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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 >