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  • MY REAL CHILDREN
    JO WALTON
    "Two period dramas . . . told through the science fictional conceit of alternate realities . . . All of this is rendered with Walton's usual power and beauty." — The New York Times Book Review It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know—what year it is, major events in the lives of...

    $251.00

  • MOTHERLESS CHILD
    GLEN HIRSHBERG
    From "an amazing writer," vampire fiction that's "grandly sweeping . . . open to all aspects of human experience. . . . [Hirshberg] at the peak of his form" (Peter Straub, World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner). It's the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol, the mysterious musician kno...

    $274.00

  • THE REVOLUTIONS
    FELIX GILMAN
    Following his spectacularly reviewed Half-Made World duology, Felix Gilman pens a sweeping stand-alone tale of Victorian science fiction, arcane exploration, and planetary romance. In 1893, young journalist Arthur Shaw is at work in the British Museum Reading Room when the Great Storm hits London, wreaking unprecedented damage. In its aftermath, Arthur's newspaper closes, owing...

    $119.00

  • THE PILGRIMS
    WILL ELLIOTT
    The Pilgrims is no ordinary alternate-world fantasy; with this first volume in The Pendulum Trilogy, Will Elliott's brilliantly subversive imagination twists the conventions of the alternate-world fantasy genre, providing an unforgettable visionary experience. Eric Albright is a twenty-six-year-old journalist living in London. That is to say he would be a journalist if he got o...

    $274.00

  • THE WAKING ENGINE
    DAVID EDISON
    Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die. Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times . . . until they come ...

    $249.00

  • SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT
    IAN TREGILLIS
    "Imagine a gumshoe noir yarn, embedded in a fundamentally theology-free medieval heaven . . . Superlatives seem superfluous. Instead . . . wow. Just—wow." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas's vision of H...

    $274.00

  • SINGER OF SOULS
    ADAM STEMPLE
    Leaving his life of petty crime and drug abuse behind, young Douglas flees from Minneapolis to Edinburgh, Scotland, to his stern but fairminded Grandma McLaren, who will take him in if he can support himself. Fortunately, few cities are friendlier than Edinburgh to a guitarist with a talent for spontaneous rhyme, and soon Douglas is making a decent living as the busker who can ...

    $249.00

  • TERMINATOR HUNT
    AARON ALLSTON
    John Connor and the Resistance face off against Skynet's deadly artificial intelligence in this adventure inspired by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines . Skynet, the most advanced artificial intelligence ever developed, has long since outstripped its human creators in deviousness, duplicity, and sheer ruthlessness. In 2029, as the human Resistance inexorably pushes toward a vi...

    $229.00

  • CHERNOBYL
    FREDERIK POHL
    The Hugo and Nebula award-winning author presents a "gripping and vivid" fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history ( Kirkus ). Chernobyl: The very name conjures the terror of nuclear catastrophe. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused an explosion that spewed radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million h...

    $274.00

  • DELIA'S SHADOW
    JAIME LEE MOYER
    "[Jaime] Moyer creates a hauntingly real San Francisco, full of characters you can't wait to get to know better. Delia' s Shadow is an engaging debut novel, one that cost me a good night's sleep." —Jim C. Hines, author of Libriomancer It is the dawn of a new century in San Francisco and Delia Martin is a wealthy young woman whose life appears ideal. But a dark secret colors her...

    $200.00

  • GIDEON SMITH AND THE MECHANICAL GIRL
    DAVID BARNETT
    Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world—including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by th...

    $251.00

  • UFO HUNTERS
    WILLIAM J. BIRNES
    UFO Hunters® follows the team of bestselling author William J. Birnes, former NASA physicist Dr. Ted Acworth, and former US Army engineer Pat Uskert as they investigate UFO cases around the world. The team's access to UFO evidence is unparalleled—and their expertise allows them to quickly identify bogus claims. Together, they use eyewitness accounts, scientific experimentation,...

    $251.00

  • THE LOST PRINCE
    EDWARD LAZELLARI
    Edward Lazellari brings you The Lost Prince, and the race to find the missing prince is on . . . In Lazellari's debut fantasy, Awakenings, New York City cop Cal MacDonnell and photographer Seth Raincrest found themselves stalked by otherworldly beings intent on killing them. The two had to accept the aid of a mysterious woman to unlock their hidden pasts, and what they discover...

    $274.00

  • JACK CLOUDIE
    STEPHEN HUNT
    Jack Cloudie is a tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style steampunk world as Stephen Hunt's acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Secrets of the Fire Sea. Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket. Following a daring bank robbery gone badly awry, Jack narrowly escapes...

    $229.00

  • NEW EARTH
    BEN BOVA
    "Fans of hard sf will enjoy this space adventure" that follows Farside in the Grand Tour series from the six-time Hugo Award winner ( Library Journal). The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human explorati...

    $251.00

  • THE ZEBRA NETWORK
    SEAN FLANNERY
    "Look to Washington. Look to Moscow. Zebra One. Zebra Two." These cryptic words, whispered on a dark Moscow street, lead one-time CIA "golden boy" David McAllister on a desperate quest for the truth. Hunted by KGB and CIA alike, McAllister must decipher the riddle in order to unravel an espionage plot so vast that the Free World's fate hangs in the balance—and to prove his own ...

    $119.00

  • THE GOLIATH STONE
    LARRY NIVEN / MATTHEW JOSEPH HARRINGTON
    Scientists must stop nanites from driving an asteroid into Earth in this "brilliantly crafted . . . edge-of-the-seat thriller" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Twenty-five years ago, Doctor Toby Glyer and William Connors made a revolutionary breakthrough in nanotechnology. Their controversial nanites were capable of everything from miracle cures for the terminally ill to AI f...

    $251.00

  • THE WORLD OF THE END
    OFIR TOUCHÉ GAFLA
    A fixer of fictional endings must confront his own in this "astonishingly inventive, funny and totally fascinating" novel of the afterlife ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review), As an epilogist—one who writes the ending of stories others are unable to finish—Ben Mendelssohn appreciates an unexpected denouement. But the untimely demise of his beloved wife is beyond his capacity for ...

    $274.00

  • SEA CHANGE
    S. M. WHEELER
    The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea monster Octavius, a kraken. In Octavius's many arms, Lilly learns of friendship, loyalty, and family. When Octavius, forbidden by Lilly to harm humans, is captured by seafaring traders and sold to a circ...

    $229.00

  • SHADOW PEOPLE
    JAMES SWAIN
    In Shadow People, national bestselling author James Swain's brilliant follow-up to Dark Magic, magician Peter Warlock has a dark secret. A psychic who peers into the future, he is able to use the information to alert the authorities to pending trouble. During a séance Peter is confronted by a group of evil spirits called shadow people, beings who have the power to kidnap a pers...

    $274.00

  • THE STONEHENGE GATE
    JACK WILLIAMSON
    A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert since the beginning of time. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there. . . These four amateur adventurers are about to uncover the key that could unlock the vast reaches of the universe. A sudden burst of curiosity propels mild-mannered Englis...

    $229.00

  • CHINA BRIDE
    HENRY LUK
    Beth Connor is suddenly plunged into the nightmarish world of underground Hong Kong when she is kidnapped by the Chinese Mafia while on her way to meet her fiancé's parents. A former Olympic runner, Connor makes a daring escape, only to find herself alone and bewildered in an unfamiliar and threatening world of seedy nightclubs and illicit pornography. It will take guts, street...

    $251.00

  • NOCTURNE FOR A DANGEROUS MAN
    MARC MATZ
    Gavilan Robie was a man who lived a very private life--under any of a number of names and faces, many of whom had acquaintances and friends--but only a very few people were acquaintances of Gavilan Robie. Robie was a hunter, once a member of the clandestine Action Rescue Commitee, now freelance. And when he's hired by a powerful multi-national corporation to find an employee ki...

    $274.00

  • TRIAD
    TERRY MCGARRY
    The world must change. The magic-steeped realm of Eiden Myr has come under attack from the outerlands. A new power has arisen that may be the key to winning the war of the coast. Is it the light of salvation—or of delusion? To vanquish darkcraft, mages destroyed a warding that protected the realm for fifteen hundred years. Now the last ragged defenders battle horrors out of nig...

    $249.00

  • THE BINDER'S ROAD
    TERRY MCGARRY
    The sequel to Illumination A troubled land. A priceless gift. And the dawn of a new light. Six years after a conflict that extinguished all magelight, Eiden Myr is in chaos. Wilding weather destroys crops. Drought bakes some regions while others are flooded; mountains quake; poisoned rivers rise; disease and pestilence spread. In a dying trader town, three little girls fight to...

    $249.00

  • THE STARS DOWN UNDER
    SANDRA MCDONALD
    Chief Terry Myell and Lieutenant Commander Jodenny Scott are in that most precarious of military situations, a mixed marriage. Enlisted and officer. It's unnatural. Terry and Jodenny have been assigned to duty on the planet Fortune, away from the huge ships that carry colonists from the wreckage of polluted Earth to clean new worlds across the galaxy. But there's another way be...

    $251.00

  • MENDING THE MOON
    SUSAN PALWICK
    Melinda Soto, aged sixty-four, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist. Back in her hometown of Reno, Nevada, she leaves behind her adopted son, Jeremy, whom she rescued from war-torn Guatamala when he was a toddler—just one of her many causes over the years. And she leaves behind a circle of friends: Veronique, the academic stuck in a teaching job from ...

    $229.00

  • THE HOUSES OF TIME
    JAMIL NASIR
    David Grant has a singular talent--he can affect the course of his dreams. Quite by chance, he discovers the existence of the Trans-Humanist Institute and their lucid dreaming lessons. He discovers that under the tutelage of Dr. Thotmoses he has more control over his dreams. However, his talent soon runs away with him and he visits dreamplaces while awake. The waking world and ...

    $229.00

  • LEGENDS 2
    TERRY GOODKIND / GEORGE R. R. MARTIN / ANNE MCCAFFREY
    A second volume of short novels by three Masters of Modern Fantasy. Terry Goodkind tells of the origin of the Border between the lands in the world of The Sword of Truth, in "Debt of Bones." George R. R. Martin sets his piece a generation before his epic, A Song of Ice and Fire, in the adventure of "The Hedge Knight." Anne McCaffrey, the poet of Pern, returns once again to her ...

    $251.00

  • LEGENDS 1
    STEPHEN KING / ORSON SCOTT CARD
    Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg asked the masters of modern fantasy to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: Stephen King tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria." Robert Silverberg returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valentine's adventure in an ancient tomb, in "The Seventh Sh...

    $251.00