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The Half-Made WorldFelix GilmanA fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions… more |
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Twin-BredKaren A. Wyle
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Can interspecies diplomacy begin in the womb? Humans have lived on Tofarn, planet of creeks and rivers, for seventy years, but they still don’t understand the Tofa. The Tofa are an enigma, from their featureless faces to the four … more |
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The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)Ursula K. Le GuinCenturies ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have bee… more |
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Among OthersJo WaltonWinner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best NovelWinner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best NovelStartling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled child… more |
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Roadside Picnic (Rediscovere...Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated … more |
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Fantasy & Science Fiction, S...Gordon Van Gelder, Carolyn I...The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is pleased to offer you the three stories that appear on the 2011 Nebula Ballot for 2011: 1) “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu (Mar/Apr 2011 issue)2) “The Ice Owl” by Carolyn Ives Gilman (Nov/Dec 201… more |
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ValisPhilip K. DickValis is the first book in Philip K. Dick’s incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named … more |
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Powers (Annals of the Wester...Ursula K. Le GuinYoung Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes “remembers” things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occur… more |
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Brave New WorldsJohn Joseph Adams, Ursula K....YOU ARE BEING WATCHEDWhen the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?In his smash-hit anthologies Wastelan… more |
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The Word for World is ForestUrsula K. Le GuinThe award-winning masterpiece by one of today’s most honored writers! The Word for World is ForestWhen the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitu… more |
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LaviniaUrsula K. Le GuinIn a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never spe… more |
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Lightspeed Magazine, December 2010John Joseph Adams, Ted Kosma...Lightspeed Magazine is a monthly science fiction magazine that features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between: Our lead story this month, “In-fa… more |
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The Best Time Travel Stories...Harry Turtledove, Martin H. ...LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PAST H. G. Wells’s seminal short story “The Time Machine,” published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction’s time travel explosion. Responding to their own fascination wi… more |
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Tehanu: Book Four (Earthsea Cycle)Ursula K. Le GuinThe Nebula and Locus Award–winning fourth novel in the renowned Earthsea series from Ursula K. LeGuin gets a beautiful new repackage.In this fourth novel in the Earthsea series, we rejoin the young priestess the Tenar and powerful wizard Ge… more |
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Shadow & Claw: The First Hal...Gene WolfeThe Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe’s most remarkable work, hailed as “a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis” by Publishers Weekly, and “one of the most … more |
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The Birthday of the WorldUrsula K. Le GuinFor more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebu… more |
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JagannathKarin Tidbeck
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“I have never read anything like Jagannath. Karin Tidbeck’s imagination is recognizably Nordic, but otherwise unclassifiable–quietly, intelligently, unutterably strange. And various. And ominous. And funny. And mysteriously tender. These ar… more |
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Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore)Ursula K. Le GuinScattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability—with a glance, a gesture, a word—to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a … more |
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Carmen Dog (Peapod Classics)Carol Emshwiller
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“Combines the cruel humor of Candide with the allegorical panache of Animal Farm.”—Entertainment Weekly”Carol is the most unappreciated great writer we’ve got. Carmen Dog ought to be a classic in the colleges by now … It’s so funny, and… more |
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Lightspeed Magazine, October 2012Robert Reed, Brian Ruckley, ...
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Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and c… more |
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