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The Evolutionary Void

Tue, 9 Aug 2011 7:41:18 PST

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Misspent Youth

Tue, 9 Aug 2011 7:40:31 PST

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Readers have learned to expect the unexpected from Peter F. Hamilton. Now the master of space opera focuses on near-future Earth and one most unusual family. The result is a coming-of-age tale like no other. By turns comic, erotic, and tragic, Misspent Youth is a profound and timely exploration of all that divides and unites fathers and sons, men and women, the young and the old. 2040. After de ...

NKJV Gift & Award Bible / Red LeatherFlex

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:19:06 PST

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New King James Version, Red LeatherFlex Gift & Award Bible. Features presentation page, Full-color maps, In-text subject headings, parables of Jesus Christ, Miracles of Jesus Christ, Prayers of the bible, read-the-bible-through-in-a year

Around the World in Eighty Days

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:17:49 PST

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Physics of Star Trek

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:17:24 PST

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What exactly "warps" when you are traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between the holodeck and a hologram? What happens when you get beamed up? Are time loops really possible, and can I kill my grandmother before I was born? Until now, fans of "Star Trek" were hard pressed to find answers to vital questions such as these. Now Lawrence M. Krauss, an internationally known theoretical p ...

Transformers Dark of the Moon

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:17:16 PST

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ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN . . . All humankind was watching that day in 1969. And yet only a handful knew the real mission behind America’s triumph in the space race: to explore the alien ship that has crashed on the far side of the moon. Decades later, scientists are still struggling to understand the technology found on board—though with the treacherous Decepticons after it, a powerful force mu ...

Judas Horse

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:16:21 PST

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Recently returned to the job after an emotionally traumatic shooting incident, maverick FBI agent Ana Gray is tapped for an undercover operation in which she is ...

In the Courts of the Crimson Kings

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:15:04 PST

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In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirling's The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) two hundred million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn't suspect this until the twentieth century, but when the first probes landed on our sister worlds, and found life-intelligent life, at that-things changed with a vengeance. By the year 2000, America, Russ ...

The sword of the lady

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:14:47 PST

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The Sunrise Lands

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:14:33 PST

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A generation has passed since The Change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as The Prophet presides over the Church Universal and Triumphant, teaching his followers to continue God's work by destroying the remnants of technological civilization they enc ...

Metropolitan

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:14:21 PST

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Nebula Awards: v. 33

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:13:34 PST

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The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers'' own demanding peers. This volume features work by, among others, Poul Anderson, Nelson Bond, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow and Geoffrey Landis.'

The Mission Song

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:12:25 PST

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"Gripping and moving. . . . A marvelous return to the John le Carre of old, with all the captivating characters, finely rendered landscapes, and messy complexities that have always powered his best work." -San Francisco Chronicle Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre's return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an ...

Freedom to Kill

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:12:05 PST

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Nobody understands the workings of the FBI mind better than Paul Lindsay, who was an agent before he took to writing thoughtful, action-packed thrillers such as Code Name: Gentkill and Witness to the Truth, (both available in paperback). Special Agent Mike Devlin, the hero of Lindsay's Freedom to Kill, at first comes off as a rule-breaker and taker of unnecessary risks as he pursues a smart ...

Angel Eyes

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:11:37 PST

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"Gripping...Spellbinding...A suspense novel that kill keep you glued to its pages." THE MIAMI HERALD Unknown to one another, three brilliant determined women in Tokyo, Washington, and Moscow will ignite events that not only decide the fates of drug runners and Japanese Yakuza members, intelligence agents and arms brokers, but that could also change the face of the world map. They are all actors ...

Angle of Impact

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:10:48 PST

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Windfall

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:09:38 PST

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The Last Dance

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:08:36 PST

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The fiftieth is pure gold: from the author The New York Times calls "the man with the golden ear" comes the fiftieth novel in the 87th Precinct series. In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him more seriously injured? You want him hurt so he's an ...

The Grave Tattoo

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:08:25 PST

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A superb psychological thriller in which present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the Bounty. When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales also come swirling to the surface. For centuries Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home ...

Logging Off

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:07:34 PST

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Dance of Knives

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:07:12 PST

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Vancouver in the twenty-second century is a city of stark contrasts, divided between its prospering Guild citizens and the starving descendants of American refugees who fled ecological catastrophe and political chaos decades ago. Newcomer Klale Renhardt is struggling to survive on the half drowned, ungoverned island of Downtown, where every type of trade is controlled by tongs or gangs. When sh ...

2033

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:06:57 PST

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What is the future of sex? Some of the brightest minds writing today offer their predictions in this tantalizing anthology. Rick Moody considers the repornification of Times Square, Lisa Gabriele predicts 100 percent divorce rate, Ana Marie Cox sees the return of family values via tabloids, Jay McInerney examines female executive dominance, Walter Kirn discusses Madame President and the First Lad ...

Nimitz Class

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:06:40 PST

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The most powerful warship in the world, the nuclear-powered U.S. Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier is seen as impregnable. But when the USS Thomas Jefferson suddenly disappears at sea, the Pentagon is stunned. There are no survivors, and all signs point to a tragic nuclear accident. While the world stands in shock, reports suggest that it was no accident. A rogue submarine armed with nuclear warhead ...

Retribution

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:53:39 PST

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"When an elite prosecutor faces the most lethal predator she's ever encountered, it all comes down to a choice between justice . . .and retribution Prosecutor C.J. Townsend is a talented state attorney in Miami, well-known in her law enforcement and judicial circles for her abililty to handle even the most horrific cases-without losing her cool. For the past year, she's been deeply involved in t ...

The Standoff

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:53:04 PST

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A white supremacist, barricaded with his family on an isolated Montana mountaintop, holding off the cops with assault rifles. A brilliant hostage negotiator who has failed to come to terms with his personal demons, reluctantly taking leadership of the one case he can't afford to lose. A virtual army of state and local cops, national guardsmen, U.S. Marshals, and the FBI's elite hostage rescue ...

Millennium Rising

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:52:54 PST

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Sacred texts around the world warn of the terrifying signs and wonders that will foretell the end of the world. For thousands of years, the prophets have always proved false. Until now . . . Shortly after the change of the Millennium, in a tiny Mexican village, people of different faiths are flocking to Santa Pelagia from all over the planet to witness a miraculous visitation. Among them are tw ...

The Sprinter

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:52:46 PST

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A human time bomb with the keys to a high-tech kingdom, a deadly government conspiracy, and an innocent woman caught in the middle converge in this adrenaline-fueled thriller packed with page-turning suspense. With the most powerful microprocessor on the market, the Sprinter 9000 personal computer has hit the streets running and is blowing the competition away. Unfortunately, the key players b ...

Deadline Y2K

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:51:35 PST

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On New Year's Eve 1999, a chain reaction of computer malfunctions turns what was to be a global gala into a catastrophe. When computers begin to fail along the international dateline, the infection moves westward, causing massive power failures, train and airplane wrecks, and general havoc. As the "Millennium Bug" passes hour by hour through each time zone, it moves inexorably toward the epicen ...

The Good Guy

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:50:04 PST

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Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different—and passes to him a manila envelope full of cash. “Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she’s gone.” The stranger walks out, leaving a photo of the pretty woman marked fo ...

Stay

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:49:07 PST

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Nicola Griffith has been praised by the widest variety of admirers – from crime writer Dennis Lehane's "outstanding" to poet Allen Ginsberg's "astonishingly gifted" – and in the widest variety of ways, from the Washington Post admitting it's "hard to overpraise the taut plotting and broad intelligence" of her work to the Los Angeles Times acclaiming her "beautifully written [sentences]... shimmer ...

The First Sacrifice

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:48:12 PST

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Above the Law

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:48:04 PST

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"Tim Green returns with a new legal thriller featuring his female protagonist from one of his most successful books, The letter of the law, Casey Jordan"- ...

Buzz Cut

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:47:42 PST

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Critics have called James W. Hall's previous bestsellers "electrifying,""innovative,"and "brilliantly suspenseful." Now Hall brings us his most haunting and relentlessly gripping novel yet--a work that proves why the San Francisco Chronicle has hailed him as one of the nation's "finest and most literate of thriller writers." A Florida cruise ship under siege provides the spellbinding b ...

The Truth Machine

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:46:22 PST

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Prepare to have your conception of truth rocked to its very foundation. It is the year 2004. Violent crime is the number one political issue in America. Now, the Swift and Sure Anti-Crime Bill guarantees a previously convicted violent criminal one fair trial, one quick appeal, then immediate execution. To prevent abuse of the law, a machine must be built that detects lies with 100 percent accur ...

Leadership Charisma

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:45:08 PST

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40 Strategies for Winning in Business

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:44:55 PST

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Deception

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:43:38 PST

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An ordinary woman is caught in extraordinary circumstances, in the crackling new thriller from a major new talent. John Altman's first two suspense novels won remarkable praise. Now, Altman gives us his best yet. Hannah Gray is on the run. Unwittingly involved in an insurance fraud, she's leapt upon a friend's offer of tickets to an Adriatic cruise just to clear her head and figure things o ...

Double Vision

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:43:22 PST

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Pat Barker's searing new novel about the atrocity of war and how two men struggle to come to terms with it. Stephen Sharkey and Ben Frobisher, journalist and photographer respectively, are regularly faced with the reality of war. After Ben dies on assignment in Afghanistan, Stephen embarks on a book about the images of war -- a book that will be based largely on Ben's work. But the demands of the ...

Spotlight

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:41:27 PST

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Kéthani

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:40:23 PST

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It takes an alien race to show us what humanitiy truly is. This is the irony faced by a group of friends whose lives are changed forever when the mysterious alien race known as the Kethani come to Earth bearing a dubious but amazing gift: immortality. These superbly crafted episodes deal with human emotions in the face of the vast consequences of the alien arrival, and show how people across the ...

The Accident Man

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:40:12 PST

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If Princess Diana had been murdered, what sort of man would have killed her? Breathlessly paced and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cains The Accident Man surprises the reader at every turn. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver will arrange a death. A ruptured gas line, an automobile crash, a fall from a window; anything can look like an accident. But w ...

The Eighth Day

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:38:47 PST

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"And on the Seventh Day, He rested." –Genesis, 2: 2-3 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Syndrome, here is a spellbinding new thriller of international intrigue, religious prophecy, cutting-edge science, and unrelenting suspense. For Danny Cray, a struggling artist and part-time private investigator, the offer is too good to be true. A wealthy, enigmatic l ...

After the Fall

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:35:41 PST

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From the world's most popular Star Trek author comes a new novel featuring Captain MacKenzie Calhoun and his high-tech ship, the USS Excalibur. But everything is changing for the Excalibur and its crew...Elizabeth Shelby has been promoted to Commodore of the first Federation space station in sector 221-G, and MacKenzie Calhoun now reports to her. Burgoyne and Selar split up over their son's poten ...

Fearless Fourteen

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:34:14 PST

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The Chronicles of Riddick

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:31:47 PST

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The 6th Day

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:30:45 PST

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Robin Hood

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:29:41 PST

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Oscar[registered] winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as "Robin Hood," whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever ...

Texas on the Rocks

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:29:21 PST

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Sherlock Holmes Volume I

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:29:11 PST

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Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sh ...

Battlefield Earth

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:29:01 PST

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Nimrod Hunt

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:27:53 PST

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Convergent Series

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:27:41 PST

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Hans Rebka had been everywhere and done everything. Now he was going to try to solve the galaxy's most persistent mystery - he was going to penetrate Paradox.

Titan

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:27:28 PST

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John Varley's monumental Gaean trilogy--repackaged.

Steel Beach

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:27:16 PST

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Red Lightning

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:26:31 PST

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The son of one of the first men to fly to Mars and back, Ray Garcia- Strickland, is now a disgruntled Martian, tired of the Red Planet's overdevelopment and the gravity dependent tourist Earthies. But that doesn't stop him from fearing the worst when Earth is struck by an unknown object, causing a massive tsunami. Living high on his father's glory was okay, but now Ray must literally come down to ...

Red Mars

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:25:02 PST

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In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026, ...

Green Mars

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:24:52 PST

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Kim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, better still, fantastic. Green Mars continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called "terraforming". In Red Mars, the initial work in the trilogy, the first 100 scientists chosen to explore the planet disintegrated in disagreement--in part becau ...

Blue Mars

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:24:40 PST

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Get Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars for $13.47.Winner of the 1997 Hugo Award, Blue Mars joins Hugo Award-winning Green Mars and Nebula Award-winning Red Mars to complete one of the greatest science fiction sagas every written. As Mars reaches its final transformation, Earth is in peril. Political upheaval leads to new explorations into the solar system and to choices that will decide the ult ...

Charisma

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:24:30 PST

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A powerful thriller of redemption, hope, and courage that overcomes all obstacles.It began well - an experiment in techniques to teach high-risk children - poor, minority, children - the life-strategies that will allow them to succeed in life. And not just succeed, but overcome the odds and become wildly successful. They chose as their model a man who had done it all - Alexander Marcus; a black m ...

Paloma

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:24:21 PST

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The critically-acclaimed science fiction mystery series continues Retrieval Artist Miles Flint undertakes the most personal investigation of his career when his mentor is murdered and all evidence points to the most powerful law firm on the Moon-a firm that will stop at nothing to protect its clients and its executives.

Recovery Man

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:24:12 PST

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Retrieval Artist Miles Flint has uncovered a long-held secret to his past linked to the Aleyd Corporation-and a kidnapping by the mysterious Recovery Man, in a case that threatens the entire Earth Alliance legal system...

Neverwhere

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:23:59 PST

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Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only on ...

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:23:41 PST

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Writers of the Future

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:22:32 PST

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Light Music

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:21:37 PST

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Once the world worked differently -- before "the Silence" from space quieted the airwaves. Once there was a haven called Crescent City, built through the wonders of nanotechnology to transport its enlightened inhabitants into the cosmos. But humanity has failed the city. Dania Cooper, a brilliant scientist and resilient survivor, and Jason Peabody, a recipient of the DNA-altering virus affectin ...

Trader

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:21:25 PST

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A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest of places, hope.Leonard Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars. Johnny Devlin is chronically unemployed. Leonard is solitary, quiet, responsible. Johnny is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser. When they inexplicably wake up in each other's bodies, Johnny gleefully moves into Leonard's comfortable and stable existence, leaving Leonard to pick ...

The Fuller Memorandum

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:19:45 PST

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Axis

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:19:27 PST

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Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin won science fiction’s highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Now, in Spin’s direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are ...

Spin

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:19:00 PST

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One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk-- ...

The Fall of Reach

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:18:46 PST

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As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary battle... the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo—the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict. While the brutal Covenant juggernaut sweeps ine ...

Contact Harvest

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:18:34 PST

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This is how it began... It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground--strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But ...

52

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:18:18 PST

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The epic follow-up to Infinite Crisis-starring the superheroes of the DC Comics universe. Earth's greatest protectors-Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman-have vanished. The cities of Metropolis and Gotham are overrun with criminal activity both on the streets and behind the closed doors of powerful corporations as villains take advantage of the absence of superheroes. In their place stand the ve ...

Iron Man 2

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:18:08 PST

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"I am Iron Man." With those words, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark revealed his secret identity. Now a famous high-tech superhero, he uses his powers ...

Iron Man

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:17:56 PST

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THE ONLY HOPE AGAINST THE ULTIMATE DECEPTION In the clear blue skies above Long Island, two airplanes collide. Tony Stark watches the scene in horror and wishes he had the technology that is almost within his reach—a new hyperintelligent instant control system that could have given the aircraft advance warning. But Stark, an obsessive, increasingly troubled recluse, doesn’t know that his inve ...

Archform

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:13:52 PST

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The new SF novel from the bestselling author of the Saga of RecluceIts always a special treat when this bestselling fantasy writer turns his hand to SF, and Archform: Beauty is no exception. Five people tell their stories and the many parts unite into a single tale of justice and truth in a world beset by technological challenges, drowning in apathy and attacked by devious evil.Four centuries in ...

The Elysium Commission

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:13:38 PST

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L. E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to SF with a whole new future world on the brink of destruction. A brilliant scientist on the planet Devanta has created a small universe contiguous to ourswith a utopian city on one of the planets. The question is, an utopia for whom? And why is a shady entertainment mogul subsidizing the scientist? More critical than that, does this new universe require the destructi ...

The Eternity Artifact

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:13:26 PST

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5,000 years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence. This changes when scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy at such a high speed that it cann ...

Adiamante

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:13:10 PST

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After ten thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth.

The Ghost of the Revelator

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:13:01 PST

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L.E. Modesitt, Jr., has gained a legion of devoted fans for his science fiction as well as his epic fantasy novels. The Ghost of the Revelator is one of the best displays yet of his ability to blend dramatic, imaginative stories with rigorous social and scientific extrapolation.Doktor Johan Eschbach (the central character of Modesitt's popular alternate history SF novel, Of Tangible Ghosts) had h ...

Debatable Space

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:12:49 PST

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The Temporal Void

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:11:19 PST

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Terminal World

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:11:07 PST

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A brand-new novel from "the most exciting space opera writer working today" (Locus). In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spea ...

The Prefect

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:10:51 PST

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The Dreaming Void

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:10:36 PST

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The Age of Ra

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:09:10 PST

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An alternate history of the world where the Egyptian gods have defeated all others and have carved up the planet between themselves.

Age of Zeus

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:08:40 PST

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Olympos

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:06:48 PST

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Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon o ...

Hyperion

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:06:33 PST

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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire gala ...

The Fall of Hyperion

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:06:21 PST

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In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.

Fallen Dragon

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:06:04 PST

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The acclaimed Peter Hamilton's standalone SF adventure Fallen Dragon sees him taking a breather after the immense, galaxy-spanning Night's Dawn trilogy, with a tauter story of future skirmishing in a mere few solar systems. Centuries hence, despite faster-than-light travel, human interstellar exploration is stagnating. There's not enough money in it for the vast controlling companies such as Zan ...

Pandora's Star

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:05:33 PST

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Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton’s bestselling fiction—powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills—has also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens. Hugely ambitious, wildly entertaining, philosophically stimulating: the novels of Peter F. Ham ...

Judas Unchained

Tue, 5 Jul 2011 9:05:07 PST

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Peter F. Hamilton’s superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are engaging. No mere world builder, Hamilton creates entire universes–and he does so with irresistible flair and intelligence. His previous novel, the acclaimed Pandora’s Star, introduced the Inter ...

Children of Hope

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:04:19 PST

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The seventh novel in the Seafort Saga by David Feintuch, Children of Hope continues the story of a man bound to his duty-and wracked by guilt for all that his duty demands of him. Captain Nicholas Seafort survived alien wars, planetary rebellions, and ecological chaos on Earth, but now something much more ordinary might finally cost him his life-vengeance...

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:03:00 PST

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Chindi

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:01:02 PST

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Something--or somebody--has left a series of satellites in orbit around various planets in the galaxy. Now a crew sets off to discover the origin of the satellites and learn if mankind is no longer alone among the stars.

Watermind

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 3:08:09 PST

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Altered Carbon

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 5:50:16 PST

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Richard Morgan's debut SF thriller Altered Carbon isn't for the faint-hearted. Its noir private-eye investigation races through extreme violence, hideously imaginative torture and many high-tech firefights. In 2411, death is not forever. Afterward, they can read your personality from an implanted "cortical stack" and upload you into a new body--at a price. Hero Kovacs has worn many bodies on dif ...

Baby Names Keepsake

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 7:35:55 PST

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Growing Up With Science

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 7:31:50 PST

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Wisdom's Way

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 7:31:23 PST

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