November 2017 list by Holly Whistler
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| The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth BearEpic Fantasy. As they brave a perilous journey through the Steles of the Sky and into the Lotus Kingdoms, a pair of mercenaries -- brass automaton Gage and the Dead Man, a former bodyguard for a deposed caliph -- think they're delivering a message from a powerful wizard to a beleaguered rajni (ruler). Little do they know they're wandering into the middle of a dynastic war. Set in the world of the Eternal Sky trilogy, The Stone in the Skull is the 1st book in the Lotus Kingdoms series. |
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| The Book of Swords by Gardner R. Dozois (editor)If you enjoy swashbuckling fantasy adventure, look no further than this anthology of 16 sword and sorcery tales. Whether you're looking for glimpses into your favorite fictional worlds or stand-alone stories, this collection has something for everyone with contributions from genre superstars such as Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Kate Elliott, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, K.J. Parker, and George R.R. Martin (to name just a few). |
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| Provenance by Ann LeckieSpace Opera. Ingray Aughskold has never been her mother's favorite child; that distinction belongs to her brother, who will almost certainly be named heir. But will a scheme to shame one of her family's political rivals win Ingray enough plaudits to change her fate? Although set in the universe of the author's Imperial Radch trilogy, Provenance stands on its own. |
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Clade
by James Bradley
On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment. That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have predicted.
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Places in the Darkness
by Christopher Brookmyre
Hundreds of miles above Earth, the futuristic space station Ciudad de Cielo—The City in the Sky—is a beacon of hope for humanity's expansion into the stars. But not everyone aboard shares such noble ideals in this propulsive science fiction tale of murder and memory.
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The Spark
by David Drake
A rural youth who can wield weapons of the Ancient civilization seeks out Leader, Dun Add, in to become a Champion and maintain law and justice in this universe and beyond, in the new novel from the author of the Hammer’s Slammers series.
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Steal the Stars
by Nat Cassidy
Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world. They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth. The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes.
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The Eterna Solution
by Leanna Renee Hieber
It’s 1882 and two government divisions of paranormal investigators have completed a most harrowing task—stopping a demonic nobleman from taking over the British Parliament. Now the motley crew of psychics, scientists, scholars, and magicians must race across the ocean to Manhattan to protect it from evil forces they believe Moriel unleashed.
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Terminal Alliance
by Jim C. Hines
The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. In his hilarious new sci-fi series, Jim C. Hines introduces the unlikely heroes that may just save the galaxy: a crew of space janitors.
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
by Philip K. Dick
Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best.
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Shadowborn
by David Dalglish
The epic conclusion to USA Today bestseller David Dalglish's Seraphim Series. What started as a small rebellion has grown to all-out war, with the four minor islands uniting under the call for independence. But Kael Skyborn no longer trusts the mysterious leader of their rebellion, nor his disciples.
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KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of YMR
by John Crowley
From award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel about a man who tells the story of a crow named Dar Oakley and his impossible lives and deaths in the land of Ka. Dar Oakley—the first Crow in all of history with a name of his own—was born two thousand years ago. When a man learns his language, Dar finally gets the chance to tell his story.
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The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun: Together with the Corrigan Poems
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Published for the first time in more than 70 years, an early work by the iconic author of The Lord of the Rings is complemented by his collected "Corrigan" poems, additional supporting material and a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien.
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Perfect Shadow
by Brent Weeks
For the first time in print as a special hardcover edition comes the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character—Durzo Blint—in which Gaelan Starfire must take a job hunting down the world's finest assassins for the beautiful courtesan-and-crimelord Gwinvere Kirena.
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More Human than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity
by Neil Clarke
The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein , concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one’s relationship to one’s creator. Later versions of this “artificial human” story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein ) changed the focus to more modernist questions… What is the nature of humanity? What does it mean to be human?
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