In Purgatory, by Tim Dodge, Charles Cunningham joins forces with Edgar Allan Poe and a mysterious character named Billy to win his salvation and gain admittance to heaven. To accomplish this, they journey to Earth to watch over Charles’s daughter, who is now an old woman. Through this act of kindness toward the daughter […]
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ace (August 28, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1937007731 Official Description: Meet the Carnacki Institute’s operatives—JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the antisupernatural equipment running; and Happy Jack Palmer: the terminally gloomy telepath. Their mission: Do Something About […]
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade (October 2, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0425247651 Official Description: WHEN DARKNESS FALLS… WHEN THE UNDEAD RISE WITH A HUNGER FOR BLOOD… WHEN THE HUNT IS ON—AND YOU ARE THE PREY… WILL YOU BE READY? In the inevitable event of a vampire attack, the average citizen will be forced to […]
Admission: I’ve never bought weeklies at a comic store before. (Was always intimidated about plunging into the middle of a story line and getting lost in some crossover.) But when I heard about two new and intriguing comic series coming out I jumped at the chance to get in on the action from the beginning. […]
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ace (August 28, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 193700774X Official Description: Regret nothing. Sirantha Jax has the J-gene, which permits her to “jump” faster-than-light ships through grimspace. She loves nothing more than that rush, but the star roads have to wait… Her final mission takes her to La’heng, a planet […]
Amy is five years old, somewhat stunted for her age, but otherwise a happy go lucky innocent girl who is about to graduate from kindergarten, an only child with a loving father and devoted mother. Amy is also not human, just like her mother is not human. Both are Von Neumann machines, android form artificial […]
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Ace (August 28, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1937007758 Official Description: In the Empire of Arkaym, the Order of Deacons protects and shelters the citizens from the attacks of the unliving. All are sworn to fight the evil forces of the geists—and to keep the world safe from the power […]
You can’t surf the net without being bombarded by ads for food that fight fat, the ultimate diet or quick fix workout program. Writers need to be wary of agents who approach them and say if the author pays them x amount of dollars, the agent will get them published and make them famous. The […]
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc (August 7, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 045146463X Official Description: Jesse James Dawson was once an ordinary man until he discovered that demons were real, and fighting them meant putting his own soul on the line. His new case is a beauty: Gretchen Keene, a Hollywood starlet who’s become […]
Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (August 7, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1937007472 Official Description: In Book One of the Broken Empire, Mark Lawrence brought to life the “morbidly gripping”* (Publishers Weekly) story of a boy in search of power and vengeance. Now, in King of Thorns, that boy’s journey into manhood takes him to […]
Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity will be 200 pages of geek-themed erotica and full-color art, photos and comics from some of the hottest writers and artists in the industry. The brain child of Shanna Germain, erotic poet extraordinaire, (who crushed on geeks from her very earliest years) we now have a team […]
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Roc (September 4, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451464753 Release Date: September 4, 2012 Official Description: An unnamed telepathic hero battles bad guys and his addiction to super-drug Satin in this tightly written futuristic detective story set in an alternate Atlanta. After the devastating Tech Wars, Americans developed a healthy […]
In Suited by Jo Anderton, Tanyana is a debris collector – one of the people of Movac-under-Keeper given the job of collecting the dark byproduct of the city’s powerful pion systems. Unable to see the bright pion particles herself, she instead has the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous task of collecting the dark debris that […]
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (August 7, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451464559 Official Description: Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all […]
Across the galaxy from Lost Earth, the youngest, dissolute and disreputable scion of the noble house that rules a stellar empire flees his responsibilities, his privileges and station on the eve of the ceremony marking his maturity. Little does the ne’er-do-well Brandon know, however, that at the same time, a plot decades in the […]
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc (August 7, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451464621 Official Description: After dying and being revived with the experimental drug Returne, Bryn Davis is theoretically free to live her unlife—with regular doses to keep her going. But Bryn knows that the government has every intention of keeping a tight lid […]
“-Falling just means you’re someone else when you stand up.” – Debris In the world of Debris by Jo Anderton, pions – the sentient energy that composes reality – can be coerced into shaping matter and performing whatever task is required. The veche who rule the city of Movac-under-Keeper employ powerful pion “binders” to […]
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley Trade (August 7, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0425247791 Official Description: Recent college grad Alex Conner is thrilled to have landed a job as the Hughes County coroner/medical examiner in Pierre, South Dakota. But when her first day on the job ends with a missing corpse, Alex starts to wonder if […]
There is something special about books and reading. The ability to transport a reader into another world, into the lives of characters is a very powerful thing. One might even go so far as to say that reading and books are a form of magic. For Isaac Vainio, that magic is literal. He is, […]
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc Trade (March 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451463773 Official Description: As an Angel, Remy possesses powers and skills only to be used if the situation calls for it. And the sudden reappearance of the Garden of Eden is just such a situation. Two opposing forces of immortals want the Key […]
The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, tells the story of the expansion of humanity into a seemingly endless collection of Earths. When plans for the “stepper” – a box of simple electronic components powered by a potato – appears on the internet, it seems little more than a harmless project for children. […]
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