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Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2017
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| The Berlin Project by Gregory BenfordAlternate History. What if the atomic bomb had been ready in 1944 and deployed against the Germans instead of the Japanese? This well-researched, World War II-themed alternate history explores this intriguing scenario as it focuses on the Manhattan project. Less panoramic in scope than Harry Turtledove's Days of Infamy series, The Berlin Project's blend of human drama, geopolitics, and scientific discovery may appeal to readers who enjoyed Kim Stanley Robinson's The Lucky Strike. |
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The Black Elfstone
by Terry Brooks
A first entry in an epic four-part series concluding the Shannara chronicles depicts a peaceful Four Lands that are invaded by a largely ignored, mysterious army whose true agenda is recognized by a band of outcasts who would expose the truth. By the best-selling author of The Sword of Shannara.
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A Peace Divided
by Tanya Huff
Ex-Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr and her team of independent contractors are sent to free a team of scientists doing an archaeological dig on a Class Two planet, in the second installment of the series following An Ancient Peace.
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
by Neal Stephenson
A discreet translation assignment enmeshes a linguistics expert and a military intelligence operator in the world-shattering revelation that magic was once widely practiced and can be reactivated if they travel back in time to make historical changes that are complicated by human treachery.
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The Witchwood Crown
by Tad Williams
A debut entry in a trilogy sequel to the best-selling Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series is set 30 years later at a critical turning point in the realm, where lost and corrupted allies are enabling the return of the once-vanquished elvish Norns.
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Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
SF. Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers
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| Starship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinClassic SF. During a far-future war between humanity and the extraterrestrial Pseudo-Arachnids known as "the Bugs," young Juan "Johnnie" Rico serves in the Mobile Infantry, a unit in which soldiers wear powered full-body armor that not only protects them but gives them super-human strength and speed. While this novel boasts plenty of action, its meditations on war, civic responsibility, and sacrifice have ensured its inclusion on the U.S. Marine Corps' official reading list since its original publication in 1959. (More recent SF additions to this list include Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline). |
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| Perdido Street Station by China MiévilleSteampunk Fantasy. In the sprawling Dickensian city of New Crobuzon, eccentric scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin and his insectoid lover Lin are hard at work trying to restore the flight of Yagharek, a bird-like "garuda" whose wings have been amputated. But a promising scientific breakthrough backfires when Isaac's experiments awake the deadly slake-moth and unleash it upon the unsuspecting city. Blending fantasy, horror, and science fiction, Perdido Street Station will captivate fans of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books and the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. |
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| The Bees: A Novel by Laline PaullDystopian Fiction. The rules are simple: "Accept, Obey, and Serve." But worker bee Flora 717 is destined to put that motto to the test. As she rises through the colony's ranks -- from sanitation worker to nurse, from forager to Queen's handmaid -- Flora observes, questions, and challenges the hive's strict laws, and neither the brainwashing effects of honey nor the all-consuming pheromonal power of Queen's Love can stop her. But honeybee colonies are super-organisms whose survival depends on the suppression of individual desires in service of the common good. Will Flora prove to be the savior of her hive, or the agent of its destruction? |
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| Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian TchaikovskyEpic Fantasy. This opening volume of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt series depicts a unique world in which humans have developed insect-like powers and organized themselves into tribes, or Kinden, that reflect these abilities. Now one group, the Wasp Empire, threatens to conquer and enslave the others. Only Stenwald Maker, an artisan of the Beetle Kinden, perceives the danger and recruits a band of resistance fighters. Will it be enough? Fans of role-playing games will enjoy the depiction of the various Kinden, while readers who enjoy sprawling fantasy sagas can look forward to the rest of this ten-volume series. |
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