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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2013
GREAT NORTH ROAD
by Peter F. Hamilton
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 24, 2012
THE HERMETIC MILLENNIA
by John C. Wright
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 4, 2012
Kirkus Star MECHA ROGUE
by Brett Patton
"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). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
COLD DAYS
by Jim Butcher
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 27, 2012
THE FRACTAL PRINCE
by Hannu Rajaniemi
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2012
Kirkus Star BRONZE SUMMER
by Stephen Baxter
"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. Read full book review >