FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Series fans will--well, they'll wolf it down."
Werewolf Andrew Dare and his mate, Silver, face new challenges in this sequel to
Silver (2012).
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"The hip, knowing and sometimes hysterically funny narrative, interspersed with excerpts from the guide of the title, lurches along in splendid fashion. Combine wit, style and acute observation: The result is irresistible."
From the author of
Playing for Keeps (2008), a comedic fantasy about monsters and New Yorkers--and, as residents will be unsurprised to learn, monsters who are New Yorkers.
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 2013
"Series fans will snap it up."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Another solidly engrossing installment, where the aliens are really just a sideshow: What we're witnessing is how and why Ender's child armies came to be."
Second entry in the prequel series (
Earth Unaware, 2012), set many years before the deeds of the Ender's Game novels.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Overall, half enjoyable, half unpalatable."
Time travel thriller, complete with suicidal hero, crazy girlfriend and mad, bad scientist: Averill's debut.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Intriguing, quirky, perversely charming and definitely affecting."
Set approximately 100 years after McIntosh's previous work (
Soft Apocalypse, 2011), this novel ponders the effect that a 24-hour virtual lifestyle and an almost psychotically appearance-focused culture can have on romance.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"This beautifully handled drama of Appalachian music and magic once again comes complete with fascinating characters, a persuasive setting and intriguing complications. Bledsoe's on a roll."
Another tale of Cloud County, Tenn., and its eldritch inhabitants: the dark-haired, dark-skinned Tufa (
The Hum and the Shiver, 2011).
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Exciting, dizzying, heartbreaking."
The long-awaited fourth and penultimate installment of the sci-fi/fantasy saga The Psalms of Isaak (
Antiphon, 2010, etc.) takes off running and doesn't stop.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking, handled with sublime assurance, astonishingly inventive, funny and totally fascinating."
The first appearance in English translation for Gafla's first novel (2004), and it's a weird and effective blend of adventure/fantasy, whodunit and romance.
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FICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A brilliantly crafted yarn that also manages to be an edge-of-the-seat thriller. And funny. Laugh-out-loud funny. What are you waiting for?"
New collaboration about nanotechnology from Harrington (author of several stories set in universes created by Niven) and the vastly influential creator of the Ringworld series, etc.
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FICTION
Released: July 2, 2013
"Often deeply impressive but elusive and self-indulgent. Odd that the majorly talented Flynn cannot grasp that when readers never understand what's going on, sooner or later they stop caring."
Final entry--maybe--in Flynn's far-future space opera (
In the Lion's Mouth, 2012, etc.), featuring a power struggle between and among the agents (Shadows, Hounds) of two rather decadent empires (the Confederation, the League) and their rulers, the Names.
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FICTION
Released: July 2, 2013
"Agreeable characters, a fascinating backdrop and brilliant plotting, with a further outlook of lengthy grins and occasional guffaws."
In the same universe as
Saturn's Children (2008) but thousands of years later, Stross invents an entire interstellar banking system, shows us how it works--and then how to defraud it.
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