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New Fantasy and Science Fiction
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88 Namesby Matt Ruff John Chu is a "sherpa" -- a paid guide to online role-playing games like Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse. Their new client "Mr. Jones" is offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour of the world of virtual-reality gaming. As the tour gets underway, Chu suspects that Mr. Jones is really North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, whose interest in VR gaming has more to do with power than entertainment. Soon the online adventure spills over into the real world -- and in real life, there is no reset button.
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Unfinished Tales: Of Numenor and Middle-Earthby J. R. R. TolkienThis beautifully illustrated edition commemorates the 40th anniversary of its original publication and features original artwork by Tolkien’s most famous and ardent illustrators from over the decades. This collection of narratives ranges in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring. It comprises such elements as Gandalf's account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the party at Bag-End and stories of the Five Wizards.
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The Book of Dragons: An Anthologyby Jonathan Strahan From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today.
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Latitudes of Longingby Shubhangi SwarupAn award-winning debut from India explores the love and longing between humanity and the earth through the stories of a botanist, a clairvoyant, a geologist, a revolutionary’s mother, a shapeshifting turtle and other protagonists.
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Last Stand in Lychfordby Paul CornellAutumn and Lizzy must save their community and possibly the world after the magical protections previously employed in Lychford disappear leaving them vulnerable in the final novel of the series following The Lights Go Out in Lychford.
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A Declaration of the Rights of Magiciansby H. G. ParryAn alternate-world tale of revolution and wonder follows necromancer Robespierre’s revolutionary outcry and weather mage Toussaint L’Ouverture’s slave revolt before newly elected Prime Minister William Pitt considers the legalization of magic for commoners.
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Master of Poisonsby Andrea HairstonThe right-hand man to the lord of the Arkhysian Empire and a young woman training to be a powerful sorcerer work together to save their homeland from the poison that is eating farmlands and fouling drinking water.
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Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthologyby Mur Lafferty, editor of compliationCelebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod has been bringing the finest short fiction to millions of ears all over the world, at the forefront of a new fiction revolution.
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Vagabondsby Jingfang HaoSent to Earth a century after the Martian war of independence, a group of young delegates becomes caught between two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with the realities of a violent Earth.
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The Saints of Salvationby Peter F. HamiltonThe survivors of a human race under attack by hostile aliens who would claim the planet for an apocalyptic deity orchestrate a defensive strategy millennia in the making, in a conclusion to the trilogy that began with Salvation
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The Mirror Man: A Cloning Technothrillerby Jane GilmartinMeet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him. The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an illegal cloning experiment, he sees it as a break from an existence he feels disconnected from. No one will know he's been replaced -- not the son who ignores him, not his increasingly distant wife -- since a revolutionary drug called Meld can transfer his consciousness and memories to his copy.
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QualityLandby Marc-Uwe KlingA U.S. release of an international best-seller imagines a country where a universal ranking system determines its citizens’ statuses, careers and romantic partners, where a machine scrapper becomes the unwitting leader of a band of misfit robots.
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The Alpha Enigmaby W. Michael Gear"Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as "Prisoner Alpha." As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. Meanwhile, in Egypt, archaeologist Reid Farmer uncovers an 18th-Dynasty tomb that shouldn't exist, filled with Mayan materials that didn't exist 3,000 years ago. As a result, Reid and forensic anthropologist Kilgore France are snatched away to a hidden lab to solve the enigma of a man lost in time"
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My Favorites: A Collection of Short Storiesby Ben BovaIn this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction.
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