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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2012
Kirkus Star THE CASSANDRA PROJECT
by Jack McDevitt, Mike Resnick
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 9, 2012
Kirkus Star THE HYDROGEN SONATA
by Iain M. Banks
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Kirkus Star TARNISHED KNIGHT
by Jack Campbell
"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. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
MERGE / DISCIPLE: TWO SHORT NOVELS FROM CROSSTOWN TO OBLIVION
by Walter Mosley
"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." Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
DARK CURRENTS
by Jacqueline Carey
"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.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
IRONSKIN
by Tina Connolly
"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. Read full book review >