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Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"All the more impressive for being a significant departure from previous entries."
Beginning a sort of spinoff series taking place, chronologically, between Campbell's last two outings (
Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught, 2011, and
Beyond The Frontier: Invincible, 2012) wherein the influence of "Black Jack" Geary is palpable, though he makes no actual appearance.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"For thoughtful readers, the questions posed by the book are well worth pondering."
Two more novellas in one volume, continuing Mosley's Crosstown to Oblivion series (
The Gift Of Fire /
On The Head Of A Pin, 2012), the common theme being, "a black man destroys the world."
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Beautifully articulated and intriguingly populated: Altogether, an arresting kickoff."
The inaugural volume of a new urban fantasy series, from the author of
Naamah's Blessing (2011, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"An intriguing and ambitious fantasy tale."
Connolly, in her debut, delivers a supernatural spin on
Jane Eyre set in a gothic, alternate version of the Victorian era, in the aftermath of a war with powerful, forest-dwelling beings called the fey.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 9, 2012
"Sheer delight."
Addition to Banks' wonderful space-opera series (without the middle initial, he also writes impressive mainstream novels) about the far-future galactic Culture (
Surface Detail, 2010, etc.), a liberal-anarchic, multispecies civilization guided and sustained, more or less invisibly, by Minds, artificial intelligences that take such physical forms as spaceships and habitats.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2012
"A top-notch, edge-of-the-seat thriller in which there are no villains, only mysteries."
This first collaboration from McDevitt (
Firebird, 2011, etc.) and Resnick (
The Doctor and the Kid, 2011, etc.), developed from a 2010 story by McDevitt (spoiler alert: don't read the story first), takes the form of a conspiracy involving the moon landings. And no, Stanley Kubrick didn't fake them.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2012
"Gripping, well researched and sharply intelligent."
The saga of Northland, a sophisticated hunter-gatherer civilization thriving behind a vast wall shielding it from the invading waters of the North Sea (
Stone Spring, 2011), continues in a tumultuous alternate 1159 B.C.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
"None of that, however, will stop readers from grabbing ringside seats the next time Harry Dresden goes forth to stop the apocalypse."
After several months being mostly dead (
Ghost Story, 2011, etc.), Chicago wizard Harry Dresden's back in his body…and of course, back in trouble in the 14th Dresden Files novel.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
"Something like Ted Chiang meets John C. Wright, moderated by Stephen Hawking."
Intimidating sequel to
The Quantum Thief (2011), Rajaniemi's spectacular, paranoid-conspiracy, hard sci-fi whodunit debut.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 4, 2012
"Slam-bang action with never a dull moment: imagine a 21st century Lensman series, if anybody still remembers E.E. "Doc" Smith, without the latter's lofty black-and-white moral tone and awful prose."
In style and violence, a hybrid of the movies
Transformers and
Independence Day: the sequel to
Mecha Corps (2011).
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 24, 2012
"Astonishing stuff that leaves readers with plenty of work to do."
Second installment of Wright's ferociously dense and convoluted far-future space opera involving hyperintelligence, aliens and artificial evolution (
Count to a Trillion, 2011). Warning up front: read the first book first.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2013
"One of Hamilton's better outings, caveats and all."
Part murder mystery, part alien-contact thriller, Hamilton's latest doorstopper (
The Evolutionary Void, 2010, etc.) takes place in the early 23rd century when, thanks to the invention of wormhole technology, distant planets have been discovered and colonized.
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