FICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
" Eye-bulging escapades tempered with invention and mordant wit, perfectly complemented by the author's own pen-and-ink drawings of the Railsea's weird denizens."
Moby-Dick meets
Kidnapped by way of the Strugatsky brothers'
Roadside Picnic: Another astonishing blend of cyberpunk, steampunk, fantasy and science fiction, from the hugely talented author of
Embassytown (2011, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Finishes with enough loose ends to allow for sequels, but that shouldn't be encouraged."
The fifth installment of Zahn's science fiction thriller series concerning the Quadrail, an interstellar train system, brings the series to a close.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Let your path lead you to the Nightside series, which has everything--real wit, personalities, plot, invention--that this book does not."
Another in Green's Secret Histories series about Eddie Drood, aka Shaman Bond (
For Heaven's Eyes Only, 2011, etc.), set in the same universe as his Nightside yarns and occasionally intersecting with them.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Readers hoping for adventures in the mind-boggling fashion of Revelation Space may emerge dissatisfied but certainly not deterred. "
FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Check the date. If it isn't April 1st, you've been had."
FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"Still, the authors have plenty of fresh insights to offer, and fans of either will want to tag along and see where it all leads."
Pratchett, author of the esteemed Discworld yarns (
Snuff, 2011, etc.), and collaborator Baxter (
Stone Spring, 2011, etc.) venture into alternate worlds.
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FICTION
Released: July 3, 2012
"A pleasant, if unremarkable, time-travel diversion."
Prolific sci-fi author Bova (Leviathans of Jupiter, 2011, etc.) returns with the sixth installment of his Orion series, his first since 1995's Orion Among the Stars.This latest story of time-jumping warrior Orion opens with him helping Beowulf defeat the monster Grendel (and Grendel's mother) in ancient England.
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FICTION
Released: July 17, 2012
"An overdose of Message."
Near-future struggle over energy resources, previously serialized in
Analog magazine, from the author of
Moonstruck (2005, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"Intriguing but messy; two of the chief ingredients would have sufficed, four is extreme overkill."
Sorcery, steampunk, Sherlock Holmes and an alternate world: first of a series from the author of
Angel Town (2011, etc.).
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