn from the sagas: A young Norse prince plots to shatter empires and claim the heavens... A scholar exiled to the frontier braves the dangers of the New World, only to find those “new worlds” are greater than he imagined... A captured JÖtunn plants the dreams of freedom during a worlds-spanning war... A bold empress discovers there is a price for immortality, one her ancestors have come to collect... With the timelines stretched to breaking point, it’s up to Churchwarden Michaels to save reality as we know it...
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Galaxy Press L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
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S&S/Saga Press The Unreal and the Real
Book SynopsisA collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin—selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time.The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best short stories. She has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work. Stories include: -Brothers and Sisters -A Week in the Country -Unlocking the Air -Imaginary Countries -The Diary of the Rose -Direction of the Road -The White Donkey -Gwilan’s Harp -May’s Lion -Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight -Horse Camp -The Water Is Wide -The Lost Children -Texts -Sle
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Rebellion Publishing Ltd. The Quantum Garden
Book SynopsisThe Ultimate ChaseDays ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He’s rich, he’s back with the love of his life, and he has the Time Gates, the most valuable things in existence. Nothing could spoil this… except the utter destruction of his people and their world. To save them, he has to make a new deal with the boss he just double-crossed, travel back in time and work his quantum magic once again.If he can avoid detection, dodge paradox and stay ahead of the eerie, relentless Scarecrow, he might just get back to his own time alive.Trade Review“Künsken has a wonderfully ingenious imagination.” – Adam Roberts, Locus -- Adam Roberts * Locus Magazine *“An audacious con job, scintillating future technology, and meditations on the nature of fractured humanity” -- Yoon Ha Lee -- Yoon Ha Lee“Technology changes us – even our bodies – in fundamental ways, and Kunsken handles this wonderfully” -- Cixin Liu -- Cixin Liu
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Little, Brown Book Group Deep Blue
Book SynopsisBook #2 in the Second Species trilogy
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Orion Publishing Co FlashForward
Book SynopsisSuddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future.When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come.Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, some saw the stuff of nightmares. Some, young and old alike, saw nothing at all ...A desperate search to find out what has happened begins. Does the mosaic of visions offer a clue?What did you see?Now the basis for the Channel 5 hit series FLASHFORWARDTrade ReviewThis is the novel that inspired the TV series. The book's cast indulges in more leisurely discussion of theories about free will, multiple universes and the like. It works rather well. There are some intriguing predictions for the year 2030, by the way: hover cars and an African-American president in the White House. * THE DAILY MAIL *Although it was turned for TV into a race-against-time thriller, the novel is an intellectual puzzle, drawing on theoretical physics to raise questions about time and space and the existence of free will, and proves once again that good science fiction does not need visual effects to thrill. -- Lisa Tuttle * THE TIMES *The novel, now published for the first time in this country, is... decent sci-fi. * THE EVENING STANDARD *Sawyer focuses on the efforts of a small group of people to cope with their new found knowledge, showing what's going on for the rest of the world via news headlines. This gives the reader the opportunity to really get inside people's heads and experience the phenomenon at first hand... a thoughtful and exploratory piece that examines the nature of destiny and free will." * GRAEME'S FANTASY BOOK REVIEW *
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Simon & Schuster Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope
Book SynopsisThe USA TODAY bestseller—based on the new Star Trek TV series! “Fifteen years ago…you led us out of the darkness. You commanded the greatest rescue armada in history. Then...the unimaginable. What did that cost you? Your faith. Your faith in us. Your faith in yourself. Tell us, why did you leave Starfleet, Admiral?” Every end has a beginning…and this electrifying novel details the events leading into the new Star Trek TV series, introducing you to brand-new characters featured in the life of Jean-Luc Picard—widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Archangels Viper
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Penguin Books Ltd A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel
Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERWho has the right to change the world forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world? The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl?s path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later, April?s friends are trying to find their footing in a post-Carl world. Andy has picked up April?s mantle of fame, speaking at conferences and online; Maya, ravaged by grief, begins to follow a string of mysteries that she is convinced will lead her to April; and Miranda is contemplating defying her friends? advice and pursuing a new scientific operation…one that might have repercussions beyond anyone?s comprehension. Just as it is starting to seem like the gang may never learn the real story behind the events that changed their lives forever, a series of clues arrive?mysterious books that seem to predict the future and control the actions of their readers?all of which seems to suggest that April could be very much alive. In the midst of the search for the truth and the search for April is a growing force, something that wants to capture our consciousness and even control our reality. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is the bold and brilliant follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It is a fast-paced adventure that is also a biting social commentary, asking hard, urgent questions about the way we live, our freedoms, our future, and how we handle the unknown.
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Titan Books Ltd Koko Uncaged
Book SynopsisDefeating a group of hijackers, Koko returns to earth a hero and gets a job as a personal bodyguard for a CEO. Her plan? To finance her revenge on psychotic bounty agent Jackie Wire. When Koko's boss asks her to participate in a dangerous rally on his behalf for half the prize money, Wire takes her opportunity to attack her nemesis...Trade Review“puts the “punk” back in “cyberpunk” while flipping you off at the same time” Barnes & Noble SFF Blog“You could read Kieran Shea's Koko Uncaged because of its appealing kick-ass heroine, or its setting five hundred years from now, or its fast-paced narrative, or because of its satirical take on the cyberpunk genre...but you should read it because it's fun.” Kirkusreviews.com
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Little, Brown Book Group The Labyrinth Index
Book SynopsisBritain is under New Management. The disbanding of the Laundry - the British espionage agency that deals with supernatural threats, has culminated in the unthinkable - an elder god in residence in 10 Downing Street.But in true ''the enemy of my enemy'' fashion, Mhari Murphy finds herself working with His Excellency Nylarlathotep on foreign policy - there are worse things, it seems, than an elder god in power, and they lie in deepest, darkest America.A thousand-mile-wide storm system has blanketed the midwest, and the president is nowhere to be found - Mhari must lead a task force of disgraced Laundry personnel into the storm front to discover the truth. But working for an elder god is never easy, and as the stakes rise, Mhari will soon question exactly where her loyalties really lie.Trade ReviewBrilliantly disturbing and funny at the same time -- Ben Aaronovitch, author of RIVERS OF LONDONCharles Stross owns this field, and his vast, cool intellect has launched yet another mad, sly entertainment that will strangle the hell out of anything else on offer right now -- Warren Ellis, author of TransmetropolitanStross at the top of his game - which is to say, few do it better -- KIRKUSAlternately chilling and hilarious -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFerociously enjoyable -- SFX
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Random House USA Inc Dooku Jedi Lost Star Wars
Book SynopsisDelve into the history of the sinister Count Dooku in the original script to the thrilling Star Wars audio production!Darth Tyranus. Count of Serenno. Leader of the Separatists. A red saber, unsheathed in the dark. But who was he before he became the right hand of the Sith? As Dooku courts a new apprentice, the hidden truth of the Sith Lord''s past begins to come to light. Dooku''s life began as one of privilege—born within the stony walls of his family''s estate, orbited by the Funeral Moon where the bones of his ancestors lie interred. But soon, his Jedi abilities are recognized, and he is taken from his home to be trained in the ways of the Force by the legendary Master Yoda. As he hones his power, Dooku rises through the ranks, befriending fellow Jedi Sifo-Dyas and taking a Padawan of his own, the promising Qui-Gon Jinn—and tries to forget the life that he once led. But he finds himself drawn by a strange fascination with the Jedi Master Lene Kostana, and the mission she undertakes for the Order: finding and studying ancient relics of the Sith, in preparation for the eventual return of the deadliest enemies the Jedi have ever faced. Caught between the world of the Jedi, the ancient responsibilities of his lost home, and the alluring power of the relics, Dooku struggles to stay in the light—even as the darkness begins to fall.
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Scribner Book Company The Mist
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Titan Books Ltd Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Volume 1
Book SynopsisAn unknown alien intelligence in orbit around the Earth. Astronauts under attack. A terrifying, mysterious landing in the Australian interior. The future of the world itself at stake. Counter Measures activated. And the Seventh Doctor and Ace slap bang in the middle of it all! This is OPERATION VOLCANO! From Andrew Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch, writers of Rivers of London, and the powers behind beloved Doctor Who episode `Remembrance of the Daleks' - which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2018. Whether you're a long-time fan of the Seventh Doctor, or you've yet to have the pleasure, this accessible, big-budget movie extravaganza welcomes everyone with an all-new epic!Trade Review"Plenty of twists, turns, and action" - Comics Worth Reading " A solid, fast-paced story ... entertaining" - The Fandom Post "A great collection ... Ace and the Doctor in prime form" - Bitch With WiFi
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Random House USA Inc Dynasty of Evil Star Wars Legends Darth Bane
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New York Review Books The Glass Bees New York Review Books Classics
Book SynopsisIn The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of global domination. But Zapparoni is worried that the scientists he depends on might sell his secrets. He needs a chief of security, and Richard, a veteran and war hero, is ready for the job. However, when he arrives at the beautiful country compound that is Zapparoni's headquarters, he finds himself subjected to an unexpected ordeal. Soon he is led to question his past, his character, and even his senses....
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Orbit Leviathan Wakes 10th Anniversary Edition Expanse
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