Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc (May 7, 2013) Language: English Official Description: Reality Bites Fortitude Scott’s life is a mess. A degree in film theory has left him with zero marketable skills, his job revolves around pouring coffee, his roommate hasn’t paid rent in four months, and he’s also a vampire. Well, sort […]
Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (June 4, 2013) Language: English Official Description: In her debut solo novel, Stella Gemmell, coauthor of the “powerful” (Booklist) conclusion to David Gemmell’s Troy series, weaves a dark epic fantasy about a war-torn civilization and the immortal emperor who has it clutched in his evil grasp. The City is […]
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (June 4, 2013) Language: English Official Description: For “enjoyable, fast-paced, and fun entertainment” (SF Revu), New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green employs his license to thrill in the Secret Histories Novels featuring the first name in supernatural spy-craft… My name is Drood, Eddie Drood, aka Shaman Bond. […]
News broke today that Jack Vance passed away a few days ago. Jack was a hugely influential fantasy and science fiction author with a career that spanned six decades. His works range from the highly acclaimed The Dying Earth series, to the Demon Prince series, to countless short stories, and so much more. How does […]
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc Trade (May 7, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451464982 Official Description: Hailed as “one of the most fully realized worlds of modern science fiction,”(Booklist) Majipoor is a planet unlike any other, with countless untold stories. Now, available for the first time in one volume, science fiction grand master Robert Silverberg presents seven tales […]
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (May 7, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451464516 At last, S. M. Stirling, the New York Times bestselling author of the Novels of the Change, presents the stunning climax to his Shadowspawn trilogy—the ultimate confrontation, in which the fate of all humanity hangs in the balance…. She’s back…. Near-purebred home nocturnus Adrian […]
Rejoice! The Deliverer has come back to help mankind against the nightly threat of the demonic corelings that rise out of the earth every night. But there are two men that might be the Deliverer. How can there be two? Is it Arlen Boles, the so called Painted Man, who travels between the cities of […]
Interview with Jack Campbell, author of the Lost Fleet Series “Jack Campbell” is the pseudonym for John G. Hemry, a retired Naval officer (and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis). As Jack Campbell, he writes The Lost Fleet series of military science fiction novels. The newest novel in that series, Guardian, was recently […]
Homeland, Cory Doctorow‘s sequel to Little Brother, revisits San Francisco several years after the Bay Bridge is destroyed in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. Soil. Marcus Yallow and his girlfriend, Ange, are still together, making technology with scrap parts and a bit of ingenuity. But when Marcus is given a USB stick with secret […]
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Ace (March 26, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425259803 Official Description: Spread throughout the dark corners of our world lies the Shadow World, a society of vampires who feed off the living. In Austin, Texas, one woman must rise from the ashes of tragedy and confront an ancient evil before it destroys […]
First off, let me say that I tend to use the term “Game Master,” or GM, when referring to the person sitting behind the screen. There are other names, and they include Dungeon Master, Loremaster, Storyteller, Referee (my least favorite), The Computer, Spymaster, and so on. One of the most important people at the table […]
On a distant world, night is the dark time for the guttering, flickering remnants of human civilization, in more ways than simply the setting of the sun. Every night, demons called corelings rise out of the ground, demons intent on feasting upon the remaining humans. Reduced from a once great civilization to some few communities […]
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Roc (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465067 Official Description: Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker who’s always up for a fight—even if it means putting her life on the line… The Master of Natchez, Mississippi has a nasty problem on his hands. Rogue vampires—those who follow the Naturaleza and believe […]
Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover; 1 edition (March 26, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425256820 Official Description: Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such “revelatory and thought-provoking”* novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft” and his Aurora Award-winning short story “Biding Time,” and […]
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover; 1 edition (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451414446 Official Description: E.E. Knight has proven “a master of his craft. His prose is controlled but interesting, and his characters are fully formed and come to life.”* In his latest Vampire Earth novel, the national bestselling author tells a tale about David […]
Paperback: 512 pages Publisher: NAL Trade; 1 edition (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451237994 Official Description: AN ALL-NEW COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY CONSTRUCTED WORLDS IN ALL OF FICTION Stephen King’s bestselling multi-volume Dark Tower series is the author’s most inspired and imaginative creation. The story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last […]
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ace Trade; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425258467 Official Description: In a world steeped in darkness, a new breed of evil has fallen… London’s ruined economy has pushed everyone to the breaking point, and even the police rely on bribes and deals with criminals to survive. Detective Inspector Cass Jones […]
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Ace Trade (June 4, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425265277 Official Description: An exciting debut novel, in the tradition of The Passage. The Beautiful Land is part science fiction, part horror–and, at its core, a love story, between a brilliant young computer genius and the fragile women he has loved since high school. Now, […]
In Little Brother, Cory Doctorow paints a dystopian near future when the rights of citizens are taken away in the name of National Security. Marcus Yallow is an ordinary teenager attending High School, bristling under the technological surveillance imposed by his school. Smart and tech savvy, he skips school along with his friends to participate […]
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Roc (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465040 Official Description: HISTORY HAS A WAY OF REPEATING ITSELF, EVEN FOR TELEPATHS.… As a Level Eight telepath, I am the best police interrogator in the department. But I’m not a cop—I never will be—and my only friend on the force, Homicide Detective Isabella […]
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Roc (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451465059 Official Description: Imagine a city divided. Fae and human mages on one side, vampire Blood Lords and shape-shifting Beast Kind on the other. Between these supernatural forces stands a peace treaty that threatens to shatter at the slightest provocation…. I was raised to […]
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