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"We have to see this through to the end." ~ from Peter Terrin's The Guard
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| Golden Son: Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown"Once upon a time, a man came from the sky and killed my wife," explains freedom fighter Darrow in this sequel to the bestselling Red Rising. Recruited by the revolutionary group Sons of Ares to infiltrate the world of the elite Golds and bring down their rigidly hierarchical, colour-coded society from within, Darrow's mission is not without complications. Not only must he remain in the good graces of his employer, ArchGovernor Augustus of Mars, Darrow must also prepare to turn his back on the handful of sympathetic Golds whom he's come to know and trust. Hunger Games fans will appreciate this series' determined protagonist and his desire to topple an oppressive society, while readers who enjoy Richelle Mead's Age of X series will appreciate Golden Son's futuristic, caste-bound society. |
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Hot Head
by Simon Ings
An ambitious SF novel that is at once post-cyberpunk and post-modern. Complex, multi-layered, it combines hard science, tarot and images of late 20th-century Europe to make something utterly original. And introduces a memorable new heroine to the genre. Malise has a problem. She's come downwell to Earth, but years of space combat have ruined her: her muscles have wasted away, her past is a confused torture of events and her brain is wired to addictive military hardware that's illegal on Earth. But with an AI mining probe returning to Earth, having bred and grown until it is hundreds of miles across, Malise is in the firing line again. The probe is indestructible and it is insatiable for more metals. No one knows how to stop it. Malise doesn't know she has a blueprint for humanity's survival wired into her head.
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| The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu; translated from the Chinese by Ken LiuIn 1967, Ye Wenjie witnesses the brutal, government-sanctioned murder of her father, renowned physicist Ye Zhetai, when he refuses to denounce the theory of relativity. This, combined with her "seditious" science advocacy, brings her to the attention of the authorities, who permit her to avoid imprisonment by working in a research facility dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life. Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this acclaimed novel, originally published in China in 2006, finally makes its English language debut. |
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| The Galaxy Game by Karen LordConfined to the Lyceum, a residential school for the psi-gifted adolescents of the planet Cygnus Beta, Rafi Abowen Delarua is surrounded by authority figures who distrust him even as they attempt to exploit his talents. Bereft of home and family, Rafi's only refuge is Wallrunning, a high-stakes game requiring speed, agility, and adaptation to gravitational fluctuations. It may also be Rafi's best hope of escaping his situation. However, what initially appears to be a fun athletic activity is gradually revealed to have great intergalactic significance. Fans of author Karen Lord's previous novel, The Best of All Possible Worlds, will appreciate cameo appearances from that novel's characters, as well as an expansion of its predecessor's detailed world-building. |
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| The Guard by Peter Terrin; translated from the Dutch by David ColmerSecurity guards Harry and Michel have one job: to monitor a luxury apartment complex and protect its inhabitants. Nobody can leave (except for those who have mysteriously disappeared) and no one knows why (or how to get out). It's possible that the world may be about to end. Or perhaps it already has? In brief chapters that unfold through terse first-person narration, readers must piece together what's going on in a darkly humourous novel reminiscent of both Harold Pinter's The Dumbwaiter and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, but with an apocalyptic twist. |
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| The Just City by Jo WaltonWith the aid of a time-travelling team of 300 scholars representing the best of 25 centuries of human civilisation, the goddess Athene creates the Just City, a real-life version of Plato's Republic populated by more than 10,000 manumitted slave children, raised to become the next generation of philosopher-kings. At least, that's the plan. Unfortunately, utopias tend to falter in the presence of actual human beings. Don't miss this thought-provoking, stylistically complex new novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Among Others and My Other Children. |
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Trigger Warning : Short Fictions and Disturbances
by Neil Gaiman
A latest collection of short fiction by the #1 best-selling author of Fragile Things includes previously published stories, verses and a 50th anniversary Doctor Who tale, as well as an original short story. Reading-group guide available.
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The collected stories of Frank Herbert
by Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert, the New York Times bestselling author of Dune, is one of the most celebrated and commercially successful science fiction writers of all time. But while best known for originating the character of Paul Atreides and the desert world of Arrakis, Herbert was also a prolific writer of short fiction. His stories were published individually in numerous pulps and anthologies spanning decades, but never collected, until now.
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Lowball
by George R. R Martin
When residents of Jokertown begin going missing, a rookie lieutenant hoping to prove himself teams up with a motley group of unlikely Jokers to identify and stop the culprits.
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| The Time Traveler's Almanac by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (editors)Spanning over a century of speculative literature, this anthology collects 65 time-travel tales from notable science fiction authors both past (including but not limited to H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, and Ray Bradbury) and present (Ursula K. Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh, Charles Stross, and Connie Willis, to name just a few). In addition to its comprehensive compilation of short fiction, The Time Traveler's Almanac includes an intriguing selection of nonfiction pieces, notably Genevieve Valentine's "Trousseau: Fashion for Time Travelers" and Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers." |
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